D.B. Kauffman ☮︎ • ✍️📖 • 📷
@dbkauffman.bsky.social
Hobbyist writer and photographer with ✨excellent✨ taste
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Calling the PNW home • he/him/his
https://linktr.ee/dbkauffman
My poetry and short stories are available for free on my website www.dbkauffman.com
🐦⬛ 🌔 🪐 🌊 🍪 📷 🎞️ 📚
Calling the PNW home • he/him/his
https://linktr.ee/dbkauffman
My poetry and short stories are available for free on my website www.dbkauffman.com
Cleaning up my phone camera roll to make room for more. Found some #cloud #timelapse videos I don’t think I’ve shared from June 2024, plus the sounds of #bees #pollinating. #CapCut
September 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Cleaning up my phone camera roll to make room for more. Found some #cloud #timelapse videos I don’t think I’ve shared from June 2024, plus the sounds of #bees #pollinating. #CapCut
Nice day with Abbey today
September 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Nice day with Abbey today
August 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Some spectacular #clouds over New Providence, NJ yesterday. I wish I had time to capture more of the ones in the beginning, but I’m in town for work and only had a few minutes to sit in wonder. #timelapse #CapCut
August 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Some spectacular #clouds over New Providence, NJ yesterday. I wish I had time to capture more of the ones in the beginning, but I’m in town for work and only had a few minutes to sit in wonder. #timelapse #CapCut
Last night, only the tiniest bit of green auroral glow visible on the northern horizon here on the south end of the Salish Sea, WA. It was only visible to me with a 30-second exposure (iPhone 14 Pro).
#aurora #auroraborealis #northernlights #nightphotography #nightskies
#aurora #auroraborealis #northernlights #nightphotography #nightskies
June 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Last night, only the tiniest bit of green auroral glow visible on the northern horizon here on the south end of the Salish Sea, WA. It was only visible to me with a 30-second exposure (iPhone 14 Pro).
#aurora #auroraborealis #northernlights #nightphotography #nightskies
#aurora #auroraborealis #northernlights #nightphotography #nightskies
June 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
May 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I believe this is a Crowborough cultivar of arum lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica) with some beetle pollinators in my parents’ garden. They’ve been coming in more robust every year
#bloomsky #lily #pollinators
#bloomsky #lily #pollinators
May 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I believe this is a Crowborough cultivar of arum lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica) with some beetle pollinators in my parents’ garden. They’ve been coming in more robust every year
#bloomsky #lily #pollinators
#bloomsky #lily #pollinators
Today the sky was an electric blue with the softest billows in the distance
May 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Today the sky was an electric blue with the softest billows in the distance
The #bees are very much enjoying these #azaleas. I think that’s what they are. Some variety of #rhododendrons, at least!
May 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The #bees are very much enjoying these #azaleas. I think that’s what they are. Some variety of #rhododendrons, at least!
May 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
May 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Realizing now I didn’t include any flowers in the thread, despite the hashtag at the start
📷 Some of Nature’s art on display
📷 Some of Nature’s art on display
May 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Realizing now I didn’t include any flowers in the thread, despite the hashtag at the start
📷 Some of Nature’s art on display
📷 Some of Nature’s art on display
I don’t have a particular conclusion to make at the end of all this oversharing, but I’m looking forward to showing more of my art than I have been lately. I hope you’ll join me in cooling our heels in the waters, forests, & fields
🎥 Getting my feet wet in the creek alongside La Wis Wis campground
🎥 Getting my feet wet in the creek alongside La Wis Wis campground
May 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I don’t have a particular conclusion to make at the end of all this oversharing, but I’m looking forward to showing more of my art than I have been lately. I hope you’ll join me in cooling our heels in the waters, forests, & fields
🎥 Getting my feet wet in the creek alongside La Wis Wis campground
🎥 Getting my feet wet in the creek alongside La Wis Wis campground
I’ve been better about engaging with play. Recently I remembered how much I loved climbing trees as a kid, so I take advantage of the rare opportunity to do that (without hurting myself as I near my fourth decade)
📷 The Blue Hole near where Cowlitz & Ohanapecosh rivers meet (La Wis Wis campground)
📷 The Blue Hole near where Cowlitz & Ohanapecosh rivers meet (La Wis Wis campground)
May 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I’ve been better about engaging with play. Recently I remembered how much I loved climbing trees as a kid, so I take advantage of the rare opportunity to do that (without hurting myself as I near my fourth decade)
📷 The Blue Hole near where Cowlitz & Ohanapecosh rivers meet (La Wis Wis campground)
📷 The Blue Hole near where Cowlitz & Ohanapecosh rivers meet (La Wis Wis campground)
Since I’m a hobbyist, I’m not pressuring myself to produce for public consumption, but that is my desire. I’ve always been a skilled technical writer, but it wasn’t until recently I discovered how to write fiction. It’s now my favorite method for expression
🎥 High water levels=log-based waterfalls
🎥 High water levels=log-based waterfalls
May 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Since I’m a hobbyist, I’m not pressuring myself to produce for public consumption, but that is my desire. I’ve always been a skilled technical writer, but it wasn’t until recently I discovered how to write fiction. It’s now my favorite method for expression
🎥 High water levels=log-based waterfalls
🎥 High water levels=log-based waterfalls
Photos can happen any time I have my fancy-pants camera-phone (which is always), but writing takes more time & effort. Though I haven’t released any besides some poetry since my short story Life’s Uncertain Voyage, I have been writing
🎥 Steam rises to catch sunbeams as the rain-soaked forest warms
🎥 Steam rises to catch sunbeams as the rain-soaked forest warms
May 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Photos can happen any time I have my fancy-pants camera-phone (which is always), but writing takes more time & effort. Though I haven’t released any besides some poetry since my short story Life’s Uncertain Voyage, I have been writing
🎥 Steam rises to catch sunbeams as the rain-soaked forest warms
🎥 Steam rises to catch sunbeams as the rain-soaked forest warms
Though I’m a hobbyist, I take my photography and writing seriously. It reveals pieces of me, which is where the vulnerable feelings come from. I want to share, but I often don’t have the time or energy to do the work required to find my audience
📷 Majestic trees along the trail 🌲
📷 Majestic trees along the trail 🌲
May 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Though I’m a hobbyist, I take my photography and writing seriously. It reveals pieces of me, which is where the vulnerable feelings come from. I want to share, but I often don’t have the time or energy to do the work required to find my audience
📷 Majestic trees along the trail 🌲
📷 Majestic trees along the trail 🌲
I have a few close friends plus my wife & extended family who are deeply special to me, yet many I once cared for have drifted far from where we once were. It’s a 2-way street, but for my part I’ve often done less than the bare minimum to maintain
📷 Some of my favorite trailside mosses & liverwort
📷 Some of my favorite trailside mosses & liverwort
May 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I have a few close friends plus my wife & extended family who are deeply special to me, yet many I once cared for have drifted far from where we once were. It’s a 2-way street, but for my part I’ve often done less than the bare minimum to maintain
📷 Some of my favorite trailside mosses & liverwort
📷 Some of my favorite trailside mosses & liverwort
Feeling like I’m closer to knowing myself and allowing myself to BE myself has been more difficult than I anticipated. I’m not the person I was decades ago, yet I am continuous with him
📷 Some of my favorite lichens and slime molds from the trail
📷 Some of my favorite lichens and slime molds from the trail
May 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Feeling like I’m closer to knowing myself and allowing myself to BE myself has been more difficult than I anticipated. I’m not the person I was decades ago, yet I am continuous with him
📷 Some of my favorite lichens and slime molds from the trail
📷 Some of my favorite lichens and slime molds from the trail
There’s something soft I’m subconsciously protecting—something I’ve only recently discovered the full spectrum of (or at least, more full than ever before)—and it’s me
🎥 Pausing to appreciate the rain-soaked moss along the trail
🎥 Pausing to appreciate the rain-soaked moss along the trail
May 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
There’s something soft I’m subconsciously protecting—something I’ve only recently discovered the full spectrum of (or at least, more full than ever before)—and it’s me
🎥 Pausing to appreciate the rain-soaked moss along the trail
🎥 Pausing to appreciate the rain-soaked moss along the trail
The dialectic of wanting to be seen/known battles with fear of being misunderstood/ignored/rejected
🎥 The rain was more than welcome, creating a dynamic mood
🎥 The rain was more than welcome, creating a dynamic mood
May 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The dialectic of wanting to be seen/known battles with fear of being misunderstood/ignored/rejected
🎥 The rain was more than welcome, creating a dynamic mood
🎥 The rain was more than welcome, creating a dynamic mood