Charles Simic On the first page of my dreambook It’s always evening In an occupied country. Hour before the curfew. A small provincial city. The houses all dark. The storefronts gutted. I am on a street corner Where I shouldn’t be. Alone and coatless

#Stunday seems a stretch when considering my own #WinterWork, which has lately leant hard into #small #quiet #StillLife kinda #Photography shot at a basement window where #AvailableLight is good, and my hands work better than outside in the cold. Big fun though! Thx for looking. #ClassicMono #ECK

Sunday is #Stunday! Share whatever you find stunning with the hashtag, scroll, and enjoy. #EastCoastKin #Photography #Art #Drawing #Painting #Crafts #ArtChallenges

Mud Lake pines.

The bird feeder

This #hosta #leaf caught my eye on a windy #spring cutback this week. #Blooming or #withered, nature's #shapes never get old. #BlackAndWhite #BNW #Photography #Dried #Leaves #Flowers #Floral #BNWmacro #ClassicMono #Gardens #Gardening #InTheGarden #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographyPractice #Monochrome

'Stone in Focus' (Slipstream, 2021) -- Bubble Pond Shoreline, Acadia National Park, ME #BlueSkyArtShow #Stone ✨ #Stunday ✨ #MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨ #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #Photography #Landscape #ClassicMono #Monochrome #ECK #JayceeCrawford

“The safe word is ‘Mucinex.’” From “Domestic Discipline for the Perimenopausal,” a Wit Tea humor piece by Anavel Mingke. theoffingmag.com/wit-tea/dome...

#ECK #EastCoastKin If you're keen to make at least a small splash into the world of art this year, why not consider joining the bookmark project? 🥰 See below 👇

Beskids Mountains, Poland by Rafal Krol https://www.artlimit... #ilford #blackandwhitephotography #poland #blackandwhitephoto #photography #bwsquare #film #ireland #trees #tree #rafal #blackandwhite #filmphotography #square #ilfordphoto #mediumformat #blackwhite @hasselblad #delta100…

Origami by Cyril Auvity https://www.artlimit... #people #photography #film #melancholy #thefilmcommunity #mystery #instant #analogphotography #poetry #photographylovers #filmcommunity #visual #filmphotography #female #photographylover

Some foggy oaks from earlier in the month. It's fascinating to observe the changes taking place over just a couple of weeks as spring progresses. #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw

"For Years, You’ve Planned To Go For A Walk Together In The Countryside" by Jess Richards genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/f...

Revision: A Literary Remodeling by Olga Katsovskiy Revision is not the same as editing. That’s not to say every finished work needs to be gutted to the studs, but we must be willing to look at our own work objectively for it to be good.

#Stone & #wood remain my favorite subjects and materials. But #glass is gaining. Glass loves #light, offers focus, refraction, all the good stuff. This glass ball graces a fallen sapling's dried roots. As always, thx for looking. #ClassicMono #BNWmacro #BlackAndWhite #Photography #StillLife #LowKey

My monostitch - from FRiGG, 2016 “For the kid who fell down the stairs (if that’s the term) when he was 9, but could only remember the string from the light swinging, shadows moving on the floor like cars through the window on Anderson or wind over the unmowed lawn” Guilty. #poetry #writer

TURPENTINE produced by the Frank Company of #Cincinnati, year unknown #Antique #Glass #Bottle #Collecting #OldBottles #ClassicMono #BNWmacro #BNWPhotography #LowKey

Dinnet telephone exchange #Scotland #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitephoto #monochrome #bnw #fsprintmonday #sharemondays2026

Loch Morlich #Scotland #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitephoto #monochrome #bnw #fsprintmonday #sharemondays2026

"Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. There's love and emotion trying to express itself, but at the time, it just ends up being awkward. Does that make sense?" Ruta Sepety - Between Shades of Gray

Upcoming Exhibition: www.lurquin-dinant.be/exposition-e... More on Jef Bertels #paintings and #ceramics work here: www.jefbertels.com #Art #Exhibit #JefBertels #GalerieLurquin

"If I could find the way again, I'd take you there- But all those doors are lost now, never were." I made this #drawing & #text piece in 2012 As always, thx for looking #charcoal #graphite #pencil #stippling #lostplaces #forgotten #abandoned #underworld #explore #BNW #Art #Stunday #ImageAndVerse

It's so real...

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday March 21, 2026 The theme is #Stone Use both tags to be included in the feed. I made this small #stonework, ON TAP, a few years ago. #Pennsylania #fieldstone, each piece shaped & mounted in a cherry frame. The tap served my old farmhouse's first indoor plumbing.

‪Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday March 21, 2026 The theme is #Stone Pebble or boulder, pavement or castle, anything made of or containing stones this week. Use both tags to be included in the feed #art #artists #photgraphy #drawing #painting #sketching #writing #poetry

On shadow work & reaching into the void. Inspired today by great convos w/ like minds @jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social @ajrimberg.bsky.social @theworldofmattp.bsky.social @fotodefer.bsky.social #ECKartcollective #EastCoastKin #G+Circle #ArcanumAlumni #CanadianPhotographer #classicmono #photography

📸 Ása Snalmed #treeinwinter #solitarytree #frostymorning #pinklight #snow #meadows #sunrise #Iceland

In this 2022 video, Mysterious Bookshop owner Otto Penzler discusses #RobertBParker, displays collectible editions incl. a standalone #Spenser short story, and Parker's 'On Writing'. Which, of course, I want badly now youtu.be/v3hzN1NQGBQ 📚💙 #booksky #books #mystery #writers #crime #fiction

A #MistyMorning #walk along a favorite hillside #trail. As always, thanks for looking. #Scape #ForestFriday #BWFriday #ClassicMono #BNW #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Woods #Mist #Fog #Foggy #QuietPlaces #Meditation #EastCoastKin #ECK

A spirit trapped in a stoppered bottle: Call me Salicyline #BNW #BNWmacro #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Antique #Miniature #Glass #Medicine #Bottle #Salacin #ElmiraNY #ImageAndVerse #ImagesAndWords #AvailableLight #EastCoastKin #ECK

Still in search of light by Branislav Fabijanic https://www.artlimit... #blackandwhitephoto #mood #forest #blackandwhitephotography #naturalism #monoart #bnwphotos #visual #nature #composition #vegetal #poetry #blackwhite #blackandwhite #throughthelens #contemplation #mist…

ABANDONED QUARRY #stippled #charcoal & #graphite #pencil #drawing, 2009 #rocks #stone #bnwdrawing #blackandwhite #art #blackandwhiteartist #bnwlandscape #RockinTuesday #EastCoastKin #ECK

Dawn Trees, Oxfordshire 2026. #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw

The second best Irish phrase I’ve heard, used to describe someone who’s always engaging in one-upmanship, is “if you’ve been to Tenerife, he’s been to Elevenerife.” My number one favourite Irish phrase, and one of the most crushing burns you’ll ever hear, is “he looks like his mammy knitted him.”

A rare 3:2 rectangle, but I thought the scene deserved a little extra on the sides. Normal service will be restored tomorrow. #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw

The Walk

The Pinnacles

I never liked making #StillLife #drawings, but over the last couple winters I've enjoyed setting up indoors out of the cold & making #photographs of small objects, sometimes simple arrangements. #Spare #quiet #compositions + #lowkey #lighting = my kinda #visual #dramatics #Stunday #SundayMorning

#Art to #decorate a #home or #gift from #tennessee #SmokyMountains #landscapes #artworks buff.ly/3ZiZZMm #NatureBeauty #naturelovers #NatureBeautiful #NatureMagic #NaturePhtography #wallart #artforsalebyartist #arte  #homedecor #interiordecor #fineart #giftideas #gifts

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday March 14, 2026 The theme is #Horizontal Use both tags to be included in the feed. I made this #drawing, THE BELL OF SONG REMEMBERED, something like 25 years ago. Glad I kept it. Thx for looking #Stippled #Ink #Graphite #Charcoal #Art #BlackAndWhite #windshaped

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday March 14, 2026 The theme is #Horizontal Use both tags to be included in the feed. Fuertes Observatory, #CornellUniversity campus, #IthacaNY, 2013. #BlackAndWhite #Landscape #Architectural #Photography #ClassicMono #BNW @cornelluniversity.bsky.social #EastCoastKin

Sandwood Bay is quite possibly one of the finest beaches on the mainland, a good stroll to get there too👌

CHRYSANTHEMUM #BNW #BlackAndWhite #Photography #ClassicMono #Floral #Flowers #Mums #LowKey #HighContrast #Chiarascuro #AvailableLight #StillLife #Quiet #Silence #Meditation #EastCoastKin

#streetphotography #photo #photography #montreal #514

Oliveres i boira. Camps de conreu de l'Urgell. #Fotografia #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Scape #RuralScape #ThickTrunkTuesday #EastCoastKin #Urgell

Today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #flowing. #Drawing #stone #ruins never gets old :) & #waterfalls are always fun too. #Charcoal & #Graphite #Pencil #stippling on #BristolBoard. #BlackAndWhiteArt #BlackAndWhiteDrawing #BlackAndWhiteArtist #Abandoned #Abandonments As always, thx for looking.

I have some pictures on show this weekend, for a very good cause. Please come along if you can.

Swallow Falls waterfall, Wales... #BlueSkyArtShow #Flowing #photography #bnwphotography #bnw #blackandwhite #blancoynegro #monochrome #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky #PhotographersUnited