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Peter Barnes
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Eclectic curmudgeon, bio: https://bsky.app/profile/infinite8horizon.com/post/3lgmq5wdco22d

On Turrbal land, he/him/ally.
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Morning visitor

I was processing shots at the kitchen table when this lorikeet arrived outside, so I hastily shot through the (dirty, distorting) window with whatever settings I had 😄
#ColorADay #GreenSat
#photography #candid #wildlife #birds #lorikeet #gift #EastCoastKin
A rainbow lorikeet perched on a branch. The tree it's in isn't flowering, so it didn't stay long.
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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#BNWmacro
#photography #macro #highkey #ClassicMono #arthropods #spider #ant #EastCoastKin
A spider web absolutely covered in flying ants from an early-morning swarm Closer view of a spider web and spider with a large haul of flying ants Macro shot of the spider and some of its prey
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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It all depends on your point of view...

#BNWmacro
There was a big thunderstorm last night, and misty high humidity this morning. Flying ants everywhere... This spider had a windfall. More in thread.
#photography #macro #highkey #ClassicMono #art #poignant #arthropods #spider #ant #EastCoastKin
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A spider sits in a web that's invisible against the bright sky, surrounded by the bodies and shed wings of flying ants that have blundered into its web during their swarming. The trapped wings are very poignant, sadly beautiful.
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Good Morning!
Sunrise over the Brisbane river

#BlueSkyArtShow #bright
#photography #landscape #dawn #gift #EastCoastKin
An intense, narrow band of deep orange light on the horizon heralds sunrise in an otherwise thickly-clouded indigo-blue sky. It's still some time before sunrise, and the suburban landscape below is mostly dark, with occasional pinpricks of light from streetlights or houses.
November 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Full moon over the Brisbane River

#BlueSkyArtShow #bright
#photography #landscape #cloudscape #night #FullMoon #gift #EastCoastKin
The full moon blazes brightly through thin high cloud over the Brisbane river. A bank of lower cumulus is also brightly lit and in detail over the nightscape of Brisbane suburbs on the opposite bank of the river.
November 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Good Morning!
A gentle start to your day

#photography #landscape #skyscape #scape #sunrise #gift #EastCoastKin
A gentle, pastel sunrise with delicate, drawn-out clouds pulled across the sky like long brushstrokes in orange-pink. Below a dark suburban scape, lights still on in the dim light, the silhouette of a single large tree breaking the skyline.
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (sans nue)

#UrbanGaze #HumansOfBlueSky
#photography #landscape #NewFarmPark #EastCoastKin
Families having picnic lunch on the grass at New Farm Park under a large fig tree. The Brisbane river is in the background.
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Black Bat flower (Tacca chantrieri)

#PalacesAndGardens #BotanicalWonders
#NightmareNov #unnatural #ExceptItIs
#photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #surprise #EastCoastKin
The unique and startling flowers and fruits of the black bat flower
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Good Morning!

I'm a little behind on everything after the move. Earlier this year 😄
#ColorADay #YellowThu
#photography #landscape #sunrise #cloudscape #gift #EastCoastKin
A blazing yellow sun in a golden sky. Several cloud systems are all backlit or transilluminated by the bright sun. Below, a suburban ridgeline and hillside is just visible against the bright sky
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Poinciana!
A very large bouquet for you!

I was driving down a suburban street yesterday and saw this jaw-dropping poinciana, had to stop and photograph it.
#ColorADay #RedWed
#photography #flowers #poinciana #bloomscrolling #trees #gift #EastCoastKin
A poinciana in full bloom, the tree absolutely laden with brilliant red flowers, quite spectacular. A small section of the previous tree, showing the beautiful red flowers and the density of flowering.
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Good Morning!
Not long ago, in Mt. Gravatt...

#photography #landscape #sunrise #gift #EastCoastKin
A blazing sun has just risen, orange, in a clear, slightly misty morning, throwing the skyline of trees and roofs on a ridge into sharp silhouette. A Torresian crow is flying free, also in silhouette.
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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They are ridiculously colourful, also great clowns... Here's a couple closer up
Rainbow lorikeet in flight A pair of wild rainbow lorikeets hanging upside down under a feeder
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Male Nomia bees clustering
(Lipotiches australica)

#MacroMonday
#photography #macro #insects #diptera #bees #Lipotriches #EastCoastKin
A group of male Nomia bees clustering. This behaviour is reportedly common before night, however these bees were observed at 11:30, so maybe they slept in...
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Afternoon, with lorikeet

#BlueSkyMonday
#scape #birds #lorikeet #gift #EastCoastKin
A bright blue sky with ragged white cumulus, framed on the left by a nearby tree, and on the bottom by the tip of a hill, while flying almost out of frame is a rainbow lorikeet, wings spread in flight. (If you've ever seen them flying you'll know their wingbeat is very fast, as is the bird, for its size, so this shot is good luck not good management)
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Day fades into night...
Bald Knob

I have just moved house, so taking and posting pictures is not top priority, perforce.
#BlueSkyArtShow #evening
#landscape #sunset #blue #silhouette #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
Faint echoes of Escher. The dark silhouettes of multiple mature eucalypts frame the sky as it fades from soft pink on the left to deepening blue on the right, as the last light of sunset fades from the sky and the blue gloom of dusk intransitively gathers for language nerds across the plains below.
November 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Spathe and spadix of Monstera deliciosa

Not sure which I prefer...
#ColorADay #GreenSat
#BNWMacro #ClassicMono
#photography #plants #flowering #EastCoastKin
The protective sheath (spathe) of the currently flowering fruiting body (spadix) of the edible Monstera deliciosa plant. Once it has flowered the spathe closes around the growing fruit, which can take up to a year to ripen. The protective sheath (spathe) of the currently flowering fruiting body (spadix) of the edible Monstera deliciosa plant. Once it has flowered the spathe closes around the growing fruit, which can take up to a year to ripen.
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Łazienki Park, Warsaw
Contrasts

#PalacesAndGardens #WeatherAndMood
#HumansOfBlueSky
#StreetPhotography #candid #life #EastCoastKin
An old woman, possibly homeless, sitting in the sunlight on a park bench in the beautiful Łazienki gardens in Warsaw, a trolley and bag of possessions kept close.
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Good Morning!

Two scaly-breasted lorikeets kissing
#photography #birds #lorikeets #wildlife #nature #cute #gift #EastCoastKin
A pair of scaly-breasted lorikeets in a flowering tree, exchanging endearments. This behaviour went on for some time, very sweet...
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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#WordlessWednesday

#EastCoastKin
A very wide panorama of suburban Brisbane bordering the Brisbane river at night. Multiple cloud systems are marching across the sky, lit up by the city's lights, particularly bright to one side from the unseen lights of Brisbane airport. Last night on the New Farm peninsula.
November 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Good Evening!
First sunrise at the new house

#photography #sunrise #landscape #gift #EastCoastKin
Pink and lavender clouds blanket the sky behind a heavily treed hillside, the trees seen in silhouette.
November 1, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Good Morning!

Last day at this apartment
#photography #landscape #memento #EastCoastKin
A grey sky and pallid sunrise. Another day to be grateful for, nonetheless.
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Good Morning!
Sunset rainbow

Sun+rain=magic
#photography #landscape #rainbow #cloudscape #sunset #gift #EastCoastKin
Looking east, the pink light from the setting sun lights up rain clouds drifting across the sky, turning soft blankets of rain into diffuse clouds of pink, and sketching the outlines of a rainbow, marking in glowing colour where the rain is heavier.
October 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Good Morning!
Possibilities...

A new day, the river, a ferry...
#photography #ColorADay #BlueTue #dawn #landscape #gift #EastCoastKin
A deep orange-red dawn is growing on the distantly clouded horizon, while above the blue vault of the clear sky shades down from deep blue to saffron. The land below is in darkness, punctuated by pinpoint streetlights, while on the river bank a ferry terminal is lit up in an oasis of light, drawing the eye, already open for travellers. It is a picture of promise and possibilities.
October 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Good Morning!
Abstract Bald Knob cloudscape

#photography #cloudscape #abstract #sunrise #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
Layers of differently textured clouds at sunrise, lit bright orange by the rising sun
October 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Light and shadow, yin and yang
Mooloolah Valley mist 64

#scape #ForestFriday #ColorADay #BWFri #ClassicMono #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet
#photography #landscape #mono #mist #BaldKnob #Mooloolah #gift #EastCoastKin
A repetition of ridges and valleys, light and dark, hard and soft, clear and unclear, high and low, yin and yang... A mist filled, hilly forest lit by the just risen sun casting long, soft shadows.
October 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM