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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
your timeline has few posts or mostly retweets
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
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Spiny saguaro cactus, spiny ocatillo, and the spine of a mountain range in Saguaro National Park, Tucson, Arizona set the theme for today. #photography #Support_Public_Lands #desert #plants #MountainMonday
The thin branches of an ocatillo tipped with its orange buds are in front of a large saguaro cactus. The green of the cactus contrasts the orange of the ocatillo buds and the dusty red of the distant mountains.
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Flit's #MondayMorning Wisdom: Never underestimate the power of looking cute.
#photography #dogs #dogsofbluesky
A medium-sized chestnut colored dog with a black muzzle lies on a couch with her muzzle on a pillow and a paw under her head. She looks cute.
December 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Third in a series of #StunDay proof that of our 8 dogs, Bebo was the one with the exceptionally stunning talent for finding me very scenic shots to take, this time with an assist from Sniff.
#photography #woods #light #dogs #dogsofbluesky
A black, tan, and white beagle mix and a tan and white boxer (maybe) mix walk on a steep hillside in a woods colored by a light, golden fog.
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Here's another frost flower. I cropped this photo a lot to show the streaky patterns in the icy ribbons. The cropping made the background grainy. The actual frost flower was only about 2 inches (5 cm) tall. #photography #frostflowers #nature
White ribbon-like ice that has been extruded from the stem of a dittany plant makes an interesting and fragile natural sculpture on the forest floor. The ice that had been in sunlight was beginning to melt and was clear.
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
The first frost flowers that I've seen this season showed up in the woods yesterday. #photography #frostflowers #nature
The white ribbon-like flower on the stem of a dead plant is not a flower at all or a fungus. Frost flowers are icy structures that emerge from the stalks of thin stemmed plants. The water in the plant is forced out of the plants in these fragile sheets. Like snowflakes, frost flowers are infinite in variety. The ones in our area mostly emerge from dittany (Cunila origanoides).
November 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
aferguson.bsky.social
The Friday Digital Archive Dive finds the line to take for a texture cornucopia.

Taken #OnThisDay November 28, 2009
#photography #house #moon #otd
I happened to look up at the moon at my sister's house and saw all these interesting lines from the roof and two brick chimneys offsetting an almost round moon. There is a mix of textures from bricks, clapboards, and roofing.
November 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Post something random or you'll have an awful December
(I'm confident in the coming awfulnesss of December but fun to find something to post anyway).
Sign on a door at the Skógar Museum in Iceland reads "Please remove your crampons/spikes before entering the museum". This was one of the few signs we saw in Iceland that was only in English.
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Look but don't touch. I am not sure what this plant is. I don't think it is a stinging nettle, but it doesn't look like it wants to cuddle. #photography #plants #nature
This close up shows the thin transparent hairs covering the leaves and stem of a dead plant in the late fall. The stem is mostly brown but has just a bit of pale green left from the summer.
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Forest floor flora came through in my #quest_for_color in the gray months #photography #nature
Yellow maple leaves and a Christmas fern frond brighten up the brown and black leaves and decomposing wood on the ground.
November 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
A very good Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it. I hope everyone has at least one very good thing to feel thankful about.

Meanwhile, in the Indiana woods ...
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
I am feeling very thankful for the weeks of watching this sweet little dog slowly but steadily recover.
#dogs #thankful
niallharbison.bsky.social Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 4d
Little Stormzy had his first trip out into the "real world".

Testing him out to see if he'll be OK for adoptions.

Look at him go! I think the early answer is a yes!
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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rebeccanagle.bsky.social
Did you know that schools are in large part where the Thanksgiving myth was born? Alarmed by what your kid learned about Thanksgiving at school? You are not alone. After a wave of immigration in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Americans grew increasingly worried that their...🧵
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Late November celebrates the months long almost black and white #photography season. #trees #nature #gray
Standing in a grove of tulip trees (aka tulip poplars) I shot straight up to show the bare branches and gray sky.
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
I have finally had to accept that I have reached an age where I no longer have the patience (forbearance? grace? desire? concentration? all of them?) to read books over 400 pages full of meandering chunks or books of any size about the angst of being a 20-30 something.
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Changes in a morning sky.
#photography #sunrise #colors #moon #clouds
The clouds in a morning sky are lit with a deep purple-pink. The clouds are still in the sky but they've lost most of their color and they've thinned enough that a sliver of moon is showing.
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Unseasonably warm fall has left the premises (apparently blown out the door by a wind advisory the next two days).
Wed 26 41°/26° Thu 27 37°/23° Fri 28 34°/23° Sat 29 37°/32° Sun 30 36°/16° Mon 01 28°/15° Tue 02 32°/22° Wed 03 40°/27°
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
It's a #TwoferTuesday from #Banff National Park, Alberta, #Canada. On the left is The Beehive from Lake Agnes, and on the right is Lake Agnes and Lake Louise from the Beehive. #photography #Support_public_lands
A small lake is in the foreground. A multilayered red, gray, and tan domed cliff, The Beehive, and a valley and two peaks are behind the lake. We hiked to the top of The Beehive and were treated to a spectacular view of Lake Agnes, left center in the photo, the forest of Banff, and the turquoise waters of Lake Louise with the famous hotel at the end of the lake.
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
First I noticed that the orange maples leaves were zig-zagging through the pines, then I noticed the zig-zag was in the reflection too.
#photography #fall #color #pond
The orange leaves of a maple tree appear to be zig-zagging between branches of two pine trees. Although it's a bit obscure, the zig-zag pattern is there in the reflection of the trees in the pond they line.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Flit's #MondayMorning Wisdom: Theodore Roosevelt Stick Criticism #4*: Sometimes the carrying that dumb stick makes your ears go all wonky and you feel like a dork.
* #1 Oct. 6; #2 Oct. 27 #3 Nov. 3
#photography #dogs #dogsofbluesky
In the woods, a medium-sized chestnut colored dog with a black muzzle has a stick in her mouth. The stick is in front of her, she is struggling with it and her ears are sticking straight up above her head.
November 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
#MountainMonday in Banff National Park with a view from across the Beehive.
#photography #hiking #Canada #mountains
In the foreground is the rounded, forested top of the Beehive and beyond are a series of peaks. The sky is blue with light streaks of clouds.
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Mountain view from 35,000 feet #photography #MountainMonday #Support_Public_Lands #nature
I took this photo of the snow capped mountains of southwest Colorado and possibly southeast Utah on a trip in April, 2024. As you look to the north (the top of the photo) there are clouds among the mountains. From this height, the mountains look vast, which is how they must have felt to the people trying to cross them on foot. But the photo also flattens and smooths them. Among those mountains are national parks, national forests, and Bureau of Land Mangement properties. They are a treasure of nature.
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
aferguson.bsky.social
A movie that was filmed in your state.
a woman wearing a red headband is running on a baseball field .
Alt: A scene with Geena Davis in A League of Their Own where does the splits so she can catch a ball.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
A frosty still life of the forest floor from the archives shows mostly dead things. #photography #nature #autumn #still_life
A variety of brown tree leaves, fern fronds, and a small limb are rimmed or coated with frost. The leves are shades of brown and red-brown. The stick is mostly dark gray with a few patches of brown.
November 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Second in a series of #StunDay proof that of our 8 dogs, Bebo was the one with the exceptionally stunning talent for finding me very scenic shots to take.
#photography #woods #trails #dogs #dogsofbluesky
A medium sized tan and white dog stands on a trail in a woods that in this area is dominated by white oaks. Their leaves that are mostly a bright red which is a fairly unusual color as they generally a much deeper and darker red (or even a reddish brown).
November 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
My gray months #quest_for_color continues. Witch hazel is an unusual little tree/shrub/bush because it flowers in the late fall and early winter. #photography #flowers #trees #yellow
Yellow ribbony petals on the witch hazel shrub glow in the sunlight. The reproductive parts of the flower look like a bug tangled up in ribbons. The flowers and branch in this photo were caught in a sunbeam and the rest of the photo is in shadow.
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM