S.Tyler

Retired expat living in the Philippines. My passion is photography, jazz music, good bourbon and easy living. During the pandemic, I fell in love with black and white. Once the travel restrictions were lifted I flew back to New York and traded in all my camera gear for a camera that only shoots monochrome. I’m seeing photography in a different way now., so anything posted in color is a shot taken long ago. After all, artists don’t throw away old works.

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽georgetakei@universeodon.com
2023-12-03

Listen up. New rule. If you voted AGAINST Biden’s infrastructure bill, you don’t get to claim credit at groundbreakings in your state for projects that it funds.

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Druid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿druid@toot.wales
2023-12-03
The tide gently lapping against the shore. The pebbles on the beach are illuminated by the low winter sun.
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Davey_P 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪🇪🇺 :ubuntu:davey_p@mstdn.social
2023-12-03

#silentsunday #photography #naturephotography
Nice morning in Wellington Bridge We ford today.
#Wexford #ireland

Reflections in Wexford
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2023-12-03

#SilentSunday

"Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear,
Or, like a fairy, trip upon the green,
Or, like a nymph, with long dishevell'd hair,
Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen:
Love is a spirit all compact of fire,
Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire."
- #ShakespeareSunday, Venus and Adonis

#NorthernLights above Egilsstaðir in eastern #Iceland.

@photography #aurora #DailyPhoto #photography #WeatherPhotography

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A starry sky, devoid of clouds. Across the entire photo are stripes and ripples of bright green aurora, some with spikes pointing upward, some with a fork like a snake's tongue or a candle flame. The horizon is very low and is simply a dark block at the bottom of the shot but, in one place, the aurora is disappearing behind the hillside and a few silhouetted features can be seen - a power transmission tower, a few bare trees - which lend it scale.
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Undiscovered ScotlandUndisScot@mastodon.scot
2023-12-03

The magical Stones of Stenness circle and henge on Orkney's West Mainland, with the mountains of Hoy in the distance. The stones you see today are part of a ring of 12 tall stones and a surrounding ditch from between 3000BC and 2500BC. More pics and info: undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/wes

#Scotland #Orkney #Neolithic #WestMainland #StonesOfStenness #UndiscoveredScotland

The Stones of Stenness circle and henge on Orkney's West Mainland. The image shows a grassy area in the foreground with a road behind then a loch cutting across the frame and low-lying land behind it. In the distance are hills. There are four standing stones in the grassy area, two low ones on the left, a taller one on the right, and the tallest in the centre of the frame. Another stone is lying on the ground in the left foreground. Sunlight is coming from the right.
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2023-12-03
The full moon appearing to balance on the top of Tennyson Monument on the Isle of Wight. Timing and perfect weather conditions were key to this shot, also quite a long walk in the dark. This was compounded when my husband lost his phone up there, shortly after taking the photo. Several hours later we found it!
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2023-12-03

1/ Reduce your need to earn.
#permaculture #economics Commenters have informed me that this is in Reading, W of London, on Broad St.

City center with cars excluded, brick paving, trees, and folks walking about. A large sign reads: "Save 100% when you don't buy anything."
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2023-12-03

Loch an Loin, with Beinn Damh behind. 09:30 this morning. -6C

Frozen loch and grasses.
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2023-12-03
Current view at home. Street cleared of snow, snow-filled fields. A man and dog in the snow, three trees behind which is the rising sun over a blue sky. 
(Photo taken by my youngest daughter.)
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2023-12-03

The fascists love to demonize queer ppl for "making everything about sex" or "making their gender their whole personality" but every time I go to a queer event I am struck by how precisely they have this backwards. Cis society is profoundly sexualized, and literally every interaction is pre-coded with assumed gender. In a queer space, you purposefully never make assumptions about who someone is or what they're up to, so interactions are much *less* coded by gender and *less* intrinsically sexual

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Sheril KirshenbaumSheril
2023-12-03

A good list of questions we might ask ourselves before commenting on social media by whimsical @elisegravel (Printable at elisegravel.com/en/blog/questi )

QUESTiONS TO ASK YOURSELF BEFORE COMMENTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA: AM I VENTING OR ACTING OUT IN ANGER? IS MY COMMENT USEFUL, KIND, TRUE, CONSTRUCTIVE? 3) 4 WOULD I BE OK WITH MY COMMENT IF IT WAS MADE PUBLIC? WOULD I SAY THE SAME THING IN PERSON? WoULD I lIke IT IF SOMEONE TALKED TO ME THAT WAY? MIGHT I REGRET HAVING POSTED THiS COMMENT? DOES MY COMMENT CONTAIN PRIVATE INFORMATION?by artist Elise Gravel
2023-12-03

The Five Devils poster in the background refers to a French fantasy/drama. Coincidentally the five passengers could be immersed in their own devilish fantasies; oh, the drama of riding in the NYC subway, haha.
#StreetPhotography #saturday #BlackAndWhite #blackandwhitephotography #nyc #underground #streetstyle #candid #Photography

Black and white photograph of 2 couples riding in a subway car and their interests in the single female dressed in a provocative outfit in front of a poster titles “The Five Devils”.
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Jason ThorneJasonThorne
2023-11-25

Very cool. Automated underground bike storage in Kyoto.

2023-11-25

“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same." — Carlos Castaneda

#StreetPhotography #Photography #BlackAndWhite #blackandwhitephotography #people #bnw

Black and white photograph of a couple with fingers entwined on a sidewalk in New York’s Times Square.
2023-11-15

My wish is to stay always like this,
living quietly in a corner
of nature.

—Claude Monet

#Photography #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #provincelife #quotes #Remote #Sunset #Nature #naturephotography

Photograph taken at the end of a day in a Philippine province; the sun is setting behind low clouds and it is reflected on a pond of water in the foreground.
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Steve Henderson Fine ArtSteveHendersonFineArt
2023-11-15

Softly, she reaches

out her hand to the petals

to touch, so gently.

Is it un-PC to see a woman's touch as one of caressing and care, of sensitivity and gentleness? I don't know, really don't care -- I remember my wife brushing her fingers across our children's faces as babies -- lightly, lovingly.

A Woman's Touch art print -- 2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/f

Art print of an original watercolor painting by Steve Henderson depicting a woman, wrapped in a towel, reaching out to touch a vase of flowers.
2023-11-15

@Ard awesome

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