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Qsteve

@quizzicalsteve.bsky.social

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”
-Louis Pasteur

#sonyalpha #sonya9 #tamron #36mm #sanfran #sanfrancisco #sfexploratorium #exploratorium #norcal #photography #artinstallation #buckyball #Buckminsterfullerene #c60

January 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM

Qsteve

@quizzicalsteve.bsky.social

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
-Mark Twain

#ferry #larkspur #35mm

January 8, 2026 at 4:30 PM

Qsteve

@quizzicalsteve.bsky.social

"No sun outlasts its sunset, but it will rise again and bring the dawn."
-Maya Angelou

#sonyalpha #sonya9 #tamron #36mm #sanfran #sanfrancisco #sfexploratorium #exploratorium #norcal #photography #colorphotography #sun #artinstallation #OSIAOS

January 6, 2026 at 4:52 PM

Qsteve

@quizzicalsteve.bsky.social

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”
-Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

#sonyalpha #sonya9 #sonomacounty #santarosa #16mm #viltrox #viltrox16mmf18fe #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #bnwphotography #bnw #bnwmood #bnwphoto #treepeople #treeart

January 5, 2026 at 6:39 PM

Qsteve

@quizzicalsteve.bsky.social

“I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
-René Char

"Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses"
-RATM

#sonyalpha #sony #sonya7iii #zeiss #50mm #downtown #losangeles #dtla #streetphotography #streetart #art #sixthstreetbridge #resistance #ice #fuckice #dhs #protest

December 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM

Qsteve

@quizzicalsteve.bsky.social

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
-Benjamin Franklin

#sonyalpha #sony #sonya7iii #zeiss #50mm #downtown #losangeles #dtla #6thstreetbridge #bridge #streetphotography #portraitphotography #portraitmood #portrait

December 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM

Qsteve

@quizzicalsteve.bsky.social

"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."
-Albert Einstein

#sonyalpha #sony #sonya7iii #zeiss #50mm #downtown #losangeles #dtla #unionstation #art #lunch #alonetime #lunch #solo #blackandwhitephotography #bnw #blackandwhite

December 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM

Qsteve

@quizzicalsteve.bsky.social

People are like triangles.They differ and match like triangles, and no matter how different their angles are, the sum will always be 180 degrees.While building our personal geometry, the first angle is for science, the second for art, and the third is for expression and communication. -Mahdi Mansour

December 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM

Qsteve

@quizzicalsteve.bsky.social

"Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly."

-A. G. Gaston

#sonyalpha #sony #sonya7iii #zeiss #50mm #downtown #losangeles #6thstreetbridge #bridge

December 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM

Qsteve

@quizzicalsteve.bsky.social

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."-Martin Luther King, Jr.

#sonyalpha #sony #sonya7iii #zeiss #50mm #downtown #losangeles #dtla #art #blackandwhitephotography #bnw #blackandwhite

December 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM

Qsteve

@quizzicalsteve.bsky.social

"The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles!"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
-Franz Kafka

#sonyalpha #sony #sonya7iii #tamron #40mm #downtown #losangeles #dtla #socal #photography #colorphotography #streetphotography #growingold #simplicity

December 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM

Qsteve

@quizzicalsteve.bsky.social

"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." -Walt Disney

#sonyalpha #sony #sonya7iii #disneyconcerthall #disney #tamron #47mm #downtown #losangeles #dtla #socal #blackandwhitephotography #bnw #blackandwhite

December 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM

Qsteve

@quizzicalsteve.bsky.social

“If fascism comes, it will not be identified with any 'shirt' movement, nor with an 'insignia,' but it will probably be 'wrapped up in the American flag and heralded as a plea for liberty and preservation of the constitution.”
-James Waterman Wise, Jr. [Georgia Congressman 1915-1925]