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AndiF
@aferguson.bsky.social
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Retired but not retiring taker-of-photographs and scratcher-of-dog-bellies
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AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 23d
I guess I need to add that if you post other people's photos without giving them credit and/or getting approval, I will block you.
aferguson.bsky.social AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · Feb 13
Reminder: if I haven't followed back or have unfollowed you, it's probably because
your timeline has few posts or mostly retweets
you're following thousands of accounts
you're selling something or asking for money
your timeline is full of things I'm not interested in
you post images without ALT text
aferguson.bsky.social
Flit's #MondayMorning Wisdom: Need to shine? Just get out there and find something that makes you glow.
#photography #dogs #dogsofbluesky #light #woods
A medium-sized chestnut colored dog with a black muzzle is trotting on a trail through the fall woods. The morning light is made a glowing outline around her entire body.
November 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
21 years later this slightly out of focus photo is still my favorite photo of a mountain from a mountain top. Lassen Peak from Brokeoff Mountain, ⁨Lassen Volcanic National Park⁩, California⁩ #photography #Support_Public_Lands #MountainMonday #Lassen #nature #out_of_focus #selfie
After Andi and I hiked up to the summit of Brokeoff Mountain and enjoyed our cookies, I set the camera up for a photo of us with Lassen in the background. I forgot to manually focus the camera so when it snapped the shot Lassen was in focus and we were not. This was a year before I went digital so I didn't know until I got the film back. 🤷🏻‍♂️
November 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Combining #NationalHikingDay and #MountainMonday with remembering a great hike to the summit of Mt. Hoffman in Yosemite's High Sierra. This was a couple of decades ago but the fantastic 360 view will be the same (might not be as clear, though).
#photography #hiking #mountains #Yosemite
A panorama view from the summit of Mt. Hoffman shows a lower nearby peak in the foreground and beyond are mountains after mountains after mountains and on and on. The blue sky is filled with puffy white clouds.
November 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
aferguson.bsky.social
Of our 8 dogs, Bebo was the one with the exceptionally stunning talent for finding me very scenic shots to take.
#photography #StunDay #dogs #dogsofbluesky
A tan-and-white mutt (the shelter said beagle & boxer thus the name; the vet said yes boxer, no beagle) sands in a shallow creek in the midst of a reddish gold fall woods.
November 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
‎⁨Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming #photography #B&W #Support_Public_Lands #stunday
The Devil's Tower monolith rises above the plains of eastern Wyoming. The gray igneous rock (phonolite porphyry) that it is made of formed hexagonal columns as it cooled. These columns make the furrowed sides of the tower and inspired the indigenous people to tell how great bears scratched the grooves in the tower.
November 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
When you have to go somewhere early in the morning, you should at least have an interesting sky as a reward. #photography #sunrise #clouds
The dawn sky is streaked with rose and gray bands of clouds.
November 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
It won't last long but nice to have a day when Republicans in my state do something that doesn't make me furious.
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
UPDATE: No redistricting (seat-stealing) for Indiana Republicans…
November 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
The Friday Digital Archive Dive is uncertain about frost flowers this year (drought, unseasonably warm) so is picking some from the many in the archive (see 1st ALT image for how they are formed).
Taken #OnThisDay November 14, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020
#photography #frostflowers #ice #frost
Two frost flowers close together, both with swirls and ripples. In my area, the dittany plant can form frost flowers when the temperatures are below freezing overnight but the ground is not already frozen. The cold temperatures cause liquid in the stem of the dittany to expand, causing cracks to form along the length of the stem. Water is then forced out throw the cracks and freezes upon contact with the air. As more water is drawn through the cracks it pushes the thin ice layers further from the stem creating the 'flower'. A tall frost flower with two 'wings' and a swirling ribbon. A frost flower with small ripples, curves, and a solitary curved ribbon at the bottom. A melting frost flower is almost transparent.
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Mystery mushroom? Flummoxing fungi? I took this photo last December. I don't know anything about it other than I was surprised to see that a mushroom had grown so late in the year. Do you know what species it might be? [more info in ALT] #photography #FungiFriday #nature #mushroom #question
This is a cluster of pale orange mushrooms with yellow edges growing on the side of a decaying log. There are some brown leaves below them. The mushrooms remind me of chicken of the woods in colors, but they don't have the curly edges. Also instead of being smooth surfaced, these are fuzzy. Is it possible that these late emerging mushrooms are young chicken of the woods that froze?
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
The Pleasures of Looking Up: Tulip Trees Are The Best Edition.
No wonder it's the Indiana State Tree.
#photography #trees #woods #fall #color
A photo taken looking up at a tall (well over 100 feet but the current tallest recordholder is 192 ft) and very straight tulip tree. The tops of other trees around it are also visible, including maples with red and yellow leaves and other small tulip trees (aka tulip poplar which is what I grew up calling them).
November 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
This massive black oak is one of the few giants that have survived in the nearby woods. #photography #ThickTrunkThursday #oak #nature
The base of this tree is about 7± feet (2± m) across, and its diameter at breast height is at least 4 feet (1.2 m). I don't have an estimate of its height. Trees of this size and age are uncommon in Brown County, Indiana for 2 reasons. Logging is an obvious one. In the late 19th and early 20 century our county was virtually clear cut to make the land tillable. That was a mistake because the steep hillsides are unsuitable for farming. Few trees as old as this one escaped that. Later logging has been done to harvest valuable timber. The second reason is Brown County's soil. At the surface the heavy clay soil is not the best for any plant. A few fee below that is a densely packed clay layer, and under that is sandstone. All this means that the trees have shallow root systems. In a storm the trees are often uprooted and topple. I mentioned a few days ago a storm we had in March of this year and the damage it did to our woods. So when I see a tree like this around here, I am looking at a lottery winner.
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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This is the full story of Wally the narcoleptic shelter dog ❤️‍🩹
November 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
aferguson.bsky.social
A day when the early morning light and early evening light had the same yellow-red cast.
#photography #moon #light #woods
A view through the trees in a woods just before the sun rises. The light from the sun has given a glow to the clouds and colored the leaves. A view of woods from a road. The moon is very low on the horizon and looks very big as it appears to hover just above the trees. All the trees are washed in a reddish-yellow light that is stronger than the first picture as no other color comes through.
November 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
I captured the annual downward migration. Looking forward to seeing the next generation in the spring. #photography #leaves #clouds #autumn #nature
Beech leaves against a mostly blue sky are falling to the ground after a gust of wind blew them off of the trees.
November 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Aurora photos in south Central Indiana
Red Aurora sky through the trees. More Aurora sky
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
120+ years of good years and not so good years are in the tree rings. The story of the stump is in the ALT. #photography #trees
This is the stump of a tree that was blown down and then cut by a mechanical timber harvester. The tree rings, alternating light and dark bands, show up clearly. I still need to go back to the stump to get an accurate count to determine the age of the tree. We had a wind storm last March that damaged or destroyed over 60 of the trees in one small section of our woods. I can't tell from the stump if it was a red or white oak. There were several of both species near this tree. We had a logger come in and do a salvage operation to allow us access to that part of the forest again and open up areas new growth. Based on past experience, tulip poplars will probably be the pioneer species in our forest succession. I'll add an accurate count of the tree rings and the species in a reply later today.
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Snowy day yesterday looked pretty but didn't amount to much in accumulation (maybe an inch). It's going to be well above freezing today so it will all be gone soon. Flit enjoyed it.
#photography #snow #woods #trees #dogs
View standing our long (1/4 mile) driveway of the light snow covering the drive and the trees in the woods that the driveway goes through. There is a dog also in the photo caught in mid-trot. A view in the midst of the woods of leaves with snow on them. Most of the trees are white oaks.
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
My mother met my father when he was in training in Indianapolis during World War II. Thus, my remembrance for the U.S. #VeteransDay always starts on a personal note with this photo of their wedding day.
This is a 1943 black-and-white photo of my mother in a pretty street dress standing next to my father who is wearing an army uniform. They look young (21 and 22) and a maybe a tiny bit stunned. They got married just months before he was sent to the European battleground as a medic.
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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niallharbison.bsky.social
Actually speechless at Stormzy’s progress today. He woke up and decided to attack the week.

Listen out for the cutest little bark ever ❤️
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
A view from the Healy Pass Trail, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada #photography #B&W #MountainMonday #Support_Public_Lands
This photo shows a view of the Canadian Rockies. The foreground is a valley covered by a coniferous forest. Above that in the photo are mountains and a partially cloudy sky.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Flit's #MondayMorning Wisdom: If you can just find the right vantage point and you put your mind 100% to the task, you WILL find and get that damn squirrel.
#photography #dogs #dogsofbluesky #dogsonlogs
A medium-sized chestnut colored dog with a black muzzle stands on a fallen tree trunk and stares up intently at a tree in front of her where she had seen a squirrel run up its trunk. The squirrel has moved on but Flit always has hope. PS: not a recent photo.
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Hiking in the Sawtooth Mountains which make it clear that it's no mystery how they got their name.
#photography #mountainmonday #Idaho #hiking
A mountain range with peaks that are a series of jagged serrations similar to the teeth on a saw looms above a pine forest.
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
aferguson.bsky.social
Snow is starting to stick.
Snow is sticking to branches and leaves.
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Reality meets reflection ... in stunningly perfect way.
#photography #reflections #buildings #StunDay
A reflection in a glass building shows a brick church and the branches of a nearly bare tree. There is a distinct edge that is the corner of the building. Along the edge is an actual tree that is also nearly bare. Its branches are 'touching' the reflected tree branches as if they a part of the same tree.
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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jimferguson.bsky.social
Nature decided to show off clashing colors on #Stunday by saying, "On me they look fabulous!" #photography #clash #autumn_color #trees #leaves
Magenta dogwood leaves are in focus in this photo. They stand out against an out of focus background of yellow-green and greeny-yellow beech leaves. It looks like nature took its inspiration from some old websites where a text box was in one color and the text in it was in a clashing color.
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM