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Kevin Maples
@bkevinmaples.bsky.social
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I travel and take photos of beautiful places. Proudly liberal Christian and political progressive. Previous life and career spent navigating the treacherous waters of American Evangelicalism, often as the most liberal person in the boat.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Dec 27
Magical lighting in the Kolob Canyons district of Zion National Park. July 2021. This area is 40 miles from the over-crowded Virgin River Canyon area of the park. #photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #utah #publiclands #southwest #zion #canyons #nationalparks #redrocks #storms #wilderness
Dark clouds hover over towering red rock formations illuminated by patches of sunlight.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Sep 6
Needles District, 105° on the Chesler Park Trail, Utah. July 2021.

📍Canyonlands National Park

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #utah #publiclands #southwest #redrocks #desert #nationalparks #canyonlands #wilderness #protectourparks #sandstone #geology #outdoors
Spires of layered sandstone below blue sky and puffy white clouds.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Sep 1
Along the Apache Trail in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona.

📍Tonto National Forest

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #Arizona #nationalforests #desert #southwest #publiclands #sonorandesert #backroads #byways #outdoors #protectourparks #geology #canyons
Jagged rock faces along the Apache Trail in Arizona.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Aug 26
Sunset over the high dunes and high desert in Colorado. September 2024.

📍Great Sand Dunes National Park

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #colorado #nationalparks #publiclands #desert #sunset #southwest #sanddunes #protectourparks #sangredecristos #outdoors
Soft sunset over America's tallest sand dunes and the sagebrush of Southern Colorado.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Aug 25
Infinite stars above White Rim Road in Southern Utah.

📍Canyonlands National Park
A sky of countless stars above a pyramid-shaped sandstone formation in Southern Utah.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Aug 23
Sturgeon Falls in the heart of the Ottawa NF & Michigan's Upper Peninsula. July 2024

📍Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #michigan #upperpeninsula #forest #nationalforests #wilderness #publiclands #waterfalls #waterfallwednesday #protectourparks #rivers
A dreamy waterfall cascades through the deep green of Michigan's primordial forest.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Aug 17
Amanita brunnescens, also known as the brown American star-footed Amanita.

📍Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Kentucky

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #Kentucky #appalachia #nationalforests #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #fungifriends #protectourparks #outdoors
A bown mushroom with white spots on its smooth cap grows on a pale stalk out of the forest floor.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Aug 16
Honestly, I don't have a need to visit Saguaro NP again, since it is essentially an urban park. I appreciate the park's purpose and mission, but I will go elsewhere to enjoy the cacti.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Aug 16
I'm missing the desert, so here is a closeup of a Saguaro cactus.

📍Saguaro National Park, Arizona
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#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #arizona #publiclands #southwest #desert #nationalparks #cactus #succulents #botany #closeup #pattern #saguaro #tucson #sonorandesert
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Aug 14
Boulder Canyon and Weavers Needle in the Superstition Mountains.

📍Superstition Wilderness & Tonto National Forest

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #arizona #publiclands #southwest #wilderness #desert #mountains #geology #nationalforests #protectourparks #outdoors #sonorandesert
Dramatic desert mountains with a 4500 ft. volcanic plug dominating the distant horizon.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Aug 12
It was a fluke, and I was fortunate to be there at exactly the right moment. I am a lazy, impatient photographer who will not wait indefinitely for perfect light.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Aug 12
The Rio Grande/Rio Bravo flows through Santa Elena Canyon.

📍Big Bend National Park, TX

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #texas #westtexas #Mexico #nationalparks #rivers #canyons #nationalparks #publiclands #southwest #wilderness #desert #protectourparks #outdoors #bigbend #goldenhour
Glass-like water at the mouth of the 1500 feet tall walls of Santa Elena Canyon along the Texas & Mexico border.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Aug 9
Honey Creek Overlook in Autumn. Oct. 2023

📍Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #Tennessee #appalachia #southeast #rivers #publiclands #wilderness #protectourparks #nationalforests #autumn #creeks #bigsouthfork #nationalriver
A creek cuts through the Cumberland plateau of northern Tennessee.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Aug 7
Autumn Sunset in Silverton, Colorado. September 2024.

