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Cathy N
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A sudden return trip to St Lucia for the final Rite of Passage for my father. Yesterday, I looked out of my window. This beauty was looking back at me.

#Birds #Ornithology #AntilleanCrestedHummingbird #Hummingbird #Photography #wildlifephotography
A most beautiful hummingbird perched on a branch in the garden of a relative in St Lucia. Iridescent shades of green framed by black feathers. The crest of feathers upright like a mohican.
December 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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'Of Mists and Islets' (2023) -- Thousands of Enormous Rocky Protrusions Blanketed in Mists Complete the Visually Alluring, Tranquil Waters of HaLong Bay, Vietnam

#BlueSkyMonday ✨ #MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
a fishing boat moored peacefully against the awe inspiring backdrop of innumerable karst islets of halong bay
December 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Here's my last #stunday photo, closeup of a leaf with raindrops on it 🍂🌧 #eastcoastkin #bloomscrolling #photography #leaves
December 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
cnaliv.bsky.social
Winchester Cathedral
#SilentSunday
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekWforWindows
#Stunday
A long, perpendicular-arched corridor in muted browns and grays. To the left are windows that leave fingers of patterned light on the gray and beige tiled floor. To the right is a large, ornately carved stone screen with lots of small windows with bars, figures of bishops, and the crypt of a bishop at the bottom center. The corridor arches echo on, seemingly into infinity, in this longest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe.
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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“Emperor in Majesty”
12th century #stainedglass
Strasbourg, France

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekWforWindows
#StainedGlassSunday
#Stunday
Vibrant stained glass window in blues, reds, greens, and yellows of an emperor (tradition has it that it’s Charlemagne) sitting on a throne, holding orb and scepter, wearing a crown. He has long reddish-blond hair and beard. His expression is serious, his mouth downturned. He looks like he’s wearing glasses, but that is the effect of the leading holding his eyes in place. Two attendants are behind him, at either shoulder.
December 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Turbine Hall - Tate Modern

A favourite of mine. I just love this space and the windows. (It may need a click to get the full effect)

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekWforWindows
#StunDay
#ClassicMono
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
A black and white photograph of the Turbine Hall at The Tate Modern in London. It shows a dimly lit interior space with a high ceiling and tall, narrow windows that allow bright light to stream in. Silhouetted figures are scattered throughout the scene, with a small child running across the reflective floor in the foreground.
December 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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mamady.bsky.social
Himalayan Flooflord!

Thanks for the mountain of love lately. I’ll find something other than mountains for the next posts! 😝✌🏽❤️

#stunday #eastcoastkin #photography #nature #art #mountains #scape #outdoor #landscape #stormhour #photohour #hiking #bluesky #sunday #blueskymonday #landscapephotography
A solitary white yak grazes quietly beneath the vast Himalayas, its heavy coat glowing against golden autumn trees and the immense sweep of snowy peaks rising in dramatic contrast behind it.
December 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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'The Optimist' (2021) -- Morning Breaks Vividly Over a Shadowy Eagle Lake, Acadia National Park, ME

'The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion' -- Paulo Coelho

#BlueSkyArtShow #Sky ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
a backlit image of barren young oak tree standing tall above the shoreline against a sky of cirrus clouds ablaze with the rising sun, reflected onto the cold still and dark waters of Eagle Lake's northern shores
December 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Sky
Aurora over people on ridge all looking upward
December 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Roadside hawk with #Sky
Costa Rica
#BlueskyArtShow
Large bird perched on a branch. Cloudy sky behind. Some trees low in the background
December 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Eye in the #Sky
London
#BlueSkyArtShow
The London Eye Ferris wheel set against a blue sky and puffy white clouds. The photo also includes a statue of Boudicca with her arms raised, standing in a chariot drawn by rearing horses, a lamppost, and a white skyscraper.
December 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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December morning
#BlueSkyArtShow #Sky
The skeleton of a tree filters a vivid, layered sunrise. The sunrise is yellow on the horizon, various shade of orange and pink clouds in the middle, and indigo at the top.
December 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Grey #Sky above grey ponies. Connemara Ponies.

#BlueskyArtShow
#Ireland
#Horses
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
December 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Finding a Way Through

#Scape #ForestFriday

#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
A vertical photograph deep inside a dense forest, featuring dramatic shafts of sunlight filtering down through the tall tree canopy. The sunbeams illuminate the mist in the air, creating a radiant, golden effect, and brightly light a small, vibrant sapling and the dense undergrowth in the foreground. The surrounding pines and evergreens are dark and shadowed.
December 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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For @robcrank68.bsky.social 's #BirdoftheDay, #Borbs, birds looking around, I'll share my favourite little wader, a Least Sandpiper, sheltering on the rocks at hide tide and looking around. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Photography
A Least Sandpiper, shot from the back, with its head turned to the right so its right eye is visible. The smallest wader with beautiful shading across the feathers.
December 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Forested mountains shrouded in clouds and mist near the Cataloochee Valley. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina, 05 Jun 2013. #NationalParks
Forested mountains shrouded in clouds and mist near the Cataloochee Valley. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina, 05 Jun 2013. #NationalParks
December 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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mamady.bsky.social
Whispers of the Celestial Dancers

#scape #eastcoastkin #coloraday #BWFri #photography #classicmono #monochrome #blackandwhite #b&W #art #sunset #light #shadow #nature #travel #cambodia #stunday #friday #stormhour #photohour #history #bluesky #landscape #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited
A black and white photo of an endless stone corridor at Angkor Wat, where sunlight slices in diagonals and brushes over apsara sculptures, their weathered forms standing still, watching over an empty passage, as time deepens around them.
December 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake,
it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
~Aristotle Antetokounmpo

❄️🦌

#Scape 🌿
#Snowscape
#Classicmono
#Monochrome
#Mammals
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#ForestFriday
#WeekendVibes
#LookingAtYou
In black and white, a Mule Deer buck with snow on his antlers faces you over behind the neighbors' fence.
December 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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'Gentle Outflows' (2013) -- It's Hard to Believe the Year is Wrapping Up So Quickly... I Still Remember the Hardships of Last Winter, Vagnsstadir, Southern Iceland

It's Finally Friday... Let's #Scape!! ✨ #ClassicMono ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
a branch of striking coastal mountains laced with snow and ice serve as the backdrop to a lazy shallow glacier runoff stream that gently empties into the ocean not too far from where this photo was taken
December 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Festive bread pudding
#FoodonFriday
#EastCoastKin
A decorative, corrugated cardboard container holds a bread pudding topped with cream and a square of white chocolate stamped with a snowman, stars, and snowflakes. The container is on a white plate with a lacy doily underneath. Also on the plate is a glass holding white sauce. In the background is an indoor courtyard in the style of a medieval cloister, out of focus, with soft holiday lights, and patrons at other tables.
December 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
cnaliv.bsky.social
Going for all the hashtags with this photo from Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri
#PalacesandGardens
#RedGreenGold
#UrbanGaze
#HumansofBlueSky
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekWforWindows
A giant Christmas tree festooned with red ornaments, gold garlands, and a sparkling star crown stands in a great hall by a large arched doorway. Windows open fill the arch above the doors, with a large wreath in the middle of them. People stand on a walkway looking out the windows. Others enter the doors. A family sits on a bench at the foot of the tree. A little girl dressed in white is walking by the other side of the tree.
December 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Our museum has a wall through a window!
This was part of a Walking Wall exhibit by Andy Goldsworthy in 2019 at Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri

#WindowsonWednesday
#WallsonWednesday
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekWforWindows
A stone wall appears to go through a window and encroaches on the walking space inside the museum. On the other side of the window, you can see the wall curves amidst green grass and trees nearly all bare of leaves. The sky is dull and overcast.
December 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Collared trogon.
#birdoftheday
#stripes
#birds
A brightly coloured bird with black and white stripes on its tail,redbreast white collar and green throat. It’s dark face contrasting with yellow bill.
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Zebra Dove
#BirdOfTheDay
#Stripes
Small brown dove with variegated brown and white stripes and a dove-gray face walks on red soil and tufts of green and brown grass. Photo taken on the island of Kauai, Hawaii
December 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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One more for the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Stripes Hope you all enjoy your day wherever you are in the world. Take care and see you soon. Remember to support each other. Get on the BOTD feed, like a few and repost if you admire the capture. It’s a community. 😊 #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
A small Coal Tit perched on a leafy stem, seen from behind with its head turned slightly left. The bird has a black cap, white cheeks, olive-green upperparts, and soft beige underparts. Its neatly patterned grey wings show bright white wing bars. The background is a smooth, blurred green, making the bird stand out sharply.
December 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM