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JD Monroe (reelsonwheels IG)
@jdmonroephoto.bsky.social
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Black AF (He/They)
Inaugural Black Birder's Week Co-Organizer
Ologist 2020 - Aperiology
Co-Liberation
Anti Colonial
Disabled Photographer
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Join me next Wed at 5pm Chicago Time for a discussion about the future of accessibility in nature spaces. You can find the registration link in my bio. Some support to amplify the event would be greatly appreciated.
#scicomm #sciart #conservation #disabilitypridemonth #nature #socialjustice
July 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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The bird of the day for #blackbirdersweek is the dark-eyed junco. Check out @blackafinstem.bsky.social for more information regarding events today and the rest of the week!

I would also like to ask a favor. If you could, please direct any moderators or hashtags in the comments on the BAFIS account
A black backed bird with a white breast facing left. They are perched on a downed tree trunk. Before then is a darker background while the warm sun shines on their back creating a warmer background behind them.
May 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Ableism in nature: A thread. This seems like an ordinary, if not very boring snapshot of a bridge, but this bridge has gained history and notoriety with me.

Most of my life I have not been very risk adverse when it comes to my body, but this bridge makes me very cautious....
An asphalt sidewalk leading to a wooden bridge. There is grass on the sides of the sidewalk and a rich blue sky with wispy clouds.
March 29, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Feeling a little grumpy. May bite of provoked, so I'm posting my favorite group of animals today with this pygmy rattlesnake, Sistrurus miliarius. But remember, snakes only bite (sometimes) IF provoked. They are not aggressive.
Close up photo of a pygmy rattlesnake with the eye in sharp focus.
February 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Did someone say #SuperbOwl Sunday?
Short Eared Owl, Asio flammeus.
#sciart #nature
#bird #wildlife
#owl #photography
#wildlifephotography #ornithology #biology
A buff breasted owl with piercing yellow eyes looking toward the left of the viewer. The background is blurry tall grass habitat.
February 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Rest In Power, Trayvon. Today would have been his 30th birthday. His loss, and that of so many others since 2012 is what "radicalized" me. We owe him, and all our people made ancestors too soon to remain vigilant in our defiance of this occupation we endure.
@blacksky.app #blacksky
Trayvon Martin, a Black child with his father who has his arm around him while kissing his cheek.
February 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Another #mothmonday and so another silk moth. The Luna Moth, Actias luna. I photographed this one with my cell phone at a moth night hosted by @zdufran.bsky.social last year
#sciart #bugsky #invert #insects #wildlife #nature #photography #bugs #biology #entomology
A bright green and pink moth with yellow antennae perched on a stick facing the camera. The background is black.
February 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Digging in the crates again for #weevilwednesday #sciart #bugsky #bugs #invert #insects #wildlife #animals #beetles #photography #macrophotography #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography I believe this is a pecan weevil.
A brown beetle with an ornate dorsal pattern, and a very long proboscis-like protrusion which are the mouthparts. The insect has black compound eyes and is resting on tree bark. The background is tan in color.
January 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Did someone say it's #mothmonday? How about N. America's largest species, Hyalophora cecropia or Cecropia moth. Click the photo for full view. This is a living specimen.

This is a female and they are enormous. #insect #bugsky #invert #macro #macrophotography #sciart #nature #wildlife #photography
A red moth with ornate brown and red wings in a white background.
January 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Something I don't photograph often, but perhaps should more frequently, are flowers. It's an area of nature I am still terribly ignorant in. I have no idea what this species is. #flower #plant #botany #nature #photography #macrophotography #sciart
A close up photo of a reddish-purple flower with a black background and a couple of brown highlights in the background.
January 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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I almost forgot to post my cat for #caturday This is Booker, my other, and older cat. Well, I misspoke. He not really mine. I'm just the moderately tolerable alternative human in the house. He's definitely my partner's. Lil jerk.
#cat #pet #animal #furbabies #kitties #furball #companion
A black cat sitting atop the back of a couch. Next to him is a long camera lens and camera, with a smaller camera lens and pair of binoculars on a table. There is an open window in the background with some tree branches visible.
January 26, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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It's #flyfriday, and apparently all of my Diptera photos are old AF. Anyway, here is a bee mimic robberfly predating a bee. I don't know or recall the species, but this is in central Oklahoma
#inverts #sciart #bugs #bugsky #wildlife #macrophotography #nature #photography
A yellow and black robberfly that mimics the apperance of a bee preying on a bee. Both insects are on a green plant stem.
January 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Everything sucks right now, so from now until the end of January, I've instituted a pay what you can for 2025 calendars.

Price reduced to what I pay to print a calendar. Feb photos

Hope this can raise the morale of someone in today's climate.

Peace, Love, & Resistance.
#birds #bugsky #wildlife
A tan blunt nosed weevil. The view is facing upward toward the insect's face. The background is blurry and brownish. A reddish egret head, neck and shoulder. The background is grayish blue from the blurred water behind it.
January 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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It's important as a photographer to have an interest in another style than one's primary, I believe. Yes, my main focus is wildlife, but I've said before; I wake and rest most days a Black man in an urban setting. Yes, I love wildlife, and I love US, fareal.
#blacksky #blackisbeautiful #photography
A beautiful Black woman sitting in front of a multi-paned window to the left. The sun shines from the right casting warm light on her face and arm as she gently touches her face.
January 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Thanks to @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social I now know that Wednesday isn't only for weevils. It's also #woodpeckerwednesday Downy Woodpecker
#bird
#sciart
#ornithology
#photography
#wildlife
#nature
#wildlifephotography
January 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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#weevilwednesday with a nut/acorn weevil
#insect #beetle #inverts #macro #macophotography #photography #wildlife #bugs #nature #blackphotographer #disabledartist
January 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Once upon a time in Oklahoma. This is not current, but the state of some Midwestern areas and the south can probably relate.

#landscapephotography
#photography
#snow #winter
#environment
#climatechange
#climatecrisis
#oklahoma
#midwest
A lake with a view of a snow covered landmass. The water is dark, as are the clouds.
January 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Hentzia mitrata male.
@spiderdaynightlive.bsky.social @alexwild.bsky.social do either of you know why you get this different eye color in photos? I know the actual color isn't different. I figure it's due to the angle of the flash and something to do with anatomy.
#inverts
#spoods
#spiders
#macro
A jumping spider that is all whit except for an orange mask on the top of the first half of the head. The spider has two large eyes facing forward with two smaller eyes positioned to the left and right respecitvely. The spider is on a small stick and the background is lavender.
January 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Mood: Eat the fucking rich.

I don't have solutions, or even ideas at the moment. I'm overwhelmed, as many are. Still, I will remain committed advocating for, and defending our most vulnerable people.
#fuckMAGA
#inverts
#insects
#conservation
#earth
#photography
#macrophotography
January 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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#AddToBlacksky
OKC King's Day Parade 2019. Oklahoma has a dope ass Black history. This the first and only place where I've seen folk pull up to a spoken word joint on horseback.
#blackcowboy
#blacklove
#monochrome
#monochromemonday
#blackandproud
#oklahoma
#cowboy
#MLKDay
Several Black people on horseback in the street during a MLK Jr. parade. There are whispy clouds in the sky.
January 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Sometimes, close up photos of wildlife don't do the scene justice. This has never been a popular photo, but one I still really like of an American bison in the Wichita Mountains.

#biology
#landscape
#photography
#mountains
#midwest
#midwestbest
#bison
#mammal
#wildlife
#oklahoma
Tall grass prairie lit by the warm sun in the foreground with mountains in the background. There is an American bison grazing to the left.
January 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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See a duck, post a duck. Doesn't have to be the same duck.

Gadwall
A brownish duck with dark spotting facing toward the viewer on water.
January 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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This weather has me thinking back to when hell froze over in Feb 2021 (and by hell, I mean the state of politics in the midwest). I have not seen the Oklahoma river freeze in 21 years of living here except for this time. Share a photo of that massive freeze if you have one.
Looking down the length of a frozen river from an elevated point. There are skyscrapers in the background and clear skies.
January 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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#slitheringsaturday anyone?
I know there's always been the thing about ostriches putting their head in the sand but I didn't know prairie ringneck snakes (Diadophis punctatus) were mimics.
#photography
#snake
#reptile
#wildlife
#macrophotography
#animal
#nature
#sciart
January 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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This is a pretty old photo I submit for #flyfriday

A small robberfly predating an ant. I do not know the taxonomy of either. I can tell you they were found in central Oklahoma.
#inverts
#bugs
#insect
#wildlife
#photography
#macrophotography
#animals
A close up photo of a fly with large, round compound eyes, and black legs predating an ant. The background is rust colored.
January 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM