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Alexander S. Kunz Photography
@alex-kunz.com
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Photographer & photography instructor, mentor, judge in San Diego, CA. #Lightroom expert, teacher, tutor. Environmentalist. #Chaparral naturalist. Introvert. Friend of single exposures, #Ambient music.

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This is a small sea cave south of La Jolla shores, which is only accessible during winter negative tides. One still has to pay attention to the tides to not get trapped of course!

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#Seascape #LaJolla #KingTides #SanDiego #LowTide
A vertical orientation color photo showing a narrow slit in coastal rock disappearing into a dark background. The rocks are covered in purple and blue algae.
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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#SilentSunday
A color photo showing a bare, solitary cottonwood tree on a pasture. In the foreground are the remnants of an old fence and animal barrier. The entire scene is shrouded in an eerie, dense fog.
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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For #WaterfallWednesday:

Sardine Falls of McKay Creek, seen from Sonora Pass Road in California's Eastern Sierra.

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#LandscapePhotography #Waterfall #EasternSierra #California #Landscape #SierraNevada #Mountains #Photography #MountainPhotography
Color photo showing an alpine landscape sparsely vegetated with trees. A waterfall can be seen coming out of a ravine, but the flow of water below the falls is obscured by foreground trees.
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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#SilentSunday
An intimate landscape photo showing fall-colored deciduous trees reflecting the calm, greenish water of a lake.
November 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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This Funnel Weaver says Happy Halloween. If you look closely you can see two of the spider's legs. :)

#NaturePhotography #Halloween #Spider #CloseUp #SanDiego #FunnelWeaver
Close-up photo of a spiderweb on the ground, amidst and above small fallen beige and orange leaves of an oak tree. The spiderweb recedes into a funnel and two of the spider's legs can be seen inside.
October 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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#ThrowbackThursday to October 2015 and a lovely hike in the cloud-shrouded forest up at Palomar Mountain in San Diego County.

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#Forest #Mosstodon #SanDiego #Hiking #NaturePhotography #IntimateLandscape #Throwback
An intimate landscape color photo in vertical orientation showing a forest with mossy boulders and moss-covered oak trees in a light fog.
October 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Twilight on the Pacific Crest Trail for #MountainMonday

View of Granite Mountain and Mason Valley from the #PCT in San Diego County, CA.

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#LandscapePhotography #SanDiego #LagunaMountains #Twilight #PacificCrestTrail #Hiking #Sunset #SouthernCalifornia
A landscape photo with a view from nearby hardy low-growing shrubs towards a barren desert landscape. The scene is tinted into the soft colors of post-sunset twilight. The sky is cloudless and clear, with a sliver of orange on the left side adding variation to cool blue.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Seastacks at Crescent City Cove for #SunsetSaturday

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#Seascape #Sunset #LongExposure #NorthernCalifornia #Silhouette #Photography
A wide format color seascape photo showing a group of rocks under evening sky with colorful orange streaks of clouds. A small tree grows on the largest rock, silhouetted against the sky. The ocean in the foreground is rendered smooth and silky with a slow shutter speed.
October 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Don't step on that Sidewinder!

From a desert hike in April 2021. The temperatures were too cool for this Colorado Desert Sidewinder to care much about our presence.

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#Snake #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #Sidewinder #Herpetology #PhotoBlog #ThrowbackThursday
Close-up photo of a small, curled up rattlesnake that blends in very well with the surrounding light grey rocks on the desert floor.
October 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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"Coyote's Castle" for #MountainMonday and #MonochromeMonday

These are sandstone formations in the Coyote Mountains Wilderness, California. Photographed in February 2023.

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#Desert #LandscapePhotography #SanDiego #BlackAndWhite #Landscape #Monochrome
Black & white photo of light sandstone formations in front of a dark, barren ridge in a desert landscape.
October 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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#SilentSunday
A color seascape photo showing roots and stump of an ancient tree embedded in the sand of a beach. Left and behind the tree, the calm water of a creek flows towards the ocean. In the distance, a large rock outcropping with trees is silhouetted against the sunset sky, but also partially obscured by a dense fog.
October 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Brown pelicans overhead. Oceanside, CA, September 2025.

#Wildlife #Birds #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #Pelican #Oceanside #SanDiego #California #BlackAndWhite
A square format black & white photos showing large seabirds in flight, from below, in a clear sky.
October 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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For #MountainMonday

Remnant monsoon clouds light up over the Southern California desert with Garnet Peak and Granite Mountain; seen from Foster Point in San Diego's Laguna Mountains; August 2025.

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#LandscapePhotography #SanDiego #Sunset #LagunaMountains
A landscape photo showing a colorful sunset sky over a semi-arid landscape from a high vantage point. In the foreground are rocks amidst low growing shrubs. Further in the distance, at a lower elevation, the landscape gets more barren and dry.
October 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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#SilentSunday
A color landscape photo showing a winter scene with trees silhouetted in backlight from the low sun. In the foreground a row of dry reeds catches some of the low sun as well, behind the trees a river's calm water reflects the light. The sky is almost clear, but hazy.
October 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Meet Arctostaphylos glauca, commonly known as Bigberry Manzanita and, since the evening of October 9, California's new OFFICIAL STATE SHRUB! YES!!! 🤩

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#Manzanita #Twilight #IntimateLandscape #SanDiego #Photography #Arctostaphylos
A vertical orientation color photo showing a gnarly shrub with grey and red bark reaching into the twilight sky.
October 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Thundering Yosemite Falls in spring, seen from the Mist Trail in Yosemite National Park, California; May 2024.

#WaterfallWednesday #Yosemite #Waterfall #LandscapePhotography #NationalParks #California #Photography #Landscape
Color landscape photo showing a mountain scene with a waterfall. The waterfall's lower part is obscured by a ridge of granitic rock in the front. Small trees and shrubs are growing amidst the rocks. The distant waterfall appears in a blue haze. No sky is visible in the photo.
October 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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"Baker Blues" for #MountainMonday

Photo from September 2022 when we met @mrussellphoto.bsky.social & Alan Majchrowicz for a hike. The blue haze was induced by relatively distant wildfires.

#Mountains #Hiking #LandscapePhotography #Washington #MountBaker

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A color landscape photo showing a grouping of mountains and ridges receding into blue, wildfire-induced haze under a clear sky. The landscape is sparsely vegetated with low-growing shrubs and a few groups of coniferous trees.
October 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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#SilentSunday
A long exposure seascape photo showing a coastal rock formation under soft, cloud filtered light, and breaking waves behind the rocks rendered into a smooth blur. The location of the photo is Solana Beach in San Diego County, California.
October 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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San Diego's new "water year" has begun on Oct 1st, and we're hoping for a wetter winter than the last one! Here's an old photo from 2011, after a particularly wet winter.

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#SanDiego #Photography #LandscapePhotography #Water #IntimateLandscape
An intimate landscape photo showing a creek flowing between rocks. The scene is backlit and a small sycamore tree grows amidst the rocks, its foliage glowing bright.
October 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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For #FlowerFriday here are some Purple Chinese Houses (Collinsia heterophyllia), photographed in spring. I particularly like how the color pattern repeats in the out of focus areas behind the flower. :)

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#Flowers #BloomScrolling #CloseUp #SanDiego #Spring
Vertical close-up photo of Collinsia heterophylla (Purple Chinese Houses), a white and purple wildflower with multiple flowers on a single inflorescence stalk.
September 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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"Ents"

#ThrowbackThursday to September 2010 when I went for an evening walk at a set of forest ponds that I visited often while I still lived in Germany. Fall was in the air!

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#IntimateLandscape #Fall #Forest #NaturePhotography #Autumn
A forest photo showing tall deciduous trees with thin trunks, growing at the edge of a forest pond with calm water. The trees reflect in the water and their foliage is beginning to turn.
September 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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"Heart of Oak" for #TreeTuesday

Coast Live Oaks trunks appear to form the shape of a human heart with its chambers. Photographed at Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve, San Diego, California.

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#BlackAndWhite #Trees #SanDiego #CoastLiveOak #NaturePhotography
Square format black & white photo. The trunks of old oak trees form the shape of a human heart with its chambers.
September 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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For #MountainMonday I have this elevated view of the Southern California desert landscape, disappearing in monsoonal haze. Seen from the Laguna Crest in San Diego County.

#LandscapePhotography #Mountains #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #LagunaMountains #SanDiego #SouthernCalifornia #MonochromeMonday
A black & white landscape photo made from an elevated viewpoint, looking across barren ridges of a desert landscape under monsoon clouds. Light breaks through the clouds here and there, painting light and shadow onto the landscape.
September 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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#SilentSunday
A black & white seascape photo showing large, round-shaped coastal rocks surrounded by water. The water is rendered very smooth and silky with a long exposure time (slow shutter speed).
September 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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“The whole cosmos has come together in order to help the flower manifest herself.” (Thich Nhat Hanh)

#Quotes #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography #Larkspur #Delphinium #Zen #Wildflowers #Flowers #CloseUp
Close-up photo showing a larkspur wildflower inflorescence with many individual blue flowers that have white fringes.
September 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM