Notices by eclectech (eclectech@things.uk)

Sometimes its good to take a moment to just watch and wait

#water #patterns

A beautiful calm misty morning, livened up somewhat by the mass of gulls, crows and ducks squawking, cawing and quacking at great volume.

#photography #Scotland #birds

Evening!

#sillyScribbles #cute #rocks

Sheep.
That is all.

#sillyScribbles #defaidodon #defaidodonDay #sheepOfMastodon

Quietly taking photos of mushrooms in the lawn & a noise behind me makes me realise one of our regular wee birdies has got fed up waiting for me to go & has started lunch. I could quietly wait out there with my camera trained on the feeder for ages & they will stay away. Apparently I'm less threatening when examining the grass.

#photography #bird

Sending good vibes and fluff to all who need it today

#sillyScribbles #photography #cute #nonsense

A twee but heartfelt leafy hug to all who want it on a Monday morning in a week that might be A WEEK.

#sillyScribbles #photography #autumn #silly #cute #nonsense

#silentSunday #Scotland #photography #horses #sculpture

Me: Ooh, it's Hallowe'en. I should make some scary fungi.
Also me: Oh. OK. Maybe scary isn't really my thing.

Side note, this is a composite image, and they are the same mushroom just a few days apart, so although they ended up looking a little silly, if you fancy a bit of existential angst about the impact of the passage of time I am TOTALLY here for you.

#sillyScribbles #photography #halloween #silly #fungi #nonsense

Hey, remember how I got a bit obsessed by the Last Leaves on the Trees last autumn? You do? Excellent. I don't need to explain myself here then.

*ahem*

#sillyScribbles #photography #silly #autumn #nonsense

Had a chat with a friendly branch, because that's a thing, obviously

#sillyScribbles #mosstodon #silly #pareidolia #nonsense

Found more friends in the forest

#sillyScribbles #photography #fungiFriday #silly #fungi #nonsense

@JauntyArt I have enjoyed all your dancing frogs and axolotls, but this one is particularly fine!

It might be worth making a hashtag up when you do series like this. I think it helps a lot on Mastodon, and I definitely see people using my unique hashtags to look back through a series when one of them gets boosted into their timeline.

@JauntyArt Aye, I have a friend who used Insta a lot who says it's been really hammered recently.

Definitely makes a big difference to visibility here. A lot of people follow hashtags, and it feels like a decent number of people click on them to see more when it's a niche / personal one too. Also a BobFosseAxolotl hashtag will create an awesome single page feed of them all 😁

@JauntyArt You can go in & add hashtags into old posts via the Edit option. The only down side is that anyone who has liked or boosted it gets a notification (obviously in case someone changes a post to something unpleasant)

I did it half way through a weekly series but put a post up that said what I was going to do, so people would know why they reappeared in notifications! I'm sure not everyone read it, but it meant it was sitting in my timeline if anyone was puzzled.

@JauntyArt Also, if you put hashtags at the end of the post (after a line break) they appear as nice wee buttons in the new version of Mastodon too.

LOOOOOOOOK!!!

(we've just updated our Mastodon & now everything looks that little bit different & I am basically channelling these wee guys)

#sillyScribbles #mushtodon #silly #fungi #nonsense

That feeling when you decide to reward yourself for resisting temptation by, you know, giving in to it.

(pretty confident I've seen similar before - because HOW COULD YOU NOT? - but my goodness, that's a satisfying pair of googly eyes to put on)

#sillyScribbles #googlyEyes #silly #nonsense

Honoured to see one of these noble creatures at the beginning of their annual migration.

#sillyScribbles #googlyEyes #silly #nonsense

An observation on the uncopyrightable nature of AI art and questioning the possibility of a digital being as artist (2024, digital collage and knitted chicken)

#sillyScribbles #MyfanwyAndFriend #silly #art #nonsense