Ara Güler, 1958

My Favorite Photos December 2025 #Photography #BeachLife

Balboa Park, San Diego Spanish Colonial Revival Architecture #urbangaze #architecture #historic #SanDiego #statues #lookup #photography #EastCoastKin #photographersofbluesky

Mindfulness, attention to detail 🖤 #shotoniphone #mobilephotography #classicmono

#Scape Mousehole

As well as being Boxing Day, the second day of Christmas is also the feast day of St Stephen, the first Christian Martyr. The area around Robin Hood's Bay is home to not one but two churches dedicated to him. The historic Old St Stephen's Church (built in 1822) and the active one (built in

... there's always a light somewhere ✨️ ...

Reredos A #poetry thread for #Christmas — i. A carol plays in triple time, by Gruber, paired with Kohr’s sweet lines, in darkened church, a midnight Mass that dims to black once this song’s passed. 🧵👇🏼 #poem #poemaday #poetry #medieval #gothic #merrychristmas #photography

Merry Christmas everyone ✨ #HumansOfBlueSky #UrbanGaze

Atomium 📍Brussels, Belgium 📷p.mathias #travelphotography #travel #photography #flickr flic.kr/p/2rNeFij

Festive special at the chippy 👀 Happy Christmas #AlphabetChallenge friends🎄🎄🎄 #WeekZforZero

Dovestone Reservoir, near Oldham. 📷 #photography #blackandwhitephotography #classicmono #peakdistrict #walking #winter

“These little ones are mice. … These over here are hamsters. … Ooh! This must be a gerbil!”

Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch (1592-1656), The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1622, oil on canvas, 164 x 190 cm, Pomeranian State Museum, Greifswald, Germany

As a child I had seen and admired a lovely little pencil drawing of Cragside in Northumberland. As an adult I booked a cottage nearby for the family so I could at last go there. #PalacesandGardens #PalacePicks #Northumberland #NationalTrust #HistoricBuildings

My favorite photo for today’s #PalacePicks is accidentally the one you also liked best of all I’ve posted for #PalacesAndGardens so far. #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin

Shopping street decorated with Christmas lights - Angel, London #christmas #lights #london #urbangaze #cityscape #scape #classicMono

Snowy Christmas #Christmas #Snow #Architecture #ClassicMono #BW #SnowScape #PhotographersOfBluesky #Minimal #EastCoastKin

Hebden Bridge in snow, west Yorkshire, painting by Caroline Johnson.

Happy Christmas! 🎄🎄🎄 To all my BlueSky friends who celebrate, hope that you have a lovely day. Thank you for your follows, likes and nice comments. My photo is a retro vintage postcard from the 1920s, full of kindness ❤️. #Xmas2025 #Christmas2025 #AlphabetChallenge

#Alphabetchallenge #WeekZForZero Early this morning at Elton Reservoir 🎄🎅

Have a wonderful Festive Season and holiday time, peeps. So pleased to be home but missing the tropical nature associated with St Lucia. So, no Robin but a Christmas #GreatCrestedHummingbird. Thanks for all your support x ❤️ #Birds #Ornithology #Wildlife #Photography #BirdPhotography #Hummingbird

#WeekZforZero #AlphabetChallenge Old school chocolate machines; 20p !

#LandscapePhotography #Sunrise #Photography

rain and snow #photography

Just back from my mates after staggering up the road with pressies & a trifle☺️ A couple of glasses of fizz and I’m feeling tipsy…but wanting to wish you lovely lot the best of times. 🤍 Merry Christmas & be kindly to yourselves x

A very #HappyChristmas to all who celebrate. Here's a pic with snow in it, but there won't be any here tomorrow. I'd just like to say thanks for all the likes, reposts and nice comments folk have made this year, much appreciated. #MerryXmas #HappyXmas 🎅🙂

Van Gogh turned suffering into structure—his most turbulent works are also his most composed.

A #classicred #MercedesBenz#caris always going to have a #proud#owner.Shot using #NikonEurope.See more #imageslike this, order a #print,#posteror #wallartat www.darrensmith.org.uk #carphotography#wallartforsale#Abstract#photography#artwork#PhotographyIsArt

Morning from Dumfries #Photography #EastCoastKin #Pixel8a

The Avenue. Historically these parallel stone rows connected Avebury henge with The Sanctuary; an ancient monument/ritual site on Overton Hill. Photo from early 2025.

#WeekZforZero #Alphabetchallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #ClassicMono

2/2 Inside a church, Gabriel announces extraordinary news to Mary. Outside, it's an ordinary day in a Flemish city. Petrus Christus, 1452.

3/3 Christmas shoppers in 1449. She: subtly pleased. He: making sure goldsmith isn't ripping them off. As depicted by Petrus Christus of Bruges.

Elegant couple at goldsmith’s shop for a ring, in 1449. But what about those 2 men in the mirror? And what is luring us? Wonderful wares, wonderful painting, Petrus Christus. It’s his day today.

Looking right at you from 1446: a Carthusian monk with mesmerizing beard on his chin & fly on his frame. By Petrus Christus of Bruges, whose day is today.

The side profile portrait of a heron. It has been a while! #BirdOfTheDay #UKWildlife #SideProfiles #Birds #GreyHeron #Ornithology #NaturePhotography

How I see things sometimes.....

Barking from the kitchen. Peg, what? I'm really busy. Bark, bark, bark. Peg! BARK BARK BARK BARK. So I looked. Peg was yelling at her Christmas Jumper, demanding it be put on, because I assume, Santa is coming and this is her only chance to get off the naughty list.

#streetphotography #streetphoto #photography #candid #b&w #beach #humansofbluesky #humans #eastcoastkin #foto #monochrome #blackandwhite #classicmono #storm #sea Blown away by the storm Brighton Pier, England, 2025 Photograph © Rob Watkins Find my work at www.alamy.com/portfolio/photorobw

Baker Street, 10:28 London, 2025 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekZforZero

#ItoShinsui Taikyo (Before the mirror ) (Red geisha),

Mary, Queen of Scots, in her brief but glorious moment as queen consort of France in 1559. Painted by Francois Clouet, whose day is today.

𝟵. 𝗔𝗿𝗱𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲-𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘀 (2011). No longer standing. It had a public telephone box inside. The local kids would call in for bottles of Bon Accord pop and a choice of sweets from the Lucky Numbers and Quality Street tins. #keepinguspostedhebrides

3/3 A generation earlier: Odet de Coligny in 1548, as painted by the young Francois Clouet.

This is about as Christmassy as I get. 😉 Westminster Abbey. 🙏 📷 #photography #London #church #historicbuildings #placeofworship #icons

#10minutesfromhome #MinimalMonday Cobwebs and Dewdrops

A small part of Conwy castle 🏰 😍 #castellconwy

Out To Sea Busselton Jetty, Western Australia #BlueSkyMonday 💙 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekZforZero #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin