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aferguson.bsky.social
AndiF
@aferguson.bsky.social
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Retired but not retiring taker-of-photographs and scratcher-of-dog-bellies
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AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · Oct 25
I guess I need to add that if you post other people's photos without giving them credit and/or getting approval, I will block you.
aferguson.bsky.social AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · Feb 13
Reminder: if I haven't followed back or have unfollowed you, it's probably because
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you're following thousands of accounts
you're selling something or asking for money
your timeline is full of things I'm not interested in
you post images without ALT text
aferguson.bsky.social
The Friday Digital Archive Dive wishes that the 🦈 theme from Jaws would play when you click on this photo.

Taken #OnThisDay January 23, 2019
#photography #ferns #snow #otd
A Christmas fern is partially buried and partially exposed in the snow, making it look a little like the curved dorsal fin on a shark.
January 23, 2026 at 1:11 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Snow forecast is estimated currently at between 8-13 inches from Saturday afternoon to Sunday evening.

I have a doctor's appointment Monday. I'm thinking that the better part of valor is to call and change it to (optimistically) later in the week.
January 23, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
I rode about 10 miles on my new bike, Purple Haze, today. This was my first bike ride since my mid-October wreck. It felt great. Now I need less wind and warmer temperatures.
A bicycle with wide tires is leaning against a post in a house with wood floors.
January 23, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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sparkandtwig.bsky.social
Has anyone out there ever recovered from a moth larvae infestation? 😩🐛
A dozen secondhand wool sweaters of various colors hanging on a laundry line outside in the snow on a relatively sunny day. All of the sweaters have lots of tiny holes, some worse than others. After I’m certain the moth larvae have been eradicated, I will mend the sweaters.
January 22, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Two people walking a dog. #street_photography #slow_shutter #photography
I was playing around with slow shutter speeds and took this photo of two people and a dog at a street corner while I was walking toward them. The motion blur is not theirs, but mine.
January 22, 2026 at 1:38 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Still on vacation from the gray and brown landscape but soon also escaping a winter storm and single digit (F) temps.

Now in southern #France enjoying the 'Ponts' -- Pont d'Arc and Pont du Gard.
#photography #nature #archeology
A large natural arch stretches over the Ardeche river. A the repeating arches in a three-story Roman aqueduct glow in the setting sun.
January 22, 2026 at 1:17 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
The days here are shades of gray and brown so I'm going on vacation, photographically. This is a photo taken on my favorite trail (Trail 3) in my favorite #Indiana State Park: Turkey Run. It's only 2,382 acres but nearly every one of them is choice.

#photography #hiking #rocks #trails
Looking through rock wall defile where the walls are covered in bright green moss. The rock bottom is slippery with wet moss and puddles. In the distance are steps carved into the rock to get hikers around places where there can be deep water (but not in the photo). Bright green trees are in the distance.
January 21, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Winter in the woods - nearly everything is waiting. #photography #B&W #forest #creek #reflection
A small pool in a creek is reflecting the sky in a bare hardwood forest. Most of the trees in this photo are young beech, oak, and maple. The tree in the foreground with its roots in the creek is a sycamore. It has very distinctive flaky bark and is usually found very close to water.
January 21, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
This is a sunrise from a couple of weeks ago not the aurora that so many saw last night and are seeing this morning. #photography #sunrise #clouds
The sun was still below the horizon but was turning the sky pink and blue above our woods.
January 20, 2026 at 12:19 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
#Aurora shows up in south central Indiana this morning. The bright color is courtesy of my phone camera but it was visible with the naked eye.
#photography #sky #stars
Behind trees, the sky is a purple and pink. Vertical shot taken a little earlier shows muted purple and green with stars higher up.
January 20, 2026 at 12:14 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Post a car picture you took.
#photography #rainbow #iceland #highway
A rainbow stretches over a road in Westfjords, Iceland. A car appears to be driving just under it. The sky above is blue with white clouds.
January 19, 2026 at 3:43 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Flit's #MondayMorning Wisdom: Humans are so weird. I mean if I can play with my friend inside, why should they care that we go outside to play.

#photography #dogs #dogsofbluesky
A medium-sized chestnut colored dog with a black muzzle is standing outside with a light brown stuffed bear in her mouth.
January 19, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Flit is not playing Hide and Seek; although she does play that. Yesterday she was playing her favorite game of Pick Up Sticks. #photography #dog
A medium sized chestnut colored dog with a black muzzle is trying to figure out how she can run with the 4 foot (1.2 m) long branch and not get tangled up in it like she has many times before. The ground has a light dusting of snow.
January 19, 2026 at 12:48 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Most of my TTW shots are through car windows so this one is a stunning exception.

#photography #clouds #mountains #Arizona #StunDay
Looking through a wall of windows at a cloudy sky above the fog-topped Tucson Mountains through tall saguaro and other plants.
January 18, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Reflections an refractions #photography #Paris #France #street_photography
A glass of wine and a knife and fork are bending and bouncing the early evening light at the table of a street cafe.
January 18, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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I'm going back to the Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de #Lyon, #France to look at the light painted floor. #photography #architectural_detail #stained_glass
Rectangular stained glass windows with arched tops were making white, red, and blue patterns on the floor of the Cathedral. A rectangular stained glass window with an arched top was making a blue bordered pattern on the floor of the Cathedral.
January 17, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Shadows and Light is a great Joni Mitchell album (link in a comment). Yesterday's photo of the light on the stone walls of the Lyon Cathedral made me think of other ways to show #light and then I thought of #shadows. #photography #LesBaux #France
In 2019 we spent part of a traveling day in Les Baux ⁨France⁩. An exhibition of the works of Stefan Szczesny was arranged throughout the village. Many were brightly colored abstractions of the human form. I liked this, one of his shadow sculptures. I especially liked its installation near the stone wall so that its shadow was the part of the sculpture. A moon, a star - maybe the sun, and a human figure that appears to be swimming are cut into a heavy steel plate. In the shadow, the star appears to be a bird.
January 16, 2026 at 7:40 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
The Friday Digital Archive Dive got weak at the knees but then found solid support.

Taken #OnThisDay January 16, 2012

#photography #otd #trees #lakes #ice
Cypress knees rise out of the shallow waters near the shore of a lake. There are four concave-shaped ice pillars, flowing from the underside of the knee structure to the lake surface.
January 16, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Day 29:
DuckDuckGo, "when were the epstein files supposed to be released"
The Epstein files were supposed to be released by December 19, 2025, following the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Venezuela, Minnesota, Greenland, Iceland, nothing will make us forget Trump protects predators.
January 16, 2026 at 12:52 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Not surprisingly, cheering up still needed; so staying in #Iceland. A vista in Snæfellsjökull National Park with Svöðufoss to the right (you can barely see the columnar basalt the waterfall is flowing over from this distance) and the #glacier looming behind.
#photography #waterfalls
The photo is as described in the post. The only thing not mentioned is the cloud-filled sky in which the glacier is hidden on its right side.
January 15, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Light tripping the light fantastic in the Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de #Lyon from 2019. #France #photography #architecture #stained_glass
The walls of the nave of the cathedral are painted by the light passing through the stained glass windows. When I walked into the church, it took my eyes a minute or two to adjust from the bright sunshine to the dimly lit interior. I first noticed that the widows were covering the floor with colorful light. Then I looked up to the walls. The stained glass in this cathedral doesn't seem to be used to tell biblical stories like some. Here it seems to create and celebrate beauty. At least that's how this non-Christian sees it.
January 15, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
"Thar she blows ..." no more. Our one and only whale sighting was at #‎⁨Snæfellsjökull National Park⁩, #Iceland. #photography #bones #Support_Public_Lands
The jaw bones of a whale are in the foreground of this photo. In the middle distance is the black stones of the beach and a small inlet. Farther out is a basalt outcrop and beyond that the North Atlantic. Waves are crashing on the outcrop. If this photo makes you feel cold and windblown, then I was successful. The rain had mostly stopped by the time we were walking, but our rain gear gave us an extra layer of much appreciated warmth.
January 14, 2026 at 1:49 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Decided for a cheer-up (for me at least) by making a trip back to #Iceland. I've already posted the waterfalls of Kolugljúfur (Kolu is the name of the canyon; gljúfur means canyon in Icelandic) but the canyon itself is a complete delight.
#photography #rivers #canyons
A view of the canyon with the flat land surrounding it. A river rushes through the rough lava sides of the canyon. A snow covered ridge is visible in the background. The canyon is name for the giantess Kola, who made her home on a ledge within the gorge and often catching salmon straight from the river with her bare hands for breakfast. A close view of the bottom of the canyon with showing the rough walls and some spiky lava formations. The river is frothing.
January 14, 2026 at 1:15 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
While @justagirl52.bsky.social is showing photographs she's taken of birds, I thought I would show off our three excellent pieces of her bird artwork which are spread across the lower part of this photo.
#photography #artwork #birds
On the left side is a brightly colored watercolor of flying cranes in the sky. In the middle is a pencil drawing of an owl with a seriously peeved expression, and to the right is another pencil drawing, this time of a chickadee. PS There are also coffee cups with birds and framed bird coasters from the Charlie Harper collection.
January 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
The players were gone, but the game was ready. #photography #street_photography
We went for a walk on Christmas day 2025. The nearby tourist village was empty. I liked the dart board waiting for the next game at a cafe.
January 13, 2026 at 11:48 AM