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Laine Thompson

@marlinhoister.bsky.social

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The sailor cannot see the North but knows the needle can. Full time carer for someone with LongCovid. Mostly photographs and thoughts connected to my immediate landscape in the ever decreasing circles of my life.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · Nov 16

Don't let me drown...

Tide rolling between a set of pier legs in the sunset. A tightrope strung between two of them. Three people. One balancing and attempting to walk the tightrope, the other two watching.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 49m

Doesn’t she just.🙂

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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 3h

Spiorad aird nam Murchan part 15 - Elemental Ardnamurchan is now live on the blog: www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/10...

The latest piece in my inspired writing and photography series and introducing a new sub series exploring the five elements of Ardnamurchan that make it what it is.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 4h

Another flypast.
(Tilly dog barking approval midway.)

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 5h

We alone - humans - are the greatest threat to the planet. 🌍

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 5h

Grey clouds
and the fog horns
steady soothing moan.
Sea and shore and air
fuse into a drifting
watermarked world
of blurred boundaries.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 5h

“even in the harshest environments, resilience and renewal are possible”

Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 6h

I'd like to think so . . . www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A new island erupted from the sea – can it show us how nature works without human interference?

The volcanic island of Surtsey emerged in the 1960s, and scientists say studying its development offers hope for damaged ecosystems worldwide

www.theguardian.com

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 6h

Morning Elaine. Yes, although yesterday was only slightly gauzy seems ‘heavier’ today.🙂

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 8h

The foghorn is this morning’s music.

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 8h

Good morning 🌅

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 9h

Morning Chris.
(Blue is my colour so can’t say about pink.)🙂

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 20h

*atbitrary

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 20h

Only the lonely.
Or the alone.
The haar has rolled in and there is a softness in the imprecision, a kind of absolution. Time seems to run differently. Arbitary. A meditation on the past. Staggering in circles. All precision lost. Cloudy day. Pale light. This is how the years sweep by.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 22h

And that is one of my favourite illustrations. The whole book cover. 🙂

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 23h

Shells - ancient and modern - from the beach at Redcar. The modern oyster was considerably more battered than the 200 million year old ones. Watercolour painting.
#fossils #shells #art #nature
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Watercolour painting of shells found on the beach at Redcar, northeast England; there is a modern oyster shell on the left, showing outside and inside, though it is very sea-worn. The remainder are fossils from the lower Jurassic period (c200mya) - Cardinia bivalves, a fragment of Ammonite and Gryphaea oysters.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 23h

Hello @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social
I hope all is well with you?

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 23h

Rocks and fossils and piddock holes.
I just love the way that trips off my tongue.
Piddock.
Immensely satisfying.

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Today it’s penguin pie.

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Morning Elaine🙂

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Dark morning. Forgot my phone😬

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning 🌅

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 1d

12/10/25

morning walk - out with stars
Venus / Orion / Moon etc

flights to Europe broadcasting the light
from 32000 feet

a gear change in bird song as the rotation of Earth
reveals the first half of the sun

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning from me Julia. And a peaceful Sunday ahead. The coffee is brewing before we set out on our early wandering. Take care. 🙂🧡
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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Only a short walk. A sort of ascetic practice. Breathe. Before returning home to look at the photographs, collate some thoughts, drink some wine before bed. Where does it all go? Here. You’re seeing it. My small life and the oystercatchers as they roost in the dusk of a mild October evening.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

It’s evening and they are there. Each night I do the same thing. Easily. I photograph the evening sky, sometimes the (few) people I meet, the things I see, the banalities of life. And hope the tide is right. As it is tonight.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 2d

Tilly dog has decided - despite being discouraged - that this is her chair.
I think she’s read at least one of these books.🤣

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