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mewsician, nature appreciater/photographer

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nature behind a paywall

#photography #naturephotography #trees #bridge #pnw
a morning view of some trees and sky - as viewed through a dome-covered bridge, coated in mesh metal fencing
January 14, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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and a few more from the earlier beach walk, because despite feeling like I haven't gotten out nearly enough, I did realize there's a bit of a backlog.

#thicktrunktuesday #naturephotography #trees #wood #beach #pattern
a close-up of the base of a fallen tree along the beach, that has undoubtedly been weathered and worn by the tide, with some FASCINATING flowing grooves and lengthy indentations through the bark a closer close-up of a smaller portion of the same tree along the beach, with an almost labyrinth/maze-like quality pattern of segments from the bark indentations the post-bark-shed portion of a still-standing tree that STILL reminds me of manzanita but I don't think actually is, with dozens of darker-colored tumor-like growths that honestly remind me of anuses a minimalist view of pebbles along the beach as a backdrop for a smooth horizontal cylindrical plank, wrapped tightly with two strips of seaweed like a packaged christmas present
January 13, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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a recent attempt at a hike failed because it was DUMPING rain in contradiction of the forecast, but it wasn't a total loss, I got a few experiments with lighting out of it (trying out using "too much", as opposed to my customary "too little"), and I know where to […]

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a slightly angled "imposing" upward view of some trees on a hillside, with a white sky and background partially due to the fog, partially because the lighting has been turned up, giving the scene an ethereal, "fantasy" feel the same angled "imposing" upward view of hillside trees, this time with much darker lighting, still blank sky and background due to the fog, but a much more ominous feeling a very light-washed (and nearly monochrome) vertical view straight to the top of the foggy forest, with one very young sapling horizontally jutting across the scene, displaying a structure that reminded me of blood vessel tributaries in the human body an angled view upward from the base of a single tree with dozens of branches jutting out along its entire body like defensive reinforcements on a fortress
January 13, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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the season for grossness, evidently (experimenting a bit with lighting)

#MushroomMonday #mushrooms #fungi #SlimeMolds #naturephotography #Mosstodon
an unidentified "shelf" type mushroom in its early stages of development on the side of a mossy log; the lower half is flat against the wood, with concentric furry rings giving it its identifiable markings, and the upper half starting to fold over, with minimal sunlight giving it a deep cream glow as it passes through some light flesh-colored mushrooms, saggy and soggy-looking, probably at the end stages of their cycle, being overtaken by a bright yellow slime mold, its exploratory veins resembling something out of The Last Of Us a jelly-type slime mold, dangling like a bit of snot from someone's nose, with some beautiful colors despite the gross shape & sheen, deep ambers fading into bright golds a close-up of a specimen that I'm told is "Witch's Butter", but to me more resembles orange brain matter, with smooth but wiggly contours, wearing a stylish moss fedora
January 12, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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A friend-of-a-friend got me a belated Christmas present that only just arrived, a "52 Macro Photography Assignments" book, one project a week. They must know me well - both my emerging interest, and the way my brain seems to function better when it has some structure/direction to rely on […]
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January 11, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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Objective: the calm after the storm.
Subjective: the calm before the storm.

#silentsunday #landscape #landscapephotography #pnw #foreshadowing
a view from a low hilltop, of a portion of agricultural land adjacent the coast; roads cordon off a large triangle, which is further sectioned into square and rectangular plots; a heavy cloud cover blankets the entire scene in somewhat muted colors and an uneasy sense of calm.
January 11, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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a view (back) from the street (Seattle)

#urban #urbanphotography #street #streetphotography #pareidolia
set against a dark and indifferent brick wall, a metal plate serves as an attachment point for presumably two parallel firehoses, as well as a regular-sized hose beneath; all three seem almost deliberately configured to give off the appearance of a gas-masked agent staring directly at you; a bit of crumpled paper remains in the lifeless left eye, and mostly faded lettering hints at a (brand name?) across the top: SHANDPIPE. Big Brother Is Watching You.
January 10, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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#fensterfreitag #WindowFriday
where we want to be... vs where we are right now

#metaphor #photography #abandoned #abandonedplaces
a beautiful cloudy sky... as seen through the charred husk of a burned-out rooftop frame
January 9, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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#throwbackthursday Frazier Mine CA, August 2023, 2 of 2

