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Tom Donald
@tomclearwood.bsky.social
Frankly I'm here for the Indy: hope & community

I'm a photographer, fifty years behind the shutter developing style

diversity - equity - inclusion. But more so.
Oooooohh dogs in Scotland land of windy mud wee mammals and dogpeople walking about for a chat and a biscuit
Healthy you know?
December 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
ok ok ok the leaves aren't blue.
reality's inadequacies.
texture texture, it's photography of a better woody world
#AbstractLenspressionism
#ArtAdventCalendar day6
December 6, 2025 at 5:47 AM
It's kind of you to comment and I'm so glad you're onto the vibe of this picture. If I can extract a pretty thing from the dirty old world and fix it into a frame I'll do it. Click, click.
December 6, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Choosing a picture for day5 of #ArtAdventCalendar has been strangely difficult... I actually put a picture up earlier, then deleted it because I wanted something a bit more... FLAMBOYANT!

Then I found what I needed in November, it's a burned out car: Out of the strong came forth sweetness right?
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
last week in california I saw the pacific ocean do this
#colour #photography
December 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
bleep!
December 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
So @plantteaching.bsky.social travels the world... sometimes I tag along.
This time Belgium. Ghent! I loved it.

plenty of raw material.. I like to make the world look GOOD in my photography because it is, if you look carefully.

This picture's all about SUNSHINE
for #ArtAdventCalendar day4
December 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
This year I went to Berlin; didn't like it.

But there were some nice engines in the technischen museum; here are two of them in my picture called "An Artist's Tribute to Professor Branestawm". #RoleModel

This is my #ArtAdventCalendar day 3 pic. I was trying for "cheerful" with this edit.
December 3, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Old Lisbon in Portugal was the highlight of my photographic year, what a city! I love to come home knowing I have a thousand exposures of interesting scenes to work on.. here's two of them on day two of #ArtAdventCalendar #photography
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
we're just back from california... here's a quick edit of a misty scene. I'm afraid this kind of hobbit-land prettification editing is just the kind of thing that AI does so convincingly, but in this case it was me honest! I've put some notes in the ALT text about how I did it #photography #ca #usa
December 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
It's time for #ArtAdventCalendar to start up again!
Here's my first picture, imagine opening a little door...
This on is one of my mixes, two photos from the Science Museum in Leiden. I mix using layers with a "difference" blend mode. So both pictures contribute equally, then I edit for colour.
December 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Oooh back to editing again thanks to my mrs dragging me out of the house to go to Lisbon. A view under the amazing and great 25th April Bridge, a scene up by the castle in b&w, another with a lovely orange skip then yippee it's disco peacock
March 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Here's our christmas card, home made as usual... We made it to give to our dog walking friends in the park but now our wee dog is on heat so we can't go anywhere near the park without risking an unfortunate event.

Merry Christmas Everyone!
December 22, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Here's an ancient Roman. I once made a big print of this, seven feet by five, and displayed it in the Glasgow Botanic Gardens.
December 12, 2024 at 7:06 PM
landing on a new social network is arriving at a party to find a few people scattered around talking indistinctly... I'll just go and stand around in the kitchen and not say much...
But here's one of my numerous pictures of skips
September 26, 2023 at 11:02 AM