Richard Heys

Afternoon sun over Galway bay and Clare hills.

#Galway

Foto / hochkant / Zentralperspektive: Eine Junge in schwarzer Kleidung läuft auf einer langen Fußgängerbrücke. Auf dem Boden liegt Schneematsch und es ist sehr neblig. Er trägt eine rote Mütze.

Berlin heute nachmittag. Inversionswetterlage mit starkem Nebel.
Die Zukunft trägt eine rote Mütze.

Um beija-flor vibrante em pleno voo, com cabeça azul turquesa e garganta exuberante em tons de fúcsia e rosa. Seu corpo exibe um verde esmeralda brilhante, contrastando com detalhes brancos no peito e cauda escura com padrões sutis. As asas estendidas revelam delicadas penas em tons de cinza e rosa pálido, em meio a um fundo desfocado de vegetação e luz natural. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

🇧🇷Bico-reto-de-banda-branca
🌎Heliomaster squamosus
Conservação: Pouco Preocupante

Também conhecido como estrela-verde-azulado, o bico-reto-de-banda-branca (Heliomaster squamosus) é um beija-flor da família Trochilidae.

📷 Fabrício Corsi Arias

Carved figure of a Roman woman in pale sandstone. The style of art looks quite naive but still an impressive piece.

Tombstone of an unknown Roman woman at Vindolanda.
Found used in 4th century wall repairs, the local buff sandstone was quarried in the 3rd century, so the tomb may date to that period.
@vindolandatrust.bsky.social
#TombTuesday

Green and gold in a beautiful blue sky!

the colours!

white depth
#snow #photography

📷️Nikon Zf
📸NIKKOR Z 24-70mm F4 S
#photography #fotografía #Nikon #Zf

This photo captures the dramatic silhouette of ancient stone abbey ruins under a dynamically coloured winter sky. The structure dominates the lower half of the vertical composition, constructed from rugged, weathered grey stones of varying shapes and sizes. The ruins feature a prominent, partially intact wall with a large, central, rectangular opening where a window or doorway once stood. This aperture frames the bright sky beyond, serving as a focal point. To the lower left, a smaller, slightly arched opening is visible. The top of the wall culminates in a jagged, uneven peak, testament to centuries of decay and exposure to the elements. Perched atop the highest point of the stonework are two small birds in silhouette. One is stationary, while the other is captured mid-flight, a slight blur of motion against the background of the clouds as it takes flight. These figures add a sense of scale and life to the otherwise still and desolate scene. The sky above provides a striking, moody backdrop. Layers of clouds are painted in hues of vibrant blue, soft pink, and pale yellow at dusk. The interplay of light and shadow on the clouds creates a sense of depth and atmosphere, enhancing the historic and somewhat somber mood of the ancient remnants. The image uses strong contrast between the dark, textured stone and the luminous sky, which is particularly bright as seen through the central opening. The focus is on the stonework, highlighting its rough surface and robust construction, while the sky and birds add narrative and aesthetic depth to the historical subject

'Two Birds, Many Stones'

Another shot from our hurried 'walk' around Jervaulx Abbey trying to get some shots before sundown!

Hope my #Bluesky friends have had a lovely start to the week!

Sparty 🙏🏼💙

#EastCoastKin #Photography #ColorADay #PinkMon #Art #BlueSkyMonday #Travel #PhotographersofBluesky

#BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant
Cambridge

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” Maya Angelou

#BirdOfTheDay #Solitude #peace
#EastCoastKin #birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #photography #TidesOutTuesday #seaside

#ForestFriday

Officially dawn

Un vieil arbre courbé qui à su résister aux aléas du temps avec un chemin mi soleil mi ombre passant juste en dessous. Chassiron, France. Bon Mardi à vous 💫

Ancient trees are precious. There is little else on Earth that plays host to such a rich community of life within a single living organism. 𝑆𝑖𝑟 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝐴𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ

#ThickTrunkTuesday #bluetue #nature #photography

Light in the Evening | Shiro Kasamatsu
#Japanese #WoodblockPrint #Ukiyo-e

'Cliffs, South Stack, Anglesey.' The darkness implicit in so many of Kyffin Williams's mountain landscapes was a facet of his own make-up. He recognised in it the Celtic tendency to melancholy and that a certain despair and gloom were the logical sequel to his epileptic seizures.

For Algernon Newton buildings were living entities, vulnerable to the ravages of time, neglect or weather. period curiosities, timeless and unreal. This work, painted as a monotone picture, depicts 'Dovehouse Street, Chelsea,' in London, 1920.

zonder distelvinkje is de kaardenbol óók mooi ✨

💚 de kaardenbollen
🌄🤎🍂mooie avond!
#nature today #Natuur
#flowers #photography
#garden ✨🌞 3/3 🌠

Portrait of a Girl | Gabriele Münter

Evening Light. 5°C and the thaw in full progress. One Labrador

Evening Light. 5°C and the thaw in full progress. One Labrador.

Uma coruja empoleirada num galho, voltando o olhar para a câmera. Sua plumagem varia em tons de cinza e marrom, com padrões intrincados por todo o corpo. Apresenta grandes olhos amarelos e tufos de penas que se assemelham a orelhas. O fundo é desfocado, com tons de verde e branco, sugerindo folhagem. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

🇧🇷Jacurutu
🌎Bubo virginianus
Conservação: Pouco Preocupante
Coruja grande e poderosa, com “orelhas” proeminentes

📷 Lindolfo Souto

My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all a creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting underwater sea-life featuring lively stylised octopuses with writhing tentacles (arms), All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Top L - Minoan pithoid storage jar decorated in the “Marine Style” with wide-eyes octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded top tapering down to a narrower base. Short cyclindrical neck flaring out at the mouth with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders of the body. Height 55 cm. From Zakros. 1500-1450 BC Top R - Minoan flask with a rounded body, short cyclindrical neck which flares at the rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the body. Decorated in “Marine Style” which depicts an almost cartoon-like octopus with wide eyes and sucker-lined tentacles which writhe around the vase. Other decorative sea-motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC Bottom L - alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck and a wider flat rimmed mouth. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC Bottom R - krater with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a central very stylised wide-eyed octopus whose tentacles loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC

Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️

Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef, South African (1886-1957), Bosveld, Transvaal, 1929-32, oil on canvas on board, 140 x 150 cm, Rupert Museum, Stellenbosch, South Africa

The Sydney Opera House at night as viewed from the west. The sails are brightly coloured, lit up during the annual Vivid festival in 2025. The colours are hot pink. yellow, orange and red. On the largest sail is the capital letter Q, with blue in the middle. The image has been cropped, some of the sky is not longer in the picture.

Sydney Opera House sails wearing bright colours during Vivid 2025

Kiss of Light, artist David McDiarmid

#BlueSkyArtShow #Bright #photography #SydneyOperaHouse

#Bright #blueskyartshow

Shining moon in a dusky sky. #beauty #hope #peace 🕊

And at a place not far away, I found the first iceflowers in this season. Different impressions in one day.
#nature

Ce soir notre ciel s’est embrasé après le coucher du soleil.

Incendie ?

Fiery sky

Himmel des Feuers

Pássaro de plumagem escura em pleno voo, com tons acinzentados e marrons, sobre um oceano azul vibrante. Suas asas estão estendidas e suas penas mostram detalhes texturais. A cabeça e o bico são alongados, complementando a aerodinâmica do corpo. A superfície da água reflete nuances de luz. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

🇧🇷Pardela-escura
🌎Ardenna grisea
Conservação: Quase Ameaçada

A pardela-escura é uma ave procellariiforme da família Procellariidae.


📷 Fernando Farias

Looking up a big gum tree in blue sky.

#DailyTree