Mark H

From #Portsmouth, UK; a keen traveller, amateur photographer, professional senior software developer (.NET backend), and interested in:

#Travel #Photography #Cruise #SciFi #BadMovies #RugbyLeague #NFL #Patriots #MST3K #Architecture #Brutalism #ArtDeco #Science #Astronomy #Archaeology #History

Unless otherwise stated, all photos are by me and are CC-BY-SA 4.0.

I rarely boost those who don't boost others. I never boost images without descriptive #AltText.

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2025-04-19 10:34:23

For #SchiffsSamstag here's the P&O cruise ship Aurora heading towards the Norwegian port of Alta, taken from our own ship, Ambassador Ambience, as we were departing the port following a 36-hour stay last month. Two old, small cruise ships passing in a stunningly beautiful part of the world.
#Cruise #Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday #Alta #Norway #Landscape #LandscapePhotography
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2024-11-08 12:54:10

Spotted down a narrow street in #Lisbon recently, for #FensterFreitag a window of many, many layers: bars, saloon doors, broken panes of glass, faded curtain, interior shutters.
#WindowFriday #Portugal #Photography #Travel #Decay #Urban
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2024-11-06 10:45:33

October 2022 and proof that the North Sea can be calm and relaxing for #MeerMittwoch this week. In case you need some calm and relaxing imagery right about now.
#Travel #Photography #Cruise #TravelPhotography #NorthSea #SeaWednesday #OceanWednesday #Sea
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2024-11-05 09:52:38

From the #travel archive, on this day in 2015 we were in #Iceland for the first time and undertaking the obligatory Golden Circle Tour.
On a grey and often damp day we visited the rift between tectonic plates at Þingvellir, Gullfoss waterfall, and Strokkur geyser and hot springs at Geysir.
You want natural marvels? Iceland's got you covered!
#GoldenCircle #Photography #TravelPhotography #LandscapePhotography #Waterfall #Geyser #TravelTuesday #Nature #NaturePhotography #Geology #Gullfoss
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2024-11-03 22:02:07

Loving the sight of hailstones in the Arizona game. Weird thing to see.
#NFL

2024-11-03 00:19:18

The Chronicles of Riddick is grossly, grossly, grossly underrated as a movie. It is beautiful in so many ways. The costume design is off the scale. It's got Judi Dench in it, for fuck's sake.
#SciFi

2024-11-02 11:07:03

For #SchiffsSamstag here's the Lisbonense, a catamaran passenger ferry on the River Tagus capable of carrying 360 passengers, all of whom will be spared the horrible colour scheme on its exterior when they're safely aboard.
#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Lisbon #Portugal #Ship #Ferry #SchiffSamstag #Catamaran
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2024-10-25 21:11:04

#TheLastLeg stating that they're trying to decouple from Twitter and are promoting Instagram and WhatsApp as their alternatives. They flirted with Threads a while back but that went nowhere. Expect BlueSky at some point. Don't hold your breath for the Fediverse, though.

2024-10-25 09:12:41

For #FensterFreitag a cuboid building - a modern hotel - in the port area of Ålesund in Norway, taken on a walk around the area in 2022.
#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Norway #Alesund #Architecture
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2024-10-19 09:47:46

For #SchiffsSamstag a view from Candie Gardens on Guernsey looking out to sea where two cruise ships are at anchor. Magellan is nearest us, operated by the now-defunct CMV, and P&O's Arcadia is behind.
#SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday #Cruise #Guernsey #ChannelIslands #Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #CandieGardens
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2024-10-15 10:30:39

Slowly going through the photos from our recent trip. Here's Amarante in Portugal, with the Rio Tâmega shown here. The city has some lovely architecture and no shortage of phallic cakes if that's your thing.
#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Amarante #Portugal #River
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2024-10-11 08:10:29

When everyone else was posting #aurora photos yesterday we had nothing but cloud cover - typical -, but at around half midnight as we packed up to go to bed I poked my head out of the back door and was greeted by a very intense pink glow that the phone camera only slightly exaggerates here. There's also green towards the bottom behind the clouds over the street behind us. We spent a good ten minutes out there just lapping it all up.
#Portsmouth #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights
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2024-09-28 00:30:02

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My first thought was "wistful" but my wife was somewhat less forgiving with "vacant" if that helps your debate in any way.

2024-09-21 08:45:36

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The challenge is to choose 20 album covers that greatly influenced you. One cover per day, for 20 days. No explanation, no reviews. Just covers. And descriptive alt text.
10/20 - One Step Beyond by Madness
#20AlbumCovers #Madness #OneStepBeyond
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2024-09-20 07:29:44

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The challenge is to choose 20 album covers that greatly influenced you. One cover per day, for 20 days. No explanation, no reviews. Just covers. And descriptive alt text.
9/20 - Front By Front by Front 242.
#20AlbumCovers #Front242 #FrontByFront
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2024-09-17 09:24:17

For #TravelTuesday this is from the island of Delos, a ferry ride away from Mykonos and highly recommended as a visit for a few hours if you've got any interest in history. The isolation and near-silence and sense of history of this location as you wander across the ground seeing countless ancient ruins dotted everywhere is impossible to convey and really needs to be experienced.
#Delos #Greece #Mykonos #Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #History
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2024-09-17 08:23:47

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The challenge is to choose 20 album covers that greatly influenced you. One cover per day, for 20 days. No explanation, no reviews. Just covers. And descriptive alt text.
6/20 - Brit Hop And Amyl House
#20AlbumCovers #BritHop
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2024-09-16 07:47:54

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The challenge is to choose 20 album covers that greatly influenced you. One cover per day, for 20 days. No explanation, no reviews. Just covers. And descriptive alt text.
5/20 - Initial Success by B.A. Robertson
#20AlbumCovers
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2024-09-15 09:55:21

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The challenge is to choose 20 album covers that greatly influenced you. One cover per day, for 20 days. No explanation, no reviews. Just covers. And descriptive alt text.
4/20 - 1000 Fires by Traci Lords
#20AlbumCovers #TraciLords #1000Fires
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2024-09-14 17:45:43

Here's hoping the darts is more exciting than the rugby's been. Luke Littler up against Barney in the World Series in Amsterdam right now.
#Darts #LukeLittler #RVB #RaymondVanBarneveld

2024-09-12 09:42:11

Saw this tag before we went away on holiday so waited until now to start it...
The challenge is to choose 20 album covers that greatly influenced you. One cover per day, for 20 days. No explanation, no reviews. Just covers. And descriptive alt text.
Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails.
#20AlbumCovers #NIN #NineInchNails #PrettyHateMachine
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2024-09-08 16:41:11

Final photo share from our cruise today as we've a non-internet sea day ahead of us before home. Today was the short-notice change of plans to visit A Coruña, a city we'd visited before but not really explored. We walked around the coastline, visited the aquarium (fabulous), passed by the Tower of Hercules here, and spent plenty of money on beer and Sangria in a bar.
It's been a wonderful break from work.
#Travel #Cruise #Spain #Galicia #LaCoruna #ACoruna #Photography #TravelPhotography
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2024-09-06 17:17:56

Inside the National Pantheon in Lisbon, Portugal today. We climbed the stairs to look down from inside the dome and headed out onto the terrace for views across the city too. Amongst the tombs here were those for Vasco Da Gama and Eusebio.
Sailing now for Porto and we're heading off into the Douro Valley while we're there because it'll be my birthday tomorrow and that's my present to me.
#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Lisbon #Portugal #Pantheon #Cruise
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2024-08-28 08:56:28

For #MeerMittwoch this week a photo from #Maryport in 2010, the last part of England we paused at on our way to stay in Scotland for a few days in the Dark Sky park at Galloway, and that's Scotland you can see across the Solway Firth in the distance.
#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography
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2024-08-16 20:18:42

One of our Google Nest Hubs stopped working and requested a factory reset. So I reset it and configured the non-working Google Nest Hub through the phone app and everything went fine until it wouldn't connect at the end. So I did it all again, resetting the non-functioning Google Nest Hub and setting it up again. And again. And again.
It needs a *phone* restart before the completely separate hardware that is the #Google Nest Hub will work. What fucking maniac at Google designed this shit?

2024-08-13 18:51:45

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Yeah, it's described as "insipid" on Wikipedia, but when we recently bought some to plant they were labelled as "Mildly toxic; do not eat" although I think that might be over-cautious, potentially just referring to the leaves and/or flower that apparently have small levels of cyanide in them. Maybe.

2024-08-11 22:13:37

My relationship with #BlueSky is a weird one. I don't like that people - and people I know - use it, because it's just the next in a long line of social media services that at some point needs to start making money and that means you're going to get exploited somehow if you're not already, but it does have some decent features. I like some of the Feeds but even there you're at the whim of whoever created them as to their contents. It has its uses, but it's not as open as here. Trust is an issue.

2024-08-05 20:40:48

1-1. All that pressure's finally paid off for France.
#Olympics #Football #MastodonFC #FRAEGY

2024-08-03 10:35:56

For #SchiffsSamstag today, taken as we were leaving Dubrovnik last year, this is the USNS Carson City, a Spearhead-class, aluminium catamaran with flight deck and loading ramp, designed for rapid access and delivery of materiel, capable of speeds up to 45 knots.
#SchiffSamstag #Ship #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #Dubrovnik #Croatia #CarsonCity #Catamaran
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2024-08-02 21:03:20

Ugly scenes on the pitch at the end of the France and Argentina game. Emotions, eh? Men do have real problems with that sort of thing.
#Olympics #MastodonFC

2024-07-31 08:43:53

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20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers (don't forget the alt text).
14/20
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings.
#20Books20Days #Bookstodon #Books #Fantasy #DavidEddings #PawnOfProphecy #TheBelgariad
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2024-07-31 08:25:15

You wouldn't think that something like the Pacific Ocean could look crowded but for #MeerMittwoch here are trawlers just outside Callao, the port of Lima, Peru, demonstrating that it is possible.
#OceanWednesday #SeaWednesday #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PacificOcean #Peru #Lima #Trawler #Boat
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2024-07-09 20:40:35

Spain are still dangerous but they've been so slow and unadventurous in this second half I think we have to consider the possibility that they received their half-time team talk from Gareth Southgate.
#Euro2024 #MastodonFC #ESPFRA

2024-07-02 20:52:12

What a save!
#MastodonFC #Euro2024 #AUTTUR

2024-06-30 18:43:37

We're going to have to go through all this again.
We are England. Prolonging everyone's torment is one of the few things we truly excel at.
#MastodonFC #Euro2024 #ENGSVK

2024-06-16 18:56:47

Right, no idea what's the most active tag to follow but I'm going to pin these two to start with.
#Euro2024 #MastodonFC