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A Thomas Paine deist and a Franklin constitutionalist. I believe in accountability for all. Apply Equal Justice Under the Law with no exceptions for the rich or those who attempt to usurp power. Photography please visit: charlesroy.myportfolio.com
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An American Herring Gull likely a second-year juvenile, at the Cape Cod Canal.

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#photography #herringgull #birds #audubon #CapeCodCanal #buzzardsbay #Massachusetts
December 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Hooded mergansers small, fish-eating ducks on the Wareham River... favorites to photograph

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#hoodedmerganser #Ducks #audubon #thenarrows #warehamriver #Wareham #Massachusetts
December 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Thousands of Common Eiders rafting on the Cape Cod Canal near Massachusetts Maritime Academy...

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#photography #birds #audubon #ducks #commoneider #CapeCodCanal #buzzardsbay #Massachusetts
December 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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The Sikorsky VS-44A Excambian, the sole remaining American-built commercial trans-oceanic four-engine flying boat.

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#photography #aviation #Sikorsky #VS44A #Excambian #flyingboat #NEAM #WindsorLocks #Connecticut
December 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Male and female Hooded Mergansers on the Wareham River...

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#photography #birds #Ducks #audubon #hoodedmerganser #warehamriver #Wareham #Massachusetts
December 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Snowy now, but this was yesterday's Polar Express on approach to Buzzards Bay from Wareham

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• The FL9 locomotives were built by GM's Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

#photography #CCCRR #railroad #EMDFL9 #Locomotive #Wareham #BuzzardsBay #Massachusetts
December 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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The iconic brass clock atop the info booth in the Main Concourse of Grand Central Terminal - New York, NY

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#photography #grandcentral #railroad #Manhattan #newyork
December 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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The historic schooner Lettie G. Howard at the Mystic Seaport Museum.

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The Lettie G. Howard is an authentic fishing schooner, built in 1893 in Essex, Massachusetts.

#photography #LettieGHoward #fishing #seafaring #mysticseaport #Mystic #Connecticut
December 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment Memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

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Less we forget, the monument commemorates the first African American infantry unit.

#photography #RobertGouldShaw #augustusstgaudens #civilwar #Boston #Massachusetts
December 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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The English poet and satirist Alexander Pope (1688–1744), at the Yale Center for British Art

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French-born sculptor Louis-François Roubiliac 1741.

#photography #YaleUniversity #yalecenterforbritishart #NewHaven #Connecticut
December 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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French countryside in the Loire Valley

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#loirevalley #france
November 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Musée D'Orsay, an ancienne gare or train station turned musée d'art...

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Gustave Courbet's Desperation in France's best musée d'art...

#paris #france #muséedorsay
November 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Paris, the city of light, food, and colorful Parisiens... Rousseau, my paternal grandmother...

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#Paris #street #france
November 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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It is good to be King...The grounds of Louis XIV's Versailles

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#Versailles #louisXIV #architecture #france #photography
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Louis XIV's Versailles...

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#versailles #LouisXIV #Architecture #art #france #photography

The Sun King as Caesar, Apotheosis of Hercules a ceiling fresco by François Le Moyne, and a typical gold leaf fireplace mantel. It is good to be King
November 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Departing the Louvre and its ornate architecture...

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#thelouvre #paris #france #photography #architecture
November 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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City life in Paris

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#ChampdeMars #streetlife #toureifel #Paris #France
November 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Along the Seine River...

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#Seine #CathedraldelaSainteTrinite #TourEifel #paris #France
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Les Abbesses of Montmartre - Picasso, Renoir, Van Gogh walked these cobblestones...

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#Picasso #Renoir #VanGogh #lesabbesses #Montmartre #paris #france
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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One world 🌎

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#photography #globe #DailyNewsBuilding #Manhattan #NewYork
October 29, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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We must all stand tall...

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#photography #liberty #ladyliberty #NYC #Democracy #AFuture #forthekids
October 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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A look back at the summer...

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#photography #CCCRR #dinnertrain #EMDFL9 #Locomotive #BuzzardsBay #Massachusetts in
October 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Always loved this statue... and yes, the guard is not live...

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#photography #NewBritainMuseumofArt #NewBritain #Connecticut
October 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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SE Massachusetts sunset...the Mattapoisett Rail Trail

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#photography #railtrail #Mattapoisett #Massachusetts
October 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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The Gilded Age - Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park, NY

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#photography #hydepark #hudsonriver #vanderbilt #gildedage #mansion #newyork
October 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM