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Ken Hartke

Ken Hartke

@mightyken.bsky.social

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Active photographer, writer, poet, fly fisherman, citizen. Enjoying life in New Mexico.

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Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · 10d

A Missouri Autumn
#Missouri
#Autumn
#Photography
#Poetry
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A Missouri Autumn

It has been over a decade nowthat I left the Midwest behind.I went west and fell in lovewith the desert colors and theheights and valleys. I am easilyseduced by the far horizons andlight and drama …

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Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · 14d

"Do you want to know where you can stick that camera?"
#bugs
#Photography
#WildlifePhotography
#PhotographersofBluesky

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · 15d

Inner Glow
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Glow
#SandiaMountains
#NewMexico

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · 15d

Jemez Canyon Fall Cottonwoods
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Glow
#Cottonwoods
#NewMexico

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · 15d

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#BlueSkyArtShow
#Glow
#Aspens
#NewMexico

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · 15d

Pond Dragonfly
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Glow
#Dragonfly
#NewMexico

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · 18d

Nope -- My front porch this morning.

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · 18d

Obligatory Balloon Fiesta photo
#BalloonFiesta
#Albuquerque
#Photography

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · 21d

Aspen canyon
Sandia Peak -- NM
#Aspens
#Sandias
#NewMexico
#Photography

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · 23d

‪Elk herd at rest -- relax
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Relax
#VallesCaldera
#NewMexico

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · 23d

The morning walk
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Relax
#VallesCaldera
#NewMexico

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · 25d

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta - Oct. 4-12
#photography
#Albuquerque
#HotAirBalloons

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · 29d

End of the pilgrim's road...
Catedral Basílica de Santiago de Compostela
#TheRoad
#BlueSkyArtShow
#CaminodeSantiago
#Spain
#friends

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · 29d

Santiago de Compostela
#TheRoad
#BlueSkyArtShow
#CaminodeSantiago
#Spain

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · 29d

Pilgrim's Road - Camino de Santiago
#TheRoad
#BlueSkyArtShow
#CaminodeSantiago
#Spain

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · 29d

Roadside Attraction: I-40 @ Conway TX
Bug Ranch
#TheRoad
#BlueSkyArtShow
#TexasPanhandle
#Volkswagon

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · 29d

Ead's Bridge - First bridge to cross the lower Mississippi River (1874)
#TheRoad
#BlueSkyArtShow
#StLouis
#bridges
#MississippiRiver

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · 29d

Elevator town - western Oklahoma
#TheRoad
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Oklahoma
#roadtrip

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · 29d

Along the Santa Fe Trail -- Kansas
#TheRoad
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Kansas
#SantaFeTrail

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · Sep 24

Mourning Dove
#poetry
#photography
#grief

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I have a widowed Mourning Dove Who seems lost without her mate. She walks alone upon my garden wall, calls from the parapet in grief. I found him, or rather the evidence of his fate, by the Mahogan…

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Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · Sep 19

In the belly of the old volcano, valle grande.
#scape
#vallescaldera
#newmexico

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · Sep 17

Mississippi River at Sunset, October 2023. Amtrak Southwest Chief crossing into Iowa.
#Mississippiriver
#iowa
#blueskyartshow
#Amtrak
#southwestchief
#photography
#americanrivers

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · Sep 14

Almost home....
On Amtrak, my local mountain tells me I'm almost home.
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#landmark #Newmexico
#blueskyArtShow
#Photography #Home

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · Sep 6

Summertime!!
#blueskyArtShow
#Photography #summer
#biopark #Albuquerque

Ken Hartke @mightyken.bsky.social · Aug 23

Skyline - edge of the plains, NM

#blueskyArtShow
#Photography #skyline
#Newmexico