Things I find pretty

German, 1851-1913

Phlox and violets

Castle Ashby House, Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, England

Winton Kidd (twitter)

A new beginning. Värmland, Sweden (March 21, 2015).

(1. annie dillard, teaching a stone to talk 2. the deep underground neutrino experiment, a.k.a. DUNE 3. the large hadron collider 4. the sudbury neutrino observatory)

"It's sweet doing nothing" by John William Waterhouse, 1879

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Sometimes I have to stake out places where people don't cut their grass in the city in the spring and summer to get these beautiful 'weed' portraits

Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!

I recently learned about a kind of embroidery called bobbinwork where you put a really thick thread in the machine bobbin and sew from the back side and it's so fun! I've tried doing a bunch of sample lines and shapes and squiggles, but most importantly I have made a beautiful garlic. I'm doing it mainly with the regular sewing foot and a lot of pivoting, because when I try it with the free motion foot it skips a lot of stitches.

St Mary’s, Breamore in Hampshire, is one of the most complete late Anglo-Saxon churches we have — a building that’s held its ground for over a millennium. Here I photographed it with the Elizabethan Breamore House behind it, two eras folded into one view — Andy Marshall 

Interrupting regular broadcast with a mermaid tattoo design

And I was like cool whatever I was gonna call her Butler anyways. But that moment has stuck with me for my whole life because once you start seeing ppl calling women by their first names where men would be called by their last names you literally never stop seeing it.

Alexis Mata - Volcán Universo, 2025 - Oil on canvas