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New York at night - as cliche as the steam shot is…. I do love it
#photography #monochrome #nyc
A black and white photo of a New York City street with steam coming up and backlight by oncoming cars
November 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park
#photography #scapes #nationalparks #yellowstone
Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park. A large, calm hot springs with a tree line and hills in the distance under a blue sky streaked with clouds
July 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Badlands. Well named.

#photography #scapes #nationalparks
A view across the dry, jagged hills of the Badlands with a mostly blue sky above.
June 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Documenting fossils in Badlands National Park
#fossils #badlands #nationalparks #southdakota
Fossilized teeth embedded in rock at Badlands National Park, South Dakota
June 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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A summer day in Capitol Reef National Park. Utah, USA
#BlueskyMonday
#capitolreef
#photography
A red canyon wall with a nearly clear blue sky above at Capitol Reef National Park in Utah.
May 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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apathetic boxing…

#caturday #singlecatman
April 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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FRIDAY - MARCH 14, 2025

Mercury Goes into Retrograde

This occurs three or four times per year. Just often enough to blame the planet instead of yourself when things go wrong in your life.
March 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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The Moon and Venus just after sunset.
#photography
#florida
#gulfofmexico
#capesanblas
Just after sunset, a crescent Moon and Venus standout against a gradient sky of a hint of dusk with the night sky above the beach of Cape San Blas, Florida
March 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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A peaceful end to the day on the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

#photography
#gulfofmexico
#freedom
March 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Looking north to Panama City from Cape San Blas. A beautiful night in Florida on the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico
#starrynight
#photography
#florida
#gulfofmexico
March 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Low tide
Cape San Blas, FL February ‘24

#blueskyartshow
#photography
#monochrome
Abstract patterns in sand at low tide.
February 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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New Orleans snow storm!

#nola #snow #photography #winter
January 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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The first time I saw my great grandfather Ludwig… he left the US a few years after starting a family in the 1910s in the United States… went back to Germany, then fled in the 1930s (as an Ashkenazi Jew) and went to Canada to start a whole new life…
A family picture of Marie Delery Wasserman, daughter Hilda Wasserman and husband Ludwig Wasserman
December 15, 2024 at 2:27 AM
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Desert varnish, Grand Wash, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah.

#photography #utah #capitolreef #nationalpark #landscape
Streaks of black desert varnish running down a canyon wall inside of Grand Wash at Capitol Reef National Park.
December 13, 2024 at 12:06 PM
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Koi. Kenroku-en, Kanazawa, Japan.

#photography #monochrome #nature #japan
Monochrome photo of three koi swimming in a small mostly shaded pond with one koi swimming through a patch of sunlight. Taken in Kenroku-en, a famed Japanese garden in Kanazawa, Japan.
December 9, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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When a tree frog hops across your garbage can and leaves tracks in the morning dew.
#frogs #nature #photography
A set of three frog prints left on a dew-covered trashcan lid after a frog hopped through.
December 6, 2024 at 12:34 AM
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Fallstreak holes…. Courtesy of the fighter jets out of Tyndall AFB. Cape San Blas, Florida. February ‘22

#clouds #photography #fotographía #florida #tyndall
Fallstreak holes in a thin layer of clouds over Cape San Blas, Florida.
December 4, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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Pigeon and blimp. New Orleans. This past weekend.

#photography #NOLA #birds
December 3, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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Early February evening, just after sunset at Cape San Blas, Florida.

#photography #beach #florida
Wispy clouds over the beach at Cape San Blas, Florida. Just after sundown with blue skies darkening into night with a hint of pale yellow in the bottom right over where the sun, until recently, was setting.
December 1, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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An abstract moment after wind, waves and tide brush the beach at Cape San Blas, Florida
#photography #fotographía #capesanblas
Abstract black and white bands of sand along the beaches of Cape San Blas, Florida.
November 25, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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Mississippi River, as it flows past New Orleans at night.

#NOLA #photography
New Orleans, at night, as seen from the Mississippi River. The reflections of the buildings can be seen among the gentle ripples of the currents of the Mississippi River.
November 23, 2024 at 3:30 AM
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#RockinTuesday

Grand Wash, Capitol Reef National Park

#photography
#Utah #CapitolReef
Streaked canyon rock walls inside of Grand Wash, Capitol Reef National Park.
November 19, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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Kanazawa-jo (Kanazawa Castle) in Kanazawa, Japan

#photography #japan #castles
#kanazawa
Kanazawa Castle, Kanazawa, Japan. Classic whitewash walls with black tile roof. Many places from which to shoot arrows at attacking armies.
November 19, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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At the Higashiyama Hakusan shrine, Takayama, Japan

#photography #fotografía #japan
Extensive roots and Shinto shide around an old tree at the Higashiyama Hakusan shrine in Takayama, Japan
November 17, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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Kenroku-en, summer 2024.

#photography #fotografía #kanazawa #japan
A curving tree on a mat of moss inside Kenroku-en, a treasured Japanese garden in Kanazawa, Japan.
November 17, 2024 at 3:30 PM