📍San Juan National Forest

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #colorado #nationalforests #publiclands #sanjuans #aspens #mountains #southwest #sunset #aspens #alpine #clouds #silverton #autumn
Orange clouds and golden aspen trees in the San Juan Mountains of Southern Colorado
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Aug 5
The stunning Beartooth Mountains of Montana.

📍Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #Montana #wyoming #rockymounains #wilderness #nationalforests #publiclands #northwest #protectourparks #alpine #outdoors #mountainmonday
Snow and glaciers decorate the high alpine areas of the Beartooth Mountains along the Montana & Wyoming border.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Aug 4
Close up of Nisqually Glacier from along the Skyline Trail in Washington. July 2019.

📍Mount Rainier National Park

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #washington #mountrainier #mountains #glaciers #nationalparks #alpine #publiclands #protectourparks #ice #rainier #outdoors #moraine
An alpine glacier, tinted blue and with deep cracks, on the southwest flank of Mount Rainier.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Aug 1
Rio Grande/Bravo & Chisos Mountains of West Texas at dusk. Feb 2025.

📍 Big Bend National Park

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #texas #westtexas #mountains #southwest #desert #bigbend #publiclands #riogrande #chihuahuandesert #Mexico #nationalparks #rivers #protectourparks #sunset
The Rio Grande reflects a peach-colored sky as it points toward the silhouetted Chisos Mountains in the distance.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Jul 31
Driftwood at the mouth of Cedar Creek on Washington's Ruby Beach. July 2019

📍 Olympic National Park

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #Washington #olympicpeninsula #nationalparks #beaches #wilderness #wildernesscoast #publiclands #northwest #protectourparks #driftwood
Massive amounts of driftwood at the juncture of a creek and the Pacific Ocean with a sea stack on the horizon.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Jul 29
Moonrise through the cotton candy clouds of sunset over West Texas. Feb. 2025.

📍Big Bend National Park

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #texas #westtexas #mountains #southwest #desert #publiclands #bigbend #sunset #moon #protectourparks #chihuahuandesert #Mexico #nationalparks
A bright full-moon rises through pink clouds illuminated by sunset over the low mountains in the desert of Big Bend National Park
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Jul 29
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Jul 29
Can you please give me a bit more information first? What type of tool? What is its purpose? What would you need from me as a tester?
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Jul 28
New Mexico's largest arch, La Ventana, from behind.

📍El Malpais National Conservation Area

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #NewMexico #southwest #mountains #desert #arches #nationalmonuments #publiclands #protectourparks #sandstone #geology #indigenous #native
A large sandstone arch forms a diamond-shaped opening below a blue sky.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Jul 27
Sunset above gypsum dunes in New Mexico.

📍White Sands National Park

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #NewMexico #southwest #mountains #desert #nationalparks #whitesands #sunset #sand #sunsetSunday #mountains #ripples
The sun sets about mountains on the horizon beyond rippled sand.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Jul 25
Just a close up of some fine-ass moss in Kentucky.

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #Kentucky #appalachia #nationalforests #publiclands #moss #plants #closeup #green
A closeup of lovely green mosses.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Jul 24
Cliff Palace, an 800 y.o. Ancestral Puebloan archeological site in SW Colorado.

📍Mesa Verde National Park

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #colorado #nationalparks #mesverde #sandstone #indigenous #native #southwest #desert #canyons #outdoors #publiclands #protectourparks #pueblos
A large Ancestral Puebloan archeological site spreads out below a large sandstone overhang in a desert canyon of Colorado.
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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · Jul 22
📍Temperance River State Park, Minnesota. July 2024.

#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #Minnesota #northshore #lakesuperior #publiclands #waterfalls #waterfallwednesday #greatlakes #stateparks #protectourparks #forest #rivers #indigenous #northwoods #midwest
A river cuts through ancient rock and emerald forest just before it empties into Lake Superior.
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