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John Meyer
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Retired wordsmith. Badlands rambler. Camera slinger. Reader of books and watcher of films. Graduate of the University of Texas and student of evolving reality, in all its triumph and tragedy. No DMs, plz.
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John Meyer @johnme23.bsky.social · Dec 17
Self portrait, with hoodoos

#selfportrait #hoodoos #blackandwhite
A black and white selfie of the photographer with rock structures in the background
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Here's a crazy-quilt #Scape from one of my favorite places: a badlands locality in NW #NewMexico that I'm keeping to myself.

#BWFri #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #badlands #wilderness #landscape #rockformation #hiking #backofbeyond #geology #erosion
A flat-topped butte at left towers over the ridgeline behind it, while at right and just before it stands a heavily-eroded hill with intense stratification. In the foreground at right, quite near the camera, is a mudstone mound that looks like a blob with wavy edges. The sky is featureless aside from a single tiny cloud at upper left.
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Looking n. from Hwy. 12, near Powell Point Vista turnout. Blue Wilderness Study Area in the distance.

#Scape #ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #landscapephotography #aspens #fallcolor #Utah #scenic #autumn #clouds
A threatening sky overshadows a swath of foreground grass, leading to a mixed forest of aspens and conifers. In the distance we can see several exposures of reddish rock faces amidst dense forest.
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Leaning tree: undisclosed #badlands locality, NW #NewMexico

#wilderness #deadtree #landscapephotography #hiking #backofbeyond #stratification
A spindly dead tree stretches across the photo from lower right to top center, its branches devoid of leaves. At its base are mixed grasses, while in the out-of-focus background we see a colorful badlands terrain showing clear stratification. The blue sky is faultless.
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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A hill to climb: undisclosed #badlands locality, NW #NewMexico

#blackandwhite #highcontrast #landscapephotography #wilderness #backofbeyond #hiking #notrail #erosion
A heavily eroded, clearly stratified mudstone mound with a small tree on top takes up the right-center part of this contrasty image. Various low-growing bushy plants spread out across the bottom/foreground, with a more prominent ridge and larger trees taking up the upper far right. The sky is featureless, and we can barely see a sloping ridge or mountain at center left in the hazy distance.
November 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Here's my #WindowsOnWednesday offering from a 2014 trip to Bryce. I love it when the clouds cooperate.

#BryceCanyon #EastCoastKin #Landscapephotography #rockformation #sandstone #erosion #Utah #hiking #nationalpark
A delicate-looking castle-like structure of eroded sandstone rises dramatically against a sky filled with puffy cumulous clouds. The slope drops away from left to right toward a series of towers below eye level. Off in the middle distance are green coniferous trees at the foot of another sandstone bluff.
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Temple Mountain: San Rafael Swell, #Utah

#ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #landscapephotography #sepia #monochrome #mountain #cliffs #peak
The image centers on a prominent peak of a light, whitish color rising above a ridgeline of darker colored rock, heavily stratified. The wispy white clouds above serve to crown the image and add perspective. In the foreground we see low shrubs and bushes traversing across a level plain to the base of the cliffs. Canon 5DII, f/11, 1/80 sec.
November 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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It's #RockInTuesday, with just a sliver of #BlueSky left over from Monday. At Goblin Valley State Park, #Utah.

#rockformation #toadstools #hoodoos #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #erosion #geology
A dome-shaped boulder of reddish sandstone sits atop a short, narrower stem of layered sedimentary rock. To the right and nearer the camera, another capstone with attendant underpinnings stretches off beyond the edge of the frame. The sky has wispy white cloud cover with a slash of deep blue cutting across at an angle.
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Looking down Fisher Valley from somewhere on the Kokopelli trail.

#BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #landscapephotography #moab #utah #canyonlands #sandstone #cliffs #bluesky #offroad
Beneath a faultless blue sky we see a pleasant valley with scattered conifers and shrubs stretching into the distance along a wash. On either side are steep rocky cliffs with well-defined sedimentation.
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Reposted by John Meyer
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Autumn Remnants, Oxfordshire 2025.

