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Brad Frederiksen

@bradfrederiksen.bsky.social

I am a multi-genre photographer, nonpublic poet-philosopher and long-distance road trip enthusiast living in Australia. I am especially fond of photographing trees and the remarkable patterns, textures and pareidolia to be found in their bark.

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Sagebrush and bark, inverted and converted to b&w.
#trees #photography

03.11.2025 07:14 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stranger things have happened!

03.11.2025 02:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#BOTD 1927
Max Palmer in Randolph, Mississippi. Actor, known for Stone (1974) Killer Ape (1953) Sniper (1952) and Invaders from Mars (1953) Height: 8'2"

02.11.2025 09:28 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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St. Marks Anglican Church
Blinman, South Australia
#photography

02.11.2025 07:26 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Red kangaroo in emblematic flight.
#photography

02.11.2025 04:53 — 👍 29    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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#trees #photography

02.11.2025 03:22 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Meanwhile… a pair of Australian ringnecks.
#birds #trees #photography

01.11.2025 11:27 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nankeen kestrel on an old river red gum tree in the Flinders Ranges.
#birds #photography

01.11.2025 10:01 — 👍 28    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Rosettes of Aeoneum with iron butterfly.
Blampied, Victoria.
#photography

31.10.2025 10:19 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stick sculpture
#photography

31.10.2025 09:53 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The soft resting tree

31.10.2025 00:42 — 👍 118    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 3
Side view of an unusually shaped orchid with a hinged labellum of a deep purple/red colour on the right of the picture

Side view of an unusually shaped orchid with a hinged labellum of a deep purple/red colour on the right of the picture

Drakaea livida - the Warty Hammer Orchid

Seen at the end of September in the Perth Hills. This orchid is pollinated by the males of one species of Thynnid wasp who mistake the orchid’s unusual labellum for a flightless female wasp

#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #nature

28.10.2025 22:11 — 👍 44    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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Spider egg sac in the folds of a paperbark #tree #photography

27.10.2025 09:37 — 👍 28    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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#tree #bark #photography

26.10.2025 10:40 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Then the garden said, “All your fancy gate are redundant.”
#urban #photography

25.10.2025 05:28 — 👍 21    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A very South Australian image from last weekend.
A magpie with a ruin in the background.

24.10.2025 23:03 — 👍 119    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 0
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Abstract on salt marsh
#mobile #photography

25.10.2025 01:50 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Four people fishing bravely from a motor boat on a windswept lake, photographed at 300mm. So tiny they are, even in this small fraction of the grand scheme.
#photography

24.10.2025 10:14 — 👍 19    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Oculus

SS Philip and James Catholic Church
Hawker, South Australia.

#photography

23.10.2025 10:05 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Walls have ears; fence palings, eyes.
#mobile #photography

23.10.2025 04:52 — 👍 20    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#tree #bark #photography

20.10.2025 06:50 — 👍 21    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Central Park in Sydney
#BlueSkyArtShow #vertical #ColorADay #GreenSat

18.10.2025 06:22 — 👍 51    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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#tree #bark #photography

19.10.2025 08:24 — 👍 25    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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#tree #bark #photography

19.10.2025 00:50 — 👍 19    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you:)

18.10.2025 12:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for the warning! I’m keen to work on more of these, so any safety tips or precautionary advice would be greatly appreciated:)

18.10.2025 12:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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My first serious foray into collage today.
Three pieces of bark and a beach stone.

18.10.2025 11:59 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Also very embarrassing, but a lesson I needed only once!

18.10.2025 09:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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3 January 2017: Bogged in sand with sunset approaching west of Patchewollock, Victoria. Words of the day were overcommitment, inexperience, and rescue (by torchlight)!

18.10.2025 00:05 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Perry Sandhills
Wentworth, NSW
#photography

17.10.2025 11:45 — 👍 28    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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