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Phoenix531
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Retired DBA. #Photographer still using my 18 year old #Nikon. Music and Nature lover. Heavy Metal and good old fashioned blues rock on my playlist. Liberal gun owner.
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Phoenix531 @phoenix531.bsky.social · Sep 6
#Photography
#California
#DeathValley
#ZabriskiePoint
#Landscape
#PinkFloyd - I happened to stay at a hotel with a huge cow and pig statue in the parking lot. If you know the references, please like.
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May, 1965 Old River Control Structure - Low Sill structure.

Barges trapped and eventually sunk at structure.

Scanned photos from the Corp of Engineers. I have scanned in some of the more powerful ones. Not my photos.
#PointeCoupeeParish
#Photography
#ScannedPhoto
#BlackandWhite
#Louisiana
Barge about to go under water at the Old River Control Structure - Low Sill facility. Photo was taken by Corp of Engineers, May 3rd and 5th 1964. This structure is at the north tip of Pointe Coupee Parish where the Mississippi, Red and Atchafalaya rivers meet. The locks divert water from the Mississippi River into the Red River where a few miles south it becomes the Atchafalaya. Barge about to go under water at the Old River Control Structure - Low Sill facility. Photo was taken by Corp of Engineers, May 3rd and 5th 1964. This structure is at the north tip of Pointe Coupee Parish where the Mississippi, Red and Atchafalaya rivers meet. The locks divert water from the Mississippi River into the Red River where a few miles south it becomes the Atchafalaya.
January 30, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Scanned photos from the Corp of Engineers. 1973 flood of the Mississippi River in Louisiana. I have scanned in some of the more powerful ones. Hope you enjoy. Not my photos.
Old River Control Structure - Low Sill
#PointeCoupeeParish
#Photography
#ScannedPhoto
#BlackandWhite
#Louisiana
Contractor barge about to go under water at the Old River Control Structure - Low Sill facility. Photo was taken by Corp of Engineers 1973-10-12. This structure is at the north tip of Pointe Coupee Parish where the Mississippi, Red and Atchafalaya rivers meet. The locks divert water from the Mississippi River into the Red River where a few miles south it becomes the Atchafalaya. Old River Control Structure - Low Sill facility. Photo was taken by Corp of Engineers 1973-12-08. Work was being done on a caving bank in the outflow canal. This structure is at the north tip of Pointe Coupee Parish where the Mississippi, Red and Atchafalaya rivers meet. The locks divert water from the Mississippi River into the Red River where a few miles south it becomes the Atchafalaya.
January 30, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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January 10, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
January 5, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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Yeah, hard to explain that... #TDS #ItsAcult #MAGAtNation
December 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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#blueskyartshow #sky #wanderlust #landscape #geology #composition #photography #blueskyart #blueskyphotography #photographersofbluesky #Clouds

Possibly a repost, but #WindRock on #AppalachianTrail looking north towards Va/WV border.
December 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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#blueskyartshow #sky #rockformations #rockformation #desertphotography #desert #wanderlust #landscape #geology #composition #contrast #photography #blueskyart #blueskyphotography #photographersofbluesky

#Texas #PaloDuro
December 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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After 20 years in the Navy, Buzz Grambo thought he'd spend his retirement playing video games and watching baseball. Instead, he patrols the streets of Baltimore to protect his neighbors from ICE. He even upgraded his scooter to a Segway that reaches 26 mph to keep up with the agents. My latest:
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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#Photography #California #Monterey
#silhouette #fish #sealife

From a trip to California a few months ago. The colors just pop in this one. No correction of colors, just a crop. Sometimes I get lucky and a scene just happens.
November 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
For the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Evening
#Photography #Sunset #AppalachianTrail

This is one of a series I took that evening as the sun set. I was staying in Loft Campground in the park, sitting on the Appalachian Trail when I photographed this.
Photo of sun setting behind the mountains of northern Virginia. Trees are in the foreground and the clouds glow with the last rays of the setting sun.
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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#blueskyartshow #autumn #Colorado #photography #Nature

Million Dollar Highway
November 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”
October 19, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Finally came across video of an arrest at a #NoKings event yesterday. 🙄
October 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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#IndigenousPeoplesDay

#PetrifiedForest
#Petroglyphs
#Landscape
#Photography

This might be a repost of mine, but here's petroglyphs from the Petrified Forest. Photo taken August 25, 2015
Images of animals and stick figures and a variety of shapes. A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art. The term generally refers to rock engravings of ancient origin, often associated with prehistoric peoples. Images of animals and stick figures and a variety of shapes. A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art. The term generally refers to rock engravings of ancient origin, often associated with prehistoric peoples.
October 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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#Texas
#GuadalupeNatonalPark
#Nature
#Photography
#landscape
#Hiking

Working on photos from a recent vacation. Hope you enjoy.
October 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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#Utah
#Nature
#Photography
#landscape
#B&WPhoto
#Nikon

Working on photos from a recent vacation. Hope you enjoy.
October 13, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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#Utah
#Nature
#Photography
#landscape

Working on photos from a recent vacation. Hope you enjoy.
October 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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#dailynature
#Blueskyartshow
#glow
#photography
#nature
#jellyfish

Taken at the Monterey Aquarium, California.
October 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow
#Glow
#SantaFe #NewMexico
#photography
#Sunset
#Skyline
Early one evening while visiting Santa Fe, NM in August.
Sunset looking west over barely visible houses towards the mountains and multi colored sky.
October 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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#ForestFriday
#Nature
#Colorado
#Photography
#Landscape

Million Dollar Highway, Montrose to Durango, Co.
October 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Dad shot this photo in 1967 and I scanned it in from a slide a few years ago after his death.

My aunt and uncle taking dad's motorcycle for a ride.

#BlueSkyArtShow
The theme is #TheRoad

#photography #Louisiana #RuralLouisiana
September 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Seems I have a thing for the centerline of a highway.
#GiveMeThatHorizon

#BlueSkyArtShow
The theme is #TheRoad

#photography #Landscape #Utah #Nevada #California
September 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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For today's #BlueskyArtShow and theme #TheRoad. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #milkyway #nightphotography #astrophotography
September 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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History was made on South Street last week.

Philly’s first queer women’s sports bar, Marsha’s, opened its doors — and the line wrapped around the block. 

🔗 www.inquirer.com/wnba/womens-...
September 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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🚨Beware the #rapture!
Here's what the zealots believe:
“For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the believers who have died will rise from their graves”

So yeah, first we get ZOMBIES! 🧟🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️
September 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM