🦅 RichKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈
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Honorary Professor, Dilettantory Studies, Tooter U (Intertubes extension campus)... Amateur photography. Photos are my own 'cept reposts. he/him/his #EndTheStigma 🌈 Mastodon: https://toot.community/@Rihilism No unsolicited DMs please
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A hazy Chicago #scape taken from Montrose Point.

#StormHour #cityscape #landscape #Chicago #architecture #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhitePhoto #Photography #AltText
A view of downtown Chicago taken from Montrose Point. The photo has been cropped to a 15:5 ratio to create a long panorama of most of the downtown cityscape The foreground consists of prairie plants and tall grasses. Lake Michigan is visible just above the foliage in the foreground. Above the lake is downtown Chicago including iconic Chicago skyscrapers like John Hancock Tower, Sears Tower, etc. The cityscape is very hazy and the haze partially obscures all the buildings in the frame with some buildings in the foreground in sharper focus. There is a clear but hazy sky directly above the cityscape.
rihilism.bsky.social
Saw some lovely full/nearly full moons last week including this waning gibbous day moon from last Wednesday morning.

#StormHour #moon #sky #SkyPhotography #Astrophotography #Photography #AltText
Daytime photograph of a waning gibbous moon against a dim morning blue sky. The moon takes up most of the right frame and at this stage the moon is nearly full having been a full moon only two days prior.
rihilism.bsky.social
Good Luck! BTW, if it doesn't work there's a vendor called Prairie Moon Nursery in Minnesota that I like to use. Specializes in native prairie plants. I bought my first eastern prickly pear pads from them and they have been growing like weeds 👍
rihilism.bsky.social
Over the shoulder pose holder (2024).

#birds #birding #BirdPhotography #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #AltText
Photograph of an American robin perched on a large tree branch with blue sky in the background. The branch angles from the lower left corner of the frame to the center of the far right frame. The robin is facing away from the camera with its head turned to the right to look over its right shoulder leaving its head in profile and one eye visible. American robins have orange chest and belly feathers with white under-tail feathers, grey back feathers, dark grey-black wing and tail feathers, black head feathers with white and black mottled chin feathers, dark eyes surrounded by white eyeliner, orange-yellow beaks, and brown legs and feet.
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jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social
'Dividing Lines' (2025) -- in the Eternal Struggle Between Light & Dark, it All Comes Down to a Faith in Balance & a bit of Well Placed Textures, Tidebrook Preserve, Freeport, ME

It's Finally Friday, Let's #SCAPE!! ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
the frozen banks of the Harraseeket river -- ice on one side and frozen weed and mud and stone on the other, the edge of the forest cuts down through the sky aligning in a diagonal with the frozen edge of the river dividing visually and tonal weight both parts of the image, in the foreground a large log cuts from right to left providing the delicate act of 'balance'
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alan678.bsky.social
Good morning, today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #spotted now that can mean when you have been spotted by your subject or a bird that has spots or blotches on it’s plumage. I was #spotted by a European Robin yesterday. Good luck. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
A European robin stands alert on a patch of mossy ground, facing directly toward the camera. Its vivid orange-red breast and face glow warmly in the sunlight, contrasting with its soft grey and brown plumage. Bright green blades of grass frame the foreground, while the background fades into a dark, softly blurred woodland scene.
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robcrank68.bsky.social
@alan678.bsky.social choice for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Spotted, and it's up to you to interpret how to use the 'Spotted'

i'm going with birds that #Spotted me, and they were a Lapwing, Little Egret, Greylag Goose & Swallow Chick at WWT Slimbridge

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin
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robcrank68.bsky.social
Just off to the parents to do a few jobs for them, so i will leave you with some of the Red Squirrels from Monday visit to see them.

#mammals #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #wildlife #PhotographyIsArt #naturetherapy #wildlifephotography #RedSquirrels
rihilism.bsky.social
So sorry about that ☹️. I'm assuming it's getting some rain? I wish I knew what to tell you but to me those plaques look like a microbial infection (bacterial, viral, fungal). With so much damage at the base I'm not sure it would recover. But I'm not an expert w/ cacti & not seen this issue before.
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I thought I was invisible until spotted by this cygnet which stared into my lens. A face-off commenced. Great symmetry in a bird.

#BirdOfTheDay #Spotted #UKWildlife #cygnet #Birds #Photography
An image of a cygnet which happened to look into my lens at a key moment. This head shot is the result. The symmetry of facial features most evident.
rihilism.bsky.social
Thanks, Brian! It's a great location for birding (transition from tall prairie to dense woods). Gonna head over there more often.
rihilism.bsky.social
Thanks, Brian! Catbirds are a favorite so I happy I got some decent pics. Been taking mostly macro photos all summer so I'm a bit out of practice.
rihilism.bsky.social
Red-bellied woodpecker deciding what's next along Mormon Handcart Trail yesterday.

#WoodpeckerWednesday #WildlifeWednesday #PhotoHour #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #AltText
Photograph of a male red-bellied woodpecker perched on a large branch with out of focus branches, green foliage, and patches of blue sky in the background. The woodpecker is facing left with one eye visible and it is perched behind the branch leaving the left side of its body obscured. Red-bellied woodpeckers have off-white belly, chest, and neck feathers with a slight red blush on the lower belly, black and white back, wing, and tail feathers with a checkerboard pattern on the wings, a red-cap that extends from the beak to the shoulders, an off-white cheek with an orange patch below the dark eyes, black beaks, and dark grey legs and feet that are designed to grasp the sides of trees.
rihilism.bsky.social
Finally had a chance to get on the trail early in the a.m. Mostly go out mid-day for better light but #birds are more active/vocal early morning. Much easier to spot. Caught several species I haven't photographed in a while including this scruffy gray catbird 👍.

#wildlife #Photography #AltText
Photograph of a gray catbird perched on branch with out of focus yellow and green foliage and a few patches of blue sky in the background. The branch slopes from the lower left to the middle of the far right frame and the catbird is facing the right in profile leaving one eye visible. Gray catbirds have gray feathers with ruddy feathers on their bottoms belly near the tail, a cap of black feathers, dark eyes, black beak, and black legs and feet with claws used to grasp onto branches and trees.
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paulwhitephoto.bsky.social
Sunset over Gruinard beach where Little Gruinard River enters the sea, in beautiful Wester Ross,NW highlands of Scotland
#scotland #scottish #sunsets #landscapes #photography #northwest #gruinard #ullapool
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alan678.bsky.social
An Irish #sunset. Heading out with Sam. Think I’ll be away a good bit longer today as we haven’t done one of our long walks in ages. Please enjoy your day wherever you are in our little world. 🌍 #Ireland #photography #EastCoastKin
A golden sunset over the Irish countryside, with the sun shining through the silhouette of trees in the foreground. The sky glows with warm tones of amber and gold, scattered with dark and fiery clouds. Below, the distant landscape stretches toward the horizon, softly illuminated by the fading light.
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kortduce.bsky.social
A mountain goat on Mount Blue Sky, a 14,265-foot peak above Idaho Springs, Colorado.

Unfortunately it is closed all of 2025 while the U.S. Department of Transportation improves the roadway.

#RockinTuesday #EastCoastKin #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #nature #wildlife
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bebedi.bsky.social
Cute mock charge - An #africanelephant calf giving us a mock charge. They always look cute when they are little.
#wildlife #nature #africanwildlife #photography #canon #kruger #africa #loxodontaafricana #wildlifephotography #photographersofbluesky #krugersightings
📍 #KrugerNationalPark #SouthAfrica
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drbrianpet.bsky.social
This is a #rock #squirrel
stuffing its cheeks

#rodent
#wildlife #wildlifephotography
One of the youngsters that lives in the condo complex the squirrels have excavated under my Mancave. The exterminator who comes by monthly wants to kill them. He says the burrowing could make the floor collapse. I told Wife. She said, "So?"
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drbrianpet.bsky.social
The cactus #wren is the state #bird of #Arizona
The rule is you feed them suet, so they don't move to
New Mexico

#birdphotography 🪶
I'm not a wren expert, but they seem kind of big for a wren.
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tommyfarnsworth.com
Lightning Storm Off the Coast of Mazatlan Mexico.

#lightning #storm #mazatlan #mexico #photography #tf_photography #tf_photoscapes #tf_photoescapes
A powerful lightning bolt strikes the ocean under a dark, stormy night sky. The lightning illuminates the clouds and reflects brightly off the surface of the water, creating a dramatic scene over the sea.
rihilism.bsky.social
Pelican: Eeech, oooch! Man that water's cold, fellas! You should wait here till it warms up & I'll go grab us some fish.

Gulls: You just want all the fish for yourself.

Pelican: Nope, nope! Be right back with fish. I promise (🤞).

#PhotoHour #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photography #AltText
Photograph of a American white pelican standing in shallow water next to a sandbar in the Iowa River with a small group of 5-6 gulls standing in the water behind and near it and a larger group of gulls standing on the sandbar in the foreground with out of focus green foliage in the far left frame. The pelican is facing away from the camera and is standing in shallow brown rippled water that reflects the pale blue sky above. The pelican has its wings stretched out to either side and is standing with a slight tilt to its left. This gull species (likely ring-billed gulls) has white body feathers, grey wing feathers with black feathers on its wing tips, yellow-green eyes surrounded by partially visible red eye tissue, a yellow-orange beak with a black stripe around the beak near its tip, and yellow-orange legs and feet. There are many juveniles mixed in with older adult gulls. Juvenile gulls have white body that are mottled with brown and its eyes are dark and without the red. American white pelicans have white body feathers, black feathers on the edge and tips of the underwings, a long orange bill with a rigid top bill and a pouch like lower bill that expands to capture underwater fish, blue-grey eyes that are surrounded by thick, wrinkled, orange flesh, and orange legs and webbed feet.