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mewsician, nature appreciater/photographer

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FINALLY found some in our apartment complex lawn! 😁
no, I don't really subscribe to any formal superstition about "luck", but indisputable that they just add to net positive mood in anyone's day, priming you more to "make it" a good day!

#macrophotography […]

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a four-leaf clover, covered in morning dew, among blades of grass another four-leaf clover, covered in morning dew, among blades of grass, its upper leaflet somewhat more stunted in growth compared to the other three - locate one, and often more are nearby
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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for #thicktrunktuesday , an absolutely stunning... whatever this is (god this is embarrassing, I really need to get to know tree names better... googling) SILVER BIRCH 😊

#trees #tree #treebark #naturephotography #autumn #autumnleaves #birch
an upward view from below of a tree in its autumn state, brimming with bright yellow leaves against a white sky a curious twisted shape one of the main trunks took, stooping over like an elderly man with a bad back, with a curtain of yellow leaves as backdrop a close-up of the bark, very distinctive (yet I still had to look up the name of the tree), white with dozens of tiny horizontal lines like text on printer paper, but "split open" so that underneath is exposed more "typical" looking bark the two main split forks from the trunk, vaguely outlining a heart shape, which I found romantic in the moment anyways
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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new #MushroomMonday , new batch from recent neighborhood walk ^^

#mushrooms #mushroom #fungi #amanita #naturephotography
a direct overhead view of, sprouting through some green leafy lovage-like weeds, a cluster of about five creamy-orange colored mushrooms with THICK stalks, nearly as wide as their caps! at the base of a mossy tree stump, a dense cluster of dozens of creamy orange mushrooms, all looking like they're competing for a very limited & crowded space, uncomfortably mooshed together a side view portrait of a single orange mushroom pushing through leafy green weeds, posing with attempted dignity and a very thick neck a tiny isolated pair of youngish Amanita Muscarias poking through a floor of leaves & gravel, with the white coating starting to crack and be spread apart by the bright red under-layer
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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#silentsunday

#photography #macrophotography #rain #reflection #naturephotography #fractals
a close-up of the yellow leaves on a decorative bush in an apartment complex, densely coated in rain/dew, each droplet in the center of the leaves reflecting a warped view of the building opposite it, and each droplet along the edges of the leaves refracting a dense mirrored image of the bush behind it
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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another local mural... definitely NOT the season right now

#mural #murals #MuralArt #streetart #streetphotography #urbanphotography #nature #washington
a late-night view of a mural depicting a nature scene, with a brown dirt path winding its way through rolling green hills, with a purple mountain (Baker? Rainier?) in the distance. Taken around midnight, so the only illumination is artificial white light, betraying the paint's thick & greasy texture at upper right, and the trees in the mural shrouded in shadow from nearby REAL trees outside the shot.
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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RE: https://mastodon.ozioso.online/@DorotheaLange/115587322518526976

an account well worth the follow ❤️ a fascinating window into the world of an artist of a bygone era, who refused to look away, and took the time to see the truths that many would just as soon not notice
dorothealange.mastodon.ozioso.online.ap.brid.gy Dorothea Lange @dorothealange.mastodon.ozioso.online.ap.brid.gy · 5d
On highway no. 1 of the "OK" state near Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. Seven children and eldest son's family. Father was a blacksmith in Paris, Arkansas. Son was a tenant farmer. "We're bound for Kingfisher (Oklahoma wheat) and Lubbock […]

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The image is a black and white photograph depicting seven children sitting in the back of an open-sided vehicle, likely from around 1921 based on the date stamp. The setting appears to be rural with trees visible in the background under a partly cloudy sky. To the right side of the photo, two adult men are engaged in some activity beside the truck; one is kneeling and seems focused on something on the ground while wearing overalls, suspenders, and boots indicative of manual labor attire, possibly farm work or repair. The other man stands with his hand on a tool or object near him. The vehicle's license plate reads "234 OK 1927" indicating it is registered in Oklahoma during that year. A piece of hose lies on the ground beside them and additional tools are scattered around, suggesting they might be working on maintenance for their transportation means. The composition captures a moment from rural American life possibly depicting migration or travel towards better opportunities as suggested by the caption mentioning California. The attire of both adults reflects practical workwear typical for farm laborers in that era. The children appear to vary slightly in age and are dressed casually, with some wearing what could be dresses indicative of younger girls and others perhaps pants suggesting boys' clothing from the early 20th century America.
November 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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bus stop near home #fensterfreitag #WindowFriday

#photography #urban #urbanphotography #street #streetphotography #glass
a nearly monochrome triptych of three square-paneled windows; the left featuring some trees, the right featuring some apartments, and the center also featuring some apartments, but shattered by some object that smashed the lower half; the upper half shows off the dense network of fracture lines
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar a day in this field noways. Working from seven in the morning till twelve noon we earn an average of […]

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The image depicts a black and white photograph featuring several individuals engaged in agricultural labor. One central figure is prominently displayed, carrying a wooden crate loaded with what appears to be crops on his head. He wears protective gear including a wide-brimmed hat and sturdy clothing suitable for manual work. Other people are visible in the background; some appear to be gathering or handling materials near crates scattered across a field littered with organic debris like leaves or remnants of harvested produce. The overall scene suggests an outdoor agricultural setting, likely on a farm where various activities related to crop cultivation take place. The photograph captures the essence of labor-intensive farming practices and could potentially reflect historical conditions such as migrant worker experiences during different periods in American agriculture.
November 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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#throwbackthursday Templin Highway, April 2023

#photography #geology #sediment #sedimentation #rocks
a compacted geologic formation, slightly more shaded, with layers of rock running diagonally upper left to lower right a compacted geologic formation, slightly lighter, with layers of rock running diagonally upper left to lower right a hypnotic pattern of liquid flowing dirt, left behind as sediment by a slow-moving creek a patch of sand with a number of flowing lines weaving across it, almost like a child's finger painting, but most likely left by snakes
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Texas ex-farmer, now a migratory agricultural worker in Nipomo, California

#texas #nipomo #california #undefined #photography #dorothealange

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The image is a black and white photograph featuring an older man standing confidently with his hands on his hips. He wears wide-brimmed hat, a jacket over what appears to be denim work pants, and sturdy boots suitable for manual labor. His attire suggests he might be involved in agricultural or industrial work. Behind him stands a large vehicle partially covered by a tarpaulin, indicating that it may carry equipment used for farming or related activities. The setting seems rural with an open landscape visible behind the man. On the left side of the image is a signpost displaying "3308" and some unreadable text below. Additional context about this photograph can be found in Texas ex-farmer, now a migratory agricultural worker in Nipomo, California https://images.loener.nl/DorotheaLange/full/6495/6495b800ba25398d90c4fa5e.jpg.
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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not quite a #fibonaccispiral or a #goldenspiral , ALMOST, just feels somehow... mathy 😆 but a fun view anyways

#photography #urban #urbanphotography #streetphotography #geometry #spiral
a foggy/rainy day outside some restaurant buildings, and a view through a spiral bike rack, swirling clockwise, and centering in the distance on some potentially location-identifying information
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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would this be #bloomscrolling , #doomscrolling or both, or something else? Maybe the reason I've been meh about rainy season weather was less opportunity to see "life", "beauty", etc etc, but maybe that was just a prejudice, maybe there's opportunities to see […]

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a close-up of a cluster of blackberries that were never picked, and are withering still on the vine. The left one, mostly red, each of the segments looks like they've been deflated. The center one, a mix of red and black segments, and what appears to be mold starting to grow on its stalk. The right one, a reddish-black hue, appears to be actively disintegrating into a pulp.
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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more #MushroomMonday but new trip this time, just stuff seen along a walk from apartment to local coffee shop(!) whole lotta #amanita

#fungi #mushrooms #mushroom #urbanphotography
The Classic fly agaric on a very pine needle cluttered urban forest floor, one large orange umbrella hovering over a smaller, younger red cap, almost like a mother protecting her child The Classic fly agaric, same grove in the same needle-strewn floor, a variety of colors on the umbrella caps - reds, oranges, and a sickly bleached yellow-white a close-up of The Classic fly agaric, in a relatively young stage, about the size of a golf ball, but red with all the white spots, surrounded by oak leaves an overhead view of a mature specimen of The Classic fly agaric, a rich, almost unnatural red with white speckles, surrounded by grass, oak leaves and acorns, and a bit glistening from the rain
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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#silentsunday

#photography #trees #washington
a straight-up-from-beneath view of a matt of branches thick with pine cones and needles, against a monotone cloudy gray-white sky
November 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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scenes from the bottom of the Empire State Building, where many a dropping penny experiment has gone awry

#photography #abstract #abstractphotography #metal #pattern #drums
a close-up of some metal surface, mostly dark but illuminated in one area by a diffuse light source, with dozens of circular score marks made by what appears to be a hammer (or implied, coins) - in actuality, it's the inside of a custom hi-hat cymbal on a drum set, that was very uniquely tuned
November 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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#fensterfreitag #WindowFriday Venetian blinds, made me feel like the nature version of that Jim Halpert meme

#forest #nature #naturephotography #trees #perspective
a view of a moderately-populated forest, with a bit of path off in the distance, as seen through two horizontal bands, the rest blocked by some out-of-focus close woody strips (context: a fallen log that had naturally split into strips at the end)
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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I have absolutely no idea how well this is going to work on this platform, but for #throwbackthursday gonna try to dump a few of the "panorama" shots and see how they display? they'll probably need a click or even an "open in new tab" to appreciate the full […]

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Oak Canyon (appropriately enough), December 2020, a probably 180 degree horizontal panorama of a magnificent oak tree just growing every which way across the ground, 50 feet in all directions, even beginning to be covered up by dirt and trod over and still growing, in places from a folder labeled "Not Piro Canyon" (meaning I got lost and wound up on a different trail on the way to my intended destination), October 2021, a wide view of an open plain thick with tumbleweeds and other bushy vegetation, under a blue & cloudy sky with mountains in the distance, and directly center of view, an asphalt road, cracked at times, leading direct into who knows where; for me this felt like the best single representative image of the spirit of the California desert. Hummingbird Flats, June 2021, a long shot of a portion of rock shaded from the bright light around it, a curious long layer of "waviness" flowing between the more conventional rock appearance on either side, I'm unsure if perhaps petrified wood, or an ancient sedimentary layer, or who knows what? but a fascinating texture/pattern Los Pinetos Canyon, November 2020, an experimental "fisheye" side view of a concrete structure, above which is caked in generations of graffiti, below which is exposed underground structure caked in dried dirt as a result of the ground being washed away by flooding, the two divided by a thin 6" sheet of concrete "floor" that marked where the intended ground level was at one time
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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tis a gray day, and an appropriately gray mood.
The good news is, I think my back is back in shape enough to get out at least doing some short walks, maybe not multi-mile yet but something simple.
(it's also going into the rainy season, with downpour forecast for […]

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against a dull gray sky, an underside diagonal view of an outdoor network of crisscrossing wires, from which are dangling numerous light bulbs, currently turned off
November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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#thicktrunktuesday I feel like I may have spotted this one before, but I still find him amusing X3 he may not LOOK too sturdy, but he's doing a LOT of heavy lifting keeping the folks downhill of him safe!

#forest #trees #Mosstodon #moss #humor #naturephotography
a MASSIVE, probably small-house-sized, moss-covered boulder, propped up on a very steep hillside surrounded by forest and a bit of fog. Gravity should be causing it to roll down and demolish miles beneath it, but it's only being held up by one single solitary skinny tree on its left side (or maybe perhaps also a bit of rock propped beneath it)
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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#MushroomMonday the last batch from old hike, I promise 😅 back is recovering enough that I should be able to venture forth again shortly

#naturephotography #mushrooms #fungi #Mosstodon #moss
the mossy base of an old tree, from which grows two MASSIVE brown conk mushrooms with red & white trimmed edges, glistening from the rain with an almost lacquered sheen; laid over the left one is a fallen yellow leaf, helping give them perspective from scale a close-up of a portion of a wet & mossy tree stump with something resembling dead man's fingers sprouting from all over: chalky black at the base, fading to white in the upper halves, and growing in unsettlingly random directions, like feelers in a horror sci-fi between two veins of a sturdy tree trunk, the left covered in moss and the right mostly bare, grows a white, squiggly, and very squishy looking slime mold, resembling a pile of ramen noodles a vertical view of an extremely dense column what might be turkey tails? brown tops with well-defined white rims, and lighting pulled way down so that almost all that's visible are the white outlines, and a bit of moss behind them
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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#silentsunday

#nature #naturephotography #slugs #mushrooms #mushtodon #fungi
a baby slug, no bigger than a thick toothpick, climbs up a frond of a snow white coral mushroom, experiencing for possibly the first time the wonders of a buffet twenty times your size a youngish slug, brown with black leopard spots on its side, leans EXTREMELY precariously over the edge of a rock that's in the middle of a creek, the third front of its body searching in vain for another rock to transfer to, but finding only air and roaring rapids below
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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"whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, tell that its sculptor well those passions read" indeed 🤣

#sculpture #urbanphotography #streetphotography #streetart #literature #light
a close-up of a face sculpted in bronze, with intense stare, and intimidating eyebrows and mustache; illuminated on the right by artificial light, mostly shrouded in nighttime darkness on the left side. (if more context is needed, it's a life-size sculpture of Mark Twain outside a local bookstore, after hours)
November 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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body still on the mend, hopefully I'll soon be able to get back out exploring the world again, but in the meantime some more from that rich and fruitful (heh) adventure a few weekends ago, for #FungiFriday ^_^

#fungi #fungiverse #mushrooms #mushtodon #naturephotography #forest #ferns #Mosstodon
a tiny cluster of a dozen or so cream-white pinhead mushroom caps springing from a single point tucked away in the dark recesses of a very damp and crumbling log a family of six petite but portly cream-orange mushrooms posing on a forest bed dense with pine needles and moss; their shape, character, and pose, all remind me of that Nutcracker sequence from Disney's original 1940 Fantasia, and I can easily imagine these guys springing up and dancing around! a darker and somewhat somber still-life scene, with a single skinny light brown mushroom surrounded by more open space, with a brown & wilting dead fern draped over a log to its left, and a blurry green fern in the background a very slimy and sticky single mushroom with a cream-white stalk and milky brown cap, with a number of pine needles dangling from it and a blurry mossy stump in the background; it resembles the Chocorooms chocolate candy you sometimes see in dollar stores (yes, I had to look up the brand name)
November 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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#throwbackthursday trail of unknown name off of Templin Highway in the Grapevine of CA, December 2023 (the last hike in the area before I moved up to the PNW)

#nature #naturephotography #shadow #shadows #hiking #california #desert #scrub
projected against a pastel golden sandstone-esque rock toward the end of the day, the soft shadow of a single long-leafed plant, likely sage another shadow of unidentified desert plant (sage of some type?), with sharper definition, and angled as it is projected over a rock that is contoured vertically, then briefly horizontally as if to form a small seat a row of desert plants growing in front of a sandstone-like rock, slightly out of focus as the focus is more on the detailed shadows they cast on the rock behind them, viewed from the left side a row of desert plants growing in front of a sandstone-like rock, slightly out of focus as the focus is more on the detailed shadows they cast on the rock behind them, viewed from the right side
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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trying out a video for once, one that vaguely reminded me of a Java applet a long time ago that simulated wave patterns in a square of water that start where you click, wrap around the borders as it expands, but you could also draw areas of solid land to mess […]

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November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM