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@ajmorey.bsky.social
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Photographer, Equestrian, Writer, Animal Lover, Retired Academician--some of my books are actually readable.
#photography
#womensart
#Canadianart
#GoodTrouble
#Virginia
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"Beautiful Veterans." Remove the Regime, Nov. 2025 in DC.
I took Tony's picture, and his brother-in-law (in blue), and told him he was beautiful. I meant it. He looked surprised. #Goodtrouble #RemovetheRegime #womensart #photography #DCprotest #ajsfreespiritphotography.com
Portrait of a handsome older veteran in a red shirt "Veterans Against Trump." He is sitting with his USCG flag is lying across his lap. Standing portrait of a Navy veteran in a blue shirt, "Veterans Against Trump."
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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"No Kings. Only Princesses." DC Nov 22, 2025, Remove the Regime. This little girl made the poster, and then raised her flag as I took the picture. I decided that was OK. Protects her identity!
#goodtrouble #womensart #photography #ajsfreespiritphotography.com.
A poster with childlike writing says "No Kings. Only Princesses." Made by a little girl who is holding a flag in from of her face. She and her dad are standing next to the reflecting pool.
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Remove the Regime, Nov. 22, 2025. Washington D.C. I met people from all over the country--Florida, Texas, Michigan, and Kansas, just to name a few.
#goodtrouble #photography #womensart #Kansas
#ajsfreespiritphotography.com
Two smiling women hold large banners. One says: "Kansans Against Fascism Extremism Tyranny (with a row of sunflowers at top and bottom) and the other one says "First they came for the immigrants. Then I cam from Kansas to Speak up!"
November 24, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Photo from Remove the Regime, Nov. 22, 2025, DC.
The Handmaids Visit Lincoln.
#Goodtrouble #Photography #womensart #MargaretAtwood
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Women dressed in the red cloaks from The Handmaid's Tale are sitting vertically two & three rows deep down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Some hold a sign that says "Shame."
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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"Laundry Skyline" and Laundry Cattle." Grottoes, VA 2025
#womensart #photography #Virginia #theplainlife
Documenting a disappearing way of life.
#www.ajsfreespiritphotography.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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"Chester's Curtains." Grottoes, VA 2024.
#womensart #photography #cat #womensartbluesky.bsdky.social
#www.ajsfreespiritphotography.com
Lateral and horizontal barn timbers are shown and hanging behind them on the inside are colorful horse blankets. On the right side in a door frame sits a white cat with a gray head.
November 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Oyster Huggers for No Kings! Cape Charles, VA 2025.
#Goodtrouble #photography #womensart #Virginia
A woman stands on a street corner holding a large cardboard oyster shell to face the camera. She's wearing a turquoise shirt, black pants and dark glasses. Her carefully lettered sign on the shell says "Oyster Huggers Against Trump." Her smile is lovely.
November 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Sometimes I just need to post a horse photo.
Duchess. Mount Solon, VA. 2019. #photography #womensart #Virginia #www.ajsfreespiritsphotography.com
A palomino mare stands in midfield facing the viewer. Behind her are the Blue Ridge mountains showing their colors under a marbled gray sky.
November 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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"Cowgirls for the Cure." 2019. Doswell, VA. October is breast cancer awareness month. It's personal to me. #Virginia #womensart #photography www.ajsfreespiritphotography.com
Closeup of a running horse that has been powdered in pink, her legs and mane are wrapped in pink ribbons. The rider is visible from the shoulders down, dressed in pink pants and shirt. Horse's mouth is gaping, as if great speed and force are being experienced.
October 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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My husband finding creative ways to express solidarity during the recent No Kings rallies in the Shenandoah Valley. #Virginia #Goodtrouble #womensart
Dresssed in a long sleeved yellow T shirt, a man holds a "love your neighbor" sign next to blue graffiti on a white wall that says "love yourself."
October 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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We weren't there more than driving from one end of the other. The only other photo I took was of the ubiquitous kudzu. Doesn't give you much of a glimpse of the area.
October 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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One of my favorite signs from No Kings yesterday. I’m thinking of the Trump/Epstein files and all the immigrants who have been brutalized by ICE. #nokings #goodtrouble #HarrisonburgVA.
A Black woman and white woman stand together. One holds a Protest sign that says dead canaries everywhere with a picture of a bird cage and yellow birds falling.
October 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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But we were having fun!
To older white peoples wearing yellow garments, carrying flags and holding signs that say “Love your Neighbor” and the other with a picture of a handsome young soldier (my dad! WW 2) as a representative of patriotism and courage. No Kings! No Facism!
October 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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My husband and I represented in Harrisonburg,VA for No Kings. Two rallies with at least 1000 people. All joyous and peaceful. #NoKings #GoodTrouble
October 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Someone had a yard sale during Haysi, VA's fall festival. I grab clotheline images, so here they are. #women'sart #photography #Haysi,VA #www.aj'sfreespiritphotography.com
An intricately scrolled iron work stairway to an upper balcony is hung with clothing. Colorful clothing is draped across an intricately scrolled iron work balcony railing including bras and summer dresses.
October 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I don't have the lens to grab super wild animal images but we went on an elk tour (Breaks Interstate Park, VA) and during the golden hour heard bugling and saw these magnificent creatures. #photography #naturephotography #Virginia #women'sart #www.ajsfreespiritphotography.com
Male elk facing left turns his antlered head to look in front of him. He's standing on green grass and encircled by trees. The setting sun lights up his back and flanks. Standing on a gravel road hilltop looking west toward fields where we can hear a bugling elk, but can't see him. Sun glints gold through the trees on the right hand side, mountains outlining the horizon in dark green and gray.
October 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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This woman's tats & hair were so beautiful I stalked her through an Alexandria art festival to get a photo of her living art.
#photography #womensart #Alexandria,VA #www/ajsfreespiritphotography.com
From the back: a woman with curly,shoulder length-gold streaked hair displays intricate geometric tatoos across her back and shoulders. There is a bird with red,green and black wings outstretched rising from the center of her back (not entirely visible).
October 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I took this photo of a red barn, thinking I'd show "nestle" but then discovered the entire scene was being stalked by cloud shade in the form of a giant squirrel. And that's what I really love about photography.
#photography #womensart #shenandoahvalley #www/ajsfreespiritphotography.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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"Phallic USA." Shenandoah Valley 2024
I don't usually photography landscapes, but the Charlie Kirk foolishness made me think of this scene & title. I'm so sorry to see so many women moaning over this mediocre prick.
#Photography #womensart #Virginia #goodtrouble
The Blue Ridge mountians form waves of blues behind four large navy blue silos which rear up in the center of the valley. Silos are flanked by gold and green fields and a road runs down the middle.
September 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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I’ve noticed white men calling political enemies “c- - -t. If I ask them not to do this they dismiss me. Or tell me to fuck off. And that’s why the Epstein files are so important.
September 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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"Behind Blue Eyes." Blue eyes aren't rare in horses, but they are striking, and there is something about this scene that underlines the blue. Simon is standing like a girl being fitted. 2019.
#Horses #Womensart #Shenandoahvalley #Virginia
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Framed by a wooden fence on the side and back, a tall red horse with black points turns his head away from the trainer holding his halter and the farrier. The farrier is in the background, bent over, and blueish smoke arises as he fits the shoe.
August 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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"Sunday Best." Mennonite series. When you don't have a dryer and it rains, you use the front porch. The simplicity and calm of this scene belies the discipline required to create it.
#Womensart #Photography #ShenandoahValley
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The front porch of a gray, rural and well-kept Mennonite home is decorated with a clothes line of dresses, all in blues, white and purple. Magenta colored impatiens accent the dress blues along the bottom porch lines. White pillars, white hosta and white hanging basket accent the whole.
August 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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This is my mammoth donkey, a breed developed by George Washington. Davenport is curious and cautious. He has a beautiful head and I have yet to take a photo of his eyes that would do them justice. He sees you.
#women'sart #photography #Virginia #horse #donkey
Close profile of a black donkey looking left. His muzzle is white and his deep-socketed eyes are ringed with white. His coat is dusty. His large mammoth ears are pricked up. A mammoth donkey with a fly mask on is inspecting a Bobcat driller. The Bobcat is white, the meadow is green, the donkey is black. He's not worried about the equipment at all.
August 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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"Prisoner in Disguise." Unposed but too sentimental-looking to make it into a show! Do you recognize the song and artist this photo borrows?
#Photography #Horse #womensart #Virginia #LexingtonVA
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A young girl with long hair, dressed in blue, stands in front of a wire grill that covers a horse stall. The horse behind the grill is palomino, wearing a pink halter. The girl's hand is on the grill as if she could stroke the horse's nose and they gaze at each other.
August 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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From my Mennonite series: "Old Order Interrogation." #Horses #Womensart #photography #Virginia #ChincoteagueAssateague #www.ajsfreespiritphotography.com.
This is an intense, alert Standardbred horse whose awareness is palpable.
Full front head shot of a bay Standardbred buggy horse. She has on blinkers and a smooth callous across her nose where the bridle rubs. Her ears are pricked toward the camera.
July 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM