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I have on occasion been on the road and thought I’d share some photos of what I saw along the way. Photos by me or an immediate family member. If using my photos to train AI please tag them incorrectly and say they are of Mars. #Americana #Photography

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 7h

The tree tried to make a break for it.

#ForestFriday
#Photography

An old wire fence in the woods has a large dent from a tree falling on it.

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 15h

Its a pretty good swamp, but its over 10 miles away from The GREAT Swamp (where the UFOs landed in Orson Welles version of The War of the Worlds... it was swamp gas all along)

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 16h

Tourne Park, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey

From 2011, shot on an iPhone 4 with its mad HDR skillz.

#ForestFriday
#Photography

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 17h

When you arrive at the railway platform really late but then realize the train hasn't even arrived yet.

It may be awhile before the train arrives. Buffalo Central Terminal abandoned since 1979. So many family adventures, reunions, and business trips started right her and now just weeds
#Photography

a row of abandoned passenger train platforms. All in a site of disrepair and rot. Weeds cover the ground.

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 18h

Wow… that’s a typo worthy of Twin Peaks, which is what I tried to write.

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 1d

Even though I know historically the Roman statues were painted originally and only became bare stone from the ravages of time, I still find painted statues a bit jarring.

That said this is a cool statue commemorating the bravery of local firemen.

Owego, NY

A statue of a fireman holding a baby. The statue is painted with the helmet being red and black and the jacket a bright blue.

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 2d

Twin Prams!! (and a cameo in Northern Exposure I believe)

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 2d

In the early aughts or late nineties there was a website devoted to a person’s “magic camera“ an early digital camera that had been water damaged. I remember the photos being amazing. Like this.

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 2d

‎Letchworth State Park, Genesee Falls, New York - near Portageville.

These are the upper falls (I've shown these Falls a few times recently, but always in context of the extremely photogenic train trestle this is above it).

#WaterfallWednesday
#Photography

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 2d

2/2. Falls in Fall.

Letchworth State Park, The Lower Falls of the Genesee Falls, New York - near Portageville.

What if there were 4 sets of falls? would one set be called "not quite Low Falls"

#WaterfallWednesday
#Photography

Falls surrounded by trees colored in green light yellow and red. the colors of early Fall.

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 2d

1/2. ‎Letchworth State Park, Genesee Falls, New York - near Portageville.

These are the lower falls (which in no way is a statement about their character).

#WaterfallWednesday
#Photography

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 3d

They made the mountain just an itty bit taller. Reminds me of the movie: The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes on a beautiful day you just want to lie down and take a nap.

Frenchtown, New Jersey

#Photography

A large stone statue of a woman lying down and resting in front of a victorian home. If the statue was in the standing position it would likely be two stories tall.

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Mairead D @maireadd100.bsky.social · 3d

#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#ColorADay
#BlueTue
#Flowers
#Macro
#Bee

A Bumblebee spreads its wings while drinking nectar from the small blue flowers of a Caryopteris shrub.

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 4d

#31DaysOfHalloween
#Photography

It’s getting dark so early

A full moon low on the horizon as seen through scraggly branches

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 4d

Okay, I got carried away and cropped it too close, but its so cool.

#MacroMonday
#BloomScrolling
#Photography
#Buzz

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 4d

A butterfly hangs out on Bannerman Island in the Hudson River (near Beacon, New York).

#MonarchMonday (this should be a thing)
#Photography
#BloomScrolling

A monarch butter sits atop a flower with its wings open almost completely covering the bloom of the flower.

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 5d

It was “designed” on a napkin. There was another warehouse on the island that also stored gunpowder, but that one blew up about a hundred years ago.

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 5d

That just proves how dangerous and well funded the radical left is! They’re out there hacking the feeds and using their hacker skillz photoshopping out all the sky high flames and mushroom clouds!!!

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 5d

The Bannerman Castle on Bannerman Island near Beacon, NY. Sitting in the middle of the Hudson River, just slightly north of West Point sits an Island with a couple castles. This is the big one built to be a warehouse storing tons and tons of gunpowder, far away from anyone.

#StunDay
#Photography

The ruins of a castle built of cement and bricks.

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 5d

Hah. Almost the same picture... but a real different feel. :-)

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 5d

Letchworth State Park near Portageville, New York.

Almost a repeat from last week but taken about 20 feet further away and with a different lens (well its an iPhone so just a different setting honestly), but it makes for a dramatically different view.

#StunDay
#Photography
#Trestle
#Fall

A train trestle crosses above a waterfall. On either side are green trees, some of which have begun to change color for the beginning of fall.

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Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 5d

At the shrine in honor of Saint Marianne Cope in Utica, NY - where she grew up.

#Photography
#StunDay

A sculpture of a man holding out his hand for aide.

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 6d

Is it because our brain still remembers our distance lives of being fishes that makes being on the water so calming. Sometimes you just need to watch the water and #Relax

Gulf of Maine... somewhere

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography

a POV shot of the photographers leg at the side of a boat and the open calm ocean beyond it.

Static Sky Travels @centurysux.bsky.social · 6d

Hey Camden, Maine! How you doin' down there!

After a little hike it is good to have a nice view and #Relax.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography

a POV shot showing the photographer's foot on a boulder far above green hills and the ocean. A small town is visible in the distance.