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Steve Batch
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Amateur photographer focused on our natural world, mainly macro trying to capture the beauty in the small stuff that we often overlook. bit.ly/FlickrSB

Born at 317ppm - it was 423ppm on 10 Nov 2024 when I joined Bluesky and is now 430.92 ppm 11 May 2025!
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Steve Batch @stevebatch.bsky.social · Nov 10
I joined BlueSky on this date last year and I absolutely love being here.

THANK YOU to the creators and maintainers of Bluesky, to those who follow me, those who like, comment on and/or repost my images and to those I follow your images, poems and words are a daily inspiration to me #BlueSKyMonday
This Monday morning I was glad to see blue sky with a scattering of white fluffy clouds above a silhoueted treeline very appropriate on nthe day I wanted to say thanks for a most marvellous year on BlueSky
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'the White, Frozen Shallows' (2026) -- Brunswick Bike Path, Brunswick, ME

'Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood' -- Andrew Goldsworthy

#Stunday ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨ #ClassicMono ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
A grouping of gangly young birch cling to each other on the riverbank, one has fallen over, it's top branches resting inches deep in the frozen shoreline
January 25, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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HISTORIC
18C at 1200m in The Kazakh highlands.
We are witnessing the most insane event Asia has ever seen.
Tomorrow >26C in Turkmenistan.
Thousands of records will fall from Middle East to Japan.

Out of any imagination. And We are just starting.
January 13, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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leighw.photos
Monday feels...

#Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Reflection #Beach #Yorkshire #Hornsea #ClassicMono #Lumix #Leica #Monday #Silhouette
January 12, 2026 at 6:32 AM
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I go to the mountains more for the fear of not living than for the fear of dying.
Ada Gobetti (1902-1968)

Happy new week 🍀
#MountainMonday #Alps
#BlueSkyMonday #Winter
#EatCoastKin
Alpine winter landscape photographed from the mountains above Saint-Vincent looking towards the Lower Aosta Valley. The quote is by Ada Gobetti, journalist, writer, anti-fascist partisan, and activist for women's emancipation and secular education. In the foreground, a snowdrift and a sloping forest. In the background, mountains and a misty valley floor.
January 12, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” —Desmond Tutu ☀️

#BlueSkyMonday #sky #clouds #trees #nature #november #hudsonvalley #newyork #photography
January 12, 2026 at 6:31 AM
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I dip my pen
In the pot of this sky
I paint you
on a paper
what name should I give
to this poem?
... you?
Yes , You ...!
✨

🧡 🤍 💙
🌇
🎶 🪶 📖

(Poetry & Photography By Kirpal)
July 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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#BNWmacro #ClassicMono

Eucalyptus seed pod.

#EastCoastKin #Eucalyptus #SeedPod
Macro shot of a eucalyptus seed pod lying on the ground. It is round and flat on one end, and gently pointed on the other end (not easily seen in this image). The flat, round end has a five-pointed star in the center that is indented. The rest of pod is rough in texture. The ground has bits of wood chips and dirt. Taken at Laguna Lake, San Luis Obispo, California
January 11, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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Hope
January 11, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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Sprinkenhof staircase
📍Hamburg
📷mark greenfield
#architecturephotography #architecture #urban #geometry #photography #flickr flic.kr/p/2qUPmFp
January 12, 2026 at 5:44 AM
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Good morning @Bluesky 🌟

Einen schönen Montagmorgen und einen schicken Start in die neue Woche wünsche ich euch ☕️

Bin mal gespannt wie die Straßenverhältnisse auf der Heimfahrt gleich sind.

Habe euch heute ein Foto aus dem Archiv mitgebracht
Dahlienblüte in verschiedenen Farbtönen, von orangefarben, über gelb bis beige. Im Hintergrund sind sehr unscharf weitere Dahlienstängel ubd blauer Himmel zu sehen.
January 12, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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Guten Morgen 💫🍀☀️
Ein mit Schnee bedeckter Ast einer Tanne.
January 12, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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Guten Morgen Bluesky 🕊

Schwingen schlagen Wind,
Graues Federkleid im Flug,
Blick starr aufs Ziel hin.
#haiku

Kommt bitte gut und sicher durch den Montag 🤗🫂🍀
Das Foto zeigt eine Felsentaube im direkten Anflug auf den Betrachter. Der Vogel befindet sich im Tiefflug kurz über einer hellen, metallisch gerippten Oberfläche (vermutlich eine Bank oder ein Gitter). Während der Kopf der Taube mit den markanten orangefarbenen Augen und dem weißlichen Schnabelansatz scharf fokussiert ist, sind die kraftvoll schlagenden Flügel in dynamischer Bewegungsunschärfe eingefangen. Das Gefieder schimmert am Hals typisch violett-grünlich.
January 12, 2026 at 5:16 AM
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| HAMBURG UNDERGROUNDS

The Subway stations in Hamburg are aleays kind of special. Well not all, but most of them.
Each Station had an own architect, like this one. The station is called „Meßberg“,and it was designed and built 1960.
#Architecture #Architekturfotografie #Design #subwaystation #Ubahn
A Subway station in Hamburg is shown in the picture. The picture is very symmetric. On the ground is a chess pattern in black and white. In the middle on the plattform are orange and white supporting pillars. The orange part is shiny. The upper part is white and round.
January 11, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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A greyer day in the park but the partially melted ice gave off some pretty cool glassy effects on the water. #Stunday #EastCoastKin #EverydayMono
Winter trees and a frozen pond in Monochrome
January 11, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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Ice and clouds. December 2025

#ice #reflection #nature #sonyalpha #Stunday #photography
a frozen pool with some blades of grass poking through. a sunrise cloud is reflected and gives colours of orange and yellow.
January 11, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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Holiday Beach | #OregonCoast

#Stunday #seaccape #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #Travel #Scape
January 11, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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I think this qualifies for #Stunday!
rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social Massimo @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 15d
The magic moment raindrops hit the bioluminescent water. [📹 ewp_traveler]
January 11, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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#Gulls for #BirdOfTheDay x #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Stunday #Keys #photography
Gull silhouette in front of sunset over water with clouds {copyright M. Frost}
January 11, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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Osumi Canyon, Albania
Taken during a #trip in september 2025

#Stunday #naturephotography #photography #amateurphotography #Sunday #Albania #Europe #canyon #europetrip
Osumi Canyon in Albania
January 11, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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Sunflowers
#StunDay #SundayYellow#Scape #Flowers #BloomScrolling
These sunflowers were sown on the edge of a field because they were leftover from another field according to the farmer who was driving the tractor you can see in the background of the image. They were a beautuifil sight and added a real splash of colour to the field everytime I drove past.
January 11, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Art Deco Wall Tiles.
January 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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#Stunday

#EastCoastKin #Yosemite
perryralph.bsky.social Perry Ralph @perryralph.bsky.social · 15d
Simple Saturday #SimpleSaturday Share a photo that brings you joy!

“Orange Sunset On The Valley View”

Joy in #Photography - when I’m at a beautiful location and being patient to wait for and get the light you didn’t think would happen. #Yosemite #Sunset #Reflection
January 11, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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#SundayYellow
January 11, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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Not the sharpest nor technically a good photo (too far away), but I like its dreamy quality … #WildlifePhotography #BirdWatching #NatureLovers #birdoftheday #shortbeaks #birds #birdphotography #naturephotography
January 11, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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Erasmusbrug.

Something a little different than nature and landscapes today. The stunning bridge, LE shot taken close to sunset on the harbour at Rotterdam.

#photography
January 11, 2026 at 3:23 AM