Fiona

Beautiful

Rozelle Park, Ayr 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

End of the day gathering, Ayr 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Gorgeous day here in Ayr 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#moon my secret lover so close tonight I can almost touch her leaning on a soft white cloud while the deep blue sky guards our passion 𝗺𝘆 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gkdzhhasll5lweby2pnakh3c/feed/aaakxjvg42x26 #Photography #Photographer #moonrise #Clouds #bluehour #lover #storytelling #luiscordobapharchive #eastcoastkin #scape #art

#moon my secret lover
so close tonight I can almost touch her
leaning on a soft white cloud
while the deep blue sky guards our passion
𝗺𝘆 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔
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#Photography #Photographer #moonrise #Clouds
#bluehour #lover
#storytelling #luiscordobapharchive #eastcoastkin #scape #art

Tomorrow, Thursday, is the first day of the next weekly challenge.
This coming week (Week 10) , the challenge is photos on the topic of
Shadows
Remember to tag your photo #fajweeklychallenge2026
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A European stonechat perched on a bramble stem, surrounded by fresh green leaves with reddish edges. The small bird has a warm orange chest, mottled brown back, and a pale wing patch. Its beak is stuffed with a messy bundle of dry grass, moss, and fine roots—nest material so large it partly hides its face—suggesting it is busy building or lining a nest. The background is softly blurred green, making the bird and the tangle of nesting material stand out clearly.

Good morning. For the alt of today’s #BirdOfTheDay #NestBuilders I’m going with this Stonechat who was building a three room extension to the nest, all with sea views. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

Prestwick 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Late afternoon glow Ayr 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Still light at 6pm
Ayr 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Golden hour

Moss on an old wall, catching the early morning sunlight Ayr 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Lochside House hotel grounds, New Cumnock 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Perspective magic 😂

Full moon Ayr 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Thankful for a new day

A fancy cardinal! ❤️
#birds

One dog and his beach
Croy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

In a very dark room, a small and old glass window with a white plaster and recessed frame, overlooking a green field. 📸: Jantje.

💜💛💚

#WindowWednesday

Culzean Castle and Ailsa Craig in the distance 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

At midnight, Kintla Lake lies in a state of near-perfect stillness, transformed by starlight and the faint, indirect glow of the moon resting below the horizon. The surrounding mountains appear as a continuous, dark silhouette—peaks and ridgelines reduced to their most essential forms, stripped of texture and detail by the absence of direct light. Their shapes are readable not by illumination, but by contrast: a deeper black against the dim, blue-toned sky. Above the horizon, the sky grades gently from a pale, luminous blue near the mountain crests into a deeper, cooler indigo higher overhead. Scattered stars punctuate this gradient with small, steady points of white, some faint and others more pronounced, their light softened by the thin veil of atmosphere. There is no sense of sparkle or glare—only a quiet, persistent presence, as if the sky is breathing rather than shining. The lake mirrors this scene with extraordinary clarity. The mountains are reflected almost perfectly, inverted and undisturbed, creating a symmetrical composition where sky and water meet seamlessly at the shoreline. The stars repeat themselves in the lake’s surface as subtle pinpricks of light, slightly dimmer than those above, as though filtered through depth and distance. The reflection is so calm that the boundary between water and air becomes momentarily ambiguous, giving the impression of a doubled night—one above, one below. In the foreground, the shoreline fades into darkness. Rocks along the water’s edge are barely discernible, their shapes suggested rather than revealed. They anchor the scene quietly, providing a subtle sense of scale without intruding on the vastness of the lake and sky. The light in the image is neither warm nor cold, but restrained and neutral—purely celestial. With the moon below the horizon, its presence is felt only indirectly, lending the sky a soft, even glow rather than casting shadows or highlights.

Goodnight Everyone 🙏

A #BlueTue evening from Glacier National Park

The glow is from the Moon hanging low below the horizon at Midnight

#Nationalparks #artyear #Imageandverse #scape #landscape

“The night sky is a manuscript written in light, older than all our learning.”-John Muir

Croy beach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Ayr beach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A photo montage of various sketchbook pages. Fungi, roe deer and robins. Some are detailed and in colour, while’s some are quick line sketches.

Some drawing and sketching of nearby nature finds.
#fungi #fungifriday #roedeer #sketchbook #robins #drawing

Green aurora rising like flames above snow-covered treetops.

Ever ascending

Saariselkä, Sápmi, Lapland

#WhiteReindeer #arctic #green #Aurora #NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis #stars #EverAscending #soul #black #night #sky #snow #trees #frost #SkyAndEarth #travel #Saariselkä #Ivalo #Inari #Sápmi #Lapland #scape #snowscape #nature #chatgpt

Credit/Photo: INGEB

Snow and trees in pale-violet light in the frost.

Here, in the frost

#WhiteReindeer #travel #SkyAndEarth #winter #snow #violet #frost #sky #scape #snowscape #landscape #frost #trees #streetlight #Finland #nature #chatgpt