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Hubby, dad & grandpa. Animal & Nature lover, avid hiker, snarky photography enthusiast...pics are all mine (unless repost) and are mostly captured in northern Arizona or southern Utah. Hope you enjoy the vibe! 🕉

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 4d

😖I find most of the verbiage describing a Red-naped Sapsucker's belly plumage woefully inadequate...😍🕸️

👇So tell me, wordsmiths, how would YOU Alt text her. This should be fun! #WoodpeckerWednesday 🪶

📸 Sphyrapicus nuchalis female 🌿

#Woodpeckers
#LookingAtYou
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#EastCoastKin

Red-naped Sapsuckers are black and white overall with a red cap, nape, and throat. They have a long white bar on the folded wing. A black stripe through the eye is bordered by white stripes. The belly is mottled black and white, with a dingy or yellowish cast. Female Red-naped Sapsuckers, like my sweetie clinging to a Slippery Elm sapling here, have a white patch on the chin while males have entirely red chins. That's what you find on teh google. I would say her belly has a cool spiderweb pattern that radiates from her bib, and mixed in with that yellowish cast it sure looks wicked!

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 11h

Tyty Jen!! She's such a sweetie! 🫶

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 11h

Do you write haiku? That's great!

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Mr. Snarky Pantalones @mrsnarkypantalones.bsky.social · 1d

Paris Metro, Sept. 2025. #iphone #blackandwhite #classicmono #monochrome #eastcoastkin #urbangaze #paris #france #metro #travelphotography #leadinglines

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Cliff Razzo @cliffrazzo.bsky.social · 21h

#Glow #BlueSkyArtShow #ClassicMono #Landscape #EastCoastKin

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jen @jenzsky.bsky.social · 2d

The forgotten ones…

#ports #classicmono #b&w
#monochrome #maritime

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Albert Ibars @albert-ibars.bsky.social · 2d

Calma al pantà de Bellpuig. Tardes d'octubre a les terres de ponent.
#Fotografia #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Scape #RuralScape #EastCoastKin #Bellpuig #Urgell

Un cel ennuvolat es reflexa a les aigües del pantà de Bellpuig. Tres arbres en perspectiva al fons de la imatge que també es reflexen a l'aigua.

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Sparty® @young-spartacus.bsky.social · 2d

'Whitby Fishermen

Happy #Scape day my #Bluesky friends, I hope everyone's having a fabulous week!

Sparty 🖤🤍

#EastCoastKin #Photography #ColorADay #BWFri #ClassicMono #PhotographersofBluesky #BnW #SensoryArt #BlueSkyPhotography #ArtYear #Art #Travel #Architecture #BlueskyArt #YorkshireMoors

The photo is a detailed black and white photograph of the Whitby East Pier, a Grade II listed structure in Whitby.
It's captured from a side angle, showcasing its robust construction and extending out into the North Sea. The monochrome palette emphasises the textures and contrasts of the scene. The sky is filled with a dense, cloudy cover, creating a somber and dramatic atmosphere. The clouds are heavily textured, with darker, heavier formations in the upper parts of the frame, and a lighter, more ethereal quality nearer the horizon.
The pier itself is the central subject, a long structure composed of a large, heavy stone base, topped by a thinner, elevated walkway. The lower section is visibly weathered and stained by the sea, with a rough, mottled surface. This section sits low in the water, appearing to be built to withstand powerful currents and storms. The upper walkway is supported by a series of regularly spaced vertical columns, giving it a repeating, rhythmic pattern. The columns are connected by a white railing that forms a strong horizontal line across the image, drawing the eye towards the distant lighthouse.
A small, wooden-framed lighthouse stands at the end of the visible pier section, a notable landmark of the Whitby East Pier. The lighthouse is perched on a raised platform, with a beacon on top. The structure appears to be made of wood and metal, contrasting with the heavier stone of the pier base. Several small figures can be seen on the pier walkway, dressed in dark clothing. One figure appears to be sitting or crouching on the lower pier section, while others are standing along the railing, seemingly fishing. Their presence provides a sense of scale to the massive structure.
The overall impression is one of rugged natural beauty and the enduring strength of a man-made structure against the elements, a hallmark of Whitby’s maritime heritage.

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𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 @churchstreetimages.com · 21h

Sunshine on new spring growth in a break in the thick forest. #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Glow all day Saturday. Link to the feed in comments.
#photography #ClassicMono #forest

Black and white photo of sunbeams streaming down through trees on a hill, seeming to make a path to the top of a hill through dark shadows

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Jaycee Crawford / Vision Logic Images @jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social · 2d

'Dividing Lines' (2025) -- in the Eternal Struggle Between Light & Dark, it All Comes Down to a Faith in Balance & a bit of Well Placed Textures, Tidebrook Preserve, Freeport, ME

It's Finally Friday, Let's #SCAPE!! ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford

the frozen banks of the Harraseeket river -- ice on one side and frozen weed and mud and stone on the other, the edge of the forest cuts down through the sky aligning in a diagonal with the frozen edge of the river dividing visually and tonal weight both parts of the image, in the foreground a large log cuts from right to left providing the delicate act of 'balance'

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Jaycee Crawford / Vision Logic Images @jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social · 1d

Jesup Path 'Eternity' (2021) -- the Cold Has Started to Creep Into the House... It's Definitely Autumn, Wild Gardens of Acadia, Acadia National Park, ME

It's Time to #SCAPE ✨ Any Which Way You Can...!! 🤩

#ForestFriday
#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford

one of the gem's of Acadia, the Jesup Path, a narrow, wooden boardwalk, here littered with fallen leaves, stretches to 'infinity' through the marshy forest in the lee of Mount Dorr

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 12h

Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder & joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily & I must return the gift.
~Robin W. Kimmerer

🖤🤍

#StunDay
#ClassicMono
#Mammals 🌿

In monochrome portrait is the lovely "Daisy" the Mule Deer fawn, resting backlit in the dappled afternoon light on a hillside above me so we're just about at eye level with her and those long lashes and enormous ears. I would also call this her 'fluffy' coat, IYKYK. Zen in black and white.

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James DeWalt @jdphoto8500.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the precision, accuracy and success of these stunning birds is enough to drive the most avid human fisherman to weep.

#WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #Raptors #Osprey #ForTheWin #MasterAngler #LifeInNature

An osprey extracting a fish from the water

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Steve Ross @maximumsteve.bsky.social · 1d

Red tailed Hawk, lucky shot. Happy Friday! Peace! #birds #birding #raptors #hawksofbluesky #birdsofprey #peace #soaring #thermals

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julielfrost.bsky.social @julielfrost.bsky.social · 1d

A red-tailed hawk and, just for fun, a bonus flying object for #FlyDay.

#Birds #Raptors #Hawks #Nature #Photography #BirdsOfBluesky

A red-tailed hawk viewed from below as it soars, wings spread. The background is a pale blue sky.

A red-tailed hawk viewed from below as it soars, wings spread. The hawk shares the sky with an out-of-focus airplane that appears headed toward the hawk.

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JJ @javajanegallery.co.uk · 1d

#RaptorSaturday - needs more #Raptors ! Crowned Eagle Hawk #birds
#birdphotography
#Raptor
#Photography

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SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 18h

This morning at the local wetlands. #birds #nature #urbannature #raptors #herons

A Red-tailed Hawk perched on a metal electric tower, its feathers ruffled in the wind.

Splish-splash a Greater Yellowlegs taking a bath.

A pair of Hooded Mergansers in front of a Great Egret. The male is facing left and the female is facing right. The egret is also facing right.

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 15h

Someone sure left that damn Red-tailed Hawk file open...🌿

🌀 #WeekendVibes

#GreenTherapy
#GetOutThere
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#BirdsOfPrey
#Raptors 🪶
#ArtYear

If you squint, you can see snow flurries flying through my portrait frame of a Red-tailed Hawk turning its head to face the setting sun that is flooding the pine canopy around the hawk with golden light and shadows. Zen birding.

Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 16h

Marvelous, thank you for sharing! 😍

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 16h

I'm on Cloud 19, my pleasure! 🫠

Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 16h

What surprised me the most was NOT that the Raven stole a bagel somewhere, but that he could still say "CA-CAW!" with that in his piehole! 🤯

Another #beakful for today's #BirdOfTheDay! I mean... when else would this come up? 🪶

#Corvids
#BirdLovers

That time I caught a Raven cawing on the power lines with some sort of baked good filling its beak. Trippy.

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toritori @toritorihkd.bsky.social · 1d

The forecast promised clear skies, but a blanket of dawn mist over the lake turned the morning into this scene.
🪶🦢🦆😊
思いのほか気温が低かったせいで朝靄が出てしまったけどこれはこれでアリかもね😎
#nature
#photography
#wildlife
#Waterbirds
#水鳥
#birds
#野鳥

A flock of waterbirds taking off from a misty lake at sunrise, their silhouettes glowing against the warm, golden haze.
朝焼けに染まる湖で、朝もやの中から飛び立つ水鳥たちのシルエットが浮かび上がっている様子。

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Mstreefrog @mstreefrog.bsky.social · 1d

This Steller’s Jay, if you look closely, has managed to fit a peanut in shell down its throat, and a second in its beak. And I think it’s eying a third! 🥜
#BirdOfTheDay #Beakful
📷🪶🥜

A Steller’s Jay, blue and black with a rakish crest on its head, gets as many peanuts 🥜 as possible to carry away.

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Islander @dhiislander.bsky.camera · 1d

#264

#Maldives #Thulusdhoo #visitMaldives #goldenhour #sunset #reef #lagoon #sun #sky #clouds #island #photography #guesthouse #travel #PhotographersOfBlueSky #LumixS9 #LUMIX

Thulusdhoo, Maldives. Sunset Golden Hour at the Sunset Beach. Standing at the shoreline, gazing out at the turquoise and gold-tinged lagoon, the sun peeks through the low clouds, casting a golden hue over the horizon. The sky, adorned with golden clouds, gradually transitions into a deep blue as it ascends. The higher clouds, bathed in the setting sun’s glow, exude a radiant light, creating a mesmerizing spectacle.

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Sarah 🤍 @sarahmaklo.bsky.social · 1d

Soft & beautiful morning sky

This morning’s cotton candy sky just before sunrise, trees below still slightly shrouded by morning mist, two birds flying by

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IrishLisa @irishlisa.bsky.social · 1d

That loud, sharp visitor, big and blue
He knows my bounty is always free
Friendship wanes when the seed is few
Still, I’m glad he remembers me

#whistpr #Visitor #Poetry #Quatrain #Birds #Birding #BlueJay
#Friends #BirdFriends #Simplicity #Hope #Appreciation

Photo of a Blue Jay at the feeding station. It is facing the camera, head cocked, with one shiny, black eye looking directly at the viewer.

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