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A female moose and her two cubs foraging in a slough

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This photo’s saying nothing, is black and white, opaque.
A frozen moment, not a memory.
The boyfriend with the Pentax took it for the sake
Of taking it…

—Liz Lochhead, “Photograph, Art Student, Female, Working Class, 1966”
published in FUGITIVE COLOURS (Birlinn, 2016)

29 June is #NationalCameraDay

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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #1960s #photograph #photography #womenwriters

Photograph, Art Student, Female, Working Class
Liz Lochhead

Her hair is cut into that perfect slant –
An innovation circa ‘64 by Vidal Sassoon.
She’s wearing C&A’s best effort at Quant
Ending just below the knicker-line, daisy-strewn.
Keeping herself in tights could blow her grant
Entirely, so each precious pair is soon
Spattered with nail varnish dots that stop each run.
She’s a girl, eighteen – just wants to have fun.

She’s not ‘a chick’. Not yet. Besides, by then
She’ll find the term ‘offensive’. ‘Dollybird’ to quote
Her favourite mags, is what she aspires to when
Her head’s still full of Honey and Petticoat.
It’s almost the last year that, quite this blithely, men
Up ladders or on building sites wolf-whistle to note
The approval they’re sure she will appreciate.
Why not? She did it for their benefit, looks great.

Nor does she object. Wouldn’t think she has the right.
Though when that lech of a lecturer comments on her tits
To a male classmate, openly, she might
Feel – quick as a run in nylon – that it’s
Not what ought to happen, is not polite,
She’ll burn, but smile, have no word that fits
The insult, can’t subject it to language’s prism.
In sixty-six there’s plenty sex, but not ‘sexism’.

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Soon: The Female Eunuch and enough
Will be enough. Thanks to newfound feminism and Greer,
Women’ll have the words for all this stuff,
What already rankles, but confuses her, will seem clear
And she’ll (consciously) be no one’s ‘bit of fluff’
Or ‘skirt’ or ‘crumpet’. She’ll know the rule is ‘gay’ not ‘queer’,
‘Ms’ not ‘Miss’ or ‘Mrs’ – she’ll happily obey it
And, sure as the Pill in her pocket, that’s how she’ll say it.

This photo’s saying nothing, is black and white, opaque.
A frozen moment, not a memory.
The boyfriend with the Pentax took it for the sake
Of taking it, a shot among many others, randomly,
To see how it would develop. Didn’t imagine it’d make
An image so typical it’d capture time so perfectly.
How does she feel? Hey, girl, did it feel strange
To be waiting for the a-changing times to change?

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📷 #SilentSunday

#FediversalPictures #Photography

low-angle view of an LED streetlight on a square, white pole. storm clouds surround a patch of blue sky in the background.

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Sunflowers of summer, a busy honey bee heavily laden with pollen.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/pollinator-rebecca-herranen.html

#flowers #buyintoart #summer #nature #wildlife #art #MastoArt #photography #fineart #wallart #happy #ayearforart

Macro sunflower with a honey bee covered in bright yellow.

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要塞の島、猿島
Fortress island, Sarushima Island

#猿島 #sarushima #sarushimaisland #猿島要塞 #要塞跡 #fortressruins #戦跡 #戦争遺跡 #battlefield #遺跡 #ruins #remain #remains #横須賀 #yokosuka #横須賀市 #yokosukacity #日本 #japan #マストドン写真部 #photography

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廃トンネル
Abandoned tunnel

#廃トンネル #abandonedtunnel #廃墟 #ruins #remains #トンネル #tunnel #俯瞰 #overlooking #マストドン写真部 #photography

＊入口がふさがり車が通り抜けできない、一切車が来る事のない廃トンネルで撮影。
＊This photo was taken in an abandoned tunnel whose entrance is blocked so cars cannot pass through, meaning no cars ever come through.

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#休校 #schoolclosure #廃校 #schoolclosures #体育館 #gym #ボート #boat #boats #廃墟 #ruins #remains #photography

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On August 21, 194 years ago in less than a month, Nat Turner led a revolt. Dozens died. But what haunted white Southerners wasn’t the blood—it was the intention. The reading. The prophecy. The belief that enslaved people could think, lead, and judge.
#histodons #History #BlackMastodon #Photography #BlackAndWhite #photo
1/19
Image: Emancipation and Freedom monument at Brown’s Island, Richmond, Virginia.

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Great-tailed Grackle in Echo Park lake.
#nature #photo #photography #birds #grackle #birders #LARiver #birdwatchers #birding #California #LosAngeles #birdphoto #birdwatching #GriffithPark #DailyBird #BirdsOfPixelfed #BirdsOfMastodon #naturephotos #LAWildlife

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My New Gear
#photography

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Honored that "Awww Don't Cry" won the 7/19/2025 Fine Art America contest "Caterpillars Photos Paintings Drawings. Many thanks to contest administrator, Mr Dodo B Bird Art Site and everyone who voted for my image. Congratulations to the other winners!

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/awww-dont-cry-lois-bryan.html

#art #giftideas #photography #catepillar #caterpillar #cute #fuzzybug #LoisBryan #NotAi #PA

Honored that "Awww Don't Cry" won the 7/19/2025 Fine Art America contest "Caterpillars Photos Paintings Drawings. Many thanks to contest administrator, Mr Dodo B Bird Art Site and everyone who voted for my image. Congratulations to the other winners!

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/awww-dont-cry-lois-bryan.html

#art #giftideas #photography #catepillar #caterpillar #cute #fuzzybug #LoisBryan #NotAi #PA

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Before Take Off

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/before-take-off-justin-farrimond.html

This one you can't explain.
You went to sleep as normal. You awoke in this aircraft. You never left your bed. This isn't dreamscape, this is Kafkaesque rendition. Think carefully about what you may have said in public.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Photography #Art #PhotographyIsArt #Kafkaesque #ArtPrint #InteriorDesign #Rendition #DailyPic