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AndiF
@aferguson.bsky.social
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Retired but not retiring taker-of-photographs and scratcher-of-dog-bellies
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Flit's #MondayMorning Wisdom: Never underestimate the power of looking cute.
#photography #dogs #dogsofbluesky
A medium-sized chestnut colored dog with a black muzzle lies on a couch with her muzzle on a pillow and a paw under her head. She looks cute.
December 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Third in a series of #StunDay proof that of our 8 dogs, Bebo was the one with the exceptionally stunning talent for finding me very scenic shots to take, this time with an assist from Sniff.
#photography #woods #light #dogs #dogsofbluesky
A black, tan, and white beagle mix and a tan and white boxer (maybe) mix walk on a steep hillside in a woods colored by a light, golden fog.
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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This my all time favorite photo of one. I think it looks like a swan.
A frost flower with gentle curves.
November 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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The Friday Digital Archive Dive finds the line to take for a texture cornucopia.

Taken #OnThisDay November 28, 2009
#photography #house #moon #otd
I happened to look up at the moon at my sister's house and saw all these interesting lines from the roof and two brick chimneys offsetting an almost round moon. There is a mix of textures from bricks, clapboards, and roofing.
November 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Post something random or you'll have an awful December
(I'm confident in the coming awfulnesss of December but fun to find something to post anyway).
Sign on a door at the Skógar Museum in Iceland reads "Please remove your crampons/spikes before entering the museum". This was one of the few signs we saw in Iceland that was only in English.
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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A very good Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it. I hope everyone has at least one very good thing to feel thankful about.

Meanwhile, in the Indiana woods ...
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Changes in a morning sky.
#photography #sunrise #colors #moon #clouds
The clouds in a morning sky are lit with a deep purple-pink. The clouds are still in the sky but they've lost most of their color and they've thinned enough that a sliver of moon is showing.
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Unseasonably warm fall has left the premises (apparently blown out the door by a wind advisory the next two days).
Wed 26 41°/26° Thu 27 37°/23° Fri 28 34°/23° Sat 29 37°/32° Sun 30 36°/16° Mon 01 28°/15° Tue 02 32°/22° Wed 03 40°/27°
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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First I noticed that the orange maples leaves were zig-zagging through the pines, then I noticed the zig-zag was in the reflection too.
#photography #fall #color #pond
The orange leaves of a maple tree appear to be zig-zagging between branches of two pine trees. Although it's a bit obscure, the zig-zag pattern is there in the reflection of the trees in the pond they line.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Flit's #MondayMorning Wisdom: Theodore Roosevelt Stick Criticism #4*: Sometimes the carrying that dumb stick makes your ears go all wonky and you feel like a dork.
* #1 Oct. 6; #2 Oct. 27 #3 Nov. 3
#photography #dogs #dogsofbluesky
In the woods, a medium-sized chestnut colored dog with a black muzzle has a stick in her mouth. The stick is in front of her, she is struggling with it and her ears are sticking straight up above her head.
November 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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#MountainMonday in Banff National Park with a view from across the Beehive.
#photography #hiking #Canada #mountains
In the foreground is the rounded, forested top of the Beehive and beyond are a series of peaks. The sky is blue with light streaks of clouds.
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Second in a series of #StunDay proof that of our 8 dogs, Bebo was the one with the exceptionally stunning talent for finding me very scenic shots to take.
#photography #woods #trails #dogs #dogsofbluesky
A medium sized tan and white dog stands on a trail in a woods that in this area is dominated by white oaks. Their leaves that are mostly a bright red which is a fairly unusual color as they generally a much deeper and darker red (or even a reddish brown).
November 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The Friday Digital Archive Dive stands tall and bright, relatively speaking.

Taken #OnThisDay November 21, 2012

#photography #otd #ferns #woods #light
On a forest floor in the late fall, a fern still stands tall. It seems to be leaning toward the sun which is shining through its fronds. Everything is somewhat dark except for a light on a dead leaf and a bright light outlining the fronds.
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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The Pleasures of Looking Up AND Down: Fall Leaves Edition.

#photography #woods #color #trees
Maples trees with red and yellow leaves glow in the light in a woods. Mostly maples leaves, mostly red and yellow on the ground (there are some beech and oak leaves too).
November 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Columbus Contrasts: 1) B&W lines 2) Color Curves
#photography #Indiana #architecture #parks
More INFO in ALT
This is a view of a metal and glass wall of Irwin Conference Center (originally the Irwin Bank and Trust), an architecturally significant building in Columbus Indiana. Eero Saarinen designed the one-story main building and the original three-story office wing in 1954, while his associates Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo designed a three-story office annex in 1973. Dan Kiley designed the surrounding landscape. The tower of First Christian Church, designed by Eliel Saarinen, father of Eero, is reflected in the glass. Mill Race Park was once an impoverished area of Columbus at the confluence of the Flat Rock and the Driftwood rivers which often flooded and was so prone to disease that it was called Death Valley. In 1963, the city purchased 83 acres and turned it into a park. In the 1980s, it was totally redesigned and renovated into the current park with the operator work being done by students from Atterbury Job Corps. The park includes the pond, a viewing area of the confluence, an amphitheater, walking trails along the rivers, fountains, boat docks, fishing areas, large open areas, and many picnic areas.
November 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Nature Imitates Art: T.C. Steele begets Jackson Pollock Edition.
After I took the photo on the left, I was looking at it in more detail and thought the leaves had the 'drip' look of Pollock's work. T.C. Steele was a noted painter in and of this area.
#photography #woods #color
A path goes through a woods that is lit up by the sun, brightening the abundance of red, yellow, gold, and green leaves. A close-up of the many leaves has an abstract art look.
November 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Flit's #MondayMorning Wisdom: Need to shine? Just get out there and find something that makes you glow.
#photography #dogs #dogsofbluesky #light #woods
A medium-sized chestnut colored dog with a black muzzle is trotting on a trail through the fall woods. The morning light is made a glowing outline around her entire body.
November 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Combining #NationalHikingDay and #MountainMonday with remembering a great hike to the summit of Mt. Hoffman in Yosemite's High Sierra. This was a couple of decades ago but the fantastic 360 view will be the same (might not be as clear, though).
#photography #hiking #mountains #Yosemite
A panorama view from the summit of Mt. Hoffman shows a lower nearby peak in the foreground and beyond are mountains after mountains after mountains and on and on. The blue sky is filled with puffy white clouds.
November 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Of our 8 dogs, Bebo was the one with the exceptionally stunning talent for finding me very scenic shots to take.
#photography #StunDay #dogs #dogsofbluesky
A tan-and-white mutt (the shelter said beagle & boxer thus the name; the vet said yes boxer, no beagle) sands in a shallow creek in the midst of a reddish gold fall woods.
November 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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The Friday Digital Archive Dive is uncertain about frost flowers this year (drought, unseasonably warm) so is picking some from the many in the archive (see 1st ALT image for how they are formed).
Taken #OnThisDay November 14, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020
#photography #frostflowers #ice #frost
Two frost flowers close together, both with swirls and ripples. In my area, the dittany plant can form frost flowers when the temperatures are below freezing overnight but the ground is not already frozen. The cold temperatures cause liquid in the stem of the dittany to expand, causing cracks to form along the length of the stem. Water is then forced out throw the cracks and freezes upon contact with the air. As more water is drawn through the cracks it pushes the thin ice layers further from the stem creating the 'flower'. A tall frost flower with two 'wings' and a swirling ribbon. A frost flower with small ripples, curves, and a solitary curved ribbon at the bottom. A melting frost flower is almost transparent.
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The Pleasures of Looking Up: Tulip Trees Are The Best Edition.
No wonder it's the Indiana State Tree.
#photography #trees #woods #fall #color
A photo taken looking up at a tall (well over 100 feet but the current tallest recordholder is 192 ft) and very straight tulip tree. The tops of other trees around it are also visible, including maples with red and yellow leaves and other small tulip trees (aka tulip poplar which is what I grew up calling them).
November 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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A day when the early morning light and early evening light had the same yellow-red cast.
#photography #moon #light #woods
A view through the trees in a woods just before the sun rises. The light from the sun has given a glow to the clouds and colored the leaves. A view of woods from a road. The moon is very low on the horizon and looks very big as it appears to hover just above the trees. All the trees are washed in a reddish-yellow light that is stronger than the first picture as no other color comes through.
November 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Aurora photos in south Central Indiana
Red Aurora sky through the trees. More Aurora sky
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Snowy day yesterday looked pretty but didn't amount to much in accumulation (maybe an inch). It's going to be well above freezing today so it will all be gone soon. Flit enjoyed it.
#photography #snow #woods #trees #dogs
View standing our long (1/4 mile) driveway of the light snow covering the drive and the trees in the woods that the driveway goes through. There is a dog also in the photo caught in mid-trot. A view in the midst of the woods of leaves with snow on them. Most of the trees are white oaks.
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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My mother met my father when he was in training in Indianapolis during World War II. Thus, my remembrance for the U.S. #VeteransDay always starts on a personal note with this photo of their wedding day.
This is a 1943 black-and-white photo of my mother in a pretty street dress standing next to my father who is wearing an army uniform. They look young (21 and 22) and a maybe a tiny bit stunned. They got married just months before he was sent to the European battleground as a medic.
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM