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Sam Turner
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Working stiff in the software industry
Shutterbug with a propensity for macro
Foodie/Cook
Lover of cats
Fly Fisher/Lover of outdoors
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A large number of turtles on the basking in the sun on a warm day in the early spring in the C&O National Historical Park. April 2017.

#Photography 📷 #Turtle
Twenty some odd turtles basking mostly in groups on fallen timber floating on the water and leaning against the rocky banks of the C&O Canal on a bright sunny afternoon.
December 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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An adjacent high-rise reflected in the windows of Arlington Tower 1300 N 17th Street, Rosslyn, Virginia 2009.

#Photograph 📷 #EastCoastKin #Reflection
A section of one high-rise office building with fairly intricate dark colored windows with white supports and ornamentation reflected in the panes of glass of a larger high-rise office. Each pane of rectangular glass though mostly flat reflects differently, bending and breaking reflected building into an abstract image.
December 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Great Blue Heron standing in water on the shore of the Potomac River in the reflection of adjacent buildings.

#Photography 📷 #Water #Reflection #EastCoastKin #Birds
A picture of a great blue Heron standing in water near dark brown decaying pilings with very green aquatic grasses. The water is reflecting a darker upside down version the heron, colors of a lightly overcast sky, and adjacent buildings rippling across the water.
December 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Squash Blossoms - 2009 - The year I let a volunteer pumpkin vine, a seed from the previous years jack-o-lanterns take over my garden.

#Photography 📷 #Flowers #MyBackyard #Garden #Macro
Close of a large bright yellow-orange pumpkin blossom against a darker background of rosemary foliage and pumpkin vine and leaves. A picture the pumpkin vine with several brightly colored blossoms climbing over rosemary and other garden plants, potted house plants put out for summer sun, and out onto the paved patio in the foreground.
December 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Deepening Dusk in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

#Photography 📷 #EastCoastKin #LandScape
#Sunset #Virginia
This picture was taken several minutes after sunset. The foreground shows interlaced mountain ridges in very dark hues of blues with browns, almost black in some places. Level with the highest mountain peaks is a band of salmon stretching almost across the picture. Just above that are breaks in the cloud cover interspersed across showing with hues of pink yellow and very light blue. The rest of the background is cloud cover showing hues of blue gray, with streaks pink to salmon.
November 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Freshly fallen snow on State Street in North Adams, MA. December 2007.

#Photography 📷 #EastCoastKin #Winter #WinterScape #Snow #NorthAdams #NorthAdamsMA #Berkshires #Massachusetts
The picture shows houses built in the late 19th/early 20th century lining a street that is obscured by a fence in the foreground. There is a steep wooded slope rising to meet an an overcast gray sky. Everything; fences, trees, telephone lines is covered by a several inches of very light snow in addition to previous snow.
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Francis Scott Key Bridge, one of the bridges that spans the Potomac River connecting Arlington, VA with Washington, DC on a late autumn afternoon. Through the left most arch is the building of the Washington Canoe Club.

#Photography 📷 #Virginia #DC #Reflection #Potomac
A picture of 4 arches of Key Bridge ending on the DC side of the Potomac, in the good light of late afternoon Sun. On a calm day with the water reflecting the bridge and a clear light blue sky.
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Two American Coots swimming in the Potomac river around docks and piers of the Old Town Alexandria, Virginia waterfront.

#Photography 📷
Two dark colored aquatic birds swimming in the water. The ripples are reflecting blues, whites, and browns the colors of moored boats and the docks of the waterfront.
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Lichen Growing on a rock in evening light.

#photograph 📷
A very light green lichen growing on a pink hued rock mostly covered in older lichen.
November 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Pictures from a recent walk along the Potomac River.

#Photography 📷
#FallColors
#Virginia
#Maryland
A closeup of golden yellow leaves with dark veins and brown spots. Which maybe some some kind of hickory, against a background green undergrowth and dark brown dead leaves. From the Virginia side Potomac River with a line of warning buoys showing the text "Danger Dam Ahead", zigzagging across to the Maryland shore. The waters are reflecting the trees on the other side side in autumnal colors, and a partly cloudy sky. From the Virginia end of the Potomac River Dam, a long low dam that crosses the Potomac diagonally to divert water to supply the needs of the District of Columbia. Water is streaming over the dam for its entire length. In the background above the dam are trees in autumnal colors of yellow and red. A close up the water below the dam in a rounded sheltered cove, where a slow current moves slowly in a circular motion. In this picture leaves, seeds, and twigs are drifting among bubbles and white foam, interspersed with dark water. I go to this spot regularly, I have taken better shots when there is a little less foam.
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Autumn Trees beside Passage Creek in Virginia. Circa 2005.

#Photography 📷 #FallColor #EastCoastKin #Trees #Virginia
Several trees are leaning over opposite sides of a narrow part of Passage Creek. On the left are bunch of trees with bright yellow leaves. On the right there is a prominent pine with green needles contrasting the characteristic autumn colors of the trees beside it and in the mountain ridge in the background.
October 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Sycamore Leaf floating among duckweed in a turgid pond.
#Photography 📷
#Macro
A top down closeup of a brown leaf floating bed of green duckweed leaves on the of a turgid pond.
October 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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An autumn scene on Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park.

#Photography 📷 #Autumn #EastCoastKin #Virginia #FallColors #Trees #Virginia
Some weathered evergreen trees in the foreground with lush green needles and dark gray twisted branches, and trunk. The background are deciduous trees well into their color change with hues of yellow, red, and orange.
October 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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The Seattle Skyline as photographed from the 13th floor of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bellevue, Washington a little after sunset. August 2012.

#Photography 📷 #Seattle #EastCoastKin #UrbanGaze #SkyScape #SunSet
The foreground is a dark mix of the trees, and houses interspersed with street lights of the well wooded residential sections of east Seattle. In the mid-ground tall office buildings, center to left appear to float on the foreground. In the right hand side several tall red lighted broadcast towers rise high into the salmon sky. Immediately behind the city skyline, thanks to optical illusion of telephoto compression are the jagged peaks of the Olympic Mountains which are silhouetted against the a sky that begins salmon hue that gradually becomes a mix of hues of blue, green, and orange.
October 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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The upper reaches of the Hughes River in the Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. June 2003.

#Photography 📷 #EastCoastKin #NaturePhotography #NationalPark
At the center of the picture is a large boulder, split diagonally with ferns growing out of the crack. There is white water cascading around the boulder with other moss and lichen covered boulders in the foreground and the middle ground. The background is green foliage, tree trunks, and undergrowth of the forest in the Shenandoah National Park.
September 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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A zebra swallowtail, one of the more beautiful and graceful butterflies that can be seen at the local meadow.

#photography 📷 #Butterfly #Insects #Nature
A closeup of a zebra swallowtail butterfly with black and off-white (bleached out chartreuse?) wings spread out flat perched on golden iron weed flowers, feeding. It's head has 2 red-brown antennae, the body is hairy which gets longer on the abdomen. The color scheme of the body is similar to that of the wings. At the end of the abdomen are 2 small bright red dots, one on each of wing. Each wing has a long tail with a similar color scheme, giving the butterfly a distinctive flight pattern. The background is mostly darker greens and browns of undergrowth.
September 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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The east face of Old Rag Mountain taken from Route 231 just north of Etlan, VA. Circa November, 2008.

#Phtography #Virginia #Autumn #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin
The face of Old Rag mountain showing a mix of large exfoliated granite rock in shades of gray, and and trees showing autumnal colors; reds, browns, yellows, and some still green. All against a cloudless light blue sky.
September 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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A kite flying over Rockaway Beach, New York City, August, 2019

#Photography 📷
#minimalism
#EastCoastKin
#BlueSkyArt
A very colorful kite with black, red, green, and chartreuse colors with a very very long black and green striped tail streaming behind it. All against a very blue sky.
September 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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A little autumn color in somebody's backyard on Route 8A, just north of Charlemont, Massachusetts, circa 2018.

#Photography 📷
#NewEngland
#Massachusetts
#Autumn
#EastCoastKin
#Fall
A small pond contained by a dam with water generously cascading from the spillway in the foreground. In the background and throughout the picture is a mix of trees and bushes with mostly yellow colored leaves, and dark evergreens. At the left hand edge of the picture is small red out-building with white trim.
September 20, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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My kind of beachcombing is walking along the edge of the surf holding a camera with a macro lens taking pictures of whatever washes up while keeping an eye out for unusually large waves.

Nauset Beach, Cape Cod, August 8, 2025

#Photography 📷
#CapeCod
#EastCoastKin
#Macro
#MacroMonday
A closeup of a very worm eaten oyster shell with varying shades of gray and warm browns laying in the fine wet sand on the upper edge of the swash zone between waves. A closeup of a slipper snail shell with hues of creamy white and warm brown partially filled with fine wet sand laying on the upper edge of the swash zone between waves. A closeup of a small saturated beige hued feather laying in the coarse wet sand interspersed with (arthropod?) holes on the upper edge of the swash zone between waves. A closeup of a vary dark hued dark brown scallop shell fragment partially buried in wet sand, course textured enough to show the mineral constituents of the granite it was eroded from. On the upper edge of the swash zone between waves.
September 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Sunrise Nauset Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. August 6, 2025

#photography 📷
#CapeCod
#SunRise
#EastCoastKin
A salmon colored sun partially obscured by clouds that appears to hover just above the horizon of the Atlantic Ocean. In a sky with hues of pink but mostly grays. In the foreground is white foamy surf breaking on the beach with a dark gray ocean reflecting hues of pink in between.
September 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Chicory blossoms, on Fort Hill, Cape Cod.

#photography
#macro
#MacroMonday
#BlueMonday
#CapeCod
A closeup of several light blue chicory blossoms in the morning light against a nice boca background light and dark green hues. The individual pedals are blue with serrated tips, the colors gradate to a delicate purple near center of the flower. The lowest blossom has gone by and has wilted, there is a new bloom in the lower left.
September 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Landscape with Hay Bales.

#photography
📷
#landscape
A picture of a landscape of a recently cut hay field showing several dozen hay bales scattered across the green hillside. With scattered trees along the skyline, the right edge, and in the foreground. The sky is lightly overcast.
August 30, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Greetings from your friendly neighborhood milkweed bug.

#photography
#eastcoastkin
#macro
#macrophotography
#InsectThursday
#invertebrates
A closeup of a milkweed bug perched on a jaunty angled milkweed leaf looking directly at the camera lens. It has a harlequin patterned body in orange and black and all black appendages with the exception of the antennae which have gray tips. The background shows the bright green of the milkweed leaf, with darker greens of foliage and dark shadows below.
August 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Sunset/Moonrise over Nantucket Sound

#photography 📷 #capecod #sunset #eastcoastkin #moon
#massachusetts
A picture of the bright orange Sun setting a little more than halfway below the horizon of the dark waters of Nantucket sound. Adjacent to the sun are bright salmon hues burning through the light haze. Further away the colors are more subdued due to the haze. In top third of the picture the sky is clear displaying light salmon a hue of blue. A picture of the moon rising beside the Great Point lighthouse near the tip of Great Point a the northern most end of the island of Nantucket. Near the center is a white lighthouse, streaked dark colors. Just to the right and positioned a bit more than halfway to the top of lighthouse is the salmon colored Moon, the same color as the sunset picture. The sky is an even colored a light blue/gray with a hue of salmon. The lighthouse and attached building are visible in a line of dune grass that goes for the length of the picture. There is a strip of sandy beach going to the water, which would be dark but for the salmon hue.
August 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM