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Jane
@jeistormer.bsky.social
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Artist. Activist. Dabbles in politics, non-profits, and professorship. She/her.

* All photos and artwork, unless reposted from other profiles, are my own. My photos were taken with various Google pixel phone iterations and Canon EOS Rebel T8i or T3i.
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Fallen Sakura Blooms.
#BlueSkyArtShow #Bright #EastCoastKin #BNWMacro #ClassicMono #Bloom #flower
This photograph shows two cherry blossom blooms in the photographer's hand. Is highlighting the petals which are covered in dew. The light casts the shadow of the flower onto the photographer's hand creating a balance between lightness and darkness in this photograph.
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Valley Floor, Indiana.
#ForestFriday #Scape #Landscape #ColorADay #BWFri #ClassicMono #photography #nature #sunbeams
Winter is my favorite time to hike in this valley. The light is always dramatic within all the trees, there are fewer bugs that want to eat me, and briars and burrs have taken a rest for the winter. This image shows a small creek flowing through a valley bottom. Tree-covered hills on either side of the creek bend upwards towards the sky. The atmospheric air plays with the sunlight that's peeking over the hill. Beams of light filter between the trees to reflect in the water of the stream.
November 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Arashiyama Bamboo Grove, Kyoto, Japan.
#HumansOfBlueskyn #PalacesAndGardens #BotanicalWonders
#EastCoastKin #Kyoto #Japan #kimono #umbrella #bamboo #photography
This photo shows a pathway with it in a Grove of tall bamboo. On the path or a couple dressed in traditional kimonos with patterned umbrellas. I visited this location as early as I could when I took the train to Kyoto. It's a popular location, so the path fills up with tourists pretty quickly. This couple hired a photographer to take their photo and I quickly grabbed a few photos as I got out of their shot.
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Apse Glass. Covington, Kentucky.
#EastCoastKin #WindowsOnWednesday #RedWed #ColorADay #cathedral #blue #photography
This wide-angle photograph shows the detailed and colorful stained glass that fills multiple levels of the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington, Kentucky. Here it's easy to see how the weight, weight of the ceiling and walls are distributed through archway systems that run between the windows and up to the ribs of the ceiling in the semicircular apse. The windows illustrate some of the miracles of Jesus. Jesus stands out in the windows as he is wearing a rich red robe in compositions that are mostly blue.
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Eurasian Eagle Owl.
#NightmareNov #claws #AnimalArtTues #EastCoastKin #BlueTues #ColorADay #photography #Owl
This photograph shows a large owl making eye contact with the photographer. One large eye is visible while the other is in shadow. The owl is perched on a branch that shows its large claws. The image was taken in a zoo, so the red light is for the owl's night vision and the blue streaks are the reflections off the exhibit glass.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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View of Wild Goose Island in Saint Mary's Lake. Glacier National Park, Montana.
#MountainMonday #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #photography #GlacoerNationalPark
This photo shows a nearly panoramic view of a mountain lake. The peaks are reflected in the rippling water, and a dark island with tall evergreen trees join the mountains in the composition and reflection.
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Fushimi Inari Taisha, Kyoto Japan.
#Stunday #OrangeSun #ColorADay #EastCoastKin #Japan #Kyoto #photography
The orange Tori Gates at Fushimi Inari Shrine go on for miles. In this photo I'm standing at the base of a large grouping of Tori Gates that line a staircase going uphill. The gates are framed and the shot with trees surrounding them and a group of people a ways up into the gates.
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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The Aurora Borealis Southern Slip.
#BlueSkyArtShow #Evening #NightmareNov #Red #ColorADay #GreenSat #EastCoastKin
I posted a different angle of this scene a few weeks ago. This was taken in 2024 in Southern Indiana. The darkest place I could get included this water tower that adds a surreal scale and creepy "War of the Worlds" element. The image shows a low perspective of a treeline in silhouette, and a water tower reaching a great height in the night sky that is backed by red and green lights from the Aurora Borealis.
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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North Cascades Trail.
#ForestFriday #scape #treescape #landscape #EastCoastKin #photography
A person in a red shirt stands in the distance on a hiking trail looking down at the ferns. All around trees stand tall, emphasized by the low perspective of the photographer. North Cascades National Park.
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Fog in the mountains of China. Jiuqu Bridge, Ruqin Lake, Lushan National Park, China, 2017. UNESCO World Heritage Site.
#EastCoastKin #PalacesAndGardens #WeatherAndMood #ClassicMono #Temple #China #Fog #photography #UNESCO
Lushan National Park was bathed in clouds when I visited. While the vistas were invisible it reminded me of Chinese paintings where cloud banks obscured large parts of compositions to give a transition to different parts of the picture plane and express great distance. The mood presented by the weather in this very spiritual UNESCO World Heritage Site was exquisite. This photo overlooks a bridge that leads to an island with a small temple and walkway for meditation. The island is covered in tall evergreen trees. Fog obscures the background entirely.
November 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Skogafoss Rainbow, Iceland.
#WaterfallWednesday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows #EastCoastKin #Rainbow #Waterfall #Iceland #Nature #Photography
I took this photo on a January 2019 trip to Iceland. This popular waterfall was worth the hype. If you look closely to the left, you can see icicles on the rocky cliff face. The cold January air intensified the mist coming from the waterfall The angle of the sun cast a shadow in front of the waterfall, so when the light hit the mist, the rainbow it created was backed by shadow making it pop even brighter than normal. The photograph has a composition that's split in half. The left side is filled with mist and cliff, while the right side is filled with the waterfall. The top left corner shows the sun hitting the cliff while the rest of the photo is in shadow except for the rainbow in the center showing where the sun is coming through the mist.
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Street art in Chewing Gum Alley, Seattle.
#NightmareNov #creepy #BlueTue #TagTuesday #EastCoastKin #Seattle
This photograph shows a wall with an inset rectangle near the top and a vent near the bottom. The wall is covered in used chewing gum and street art that has been pasted to the wall. The gum is a disgusting texture, a variety of colors, and it reaches as far up as people can reach up the wall. The street art features a zombified demonic Benjamin Franklin, a rodent with the word Dingus on its forehead, aliens and more appropriately creepy imagery for an alley that's filled with ABC gum.
November 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Happy Godzilla Day!
November 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Johns Hopkins Glacier backed by Mount Fairweather, Alaska.
#BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday #EastCoastKin #Alaska #photography
This vertical format photo shows a great difference in elevation. The very base of the photo shows the water of Glacier Bay that leads to the Johns Hopkins Glacier. The glacier leads up into great cliffs, snow, and rocky landscapes that taper into a point that becomes Mount Fairweather with a few wispy clouds at its peak. The image is almost monochromatic full of varying shades of blue and white.
November 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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‪Your art challenge cheat sheet for Nov 2–9!

NEW: #FestiveDailyRobin (daily until Dec)

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#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#dailyart #art #traditionalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt
Art Challenges: November 3–9 Monday, November 3 #BlueSkyMonday (anything blue) #MacroMonday (any macro) #MountainMonday (mountains) #MinimalMonday (minimalism) #ColorADay (#PinkMon) #NightmareNov (#trapped) Tuesday, November 4 #RockinTuesday (rocks) #TidesOutTuesday #TagTuesday (graffiti/street art) #AnimalArtTuesday #ColorADay (#BlueTue or #CyanTue) #NightmareNov (#creepy) Wednesday, November 5 #WaterfallWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday #WackyWednesdayArt (odd/unusual) #WallsOnWednesday #ColorADay (#RedWed) #NightmareNov (#legs) Thursday, November 6 #HumansOfBlueSky (people) #UrbanGaze (anything urban) #PalacesAndGardens (#WeatherAndMood) #ColorADay (#YellowThu) #NightmareNov (#blood) Friday, November 7 #scape (any kind of scape) #FishyFriday #ForestFriday #FoodOnFriday #FlyDay (critters that fly) #ColorADay (#BWFri) #NightmareNov (#alien) Saturday, November 8 #BNWmacro #ColorADay (#GreenSat) #BlueSkyArtShow (#evening) #NightmareNov (#red) Sunday, November 9 #Stunday (stunning) #ImageAndVerse (photos with poems written by you or anyone) #BNWmacro #ColorADay (#OrangeSun) #SelfPortraitSunday (#cinematic)* #NightmareNov (#smile) ALL WEEK #ArtYear (any art) #ArtOfSelfPortraiture #BirdOfTheDay (see Alan H or Rob Crank for daily prompt) #ClassicMono (monochrome) #FestiveDailyRobin (robin pics through December 31) #smArtist (purposeful art) #AlphabetChallenge (#WeekSForShadows) #SensoryArt (#patterns) *Movie inspired.
November 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Valley of Fire.
#Stunday #EastCoastKin #OrangeSun #WeekRforRock #AlphabetChallenge #Nevada #photography #ValleyOfFire
A low angle of the orange rocks at Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada. This photo shows the bottom 2/3 of the image filled with orange sandstone. The ridges and lines in the sandstone lead you to a large outcropping of jagged and much deeper orange colored rock. The rock outcropping juts the sky which is filled with interestingly patterned and puffy, white clouds and a deep blue that compliments the orange rock.
November 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Double glow.
#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn #NightmareNov #dark #EastCoastKin #sunset #campfire
A strong horizon line dominates the composition as an already set sun glows below. Trees, still clinging to their last leaves, are backlit by the gradient in the sky. In the foreground the red glow of a fire makes the 5 figures standing around it glow with a high chroma.
November 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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#Halloween #31DaysOfHalloween #Spooktober #pumpkin #EastCoastKin
This photograph shows two carved pumpkins and a glowing orb behind them. The pumpkin on the left is smaller. Has stars for eyes and a big wobbly smile. The pumpkin on the right has clouds for eyes, a nose that looks like a UFO, and round bumpy teeth in its mouth.
October 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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The Acre, Hanover College, 2020
#EastCoastKin
#PalacesAndGardens
#EnchantedAutumn
#ColorADay
#YellowThu
#31DaysOfHalloween
#Photography
#Nature
#October
#Autumn
This image shows a tree-filled landscape. The trees have yellow leaves that are filtering the light of a rising sun that is peeking behind the trunk of a distant tree. I spent a lot of time hiking this college campus during COVID times. The campus was like an empty palace garden with no students.
October 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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She's a Rainbow Scarab. 🌈
#EastCoastKin #Spooktober #CreepyCrawly #beetle #RainbowScarab #macro #photography #RedWed
The photo is composed of a close view of an insect on concrete moving towards the camera. The insect is a colorful beetle with a red, yellow and green iridescent exoskeleton. I found this beetle upside down struggling to right itself. I helped it turn over and it paused for a few photos. I've never seen a rainbow scarab alive in person and was happy that I checked out the fluttering noise that I heard in my driveway.
October 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Landscape with an unsettling tree. Hanover College, Indiana
#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Spooktober #Trees #31DaysOfHalloween #landscape
This photo shows a landscape in black and white with a foggy scene of a building and trees. The building is obscured by the fog, it is a Georgian style brick building with the central colonnade and three floors of Windows. The columns on the building are framed by an arching tree that bends in ways that perhaps a tree should not. It's a large tree that fills the frame from bottom to top and its lacy branches that are empty of leaves further obscure the building. The tree starts to bend as soon as it branches out from the trunk making it unsettling in how intensely it bends. The thought of the tree breaking or being in motion as a sentient and mobile being come to mind for me.
October 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Christopher “Bugs Bunny” Walken by Ian Wilkinson, Asheville, North Carolina.
#EasyCoastKin #Spooktober #monster #SensoryArt #masks #31DaysOfHalloween #mural #Asheville #photography
The photo shows a doorway with a mural of the actor Christopher Walken overlaid with an image of bugs Bunny. A bright color dominates the mural. The mural is surrounded by an aging brick building with more graffiti around it. This mural can be found in the River Arts District of Asheville, North Carolina. I chose it as my monster selection for the day because the animal-human hybrid made me think of a Wererabbit and also of creepy humanoid rabbit references in films like Donnie Darko. The mask-like quality of the image makes you wonder which is the mask, the person or the rabbit? The contrast of the extreme Walken frown and the equally extreme Bugs Bunny smile adds to the striking creep factor of this image. I looked up the context of Bugs Bunny with Christopher Walken, and there is a connection. Walken has noted in interviews that he has played some of his roles as if he was Bugs Bunny, and that Bugs Bunny was his favorite actor. He's never revealed which roles but some might make educated guesses.
October 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Your art challenge cheat sheet for Oct 27 to Nov 2!

NEW: #NightmareNov

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#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#dailyart #art #traditionalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt
Art Challenges: Oct 27–Nov 2 Monday, October 27 #BlueSkyMonday (anything blue) #MacroMonday (any macro) #MountainMonday (mountains) #MinimalMonday (minimalism) #ColorADay (#PinkMon) #Spooktober (#monster) Tuesday, October 28 #RockinTuesday (rocks) #TidesOutTuesday #TagTuesday (graffiti/street art) #AnimalArtTuesday #ColorADay (#BlueTue or #CyanTue) #Spooktober (#trees) Wednesday, October 29 #WaterfallWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday #WackyWednesdayArt (odd/unusual) #WallsOnWednesday #ColorADay (#RedWed) #Spooktober (#CreepyCrawly) Thursday, October 30 #HumansOfBlueSky (people) #UrbanGaze (anything urban) #PalacesAndGardens (#EnchantedAutumn) #ColorADay (#YellowThu) #Spooktober (#MadScientist) Friday, October 31 #scape (any kind of scape) #FishyFriday #ForestFriday #FoodOnFriday #FlyDay (critters that fly) #ColorADay (#BWFri) #Spooktober (#Halloween) Saturday, November 1 #BNWmacro #ColorADay (#GreenSat) #BlueSkyArtShow (#autumn) #NightmareNov (#dark) Sunday, November 2 #Stunday (stunning) #ImageAndVerse (photos with poems written by you or anyone) #BNWmacro #ColorADay (#OrangeSun) #SelfPortraitSunday (#SweaterWeather)(cozy & warm) #NightmareNov (#fear) ALL WEEK #31DaysOfHalloween (anything fall, Halloween, or spooky) #ArtYear (any art) #ArtOfSelfPortraiture #BirdOfTheDay (see Alan H or Rob Crank for daily prompt) #ClassicMono (monochrome) #smArtist (purposeful art) #AlphabetChallenge (#WeekRForRock)* #SensoryArt (#masks) *Any interpretation
October 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Dancing flames.
#EastCoastKin #OrangeSun #StunDay #Spooktober #fire #photography
This photo was taken at a restaurant with one of those gas fire tables. It made a line of fire that seemed like a specimen behind glass. Each flame is visible in a base of shiny black stones, and the shapes of the flames undulate freely but with the consistency of a controlled space and fuel source. A added a bit of orange to make the colors feel as warm in the photo as they were in person.
October 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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The #inside of a glass vase.
#BlueSkyArtShow #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #photography #RadialSymmetry
October 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM