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Bill Beez
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Volunteer, photographer, avocational geologist. Retired IT. All pictures, except shares, are mine,
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Alpenglow on the Pine Valley Mountains, Utah, USA. Not strictly alpenglow because this is looking north not east.
#Photography #Utah #PineValley #AlpenGlow #Sunsets #Clouds #Goldenhour
November 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Night of 11/11/25. As the show was winding down. More to the east than the north. Some city lights on the right side.
#Photography #Astronomy #Skies #Aurora #Arizona
Night of 11/11/2025 Aurora over the Beaver Dam Mountains in northern Arizona. Bright red aurora with some green at the horizon. A few clouds lit by city lights from the other side of the hill.
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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The last one was the cellphone picture. This is a pano from the MFT camera taken about 25 minutes later near the height of the activity we saw. Watch this space; tomorrow will be as it was almost done.
#Photography #Aurora #Astronomy #Skies #Clouds #Arizona
Aurora over the Beaver Dam Mountains from northern Arizona. Red skies with a stripe of green on the horizon.
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Aurora from Northern Arizona.
#photography #astromomy #auora #arizona
Aurora above the Beaver Dam mountains. Pink skies with green in the horizon
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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US50 thru Nevada is called the Loneliest Highway. NV722 is a former route of US50 which is even lonelier. It traverses the 25mya Desatoya Caldera. This canyon is where 722 crosses the rim of that caldera. The rocks are welded tuffs.
#Photography #US50 #Nevada #LoneliestHighway #Caldera #Oligocene
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Shasta Lily? Taken near Mt. Shasta, CA.
#Photography #Wildflower #Flowers #Lilies #MtShasta #Shasta
Shasta Lily (? Washington Lily) at dusk against a dark background
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Lost Creek covered bridge. Lake County Oregon.
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Cellphone pano + RawTherapee.
#Photography #CoveredBridges #TimberFraming #Panorama #Oregon #LostCreekBridge #LakeCounty
Cellphone panorama of the inside of a covered bridge. I found a filter to ‘DeFish’ and photograph. Turns out the slide goes both ways.
November 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Stone flowers?
#SensoryArt #Patterns
November 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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When basalt cools the resulting contraction can create hexagonal weathering. Navajo Sandstone can also show hexagonal weathering; but, it is caused by expansion of the rock as it decompresses when exposed.
#Photography #Sandstone #NavajoSandstone #Utah #YantFlat #Geology
Hexagonal weathering in Navajo Sandstone. Caused as the rock is exhumed by erosion. Since it lithified a depth under higher pressure the lower depth/exposure causes the rock to expand slightly. The polygonal patterns form to accomodate the increased volume. http://giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.php/geosites/article/view/62
November 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Same storm, less lightning more composition.
#Photography #Storms #Lightning #Blitzortung #Clouds #Weather #Sunset
Ligthning behind thunderheads at sunset.
October 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Great thunderstorm last night. Kind of hard to frame a random event. The bolt on the right was very close; no delay between the light and the sound.
#Photography #Storms #Lightning #Blitzortung #Thunderstorm
Two lightning bolts. This is two separate flashes captured by a long exposure.
October 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Store bought orchids; didn’t notice the variety before giving it away. But I did take a snapshot.

#Photography #Flowers #Orchids
October 11, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Pisces Rising… 30 minutes of star trails on the eastern horizon. Kolob Canyon, Zion National Park, USA. 50mm lens, 15 second exposures stacked in camera.
#Photography #Astrophotography #Stars #StarTrails #ZionNP #Pisces
September 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Rose in monochrome

#Photography #B&W #Monochrome #Flowers #Roses
A yellow rose against a dark background, in monochrome
September 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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55 minutes of star trails with a dieing tree. It was a calm night but there were occasional breezes. If a star trail looks like it in front of a branch that branch moved during the exposure. If it didn’t move it look like the star went behind the branch.
#Photography #Astrophotography #StarTrails
Star traills behind a gnarly tree. The trails seem to wind in and out of the tree. Taken with an Olympus Em1ii in live composite mode. Processed in Affinity using JR macros. https://www.jamesritson.co.uk/resources.html
September 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Smelt Sand State Recreation Area, Oregon, USA.
#Photography #Oregon #SmeltSands #Yachats #Shoreline #Waves
Waves breaking on a rocky shore with a seagull above. Yachats Oregon. Smelt Sands State Recreation Area. https://stateparks.oregon.gov/index.cfm?do=park.profile&parkId=89
September 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Tired of florals; Exchange Club Beatty Nevada.

Before there was neon there iron.

#Photography #Beatty #Nevada #Signs #SteamPunk
Casino sign. With arrow pointing right.
September 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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A splash of color for today. Crepe Myrtle.
#Photography #CrepeMyrtle #Flowers #Blooms #Fruit #Red
A spary of Crepe Myrtle flowers with fruit. against a green background
September 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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International Cloud Appreciation Day www.memorycloudatlas.org/index.php This is what I woke up to this morning
#Photography #Clouds #CloudAppreciationDay #Sunrise #Morning
September 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Sunset, Snow Canyon State Park, Utah, USA. Golden hour, about five minutes before sunset.
#Photography #SnowCanyon #GoldenHour #Sunset #Clouds #Sagebrush
Looking south, down Snow Canyon at some wispy clouds. Taken about five minutes before sunset.
September 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Dahlia, Sequim Botanical Gardens
#Photography #Flowers #Dahlia #Sequim
September 4, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Macro lens in a dahlia garden; fun way to spend a morning. Sequim Botanical Garden, Sequim, Washington, USA. 7/18/25
#Photography #Flowers #Dahlias #Color
August 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Shore Acres Oregon State Park; formerly owned by wealthy shipping and timber magnate Asa Mead Simpson. They still maintain a formal rose garden. These are from 7/24/25
#Photography #Roses #ShoreAcres #Flowers #OregonStateParks #Pink
August 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Kolob Canyons Area of Zion National Park, Utah, USA. Time-lapse composite. Fish eye lens with an 180 degree field of view pointed up in a steep walled canyon

#Photography #Astrophotography #Landscape #MilkyWay #Kolob #TimeLapseComposite #zion
August 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Mural on SW Coast Highway Newport Oregon. I’ve tried to identify who created this and piece and a title, google has no info and google lens does not either. Does anyone have more information.
#Photography #Murals #Newport #Oregon #CoastHighway
A roadside mural on SW Coast Highway, Newport, OR. Blue background with several squids.
August 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM