Rich Bitting
I'm a composer, field recordist, and photographer - listening, looking, and imagining.
- The old and new(ish) #blackandwhite #B&W #photography #photo #bwphotography #bnwphotography #monochrome #mono
- Day 1313 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and this morning I stumbled across some cyclamen strutting their stuff at the local disco 💃🕺🤣🤣 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters #365DaysWild
- Granaries House on Fire South Fork Mule Canyon Bears Ears National Monument Utah January 2026 #utah #bearsears #nationalmonument #nativeamerican #ruins #photography
- Initial S. psalter, Würzburg ca. 1240-1250. LA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig VIII 2, fol. 76r. #medieval #MedievalArt
- A large oak tree casting a silhouette against a gray spring sky along the Great Oaks Trail at Churning Rapids to the north of Hancock in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula for #ThickTrunkTuesday!
- Squadron of brown pelicans on patrol over Nehalem Bay. #BlueSkyMonday #Photography #Birds #Nehalem #Oregon 📷
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- 🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (URANUS). RGB Filters: 444, 356, 277 PI: El Moutamid, Maryame, program 06379. CRVAL: 50.546041, 18.249746 Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
- @michaeltconnelly.bsky.social et al. sequenced 342 Pocillopora coral samples from the Eastern Tropical Pacific, revealing four distinct species; algal symbiont community profiling identified dominant symbionts that varied according to host species. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf235 #genome #evolution
- Mount Moran appears in all its summer splendor in Grand Tetons National Park. View from Leigh Lake. August 2025. #MountainMonday #GrandTetons #Wyoming #LeighLake #photography #travel #hiking #landscape
- I wish we could move beyond "this isn't who we are". to "this is what it is. Now how can we change it?"
- As I spend time in my quasi-hibernation mode, I can feel and start to work on the different layers of my being. Similar to the many wonderful layers and textures I am always drawn to at waterfalls. Each has a different course. A different goal. Or just enjoy the journey........ who knows......
- Helmet crab (Telmessus cheiragonus) hanging out in the sediment, as they do. 🦑 #oceans #scuba #diving #crustaceans #crabs #invertebrates #pacificnorthwest
- Excellent for effigies (and magnificent memorials) on the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StGeorgeDunster. If this is your thing, then this is the church to visit. Family memorial in the south chapel #MemorialMonday
- Cloudless blue hour yesterday morning. Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
- Slime mold, Trichia decipiens in front of bright green #moss. NWT, Canada. #myxomycete #fungifriends The slime mold is about 0.5cm high.
- Rainy walk on the patch today. A bit of excitement with only my 3rd Goshawk on the patch, fairly quiet otherwise, a few new birds for the year. #birdingWales
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- Arizona Scenery Oatman, AZ Sept 2025 #Stunday #Landscape #Photography #Travel #Outdoor #TravelPhotography #OutdoorPhotography #LandscapePhotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
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- Coprinopsis section Coprinopsis photographed yesterday in Tandayapa, Ecuador.
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- I’m leaving you shortly for the day. Here’s another #openbeak capture. The last second of life for a tiny fish. Little Egret doing what it does best. Nature 🤷♂️ #birds #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin
- September 19th 2024 Angel Wing Begonias
- Black francolin, Cyprus. #BirdOfTheDay #OpenBeak
- Happy St Brigid’s Day bank holiday from Glendalough. Hoping to see some Goosander here. They tend to leave at dawn so I might be too late. 🤞🤞🤞
- A nice shot of tonight's full moon.
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- Still life in oil sold at a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition in 2020. This one shows quite a bit of impasto built up during the process of composition. #stilllife #roses #studio
- Last night's moon peaking through two trees, with a glorious, radiant cloud aura. I look forward to celebrating this full moon cycle🌕🪷 Thanks for looking; I appreciate ya✨️ #Moon #FullMoon #NightGlow
- Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year: “As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
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- #BlueSkyArtShow #Clouds Some more clouds for the artshow🩶💙🤍
- South rim of the Grand Canyon, March 2024 #Clouds #BlueSkyArtShow
- September 18th 2024 🌹 random rose 🌹
- A wicked cold Tuxis Island sunrise this morning. According to Algonquin Native American legend, a giant named Odziozo formed the island (“Tuxisshoag” or “Tuckshishoag" in native language) when he scooped up rocks from the mainland and flung them into the Long Island Sound. Madison, CT.
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- This painting of mine from 2017 shows graduation day at the #Cambridge Senate House. It's an oil on gessoed board and was shown at a Cambridge Drawing Soc exhibition. Still have it. Perhaps bsky.app/profile/cam.... would like it? It would look quite good in one of the rooms in the Old Schools
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- Suggestion please! I need a title for these does… it’s one of my larger pieces for my exhibition, so I want a lovely title. Any ideas?
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- Sometimes you have to just enjoy the moment, regardless of the hellfire that surrounds you. May you all have a great night. May your night be bright, May you enjoy the moment, Minnesota strong. #Photography #Haiku #MinnesotaStrong