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Rob Ralley
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Historian of science and medicine. Editor for The Casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier (1596-1634), now writing about Napier, slowly. And taking photos. Views my own.
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November, late afternoon, Ely.
#warmth #BlueskyArtShow 📷 #photography
A two-storey building in gloomy bluish light, with a yellow glow from the large window of a cafe ('Tom's cakes' written on the window); a handful of people are inside.
November 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Arrow.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels 📷 #photography
A view down onto the join between two patches of tarmac, with a white spray-painted line across and arrow pointing downwards.
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Allonby.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels #scape 📷 #photography
A view on a sunny day along a short sandy path through seaside grass to a beach below, and out to the sea. On the far side of the Solway Firth the southern shore of Galloway is barely visible.
November 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Ely.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels #UrbanGaze 📷 #photography
An evening view of Ely Cathedral with low golden sunlight on its west tower. In front is a pebbledash house and a red brick wall with a cash machine in it. Someone in a red coat is stopping to use the cash machine.
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Allotment access.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels 📷 #photography
Late afternoon in winter: a view along a vehicle track through allotments to a field. In the foreground the ends of the allotments are marked with fences of various kinds, some neat and others a little more patched together. At near and far field edges there are scattered trees, the more distant ones silhouetted against bright clouds caught by the sun just before it sets.
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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EMR REGIONAL
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels 📷 #photography
A two-compartment train running over a patch of fenland on a sunny day in late winter/early spring. The train has number 158 857 on the end and 'EMR REGIONAL' on the side and has white, blue, red and orange livery.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Aldeburgh, last winter.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels 📷 #photography
View south along the shingle beach at Aldeburgh, with sea front buildings along the right and the sea on the left, gleaming in the winter sun. Sunlight into the lens has muted the colours so that it looks almost just blue and sepia.
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Light after rain.
📷 #photography
A group of yellow-brick houses behind a wall and a curve of hedge with red berries in it. The sky is dark blue cloud, and there is a strong light from the side highlighting parts of the houses' gable ends and television aerials.
November 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Sapling.
#small #BlueskyArtShow 📷 #photography
A sapling between two posts, among long grass, with a tall tree just intruding into the picture on the left and a pinkish sky nearing sunset.
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Broken memorial, Galloway.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved #ClassicMono #scape 📷 #photography
Near the edge of a remote graveyard, a square stone pedestal stands leaning over; the upper half of the memorial has been broken off and lies beside it in the grass. Behind is a dry stone wall, and beyond that rolling countryside and scattered trees and walls.
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Ely Cathedral west door, dusk.
#AdoorableThursday 📷 #photography
Angled view of a wall of gothic architecture, at it centre a large double arch with orangey light spilling out of it into a blue-grey dusk.
November 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Winter by the Great Ouse.
📷 #photography
A view across a river showing the water and the far bank, with low vegetation, much of it brown, and trees in the far distance. There is a darkening blue cloud-flecked sky that is reflected in the water.
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Late afternoon field view.
📷 #photography
Long grasses in autumn near the corner of a field, with a line of trees in the distance and an evening sky of cloudy sky with patches of blue visible.
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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1620: seeking predictions from an angel, Richard Napier asks whether one of his clients will 'live long & prosp[er]' #earlymodern 🖖
Manuscript image showing part of a paragraph that reads: 'wheather Mr John Monson hayre to Sir Th shall live long & prosp[er] & attayne to honour & good & a happy mariage', then, added later in a darker ink (but not shown in the image): 'he shall'. (NOTE6839 in the online edition.)
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Sextry House, Ely.
#BlueskyMonday 📷 #photography
The curved corner and doorway of a yellow-brick building with 'SEXTRY HOUSE' written above the door; it is a bright day but a dark shadow of a building with a large chimney is partly darkening the front. The sky is bright and blue.
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Ely path.
📷 #photography
A tarmac path between hedges. It is a bright autumn day, with a blue sky behind a thin veil of wispy cloud; most of the left hedge is greenish yellow or bare; most of the right hedge is orange-brown. Trees growing out of each hedge are bare-branched. The path runs a short way forward then heads off right.
November 16, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Last rays of summer sun.
#bright #BlueskyArtShow
A patch of slightly hilly grass at dusk, with grasses flowering in the foreground and silhouetted trees either side and ahead. The sun is about to set but is shining strongly around the edges of clouds.
November 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Fenland treeline.
#scape #ClassicMono 📷 #photography
A view across a flat landscape on a clear day, with a single, short row of tall trees far off at the horizon against a background of low-level fluffy clouds.
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Autumnal #ThursdayBins
📷 #photography
A tarmac path in a park turns a corner past a tree and a bin. There is a hedge on its far side and houses beyond that. The whole scene is lit in gold tones by a low sun (picking out gold trim on the bin), and the tree, the hedge and the scattering of leaves on the grass are all autumnal oranges and browns.
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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West End/Chiefs Street, Ely.
📷 #photography
A view across a road down one side of a side-road, showing the road markings and the end of the pub on the corner, made of white-painted brick with windows of white frames and bright red surrounds; it has one full storey and a dormer window in its roof. Down the road ahead is a series of two-story buildings, largely of yellow brick. The sky is obscured by thick cloud.
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Houses, autumn afternoon.
📷 #photography
A row of three three-storey houses, so identical with small first-floor balconies. The middle house has a solar panel on the roof. In front are low hedges and grass, and blue sky is partly concealed by a dark cloud. Although the blue is bright, the scenery is gloomy.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Passing shower.
📷 #photography
An autumn view of a field (brown with a thin covering of new grass after the harvesting of the crop), lines across it and a pole in the middle, a tree on the right and more along the hedgerow in the distance. The horizon is visible beyond that. Above and far off, a curtain of rain is falling from the raincloud overhead.
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Under the trees.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows 📷 #photography
A view along a pavement between an old brown-brick building (two-storeys with a low roof) on the left and a line of trees (bare-branched) on the right. Sun from behind the trees is casting a series of shadows across the pavement.
November 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Signpost shadow.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows 📷 #photography
A stretch of yellow-brick wall with a band of moss near the top and paving in front of it; across the wall are the shadows of a lamppost and a signpost.
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Autumn #evening in the park.
#BlueskyArtShow 📷 #photography
View across grass to layers of cloud above the horizon bathed from below in gold light. On either side of the picture are trees and shrubs with bare branches and autumnal leaves, and there is a scattering of bright leaves across the dark grass.
November 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM