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Michael / マイケル🦁📸
@mlyonphotos.bsky.social
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Teacher 👨‍🏫, Photographer 📸, video game lover 🎮, translator, scuba diver 🤿, and traveler ✈️ G+ Refugee
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Michael / マイケル🦁📸 @mlyonphotos.bsky.social · Apr 26
The #Earth and nature reclaiming the planet. #BlueSkyArtShow #photography #nature
Old fire engine being reclaimed by nature.
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Artists who are feeling cranky about Instagram (and social media in general), this one’s for you — Cheers!
www.flakphoto.news/p/damn-these...
Damn these algorithms
I'm not quitting Instagram, but something has to change
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November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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This beautiful Speckled Mousebird gave me a perfect moment this morning, first perched proudly on a cable with its trademark crest and extra-long tail, then gliding into flight with its wings glowing in the soft Kigali sunrise.
#SpeckledMousebird #BirdPhotography #Kigali #Rwanda
A Speckled Mousebird perched on an overhead cable against a soft beige sky. It has a brown body, a pointed crest, and an extremely long tail that hangs straight down, glowing warm in the morning light. A Speckled Mousebird captured mid-flight with wings fully spread. The feathers catch the sunlight, creating a warm glow as the bird glides across a smooth, pale sky.
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Brussels in two moods: the constant movement around Bruxelles-Central and the playful Smurf universe tucked just a few steps away. 💙✨
#Brussels #Belgium #Bruxelles #Travel #Photography #Smurfs #ComicArt
A wide view of Bruxelles-Central station on a cloudy day, with people walking across the plaza, buses passing on the street, and rows of flags lining the curved rooftop of the building. A view of Bruxelles-Central station on a cloudy day, with people walking across the plaza. A colorful illustration featuring many Smurfs working and playing around a large red-and-white mushroom house, surrounded by tools, drawings, flowers, and comic-style scenery. A colorful illustration featuring many Smurfs working and playing, surrounded by tools, drawings, flowers, and comic-style scenery.
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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They say a horse is broken when the rider
can stay on
they say the past is broken when you can
let go of it
I have broken with the past, she says
I have erased it from my phone
I have blindered my eyes from her eyes
Nick Flynn, more poem in ALT
#selfportraitsunday
#imageandverse
#eastcoastkin
Side on of a woman with curly hair with brown and gold highlights and blue coat and jumper and a breeze block wall and blue sky behind her From low by Nick Flynn ‘as if the horse had never been ridden / They say a horse is broken when the rider can stay on they say the past is broken when you can let go of it I have broken with the past, she says I have erased it from my phone I have blindered my eyes from her eyes / I didn’t know the past was made of horses I didn’t even call it a horse until now I didn’t even call it strange until I looked back on it the past was a horse crossing a desert a body draped over it this is how we get the beloved home / Strange now to never hear a horse upon waking or when out in the field I didn’t know the past would come for me I didn’t even call it the past until now sometimes one gallops past but no one else ever sees it’
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Looking for meaningful holiday gifts?
I’m running a special holiday print sale featuring some of my favorite photographs.
Browse the gallery & order prints and framed art here:
👉 mlyonphotography.darkroom.com

Support a local artist, give a gift that lasts. ✨ #photography
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November 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies” – Diane Arbus
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Cloudy skies in Brussels made these monuments stand out even more. Albert I and Queen Elisabeth watching over the city, quiet, steady, and full of history. 🇧🇪✨
#Brussels #Belgium #Travel #Photography
Photo of a large bronze equestrian statue of a man on horseback, standing on a tall stone pedestal inscribed with the word ‘ALBERT.’ The cloudy sky looms dramatically above, and surrounding buildings frame the scene. Stone statue of a woman standing tall on a pedestal labeled ‘ELISABETH,’ holding a small bouquet. The backdrop includes historic Belgian architecture and a few pedestrians walking by.
November 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Holiday gift ideas? 🎁
I’ve opened a special print sale featuring some of my favorite photographs.
Fine art prints + framing options available.

View the gallery & order here:
👉 mlyonphotography.darkroom.com
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November 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Taking in the wide Kigali landscape, hills stacked with homes, the skyline rising in the distance, and life unfolding calmly at the overlook. Sometimes the city feels like a whole world contained in one view.
#Scape #Kigali #Rwanda #CityViews #Photography #StreetScene #LandscapePhotography
A wide view overlooking Kigali with rolling green hills and dense neighborhoods stretching across the landscape. Several men stand at an overlook in the foreground, casually gathered and looking out over the city. Tall modern buildings rise in the distance under a bright sky filled with large white clouds.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Afternoon All !

@robcrank68.bsky.social has set the #BirdOfTheDay theme today and it's #GroundedGulls

Juvenile Herring Gulls (probably !), North Berwick, Lothian, #Scotland. May 2025
Two gills standing on a seaweed covered rock, behind them gentle waves break against the shore.
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Whimbrel on the wing…

📍Oyster Bay, Masaki, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

#NaturePhotography #Birds 🪶
Large, brown shorebird with long, decurved bill. Note bold head stripes. Occurs on mudflats, beaches, and coastal marshes. Often in flocks, sometimes mixed with other large shorebirds like Willet or godwits. Extensive global range, breeding on the Arctic tundra and wintering on coastlines as far south as Tierra del Fuego. Generally uncommon to rare inland.
September 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Common Sandpiper foraging amongst the rocks.

📍Oyster Bay, Masaki, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

#Tanzania #NaturePhotography #Birds 🪶
Small bicolored sandpiper which often bobs its tail in a distinctively wagtail-like manner. Plain brown with white underparts; distinguished from bulkier and rounder-headed Green Sandpiper by a prominent white spur at the shoulder. Found in a variety of wetland habitats; breeds on stony ground along rivers and lakeshores, with migrants occurring on muddy and rocky substrates from concrete canal banks to channels in tidal mudflats.
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Water Thick-knee on the wing.

📍Oyster Bay, Masaki, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

#Birds #NaturePhotography #Tanzania 🪶
A tall, dome-headed, plover-like bird with large, yellow eyes. Mostly brownish in color, it has a grayish wing panel that is bordered above with a narrow white bar. This thick-knee never wanders far from permanent water. It is crepuscular and nocturnal; early evenings are often punctuated by its distinctive, high-pitched, piping calls that speed up then slow down.
September 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Western Reef Heron watches for movement in the water below…

📍Oyster Bay, Masaki, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

#Birds #NaturePhotography #Tanzania 🪶
Gangly heron with significant variation in plumage. Distinct dark morph is slate-gray with a white throat, while the palest morph is white with a yellow bill and lores. Pale gray intermediate morphs can also be found. Little Egret can look similar, but it has a darker bill than the white morph of the Western Reef-Heron. Primarily a coastal inhabitant, foraging on shorelines and in estuaries, but can also be found at some inland water bodies.
September 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Little Bee-eater on a branch.

📍Oyster Bay, Masaki, Dar es Salaam., Tanzania.

#Birds #NaturePhotography #Birds 🪶
A small, mostly grass-green bee-eater with a canary-yellow throat separated from buff underparts by a black line across the throat. Singles and pairs occupy grassy savanna and wetland edges. They often perch lower than 1.5 m above the ground, and dart around hunting flying insects, then returning to the same small twig.
September 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Malachite Kingfisher - an absolute gem!

📍Bagamoyo, Tanzania.

#Birds #NaturePhotography #Tanzania 🪶
Small, gem-like wetland kingfisher. Shows geographical variation, with most birds having orange underparts, but birds in some parts of the range have a white belly. Found in almost all habitats with water, including streams, rivers, lakes, rice paddies, and lagoons. Sits motionless for long periods before plunging to the water to snatch prey.
October 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Whimbrel in the water…

📍Miligotini, Lazy Lagoon Island, Tanzania.

#Birds #NaturePhotography 🪶
Large, brown shorebird with long, decurved bill. Note bold head stripes. Occurs on mudflats, beaches, and coastal marshes. Often in flocks, sometimes mixed with other large shorebirds like Willet or godwits. Extensive global range, breeding on the Arctic tundra and wintering on coastlines as far south as Tierra del Fuego. Generally uncommon to rare inland.
October 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Steadfastness and straightforwardness are special values that should be maintained, even if it is often not an easy path to follow ✨️

It's Friday, it's #Scape ✌️

#photography #ClassicMono #ColorADay #BWFri #ImageAndVerse #PhotographersUnited #ForestFriday #nature #photohour #EastCoastKin
The image is a black-and-white photograph depicting a high-contrast landscape. A hilltop can be seen as a silhouette. At the bottom of the image, there is a simple fence with several posts and stretched wires. In the centre of the hill stands a bare tree, its branches silhouetted against the sky. Small silhouettes of birds can be seen on the branches of the tree. It is already dusk, and sunlight is still shining through very thick dark clouds.
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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#EastCoastKin #photography #photographersofbluesky#Photographersunited #nature #scapes #landscape
Fall leaves in the forest
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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#nature #photography #EastCoastKin #G+Circle #landscape #scapes #PhotographersUnited
Fall leaves in the forest
November 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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A great blue heron fishes from the pier at Izaak Walton Nature Area in Longmont, Colorado.

#FlyDay #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #Monochrome #BW #BlackandWhite #bird #birds #birdphotography #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #nature #wildlife #wetland #wetlands #heron #herons
November 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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We're a little short on sweeping vistas here but absolutely loaded with little hiding spots like this. It's #Scape Friday.
#photography #water #sunlight
A quiet stream runs through curving banks overhung with greenery. The sun breaks through on the right
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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'Traversing Huguenot' (2022) -- In Between Steep, Ascending Segments, a Level Path & Good Amounts of Cooling Shade, Mount Huguenot, Acadia National Park, ME

Fridays Are For #Scape ✨ & #ForestFriday ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
a narrow stone path, shrouded by foliage, dips in and out of shade along the steep rockface of mount huguenot
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The quieter stratum of Self,
dissolving the tension between “inner” and “outer.”
What unfolds within a spacious presence.

#UnhurriedClarity
Mountains
November 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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'Morning Vibrations' (2021) -- Wavelets Ripple Against a Shore of Reeds & Grasses as the Sun Prepares to Rise Behind Cadillac Mountain, Eagle Lake, Acadia National Park, ME

It's Friday, Let's #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
the shallow, peaceful shorelines of eagle lake in early morning as the sun prepares its ascent over cadillac mountain (off screen to the left)
November 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM