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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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Frosted Black Bryony leaves and berries
#ColorADay (almost) #BWFri
Black Bryony leaves and berries on the vine. I decided to leave the berries red whlie converting the rest of the image to monochrome.
November 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Wrinkled Crust Fungi (Phlebia radiata)
#Fungi #FungiFriday #Macro #MacroPhotography
Looking a little like something from The Last of US these fungi create flat oval and odd shaped crusts on fallen trees in this case a Silver Birch trunk. They are various shades of orange and brown and have a raised edge inside of which there are a whole range of lumps bumps and wrinkles. Looking down on the fungi it is easy to imagine that you are flying over some aleiemn landscape and theat the fungi are pools of volcanic material waiting to erupt.
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Golden grass seeds
#ColorADay #YellowThu
A multl stemmed grass seed head glowing in the early morning sun against a blackl background, witht neh individual grass seed stems flowing out to the right and down to towards the bottom of the image.
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Fading and frosted
#RoseWednesday #Roses #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Frost
An open orange rose viewed from below and side on against a pale blue and grey sky. Some of the lower leaves have faded and the rest are partly covered in frost.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Sweet Chestnut tree leaves carpet the floor in CrackleyWoods, near Kenilworth, #Warwickshire
#ThickTrunkTuesday #Autumn #Nature #Trees
A number of thick trunked trees are visible along the footpath through Crackley Woods, in this image the foreground is lined with Sweet Chestnut tree leaves and they show the way along the path through the woods.
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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In the Pink
#ColorADay #PinkMon #Flowers #BloomScrolling #MacroMonday #Macro #MacroPhotography
A pink Christmas Cactus flower viewed from below showing the Stigma and Style and the Filaments and Anthers.
November 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Toothed Crust Fungus (Basidioradulum radula)
#MacroMonday #Macro #MacroPhotograsphy #Fungi #FungiFriday
A small patch of Toothed Crust Fungus (Basidioradulum radula) growing on a dead branch mainly white in clolour they look more like a range of snowy mountain tops viewed from a plane than what I think of as fungus. A full explanation of this type of fungi can be found here: https://crustfungi.com/html/sidebar/introduction.html
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Sulphur Tuft Mushrooms (Hypholoma fasciculare). I think there is just enough yellow and orange in these mushrooms for for #SundayYellow and #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Fungi #FungiFriday
A group of Sulphur Tuft Mushrooms growning out of a fallen tree trunk in Crackley Woods Warwickshire. The mushrooms are tightly grouped together and the caps are yellow around a more ornage centre.
November 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Two briefly frosted Individual leaves.
#BNWmacro #blackandwhitemacro #ClassicMono #MacroPhotography #MacroMonday #Monochrome
A single tightly curled decaying leaf hangs from a twig covered in frost that only lasted a few hours before the warmth of the day melted it away. A single partially curled decaying leaf hangs from a twig covered in early morning frost that only lasted a few hours before the warmth of the day melted it away.
November 23, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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A frosted feather for #BlueSkyArtShow #Small #Macro #MacroPhotography #MacroMonday
A small white feather frozen to a thin twig, both the feather and the twig are covered in tiny ice crystals.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Monkey Puzzle leaves
#ColorADay #GreenSat
Green Monkey Puzzle leaves at the tip of a branch against a black background.
November 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Frosted Black Bryony berries on the vine.

#BNWmacro #blackandwhitemacro #ClassicMono #MacroPhotography #MacroMonday #Monochrome #ColorADay #BWFri
A bunch of frosted abd partially dehydrated Black Bryony berries. The berries are normally bright red but the majority of this bunch had turned black and wrinkled.
November 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Shaggy Ink Cap
#FungiFriday #FungiFriends #Mushrooms #Nature #Autumn
A single Shaggy Ink Cap mushroom (Coprinus comatus), also known as the lawyer's wig or shaggy mane. This was the only speciment in the meadow at the top of Stockton Cutting Nature reserve, Warwickshire. The mushroom pale grey and has a long cone like cap that is covered in scales that look as though they are flaking off the mushroom. The bottom edge of the cap is black and the top of the cap has some pale amber colouring.
November 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Venus in the dawn sky as observed during todays frosty and fresh early morning bimble with the four legged walking coach.
#ColorADay #YellowThu #Dawn #Venus #Silhouette
A line of almost bare branched trees and shrubs stand in silhouette in front of a dawn sky that starts orange behind the trees and fades through yellow to pale blue skies at the top of the image. Thin grey clouds form lines across the middle of the image with Venus just visble under the lowest line of clouds towards the right hand end of that line opf clouds.
November 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Newfoundland, Canary Wharf. London.
#UrbanGaze #Reflections
The Newfoundland is a 220-metre (720 ft) residential skyscraper located between Westferry Road and Bank Street in Canary Wharf on the Isle of Dogs, London. Image from August 2021. Info from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland,_London
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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A Pink rainy day Rose for #RoseWednesday #Roses #Flowers #BloomScrolling
A single pink rose bloom Probably the last flower from this particular miniature rose. The outer open pink petals are covered in raindrops while the still closed middle petals are largely rain free.
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Rainy day red Cyclamen flowers
#ColorADay #RedWed #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Macro #MacroPhotography #MacroMonday
Looking down on some red Cyaclamen petals that are covered in raindrops.
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Vestrahorn
#TidesOutTuesday #Scape #Iceland #ColorADay #BlueTue #MountainMonday
An old image from Octber 2018 taken late afternoon looking across black sands towards Vestrahorn with the mountain partially reflected in the wet sand in the foreground. The pale blue sky is also reflected in the sand and in the sea.
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Waning Crescent moon seen during an early morning bimble today. #BlueSkyMonday #Moon #Silhouette #ColorADay #BlueTue #Moon
Yhe waning crescent moon sits bright in the sky alongside the silhouetted now bare branches of a tree that stands tall above a line of trees.
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Tulip
#MacroMonday #Macro #MacroPhotography #Flowers #BloomScrolling
A similar image to the one posted a few days ago showing the Anthers, Fliaments, Style and Stigma of an orange Tulip. In this image everything including the petals are in focus. This is a 15 image in camera focus stack captured with the Olympus OM-1 and the M.Zuilo 90mm Macro lens.
November 17, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Lily Orb
#ColorADay #OrangeSun #Stunday #Orb #Flowers #BloomScrolling

See ALT text for information about creating Orbs.
Ths started out as an orange lily flower that has been processed in Lightroom. Earlier this week I was introduced to the work of Martin Addison via an advert for an online Zoom class on creativity that he is delivering on the 25th of November - details here: https://events.rps.org/en/4LrdQ66/central-region-creative-photography-development-in-lightroom-nov-2025-5a2NN2AvIFN/overview this led me to Martin's website where amongst other marvellous content I found these stunning images -https://martinaddison.photography/orbs-ap and this book which explains how you make them https://martinaddison.photography/issuu-books The process is relatively straightforward and it does become quite addictive :)
November 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Astrantia l- light and shade
#BNWmacro #blackandwhitemacro #ClassicMono #MacroPhotography #MacroMonday #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Monochrome
Two fully open Astrantia flowers viewed side on with their supporting stalk entering the image from the bottom left hand corner and immediately splitting into two (one for each flower). The flower on the left is in full sun while the flower on the right is partly in light shade especially on the the right hand side of the flower.
November 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Christmas Cactus - the colour version of the monochrome image posted earlier today
#Flowers #BloomScrolling #FlowersOnFriday
Three white and pink Christmas Cactus flowers stand out against a black background.
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Christmas Cactus
#ColorADay #BWFri #BNWmacro #blackandwhitemacro #ClassicMono #MacroPhotography #MacroMonday #Flowers #BloomScrolling #FlowersOnFriday #Monochrome
Chrostmas Cactus flowers processed to blackand white resulting in very pale and white shades all against a black background
November 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Christmas Cactus
#COlorADay #YellowThu #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Macro #MacroPhotography #MacroMonday
Close up image of a mainly white Christmas Cacti=us with a red Stigma and Style, white filaments and yellow anthers.
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM