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John
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I am a retired college professor. I studied how we see and perceive. I am a very amateur photographer focusing mostly on nature and night photography.


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John @krantzj.bsky.social · Nov 24
The spring Milky Way arch. From April, 2023. Taken with a Nikon Z5 using a Rokinon 14mm lens at f/2.8. These are 30 sec images stitched in Hugin. #astrophotography #astrophos #milkyway #nightskyphotography
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First snow flakes #MacroMonday #EastCoastKin #snow
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Totally unconcerned with me! #BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #birds #BirdPhotography #GooseberryFallsStatePark
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Fall is beginning to fade away. 🍂🥶

#BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday #sky #autumn #nature #clouds #fall #trees
A cloud covered mountain surrounded by golden trees, on the Thompson River, in the Interior of British Columbia. The sky is blue and there’s a faint reflection on the water.
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Big Cranberry Island from Mount Cadillac in Acadia National Park, Maine. #MountainMonday #BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #AcadiaNationalPark #CadillacMountain #CranberryIslands
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Updated cheat sheet for November 10-16

Here are the hashtags and themes for the art challenges November 10-16. Compiled by Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social

#EastCoastKin #ArtChallenges #Photography #Art
Monday, November 10 #BlueSkyMonday (anything blue) #MacroMonday (any macro) #MountainMonday (mountains) #MinimalMonday (minimalism) #ColorADay (#PinkMon) #NightmareNov (#horrific) Tuesday, November 11 #RockinTuesday (rocks) #TidesOutTuesday #TagTuesday (graffiti/street art) #AnimalArtTuesday #ColorADay (#BlueTue or #CyanTue) #NightmareNov (#claws) Wednesday, November 12 #WaterfallWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday #WackyWednesdayArt (odd/unusual) #WallsOnWednesday #ColorADay (#RedWed) #NightmareNov (#blue) Thursday, November 13 #HumansOfBlueSky (people) #UrbanGaze (anything urban) #PalacesAndGardens (#BotanicalWonders) #ColorADay (#YellowThu) #NightmareNov (#unnatural) Friday, November 14 #scape (any kind of scape) #FishyFriday #ForestFriday #FoodOnFriday #FlyDay (critters that fly) #ColorADay (#BWFri) #NightmareNov (#cosmic) Saturday, November 15 #BNWmacro #ColorADay (#GreenSat) #BlueSkyArtShow (#bright) #NightmareNov (#pain) Sunday, November 16 #Stunday (stunning) #ImageAndVerse (photos with poems written by you or anyone) #BNWmacro #ColorADay (#OrangeSun) #SelfPortraitSunday (#LightInTheDark) #NightmareNov #grotesque) All Week #ArtYear (any art) #ArtOfSelfPortraiture #BirdOfTheDay (see Alan H or Rob Crank for daily prompt) #FestiveDailyRobin (robin pics through December 31) #smARTIST (purposeful art) #AlphabetChallenge (#WeekTForTelevision)* #SensoryArt (#loud) *Caption with name of TV show
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Yaaaaaaassssss ✨
November 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Good Morning! I took this photo in the Faroe Islands. It works for the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForShadows #EastCoastKin #Photography #Rainbow

With me in the center! Because...the rainbow's geometric center is precisely opposite the sun relative to my position, which is where the shadow falls.
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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A mountain mahogany triple spiral!

#Nature #photography #naturephotography #EastCoastKin #macro #stunday
Three sprigs of mountain mahogany that grew in a spiral.
November 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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enjoy your #stunday
golden gate, san francisco
#bluesky #photography #eastcoastkin #california
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be, are full of trees and changing leaves...” —Virginia Woolf

#Stunday #EastCoastKin #ArtChallenge #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Nature #OceanVibes #Sunrise #Fall
November 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Along the pond shore
#stunday #landscape #photography #scape #eastcoastkin #autumn #fall
#Bluesky #forest #forestfriday #trees
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Foggy Fall morning 🌄 #stunday #EastCoastKin #autumn #Fall #foggy
Trees, some that have turned fall colors, receding into fog.
November 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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#blackandwhitephotography #ClassicMono #countryside #cottage #StunDay #PhotographersOfBlueSky
November 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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One of the joys of #evening is going from Golden Hour to Blue Hour! Here same location (Copper Harbor Lighthouse) minutes apart. #BlueSkyArtShow #CopperHarborMI #CopperHarborLighthouse #EastCoastKin
Copper Harbor lighthouse seen in golden light just before sunset. Copper Harbor lighthouse seen during the blue hour with the light on.
November 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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'Crossing the Great Meadow' (2023) -- Homeward Bound After a Hike, Shadows Lengthen Across the Tall Grasses and Marsh, Acadia National Park, ME

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #BlueSkyArtShow ✨ #Evening

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
crossing the great meadow in the early evening on the jesup path back to the golf course at the edge of town... and eventually into downtown bar harbor
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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#Scape
November 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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#Scape #ClassicMono #ColorADay #BWFri

Laguna Lake in the morning fog. Someone hung the rope from the tree some time ago, and there it remains. 🤷🏼‍♀️

#EastCoastKin #LandscapePhotography
Black and white image of dense fog that almost completely obscures the houses on the other side of the lake. In the foreground are the much more defined silhouettes of a eucalyptus tree branch bending over and reed grasses. There is a rope with a loop at the end tied to the branch of the tree. The lake shoreline has small to medium sized loose rocks. Laguna Lake, San Luis Obispo, California.
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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'Golden Reverie' (2007) -- Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon, Southern Iceland

'the Land Fell Deep Into Shadow and the Air Drew Down to a Whisper... Thus Began the Age of the Golden Phoenix' -- Unknown

#BlueSkyArtShow ✨ #Evening #ImageAndVerse ✨

#Photography #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
the golden rays of a stormy evening horizon illuminate a small bridge between the glacier lagoon and the expansive, black sands of diamond beach
November 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday November 8, 2025
The theme is #Evening

Any art, any interpretation
Use both tags to be
included in our feed.
Multiple entries welcome

More details in the comments

#photography #drawing #painting #sketching #poetry
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday November 8, 2025 The theme is #Evening Any art. Any interpretation. Use both tags to be included in our feed. Multiple entries welcome.
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Tofino trees.
#ForestFriday #scape #nature #photography
Looking up a wooden staircase, a person gazes up at the west coast forest.
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Ely view: a bus shelter, the end wall of Oliver Cromwell's House (with tree shadow), and the steeple of St Mary's church.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows and #scape 📷 #photography
The end of an old half-timbered house, with yellow bricks on its end wall and lower storey, and a tree beside it casting a shadow across the end wall. Next to it is a wall and in front of that a bus shelter. Someone is about to walk past. In the background is the steeple of a church whose stonework matches in colour the bricks. It is sunlit from one side.
November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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#scape
Venice at night, smaller canal opening up to Grand Canal
November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Mist rolls in from the Pacific, wrapping the cliffs of Cape Perpetua in soft light. The Oregon Coast never ceases to remind me of its wild and beautiful nature. 🌊🌲

#Scape #EastCoastKin #OregonCoast #CapePerpetua #LandscapePhotography #PNW
A sweeping view of the Oregon coast at Cape Perpetua. A winding coastal highway traces the edge of a forested mountain that drops sharply into rocky cliffs and foamy surf. The Pacific Ocean stretches into the distance under a veil of drifting sea mist.
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Beaver moon #scape

#EastCoastKin #PicMagnets
#moon #photography
Beaver moon rising behind tree
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 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