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ATL Bruce
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Earthling. f/8 and be there. 📷 🫘

Mostly a watcher ("lurker") here. Dumped the "bird site" late 2022 and went to Mastodon. Got on Bluesky earlier in 2024. 🚫 DMs for now. If you're following me to promote your OF: Now Blocking
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@muellershewrote.com What's the model of this axolotl? www.cbsnews.com/news/harvard... #goodnews #axolotl
When a Harvard team lost its research funding into the axolotl, a 6-year-old girl came to their rescue
Earlier this year, a Harvard research team studying the axolotl, a salamander with the superpower to regrow body parts, lost almost all its government funding.
www.cbsnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Been a while since I posted. Recently took a trip with extended family to the Georgia Safari Conservation Park (georgiasafari.com), a private animal preserve east of Atlanta. #photography #zebra #kudu #animals
Photo of a Zebra. The black and white striped animal resembles a horse. The photo is head-on, the animal looking in the direction of the camera, walking toward the camera in a grass field Photo of a Greater Kudu. The photo is looking at the animal from its right side. This is a large African antelope. The coat is gray with thin vertical white stripes. The antlers are large and in a loose spiral.
October 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The Savannah River at Savannah, Georgia at dawn on September 4, 2025. Venus can be seen high in the sky.
Photo looking east just before sunrise. The sky transitions from deep blue to orange as it nears the horizon. There is a wide river and the sky is reflected in the river. On the right side of the riverbank are some lights on some riverside industrial sites. High in the photos is a small, bright planet Venus
September 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Shot this earlier today (August 19) at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. I'm in Minneapolis for a work trip and took advantage of some free time to visit the Sculpture Garden and the MIA. #photography #worldphotographyday #museum #art #Minneapolis #framing
Photograph of a painting on the all of a museum. The painting is in color, of a winged human figure wearing blue clothing and red-lined cape. The painting is framed by out-of focus black metal handrail
August 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Okefenokee mining plan stopped by land and mining rights purchase by @conservationfnd.bsky.social www.wabe.org/conservation...
Conservation land deal stops Okefenokee mining plan
After six years, the controversial plan to mine next to Georgia’s beloved Okefenokee Swamp has been halted.  The Conservation Fund, a nonprofit organization specializing in the acquisition of at-risk ...
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June 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Beach sunrise on Sunday. #photography #silentsunday #fathersday #sunrise
Sunrise at a beach. The sun has just fully appeared above clouds on the horizon. Another dark cloud is in the top of the frame, with the underside lit with orange from the sun.
June 17, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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#Photography

📷 Dorothea Lange,
born on this day, 1895
May 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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A #photography 🧵without photos. For the past several years, I have taken photos at industry events my company supports and participates in. It gradually has changed in some cases with doing broader event photos. I'm not, strictly speaking, paid to take photos, so my running joke is... 1/4
May 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Sunrise over a nearby lake from a few weeks ago. #photography #sunrise #lake #refelction
Just before sunrise over a lake. The sky is a mixture of of clouds and clear, blue a the top of the photo with an orange glow closer to the horizon. These are all reflected in the lake, but the surface is not smooth, so the reflection is somewhat fuzzy
May 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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For Mother's Day, a photo taken in the 1980s at an Atlanta bookstore. Left to right: My mother, Helen Gurley Brown, and me. Mom originally met Helen Gurley in the 1950s, after they each were 1 of 10 winners of a Glamour Magazine writing contest.
Photo of three people in a bookstore. Two women and one man. The moan on the left is wearing a red and black jacket and black top. The woman in the center is wearing a red dress and a colorful scarf. The man on the right is wearing a dark jacket, necktie and white shirt. All three are smiling for the photo.
May 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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May 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Ours is not a caravan of despair. A great evening in Atlanta on Friday night (April 25) with Nadia Bolz-Weber #redstaterevival #nadiabolz-weber #stlukesatlanta Thanks to stlukesatlanta.org for hosting
Crowd of people in a church sanctuary listening to Nadia Bolz-Weber Nadia Bolz-Weber speaking in a church sanctuary
April 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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its-chusday.bsky.social chusday @its-chusday.bsky.social · Apr 14
Rest in peace, Shuet Ling Wong. Texas and America did not keep you safe. Thank you Mabel Wong for sharing this story about how pedestrians are consistently disregarded in our nation. I’m so sorry for the loss of your mother.

www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
Do not call what happened to my mother an accident | Opinion
Shuet Ling Wong was crossing Bellaire in the crosswalk when a pickup killed her. Her daughter calls for limits on vehicle height and weight to save lives.
www.houstonchronicle.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
April 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Highway bridge over the Tennessee River at Decatur, Alabama, taken after sunset. 4 second exposure to let the vehicle lights show the movement. Taken from Rhodes Ferry Park decaturparks.com/locations/rh...
#photography #bluehour #bridge #river #DecagturAlabama
A vehicle bridge over a wide river at dusk. The sky is dark blue and the same color is reflected in the river. There are streetlights on the bridge at either end of the photo and navigation lights under the bridge, all also reflected in the water. The exposure is long, so the lights of vehicles crossing the bridge are long streaks and the reflection of those in the river is more diffuse.
March 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The Legacy Sites are currently featured in Atlanta Magazine. "The powerful Legacy Sites help us remember who we were—and who we can become."
Must-Do South: Montgomery, Alabama
www.atlantamagazine.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Another "f/8 and be there" moment. I made a point of taking a slight detour to go to Providence Canyon gastateparks.org/ProvidenceCa... last week. The canyon is inadvertently man-made from poor farming practices in the 19th century. #photography #stateparks #canyon
Providence Canyon, Georgia. This canyon eroded from poor farming practices from the 19th century. The sky is mostly cloudy. The canyons are a mixture of orange, gray, and white. The eroded walls are steep and rugged. A variety of trees, mostly evergreen, grow in the canyons.
March 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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March 7: 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. 2 photos, 55 years apart near the Pettus Bridge. 1 on that day, the other taken when John Lewis' casket was drawn across the bridge. I'm struck by the difference in the role and affect of the AL State Troopers. #bloodysunday #goodtrouble #photography
Black and white photo taken on Sunday. March 7, 1965, "Bloody Sunday." On the left, Alabama State Troopers are approaching civil rights marchers on the right. The marchers are stopped and the lead State Trooper is wagging his finger at the marchers. In the moments after this photo was taken, the Troopers will attack the marchers. Color photo taken shortly after John Lewis's flag draped casket was drawn by horses across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, July 26, 2020. In striking contrast to the black and white photo taken in 1965, two Alabama State Troopers stand at attention, saluting Lewis. One of the Troopers in this photo is black, something not possible in 1965. The first black Troopers in Alabama were in 1972.
March 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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This is one reason I almost always carry my cameras on work road trips. At Hilton, Georgia, I saw these G&W Hilton and Albany units. I haven't seen an SD-45 in a long time, much less in (faded) UP livery. f/8 and be there. #photography #trains #railfan #G&W #diesel
Three diesel locomotives. The sky is blue with a few clouds. Two of the locomotives are Electro-Motive (General Motors) SD-40-2 painted in orange with two black horizontal stripes - the colors of the holding company. The center locomotive is an Electro-Motive SD-45 in gray and yellow of the Union Pacific. The paint is faded and has rust showing through much of the paint. The center locomotive of a three-unit set. An Electro-Motive SD-45 in gray and yellow of the Union Pacific. The paint is faded and has rust showing through much of the yellow paint.
March 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
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February 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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February 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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My artist daughter participates in my Dad Jokes. This was based on some word-play around "Toulouse-Lautrec." The currency on Triskelion in ST:TOS was quatloos. Based on "Seated Dancer in Pink Tights," it's "Seated Fighter in Silver Boots " #art #Lautrec #ST:TOS #startrek #dadjoke
A drawing based on Toulouse-Lautrec's "Seated Dancer in Pink Tights " The character in this drawing is a depiction of Shawna, a "Thrall" or fighter, from the Star Trek episode "The Gamsters of Triskelion." She is seated with her arms resting on her legs, her hands clasped. She wears a silver two-piece outfit and silver knee-high boots. Her head is turned to her right and a red earring is visible. Her hair is also silver and falls below her shoulders.
February 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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@muellershewrote.bsky.social "U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) was peppered with boos and catcalls throughout a town hall meeting... Thursday, as hundreds of critics jeered the Republican ..."

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bluestein.bsky.social Greg Bluestein @bluestein.bsky.social · Feb 21
U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was peppered with boos and catcalls throughout a town hall meeting in Roswell late Thursday, as hundreds of critics jeered the Republican for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda during his first month in office. #gapol ajc.com/politics/mcc...
Georgia congressman confronted by angry crowd over support for Trump’s agenda
U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was met with boos and jeers at a town hall in a north Atlanta suburb Thursday.
ajc.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The lake at Little Ocmulgee State Park near McRae, Georgia shortly after sunset. #photography #bluehour #sunset #reflections
A lake with a smooth surface shortly after sunset. The sky is blue with a slight orange above the trees on the far shoreline. In the right side of the frame is a lone tree. Everything is reflected in the surface of the lake.
February 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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#photography #art
February 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM