Thank you Molly Rose 🙏

On the plus side, when he goes after the local elections, it will open the way for Ed Miliband to be caretaker PM. And when he likely does an excellent job, there’s an obvious strapline for his premiership of “Red Ed Redemption” …

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Lovely image Alan

A spring sunset of orange over the sea and a beach.

Sunset, Muasdale, Mull of Kintyre.

📷 26.04.22

#TidesOutTuesday
#Scape #Sunset
#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersofBlueSky

A person fly fishing on a bend in the River Tywi with willows edging the banks and Dryslwyn Castle in the background.

A Tywi Valley twofer nr Dryslwyn Castle for #BlueSkyMonday and #HillfortTuesday. Photo taken from the great new 13 mile Tywi Valley walking and cycle path linking Carmarthen and Ffairfach.

📷 08.04.24

#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersofBlueSky
#VisitCarmarthenshire

Suitably sin-binned for the duration Alan 😺

Two curlews in a marshy environment

A pair of Teifi Marshes Curlews for today’s #BirdoftheDay theme #ABCD

A chambered tomb in a green field in North Pembrokeshire, Wales

Llech Y Dribedd, nr Moylegrove, Pembrokeshire.

📷 05.04.22

#StandingStoneSunday
#Stunday #LandscapePhotography

A postbox set in a wall on a station platform next to a shuttered kiosk with a sign saying A Pugh Newsagents

A wall mounted VR cipher postbox on the eastbound platform at Llanelli station.
📷 21.09.22

#PostboxSaturday
#StreetPhotography
#PhotographersofBlueSky

Presence 84 - March 2026

#haikuday #haiku
#internationalhaikuday

damping down
the rolling news —
endless rain

17.04.26

#InternationalHaikuDay #haiku

Have to wonder at what stage:

1) Labour strategists realise that targeting the “hero voters” isn’t working;

2) The PLP / Labour MPs realise their only hope of avoiding a total wipeout at the next election and a far right govt is some form of PR.

The very excellent @explodingheads.bsky.social have this covered… bsky.app/profile/expl...

A large waterfall over layered limestone rock in an autumnal Welsh valley with surrounding trees.

Henrhyd Falls, nr Coelbren, Powys. Also known as the film location of the Batcave in The Dark Knight Rises.

📷 09.10.23

#WaterfallWednesday
#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersofBlueSky

Female and male Eider ducks on a blue/grey water with reflections of them on the surface.

A pair of Shetland Eider for today’s #BirdoftheDay theme of #Reflections #birds #birdphotography #birding
#UKBirds

📷 03.05.22

A large passage tomb in a rural limestone landscape in the West of Ireland.

Poulnabrone Dolmen, The Burren,
County Clare, Ireland.
📷 05.09.24

More info :
www.burrengeopark.ie/discover-exp...

#TombTuesday #RockinTuesday
#PhotographersofBlueSky

Thank you Alan 🙏

A peregrine falcon flying towards the camera in a blue sky

Peregrine, Ramsey Island, Pembrokeshire.

📷 12.06.22

#BirdOfTheDay #JKLMNOP
#birds #WelshBirds
#naturephotography
#BirdWatching
#BlueSkyMonday

A photo of a Misericord in the Quire of St David’s cathedral in Wales. Misericords are seats usually found in the quire of a church or cathedral, designed to fold away when not in use. The underside of the seat has a small shelf that a user can lean against to reduce discomfort during long periods of standing during services. Their name is derived from the Latin ‘misericordia’, meaning mercy. As a result, they are sometimes known as ‘mercy seats’ or ‘pity seats’. As with much woodwork in churches and cathedrals, misericords are often skilfully carved, showing a wide variety of subjects. Each of the misericords in St David’s Cathedral were carved from a single block of oak. The hidden position of misericords freed craftsman from the constraints of traditional ecclesiastical art and allowed them to be freer in their work. They were inspired by bestiaries, fables and folk tales and were often rather irreverent! The images below show some of the misericords that can be seen in the quire at St David’s:

Foliate head misericord, St David’s Cathedral, Pembrokeshire.

📷 24.08.24

More info here:

rcahmw.gov.uk/misericords-...

#MisericordMonday
#PhotographersofBlueSky

Thank you 🙏

Thanks for your kind words and for taking the time to comment on my photos and those of fellow photographers here. Sending my appreciation through the ether 🙏

“Otherworldly” is an excellent description of Murmur - it’s in a place all of its own in both sound and vision. And together with Reckoning, it typified a more hopeful and progressive USA that doesn’t seem to me to be there any more.

A black and white photograph of the Pentre Ifan dolmen at Pentre Ifan on a clear winters day.

Pentre Ifan, Sir Penfro / Pembrokeshire.

📷 05.12.25

#Stunday #StandingStoneSunday
#ClassicMono #BlackandWhite
#BlancoYNegro #B&W #FotodeFer

Barnacle covered ribs of a wrecked boat on a beach in West Wales. Gower peninsular in distance.

Shipwreck, Cefn Sidan, Pembrey, Carmarthenshire.

📷 11.11.24

#ShadowWorkProject #BlackAndWhite #B&W #Photography #ClassicMono #ECK

A red postbox with a VR cipher mounted in a farmhouse wall in Carmarthenshire Wales

Farmhouse wall mounted VR box Nr Dolaucothi, Carmarthenshire

📷 12.08.24

#PostboxSaturday #streetphotography
#photographersofbluesky

Thank you 🙏

This excellent piece by @iandunt.bsky.social is required reading for everyone who cares about the future of the world.

Thanks for the reminder that this is what we all need to do 🙏

A black and white photo of a Hawthorn tree growing in a cliff top location where it has been shaped by the wind so that branches are growing horizontally.

Hawthorn Krummholz, Pembrokeshire Coast Path nr Trefdraeth/Newport.

📷 12.11.23

#ForestFriday #ClassicMono
#PhotographwrsofBlueSky