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Deggn
@deggn.bsky.social
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Programmer, photographer and gaymer. Enjoying living in the mountains with @joel-rocketco.bsky.social 🌈
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Deggn @deggn.bsky.social · Dec 8
Been experimenting with some timelapse videos. It's such a beautiful view up here I wanted to share. This is the first capture I liked. I got a pi and camera set to take a picture every 15 seconds. Working on a full day but wanted to give you guys a preview.

#mountains #sunrise #timelapse #nature
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
Saturday’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #birdonawire birds on a wire or line and the alternative is #silhouette. I don't have many wires, but I get lots of pretty sunset type silhouettes of our hummingbirds especially. 💓
#birds #photography #hummingbird
A photo of a a silhouette of a rufous hummingbird against a golden sunset with purple and pink clouds being lit up across the sky. The tops of a few pine trees can be seen along the bottom of the photo.
November 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
Hello! I'm Joel 👋. I'm excited to actually do #portfolioday! I'm a disabled/retired Virologist. In my free time, when not resting, I do molecular art (viral models), nature ( #birds & wildlife around my house), & #astrophotography

This will act as a new pinned intro organizing virology/art threads:
An art vs artist 2025 image post, it's a 3x3 grid, totaling 9 squares. From top left to right going through each row: 1. A photo of a bobcat in a bright yellow field 2. A viral model of polio built from x-ray crystallography in pinks, blues, and purples. 3. A photo of pleiades, m45. The stars are glowing bright blue. 4. A bright fiery orange rufous hummingbird named Hobbes. 5. My dumbass holding a hummingbird I'm feeding. 6. A broad tailed hummingbird with a bright ruby gorget and bright green wings with a white chest. 7. A rainbow over a mountain meadow. 8. A profile shot of a peregrine falcon looking at the camera. 9. Lighting going off during the night lighting up clouds in bright purple hues. ArtvsArtist2024 photo. it's a 3x3 grid, totaling 9 squares. From top left to right going through each row: 1. A phot of the Orion galaxy 2. A rainbow version of the Adeno-associated virus 2 3. Dueling female rufous hummingbirds 4. A cooper's hawk sitting on a dead tree branch 5. A poofed up angry hummingbird sitting in a perch 6. A black and white faked sem photo of a Rhinovirus. 7. A mountain meadow with cows in the fall bright yellow and orange aspen trees with snow covered mountains behind them. 8. The wizard nebula 9. A mountain bluebird posing with his back to the camera. Bright blue wings and black strips towards the tips of the feathers, a white chest.
October 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
Everyone meet my beautiful fiery boy Hobbes. As a, Rufous, he's a little firecracker. His energy & charm are infectious & entertaining. Depending on angle his gorget is orange, yellow, or gold & green hue edges due to iridescent feathers
#birds #hummingbird #SciArt #photography
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A bright Orange Rufous hummingbird looking at me with his head turned in a profile style picture. Depending on the angle his gorget is orange, yellow, or gold with green hues edges due to iridescent feathers
September 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
Friends making awesome versions of this, wanted to distract myself from *gestures to everything* I mixed in some #animations, #photography, #astrophotography, #virology

#the_color_wheel #art
August 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
Our current science environment is filled with a bunch of frauds and pseudoscience fakes. They are there because people normalized their horrible antivaxx and bad medical science takes.
The throw out the window disagreement meme with the faces of the director replaced with RFK Jr, the man replaced by Jay Bhattacharya Director of the National Institutes of Health of the United States who is making it so we can't get flu or covid vaccines and Monica Ghandi one of the biggest both siders and normalizers of antivaxx ideas and other bad health ideas. RFK: How do we make america healthy again? Jay: Make vaccines impossible to approve Monica: Give credibility to antivax talk points CDC: Improve education in relevant fields, fund the NIH more, support HIV research, and keep the vaccine schedule as it is because it's safe. CDC character is seen being thrown out the window.
June 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
When you finally hit that spot you been trying to scratch for a while.
#birds 🪶
A Mountain Bluebird scratching an itch on his head while sitting on the old dead branch of a pine tree. The second frame in the photo the bird has mouth open as he continues scratching, making it look like a sigh of relief.
May 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
Broad-tailed hummingbird and a Stellar's Jay at sunrise are my 2 favorite silhouettes I've made.
f/16 1/200
#birds 🪶 #silhouettes
silhouette of a hummingbird at sunrise Stellar's jay silhouette at sunrise Combination of two silhouettes one of a hummingbird one of a stellar's jay.
April 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
Look how happy this lil man is. Always chirping away. Look at that big chest puff, he's so thrilled he gets breakfast fresh every morning. If I hit the snooze, he's there waiting for me on the beam.
Video of him eating in 2nd post

f/16, 1/4000, iso 12800
#hummingbird #birds 🪶 #nature #photography
A male broad tailed hummingbird with his chest puffed up looking at the camera happy.
March 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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broughmilner.bsky.social
Froggy brings out the green in her eyes. 🐸🐱 #cats #photography
March 7, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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watchinthesky.bsky.social
Indigo bunting!!
This is day two in a row. I’m getting my hopes up for him staying, maybe for weeks, or dare I say it, thru summer like Mr Lazuli did??
This is the 1st view I had from 25 ft away. All that brown, I thought it was a Scaly-breasted munia. 🪶
A view from behind of a mostly brown bird with bits of blue scattered around. It is an Indigo bunting, not common in San Diego county. It is standing on a fence.
March 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
A blue boy for a blue weekend. He showed up chirping in the tree and eventually I got him to come over to me on the porch to sit in the sun for a while and cheer me up. Such a sweetheart. 💙🪶

#bird: Mountain bluebird (Sialia currucoides)
ISO: 2500
f/16
1/1000th.
#photography #nature
Mountain bluebird sitting on the branches of an Aspen tree in winter. Mountain Bluebird sitting on a wood porch looking back at the camera.
March 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
deggn.bsky.social
Got some snow up in South Park. Love how it can snow one day and just be super sunny the next.
February 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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juliametzgerart.bsky.social
MtG: Pilot Token
AD: Vic Ochoa
Aetherdrift
#MTGAetherdrift #art
(C) Wizards of the Coast 2025

fresh art from the previews for Aetherdrift :)
January 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
deggn.bsky.social
If you see this, post something orange.

One of the many beautiful sunsets up here. The shape of the clouds really caught my eye this night.

#mountains #colorado #sunset
Orange sunset clouds over a snow-capped mountain range with a dead tree sticking up in the middle and branches of a pine tree partially in frame from the right side.
January 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
Caio is an awesome person, need something made check them out.
blacksalander.bsky.social 🌛Caio Santos Art🌜 @blacksalander.bsky.social · Jan 13
COMMISSIONS OPEN!!! 🎨

✨✨DM to confirm a slot! (be ready with your character description, type of comm and you paypal and contact info!)

RT's appreciated!
January 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
Hello! I'm Joel 👋. I'm excited to actually get to do a #portfolioday! I'm a disabled/retired Virologist. In my free time when I'm not resting, I for fun do molecular art (viral models), nature ( #birds & wildlife around my house), astrophotography (also from home)

Happy to meet more art friends ❤️
My pet bobcat, in our field, showing off his light orange winter fur and bright red eyes, sitting on a rock looking directly at me on the porch. He is wondering if I have any trapped rats for him. My art vs artist from the end of this past year showing off 9 photos. Orion, adenovirus, 2 humming birds fighting, a cooper's hawk, me holding Missy on a feeder, rhinovirus model, Fall field of cows, the wizard nebula, and a male hummingbird. A field of cows with fall colored aspen trees, bright yellows and oranges, and a snow covered mountain in the background. A hummingbird flying, wings slicing the air.
January 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
Some mornings the clouds & snow blowing around diffuse the Sun's light in a way that always makes me think of the Eye of Sauron. So I call these mornings, "Sauron Mornings"

"His gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth, and flesh. You know of what I speak, Gandalf: a great Eye, lidless, wreathed in flame"
The sun glowing orange and bright through clouds and haze on a snowy field. It looks vaguely like the Eye of Sauron from The Lord of the Rings.
January 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
Fun fact before taking these: He looks very alert in those shots, but in reality it took a while for him to wake up and for most the morning he was actually a very sleepy boy.

#bobcat #nature #photography #wildlife
Bobcat with almost fully closed eyes, looking tired, sitting on a rock among some aspen trees Bobcat with almost fully closed eyes, looking tired, sitting on a rock among some aspen trees.
January 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
New Year. New Friends.

Been slowly making friends with this handsome gentlemen. He seems to enjoy the pack rats & bunnies here. He comes right up to the porch & looks in. I'm going to keep him. His murder mittens are so fluffy

ISO:25600
f:1/16
Shutter:1/1000
#bobcat #nature #wildlife #photography
Bob the bobcat perched upright, sitting on a rock in a field, looking at me standing on my porch. Bob the bobcat crouched after having just landed on the rock, looking at me standing on my porch.
January 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
deggn.bsky.social
Beautiful Sunset tonight
#timelapse #mountain #sunset
Sunset with burst of color at the end
YouTube video by Deggn
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December 27, 2024 at 1:07 AM
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
Happy Winter Solstice from South Park 🌨️❄️👋
Time to start building up energy for the new year!
A photo from my porch of a snowy meadow and dark snow clouds obscuring the view of the distance over the mountains.
December 21, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
telescope photo of Messeir 17 the Omega Nebula.
December 17, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
Oh God @deggn.bsky.social
0head.bsky.social 0Head ~ Be 🐢 Kind @0head.bsky.social · Dec 15
The way god intended it to be sure 🙏
December 15, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
A favorite of mine, the Peregrine Falcon. Fast and beautiful bird. Taken near Bailey, Co
#birds #nature #wildlife #photography
A close up photo of a peregrine falcon looking at the camera with it's head turned so a profile view is visible.
December 13, 2024 at 5:24 PM