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Mark D Alexander

@mad7500.bsky.social

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#ExPostNews 'Runnin' Down a Dream🎶 ❤️ Hobbyist Photographer & Artist 💛Wildlife, Humanity, Landscape, Architecture 💚 Surviving life the best I can! 💜Very Tired Now! 🥱 🎶It’s Times Like These 🎶 All Photos are Mine unless reposts©️ #EastCoastKin #Breathe🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · May 25

Not posted in a while.. 😉 Photograph the alphabet with no typography.... Look, then look again, reflections, shadows, letters are everywhere 😎… see you all tomorrow 📷 🌳 🌾👒☀️
💃🏻🎶Louis Armstrong 🎶🕺🏻
🎶🕺🏻🌱🎶’What A Wonderful World 🎶💃🏻🌱🎶
#Nature #Photography #ECK #Breathe #BeKind #MHA #MentalHealthAwareness

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you Jon, Have a wonderful day as well..🍂🦉☀️👋

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Jean Kelsey @immachocoholic.bsky.social · 2h

Good morning friends! Happy Monday! It’s storming to beat the band outside. Here’s a #SunriseMagic from my archives on the #CTShoreline with some clouds. Have a peaceful day 😊 #landscape #photography #reflections

As the sun rises the cloud cover illuminates in orange colors. I the distance the leafless trees are silhouetted by the orange colors. The water is calm reflecting the sky and landscape. In the foreground is a spruce tree a pruned hydrangea tree and a couple of poles.

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 1h

Good morning Jean, Thank you☺️, Have a beautiful day as well 🍂🦉🌳☀️👋

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 2h

Good morning Roxie, Thank you, Woody is the happiest owl in the World... 😊... Have a wonderful day...🦉🌳☀️👋

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you Jules and you too...☕☕😘🤗❤️💚🍂🎶🌳☀️

Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 3h

Beautiful photograph Jules, love the sun through the trees✨🌳😎, Happy Monday to you, hope all is well, have a lovely day ..☕☕😘🤗❤️💚🍂🦉🎶☀️

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💛💜JB💛💜 @msjulesb.bsky.social · 6h

Good morning and happy new week , BS 🦋👋… wishing you a marvellous Monday and a wonderful week ahead! ☕️🌿☀️🌳💛🌱

A park path with sunlight shining through the trees and creating shadows on the ground… the path has walls either side and lined with trees.

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 3h

Good morning Jules, Thank you, Woody was in fine form yesterday, chatting away and flying about... 😁... Happy Monday to you, have a lovely day and week as well ☕☕🤗🦉❤️💚💃🎶🕺🍂🌳☀️

Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 7h

Good morning and Happy Monday,
Landing with style in to the day… ‘Woody’ a gorgeous Asian Brown Wood Owl at #SuffolkOwls
📷 Oct ‘25 🦉🪶
Have a Great day, catch up later
#Owls #Birds #Raptors #ECK #Nature #MHA

A brown wood owl landing on a perch. Wings out wide

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Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 12h

Here's the art challenge cheat sheet for October 13-19! Enjoy!

The host list and posts from hosts are in the comments.

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#dailyart #art #traditionalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt

Art Challenges: October 13–19

Monday, October 13
#BlueSkyMonday (anything blue)
#MacroMonday (any macro)
#MountainMonday (mountains)
#MinimalMonday (minimalism)
#ColorADay (#PinkMon)
#Spooktober (#TrickOrTreat)

Tuesday, October 14
#RockinTuesday (rocks)
#TidesOutTuesday
#TagTuesday (graffiti/street art)
#AnimalArtTuesday
#ColorADay (#BlueTue or #CyanTue)
#Spooktober (#cobweb)

Wednesday, October 15
#WaterfallWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday
#WackyWednesdayArt (odd/unusual)
#ColorADay (#RedWed)
#Spooktober (#witch)

Thursday, October 16
#HumansOfBlueSky (people)
#UrbanGaze (anything urban)
#PalacesAndGardens (#stairs)
#ColorADay (#YellowThu)
#Spooktober (#darkness)

Friday, October 17
#scape (any kind of scape)
#FishyFriday
#ForestFriday
#FoodOnFriday
#FlyDay (critters that fly)
#ColorADay (#BWFri)
#Spooktober (#alien)

Saturday, October 18
#BNWmacro
#ColorADay (#GreenSat)
#BlueSkyArtShow (#vertical)
#Spooktober (#mummy)

Sunday, October 19
#Stunday (stunning)
#ImageAndVerse (photos with
poems written by you or anyone)
#BNWmacro
#ColorADay (#OrangeSun)
#SelfPortraitSunday (#ForgottenCorner)*
#Spooktober (#SeaMonster)

ALL WEEK
#31DaysOfHalloween (anything fall, Halloween, or spooky)
#ArtYear (any art)
#ArtOfSelfPortraiture
#BirdOfTheDay (see Alan H or Rob Crank for daily prompt)
#ClassicMono (monochrome)
#smArtist (purposeful art of any theme)
#AlphabetChallenge (#WeekPforPink)
#SensoryArt (#transportation)

*Pose in a location you’ve always overlooked

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 14h

😂🤣.... 👋

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 14h

Next year...we start Proper English lessons... I need to think of a hashtag 🤔...thought of one..😁
#ProperEnglish ... Correct spelling of Colour ... Top marks Roxie 👋

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 15h

Well that was a laugh 😂..see you for the sunrise Jean ☀️👋

Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you Karen… and you too, and have a lovely week 🍂🌳☀️

Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 15h

See my reply… I made that up 😂

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 15h

No idea if that's true, I made it up😂... So I just looked it up... I hope you are sitting down...
The term “pom-pom” derives from the French word “pom-pon,” meaning “bobble” or “small ball of fabric.” Historians trace the tradition of attaching bobbles to hats back to the Viking era..🤓

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 15h

Beautiful photograph Karen as always.. Sweet dreams to you as well 😴👋

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Karen Barry-Davies @wheelan.bsky.social · 15h

🦋 Good Night Everyone 🦋
~~~ Sweet Dreams ~~~

#Photography
#Northumberland
#Nature
#Clouds
#Sunset
#GoldenHour

GOODBYE WEEKEND IT’S
BEEN FUN… 🌅 💛🧡💛

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 15h

Proper English 😂.. it's a 'bobble' hat, the ball of wool, wobbles as you walk.... So bobble 😂..

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 15h

Big bobble on the hat please 😁

a man with a beard wearing a hat and a suit

ALT: a man with a beard wearing a hat and a suit

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 16h

😁… if you can do a woolly jumper as well Large to X Large , and any yarn left a bobble hat… thank you again. 😊

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Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 1d

Irish Autumnal/ Fall capture for #Stunday May you have a very restful and peaceful Sunday.

"And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings".

WB Yeats.

#photography #Ireland #EastCoastKin

A serene autumn Irish woodland scene with tall trees standing on a gently sloping hill. Their leaves glow in rich shades of copper, orange, and deep brown, carpeting the forest floor beneath them. Through the trees, a few sheep graze in the distance under a soft, misty sky, adding a peaceful, pastoral touch to the golden landscape.

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🍁 Scott 🇺🇦 @rescuerofcritters.bsky.social · 23h

#CraigdarrochCastle in #Victoria, #BC 🇨🇦

“Built by coal baron Robert Dunsmuir during the reign of Queen Victoria and now a National Historic Site, [it] is being meticulously restored, giving visitors a glimpse of privileged life in the 1890s.”

#HunterFranklinPics #WeekOforOpulent
#AlphabetChallenge

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Mary Dineen 📷 𓀡𓆀 @marysunshineisgone.bsky.social · 19h

Love is home
#Stunday

youtu.be/7TfYWL7W-1U?...

On the left in the center, a bee on a white aster. On the right, higher up another bee this one in flight, approaching the other bee, happy to be back. More asters, less focused in the background.

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BelleAB @belleab.bsky.social · 22h

A view from The Ashokan Rail Trail which never disappoints 🕊️
#skysunday #stunday #sky #clouds #catskills #water #trees #nature #walking #ashokanrailtrail #getoutside #hudsonvalley #ulstercounty #newyork #mobilephotography

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