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icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
Geesham, OR
📷 #photosky #pdx #pnw #oregon
#photography #pointandshoot #ccd
Canon PowerShot G6
An old truck, 50s or 60s era with three modern dirt bikes strapped into the bed. Each panel of the truck is a different color and it has been lowered. It is parked in front of a beige metal building and a old wheelbarrow is leaned up against a fence nearby.
October 24, 2025 at 4:14 AM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
Sunrise, Mt Hood silhouetted in the center
October 2025
Rockwood neighborhood
Fairview, OR
📷 #photosky #pnw #pdx #oregon
#photography #sunrise
Canon 6D with 2000's era Tamron lens
Whispy clouds lit by the sunrise in pinks, oranges and yellows above a silhouetted line of trees that surround the distant Mt Hood under power lines.
October 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
Newport, OR
📷 #photosky #pnw #stickers
#streetart #guillotine
Fujifilm FinePix J50
A sticker of Annie and Britta from the TV show "Community" holding an image of a bloody guillotine, outlined in blue and neon pink.
October 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
Scottsburg, OR
📷 #photosky #pnw #oregon
Canon EOS 6D
Two rusted out Blitz Weinhard Beer cans betwixt some ferns.
October 18, 2025 at 5:03 AM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
casual JC on the beach
📷 #photosky #oregoncoast
#johnnycash #twelveinchjesus
#pnw
An action figure of Jesus Christ of Nazereth sits on a log at the beach, wearing a white short sleeve hoodie and purple short shorts while strumming an acoustic guitar that says Johnny Cash on it. He is also wearing his traditional sandals and black tape on his hands.
October 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
Newport, OR
📷 #oregoncoast #pnw #photosky
Canon EOS 6D

Moby Dick's is gone. A victim of the pandemic, I believe, but their mural remains at the bayfront.
A mural of a whale smashing a boat from below, several men in the water swimming away in stormy waters. One sailor still clings to debris atop the whale's head. The mural is situated on a blue corrugated metal wall with two horizontal white stripes below it, near the sidewalk. Two orange traffic cones, one larger than the other sit near the curb, which is painted green. A small sign in the corner of the mural reads "donated by Moby Dick's Seafood and Spirits Hwy 101"
October 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
Mossy Awning
Coos Bay, OR
📷 #photosky #moss #pnw #oregoncoast #photography
Canon 20D
An awning nearly covered with moss with its white and green vertical stripes barely peaking through.
October 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
Yaquina Bay Bridge
Newport, OR
📷 #photosky #oregoncoast #pnw
#lo-fi #pointandshoot #photography
Built-in "IR" filter on a cheap digicam.
Vivitar VEC S124
Cars pass under a bridge with a concrete column towering on each side, viewed front-on from the other side of the road. The sky is tinted red with pink clouds, while the concrete pillars and steel bridge works have a purple hue.
October 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
McKay's Market
Newport, OR
📷 #photosky #newport #oregoncoast #pnw #photography #pnw #oregon
Canon 20D
An orange Shasta Soda vending machine sits in front of a cement wall embedded with small rocks next to a chain link enclosure with stacks of firewood and a sign reading "McKay's Market" slightly out of focus behind it. In the upper left hand corner of the vending machine, "50¢". Next to it the slogan, "it just hasta be!" Citrus fruits and a bunch of grapes adorn the front and side. "Shasta" appears in script above the can slot, In the lower left, a circle around a pictograph of a mountain peak reads "Shasta, family trusted since 1889."
September 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
Alsea Bay
Waldport, OR
📷 #photosky #oregoncoast #pnw #oregon
Canon 6D
A small boat alone on the Alsea Bay, likely crabbing, with four aboard, all silhouetted against the setting sun reflecting off the water.
September 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
Portland, OR
📷 #photosky #pdx #portland #oregon #pnw
Canon 20D
Two cars parked on the street in front of two storefronts in downtown Portland, OR. The back end of a black sedan on the right, with the front out of frame, in front of black painted plywood over the windows of the Golden Dragon After Hours club, the doorway accessible under an Asian inspired awning which has seen better days. The area around the door has a fresh coat of red paint, just a bit more orange than that if the other car, a red convertible with a tan soft top. Behind the back half of that car is the doorway of a body piercing shop next door, only "The Point" legible on their sign in the frame of the photo. Their doorway is painted with a pride flag motif, the Philadelphia design.
September 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
Lincoln City, OR
"FIGHT the STATE, NOT ITS WARS" 🧨🌐☮️
📷 #photosky #oregoncoast #pnw #streetart #stickers #resist
A sticker on a metal surface reading " Fight the State, Not Its Wars. All block letters, except the "the" in " fight the State", which is script. Black lettering on a white background, spray painted red, speckled over the white, except the upper left corner, where a stencil was used to make a row of red dots against the white background on the top half of the word "fight". In the bottom right, small pictograms: a Molotov, the Earth, a peace sign and the letters HER above ESY.
September 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
After many, many failed attempts to cancel Disney/Hulu this weekend, I right-clicked the cancel link and opened to a new tab, and it worked! ✊
September 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
Newport, OR
ABnR Laundry, back wall
📷 #photosky #photography #oregoncoast #pnw
Canon 6d
The grey back wall of a laundromat fills the lower half of the frame, lined with windows, all but three of which are filled in and painted over, and four of those have small metal awnings. Many white vent pipes, partial rusted, stick out from the roof, bent over themselves to prevent rain from entering. A taller white wall rises behind the grey one, emblazoned with two Aamco Transmissions signs, Aamco in white block letters on blue above transmissions in blue letters over white and a red border. Clouds billow above the buildings, with blue sky above the clouds.
September 19, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Reposted by Cosmic American
weenlyrics.bsky.social
I'm fine, accepting only fresh brine
You can get another drop of this
Yeah, you wish
September 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
Coos Bay, OR
📷 #photosky #oregoncoast #pnw
Canon 20d
Pink flowers and white Queen Anne's Lace grow over and around a chain link fence with alternating green and white vertical slats. Beyond the fence is a wall painted with a mural featuring a crashing wave and soaring birds.
September 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
Waldport, OR
'55 Ford Fairlane
📷 #photosky #carsky #oregoncoast
#pnw #photography #pointandshoot #ccd
Canon PowerShot G6
September 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
Coos Bay, OR
📷 #photosky #pnw #oregoncoast #photography #commercialart
Canon 20d
A weathered logo on the corrugated metal side of a shipping container bearing the word "Beacon" and an image of a lighthouse shining its light. The logo is in a blue rectangle bordered in the same yellow as the beam of light. The word and lighthouse are white. The shipping container is a dark red.
September 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
The carnivorous Darlingtonia Californica flowering, May of this year near Florence, OR
📷 #photosky #oregoncoast #pnw
#photography
Canon 20d
Flowers droop down from long, thin stems among the pod like Darlingtonia leafs. A brown wooden sign with a diagram showing the parts of the Darlingtonia plant, and the following message: DARLINGTONIA These cobra-like plants, Darlingtonia Californica, are found natively in the bog areas of Northern California and Southwestern Oregon. They flower in May or June with hanging blooms of yellow and red and produce up to a dozen leaves per plant. Erect seed pods remain most of the summer. Insects are lured into the leaf opening under the hood by nectar on the colorful "petal-like" appendages and the edges of the opening. Once inside the hood the insects become confused by the many transparent areas in the upper parts of the leaves which appear as exits. Keeping a foothold on the glassy smooth upper surface of the tube is difficult and eventually the insects are trapped in the lower tube by sharp downward pointing hairs. After falling into a pool of liquid at the base of the leaf, the captive is digested and absorbed as food through the plants thin lower walls.
September 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
Alsea Bay Bridge
Waldport, OR
📷 #photosky #physicalfilter #mirage
#photography #pnw #oregoncoast
Canon 6d
A man in a red truck drives across a bridge, the image is refracted into five overlayed versions of the same image using a physical filter in the camera lens. Architectural elements of the bridge both frame the image in the foreground and appear behind the truck. Beyond that is water and sand and sky.
September 6, 2025 at 5:55 AM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
Little Crater Lake
Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon
📷 #photosky #photography #pnw
#oregon #infrared #pointandshoot
FujiFilm FinePix J50
A tree is submerged beneath the surface of a small lake which is reflecting the trees and foliage beyond it. The camera is modified to show infrared light, causing the plants to appear in hues of pink.
September 2, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Reposted by Cosmic American
punkrockhistory.bsky.social
41 years ago
The Minutemen, Eugene, Oregon, "The Campaign Trail '84" tour, July 1984.

Photo by Hank Trotter

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #minutemen #dboon #mikewatt #history #punkrockhistory
July 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
Springfield, OR
📷 #photosky
#pnw #oregon #kenkesey #merrypranksters #publicart
#sparksflyupward
Canon EOS 20D
A two story Mural of author Ken Kesey leaning against his bookshelf, which is stuffed with books, photos and keepsakes, including a large Uncle Sam style top hat, Oregon license plate, from his bus Furthur, and a miniature version of the bus done in the signature Merry Prankster marbled dip-paint style. A trophy and a Springfield pennant sit atop. Some of the bookcase is also composed of the windows of the building the mural is on. On the sidewalk, a single light blue cruiser bicycle is parked at a bike rack at Kesey's feet.
July 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
Waldport, OR
📷 #photosky #pnw #oregoncoast #mirage #physicalfilter #photography
Canon 20d
The setting sun peaks between two cloud banks, sillouetting two trees in the foreground. There is refraction caused by a physical filter on the camera, making there appear to to be two suns and an extra ghostly tree.
June 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
icanfloatintheair.bsky.social
South Jetty
Newport, OR
📷 #photosky #pnw #photography #oregoncoast #infrared #pointandshoot #compactcamera
FujiFilm FinePix J50
A large concrete block atop a pile of rocks, (part of Newport, Oregon's South Jetty) has the words "Eat the Rich" spray painted in white block letters. The Yaquina Bay bridge spans the water in the background. The camera was modified to capture more infrared light, giving the photo an otherworldly pink hue, especially the algae on the rocks and the hills back behind the bay.
June 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM