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Star Trek Deep Space Nine scene. Captain Sisko sits in quarters (bedroom, not spare change) on a couch behind a coffee table. There's some psychedelic blue and purple pillows on the couch, in an otherwise very dimly lit room. He's holding his hands up as if he's animatedly speaking and has the look of a man listening to smooth jazz and reeeaaallly vibing. Closed caption reads, "Computer, what day is it?"
December 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Mexican jays at Madera Canyon: just like other jay species, they are smart, social, and boisterous. #photography #birbs #wildlife
Sitting on a tree branch amid a tangle of twigs and autumn-yellow leaves, a large blue songbird with very light gray underpants is perched. The bird is sitting just left of center in the image, with its body facing the left edge but has turned its head to look to the right side of the image. Sitting on a tree branch amid a tangle of twigs and autumn-yellow leaves, a large blue songbird with very light gray underpants is perched. The bird is sitting in the right side of the frame facing towards the left.
December 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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At Salt Wells Creek, a mom white-tailed prairie dog and two pups keep an eye on the world outside their burrow complex.
#photography #wildlife
In a somewhat dusty brown and green environment, an adult prairie dog sits upright on her haunches just to the left of center of the image, looking towards the right. Two of her kids are next to her: one also sitting upright, and another lower to the ground. They are sitting on the dirt of the burrow complex, and there is out of focus sagebrush in the background.
December 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Wild ponies in the Rachel Carson Reserve, across this little sea channel from the town of Beaufort, North Carolina #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A chestnut pony mare, her small chestnut foal, and a bay stallion are grazing on green grass alongside a channel of calm water. in the background we see an out of focus marina full of small and medium size boats, with a blue water tower rising in center-left of the frame. Small in the frame and lower center, two chestnut ponies and one bay pony are grazing with a small chestnut foal standing between them. They are on a rounded piece of land right alongside a channel of blue water. The background is a row of waterfront homes on stilts across the channel.
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Sandhill crane, Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
#photography #birbs #wildlife
A portrait in profile of a sandhill crane. We see the head, neck, and top of shoulders of the birb, who is standing such that they are facing away from the camera and looking to their left, so we see the left side of their face. The bird is light gray with a long dark gray bill, a long neck, and orange eye, and a patch of red on the top of their head. The background is soft/out of focus brown grass.
December 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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#Caturday with this little lady of Arizona's Sweetwater Wetlands
(she is a bobcat)
#photography #wildlife
A bobcat is sitting upright just right of center in the frame, partially hidden by a desert broom plant. Her setting is a marshy riparian area.
December 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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For Foal Friday, this gorgeous blue roan mare and her kiddo in Salt Wells Creek
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A blue roan mare with a small star marking walks through almost knee-high sagebrush and grass, as her chestnut foal walks alongside her, just to her right. They are crossing the frame left to right, in an oblique angle towards the camera. The sky is light morning pastels in pink, blue, and orange. These four images are a sequence in which the pair gets closer to the camera with each shot. A blue roan mare with a small star marking walks through almost knee-high sagebrush and grass, as her chestnut foal walks alongside her, just to her right. They are crossing the frame left to right, in an oblique angle towards the camera. The sky is light morning pastels in pink, blue, and orange. These four images are a sequence in which the pair gets closer to the camera with each shot. A blue roan mare with a small star marking walks through almost knee-high sagebrush and grass, as her chestnut foal walks alongside her, just to her right. They are crossing the frame left to right, in an oblique angle towards the camera. The sky is light morning pastels in pink, blue, and orange. These four images are a sequence in which the pair gets closer to the camera with each shot. A blue roan mare with a small star marking walks through almost knee-high sagebrush and grass, as her chestnut foal walks alongside her, just to her right. They are crossing the frame left to right, in an oblique angle towards the camera. The sky is light morning pastels in pink, blue, and orange. These four images are a sequence in which the pair gets closer to the camera with each shot.
December 27, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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This little dude, a round tailed squirrel, was our campsite neighbor in Catalina State Park. #wildlife #photography
A small light brown colored squirrel with big eyes and small ears is crouching on its haunches, facing right to left in the frame, and eating a sprig of green vegetation. The setting is the desert ground, mottled with sand, tiny pebbles, and small patches of very low green plants. A small light brown colored squirrel with big eyes and small ears is crouching low just right of center, facing the camera, and looking towards the left of the frame. The setting is the desert ground, mottled with sand, tiny pebbles, and small patches of very low green plants, with a tuft of brown grass behind it. A small light brown colored squirrel with big eyes and small ears is crouching low just right of center, facing the camera, and eating a piece of green desert plant. The setting is the desert ground, mottled with sand, tiny pebbles, and small patches of very low green plants, with a tuft of brown grass behind it.
December 27, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Here is the Holiday Pony hustling to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season.
Shackleford Banks
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
Along a flat beach setting with sand, tall grasses, and some marsh shrubs out of focus in the background, a liver chestnut pony stallion is BIG TROTTING from right to left in the frame. He looks to be on a mission! (he was hustling to greet another stallion). It's a clear day with a light blue sky.
December 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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To conclude our Black Stallion Advent, the mighty and marvelous Rocket of Salt Wells Creek. He has the signature curly coat of this herd and seems to be well-liked by his band and a good dad to his kids. #photography #wildhorses #ArtAdventCalendar
A black horse with a curly coat, mane, and tail is standing tall and proud in the center of the image, in a sagebrush landscape with a green mountainside sloping up in the background. Behind Rocket we can see some other wild horses who travel in this big herd together, an assortment of chestnuts and roans.
December 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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A winter morning with the wild horses of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A white-gray horse stands in a relaxed manner, facing right to left in the frame, in a pasture field of short grass, with a tree line in the near background - the trees are bare for winter. There is another gray horse grazing in the left of the frame and we can see bits of a couple other horses in the background behind the main subject.
December 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Hello kind sir, I hope you are having a pleasant day.
Coyote in Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
#photography #wildlife #carnivorecoexistence
In this vertical image, a coyote stands facing the camera and looking more or less over the photographer's left shoulder. He looks untroubled, his tail hanging relaxed. His setting is a field of tall brown grass.
December 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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From Salt Wells Creek: a beautiful roan mare and her very, very new kiddo, who looks to have been born that morning! (from my 2024 visit) #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
In a gently sloping sagebrush and grass valley, a blue roan mare walks at a relaxed casual pace in an oblique line right-to-left towards the camera, while her tiny tiny foal walks behind her, working to keep up and maybe looking slightly confused about the world. The foal is chestnut with a star on her head. In a gently sloping sagebrush and grass valley, a blue roan mare walks at a relaxed casual pace in an oblique line left-to-right towards the camera, while her tiny foal is staggering a little bit to catch her balance, off to the right in the frame.
December 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Today in Black Stallion Advent, this gorgeous athlete in the Little Colorado HMA #photography #wildhorses #ArtAdventCalendar
A black horse trots confidently left to right in the frame, down a gentle slope in a sagebrush and grass setting, with a slightly cloudy light blue sky above him.
December 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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At Whitewater Draw in southern Arizona, there is LIFTOFF as a hundred sandhill cranes all take to the air at the same time. #photography #birbs
The frame is filled with sandhill cranes flying closely together and flying upwards left to right. They are crowded together so you get a feel for the excitement and chaos.
December 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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We spent some time today at the Boyce Thompson Arboretum which has a wonderful collection of trees and stuff BUT ALSO there are coatimundis and they are so fun. An entire troop of a couple adult females and a bunch of teenagers, around 9 animals, was decorating a myrtle tree.
We see the upper body of a coatimundi who is standing upright next to a myrtle tree branch, reaching with her right paw towards a clump of myrtle berries and looking fondly at them.
December 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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In the Green Mountain wild horse range, a vesper sparrow perches on one of the big rocks that dot this beautiful area. #photography #birbs
Small in the frame, a small brown sparrow is perched atop a large reddish-brown rock that is itself sitting on top of another rock, with a third rock off to the right. The bird is in the top-left of the frame looking towards the right, and all are surrounded by tall green and brown grass.
December 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Salt Wells Creek: one of Rocket's 2024 babies with his beautiful momma
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A small black foal with a very curly coat is standing alongside his deep-brown chestnut dam, who is grazing alongside another bandmate. They are all facing left to right in the frame, and the setting is low sagebrush and grass with a green mountainside sloping up in the background. As in the previous picture, this is a moment later: a small black foal with a very curly coat is standing alongside his deep-brown chestnut dam. They are all facing left to right in the frame, and the setting is low sagebrush and grass with a green mountainside sloping up in the background.
December 23, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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This beautiful boy in Sand Wash Basin is Black Stallion Advent today. #photography #wildhorses #ArtAdventCalendar
A black horse with a small star marking on his face is trotting animatedly in a right-to-left oblique angle towards the camera, with his ears pricked forward and his mane and tail streaming back in the wind. He is trotting through knee-high sagebrush and grass. in the far distant background there is a low mountain ridge and above that a light blue sky with assorted clouds.
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Philly homies if I got one of these giant inflatable reindeers for next year, how many times would I need to replace it in order to achieve a festive holiday season
A 15? 20? foot tall inflatable and lit-up festive holiday reindeer towers menacingly over a large RV in a desert campground
December 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Two bachelor buddies in the Heber herd living in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest
#photography #wildhorses
In a forest of widely spaced ponderosa pines, a chestnut horse with a white face is standing just to the left of a tree in the center-left of the image. He is somewhat facing the camera and looking a bit to the right side of the image. In a forest of widely space ponderosa pine trees, a chestnut horse with a small star marking on his face is standing next to a couple of trees in the right side of the image, facing the camera and looking towards the left side of the frame.
December 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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A couple of gila woodpeckers from the other day in Catalina State Park. They are very cute and their squeaky call is also very cute. #photography #birbs #wildlife
A woodpecker with a light brown body, black and white herringbone wings, and a red spot on the top of its head sits in the shadowy tangle of a mesquite tree, big in the frame and facing left to right. A woodpecker with a light brown body, black and white herringbone wings, and a red spot on the top of its head sits in the shadowy tangle of a mesquite tree, big in the frame and with its head down to poke at the thick branch it is perched on. Two gila woodpeckers are perched one above the other on the side of a saguaro cactus in this vertical image. They are perched on the right side of the cactus, which takes up the center of the image, which is vertically oriented. The background is a clear light blue sky.
December 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Last night I did a night hike up Sabino Canyon for evening landscapes and some landscape #astrophotography and I can't say it was that good of an idea, a week before my ultramarathon, to pop around in the dark in bouldery creek beds I've never visited before but I got some fun images. #photography
This is an image shot at night in a desert canyon featuring a stream with big granite boulders and a small waterfall in the lower center-left. The sky is dark blue and starry, with a high wispy cloud and flanking the stream we see canyon walls sloping up, dotted with saguaro cacti.
December 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Today in Black Stallion Advent, this EXTRA SPICY lil man in the Lost Creek HMA. He had a mare and a foal in his little family & they were living in orbit of Looking Glass and his gray stallion friend, adjacent but not quite welcome to be part of the group. #photography #ArtAdventCalendar #wildhorses
Standing on a flat expanse of grass and low sagebrush, a black horse, sorta medium sized in the frame, is situated lower left of center, facing and looking left to right in the image. He is relaxed but alert with his ears pricked forward, looking at other horses. In the far background we can see a range of mountains, and above that a light blue sky with some approaching storm clouds.
December 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Franky ❤️
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timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning
December 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM