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Sherri Mabe

@starlitwaltz.bsky.social

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A fondness for the mountains, but a reverence for the prairie. Monochrome infrared photographer living in Colorado. Sony 📷 🦋 #EastCoastKin Arts Collective Member 🚫AI/NFTs https://linktr.ee/SherriMabe

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Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · Apr 19

“You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.”

James V. Hart, Hook

#dream
#blueskyartshow
#classicmono
#EastCoastKin
#photography
#bnw
#longexposure

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Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 3d

“Even So
Love, if it is love, never goes away.
It is embedded in us,
like seams of gold in the Earth, waiting for light, waiting to be struck.”

~Alice Walker

Another #stunday image. Same tree, different composition.
#eastcoastkin
#autumn
#blueskyphotography

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Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 5d

Crossing Open Ground

Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 5d

🙏Thank you!

Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you!😊

Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 5d

I know what you’re saying, no worries. Just my perfectionist self being critical.😂

Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you, Armand!😊

Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 5d

It’s definitely compressed…😩 Vero does a good job with removing some of that.

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Davesphotos 🇨🇦 🍁🍁🍁 @davesadventures.bsky.social · 5d

A sea #Scape for Friday! looking over the Pacific and sunset! #Photography #EastCoastKin #ICM

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Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 5d

“The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.”

— Barry López

#scape
#EastCoastKin
#ir
#landscape
#blueskyphotography

Sandstone formations preexisting the Rocky Mountains. Black and white infrared image.

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Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you! I was charmed, simply gorgeous light. Of course, I’m a fan of northern and/or winter light.

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Thale Osvik Photography @thaleo.bsky.social · 10d

Afterglow

I found some darkness in the midst of summer 🖤

#blackandwhite #photography #bnwphoto #nature #monochrome #classicmono #bnw_nature #photo #norway #noiretblanc #mood #forest #ilovenorway #thale

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Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 10d

Honestly, the light herein Colorado is intense because of altitude, I’m not a fan of it until winter. Scotland was further north, lower altitude so it he light is perfect. Less shocking color in the middle of the day.

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Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 10d

It really was quite incredible.

Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you, Alina!🤍

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Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you!😊

Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 10d

Definitely!💯

Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you, Jim for the lovely words!

Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 10d

Scotland for #stunday!

#eastcoastkin
#autumn
#landscape
#color

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Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 11d

Most welcome!! Have a lovely weekend.😊

Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 11d

I think there is something in the air, many people are in a this same mindset. Thank you!🤍

Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you! Been taking much needed break from photography and social media.Contemplating my next path in life, and my art…advocacy seems prominent.

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Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 11d

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say

J.R.R. Tolkien

#road #blueskyartshow #ir

Black and white images of a highway along the Oregon Trail in Nebraska.

Most Native Americans tolerated wagon trains passing through their territories. Many pioneers would not have made it if it had not been for trading with the tribes along the trail. There were conflicts between Native Americans and emigrants along the trail, but, when compared to the number of people traveling the Oregon Trail, deaths by Indians attacks were very rare.

Emigrants on the Oregon Trail suffered tremendous hardships. Death was an ever-present companion. It is estimated that as many as 1 in 10 emigrants died on the trail—between 20,000 and 30,000 people.

The majority of deaths occurred because of diseases caused by poor sanitation. Cholera and typhoid fever were the biggest killers on the trail. Another major cause of death was falling off of a wagon and getting run over. This was not just the case for children; many adults also died from this type of accident.

The idea of crossing "the great American desert" and the perceived dangers caused many people who were not hunters or soldiers to purchase firearms, many for the first time, which they were not used to handling. Mishaps with firearms caused many injuries and deaths.

During eight decades in the 1800s the Oregon Trail served as a natural corridor as the United States grew from the eastern half of the continent toward the west coast. The Oregon Trail ran approximately 2,000 miles west from Missouri toward the Rocky Mountains and ended in Oregon's Willamette Valley. The California Trail branched off in southern Idaho and brought miners to the gold fields of Sierra Nevada. The Mormon Trail paralleled much of the Oregon Trail, connecting Council Bluffs to Salt Lake City.

National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center

Scottsbluff, NE

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Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 12d

❤️ A wonderful idea!

Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 12d

It was a beautiful day evening!

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Liza @photosky20.bsky.social · 13d

Night’s Alchemy
#photography

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