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Cultivating🌿Awareness of the World🌎 through Synthography(Ai)🤖, Photography📸, and Videography📽
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January 29, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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For #WaterfallWednesday. Minneapolis's celebrated Minnehaha Falls (2011). How our city *should* be remembered... #Minnesota #Minneapolis #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #waterfalls #MinnehahaFalls #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
January 28, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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A calendula today. Represents optimism and protection. 🌱🌺🌿🌸 Also, a little weird is usually pretty fun.
January 28, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.”
— Alice Walker
January 28, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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January 27, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Eyelash Viper, Arenal
November 2025

#viper #snake #reptilephotography #costaricawildlife
January 27, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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January 27, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Lovely lichens 💚

Winter is a great time for spotting lichen. They're less hidden by foliage and increased rainfall rehydrates them, giving many species of lichen a brighter and more colourful appearance.

📷 Ben Porter, Les Binns, Niall Benvie/2020VISION
January 27, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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January 27, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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Today's frog is the Levant water frog.
January 27, 2026 at 11:39 AM
"We are the cosmos made conscious, and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.” -Brian Cox
#videography #nature #cosmos #life #forest #quote #universe
January 27, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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Layers of green ridges and open valleys, with early autumn color settling in. I’m always drawn to scenes like this. Quiet. Spacious. Beautiful in a steady way.

Mount Rainier National Park, Sept 2025.
#MountRainier #PNW #LandscapePhotography
January 25, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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Red-wattled Lapwing (Vanellus indicus). Serve as an ‘early-warning-system’ for other birds & will become distressed while humans are still far away. #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Perak #Malaysia #birds #nature #wildlife @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @tonyrinaud.bsky.social @greenspace01.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 4:03 AM
The Cretaceous Period was the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, lasting from ~145 million years ago to 66 million yrs ago. It ended after an extinction event, which wiped out non-avian dinosaurs and many marine reptiles. The period featured a warm global climate with high seas.
#ai #nature
January 25, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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South Santiam River | Near Trout Creek Campground, Central Oregon
Camera: Canon EOS 6D MK II
Lens: Canon EF 11-24mm f/4L USM
ISO 50 | 1/250s | f4 | 11mm

#photography #photoaday
January 24, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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North Fork Big Pine Creek Trail, Inyo National Forest, Eastern Sierra, California.
January 25, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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"You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel."

-Johnny Depp
January 24, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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January 24, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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A walk through the tall ones at Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. #ForestFriday #Photography #Trees #California 📷
January 24, 2026 at 5:53 AM
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January 23, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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Christine Falls, in the Mount Rainier National Park, Washington state.
#pictureoftheday #christinefalls #mountrainiernationalpark #nature
January 23, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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#Trees #Conifers #ForestFriday The sun was just breaking over the horizon. The early morning light coloured the foothills forest pink.
January 23, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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A little village of delicate, white mushrooms ... looking like little porcelain figurines.

#FungiFriday #FungiFriends #mushroom #forest #MacroPhotography #OMSystem
January 23, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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Our friend the Sambas Stream Toad is also known as the Bornean Rainbow Toad! They were once believed to be extinct but were rediscovered in 2011 in a small, remote area in western Sarawak in Malaysia! (photo by Oliver Bandz)
January 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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only beauty #photography
January 23, 2026 at 6:00 AM