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Jason Ethen
@jsnethen.bsky.social
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Just trying to make sense of it all. I try to speak with my amateur photography. I believe in shadows truth lies.
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#photography #BlueSkyMonday
Color. A narrow alley. White cinderblock to the left, white corrugated tin to the right, naked blue bulbs of Christmas lights strung above cast a pale blue sheen over it all. At the vanishing point is a small bright rectangle.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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#photography #stunday
November 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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#photography #caturday
Monochrome. A cat’s white paw hooks over the edge of a square black opening in a field of wicker. The claws are out.
November 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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#photography #HumansOfBlueSky
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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#photography #streetphotography
Monochrome. Behind leaning utility poles and a leafless tree sits a simple two-story home on a berm. A white retaining law facing a parking lot below features the spray painted message ‘you are rare’.
November 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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#photography #stunday
Monochrome. A wooden dock extends into a body of water shrouded in fog.
November 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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#photography #scape
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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@historicalmarker.bsky.social #westvirginia

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GRAFTON William Robinson preempted Buffalo Flats, site of Grafton, in 1773. Here is only National cemetery in State. Former home of John T MeGraw, financier. and Melville Davisson Post, author. Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother's Day lived here.
October 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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#photography #HumansOfBlueSky
October 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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#photography
Monochrome. A lone barn on a flat plain by a road where two signs say MOUNT AYR 14 CROWN POINT 50
October 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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#photography
Monochrome. Three square pillars extend up into the lower third of the frame backdropped by sky. Each pillar features a muscular torso of an Atlas-like figure straining to hold up a burden on his shoulders. High contrast heavily shadowed.
October 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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#photography #stunday
Monochrome. High contrast view of a skyline with cumulus clouds.
October 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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#photography #caturday
October 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#photography #scape
October 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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#photography #HumansOfBlueSky
October 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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#photography #StreetPhotography #Virginia #Lexington
October 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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#photography #caturday
Monochrome. A cat in a bathroom sink framed by the open bathroom door. The cat’s eyes reflect light and are two white disks.
October 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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#photography #scape #maryland

African-American cemetery belonging to Janes United Methodist Church outside of Chestertown, MD.
Monochrome. A small cluster of modest headstones positioned between clumps of trees in a foggy graveyard
October 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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#photography #yorktown
Monochrome. An Angel in a Yorktown church graveyard kneels and lifts its right arm to the sky. The afternoon sun creates contrasting shadows. Behind the Angel are the horizontal lines of an old white clapboard structure. Old and white describes Yorktown.
October 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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@historicalmarker.bsky.social
Historical marker: OLD WYE EPISCOPAL CHURCH ONLY REMAINING ANGLICAN CHURCH IN TALBOT COUNTY. BUILT 172I AS A CHAPEL-OF-EASE BY DONATIONS OF 60,000 POUNDS OF TOBACCO AND 100 POUNDS STERLING. ORIGINALLY NAMED ST. LUKE'S IT WAS A PLACE OF WORSHIP UNTIL 1829. RECONSTRUCTED IN 1854, BUT LATER FELL INTO DISREPAIR UNTIL RESTORED IN 1949 TO ORIGINAL DESIGN WITH HIGH BOX PEWS. HANGING SIDE PULPIT AND GALLERY WITH ORIGINAL ROYAL ARMS. VESTRY OF OLD WYE EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
October 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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#photography
Monochrome. Shot through window screen, and out of focus river scene in the fog, the dark river creating a horizontal band below, the fog creating a gray horizontal band above. A wooden dock inserts itself from the lower left corner at a 45° angle.
October 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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#photography #BlueSkyMonday
October 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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#photography #stunday
October 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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#photography #caturday
October 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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#photography #scape #maryland

African-American cemetery belonging to Janes United Methodist Church outside of Chestertown, MD.
Monochrome. A foggy cemetery, dotted with headstones. It is the African-American cemetery outside of Chestertown, MD. Part of Janes Methodist Church.
October 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM