Black and white of tulip against the sky.
#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that
WAR is
not normal,
not natural,
not a necessity,
not a sign of strength.
WAR IS DESTRUCTION
and we all pay the price for it.
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#EndAllWars #NoWars #EndEcocide #EndGenocide #tulips #photography #bloomscroll #ClassicMono #mono #blackandwhite #resist #OurFuture
Inside a tulip, red & yellow.
#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that
WAR IS NOT NORMAL.
WAR IS DESTRUCTION.
There is no sense
in destruction.
There is no sense
in dominance.
Dominance
is a form of destruction.
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#EndAllWars #NoWars #EndEcocide #EndGenocide #tulips #photography #bloomscroll #colourRed #OurFuture #flowers
A four-part window reflected on a stonewall.
WINDOW WITHOUT A VIEW
A soberingly accurate image of a world that still believes in profits, wars, exploitation & in the necessity to destroy the basis of all life: nature — a world that lacks imagination & vision.
:
#photography #blackandwhite #windows #EndAllWars #ecocide #ClimateAction #OurFuture
Ragged white/green bark of a birch tree.
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We need to come together as the people of our planet, boldly rethink our world, and restore what we can.
#photography #treebark #birches #nature #trees #OurFuture #restoration #planet
A vibrant assembly of sunburst and shield lichen entangled with moss.
THE TROUBLE
with LOSING INTEREST
in each other
The situations on our planet are so dire, we should be thick as thieves, as entangled as these lichen & mosses.
🧵1/7
#moss #lichen #mycology #fungifriends #OurFuture #photography #nature #entangled #strongertogether #ClimateAction #resist #fungi
#DailyLichen
& #DailyReminder that
:
Mutually beneficial relationships
create worlds.
Divides
only hold us back.
:
#LICHEN
A colony of algae or cyanobacteria living in a mutually beneficial relationship with multiple fungus species & along other bacteria.
#fungifriends #OurFuture #strongertogether
Hairy wood sorrel on mossy tree stump after the rain.
Would you rather have someone who crushes dreams, or someone who empowers?
More questions in the 🧵
What do you think?
#OurFuture #WouldYouRather
#woodsorrel #forest #forestfriends #photography #nature #philsky
Snowdrops in the forest.
/7
The tremendous noise & nonsense around us doesn’t help.
The systems we invented are our ruin.
No surprise that nature is viewed as an asset far removed from us.
Reconnecting to nature & rethinking our world, that’s where a future & healing might be found.
#photography #nature #OurFuture
A beautiful decaying leaf on a mossy tree stump.
LOSING INTEREST
I was thinking earlier how we are sometimes drawn to someone, but if this interest isn’t reciprocated, it will eventually erode.
I wonder whether that’s one of the things that happened between humans & nature.
🧵1/6
#nature #OurFuture #photography #moss #forest #relationships
Open puffball fugus on mossy tree stump.
#fungifriends
And another unexpected mushroom find: puffballs.
I call it THE SCREAM 😱
and add a quick reminder that we can come together to put an end to all the madness on our planet.
#photography #nature #OurFuture #resist #strongertogether #EndOligarchy #EndAllWars #ecocide #ClimateAction
Tree bark of an old chestnut tree, covered in a light green powdery lichen, some moss (I think) and a small group of sunburst lichen.
#DailyLichen
& #DailyReminder that
:
Mutually beneficial relationships
create worlds.
Divides
only hold us back.
:
#LICHEN
A colony of algae or cyanobacteria living in a mutually beneficial relationship with multiple fungus species & along other bacteria.
#fungifriends #OurFuture #strongertogether
Nestled in moss: Cladonia lichen with a single upright ‘stem’.
#DailyLichen
& #DailyReminder that
:
Mutually beneficial relationships
create worlds.
Divides
only hold us back.
:
#LICHEN
A colony of algae or cyanobacteria living in a mutually beneficial relationship with multiple fungus species & along other bacteria.
#fungifriends #OurFuture #moss #mycology
For examples see:
www.dot-international.net
www.book-stations.org
and a favourite of mine:
www.hub-international.org
#ChangeTheSystem #OurFuture
Fomes (hoof-shaped timber fungus) on a mossy birch, found in the forest today.
To EAT THE RICH
is one way of dealing with them.
Building an economic system that empowers us all & makes the rich redundant is equally effective.
#EatTheRich #econsky #millionaires #economics #OurFuture
The photo is a Friday’s double for #fungifriday & #forestfriday
#photography #fungifriends
Moss on an old birch.
OUR WORLD needs some major rethinks & visions that encourage to say:
‘I never expected to live in key moments. But I am. And I can be part of getting us out of the horrors we inflicted upon each other & the planet.’
#OurFuture #photography #nature #ChangeTheSystem #ClimateAction #moss #EndAllWars
The beach sand pattern made by heavy machinery tires.
AND why do we still suffer any government that doesn’t give the restoration of our ecosystems first priority and stops all destruction?
#ImpeachTrump #ChangeTheSystem #OurFuture #EndAllWars #ClimateAction #JustStopOil #RaiseYourVoice #photography #nature #planet #resist #ocean #scape #eastcoastkin
Tilted photo of a comparatively calm sea with some splashing water in the foreground. It looks like the water is running downward.
Are we SCREAMING yet?
No?
Why are we still suffering the idiocies of warmongers, billionaires, techbros, conmen, speculators, pedophiles?
#ImpeachTrump #ChangeTheSystem #OurFuture #EndAllWars #ClimateAction #JustStopOil #RaiseYourVoice #photography #nature #planet #resist #ocean #scape #eastcoastkin
Dramatic clouds in gentle greys.
Prof Jakobs (84) met Toby’s gaze.
‘Maybe you’re right. Maybe I shouldn’t be such a lazy bugger & finally stand up for what is right since the people we allowed to handle the steering wheels are a bloody menace.’
#OurFuture #resist #politics #writing #philsky #EndAllWars #clouds #photography #mono
Dramatic clouds with stark contrasts, part of the image is lost in black.
narcissists, self-serving nepotists, bloody elitist cliques, insufferable populists, deluded attention-seekers plus the occasional downright psychopaths.’
‘Can’t you bother with politics now?’ eleven-year old Toby asked.
#photography #OurFuture #resist #politics #writing #writingcommunity #clouds
Dramatic clouds with stark contrasts.
‘None of us could be bothered with politics, neither in businesses nor in parliament, which is how we ended up with throngs of useless 🧵
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#OurFuture #resist #politics #writing #wip #booksky #philsky #EndAllWars #weather #ClimateAction #sky #clouds #art
#photography #photostudy #NoAI
Lichen on tree bark, brown sort of circular shapes with white borders.
#DailyLichen
& #DailyReminder that
:
Mutually beneficial relationships
create worlds.
Divides
only hold us back.
:
#LICHEN
A colony of algae or cyanobacteria living in a mutually beneficial relationship with multiple fungus species & along other bacteria.
#fungifriends #OurFuture #strongertogether
sea, blue sky Front: shallow water, rippled ground visible. Middle: deep blue rippled sea and the rounded tip of a sandbank.
DIGGING DEEPER
‘How deep should we dig?’
‘As deep as it takes to get to the roots of what made us shape a world which is blindly stumbling into self-destruction.’
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#DiggingDeeper #OurFuture #EndAllWars #ClimateAction #photography #nature #naturephotography #ocean #scape #CampaignsForOurFuture
Probably ruffle lichen, light green, leaf-like with hairy borders, on a bush’s twig.
#DailyLichen
& #DailyReminder that
:
Mutually beneficial relationships
create worlds.
Divides
only hold us back.
:
#LICHEN
A colony of algae or cyanobacteria living in a mutually beneficial relationship with multiple fungus species & along other bacteria.
#fungifriends #OurFuture #strongertogether
Dramatic cloudy sky. I tweaked the original photo quite a bit to get the dark blue corner (right top), the sharp contrasts, and the many shades of grey.
GOOD NIGHT 🌙
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REST
to RECHARGE
RISE
to RESTORE
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#OurFuture #clouds #photography #goodnight #sky #scape #resist
Xanthoria parietina or yellow wall lichen, common orange lichen, or maritime sunburst lichen on a tree in the sunlight.
#DailyLichen
& #DailyReminder that
:
Mutually beneficial relationships
create worlds.
Divides
only hold us back.
:
#LICHEN
A colony of algae or cyanobacteria living in a mutually beneficial relationship with multiple fungus species & along other bacteria.
#fungifriends #OurFuture #strongertogether
A feast of grasses and marsh marigolds.
/7
Why is any and all of this important?
Our survival depends on intact ecosystems.
#survival #OurFuture #photography
Dune slope with deep cracks.
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All of these points & more might help.
Meanwhile it’s paramount to keep in mind that we have no time to lose.
#dunes #photography #NoTimeToLose #OurFuture #nature #coast #ClimateAction
Three felled trees on a field.
/5
exposing what keeps governments from giving the restoration of nature first priority, finding a way to communicate that the future of the natural world concerns us all & that restoring it is a chance to come together & shape a future which doesn’t frustrate us.
#trees #photography #OurFuture
Baltic Sea with sandbank in the distance.
The problem is ‘abysmal ecological ignorance’ @irishrainforest.bsky.social wrote yesterday.
These words keep echoing in my mind, not least because no matter where I go these days: the beach, the forest, the dunes, the promenade, the village, the balcony🧵
#OurFuture #Rewilding #photography #nature
Beach covered in traces of several heavy vehicles, dark blue sea & blue skies.
We can’t avoid the rather unpleasant & unflattering task of reviewing our attitudes towards and our knowledge & understanding of nature.
Not if we want a future.
WHAT IS NATURE TO YOU?
#OurFuture #reflect #nature #photography #landscape #beach #sea #bluesky
