Stephen Byrne

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Gardener. Grows a bit of fruit and veg too. Likes a beer, art, and natural history.

Contact - Granite and water.

Not every photograph can or should be a banger. Sometimes a simple little image is what's required, a. palette cleanser so to speak. This is what I'm learning about photography projects and series.

#MastoArt #photography #ominousperfection #fotografie

And now first ichneumon of the year. Amblyteles armatorius female seen crawling up the curtain by one of the cats and rescued before claws-in-the-groin feline launch protocol could be initiated.
Everyone’s been posting their usual first bee/ butterfly/ bee-fly/ moth of the year photos. So here’s my first ant of the year. To break up the monotony.
I’m afraid I shall be unable to attend your party as I’m reading a really good book at the moment.

I thought I'd start a little thread of Dartmoor throughout the year. It may be of no interest to anyone but myself.

January. One of the best months. Always wet with lots going on with the light. The occasional day of bright winter sunshine when you can see for miles.

Hard, hard walking though. If water isn't falling on you, you are falling into it. It's cold and the wind always seems to be blowing. Keep moving.

#photography #MastoArt #ominousperfection #foto #fotografie

The mastodon.social server is currently under a heavy DDOS attack and may not work properly.

The 12,164 other servers on the network are unaffected.

This is part of the reason why federated networks are a good idea: if one server goes down, the others work fine.

The more spread out we are on small and medium sized servers, the harder it is for anyone to take down the network because there's no obvious target.

There are also many other reasons why federation is good: https://fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse-on-so-many-separate-servers

Why is the Fediverse on so many separate servers? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

Academic Mastodon: can you help? Does anyone have a copy of ABSENTEES: ON VARIOUSLY MISSING PERSONS by Daniel Heller-Roazen? Would you be willing to check something for me? It would be a huge help! Thank you!
#RT #help #research #Princeton #DanielHellerRoazen #absentees #books #literature #academia
I wonder what all the football-enthused listeners to Radio 5 Live thought just now when some bloke started rabbiting on about oak processionary moth caterpillars.

Some of you have liked my imagery here. If you would like to see more and to see it as it is intended, rather than an occasional random image on social media, please do visit my new, sparkly, website...

https://intothehinterlands.co.uk/

#photography #mastoart #foto #fotografie #landscape #scotland #capewrath

Into the Hinterlands

Photographer. Emerging artist. Based around Dartmoor or a vast, wet moorland near you. Also does stuff for the Dartmoor Collective.

Into the Hinterlands

I'm giving my first colloquium talk on satellite pollution since November tomorrow (online for St Mary's University in Halifax) and I am SO tired of giving this super depressing talk.

So I'm going to to restructure it from "Satellites are ruining the night sky" to "Here are guidelines for sat companies to not destroy the sky, the atmosphere, and orbit." I started this process last time I gave this talk and it definitely felt a lot more positive.

Still pretty depressing though.