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idleseas.bsky.social
Cedar
@idleseas.bsky.social
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☆ he/him
♡ homeless disabled queer photographer, writer + multimedia artist
☆give me the hrt to change the things I can and the thc to accept the things I can't

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(formerly jimmie / rattiebastard)
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Been gone from bsky for a while, here's a test to see if it'll let me crosspost this reel as a reintroduction

We made the right decision to leave Michigan, we only wish we could've done it sooner.

We've made it about 400 miles SE and haven't yet escaped the winter storms pummeling the Midwest
December 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Still having issues uploading both photos and text at the same time, trying to nail down what the issue is. As another test, here's something different. Im learning stumpwork embroidery and I made this moss and mushroom out of thread
June 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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René Moxy at Haus of Drag, Third Life Brewing, Manistee Michigan 03.28.2023

#photography #portraiture #drag #dragshow #lgbt #pride #queerartists
June 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Trying this again
May 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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May 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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May 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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🌱✨

#nature #photography
A patch of stringy, bright green pond flora growing out of a still blue puddle
May 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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portraits from my early days of playing with long exposures

#photography #portrait #longexposure #blueskyartshow
A long exposure of a person with a raised arm in low, purple lighting on a black backdrop. Streaks of purple light rain down from their hand and trail across their lap, an effect produced by dropping a handful of string lights. a seated silhouette backlit by purple string lights laid across a mattress. Half of their face is starkly illuminated by the glow of a cell phone held almost to their ear; they are holding a clear umbrella, visible by the reflections on its surface.
May 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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flash of lightning. 2012

#photography #portrait #blueskyartshow
A silhoutte of someone with glasses backlit by streetlights and lightning streaming through rain-speckled windows, illuminating just the contours of their face and arm, outstretched towards the glass.
April 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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black sand beach. magoon creek, west michigan

#photography #puremichigan #blueskyartshow
A patch of black sand brushed into ridges and grooves by someone's fingers. With the angle of the sun and narrow range of focus, it's possible to see a rainbow of colors in the black of the sand. From this angle the black looks more like the iridescent blue-green of a magpie's feathers. A tattooed finger with chipped blue nail polish draws a heart in some black beach sand. From the angle of the sun, the sand looks green, purple, red and blue. A dusting of black sand on someone's fingers. In the sunlight many different hues can be seen in the sand, such as red and green, making the grains of sand both in and out of focus look like tiny jewels. A hand holding a large handful of black sand, showcasing the colors shifting from green to red as the sand falls.
April 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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december 2022 in the forest

#photography #🪞
A small twig of green leaves grows alone in a perfectly still puddle of water, stained red with fallen pine needles, reflecting the silhouettes of conifers above. The same puddle with several drops of water now fallen into it and creating ripples; the focus has shifted so that the plants are out of focus, but the reflection of trees on the waters surface is clear, where not disturbed by ripples.
April 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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home....

huron-manistee natl forest, west michigan
A snapshot of a fern-filled forest, with a ray of sunshine breaking through to brush the tips of the ferns and light the tree leaves from behind A closer shot of some sunlit ferns and other plants growing between two trees An old, thick, rotting log stands out in the foreground ahead of many smaller, cooler-toned trees in the back. Thr ferns, moss and other greenery surrounding the log are lit by the sun, which only glances off the trunks of the trees in the background, creating pillars of light in the dark forest. Half-shadowed, half-lit trees, the soft needles of a conifer catching and diffusing the sunlight in a particularly pretty way in the center, before spilling onto the ferns below.
April 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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#bloomscrolling
An assortment of foliage and flowers from a garden, where most of the flowers are out of focus except for some yellow toadflax in the center. A bundle of dainty water forget-me-nots on a blurred green backdrop A little patch of flowers among tall grass that may be some kind of daisy or frost aster
April 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Bonus. A sillier angle
A blue heron, mid-hop, with its wings only partially extended and it's neck and feet straight out above and below it, so it looks weirdly suspended above the water.
April 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Blue heron spotted in West Michigan summer 2021 🪶
A mostly silhouetted blue heron stands just out of focus between some golden grasses in the foreground and a calm blue body of water in the background A blue heron's head and neck as seen from between bars on a ramp railing; the heron's head is popping up from some rocks amongst some grasses and plants. A blue heron standing in shallow, calm water before golden beach grasses. It is turning its head slightly to the right and back, giving its neck a dramatic curve. The heron from the same angle as the last photo, now with its neck fully turned back, nibbling at its own feathers. The angle makes the bird's neck look like an ampersand.
April 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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swans in sunlight, 2021.

these mute swans are actually invasive & the dnr has had to take great pains to control their population & protect the native trumpeter swans that *should* be here

#photography #wildlife #birds #puremichigan
Three orange-billed mute swans float on a calm, blue lake before a dock and pair of sailboats. The swan in the center is rearing up to shake out it's wings. The sunlight catches on their feathers and reflects golden on the water just below them. Three orange-billed mute swans float on a calm, blue lake before a dock and pair of sailboats. The swan in the center has reared up and fully extended its wings forward, its longest feathers splayed out elegantly. The other 2 swans are foraging with their heads below water.
April 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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A crow at the beach, enjoying a die off of alewives. 2022

#lakemichigan #wildlife #birds #seascape
A lone crow in flight, its longest feathers splayed out like fingers, coasting above a calm, sparkling seascape and matching clear blue skies. One seagull can be seen below it, floating on the water. A lone crow in flight, its longest feathers splayed out like fingers, coasting above a calm, sparkling seascape and matching clear blue skies.
April 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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#birds #animals #wildlife #photography #michigan #egret
A lone egret crouches below a wall of vegetation, it's image perfectly mirrored in the green pond it's standing in A lone egret stands below a wall of vegetation with it's neck high but curved like a question mark, it's image perfectly mirrored in the green pond it's standing in
April 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Northern lights seen over Lake Michigan in the Manistee National Forest, winter 2023

#puremichigan #lakemichigan #astrophotography #auroraborealis #northernlights #nightsky
Bright green ribbons and pillars of the aurora borealis stretching high into the night sky where they become purple. Lake Michigan is so calm below them that the lights are reflected on the waters surface. In this frame dunes and a bare tree can be seen in the foreground, and the Pleiades cluster can be spotted on the left above the tree. Bright green ribbons of the aurora borealis, with a big streak of reddish purple. The the silhouette of the shoreline can be seen below, and in the distance the lights from Manistee can be seen. Bright green ribbons of aurora borealis stretching high into the night sky where they become purplish-red. Lake Michigan is so calm below them that the lights are reflected on the waters surface. Along the silhouette of the dunes in the foreground, the lights from Manistee can barely be seen. A shot of just the green strips of aurora above a sliver of lake Michigan. Many stars and constellations can be seen, and on the right, behind the aurora, the light pollution from cities in Wisconsin can be seen in burts.
April 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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#lakemichigan #puremichigan #sunset #seascapes
Half of a blood-red sun setting behind a crashing wave, spraying up over many yards of ice covering the shore. A quarter of a blood-red sun can be seen setting below the deep blue waves of lake Michigan as they crash against the bank of ice covering the shore. The sky is a bit darker and more saturated in this frame, fading from orange to pink.
April 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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lost lake. fall 2022, west michigan

#michigan #photography #naturephotography #foggy #marshmadness
A zoomed-out shot of a lone swan floating on the still surface of a small lake, with the reflections and silhouettes of pine trees mirroring each other through a thick fog. In the foreground is a large patch of red-orange marsh reeds. A large patch of red-gold marsh reeds at the edge of a small lake. A thick fog obscures most of the water and the trees in the distance.
April 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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She was a fairy...

These photos do no justice to her size, so you can't tell... But I was forced to bust out my mega zoom lens for this.

Have you ever seen a hummingbird sit on a wire like a regular bird? They look like bugs lmao 😭

#naturephotography #wildlife #littleguysdaily
April 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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dunegrass + ice during the golden hour on Lake Michigan🌾✨
In the foreground is a patch of freshwater dune grass reflecting highlights of red-gold sunlight, before a faded blue backdrop of ice and snow A freshwater dune partially covered in ice, the sand colored orange-red due to the sunset. Where there are patches of ice the sun catches brighter, like small pools of liquid gold.
April 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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🌊✨

#lakemichigan #puremichigan #photography #seascapes
Soft, small waves lapping at the shores of lake Michigan. Where the wave is receding and the sand is still saturated, the sunset is reflected, as well as on the tops of the waves. Soft, small waves lapping at the shores of lake Michigan. Where the former wave receded, the sunset is reflected, as well as on the tops of the foam of the new wave coming in to obscure the reflection. In this frame footprints in the sand can be seen in the foreground. Soft, small waves lapping at the shores of lake Michigan. A reflection of the sunset can be seen where two small waves are overlapping on the sand, as well as in the waves directly above it. Soft, small waves lapping at the shores of lake Michigan. Where the wave is receding and the sand is still saturated, the sunset is reflected, the warm colors in the light running with the water back towards the cool-colored lake, as if it were a wash of paint running back onto the tops of the waves. In the top left corner, a dark amber sunlight can be seen underwater inside the waves.
April 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Ludington lighthouse, winter 2022

#photography
#lakemichigan #seascapes
A variety of textures of blue-and-gold clouds fill the sky above a half-frozen channel, the ice on the water reflecting the lighthouse (right). A closer shot of the lighthouse across the frozen channel, with snow-covered rocks in the middle distance
April 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM