Jim Lâstnǎmé
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Jim Lâstnǎmé
@lightandwater.bsky.social
If I'm being honest... I'm not just sure what I'm doing here, but, here I am, nontheless.
Looking into the water,
Seeing rocks below,
Plants & sky above...
And watching the surface
Bend & blend these realities
I'm reminded of the
Beauty & interconnectedness
Of all things,
The limitlessness
Of perspective.

#BlueSkyArtShow #FavoriteThings #Photography #Nature #Art #Abstract
#Peace #Love
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
House Finches are the most represented birds at my feeding area... (the House Sparrows are catching up.)

This isn't a great picture, but periodically I see *Creamsicle* colored House Finches!

It's fun when *watching* really pays off!

Apparently the way they absorb nutrients impacts color...?
December 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I like Turkey Vultures, too.

Walking yesterday I saw a large troupe of Black Vultures sitting in close proximity to one another sunning themselves in trees, & on the ground along a creek, cornering a dead deer.

90~ish.

There wasn't *one* Turkey Vulture.

Didn't realize they were so exclusive.
December 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
An ominously surreal, gusty winter evening sky haunting the bare, leafless trees as manifested in the reflection of a slowly bubbling, indecisively surfaced stream...

#Nature #Photography #Art #Abstract #BlueSkyArtShow #ForestFriday #Reflections #Fluid #Mystical #Psychedelic #Peace #Love #Light
December 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Sunlight, & sky reflecting off the surface of a mountain stream on a breezy afternoon in mid-December.

#Nature #Photography #Art #Abstract #ColorADay #BWFri #Peace #Love #Life
December 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Yeah...? What of it?" she says!
December 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I don't have a picture of it, but Eleanor, here, is also endlessly fascinated by shadows on walls.
December 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”

~ John O’Donohue

#Nature #Photography #Art #Abstract #ImageAndVerse #Peace #Love #Light
December 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Sunlight passing through rippling water can make even the ordinary stones at the bottom of a stream seem to sparkle & shine like luminous jewels.

#Photography #Nature #Art #Abstract #RockinTuesday #Radiance #Peace #Love #Light
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I like this *A LOT*

The colors, pattern... yes!

I take mostly abstract pictures, but of the water, & it's patterns of reflectivity, & clarity, ripples/waves...etc.

Reminds me quite a bit of an image I captured just the other day.

Everything is made from the same interference patterns it seems!
December 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"You will always find an answer in the sound of water."

~ Zhuangzi

#BlueSkyMonday #Photography #Nature #Art #Abstract #Reflections #ImageAndVerse #Illumination #Flowing #Peace #Love #Light
December 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
When I put my ear to Stella's side... it almost sounds, as her motor starts, like first rumblings that come from the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Something supernatural is happening in there!
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
If you look closely, you'll notice that Eleanor, here, is the guardian of the hot air supply register!

She clearly loved her work!
December 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"You are a pool of clear water where the light plays."

~ Jeanette Winterson

#Nature #Photography #ImageAndVerse #ColorADay #Art #Abstract #Peace #Love #Light
December 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Appeared in my inbox & thought of your post...

It seems a lot of our lived depend on our personal & societal definitions.

These things, however, can be fluid.
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Bare trees, blue sky above... fallen leaves below... & a moody, curved, moving mirror of a stream between.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Sky #Nature #Photography #Art #Abstract #Peace #Love #Light
December 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
A self-portrait of many small, colored stones tied together by light, moving water, & a little imagination...

#nature #photography #art #abstract #color #peace #love #light
December 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Stella & Eleanor will each crawl into the bathroom sink to make their observations, record their cat data!

I'm their personal property, & thus, very much their business at all times.... LOL!

Such is life!
December 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Yellow sunlight bends & folds through ripples of a running stream flowing over red & clay colored bedrock, while a few small small waves reflect the bright sky on the water's surface...

#nature #photography #art #abstract #reflections #saturation #vibrant #liquid #ripples #peace #love #light
December 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Very sorry for your loss.

Sadly my own mother passed away last week, & I took this photograph of a slowly moving stream.

I like to look into the water, & see what's there... above, below, right on the surface.

There is always a surreal quality to reality surrounding loss.

Until we meet again...🌻
December 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Many interwoven threads of sunlight pulsing & undulating warmly within & around a stable cresting ripple in a cool mountain stream.

#photography #art #abstract #nature #peace #love #light #insight
December 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
There's a lot of luck involved when it comes to actually capturing the essence of cats in photos, or videos, & thus it's extremely gratifying when an amusing moment or likeness is caught.

Eleanor's posturing & the build-up to her "assault" on Stella just makes me laugh out loud.

(Excuse the mess😉)
December 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Stella (dilute calico) & Eleanor (tux/hood~cape) send their regards to you, Jennifer, Ariel, & Caliban!

Hope you're all well!

Peace. 🌻
December 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Towards the banks of some streams, in some select, quiet places, the surface of the nearly still water moves almost like smoke, magnifying & distorting the reflective sheen like a funhouse mirror.

#nature #photography #art #abstract #movement #distortion #reflection #peace #love #vision
December 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Pebbles underneath fanning ripples of chilly water reflecting a moody, late autumn sky...

#nature #photography #abstract #art #reflections #impermanence #flowing #peace #love #insight
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM