Bryan Steffy
LightNews LightNews
banner
bryansteffy.bsky.social
Bryan Steffy
@bryansteffy.bsky.social
320 followers 320 following 740 posts
Artist, Photographer, Storyteller

www.bryansteffy.com
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
bryansteffy.bsky.social
Bryan Steffy @bryansteffy.bsky.social · Jul 6
#BlueSkyArtShow #Sideways
“The Last Explorer”
Once sent to chart the silence between stars, now drifting—battered, forgotten, and strangely beautiful. He didn’t find life... but somehow became himself instead.
#SurrealArt
#SpaceArt #AstroVibes #IndieArtist #GalaxyVibes
#WestCoastKin #Nikon
The Last Explorer shows a crushed aluminum can in the lower left, torn open like a metallic flower. Its jagged edges shine with vivid hues—blue, orange, purple, and gold—like it’s been scorched or transformed. The inside glows with warm copper tones. Behind it stretches the vastness of space: the Milky Way arcs across the sky, a dense river of stars in amber, white, and brown. The contrast is striking—manmade ruin against cosmic stillness. The title suggests the can as a forgotten voyager, a discarded object that once moved with purpose, now drifting alone through the stars.
bryansteffy.bsky.social
For my third #BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant shade, “The Scream”. Suggestion: shut off all light, enlarge it and look at it in the dark. I created this series to be viewed like that. #Nikon #PhotoOfTheDay #PhotographersUnited #WestCoastKin #Art #PhotoArt #Abstract
The Scream is an image with a circle of light with two reflections that look like eyes on a half silver and half whispy deep blue background. Under the eyes where a mouth would be is an exploding water jet and crater from a drop of water forms a screaming shaped mouth.
January 11, 2026 at 4:15 AM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
Going back a stretch for the #Vibrant #BlueSkyArtShow my birthday, a photo you’re seeing for the first time. I create art from imagination and awe.
#Nikon #Art #Abstract #WestCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #Photo
It appears as streaking ball inside a metallic shell in a black void. Firey blurred trails that appear as flames, trail behind it. It stretches from the right upper corner to almost 2/3rds of the frame diagonally towards the left corner of the image. It was created by hardening a couple aluminum foil balls, I ran through every dryer cycle for about 4 months. Adding layer and layer to the balls. From there the process was to use the spheres in a variety of photos. The trail was, dyed and dried hot glue, streaks. It took about 5 months to get to this particular image. I think. I’ll name it, Vibrancy Is A State Of Mind.
January 10, 2026 at 10:34 PM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow
Reality is #Vibrant

#WestCoastKin
#Abstract
#PhotographersUnited
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
Water drips on a vibrant metallic red/purple background.
January 10, 2026 at 4:55 PM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow
#NewYear
May the flow of creativity never stop. #WestCoastKin
#Nikon #PhotoOfTheDay
#PhotographersOfBlueSky #Abstract #Art
A modern faucet flowing water. Mineral deposits are seen through the flowing water and a design appears in the water as it flows out of the open faucet.
January 4, 2026 at 7:13 AM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow The #MonarchButterfly is celebrated during the Dia de los Muertos #Holiday as representing the spirits of loved ones. This #Butterfly was seen at the Desert Botanical Garden in Scottsdale, AZ on 12/23/25
#Nikon
#Voigtlander
#WestCoastKin
#Nature
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#Photo
A orange, brown, white spotted and black Monarch butterfly sits on a plant. Taken on 12/23/25, Nikon Z9, Voigtlander 65mm APO Lanthar lens.
December 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Reposted by Bryan Steffy
bryansteffy.bsky.social
Happy 1 year #BlueSkyArtShow it’s fun to submit and to see others submission. For this weeks #OpenHouse from my archive way way back in 07ish, a photo titled “Merry F’in Christmas”.
#Nikon #Portrait #WestCoastKin #Art #MerryChristmas
A portrait of 3 go-go dancers in their dancing outfits, tall stiletto boots, fishnets, short short shorts, red bras, blonde hair and Santa hats. In the center of them is Little Tim, a little person who manned the elevator at the once world famous nightclub at the Hard Rock Las Vegas, Body English. Tim is smoking, he was a chain smoker and he’s wearing a tux and Santa hat. The photo was taken as a promotional series for a show at the hotel at the time, Beacher’s Madhouse. I titled it “Merry F’in Christmas” because that’s what came to mind during the session.
December 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
Happy 1 year #BlueSkyArtShow it’s fun to submit and to see others submission. For this weeks #OpenHouse from my archive way way back in 07ish, a photo titled “Merry F’in Christmas”.
#Nikon #Portrait #WestCoastKin #Art #MerryChristmas
A portrait of 3 go-go dancers in their dancing outfits, tall stiletto boots, fishnets, short short shorts, red bras, blonde hair and Santa hats. In the center of them is Little Tim, a little person who manned the elevator at the once world famous nightclub at the Hard Rock Las Vegas, Body English. Tim is smoking, he was a chain smoker and he’s wearing a tux and Santa hat. The photo was taken as a promotional series for a show at the hotel at the time, Beacher’s Madhouse. I titled it “Merry F’in Christmas” because that’s what came to mind during the session.
December 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow Another of my #FavoriteThings is the #Moon. I always think if I drive straight toward it, eventually I’ll catch it. Science and stuff ruins that imaginary past time, but, still the moon is amazing.
#Nikon #WestCoastKin #AstroPhotography #Sky
From 2024. That’s Searchlight, Nevada
The moon, full and massive in the nights sky rises over the small town of Searchlight Nevada. The moon an orange ball looks huge in the sky.
December 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow
One of my #FavoriteThings is birds and one of my favorite birds are pigeons. They clean up after us. Without them the litter would be overwhelming. They carry communications for us. Where we are, pigeons are and we hate them for it.
#WestCoastKin
#Nikon
#PhotographersUnited
From 2022 a pigeon feather. It took several days of soaking with food coloring to dye the feather. I then cleaned the center. The pigeon is hated. Yet it eats our trash, our litter and it does tasks for us. But, they’re viewed as ugly and dirty and dumb. Imagine if pigeons were rainbow colored this feather is a mix of blue, purple, yellow, orange, green and black, white and gray.
December 14, 2025 at 5:29 AM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
#BluSkyArtShow
One of my #FavoriteThings are birds. Birds fall into 3 categories. Pests. Foods. or Idols. Even on a cloudy #PNW day at Long Beach, the brown pelicans were fun to watch.
#Nikon
#WestCoastKin
#Birds
#Pelicans
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
A brown pelican flies against an all white cloudy sky making the pelican look as if it was in a high key fashion portrait. The pelican is tho the far right and gliding on its enormous wings. It was raining. More accurately it was misting not raining. A few wing feathers on the pelican can be seen as an iridescent yellow brown. It appears to missing whole feathers and chunks of feathers.
December 14, 2025 at 4:31 AM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow
Sometimes the #Sky is so dramatic I have to stop what I’m doing and watch the light fade. Sometimes I have a camera. From 2023. #Clouds #Nikon #WestCoastKin #Nevada #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Art #SkyScape
Dramatic white to dark gray clouds dominate the image. Blue sky peaks through from deep blue to light blue and the dry lake bead and distant mountains are silhouetted.
December 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow
We look to the #Sky for so many things, but answers are the ones we find just for us. 2023 Nevada #Sunset
#Nikon
#WestCoastKin
#PhotographersOfBlueSky #PhotoOfTheDay #Art #Clouds
A dramatic sunset with yellow and brown and black tones and whispy clouds. Small sky blues peak through the clouds.
December 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow Throughout human history, #Fire has been a source of #Warmth A project from 2022, capturing matches as they explode in flames. The alt text has more info.
#Nikon #WestCoastKin #PhotoOfTheDay
#PhotoArt
#ArtOfPhotography
#PhotographersUnited
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
A bunch of wooden stick matches explode in orange, red, yellow, blue, pink and purple flames against a black background. The soft light swirls around the blackened match heads, fractions of seconds in time. Timing and white balance creates the magical rainbow of colors and shutter speed and aperture created the depth and motion of the explosion. Setting the camera within inches of the matches, I used my left hand to ignite them with a long lighter and I used my right hand to plunge the shutter release as the chain reaction occurred. This project used several thousand matches over weeks of daily shoots. 4-5 hours a shoot to set up, focus and photograph something so common we never watch, in awe. This is but one of the many images I created during this campaign. I even made a Spotify playlist called Matches which was the soundtrack to the series.
November 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow During a brief break in a #PNW drizzle, pink camellia flowers looked stunning. And, there within the petals #Small ants wandering around. I know I looked goofy buzzing around from #Flower to flower saying out loud, whoa! May we never lose our wonder.
#Rain #WestCoastKin
#Art #Nature
A light pink to deep pink camellia flower with drops of fresh rain and an ant, searching. The yellow stamen hidden with the center.
November 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow Las Vegas is an exceptionally #Bright city. Cruisin’ the strip, we used to race on the strip, it looks like the jump to hyperspace.
#Nikon #Photo #PhotographersOfBlueSky #WestCoastKin
A rainbow of streaking lights on Las Vegas boulevard, the strip.
November 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow in a 2024 summer #Evening from high atop what used to be the MGM, then Bally’s and now Horseshoe, a place I spent a lot of my childhood and youth, a photo of my home, beautiful #LasVegas #Photo #WestCoastKin #Cityscape #MyHomeTown #PhotographersOfBlueSky
A view of Las Vegas north from the Horseshoe which used to be Bally’s and before that the MGM. Blue cloudy skies and the Las Vegas sphere are seen. The sphere is displaying the iconic “Steel Your Face” skull image from the Grateful Dead. Also seen is the High Roller observation wheel as well as several casino towers. Harrahs, the Linq, the Venetian, the Palazzo, the Wynn and Encore as well as Fontainebleau.
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow on a desert October #Evening in 2024 the tools with which I create art became the art. #Sunset #Nikon #WestCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlurSky #PhotographersUnited
A sunset is reflected in the lens of a camera. The ND filter, casting the clouds and sky and ball of light, the sun an eerie red magenta while the brown dirt of the desert and the black body of the camera offer high contrast to the reflection.
November 9, 2025 at 5:24 AM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow
On a drizzly #PNW #Evening I yelled, “stop the car!” And jumped out and took this photo. Save Drugs, indeed.
#Photo #Neon #Art #WestCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky
A red neon sign reads “SAVE DRUGS” against a moody evening cloudy sky. A red neon lightening bolt splits the top of the sign in half.
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow a throwback to 2017 #Inside an empty parking garage. I wanted to be with her forever. I wanted to hear her whispers and feel her breath. I don’t know why. I don’t know how. She left me empty. #PoetryInPictures
#Photo
#Photography
#WestCoastKin
#UrbanLandscape
A black and white image of an empty parking garage. A deep sense of loneliness and isolation echoes in the image.
October 26, 2025 at 6:23 AM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
Today’s #BlueSkyArtShow post. Cinnamon rolls are my top 5 sweet treat, amongst cake, cookies, pie, danish and cheesecake. In the mid morning #Glow of a rainy 120 year old #Vancouver home, coffee and a cinnamon roll are perfect.
#WestcoastKin
#PhotographersUnited #Art #PNW #LifeIsArt
A dark wood framed window with dark wood blinds, slightly open backlight a book box, a giant cinnamon roll and a white cup of coffee on a light wood coffee table. A dim Persian rug under it and a green modern short back couch with matching green pillows behind it. The room is glowing.
October 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
#TheRoad has always been a place of reflection. Sometimes I go for drives with no destination in mind. Just go. Reflect. Think.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#PhotographersOfBlueSky #PhotographersUnoted #WestCoastKin
#Photo #Desert #BlueSky
A reflection of of the Jeep I’m driving in a mirrored tanker truck on a two lane highway in the desert. A red flammable placard is seen as well as the lines on the road in the bubble of the tanker.
September 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Reposted by Bryan Steffy
bryansteffy.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Angles the outer bands of hurricane Hilary in 2023 created a moody sky. An abandoned roller coaster provided the rest.
#WestCoastKin
#Nikon
#PhotographersOfBlirSky
#PhotographersUnited
#Art #Clouds
Dark moody storm clouds surround the black structure of a yellow roller coaster which is mirrored
September 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Angles the outer bands of hurricane Hilary in 2023 created a moody sky. An abandoned roller coaster provided the rest.
#WestCoastKin
#Nikon
#PhotographersOfBlirSky
#PhotographersUnited
#Art #Clouds
Dark moody storm clouds surround the black structure of a yellow roller coaster which is mirrored
September 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
Away from where the noise and the lights, the glitz and the constant need for attention is, there sits a place. Special in its own way. It’s free of our collective selfishness. It’s #Home and that’s where I disappear to.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#PhotographersUnited #WestCoastKin #Landscape #Photo
A lush green meadow draped by deep blue skies and white and gray whispy clouds. A silhouette of a mountain range sits in the distance. The scene is a disruption of the every day noise.
September 14, 2025 at 6:57 AM
bryansteffy.bsky.social
#Home is wherever I happen to be. While the surroundings and circumstances might change, I am still me and therefore, home. Home is a mindset.
#BlueSkyArtShow #MilkyWay #Astrophotography #Nikon #Art #WestCoastKin #MeteorShower
A view of the Milky Way galaxy with a silhouetted mountain range on the bottom 1/4th of the image. A few meteors can be seen.
September 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM