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brad-r.bsky.social
@brad-r.bsky.social
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Too many words, too few pictures.
(And too little talent!)
Thrilled by the artistry and beauty of images -- principally #landscapephotography -- shared by the Bluesky community of photographers, and so grateful to be able to appreciate and enjoy them.
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mehceephotos.bsky.social
Happy Wednesday folks. Some lumpy hills this morning, I've run out of waterfalls 😆

#LandscapePhotography #Landscape #Photography #Sunrise
Undulating pointy hills are illuminated by the early morning sun.
March 26, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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pfrazee.com
If you're an engineer that's curious about what it's like to scale Bluesky, give this pod a listen! Autumn and Justin are such fun hosts too
February 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
brad-r.bsky.social
Great portrait, and the writing is a perfect vignette too. 👏
February 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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marklittlejohn.bsky.social
Black and gold
February 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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armandsarlangue.bsky.social
Some cool light rays over Grand Canyon Cape Royale…
Funny story about this shot is I ended there by total coincidence. Full story in ALT.

#bluesky #photography #nature #art #landscape #light #travel
Divine light over the mesmerizing reliefs of Grand Canyon. Story: back in 2019 I took a long roadtrip in Southwest US, mostly in Utah, in middle of summer. After a week, I was literally dying from the heat, so I followed the advice of a random guy I met on one of the spots I visited: going to GC to get some fresh air (higher altitude). But the thing is I had zero plans, no precise locations in mind… So when I arrived in GC I just went around shooting randomly. On that day, I was exploring a spot for sunset but quickly realized it wouldn’t be ideal for sunset light, so I was hesitant about what to do. That’s when I met a local and started to chat with him, then he proposed to take me to a spot that was ideal for sunset. I followed him and ended in that spot. It’s been one of the best shooting I had during the whole trip 😂. Crazy light, beautiful sunset, incredible location. Sometimes having no plan = good plan on the end.
February 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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buesauce.bsky.social
Hard Frost

#fsprintmonday
#sharemondays2025
February 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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richardmortimer.bsky.social
Still Life with Tea Towel
February 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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charrisonphotos.bsky.social
Frozen Textures ❄️

I captured this textural abstract black and white photograph from my drone in the Scottish Highlands. It's not the usual type of capture that does well on social media, but that's okay. I'm sure some of you will enjoy it too 😃

#bnw #nature #photography #abstract #drone
Overhead view of a frozen surface with star-shaped patterns where melting ice has drained into central points. Layers of snow create contrasting textures around the stars, lending a subtle, intricate design to the otherwise white, wintry scene. Cairngorms national park, Scotland
February 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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john-pow.bsky.social
Hidden away on a secluded hill top in the Cairngorms National Park is the Balmoral Pyramid, or Prince Albert's Cairn. This unique structure was commissioned by Queen Victoria in 1862 as a tribute to her beloved husband, Prince Albert.
February 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
brad-r.bsky.social
This keeps making me giggle.
February 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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rachaeltalibart.bsky.social
Here be dragons. My favourite photo from the frozen south.
A portrait format photo of a snow cornice that looks a bit like a monster, on top of a peak caught in a beam of sunlight amid swirling blue clouds.
February 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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andrealuck.bsky.social
Phobos over Mars

Full size: flic.kr/p/2qJrbGD

Credit:
Processing: Andrea Luck CC BY
Raw images: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin @esa.int

ESA Mars Express HRSC
Orbit 3868 2007-01-10
Filter S13 H3868_0000_S13.IMG
Colourised image using data processed from: psa.esa.int

My album about Phobos: flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvrQL
An image taken from orbit shows the potato-shaped satellite Phobos orbiting Mars. The perspective places Phobos very close to the Martian limb, above elongated whitish clouds near the terminator. Phobos appears predominantly grey, while the surface of Mars displays tones ranging from rusty red to darker hues near its terminator. Some craters are visible on the surface of Mars, they should be much larger than Phobos. The camera scanning the satellite causes the view of the Martian surface to appear stretched as it moves by.
February 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
brad-r.bsky.social
(Don't read the ALT text yet....)
Can you figure out what this is a photo of?
Clever capture, Bree! @xobreex3.bsky.social
xobreex3.bsky.social Bree🌸 @xobreex3.bsky.social · Feb 1
I finally deactivated Threads & X after not using them for months.🙌 It was time, and it feels so good!

I'd also like to say that it has been refreshing to see that the #photography community is better than ever on here! Thanks to all of you who make it so great! Keep on clicking, friends! 📸
A photo of two different kinds of hand soap in a soap dispenser giving it this cool abstract feel.
February 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
brad-r.bsky.social
Stunning collection from @davebrosha.bsky.social
davebrosha.bsky.social Dave Brosha @davebrosha.bsky.social · Jan 31
I know it's a lot to ask you to leave this platform and head to an old-school blog, but as promised last week....here's my "Best of 2024" colour image review.....so many great memories pulling this together.

davebrosha.com/blog/2025/1/...

#photographer #naturephotographer
January 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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bulloch.photography
A reworking of a photo from the Lake District that became my favourite from 2024. I had to make it very different from the original but I think it still holds together.

#photography #landscapephotography #photographers #nikon
A complex view of a tarn in the Lake District with branches hanging down in the foreground and a deep red acer bush glowing in the background.
January 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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mariegardiner.bsky.social
How lovely to see the Coal Face exhibition and all the incredible work that @louisepowell.bsky.social and @martintype.bsky.social have put in. Also wonderful to see Tot, who I interviewed in 2016 for my first book, who is now 100(!) and still remembered me. Fantastic.
Portraits on a wall with the title coal face in the middle
January 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
brad-r.bsky.social
#iceformation
sarahmarinophoto.bsky.social Sarah Marino @sarahmarinophoto.bsky.social · Jan 31
Over the last two winters, I have had some fun with creating ice abstracts in my yard and then photographing them--a little collaboration with nature. Here are a few recent favorites.

You can read a little more about the process and see more photos here: smallscenes.com/blog/backyar...
January 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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xavbeaumont.bsky.social
Norfolk Coast - #photography #longexpo #longexposure #monochrome #BNW #Seascape #coast
January 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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landru79.bsky.social
And may I know why I hadn't dug into the #TIR data of #Hayabusa2? 🙄

jade2.darts.isas.jaxa.jp?otime=2018-0...

JAXA

🔭
January 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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sophiecarr.bsky.social
More icebergs at Fellsfjara beach at Jökulsárlón in #Iceland, in October 2021 on a very blustery day.
Sunrise over a beach with some large icebergs sitting on the sandback. They glow gold in the sunrise light. There are waves crashing in the distance and some ripples on the sand in the front.
January 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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armandsarlangue.bsky.social
Frosty Forest… From my beloved French alps 🌲🏔️❄️

#bluesky #photography #landscape #art #nature #forest
Frozen forest. The tree silhouettes reveals from deep winter fog. Tones are blue.
January 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
brad-r.bsky.social
Finn Hopson's 2024 review thread!!

Fantastic, delicate details -- check the pylon's perfection, and its textured background.

→ so best viewed in the most hi-res way you can -- try opening the thread or finnhopson.substack.com/p/moving-on in web browser, not mobile app?

Thank you Finn! 👏👏👏🙏
January 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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andymacd-photo.bsky.social
I was wracking my brain for #WeekEforEvent in the #AlphabetChallenge but remembered a 60th birthday where I peeled off the celebrations. I couldn’t resist a landscape photo from the venue’s garden. More in Alt.

www.AndyMacD.co.uk

#fineart #landscapephotography #landscape
#photography #Scotland
The ghost of Robert Louis Stevenson. The bass rock (covered in guano - I mean, bleurgh 🤢 but pretty from a distance), a stand of pines and a small island in the forth. This to me looks like a mysterious island 🏝️ in the Pacific 🌊 and it must have been seen the same way by Robert Louis Stevenson. As a boy, he stayed in the house where we were having a grand birthday party now, and had taken inspiration for “Treasure Island” from the views he saw there. That night, after the festivities, I retired to the study of the house with a nice whisky, and sat at an old desk that may have been RLS’s, looking out into the dark where the island lay. I pulled an old edition of “Treasure Island” off the book shelf and under a dimmed light and until well after midnight, I read a few chapters of it once again, as I had as a child. As I sat reading in his chair, I heard various creaks from the old house and smiling, I imagined R.L.S. was present, enjoying someone appreciating his book almost 130 years after his death. Books can make us immortal. It was a lovely experience with my imagination captured by both the book and by my peripheral sense of the house being a witness over the centuries. It’s nice to play with a little romanticism sometimes Jim lad.
January 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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ckphotography.bsky.social

Seeing Grant and David posting some nautical abstracts reminded me I had not posted this abstract from a boat at Lamlash
more a sledgehammer than a subtle abstract

#photography
#abstractphotography
#photographers
#canon
#scotland
#Arran
January 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM