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anthroprof.bsky.social
Actual Ape
@anthroprof.bsky.social
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Cultural anthropologist, nature lover, Scuba enthusiast, pro LGBTQIA+ rights, justice, democracy, Ukraine. Research focus: Post-Soviet Russia. Formerly at Post. Politically engaged but will mostly post photos.
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Deep in the depths of the Shakem wreck, an octopus rests in the coral that's arisen all around on the ship's structures. #MarineLife #Grenada #photography
An octopus rolled up inside a coral outgrowth on the ship wreck a large red and while arm with tentacles wraps around its watchful eye.
November 30, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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It's been a while, but the light on this tiny lizard took me by surprise. #wildlife #Grenada #photography
A tiny brownish green lizard climbing along the wooden edge of a pool im Grenada.
November 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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What strikes me most about these photos is that it was 6 o'clock! How is it this dark at 6 o'clock? #Brooklyn #BringBackDaylightSavingTime
Electrical plant and trucks down by the bay at dusk with an orange glow at the horizon. 3rd Ave under the expressway, car lights and traffic cones line the street at dusk.
November 3, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Tranquility in the city. #Brooklyn #Green-Wood.
View of Sylvan pond from a cliff. A large evergreen tree to the right, calm water, the tops of tombstones in the foreground and autumn trees turning red in the background.
November 3, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Wildlife at the cemetery. #Brooklyn #nature #photography
A squirrel sits high above in a tree with orange leaves blurred in the background. A squirrel sits on the front steps of a mausoleum eating a snack. Two marble pillars are to its right and grass and bushes are blurred in the background A squirrel sits in the grass eating something with two tombstones blurred in the background.
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Couldn't resist the moon juxtaposed with the fall trees this evening in Green-Wood Cemetery. #Brooklyn #photography
A waxing moon at dusk in the blue sky over a fall tree with reddish leaves. A waxing moon seen through the branches of a fall tree at dusk.
November 3, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Some fall photos of Bluejays at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. #birds
A blue jay in a bare tree with a round object (berry?) in its mouth. A bluejay on the ground looking straight the camera with a somewhat startled look on its face. Dried leaves are on the ground with a few bits of grass and tree trunks behind it.
November 3, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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An interactive spiritual art exhibit for Dia de Muertos by the Mexican artist Laura Anderson Barbata at the Green-Wood Cemetery Chapel.
Dia de Muertos alter and art exhibit in the Green-Wood Cemetery chapel. Colorful skulls, paper and ribbons line the walls. People who enter the chapel are invited to honor their loved ones with messages on decorative paper skulls and ribbons that they then hang on the walls. The alter of the Dia de Muertos exhibit at the Green-Wood cemetery chapel. The alter has ceramic skulls and paper skulls with dedications to lost loved ones.
November 3, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Just a couple of shots to give a sense of what it was like swimming into the thermocline. Everything looks a bit rippled. You can see this by looking at the edge of the shark's body - it's especially clear on the top front portion of the shark in the left photo. #MarineLife #scuba
Whitetip shark in thermocline. There is sand below and a school of fish and the back end of another shark in the background. When you look at the edges of the sharks body, you can see they are rippled rather than sharp A white tip shark swimming above the sand in the thermocline. The thermocline gives it a rippled somewhat blurred look.
October 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Into the thermocline with some whitetip sharks. This trip was my first real thermocline experience, and it was wild to be able to see the water change. I felt like I was entering a portal into a different reality. #MarineLife #scuba #sharks
October 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Off to school with the Grunts and Spade Fish in Costa Rica. #MarineLife
October 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Goldenrod by the sea. Nature at the edge of the city. #Brooklyn #flowers #nature #photography
Goldenrod with a bee down by the ocean with light reflecting on the water in the background. Goldenrod with the ocean water in the background
October 5, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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A visit to the sea via Industry City. #birds #nature #pigeons #fierce #ready to take on the world. Places to gol
A pigeon ready to go places. Steadfastly holding his home. I hope they do not destroy it as they gentrify the area. He or she has lived there for years. Geese out flying together before the big plunge. fierce seagull in a hurry
October 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Glad to see some turtle love. Not sure they look incredibly happy, but hopefully it'll be a fruitful turtle season in Costa Rica! #MarineLife #Turtles #photography
Two turtles making new turtles in Costa Rica Two turtles making more turtles in Costa Rica. I believe they are Ridley sea turtles. Two turtles in love.
September 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Pollinators in the urban meadow of Green-Wood Cemetery. #nature #Brooklyn #photography
A bumble bee on small purple and yellow flowers. A yellow beetle with black spots tucked into the petals of light purple flowers A monarch butterfly sitting on a cluster of purple and yellow flowers.
September 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Masters of disguise. A juvenile scorpionfish hiding in plain sight on the bottom of the sea in Costa Rica. #MarineLife #scuba #photography
The head of a young scorpion fish on the bottom of the ocean. It's eye is peaking out. It's had and body are brownish with lace like blue scales all over. It blends in with the brownish red of the rocks below.
September 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Sometimes you get extra lucky and a seahorse brightens your day! #MarineLife #scuba #CostaRica #photography #nature
A red seahorse with white stripes and spots hanging attached to some growth on a rock on the sea floor. A red seahorse with white lines and spots attached to something growing on or around a rock on the sea floor. A reddish-orange seahorse with a large belly hanging on to rope like growths on the sea floor. Tiny red creature to its right - looks like a flower. Perhaps it's a sea anemone?
September 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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When you're diving and you don't know where to look because there are so many eagle rays! #MarineLife #scuba
September 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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The ocean floor in Costa Rica is more rocky than what I usually see in the Caribbean, but there were quite a few beautiful corals with vibrant colors and intricately shaped polyps that the macro lens helps reveal. #MarineLife #scuba #photography
Macro photo of white star shaped coral polyps. Close up of white star shaped coral polyps on red-ish orange coral Close up of white star shaped polyps on brownish-orange coral Orange cup coral amidst the green algae.
August 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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These beauties were not very cooperative models, but you can catch a glimpse here of their striking colors. Juvenile King Angelfish in Costa Rica. #MarineLife #scuba #photography
A colorful juvenile King angelfish looking up and hovering over the pinkish rocks and next to a sea urchin. The face of a juvenile king angelfish - with bright blues and yellows, yellow around its eyes and yellow fins. It's swimming above the algae covered rocks.
August 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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This youngster hesitantly peered out at the world beyond its tiny cave before testing out its wings. They work and even seem to glow! #birds #photography #Brooklyn
A young black and white speckled pigeon pokes its head hesitantly out of a hole in a white wall. A young black and white pigeon testing its wings while standing on a railing after flying over from its pigeon hole in the wall nearby. Its wings are glowing in the sunlight.
August 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Final fireworks of the season. Is summer really over now? Say it isn't so. #ConeyIsland #photography #Brooklyn
Fireworks on the beach with the parachute tower alight in the distance. The parachute drop lit up in blue and yellow with lights from the stadium and Luna Park attractions at the bottom. The parachute drop lit up in different colors and a trail of lighted lamps along the board walk. Fireworks in the sky over the beach with a tiny orange crescent moon in the lower right.
August 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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The twilight of summer in Coney Island. #photography #Brooklyn
Lit up signs - large wheels with red spokes and tower rides behind them at Luna Park in Coney Island. Top of the iconic Coney Island parachute drop with a newer rollercoster track in the foreground. Blue sky and a row of light and dark clouds in the background. the iconic Coney Island parachute drop with dramatic clouds in the darkening sky behind it.
August 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Some of my favorite New Yorkers. #nature #photography #NYC
A young raccoon sitting on a cement step in front of an old door. Chipped paint on the wall nearby and little yellow flowers are in the foreground. Four raccoons that have just stepped outside from an old building. Six raccoons. Five standing near a door that says 'Private Property. No Tresspassing,' and one ahead with what looks like a shell in its paw.
August 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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More schools of fish in Costa Rica - some more orderly than others. #MarineLife #scuba #photography
A group of silvery grunts with a porkfish hiding amongst them. A close up of a large school of grunts (I think) - silvery with light yellow tails. A school of fish swimming downward and to the right. Silvery with yellow tails. Look like yellow tail grunts. A chaotic scene of silvery fish swimming in all sorts of directions. A variety of grunts, I believe.
August 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM