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Joe (they/he)
@joedecker.bsky.social
Smithsonian-exhibited nature photographer. Polartropic. Perturbagenic. Descriptivist. Bayesian. Erdős 4. “God Hates Shrimp” creator. Enby. They/he.
I guess you could call that stone, and almost yellow.

(It's a spring in the fall.)

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November 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
It is a symptom of my unrealistic optimism about humanity (and most consider me a pessimist about humanity, fair enough) that I actually had to check if the password thing was true. It appears to have been so.
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Primary season next year is going to be interesting.
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I mean, some of the stone is kinda yellow.

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November 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Fisherman's Cone, Yellowstone. I remember making use of what was a very limited area of color in the sunrise.

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November 9, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I've long enjoyed this shot from Grand Tetons, but part of that was just a craft realization (that 2013-level tech allowed me to deal with levels of contrast and hold detail that I couldn't before.). Still, pretty pleasing.

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October 31, 2025 at 3:41 AM
TFW you look at a new follow and wonder if it's an impersonating spammer/scammer or a pedo, and it takes me a second longer to block because I want to file the person accurately.

(Reporting, as is typical of 9 out of 10 top-ten Alexa ranked sites, is useless, of course.)
October 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Pretty much the same location as the last image, a matter of a few minutes earlier, a change in direction and a change in focal length, entirely different mood. Also Oxbow Bend.

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October 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I mean, sometimes the classic shots are classic for a reason.

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October 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
If elected president I promise to replace the White House with something mid-century modern.
October 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
A bit more Mono lake, some nice cloud forms and colors.

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October 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Meanwhile, next year (well, 5/6ths of a year) looks like I'll pay $12,455.80 *more* in health insurance premiums.
October 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Allegedly Dem SMS today asking for funds by telling me that Articles of Impeachment were filed against Trump today. Apparently politi-spammers don't know how impeachment works, or alternately that the House isn't in session.
October 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Reposted by Joe (they/he)
The Trump administration is adamant that people not take or share photos of the White House destruction, so please keep this photo amongst us.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
October 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Not the geology people think of when they think of the Mono Basin (more the Alabama Hills, 100 miles or so south), but it's there at Rattlesnake Gulch, NW side of the basin. (The Aeolian Buttes to the SW also have some of this character.)

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October 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Back at the old place, I remember one year finding a hummingbird nest just outside the bedroom door to the backyard. An awkward spot to photograph and not intrude (stood on a dresser with the screen door cracked.) I got such joy from watching the whole process unfold.

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October 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Strokkur, a wonderful, frequently-erupting geyser from the field that gave us the word geyser.

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October 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Little Lakes Valley in the Eastern Sierra, I think perhaps Long Lake, near sunrise. Among many other things, I loved the way the shaded tree line resembled a seismograph trace.

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October 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The killer features for me in the latest iOS are phone screening and SMS filtering. Not having to deal with the flood of incompetent political and other spam (via voice and text message) is amazing.
October 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Just another East Greenland fjord. Memorable to me in part because handheld in very late dusk.

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October 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The positive thing I can say about Pravda is that the name still sounds better in the original Russian than the American reboot.
October 9, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Occasionally I get the timing of BiF right.

Kern NWR

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October 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Fascinating ripples and curves of frozen slush, blown by high winds, floating a pond. Near Vik, Iceland.

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October 7, 2025 at 12:39 AM
There were a lot of moments during my winter Iceland residency where snow transformed the landscape into abstracts, yet another example here.

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October 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
And a little more winter Mývatn, just loved this little curl of lakeshore.

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October 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM