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CSmayd222
@csmayd222.bsky.social
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Hike backpack photograph; love wildflowers, birds, mammals, inverts, fall foliage, waterfalls and whatever gets in front of my lens.
USA, resident of NJ, spend my best time at Torch Lake (LP) MI.
Retired physics teacher. Older & Crankier.
Kzoo'82 & ASU
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travertin.bsky.social
Das Hardenberger Ufer am Baldeneysee
📍Essen, NRW
📷Evgeni Tcherkasski
#landscapephotography #landscape #photography #flickr flic.kr/p/2rDTD4m
November 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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cikalatcha.bsky.social
Crescent Neptune and Triton
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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axiisstowaakii.bsky.social
Party-Outfit für Morgen ist safe...
❀👗☠️

#Schönesgegendoofes
Eng anliegendes schwarzes Kleid mit weißer Skelettapplikation auf Vorderseite und Ärmeln. Das Kleid zeigt detaillierte Knochenstrukturen von Brustkorb, Wirbelsäule, Becken und Oberarmknochen. An Schultern und Ärmeln sind weiße Rosen und Spitzenmuster angebracht. Netzfund
October 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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oleflytyer.bsky.social
Turtle has zoomies & thinks cat is mommy.
avalaugh.bsky.social Ava Laugh… 🤭 @avalaugh.bsky.social · Jul 18
TMNT was right… 🐢 🐈‍⬛
July 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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winterharted.bsky.social
Another vague tattoo concept. I love magpies

#magpie #bird #birdart #natureart #tattooconcept
Magpie in flight with starry sky on its wings.
July 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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biannka.bsky.social
🌷 Es quién está

sin que se lo pidas.

Felíz miércoles 🌿🌷🌿
May 28, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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rosasila.bsky.social
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Beauté et sérénité

inc.
May 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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traeumerin84.bsky.social
Botanischer Garten in Heidelberg 🌸☀️🌺
May 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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shuklinandrey.bsky.social
A little more lavender in the Blue Sky

#photography #nature #sunset
May 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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josecpalop.bsky.social
Windy Shoreline
May 13, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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ingrid1.bsky.social
Frühling im Berner Rosengarten 😍
May 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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michaeledward.bsky.social
Flora
Nature
Photography
#Mexico
May 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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mariawerthmann-art.bsky.social
Spargel? Herz? Spargelherz 🥰
#spargel #showheart #gartenschätze
Das Foto zeigt eine grüne Spargelstange, die gekrümmt gewachsen ist. Die Form erinnert an ein Herz. Der Spargelkopf hat sich bereits in kleinere Köpfe geteilt und wie Blumen an einem Kranz, an die Stange gelegt. Der Spargel liegt auf einer dunklen Holzfläche
May 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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rhapsodysblues.bsky.social
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dptbirder.bsky.social Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · Apr 28
Ash-Throated Flycatcher

Amazing bit of photography magic to freeze this frame where every wing and tail feather is at full spread at take off 📷🪶
Portrait of an ash throated flycatcher in flight over grass
May 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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zphotog7.bsky.social
Escape! The 1 Tree Swallow escaped the wrath of the other! I love the reflection of the 2 birds too. 😍 #birds 🦉 #birdphotography #photography #nikon #nature #naturephotography #wildlife
#wildlifephotography
#birders
#birdwatching
#photographer
#birdsofbluesky
#newmexico
#bosquedelapache
April 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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axiisstowaakii.bsky.social
Freude, Traurigkeit & auch Wut...
...ist das Herz berührt, können
Tränen fließen, weil die Seele...
...weint .
Ein gelbes einzelnes Blatt an einem Zweig, das mit Regentropfen benetzt ist, an der Seite sind durch die Tröpfchen auch ein Spinnennetz sichtbar geworden. Netzfund
April 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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michaeledward.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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wholereality.bsky.social
A tiny forest of moss in the morning sun.
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#photography #closeup #naturephotography #macrophotography #macro #artphotograph #nature #glowing #light #bokeh #moss
This image shows a close-up view of moss with slender sporophytes rising from it. The moss base appears in warm brown and green tones, while the thin stalks are reddish-orange with bright yellow-green capsules at their tips. The background is softly blurred, creating a macro perspective that highlights the delicate structures of this tiny plant growth.
April 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
csmayd222.bsky.social
from Change.org chng.it/kCJMvBLTXP
Have you seen this petition yet?
Defend academic freedom and institutional autonomy. We stand with Harvard!
chng.it
April 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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tony873004.bsky.social
Saturn has 128 newly-discovered moons. Here they are color-coded by their MPEC release. Orange: MPEC 2025 E153, Purple: MPEC 2025-E154, Green: MPEC 2025-E155.
March 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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owejessen.de
Kudos an die Stern-Reaktion. Die Vorlage ist klassisch, aber wie viele können sich daran noch erinnern?
Hitler and Stalin greeting each other very friendly over a dead body (lifting the head, slight bow of the body): Hitler: "The scum of the earth, I believe" - Stalin: "The bloody assasin of the workers I presume". Caption: "Rendevous"
March 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
At last! Finished page: how a star forms, what fuels it, & how it forges new forms into being! A star is a momentary reversal - a wellspring of possibilities that makes life possible. This took me some time to figure out to say the least - but geeked to be done & move onward! #Nostos #Unflattening 2
Comics page on how a star forms, what’s going on inside, and how it’s generating new elements over its lifetime - and a reversal of entropy’s downward flow towards disorder. There’s a drawing of a star that’s about the width of the page in the center - realistic on its outside and diagrammatic on the interior. Running through it from top of page to bottom of page - is an hourglass like shape with various panels, sort of like greek meanders ornamenting it that detail various parts of the narrative here. The interior of the star shape is in four quadrants (a bit of the middle and the center are carved out by the hourglass, which i’ll get to next). upper left quadrant is a diagram of the force of gravity versue the resistance pressue of atoms being shoved together - represented by black arrows drawing inward and white drawing outward - which make a circular star shape complete with the tails of the black arrows as rays of the star. the background for this panel is a warped grid as space would be warped by this massive object. Upper right panel is a closeup on just a few of these white and black arrows - and within them - filled with more closely packed particles and then also tiny arrows pressing from outside. Lower left panel has the path light takes to leave a star - a brownian motion trail, bouncing around randomly in all sorts of directions before eventually leaving the star. The final panel within the star is a more realistic depiction of what the regions within the star might look like. On the hourglass, there are periodic stripes with panels inside them - in the other spaces, we see circles as simplified particles falling down this funnel and getting closer together as they near the center (as with hydrogen falling into a star). the first row of panels is a series of hourglasses - with sand running down. The next one is a quick retelling of the birth of the universe to the first filaments. Then the hourglasses again, now they are spinning, sand running uphill. T…
March 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
csmayd222.bsky.social
I had this charming encounter with a chipping sparrow munching on dandelions right at the end of a hike. Apr '22
February 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
Always delightful to see an in-focus kinglet photo (easier said than done, in my experience) but also the alt text on this is delightful.

See how much more evocative and descriptive your alt text can be (versus “photo of a Golden-crowned Kinglet”)?
chuckwendig.bsky.social Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Feb 17
Good morning, take this bird!

photo by me
Portrait oriented photo -- blue flinty sky behind a diagonal tangle of branches (upper right to lower left), and roughly in the center of that branch-tangle sits a proud-looking little bird (or "birb"). It is a rounded soft orb of a bird, basically a golf ball covered in downy feathers. The bird has tiny dark eyes, a little short sharp beak, and the hint of a golden-and-black stripe upon its inquisitive brow. It's a golden-crowned kinglet, of course, an itty-bitty mouse of a bird who hops frenetically from branch to branch via what can only be described as TELEPORTATION, thus making them impossible to photograph. I'm not even sure I photographed this one, or if it took a selfie with my camera and handed it back. Anyway. Cool bird. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig
February 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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urbangirl.bsky.social
Just magic...

©️ Nimueh11
February 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM