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Bill Beez
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Volunteer, photographer, avocational geologist. Retired IT. All pictures, except shares, are mine,
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Lunar Parhelia. Snow Canyon State Park, Ut, USA. Full moon on Feb 01, 2026
#Photography #Parhelia #Weather #Clouds #Moonrise #Astrophotography #TTartisan #SnowCanyon
11mm TTArtisan lens on a Canon R8. 30 second exposure, iso500, f4
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A better explanation than what I could find.
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Beautiful! 'Moondogs' are called paraselenae, paraselene singular. Parhelia means 'beside the Sun'. You've also got a lunar 22 degree halo and circumzenithal arc - lunar CZAs are pretty rare :)
February 5, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Lunar Parhelia. Snow Canyon State Park, Ut, USA. Full moon on Feb 01, 2026
#Photography #Parhelia #Weather #Clouds #Moonrise #Astrophotography #TTartisan #SnowCanyon
11mm TTArtisan lens on a Canon R8. 30 second exposure, iso500, f4
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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This lens goes to eleven. Lunar parhelia, ‘moon dogs’, in Snow Canyon State Park Ut.
#Photography #SnowCanyon #Moon #Clouds #Parhelia #Astrophotography #Moonrise #meteorology
lunar parhelia. Full moon Feb 1, 2026. Taken with a TTArtisan 11mm lens on a Canon R8. 30 second exposure @ f4, iso500.
February 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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Today, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of @wikipedia.org, which for a quarter of a century has been collaboratively built by unpaid strangers on the internet.
Wikipedia’s 25th birthday proves the power of free speech
If the global encyclopedia is going to thrive for the next 25 years, we must maintain and expand First Amendment protections
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January 15, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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Twin Point | Dark Sky View, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument

#NPS #NationalParkService #GrandCanyon-Parashant
Elevation: 5,702 Feet
January 6, 2026 at 4:25 AM
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Red Cliffs National Recreation Area; Utah, USA.
#Photography #RedRock #RedCliffs #NavajoSandstone #Utah #Hiking #SlotCanyon
December 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Beautiful lit tree in Holladay, Utah.

#ChristmasLights
#HolidayLights
December 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Poinsettia flower
#Photography #Macro #Flowers
Poinsettia flower at about 1x macro. Saturated (over?) red; contrast enhanced veins.
December 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Saquaro Cactus; this could be up to 175 years old. Saguaro National Park, Arizona, USA.
#Photography #Cactus #Saguaro #Arizona #Sonoran
December 12, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Ocotillo, Tuscon Mountain Park, Az
#Photography #cactus
December 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Christmas over Lake Havasu from the London Bridge
#Photography #NightPhotography #Night #Xmas #XmasLights #Havasu #LondonBridge
December 6, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Curves and arabesques in the Navajo sandstone. Snow Canyon State Park, UT.
#Photography #Geology #SnowCanyon #SedimentaryPetrology #NavajoSS #XBedding
November 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Alpenglow on the Pine Valley Mountains, Utah, USA. Not strictly alpenglow because this is looking north not east.
#Photography #Utah #PineValley #AlpenGlow #Sunsets #Clouds #Goldenhour
November 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Night of 11/11/25. As the show was winding down. More to the east than the north. Some city lights on the right side.
#Photography #Astronomy #Skies #Aurora #Arizona
Night of 11/11/2025 Aurora over the Beaver Dam Mountains in northern Arizona. Bright red aurora with some green at the horizon. A few clouds lit by city lights from the other side of the hill.
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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The last one was the cellphone picture. This is a pano from the MFT camera taken about 25 minutes later near the height of the activity we saw. Watch this space; tomorrow will be as it was almost done.
#Photography #Aurora #Astronomy #Skies #Clouds #Arizona
Aurora over the Beaver Dam Mountains from northern Arizona. Red skies with a stripe of green on the horizon.
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Aurora from Northern Arizona.
#photography #astromomy #auora #arizona
Aurora above the Beaver Dam mountains. Pink skies with green in the horizon
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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US50 thru Nevada is called the Loneliest Highway. NV722 is a former route of US50 which is even lonelier. It traverses the 25mya Desatoya Caldera. This canyon is where 722 crosses the rim of that caldera. The rocks are welded tuffs.
#Photography #US50 #Nevada #LoneliestHighway #Caldera #Oligocene
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Shasta Lily? Taken near Mt. Shasta, CA.
#Photography #Wildflower #Flowers #Lilies #MtShasta #Shasta
Shasta Lily (? Washington Lily) at dusk against a dark background
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Lost Creek covered bridge. Lake County Oregon.
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Cellphone pano + RawTherapee.
#Photography #CoveredBridges #TimberFraming #Panorama #Oregon #LostCreekBridge #LakeCounty
Cellphone panorama of the inside of a covered bridge. I found a filter to ‘DeFish’ and photograph. Turns out the slide goes both ways.
November 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Stone flowers?
#SensoryArt #Patterns
November 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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When basalt cools the resulting contraction can create hexagonal weathering. Navajo Sandstone can also show hexagonal weathering; but, it is caused by expansion of the rock as it decompresses when exposed.
#Photography #Sandstone #NavajoSandstone #Utah #YantFlat #Geology
Hexagonal weathering in Navajo Sandstone. Caused as the rock is exhumed by erosion. Since it lithified a depth under higher pressure the lower depth/exposure causes the rock to expand slightly. The polygonal patterns form to accomodate the increased volume. http://giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.php/geosites/article/view/62
November 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Same storm, less lightning more composition.
#Photography #Storms #Lightning #Blitzortung #Clouds #Weather #Sunset
Ligthning behind thunderheads at sunset.
October 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Great thunderstorm last night. Kind of hard to frame a random event. The bolt on the right was very close; no delay between the light and the sound.
#Photography #Storms #Lightning #Blitzortung #Thunderstorm
Two lightning bolts. This is two separate flashes captured by a long exposure.
October 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Store bought orchids; didn’t notice the variety before giving it away. But I did take a snapshot.

#Photography #Flowers #Orchids
October 11, 2025 at 5:04 AM