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jcshawny.bsky.social
@jcshawny.bsky.social
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Puppet theatre maker, photography lover, animal friend, gardener, avid walker, profoundly moved by the inspiring images provided by the natural world, speaking truth to power, holding hypocrites feet to the fire.
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In the right foreground is a closeup of ghe buttery yellow silk of a corncob, in the background the blurred shapes of the green cornstalks.
August 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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February 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.
February 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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If you are disturbed about what is happening, and feel you aren’t being heard and are losing your voice in our government “of the people and for the people”:

Don’t buy one single thing on February 28. If it scares you to not spend—prepare.

They listen to money, so let yours speak.
February 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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What the world needs now…

#peace #tranquility #Photography #Naturephotography #Landscapephotography #Bird #Birds #BirdPhotography #Geese #iPhonephotography #MobilePhotography #LongIsland
Looking through,grasses and pink flowering shrubs at a pond where several geese are swimming. On the far side of the pond a green grassy bank slopes upwards to meet a forest. The pond and the forest are in sunshine, but the camera is photographing the scene from a shady spot so the grasses and flowers near the lens are slightly darkened. The entire effect is one of peeking through at a scene of peace and tranquility.
February 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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From here to there, above and below.

#Photography #landscapephotography #Naturephotography #Bridge #bridgePhotography #Eastriver #urbanphotography iPhonephotography #MobilePhotography #Photooftheday #dirtroads
2 dirt tracks, the width of a vehicle, slice across a grassy area mid screen, and disappear seemingly into a river near a line of pylons. The line of the dirt tracks is echoed by a bridge over the river, which crosses the screen from upper left corner to mid screen just past the center of the image. A large shade tree, and a smaller tree on the right, and a shrubby bush, and a few smaller trees on the left frame the scene. The bridge spans the river with only two very tall supports at either end. The sky is a pale cloudy grey.
February 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Enough time.

#photography #photo #Portraitphotography #FDNY #UrbanPhotography #Reflections #Firetruck #DogPhotography #Dog #Fireman #streetphotography #Photooftheday
A fireman in blue shorts &wearing a cap is crouched down in front of a FDNY fire truck that is parked in the firehouse garage. He is petting a brindle colored dog that is sitting in front of him. The dog’s head is bent down, in submissiveness, &a long red leash is seen exiting the frame to the left. Reflections of cars parked across the street can be seen in the bumper of the firetruck.
February 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Da Bronx.

#Photography #Photo #UrbanPhotography #FlowerPhotography #Horsechestnut #Bronx #Photooftheday #Naturephotography #NYC
A close-up picture of the flowers blooming on a horse chestnut tree.
February 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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When I lived in Brooklyn.

#Photography #naturephotography #Raptor #BirdPhotography #Urbanphotography #Birdwatching #Photooftheday #portraitphotography #picoftheday #wildlife
Extreme close-up of a juvenile Cooper Hawk from the head to mid chest. The hawk is looking intently down.
January 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Yellow cosmos, and yellow traveler.

#photograph #Photography #macrophotography #Sunflower #Flowerphotography #Yellow #naturephotography #photooftheday #picoftheday #Insect
A macro closeup of a bee like creature on the center section of a sunflower, taken in profile so that the yellow petals are behind the bee.
January 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Peace Through Understanding

#1964worldsfair #Flushingmeadows #Photography #landscapephotography #urbanphotography #attractions #peace #worldpeace #photooftheday #queens #NYC
The Unisphere, a giant wire frame globe is turned to display Africa, and tilts to the left. Behind it the twin saucer shaped observation towers loom in the distance. The whole scene is framed by the silhouettes of leafy branches, dark against an evening blue sky.
January 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Knapweed and sunrise.

#Photography #Photo #Flower #Naturephotography #Landscapephotography #Sunrise #Knapweed #photooftheday #picoftheday #flowerphotography #NY
An extreme close- up of brown knapweed flower against the blurry, distant sunrise over a mountaintop.
January 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Fog hollow.

#photgraph #photography #landscapephotography #fog #mist #sunrise #photooftheday #naturephotography #landscape #wanderlust #beautiful #picoftheday
Fog lays like blanket over the hollows that are nestled beneath gently rolling mountains, which are silhouetted against an orangey sunrise sky.
January 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Angles and curves.

#Photography #nightphotography #Urbanphotography #Skyscrapers #EastRiverRoundabout #AliceAycock #photooftheday #iPhonephotography #mobilephotography #NYC
Against a cloudy night sky, darkened skyscrapers are checkered with yellowish light. The Queensborough Bridge slices through the buildings with its sharp right angle lines, but in front of the bridge Alice Aycock’s 1995 sculpture The ‘East River Roundabout’, rises up like a riverside rollercoaster.
January 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Good morning.
#Photography #landscapephotoraphy #flowerphotography #snapdragon #sunrise #bokeh #iiphonephotography #mobilephotography #naturephotography #photooftheday
A wild yellow snapdragon is photographed close up on a field of grass. Behind the snapdragon are the blurred outlines of mountains, with the rising sun creating an orange glow in the sky over the mountains.
January 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Morning has broken.
#photography #urbanphotography #iphonephotography #mobilephotography #light #sun #NYC #cityscapephotography #photooftheday #beamoflight #lightray #godrayeffect
A beam of light crosses the frame diagonally from right to left, a plume smoke rises near the middle, city buildings line the left side of the frame, and on the right, the hazy outlines of city buildings, a man on a bike races down the street under the beam of light.
January 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Signal in the sky.

#photography #naturephotography #clouds #sky #iphonephotogrphy #mobilephotography #sunset #photooftheday
An intriguing cloud shaped like a stingray, or perhaps a bat signal, is backlit by the setting sun in an orangey sky. An overhanging leafy tree branch is silhouetted on the right.
January 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Fisherman in hat.
#photography #urbanphotography #streetphotography #skyline #nyc #iphonepbotography #mobilepbogography #manhattan #eastriver
A fisherman wearing a straw hat, on a boardwalk on the east river,a jogger, and a woman walking a dog nearby. In the background, the misty outlines of the city skyline rise up over the river.
January 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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One day last summer. #photograph #photography #naturephotograph #naturephotography #flower #sunflower #photo #urbanphotography #bee
A bee approaching a gigantic sunflower, which is overlooking the East river in Manhattan. Behind in a white blur is a bridge walkway to a river ferry.
January 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Only #photography #urbanphotography #streetphotography #skyline #nyc #iphonepbotography #mobilepbogography #manhattan
An early morning empty Manhattan street with a red bus lane marked “ ONLY,” a line of city bikes, parked on the right, old buildings lining the left side of the street, and in the far distance, the faint shapes of tall building buildings.
January 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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@corenste.bsky.social found you!
January 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Fractal universe. #photography #naturephotography #wildflower #wildflowerphotography #queenannslace #iphonephotogrphy #mobilephotography #urbanwildlife #urbanphotography
The underside of Queen Anne’s lace, and its endlessly repeating patterns up close, in the background an expanse of water and the very blurry skyline of New York City.
January 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Building jewelry. #Photography #iPhonephotography #mobilephotography #rust
A building decorated with rusting metal wheels, saw blades, and other rusting metal parts.
January 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Still got it. Still truthful. Still hopeful. Still scared.
January 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Til the cows come home. #Morningfog #morningmist #Photography #naturephotography #iPhonephotography #MobilePhotography #cows
Cows grazing in a thick morning fog.
January 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM