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Mike Saunders 🇺🇦
@hardwaterhacker.bsky.social
3.7K followers 1.1K following 2.6K posts
Photographer. Lover of the outdoors. Musician.

Red Siege Principal Consultant so I can pay for my hobbies.

#PhotographersUnited <- Check out this great community!

IG: https://www.instagram.com/hardwaterhacker/
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Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · Nov 11
Lots of new followers, so I figured it’s a good time to do an introduction. Hello! I’m Mike. I’m a North Dakota-based computer security professional with a passion for the outdoors and a love of photography. I don’t really have a style. I love to shoot all kinds of things.
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beautysurroundsyou.com
As light fades, it sculpts our world, elevates it into the sublime. Namibia's dunes are transformed into a magical combination of shapes and textures and, wind, the final touch, lifts sand into the light.

#bluesky #photography #landscape #travel #nature #landscapephotography #naturephotography
December 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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armandsarlangue.bsky.social
Infinity of sand leading lines from the beautiful desert in UAE…
Captured last November in Dubaï.

#photography #nature #landscape #art #desert
December 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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pagejpdx.bsky.social
A magical walk in the woods
#Scape #ForestFriday #light #sunrays #lightrays #trees #redwoods #hiking #treemagic #lightmagic #magical #forestscape #landscape #photography
A foggy forest scene with sunlight creating sun rays through the silhouetted trees and green foliage giving everything a very magical, spiritual look and feel. This is a view from a hike I did in the Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park in Oct 2025.
December 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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kevinosx.bsky.social
Went out to a local spot where there have been some eagles lately, and while there weren't as many this morning I did manage to capture this heron getting some breakfast.

#photography #birdphotography #birds #nature #ColoradoPhotographer
A great blue heron, just having grabbed a fish out of the lake, tosses the fish in the air to re-orient it in order to make swallowing it easier.
December 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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grays.art
2025 top ten: #8

Female Dark-veined longhorn bee
(Melissodes trinodis)

on homegrown sunflower 8-21-25
in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood.

#xmas #eastcoastkin #insectThursday #macro #photography #native #bees #pollen #flowers #nature #art #gardens #gardening #bugSky #pollinators #sunflower
Pollen face & tongue extension.
December 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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sophiecarr.bsky.social
Happy Boxing Day! For this week only, there's 25% off prints and downloads on my website! Link in bio.

Use code: BOXINGDAY25

#Scotland #Iceland #Dolomites #Chilterns
A snow-dusted mountain top under blue/grey cloud with a patch of sunlight on the autumnal slopes below. A long exposure shot of a dawn morning with a metal viking ship sculpture on a platform by a fjord. A mountain with pointy finger-like peaks is partly covered in low cloud and fog, and a bright red rescue helicopter is seen hovering nearby (about to do a successful rescue of two climbers!). Morning sunlight filters through tall mostly-bare trees with some early green beech leaves on a hanging branch. The forest floor is covered with beautiful pink/purple bluebells.
December 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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matthewpaulson.bsky.social
Reddish Egret with a little snack.🪶
December 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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audjde.bsky.social
New day, filled with wonder
day that many name Christmas
may your light shine gently
upon all, no matter their stance
may we be present
giving of ourselves in word
and deed, to all who
need to be gifted

(Sprinkles of love to one and all)

#Poem #Poetry #EastCoastKIn
A golden sunrise in the middle-right of the photo. Orange clouds fan out from the sun to the right and around the top of the photo. In the foreground is the dark of a beach, with some light shining lightly on the ocean. To the left is the silhouette of a lighthouse on a headland.
December 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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thehubzter.bsky.social
The Tufted duck
UK
Z8 Nikon Z 180 to 600mm
#ThePhotoHour #TonyBayliss #photography #art #birds #wildlifephotography #bird_planets
December 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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kevin.wertman.org
Stumbled upon this hummingbird while we walked around the port at Roatan last week #FlyDay

#photography #birds #hummingbirds
A single humming bird hovering next to a yellow and red flower with its wings outstretched in front of it. Background is blurred greens, yellows and darkness.
December 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Burrowing owlet with dilated pupils running to catch all the sales!
December 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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stevewaycott.bsky.social
Happy Boxing Day to some of us and Happy Friday to everyone else! Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #mostrecent (your most recent bird picture or pictures). I spent a bit of time yesterday afternoon in my back yard with this Black-capped Chickadee cutie (and its friends).

#birds #photography
A small and adorable brown, white and black bird is perching on a lichen-covered tree branch with freshly fallen snow on it, in front of an out of focus muted winter green background.
December 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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davemeredith.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MostRecent. All my recent photos are birds as part of an image. So I'm posting this Ring-billed Gull watching the sunrise. Because the first time I posted it several "internet" experts claimed it was AI. 🤣

#EastCoastKin #birds #photography #nature #wildlife
A solitary Ring-billed Gull stands on a rock watching the sunrise over Colpoy's Bay, Ontario. The water shades fron blue in the foreground to pink on the horizon with a thin strip of pink sky above the Niagara Escarpment on the horizon. For anyone wondering, the image was made with a 10 year old mirrorless camera and the plastic telephoto zoom it came with.
December 26, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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pauljwillson.bsky.social
A momentary pause
December 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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eddiekrak.bsky.social
Great Blue Heron #bird #birds #birding
December 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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eddiekrak.bsky.social
Ring-billed Gull #bird #birds #birding
December 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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kelper60.bsky.social
Black-browed Albatross...
December 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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jenneke1961.bsky.social
Nog een kale koude boom voor het #Winterfestival met #Winterbomen van Gwen.
Een hele fijne avond✨🕯️
Rustig winterlandschap tijdens zonsopkomst. Op de voorgrond staat een grote kale boom met fijne, vertakte takken, omringd door rijp bedekte grassprieten. Rechts slingert een smal, donker asfaltpad door het licht bevroren landschap richting de horizon. In de verte staat een traditionele houten windmolen langs een watergang, deels gehuld in ochtendmist. De lucht kleurt zacht pastelroze en lichtblauw, wat zorgt voor een serene en stille sfeer.
December 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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kortduce.bsky.social
"What you looking at, Willis?

A juvenile great horned owl waits for its mother to hunt on an old rustic fence at dusk in Longmont, Colorado.

#ClassicMono #Monochrome
#BW #Blackandwhite #EastCoastKin
#bird #birds #owl #owls #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos
A black and white horizontal photograph of a juvenile great horned owl waiting for its mother to hunt on an old rustic fence at dusk in Longmont, Colorado. The fence rails lead your eye from lower left of frame to upper right of frame with posts sticking up. The foreground and background is prairie grass. The owl is slightly puffed up and looking at the photographer as if asking, "What you looking at, Willis? Photo by Kort Duce
December 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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dmimaging.bsky.social
Feeling very grateful this Christmas.
I wish everyone a beautiful holiday.
December 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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mstreefrog.bsky.social
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

#BirdOfTheDay #HolidayRobin

An American Robin enjoying hawthorn berries.
📷🪶🍒
An American Robin perched in a Hawthorn Tree, enjoying the red apple-like fruits which are called haws.
December 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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armandsarlangue.bsky.social
Merry Christmas everyone 💛

Here’s a new shot from last summer in Greenland ⛵️
December 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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rileybruce.bsky.social
Happy Christmas, neighbors.

I’m so glad to be here with y’all.
Downtown Minneapolis as seen from the U of M East Bank at sunset.
December 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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chuck4242.bsky.social
The #BirdOfTheDay theme today being December 25th is the #HolidayRobin. This is an American Robin caught preening itself.

#Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #PhotographersUnited #Photo #EastCoastKin
An American Robin is twisted around while preening to have its face towards the camera as well as its tail feathers.
December 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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chuck4242.bsky.social
Merry Christmas to everyone!

#Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #PhotographersUnited #Photo #EastCoastKin
Two juvenile Goldfinches are face to face, centimeters from each other.
December 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM