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Exiled ancient Brit engineer living amongst horse carts and shoofly pies; conduit for creatives' dreams, explorer of edge cases, disciple of scale, envoy of the backend All views and opinions expressed are my own and do not reflect those of my employer

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Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · Apr 9

When I am not at work, I try (although this year...) to maintain my sanity by wandering around with a camera, taking bad photos at random.

For those who need help sleeping, more can be found over at www.flickr.com/photos/shynd...

Feel free to use and abuse, but an attribution wouldn't go amiss.

Plastic multipoint 3d star lamp suspended on a black background, diffuse orange light filling it

Young child crouched down digging in the yard with a trowel

Sunset over Prettyboy Reservoir in Northern Maryland, trees line the right hand edge, with a vivd sky reflected in the still waters

Marged HDR surreal effect on a parked aircraft at York Airport, PA

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Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 8h

Timeline cleanse definitely required, so how about something a little more natural in the form of these lovely red chrysanthemums

#ColorADay #RedWed #bloomscrolling #Mums #Flowers #Photography #R

Color photography from directly above looking down upon a group of red chrysanthemums

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Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 9h

Breaking my own rules a little with this one. I drew NONE of this, its an engineering test, an example of a program driving generative AI; an exercise in what could I make it do in the form of a stream intro some years back.

#WackyWednesdayArt #Spooktober #Witch #GenerativeAI

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Witch In A Spin

YouTube video by Witchspace

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Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 1d

For today's #AnimalArtTuesday and #TagTuesday, time to return to York's Royal Square district and it's murals.

"Bird for Spoken Word" by Andrius Polonikas covers three walls around a courtyard off an alleyway into the district's poetry garden.

#Photography #EastCoastKin

Color photograph of the mural by Andrius Polonikas called "Bird for the Spoken Word" in York, PA. A gentle blue/purple/white bird with a yellow beak, amber highlights and wearing a crown atop its head looks out from lush greenery and tall, thin, straight tree trunks in blues.

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Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 1d

See, chronic lack of forethought again. All I had to do was keep my tinder dry for two days and voila, an ideal #Spooktober #cobweb

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 4d

By elfin fingers deftly strung
Along each gleaming silver thread.
The hairy spider-witch has fled,
And crouches in a huddled heap,
Beneath a daisy, half asleep.
-- Enid Blyton

As with the poem alas, the one thing its lacking ... the #spider

#Photography #Spooktober #EastCoastKin #smArtist

Color photograph of a spiders web in the early morning, each drop of dew on the strands, a glistening ball, against a blurred fall foliage backdrop. the bottom right quarter of the web is missing, and consists of just a sole strand

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 1d

The great egrets are back, atop their pine roost, one complete with breeding plumage, but this time auditioning for Swan Lake ... "we can do the S shaped neck thing, look at us!" 🐦🦉

#BirdOfTheDay #LongNecks #birds #photography #ColorADay #BlueTue #EastCoastKin

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Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! 😊

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 2d

I was tempted to offer the black vulture from the other week, but upon reflection, I prefer this springtime Great Egret, in part because of the joy folks get when I show them the urban pine trees the roost is in.

#BlueSkyMonday #BirdOfTheDay #wings #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

Color photograph of a great egret coming home to roost in the treetops around the suburban Kiwanis Lake in York, PA. Wings swept wide, facing the camera, with the branches in front of it slightly blurred.

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Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 2d

Jack-o-lantern with a mischievous grin
Ruler of the patch, the pumpkin king
In the dead of night, he comes alive
A Halloween tale that will survive
-- Shel Silverstein

Drizzly days have provided every excuse I need to hide and play games

#ImageAndVerse #31DaysOfHalloween #ColorADay #OrangeSun

Color photograph of a pile of fairytale pumpkins; flatter than the typical jack-o-lanterns, with segments more enhanced too

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 3d

Back to chasing progression, challenges and finishing out the story of Dagger 1-3, but before I disappear, a little Pennsylvania hillside, before fall brings forth the amber, red and yellow hues.

#ColorADay #GreenSat #Photography #Trees

Color photograph of the Susquehanna gorge hillsides in southern York County, PA; near uninterrupted cover of mixed, thick, tall, old deciduous trees.

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 4d

Heck of a paso #strictly

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 4d

Magical feed the birds both musically from Dave Arch and the crew, but wonderfully graceful performance from La Voix and Aljaž

Always loved that song

#strictly

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you. Could have done with it being twice as fast probably, but I do love that its just as the feet are leaving the post

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 4d

Oh no ... no ... no ... no ... Gwi-Ma has won.

Not only are Demon Hunters on #Strictly, but in the form of Saja Boy's Soda Pop

The demon boy band Saya Boys from KPop Demon Hunters

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 4d

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Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 4d

As in shorter to freeze it better, not longer ... words ... ever my achilles heel

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 4d

Thankyou; wish I'd had the shutter speed higher, but it definitely shows action :)

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 4d

Initial Battlefield 6 multiplayer thoughts after an evening; solid, ton of fun, well optimized. The single player campaign? From a couple of hours of it, guessing the only service the writers and directors ever put in was in the form of coffee to execs in Hollywood

Published screen cap from electronic arts for the Battlefield 6 single player campaign

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 4d

Bluebird airways, the lead in avian special deliveries

#birdoftheday #beakful #EastCoastKin #photography #nature

Color photograph of a bluebird with a beakful of food launching into flight from a fence post

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Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 4d

Stunning

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Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 4d

The wonderful words of Oscar Wilde, from La Fuite De La Lune (Flight of the Moon); but they seemed to fit my mood and misty morning

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 4d

To outer senses there is peace,
A dreamy peace on either hand
Deep silence in the shadowy land,
Deep silence where the shadows cease.

Save for a cry that echoes shrill
From some lone bird disconsolate;
A corncrake calling to its mate;
The answer from the misty hill.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow

Color photo of the gentle glowing subtle contrasts of a misty morning, the warming land and the layers of clouds and the most mild of gradients into the sky above

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Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 4d

Thabk you

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 4d

See also, infinite loops for authors, copy editors that work for free and the most unbiased and harshest critic - I suspect a lot of resentment in Act 2 and a need to murder your self-powered-internet-comment-source in Act 3 ;)

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 4d

With prose borrowed from Ralph Waldo Emerson's wonderful Humble Bumblebee