#abandoned #abandonedplaces #history #photography #california #wood #landscape
a bright exterior view of an old wooden shack in the middle of the desert scrubland, probably used as a supply shed for mining gear, being photobombed by a large sage bush in front a beautiful landscape view of the rolling California hills as seen from a fairly high vantage point, with clouds in the azure-blue sky casting extremely articulated shadows on the plains beneath them a close-up of some partially charred wood, with the less-charred bits flowing vertically in a very elegant liquid fashion a closeup of some partially charred wood, with the char taking on a fractured, jagged appearance, as you'd expect for cracked wood or charcoal
January 8, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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#throwbackthursday Frazier Mine CA, August 2023, 1 of 2

#abandoned #abandonedplaces #history #photography #california
a just-inside-the-entry-frame view of a long-caved in mine shaft, a pile of rock & rubble surrounded by a century-weathered wooden frame a view of a desert mountain landscape, thick with sage and other chaparral scrub bushes, as seen through the window of an old abandoned wooden building, with one remaining chunk fragment of glass in its upper left corner a view of the outside edge of a long-abandoned multi-story building, looking up from the ground level at where a wooden staircase (and second level floor) probably once was, now only indicated by the rising fenced guardrail parallel to the building; blue sky and trees mark the distant terrain a mostly pitch-black inside-house view, with light carving out a very specific shape as it pierces through a carved hole in the wall, resembling (to my imagination anyways) two eyes and a lengthy vertical nose, or some Fallout-style apocalypse game logo
January 8, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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rough day yesterday, nothing new, so some leftovers 😣 from mom's place in mountain Cali over Christmas, still a lot of sentimental memories

#photography #cabinlife #winter #rural #homedecor #trees
on the ground outside a cabin, a small kiddie pool constantly in flow courtesy of a small plastic frog fountain, surrounded by two larger cement frogs and one large plastic heron in front of a tree, an orange plastic birdbath, over which sits a VERY worn forlorn-looking winged angel/cherub, who has survived a number of moves prior to this residency a standing mother bear and her two cubs, all carved from wood, all adorned in festive Christmas attire, all sitting outside and lightly dusted with snow a close-up of a thin plastic bar on the porch, onto which has semi-frozen some morning dew, including a hanging series of droplets; the droplets are in focus, and offer an inverted view of the trees that are more blurry in the direct background.
January 7, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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#thicktrunktuesday it was leaning way out over the edge of the mountain, so a good opportunity to play with some delightfully confusing perspective 😆

#naturephotography #trees #perspective #sunset #beach #pnw #photography
a sunset view of a beach, with a stick dangling in the air dead center, hanging from a rope, attached at the upper end to... a tree appearing very much like it was photoshopped in from some other angle, jutting out completely horizontally over the sky
January 6, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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a new recent bundle for #MushroomMonday

#fungi #mushrooms #Mosstodon #forest #naturephotography #pnw
a very slimy-looking bright yellow mushroom with a sliver missing (chewed?), revealing holes through its gills, surrounded by fallen tree matter a tiny translucent white mushroom, with edges remarkably resembling a frozen snowflake, jagged and clear, surrounded by pine needles and moss a Still Life in Browns, with fallen leaves, wood chips, and dirt setting the palette for two large clusters of turkey tail mushrooms with cream white outer borders and striped brown insides an "old growth" bracket fungus on a mossy log, with newer patches of white bubbling up over an older, grimier brown surface from years past
January 5, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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#silentsunday

#trees #crepuscularrays #fog #light #pnw
a dramatically rightward-leaning grove of trees in a moderately dense bed of fog, penetrated by the sun dead center, which sends piercing rays through gaps in the trees to the lower right
January 4, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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Some days I tell myself that what I share isn't meant necessarily to be "a distraction" from current events, rather to "emotionally fortify" for the fight ahead... some days I'm not convinced that even holds up as a rationalization for myself. It's an absolute […]

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a still-lit sign that looks like it dates from the 50's or 60's, for the Pick-Quick Better Burgers Drive In, advertising Ice Cream and Burgers, against a dull gray cloudy sky
January 3, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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#fensterfreitag #WindowFriday

#beach #driftwood #seaweed #pareidolia
the grain of a large chunk of driftwood flows around an open knothole, providing cozy residence for a dark red blob of seaweed posing for a portrait; like many "objects in holes in trees", with enough squinting and imagination it could be perceived as a natural eye staring right at the viewer
January 2, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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and wishes for as hopeful a new year as is possible in present circumstances... I'm under no pretense that things will be "happy", but we still hold out hope for the best available outcome, and do what we can to make change in that direction. I'm not setting any specific goals that are tied […]
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January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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and one last extra, 3 of 2 from the same walk, of some more potentially uncomfortable content (death warning), I wish there were a way to just blur images with a clickable spoiler without having to block the entire message... still Frazier Park CA June 2023 […]

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a close-up of a row of droplets of sap dangling from a tree branch like young stalactites, some still clear enough to reflect the scene behind them two tiers of a mostly dried sage plant, outlined by a very scraggly framework of spiderweb encasing them, a very clever spot to set up a website a partially obscured pile of mostly dead yucca plants, many bent over and angled in a way that looks terrifyingly like a giant spider at a quick glance before you realize that it's just some old dead plants the one I wish I could spoiler with a "click to view in full" opt-in choice, a dead... lizard? something in the advanced stages of being eaten away at by a whole colony of hungry ants, with mostly just the skull visible, and a row of teeth in a sinister smile resembling the Alien in the film poster, laying in bleached white gravel
January 1, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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#throwbackthursday "The Flora" from the same very fruitful walk right off the front porch, Frazier Park CA June 2023, 2 of 2

#photography #naturephotography #macrophotography #flowers #desert #california #wildlifephotography #bugstodon
a black bee landing on the outside edge of a purple thistle, looking like an explosion of color, with more dead & dried thistles in the background behind him a beautiful rustic orange plant of some type I don't know, color reminiscent of poppies, with a single ant wandering across its surface, likely foraging for pollen or other food a delicate paper-thin yellow blossom on a tree, with a single ladybug hanging upside down from it, about to feast a close-up of a yucca blossom, cream-white with sunlight filtering through it, casting a dramatic silhouette of a lanky beetle that's probably exploring it for food
January 1, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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evidently the platform doesn't allow for video and still images in the same post, so here's post 1.5 of 2, of the back yard hike in Frazier Park CA back in June of 2023, still a personal high point. Teenager just not watching where he was going (to be fair, I […]

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January 1, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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I know it's a new year and I should be throwing up the "new", but I still cling to personal rituals, and #throwbackthursday is something I've found some degree of comfort in the routine? so I might as well share some of my personal favorite of the "old", from a […]

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three yucca plants, all at different stages of life - green, dried out & white, and dried out & charred, with the charred one weaving its way through and around the other two in a very curious natural pattern, set against a mountain backdrop an imposing view from below of a grove of yucca trees, again at various stages of life - dried out & spiky, but also in the middle of blossoming with cream white flowers and dark seed pods, still against a mountainous backdrop on a mountain forest path, a Modelo beer can has been left hanging (not by the photographer) from a twig jutting out of a dry mossy tree
January 1, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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an abandoned building somewhere in Oregon

#photography #urban #urbex #urbanphotography #streetart #streetphotography #abandoned #abandonedplaces #graffiti #pnw
an interior view of a ground-level large room, probably a restaurant that burned down; ceiling boards mostly still intact, but graffiti along most wall surfaces, and ashes and rain and sludge across the floor a view of the inside of a concrete bricked wall with lots of sloppy graffiti messaging, including a colorful phrase I won't repeat in the alt text; a horizontal rectangular window offers a view of the outside trees and parking lot, including a local sheriff keeping a close eye on the viewer, probably assuming by their presence in this building that they're a junkie at a drug drop a view from below of an upper-level structure, a doorway leading only to blue sky and clouds, and beside it a large spray-painted image of a person in a gas mask; an interesting poetic contrast on some stucco, a detailed graffiti image, precise enough to have been made possibly with marker or chalk rather than spray paint, of a blue cartoon owl asking the viewer "whooo are youuu?"
December 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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#thicktrunktuesday like a boa constrictor strangling its prey

#naturephotography #ocean #beach #wood
a beach scene of a more "flowy" piece of driftwood smoothly curved and wrapped tightly around a "frayed edge" stub of wood, sitting on an out-of-focus bed of typical beach pebbles
December 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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and one more personally poignant one, a shrine my mom made for a beloved family pet who had recently passed

#photography #memorial #petsofmastodon #pets #donkey #junkyardlife
the side of a cabin wall, with some assorted farming equipment organized around its base in a vaguely artistic/aesthetic manner, and two bits of gear hanging from the wall on either side of a stenciled brass cutout portrait of our family pet donkey "Callisto" (one of the moons of Jupiter, which was her mother's name)
December 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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as we're going to see the Lion King musical tonight, which we've both seen long ago, partner suggested that today could be a "nostalgia" theme, so to that front, here's a rare recent selfie next to a life-size cardboard cutout my sister had in her yard, before it […]

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a person in a colorful lion shirt, standing in front of a house next to a large cutout of Ralphie from Christmas Story in his pink bunny suit, wearing an embarrassed frown, one the person tries to mimic
December 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM