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@azgibsonz.bsky.social

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Hubby, dad & grandpa. Animal & Nature lover, avid hiker, snarky photography enthusiast...pics are all mine (unless repost) and are mostly captured in northern Arizona or southern Utah. Hope you enjoy the vibe! 🕉

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 2d

😖I find most of the verbiage describing a Red-naped Sapsucker's belly plumage woefully inadequate...😍🕸️

👇So tell me, wordsmiths, how would YOU Alt text her. This should be fun! #WoodpeckerWednesday 🪶

📸 Sphyrapicus nuchalis female 🌿

#Woodpeckers
#LookingAtYou
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#EastCoastKin

Red-naped Sapsuckers are black and white overall with a red cap, nape, and throat. They have a long white bar on the folded wing. A black stripe through the eye is bordered by white stripes. The belly is mottled black and white, with a dingy or yellowish cast. Female Red-naped Sapsuckers, like my sweetie clinging to a Slippery Elm sapling here, have a white patch on the chin while males have entirely red chins. That's what you find on teh google. I would say her belly has a cool spiderweb pattern that radiates from her bib, and mixed in with that yellowish cast it sure looks wicked!

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 8h

Sunset-watch is canceled!

⛈️🌵Tropical Storm Priscilla is now spitting all over the Mojave Desert, but I caught a pretty intense virga rainbow this afternoon before the storm rolled in! ☁️🌈

#AzWx
#Clouds
#Rainbows
#YIMBY

Sweet rainbow color today, pretty sure that's virga too. Portrait first with blue sky still showing above the early rain clouds at the leading edge of the front moving across the Hualapai Valley.

Then a tight landscape since the rainbow wasn't a huge arc and sat low on my horizon anyway.

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 9h

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.”
~Eckhart Tolle

🕉️ #GetOutThere... and #scape! 🤘😶‍🌫️

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#WeekendVibes
#FeelingFall
#Autumn
#GetOutThere
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#Mammals

In the last light of dusk, a serene Mule Deer fawn with enormous fuzzy ears looks back on her path through a frame filled with the golden curlicues topping a field of autumnal blue grama grass. I love this composition, and kept steering every hike for weeks over by this field hoping to spy some deer in it. The photography gods finally gave in with about 3 minutes of good light one evening with this fawn, her sibling, and their very disinterested mother doe. Not pictured. Zen.

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 1d

Meeting of the Minds ⚔️

Love the energy of these guys, even if they’re still a little small to really challenge the big boys when push comes to shove.

🏷️: 📸🐡🌿🦊

Tight crop of two smaller bull elk locking antlers and staring down one another. Rain drops are visible falling behind them, and the foreground is a sheet of out of focus greenery.

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Remy Michaels @remyscameraeye.bsky.social · 1d

Northern Friends... Early morning. Enjoying the beautiful Fall Colours, with my big friend, Melvin The Young Bull Moose (Son of Madeline and Michaelangelo, Brother of Minnie). A very strong and handsome young boy. 🫎📸🇨🇦
#AlgonquinPark #Moose #Mammals #WildlifePhotography #OntarioParks #Canada

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Erin Freeman @beachrelaxin.bsky.social · 18h

These guys innocently wandered out of the nearby woods and nervously meandered into the field before deciding they really didn't trust the person standing right there.

White-tailed Deer

#mammals #deer #nature #wildlife #photography

A large brown deer stands in short grass directly facing the camera with his ears nervously held up. His antlers have forked into two paths at the tops, his black nose glistens with moisture, and his shining dark eyes are surrounded by long lashes.

A second buck stands in short grass with his body turned to the right and his head turned toward the camera. He has much more distinct white patches around his eyes and on his throat. His long antlers have not begun to fork yet, and he looks reminiscent of a springbok.

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Amy Scouten🍁🇨🇦🦫 @amyscoutenphoto.bsky.social · 16h

True love is ... grooming each other with your teeth 🥰😅 #eastcoastkin #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #beaver #mammals #Frontenac #ontario #canada #nikon

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Amy Scouten🍁🇨🇦🦫 @amyscoutenphoto.bsky.social · 16h

Beaver in Frontenac Provincial Park #eastcoastkin #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #mammals #beaver #Frontenac #ontario #canada #nikon

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Barrhead Birder @barrheadbirder.bsky.social · 13h

A Roe Deer buck from a number of years ago at Ardmillan South Ayrshire Scotland. #UKwildlife #nikon #mammals #deer

Roe Deer buck at Ardmillan South Ayrshire Scotland

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Susana @smwol298.bsky.social · 12h

Got this pic on our walk this morning. The sun hit the trees and the deer was framed perfectly. #WNC

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CP 📸 @costpac2.bsky.social · 1d

#deer #colors #wildflowers #wildlife #trees #photo #photography

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Jenn Richardson Photo @wild-and-wander.bsky.social · 2d

Sunrise over Cathedral Rock Sedona

#landscape #landscapephotography #scapes #photography #photo #bluesky #canon #art #jennrichardsonphoto #photographersofbluesky #artist #scape #arizona #sedona #desert

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Dee Dorsey @deedorsey.bsky.social · 2d

Ann Arbor, Michigan
“At the still point of the turning world, there the dance is.” ~ T. S. Elliot

#michigan #puremichigan #photography #nature #scape #landscape #sunset #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #clouds #reflections #autumnleaves #landscapephotography #photographersunited

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SkyFullOfStars @skyfullofstars4.bsky.social · 2d

..that’s what this
storm is all about..”
Haruki Murakami ( ALT)

#RockinTuesday #EastCoastKin

#Photography #ClassicMono #Monochrome #Nature #Art #NatureIsArt #Landscape #Scape
#Mountains #Rocks #B&W
#BlackAndWhite
#ShadowAndLight
#NewMexico #StormHour

Black and white photograph of high desert rock formation. Rocks cast light and shadow against contrasted clouds in the sky.

A quote by Haruki Marakami

“ and once the storm is over, you won’t know how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t be sure that the storm is really over.
But one thing is certain; when you come out of storm, you will not be the same person. That’s what the storm is all about.”

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Rüm Hart @luvundlee.bsky.social · 14h

Bunt trotz Regen.🌼🌧️
Colorful despite the rain.
#eastcoastkin #coloraday
#yellowthu #scape
#floralfriday

Eine Blüte eines Großblumigen Johanniskrauts in Nahaufnahme. Im Hintergrund sind grüne und rote Blätter.

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R. Pangan @rmpangan.bsky.social · 1d

Still blooming in October!
#MyGarden
#RoseWednesday
#OctoberRose
#RosesofBlueSky
#FlowersofBlueSky
#GardensHour
#gardening
#photographersofbluesky
#photography
#EastCoastKin
#bloomscrolling
#FlowerReport
#scape

Salmon pink rose in full bloom last week, long-stemmed, layers of fragrant petals. In background are trees, a blurred truck, street, grass and green and yellow leaves, in foreground are green rose leaves.

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FotoDeFer @fotodefer.bsky.social · 1d

📌 Tempus Fugit.

#FotoDeFer #Asturias #Minimalism
#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Art
#Monochrome #BlackAndWhite
#Photography #Photo #Fotografía #Foto #ByN #B&W #BlancoyNegro #Black&White #Landscape #Scape

Esta fotografía en blanco y negro, con su larga exposición, evoca la dialéctica entre lo efímero y lo eterno. Las rocas escarpadas, firmes y antiguas, representan la permanencia, la existencia inmutable frente al tiempo.

Por otro lado, el agua sedosa y las nubes difusas simbolizan el constante flujo del cambio, la impermanencia, un reflejo del panta rhei heraclíteo: todo fluye. El arco natural, puerta de piedra hacia lo desconocido del océano, se convierte en una metáfora del umbral entre el yo interior (la tierra firme, lo conocido) y el vasto universo de la experiencia y el devenir (el mar, lo incierto). El dramático juego de luces y sombras, con el cielo amenazante, acentúa un sentimiento de asombro sublime ante la inmensidad de la naturaleza.

La imagen me inspira una profunda meditación sobre la dualidad. La solidez de la tierra y la fluidez del mar y del cielo coexisten en una tensa pero armoniosa quietud. Esta dicotomía resuena con el concepto de unidad de los opuestos en muchas filosofías orientales y occidentales, donde la tensión entre contrarios (ser y no-ser, luz y oscuridad) es la fuerza motriz de la realidad. Intento congelar este instante de movimiento perpetuo, y nos invita a confrontar nuestra propia finitud y la fugacidad de la vida, mientras la propia roca nos susurra la lección de la resiliencia. Es un recordatorio visual de que, aunque nuestras vidas sean breves, formamos parte de un ciclo cósmico inmenso.

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Dorota @dorotapawlak.bsky.social · 2d

Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday.

#EastCoastKin #photography #nature #hiking #treescape #scape #vancouverisland #forest #PhotographersOfBlueSky

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Mamady @mamady.bsky.social · 2d

Mother Nature’s version of rock stacking.

No sheep were available for scale, but they could easily meander beneath that boulder!

#Photography #RockinTuesday #EastCoastKin #Nature #Art #Photohour #Stormhour #Scape #BlueSky #ClassicMono #Monochrome #B&W #BlackandWhite #NationalTrust #Yorkshire

Black and white photo of a towering rock formation at Brimham Rocks, showing stacked sandstone layers perched improbably on a narrow point above rocky ground.

A giant balancing boulder at Brimham Rocks rises among dense vegetation, its smooth layers and rounded shape set against a cloudy sky.

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Jaycee Crawford / Vision Logic Images @jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social · 2d

'Daydreaming in Monochrome' (2025) -- It Was a Bright and Beautiful Day on the Water, the Fresh Salty Air, the Stunning Scenery, What a Blessing ✨ Thank You @mdanielsmith.bsky.social, Kennebec River, Phippsburg, ME

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford

A lone sailboat sails down the Kennebec River under a bright afternoon sky filled with dreamy, feathery clouds

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Meandering M🌿 @pathwaymoments.bsky.social · 16h

The buffet is up, time to let nature get ready for the Seasons ahead 🕊️ …,

The last of the Sunflowers are set on the drying rack and provide food for natures visitors.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 19h

Thar she glows! A Blue Jay visits the garden to see if the peanut feeder is up yet (it is) #birds

Blue bird with pointy crest is perched on a black metal shepherd’s crook looking over its left shoulder at the viewer. Late afternoon light from behind makes a warm glow.

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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦 @lorichirp.bsky.social · 18h

Happy #ThursJay! This also fits for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme which is #spotted. This American #Crow spotted me trying to take a photo! #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #Corvid #cawmunity

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Rob Crank Photography @robcrank68.bsky.social · 18h

Now we are past the half way point in the week it's time to get behind the #Corvids for #ThursJay, so here's a Western Jackdaw, Rook, Magpie & Jay captured @WWTSlimbridge & Yarrow Valley CP.

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #birdphotography #ukbirding #naturephotography #BirdLife

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 13h

When they're this lovely it doesn't matter what the calendar says! 🫶

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 1d

Ok technically it’s no longer #WoodpeckerWednesday but I’m sharing this Hairy Woodpecker at the suet feeder anyway!

#birds 🌿

Close up photo of a black and white woodpecker perched on the side of a vertical wooden feeder.

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