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Dylan Mirales
@realistic.dog
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Woodland photographer based in Pittsburgh, PA
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a windy day, a fluffy dog
Cooper, and black and white, fluffy Husky mix, looks back at the camera while standing on the side walk. His tail and butt floof are puffed out from the wind.
December 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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📷 Playground under the stars
Children’s playground featuring a couple of slides and a tunnel to crawl through underneath the Milky Way
December 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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📷 Distant lights outside Bryce Canyon

#utah #brycecanyon #astrophotography #astronomy #milkyway #space #nightphotography
The glow of a distant town under near a starry sky.
December 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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📷 Night views from the top of a hill in New Hampshire

#night #photography #eastcoastkin #nightphotography #landscape #woodland #firetower #firewatch
Wide angle shot of a fire tower and radio tower from below. Lights on the radio tower illuminate the ground and trees in red light. The contrasts against the blue, starry sky. A view from midway up a fire tower looking off towards the mountains. The sun has just set so there is a slight orange glow above the mountains. There is a radio tower on the right side of frame that illuminates the woods below.
December 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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📷 Going through some old shots
from my trip through Utah in 2017.

#nightscape #utah #canyonlands #nationalpark #camping #milkyway #astronomy #astrophotography #space #stars #photography
A break in the clouds reveal the Milky Way above a campsite lit up by a lantern in a tent.
December 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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📷 Foggy walk through the cemetery this morning shot on the Light L16 and processed in B&W

#pennsylvania #lightl16 #photography #computationalphotography #eastcoastkin
Lines of gravestones in a cemetery. In the distance is a small chapel. A bare tree rises up to the left of frame. A trunk of a tree against a foggy cemetery background A small chapel in the center of frame surrounded by a few bare trees and gravestones. A dog sniffs the ground in front of a gravestone that reads, “not dead, but sleeping.”
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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📷 Soft glow

#moon #sunset #clouds #pennsylvania #photography #eastcoastkin #nature
A small, glowing crescent moon hangs above some purple clouds against the pale, blue sky.
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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he just wants a big, cozy chair
photo of a black, fluffy dog with blue eyes curled up tight on a white chair staring towards the camera
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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The neighbors are visiting

#deer #backyard #pennsylvania #naturalist #wildlife #photography #animals
A deer stands next to a bare tree in a yard. Leaves are scattered on the ground. Out of focus in the background is the head of an other deer.
November 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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📷 We already don’t get enough sun as it is in Pittsburgh for most of the year so I’d prefer if it were slightly foggy all the time instead of overcast.

#autumn #frickpark #hiking #forest #woodland #nature #naturalist #naturephotography #pennsylvania #landscape
Wide angle photo of a foggy forest in fall. The wide angle exaggerates the perspective of the trees as they stretch towards the sky.
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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📷 There are still some pockets of great color in Frick Park

#hiking #fall #autumn #pittsburgh #pennsylvania #frickpark #eastcoastkin #naturalist #woodland #photography
A wide trail weaves through autumn colored woods.
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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📷 From a hike along Meadow Run a couple years ago

#hiking #photography #longexposure #autumn #fall #pennsylvania #nature #naturephotography #woodland #forest #ohiopyle
A small waterfall along a stream in the woods. The water flows over rocks. The forest is mixed with green and yellow leaves. Some fallen leaves are on the rocks in the foreground.
November 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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📷 Streamside Solitude

#ohiopyle #pennsylvania #hiking #naturephotography #naturalist #woodland #statepark #autumn #photography #landscape
A rocky creek flows through an autumn forest. The leaves are changing. Fallen leaves cover the rocks on the bank. In the foreground, a tree grows along the banks with its roots partially exposed.
November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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📷 The ruins of an old stone house in the middle of the woods at Linn Run

#photography #ruins #abandoned #woodland #pennsylvania #nature #hiking #naturalist #autumn
Ruins of an old stone house in the woods. You can see an outer wall and chimney still standing. The leaves on the trees are a mix of yellow and green.
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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📷 Among the cascades and rapids in Slippery Rock Creek there are pockets of stillness that reflect the forest above.

#photography #hiking #pennsylvania #westernpa #naturephotography #naturalist #outdoors #woodland #landscape
A photo of a still creek, the surface reflects a mix of bare branches and green leaves on it.
October 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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📷 McConnells Mill is one of my favorite hiking spots that I keep coming back to. It’s spectacular in any season you visit.

#pennsylvania #hiking #photography #landscape #woodland #hiking #naturalist #statepark #forest #autumn
Photo of a small cascade in a rocky stream running through a forest. It is framed by trees in the foreground. Dry leaves cover the mossy rocks along the bank.
October 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Here is a bonus Cooper!
Cooper, black and white husky mix, sits for a portrait and looks off to the left. He is contrasted against and out of focus background of golden autumn leaves that are also reflected in the water.
October 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Had a weekend full of hikes with Coop

#photography #dogs #hiking #pennsylvania #autumn #statepark #fall
Cooper, a fluffy, black and white husky mix, stands in a creek. He stares off into the distance. There are trees with yellow and green leaves on the opposite side of the creek.
October 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Here’s a mushroom for your Monday morning

#mushroom #fungus #mushroommonday #fungifriends #hiking #macrophotography #photography #nature #naturalist #pennsylvania
Photo of a brownish-orangish mushroom growing from a mossy stump.
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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i went to the bog
A picture of a high elevation bog. It looks like a field with pools of water in it with a few trees growing in it. The perimeter of the bog is lined with pine trees.
October 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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📷 I watch people slide down the natural water slides along Meadow Run and know if I tried that I’d be bent in half

#ohiopyle #pennsylvania #hiking #nature #naturephotography #landscape #naturalist #statepark #autumn #photography
A long exposure shot of water zig zagging through a stream that cuts through rock. Above it are green rhododendrons and trees with yellow leaves.
October 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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📷 Slip below the sky

#sunset #lakeerie #greatlakes #photography #landscape #naturalist #naturephotography
The sun rests just above the horizon as it begins to set over Lake Erie. Its light is reflected in a line on the tops of the ripples in the water.
October 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Watching the sun dip below Lake Erie

#lakeerie #greatlakes #sunset
October 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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📷 One day I’ll make some time to get under dark skies again and take some new pictures of the stars (I’ve been saying this for six years)

#astrophotography #milkyway #space #astronomy #galaxy #stargazing
Close up of a section of the Milky Way galaxy. A dark band runs between a dusty, yellowish arm of the galaxy.
October 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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📷 Strange light over the alley
The clouds glow orange as the sun sets over an alley. Several garages line the right side of the frame. A cracked, road that has been paved over many times extends off into the distance.
September 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM