South Uist, 2024
#otd

The Three Graces",c.1949.
Luigi Lucioni (Italy,1900-1988)
Oil on canvas, 43.3 x 35.7cm.

Un des rares portraits réalisés par Michelangelo : Antonio Quaratesi, un riche marchand et banquier florentin du XVe siècle, issu d’une famille importante de Florence et surtout connu comme mécène des arts de la Renaissance. TaQuIn MaUvE @TaQuIn_MaUvE

Un des rares portraits réalisés par Michelangelo : Antonio Quaratesi, un riche marchand et banquier florentin du XVe siècle, issu d’une famille importante de Florence et surtout connu comme mécène des arts de la Renaissance.

TaQuIn MaUvE
@TaQuIn_MaUvE

Félix Vallotton, Soleil couchant dans la brume, 1911 Dan Berthod @DanBerthod

Félix Vallotton, Soleil couchant dans la brume, 1911

Dan Berthod
@DanBerthod

Far Side 1987

This painting, titled "L'escalier" (The Staircase), was created by French painter Marc Chalmé, known for his mastery of shadow and light, often compared to Vermeer. His work captures "still light" in landscapes, still lifes, and scenes like this.

This painting, titled "L'escalier" (The Staircase), was created by French painter Marc Chalmé, known for his mastery of shadow and light, often compared to Vermeer. His work captures "still light" in landscapes, still lifes, and scenes like this.

We have an announcement.

WE HAVE CHERRY BLOSSOM! 🌸❤️

Thanks once again to the Orkney Japan Association - our tree is one of 30 cherry trees planted across #Orkney as part of the Sakura Cherry Tree Project. 🌸

Welcome to the whole wide world puppy: #AGoodPlace

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Alerte tsunami au Japon après un séisme de magnitude 7,4 dans le nord du pays Recevez toutes les Alertes Info de France 24 en temps réel sur Facebook et Twitter : @UrgentF24

🔴 URGENT - Alerte tsunami au Japon après un séisme de magnitude 7,4 dans le nord du pays

🤩American Kestrel deep dive. Toronto, Canada, April 17th 2026. Sony A1 I| 300GM 1/4000s, F/5.6 ISO 1600

these are immensely self absorbed men who pine for nazi germany and apartheid south africa — stagnant, backwards regimes btw — because they imagine themselves the masters of the universe.

Painting of flying birds in different colours and flying in different directions against a white background

'Les courants (the currents)' series by Montreal artist Dominique Fortin #WomensArt

Richard.
Your new profile pic.
Yes it’s all very nice but did you know someone has set fire to your trousers?😳

Remembering DAPHNE DU MAURIER — who left us 37yrs ago today, aged 82.

Dedicated to #ImogenCunningham, the classic master photographic artist

#FineArtPhotography by #DouglasHitchGraves

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#ArtPhotography #Photography #AbstractPhotography #PhotographicArt

In 1547 during the Wars of the 'Rough Wooing' the English invasion forces built a V shaped cannon platform at Eyemouth which was later extended. They also built a Fort at Haddington in 1548. Tantallon Castle also added a Ravelin for cannon defense it may have been inspired by these Forts.

a gang of six tiny penguins on a beach leaning forward like theyre ready for a rumble

3 tiny slightly mad-eyed penguin chicks in a burrow

today i learned there is an official smallest penguin, and they're called fairy penguins, and they're so cuuuuuuute

This beautifully-detailed 17C painting by Abraham Mignon is called Still Life with Fruit, Fish and a Nest, but for me this is a severe injustice to the frog, who is a highlight (NGA, Washington, 1675)

Suilven, Assynt. Pic: IG/jamesalroca

White sand with grey rocks and blue sky

Green and turquoise sea and white sand

Sand dunes and the curve of a bay with dark turquoise sea

Columbas church with rocky hill behind

Visited Iona for the first time today. Such a gorgeous, peaceful place and it felt a long way from the violence and irrationality happening in the world.
Skylarks singing over the machair, oystercatchers calling over the sea.
#Iona #Scotland

Two dogs sitting on the floor staring intensely at the camera. In front is a black, grey and white Husky, behind is a Dalmatian. Behind them is a desk with synths and speakers and headphones.

That reminds me of when by dogs formed a synth pop duo.

Clash Ossian, birthplace of the Gaelic muse, Sma Glen

Delicious images of Edinburgh from Tom Duffin

Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train.

A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin

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Hummingbird ❤️

Delicious images of Edinburgh from Tom Duffin

Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train.

A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin

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Daffodils
Sophie Pemberton
1897

Midnight Hugh MacDiarmid Glasgow is null, Its suburbs shadows And the Clyde a cloud. Dundee is dust And Aberdeen a shell. But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream, Fitful and dark, Unseizable in Leith And wildered by the Forth, But irresistibly at last Cleaving to sombre heights Of passionate imagining Till stonily, From soaring battlements, Earth eyes Eternity.

But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream,
Fitful and dark,
Unseizable in Leith
And wildered by the Forth…

—Hugh MacDiarmid, “Midnight”
published in The Complete Poems (1978)
#BookWormSat #WorldHeritageDay #poem #poetry #Edinburgh

wild garlic starting to flower now....

#lensbaby sweet 50

pesto time 😊

A white background with ten hand embroidered bird head brooches. Left (top to bottom) Starling, Long-Tailed Tit and Barn Owl. Middle (too to bottom) Ferral Pigeon, Great Tit, Barn Swallow and European Robin. Right (top to bottom) Barn Owl, Long-Tailed Tit and Blue Tit.

I have topped up my hand embroidered bird brooches. Six new species. I won't be making any more until maybe November.
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