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Static Sky Travels

@centurysux.bsky.social

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I have on occasion been on the road and thought I’d share some photos of what I saw along the way. Photos by me or an immediate family member. If using my photos to train AI please tag them incorrectly and say they are of Mars. #Americana #Photography

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Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 7h

Sunday is #Stunday! Share whatever you find stunning with the hashtag & share whatever you find stunning from others.

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#dailyart #art #traditionalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt

A photo of alien-like hoodoos with text on top that says "Every Sunday is #Stunday! Post whatever you find stunning & repost your favorites from others. All people, types of art & skill levels welcome.

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 13h

2/2 I turn away from the #Glow of the parking lot in Irondequoit, New York and see a couple of street lights shine near the waters of Lake Ontario

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography
#31daysofhalloween

two glowing lights illuminate some water in the distance as we peer through dark woods.

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 13h

1/2 What is that #Glow that is calling to me? Oh yeah, it's the beach parking lot where I left the car.

Irondequoit, New York on Lake Ontario

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography
#31daysofhalloween

An eerie yellow glow lights up the trees in a dark forest.

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 15h

2/2 While we didn't find the ghost of the Grieving Woman who searches for her lost daughter, we did find the wall of her castle. Out of nowhere as we walked the dark woods the #glow of the flashlight reflection against the stone wall appeared.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography
#31daysofhalloween

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 15h

1/2 While searching the woods for The White Lady's Castle in Durand Eastman Park, the car speeding past behind me catches me off guard.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography
#Glow
#31daysofhalloween

The road is illuminated by the lights of cars that aren't visible. The dark shadows of trees are barely visible in this dark scene.

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 16h

BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham is the largest Hindu temple in the Western Hemisphere, and 3rd largest in the world. Its also really photogenic, I'm sure to share more photos in the future.

Robbinsville, New Jersey

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography
#Glow

statues of deer glow orange beneath a orange LED halo, behind it the massive white temple is partially visible.

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 19h

Looking up a palm tree amongst the canals in Venice... California. Los Angeles at night.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography
#Glow

A palm tree at night is lit red by a string of red LED lights that wind its way high up the tree.

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 1d

The tree tried to make a break for it.

#ForestFriday
#Photography

An old wire fence in the woods has a large dent from a tree falling on it.

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 1d

Its a pretty good swamp, but its over 10 miles away from The GREAT Swamp (where the UFOs landed in Orson Welles version of The War of the Worlds... it was swamp gas all along)

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 1d

Tourne Park, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey

From 2011, shot on an iPhone 4 with its mad HDR skillz.

#ForestFriday
#Photography

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 1d

When you arrive at the railway platform really late but then realize the train hasn't even arrived yet.

It may be awhile before the train arrives. Buffalo Central Terminal abandoned since 1979. So many family adventures, reunions, and business trips started right her and now just weeds
#Photography

a row of abandoned passenger train platforms. All in a site of disrepair and rot. Weeds cover the ground.

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 1d

Wow… that’s a typo worthy of Twin Peaks, which is what I tried to write.

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 2d

Even though I know historically the Roman statues were painted originally and only became bare stone from the ravages of time, I still find painted statues a bit jarring.

That said this is a cool statue commemorating the bravery of local firemen.

Owego, NY

A statue of a fireman holding a baby. The statue is painted with the helmet being red and black and the jacket a bright blue.

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 3d

Twin Prams!! (and a cameo in Northern Exposure I believe)

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 3d

In the early aughts or late nineties there was a website devoted to a person’s “magic camera“ an early digital camera that had been water damaged. I remember the photos being amazing. Like this.

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 3d

‎Letchworth State Park, Genesee Falls, New York - near Portageville.

These are the upper falls (I've shown these Falls a few times recently, but always in context of the extremely photogenic train trestle this is above it).

#WaterfallWednesday
#Photography

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 3d

2/2. Falls in Fall.

Letchworth State Park, The Lower Falls of the Genesee Falls, New York - near Portageville.

What if there were 4 sets of falls? would one set be called "not quite Low Falls"

#WaterfallWednesday
#Photography

Falls surrounded by trees colored in green light yellow and red. the colors of early Fall.

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 3d

1/2. ‎Letchworth State Park, Genesee Falls, New York - near Portageville.

These are the lower falls (which in no way is a statement about their character).

#WaterfallWednesday
#Photography

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 4d

They made the mountain just an itty bit taller. Reminds me of the movie: The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes on a beautiful day you just want to lie down and take a nap.

Frenchtown, New Jersey

#Photography

A large stone statue of a woman lying down and resting in front of a victorian home. If the statue was in the standing position it would likely be two stories tall.

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Mairead D @maireadd100.bsky.social · 4d

#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#ColorADay
#BlueTue
#Flowers
#Macro
#Bee

A Bumblebee spreads its wings while drinking nectar from the small blue flowers of a Caryopteris shrub.

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 5d

#31DaysOfHalloween
#Photography

It’s getting dark so early

A full moon low on the horizon as seen through scraggly branches

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 5d

Okay, I got carried away and cropped it too close, but its so cool.

#MacroMonday
#BloomScrolling
#Photography
#Buzz

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 5d

A butterfly hangs out on Bannerman Island in the Hudson River (near Beacon, New York).

#MonarchMonday (this should be a thing)
#Photography
#BloomScrolling

A monarch butter sits atop a flower with its wings open almost completely covering the bloom of the flower.

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 6d

It was “designed” on a napkin. There was another warehouse on the island that also stored gunpowder, but that one blew up about a hundred years ago.

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