T. Michael Redmond

@tmr65.bsky.social

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Irish-born 🇮🇪. Vocation: vision scientist; avocation: traveling natural history/landscapes/art and architecture photographer. Most images I post are mine; others not, properly attributed. All opinions personal.

All dark video featuring the song of a Eurasian Scops Owl.
Six jars of preserves on the left wit 2 jars of honey on the right, on a grey kitchen counter.
A 757 jet aircraft in United livery approaches its gate at an airport. Seen behind the wing of another plane. A ground staff person in yellow hi-vis jacket stands to the left of the wing.
A high cross set in an ancient grassy graveyard. A cloudy sky with blue sky patches and trees in the right background. This is a carved ring Celtic cross with figures carved on all sides of the square pillar. The cross is set on a massive stone base.
A road sign saying “An Mhuiríoch” in black letters on a white background, supported on grey metal poles, and surrounded by a Fuchsia hedge. Situated in Corca Dhuibne on the far western Dingle Peninsula.
A pavement of grey slate stone with fossilized footprints of an early tetrapod amphibian running from bottom to top.
A craggy, rocky island in a dark blue ocean. A lighthouse is on a steep cliff above the ocean on the left centre of the island. Various paths and ancient stone buildings are on the right side of the island.
A cat with tabby and ginger mixed upper body and head with white belly and feet looks at the camera, sitting on a concrete seawall overlooking the sea.
A resplendent stained glass window depicting a woman with red hair, a veil, and a halo, dressed in a purple-blue dress surrounded by many symbols including bees, honeycombs, and other nuns.
Brass plaques on a painted brick wall. The upper commemorating a visit by the British Queen and by the then Prince of Wales (now King).
A navy blue and white shop front beside red brick houses on a paved street.
A dusk scene at a tidal inlet with the tide out. Mudflats are exposed in the middle ground with water suffused with golden sunset light. On the left side are buildings and fishing boats tied up at a dock. A breakwater extends on the right. There is riprap in the near ground.
A dusk scene at a tidal inlet with the tide out. Mudflats are exposed in the middle ground with water suffused with golden sunset light. On the left side are buildings and fishing boats tied up at a dock. A breakwater extends on the right. There is riprap in the near ground.
A small Island on the horizon of a blue sea with a blue sky above. A sailboat passes in front.
A woman standing beside two skeletons of large elk-like animals standing on wooden platforms in a dark room
Gravesite of the executed 1916 Easter Rising leaders.
A garden with a large cruciform pool of greenish water. There are steps at the end of the garden rising to a plaza enclosed by a tall semicirclular grey stone wall. In the centre of the plaza is a massive modern sculpture. Trees are in the background
A sketch in greys and orange depicting arches over a pool of boiling pitch. Various human images are in the bottom left and right corners.
A gilded statue of a Child in a blue, white and red dress surrounded by a gilded background. In the middle white part of the dress is a red rose.
A large military transport jet aircraft with 4 engines, against a blue sky.
A blue wrapped, opened chocolate bar, one segment remaining. The gold writing reads Karl Fazer. The segment is milk chocolate on the bottom, topped with white chocolate.
A modern building flanked by 7 columns behind which is a gray slate wall-cladding sculpture. A planting bed with mounded plants is in front.
A street scene showing a cross-shaped red and blue fluorescent sign with yellow lettering denoting “JESUS SAVES”.
A smiling woman standing proudly beside a poster presentation of her scientific research at a scientific conference.
A family of two adult brown geese with black heads and white cheek patches along with 11 yellow goslings. All on a green lawn beside railings in front of a red brick building with windows to the left and right.
A white corrugated metal raised bed holding green stalks and leaves of young garlic growing in brown soil. There is a wooden picket fence behind the bed.
A 1950s vintage Air Force jet fighter with yellow stripes situated on a circular concrete pad and supported by black metal poles. There is a granite memorial stone placed in front.
A painting, in circular tondo style, of a woman, on the left side, dressed in green and red shirt over a blue dress, with a white and red scarf on her head, surmounted by a halo, sits on an ornate chair. In her arms is a baby in an orange shirt. Both gaze at the painter. Another child, on the right, holding a small cross looks reverently at the others. Surrounded by a gold frame.
2 yellow nodding flowers sit atop their stems with maculated long leaves, among fallen dead leaves.
A dish of small pieces of brown rye bread on the left side of a table. On the right side is a dish of white fermented shark meat. Above the shark is a cow’s horn on a stand containing toothpicks. All of this is on a wooden table top.
A fragment of black and white Roman floor mosaic depicting marine creatures (a cuttlefish, fragment of a prawn, several fishes, and two Murex(?) snails). Arranged above a Greek key border.
A man dressed in black shirt and black pants stands behind a red lectern that says “Stand up for Science” and in front of a black sign that says the same thing.
A poster on a blue tv screen that says: RARE DISEASE DAY at NIH Feb 27, 2026 | #RDDNIH ncats.nih.gov/rdd On left and right of the screen are multi colored curved stripes, while above the text is a graphic reminiscent of the tail of a peacock.
A large dark brownish black bird sits on a roof ridge with its broad wings open and draped over the roof. The bird’s head is red and its bill is white. The roof shingles are green and are marked with white patches of bird droppings, indicating its extended use as a roost.
A hawk with a orange-reddish tail and broad wings soars in a blue sky. The bird is backlit with light filtering through its wings and tail as it appears to look at the photographer.
4 different species of ducks in water (Mallard in top left, [part of] female American Wigeon in front center, a male American Wigeon and male Lesser Scaup right behind, with a male Canvasback immediately behind these, and 2 female Canvasback behind these). A scatter of water droplets is in the immediate foreground.
A grey-winged seabird with white head and underside glides left to right over a dark blue-green sea. It has black eyes and a yellow tube-nose bill.
An owl with short ear tufts sitting on a mound in a marsh turns its head to look at the photographer. It is surrounded by brownish yellow marsh vegetation.
A mountain-top pavement comprised of glacier-polished brownish cross sections of cabbage-like concentric fossilized blue-green algae.
A flock of large white birds with large yellow bills stand on a mud bank in a waterway in the middle ground. There is a reedbed in the foreground, while more reds are visible in the background with a line of trees on the horizon
A low island in a river. Reeds are along the shore from left to right. There are pine and other trees on the right side of the island. There is a cloudy sky. There are large birds (Bald Eagles) along the reeded shoreline of this island, standing on the shore or on low wooden pilings or tree stumps. More large birds are perched in the trees. Some of the birds have white heads and dark bodies, while the others are all dark bodied with dark heads.
A monochrome image of a rank of black gondolas at the front of dozens more in a basin surrounded by hotel buildings. A few men are in the front boats, one wearing the characteristic horizontally striped gondolier shirt.
A painting of a partly clothed man tied to a pillar with several arrows piercing his body. Many people surround him, many of them archers shooting or preparing to shoot more arrows at him. Other people are looking on with sorrow or reverence. A soldier with a horse on the left holds a red banner emblazoned with the legend “SPQR”, while another mounted soldier on the right blows a trumpet. The picture is enclosed in an ornate gilt frame.
Monochrome image of an ancient white stone bridge across a river. Water in the foreground. There are modern era houses in the background. There are clouds in the sky above.
Inscription in classical Latin on the arch of a stone bridge describing the origin of the bridge.
A painted fresco depicting a scene of extreme violence. A richly red and white gowned bearded man standing in a high balcony on the upper left directing soldiers in the center to seize and kill babies from their grieving mothers on the right. Many dead babies lie on the ground below the soldiers. Other distraught people are to the left of the soldiers. There is a white and gold tower in the upper right background