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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Jan 23

The birds wait, patient
First rising light
When the sunbeams reach
Stillness breaks
Erupt into flight
All called to the east
Scatter

#birdphotography #sunrise #poetry #naturepoem

Silloutte of a bird against the backdrop of clouds colored by sunrise - blues, purples, grays, and orange

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Jan 21

Deep breath I can’t hold
Breaking rays breaking waves
Darkness diminished

Ogunquit sunrise
January 2025
#seascape #landscapephotography
#winterocean #haiku #mainetravel

The sun is rising over the ocean and sun rays are just breaking the horizon. The silhouette of plants and the rocky coast are in the foreground while a house is starting to glow red in the morning light in the background. The ocean is calm and waves lap at the shore below a clear sky burning bright red and yellow

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Jan 16

It is impossible to capture reality

Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon UT

#brycecanyon #travelutah #goexplore #sunrise #inspiration #landscapephotography

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Jan 12

Sometimes you arrive home in a place you’ve never been before.

Ruby Beach, WA
Aug. 2024
#landscapephotography #pacificocean #goexplore

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Jan 11

Be anywhere you want to be.

Canyon overlook, Zion Nat’l Park
#utahtravel #zion #landscapephotography #nationalparks

The view of Zion National Park from Canyon Overlook trail. Towering red/brown rock walls line both sides of the photo. The valley floor of the canyon is speckled with green shrubbery and a winding road in the distance. The sky is stormy and glowing slightly at the horizon beyond the canyon walls

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Jan 9

Resolute vision
Evolution of color
The painted on sky

4:39pm MA

#haiku #everydaysunset #sunsetphotography #dusk

A brilliant sunset above a distant silhouetted tree line. Fluffy clouds of all shapes and sizes float through the sky, bright orange and pink at the horizon, fading out into dark purples and grays

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Jan 8

Rise of golden blue
Rippled mirror’s reflection
Ethereal dawn

Boothbay, ME
May 2024
#travelmaine #boothbay #haiku #dawn #vacationland

A view of the morning light gently radiating over brilliant blue ocean waters of Boothbay. A small tree glistens on shore in the golden hour of morning and a distant sail boat floats patiently in the waters, hoping the calm waters mean today is a day for sailing.

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Jan 6

🙌

You got this 🙃

It’s all about perspective. Balance rock, Arches Nat’L Park

#balancerock #utahtravel #highfive #landscapephotography

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Jan 5

Sunrise at Cadillac Mountain, Mount Desert Island, Acadia

May 2024
#sunrise #acadianationalpark #barharbor #travelphotography

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Jan 2

Landscape Arch, UT
Devil’s Garden Trail, Arches National Park
306ft of awe

#arches #mightyfive #goexplore #devilsgarden

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Dec 22

Let light shine!

Joy to the winter solstice

#solstice #sunrise

The sun is rising and breaking through the trees above raging waters of the Deerfield River

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Dec 19

Mount Rainier / ‘the mother of waters’ / Tahoma

Home to at least 26 name glaciers - the most glaciers of any mountain in the contiguous US

#mountrainier #travelwashington #landscapephotography #glaciers

August 2024

Green foliage surrounds the deep blue ‘Reflection Lake’ while the summit of Mt. Rainier rises above the pine trees in the background

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Dec 16

Capitol Reef National Park - Panorama Point

Always make time for the “under dog”

8.19.23
#capitolreef #mightyfive #amazingsky #goexplore

Warm pink, orange, gray clouds flood the sky with color at sunrise and just a small line of rainbow appears above the red cliffs in the distance. Small green shrubs are speckled across the land of red rocks as far as the eye can see and the breaking sun glistens on the farthest mountain top while everything else is still shadowed.

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Dec 15

Silence at daybreak
Called out to a beginning
Erase the shadows

Winthrop, WA : Aug ‘24

#sunrise #travelwashington #landscapephotography #haiku

In the background the sunrise is breaking over rolling mountains and sun rays are spilling into the sky above puffy orange and purple clouds. There is a small wind swept tree on the knoll of the brush covered hill in the foreground

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Dec 12

Sometimes it feels like we are a sea of floating lemons and sinking limes. Divided by a fraction of density that makes all the difference.

🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Dec 11

The Watchman - Zion National Park

View from the Pa’rus trail - where the magic of Mother Earth is captivating

#zion #landscapephotography #watchman #nationalparks
8.25.23

The north fork of the Virgin River flows peaceful through the valley of Zion National Park. The sharp red and purple peaks of the rock faced Watchman mountain are highlighted in the background by the setting sun and a few golden puffy clouds dot the sky. A small crescent moon is rising above the scene.

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Dec 9

No matter how wide we open our eyes, there is so much we cannot see.

#cometc2023a3 #skyphotography #nightsky

10.19.2024

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) takes center stage in the night sky on October 19, 2024. The low horizon is still glowing yellow/orange from sunset as deep twilight blue sets in across the sky, sprinkled with stars

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Dec 8

Good morning ☀️

Window Arch sunrise, Moab UT

#archesnationalpark #sunrise #landscapephotography #utah

The sun is cresting the horizon at Arches National park in Moab UT. A large red rock arch frames the picture

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Dec 7

When the clouds match the seas
Frenchman Bay, Bar Harbor, ME

May, 2024
#asperitasclouds #maine #landscapephotography #ocean

Asperitas clouds - layers of wavy clouds over the Frenchman Bay in Bar Harbor Maine. Trees and islands surround the calm ocean which is dotted with boats

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Dec 7

Lake Diablo, WA - North Cascades

If I hadn’t seen it myself, I don’t think I would believe this color existed

#lakediablo #northcascades
#nationalparks #travel #landscapephotograpy

A rocky shore along the bright turquoise waters of lake Diablo. Across the lake, the north cascade mountains rise up to a cloudy but bright sky

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Dec 6

RFOTD (random fact of the day):
The collective noun for rhinoceroses is a crash💥💥

This information brought to you by my 10yo son.

#rhinoceros #randomfact #collectivenoun

🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Dec 6

Crescent Moon / Evening Star

Tracking Venus on an endless loop - a five petal rose displays across the sky. Each petals brings the morning star full of hope and promise, disappearance, and then the evening star with reflection on rebirth. Optimistic with the moon by her side.

Lake George 10.5.24

The crescent moon and Venus at sunset, above silhouetted mountains and Lake George

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Dec 5

Stories of star light
Kissed by the rainbow angel
A wish, hope, and dream

10/10/24
#northernlights #auroraborealis #haiku

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🌜Ali🌛 @astra8ali.bsky.social · Dec 4

Random fact of the day, brought to you by my 10yo son:
A baby seahorse is called a ‘Fry’ 🍟

#randomfact #dailyfact #fry #seahorse

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