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Mike Saunders 🇺🇦

@hardwaterhacker.bsky.social

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Photographer. Lover of the outdoors. Musician. Red Siege Principal Consultant so I can pay for my hobbies. #PhotographersUnited <- Check out this great community! IG: https://www.instagram.com/hardwaterhacker/

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Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · Nov 11

Lots of new followers, so I figured it’s a good time to do an introduction. Hello! I’m Mike. I’m a North Dakota-based computer security professional with a passion for the outdoors and a love of photography. I don’t really have a style. I love to shoot all kinds of things.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 20h

Western Meadowlarks are another one of those first-in/last-out birds. Their arrival in April is the herald of spring and their departure in late Sep/early Oct is… a little sad TBH 🥺 #birds

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Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · 20h

Great photo, Janet! I see them all the time, but it seems it’s always harsh light. This is lovely.

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Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · 1d

Without clouds, we lost the color really quickly, but since we were there so early we got that dawn color. It was wonderful.

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Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · 1d

Well done, Dan! I love that there's no sense of scale.

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Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful shot, Grant.

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📷 Grant Swinbourne @grantswinbournephotography.com · 1d

Dawn Chorus

Early morning for and glow on Sydney's northern beaches

16mm f/11 @ 15s ISO 100
Canon EOS 6D MKII with
Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM III with
Kase Revolution 82mm ND8 filter

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Christoph Fischer @beautysurroundsyou.com · 1d

Fierce winds drive off snow & ice from the peaks of Paine Grande in Patagonia's Torres del Paine. There is a whole world of drama & grandeur to be found far above in the peaks of mountains, & especially so for Patagonia!

#bluesky #photography #landscapephotography #nature #naturephotography #travel

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Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic shot, Brian!

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Brian Peterson @drbrianpet.bsky.social · 1d

Bushtit!

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Russ Bishop @russbishopphoto.bsky.social · 2d

Tanner Creek, Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Oregon | ©Russ Bishop

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” ~Ansel Adams

#landscapephotography #Oregon #pnw #river

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Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Charlie. I appreciate it!

Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Paul! It really was wonderfully peaceful for a while. Then a forest service chainsaw crew came in to do some fuels management. It was a little less peaceful then. 😆

Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · 1d

This was a pretty spectacular view to take in the morning. 10/4/24.

#Minnesota #GunflintTrail #landscape #PhotographersUnited

Overlooking a lake from above. The photo is exposed so the pine trees and hills surrounding the lake are nearly black. The sky behind the lake is orange, darker at the horizon and becoming more pale above. The water in the lake reflects blue sky above at the bottom right of the photo and begins to reflect the orange towards the middle. Two small islands are on the lake. Steam is rising off the far end of the lake.

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Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations, David! 🙌

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Christoph Fischer @beautysurroundsyou.com · 2d

The beauty of twilight, night touched by day, light fading into dark, a world barely visible, glowing, a world we never imagined.....

#photography #landscapephotography #landscape #travel #nature #naturephotography #bluesky #outdoors #sunset #sunrise #adventure

The magnificent dead trees of Deadvlei contrast against a towering red dune, clothed in warm twilight that is so special in Namibia. A surreal, uniquely beautiful scene, so typical of this amazing country!

The deeply contorted lands of Namibia give rise to some truly unusual and otherworldly landscapes. This particular evening, fierce winds were blowing, and the combination of twilight and windblown dust blessed us with exceptional light, transforming these strange lands into the surreal.

The dunes in Namibia's Sossusvlei are all sand, except this one, and the beautiful interplay of the protruding rocks and textured sand comes to its full expression when clothed in dusk's soft, warm twilight.

The quality of light in Namibia is like none I have encountered anywhere else. It transforms Namibia's unique, at times surreal, landscapes into a world of dreams. A world of layers, punctuated by beautiful acacia trees, is painted in magical light which brings out the hidden, rich colors and textures of distant mountains.⁠

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Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · 2d

Nice one, Kort!

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Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · 2d

Nice photo, Michelle!

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Michelle Cozens @measureofcalm.bsky.social · 2d

This photo of a white-throated sparrow ticks both boxes of #migration and #floofball for today’s #BirdOfTheDay
#EastCoastKin

A white-throated sparrow, its feathers fluffed up, perches on a thin branch in a snowy background. It is facing the camera with its head turned right.

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Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · 2d

Ugh! I'm so glad it's finally starting to cool down.

Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · 2d

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Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · 2d

🫂 Sorry to hear that, Mary. We went through that twice in the last two years.

Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · 2d

Another great portrait, Charlie!

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Charlie Ludwig @chuck4242.bsky.social · 2d

One of many Killdeer that I spotted recently during a walk at Medicine Lake.

#Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #Photography #Animals #PhotographersUnited #BlueskyArtShow #EastCoastKin

A Killdeer looks for vegetation to eat along the shores of a lake.

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Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, Rhonda!

Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · 2d

A touch of color along Lake Superior from last year.

#LakeSuperior #Minnesota #Landscape #PhotographersUnited

A rocky island connected to the main shoreline by a narrow strip of rocks. The island and the shoreline are covered in pines and a few aspen with yellow leaves. The sky is cloudy, but pink sunlight illuminates the clouds just above the horizon.

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