Hartlepool Headland Great place for photographs!

Chicago : Lake Shore Drive at Twilight Tuesday Dec 16, 2025. 📸 : Barry Butler Photography

Happy Boxing Day! Though historians disagree on the exact origin of Boxing Day, it is thought to have grown out of longstanding British traditions of charitable giving and goodwill, practices especially associated with the festival of Saint Stephen's Day, which is celebrated on December 26.

Super finds at the seaside yesterday. All washed down the river estuary, to the beach. Or then again, it could be an identity parade.

Angels climbing the stairway to Heaven on the West front of Bath Abbey in Somerset, England, circa 1521.

Heavy snow. Oil on canvas. December '25 #art #oilpainting #landscapepainting #snow

‘Perthshire Garden’

Mad Gallower in a Field of Unimpressed Sheep #painting #horse #sheep my roots are showing. For my childhood friend, Sandra, who led me astray with the joy of horses ! decades ago.

Pastel drawing of a photo i took from the car. A lorry parked opposite a shop in the pouring rain

#Photography #Monochrome #YousufKarsh portrait of #JeanPaulRiopelle

A wet morning, the Christmas tree inside the glasshouse.

На работе уже? Я обложился котиками и пью настойку под Щелкунчика. Хорошего #коточетверг а🎄

#Photography #Glasgow #Monochrome #OscarMarzaroli

© Manuel Peña

Rough day at the beach today! or at least last night.

Just been to the freezing beach. Lots of washed up debris. Moonlit Forest

Also: HOW IS IT TUESDAY???

Somebody’s dog got in the way of my stupid picture (it was a good dog)

British soldier lichen on an 'Iron Age' roundhouse roof

yessssssss just finished all the tasks, ALL of them, even the extra-powerful task that was worse than any of the others \o/ now to process the difficult emotions I was using their non-completion to block out wait oh oh 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre.... Interesting. I thought my new phone just had a 'good' camera. Sad.

James McNeill Whistler "Nocturne in Black and Gold - The Falling Rocket" 1875 Detroit Institute of Arts

I get it: you’re young and you’re exhausted. Now try being *old* and exhausted.

Arabella Steinbacher The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in F Minor, Op. 8 No. 4, RV 297 "Winter": I. Allegro non molto (Vivaldi) youtu.be/BzgudnoH5Hk

Akino Fuku, Red Clothes (1938)

Anne Rothenstein, Black Dog (oil on wood panel, 2021)

Yo soy cero divertida, pero algunos de los cuadros que pongo son estupendísimos, como este sin ir más lejos. Feliz noche 🎨. The Poppy Field. Anne Redpath. #pintoras #womensart #art #painting

Llum, ombres, una finestra i un somriure improvisat sobre la pols. #Fotografia #Monochrome #ClassicMono #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows #EastCoastKin

A small piece of sea off Hoy

Morning all. Photograph by Chris Killip ‘Wallsend in the snow’ 1976.

matti merilaid #contemplation #girl #dog #streetphoto #b&wphoto

Moriyama ab Ende Januar im Photo Arsenal Wien.

'Drink responsibly' or something......

Feet with Sea Shells, 1960 https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/1208796

Marc Chagall, The Blue Circus, 1950 #museumarchive #marcchagall

The Riverbank, 1907 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/15710

Sisson Blanchard (Haiti, 1929-1981) #Fish, n.d. Oil on canvas, 72 x 72 in. freemansauction.com/auctions/638...

My #books are still on sale in all formats from online stores and can be ordered from physical stores. #automata #Technology #wifeselling #WomensHistory #extremeweather

by Beth Conklin

Found this on the fridge....

Wise words, Steve...

The 'How Many Pints' detector has exposed Steve again....

Love this. Makes me smile.

A Sunday addition to my studio sale: Clearing, oil on linen, 80 x 80cm. www.artachart.com/available-wo... 20% off all available wk until the 25th, free p&p within Europe (all other destinations contact me for a quote) & payment plans upon request. 🙂

Happy Winter Solstice, where we celebrate the returning of the light, on the shortest day and longest night. On the solstice, when the land feels closest to its oldest stories, we’re reminded how much of England’s past remains out of reach.