#photography
#woodland
#landscapephotography
#ShareMondays2025
An image or a group of tall beech trees with the central one displaying some autumn leaves. © Damian Ward 2025
November 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Last light on Castleton Tower

#Stunday #EastCoastKin #Utah #redrock #rockformation #spire #moab #coloradoplateau #landscapephotography
A monumental stone spire pierces the sky in front of a gray cloudbank, its surface painted orange by the setting sun. Below and at left, a fire-red low ridge of layered sandstone cuts across the image, adding depth. 3-image merge from Canon 5DII and 70-200mm lens.
November 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Upslope: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #wilderness, NW #NewMexico

#landscapephotography #blackandwhite #hiking #badlands #erosion #geology #backofbeyond #rockformation #hoodoos
A set of towering rock formations loom over a sloping mudstone fan in a treeless desert. A pocket of large rocks and boulders rests as if cradled by surrounding hillocks at the top of the slope at left, where a shadow line seems to encircle them. The sky is nearly featureless with a few small clouds.
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Reposted by John Meyer
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Bright

#Bright #BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #EastCoastKin #Landscape #Lumix #BlackAndWhitePhotography
A high-key, black and white vertical photograph of a sailboat anchored on calm, still water. The sailboat is positioned near the center of the frame, flanked by low, dark landmasses on the left and right sides. In the distance, layers of misty mountains fade into the light background, creating an ethereal, minimalist composition. The water reflects the boat and the subtle shapes of the land. The overall mood is serene and atmospheric.
November 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Monumental: Castleton Tower meets cloud

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Landscapephotography #cloud #rockformation #Utah #blackandwhite #classicmono
A sharp spire of rock reaches skyward in front of a billowing cloud, lit at the top by the setting sun. The well-defined strata of the rock stands in sharp contrast to the wispy, soft lines of the cloud mass behind.
November 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Hoodoo grotto in morning light: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah, NW #NewMexico

#Scape #EastCoastKin #LandscapePhotography #blackandwhite #classicmono #wilderness #erosion #geology #hiking #backofbeyond #rockformation #hoodoos #monochrome #badlands
Looking down into a basin chock full of hoodoos and other weird rock formations, rendered here in stark, heavily-shadowed monochrome. The distant horizon line is barely visible at top, along with a glimpse of featureless sky. Canon 5DII, f/8 for 1/125 sec.
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Reposted by John Meyer
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A moody morning in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in December 2024. It's almost Sandhill Crane time! I will miss it this year.

#birds
#birdphotography
#wildlife
#bw
#classicmono
#eastcoastkin
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Hillside sentinels, Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah, NW #NewMexico.
I always seem to gravitate back to the #badlands.

#wilderness #hiking #landscapephotography #erosion #hoodoos #backofbeyond #rockformation
A pair of irregularly-shaped hoodoos stand atop a low ridge of mudstone under a deep blue sky with scattered clouds. The caprocks atop these rock formations are an iron-red sandstone, with hundreds of smaller ironstone pebbles scattered on the hillside below.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Zapata Creek on #WaterfallWednesday

#waterfall #longexposure #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #sepia #classicmono #EastCoastKin
#Colorado #Canon5D
Waters of a fast-flowing stream pour over a series of rocks and cement causeways in this sepiatone image. The canyon walls appear to close as the creek rounds a bend in the background. In the foreground, water runs briskly off camera at lower left. The long 1 sec. exposure adds a bit of blur.
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Between two rocks for #RockInTuesday at Chaco

#Twosday #nationalpark #ancestralpuebloan #historical #sacredplaces #EastCoastKin #blackandwhite #classicmono
Peering out between two massive rock features toward the ruins of an ancient puebloan structure in the middle distance. Huge angular boulders are strewn about from here to there. The sky above shows numerous wispy clouds.
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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A riot of red rock for #RockInTuesday - near Fisher Towers outside Moab, UT

#EastCoastKin #sandstone #eveninglight #redrock #landscapephotography
A series of sandstone shelves climb in broad semi-circular fashion toward an upper rim composed of massive rock faces. Beyond and to the right are sheer cliffs in the distance. The sky is a featureless blue. On the lower slopes, green shrubs and bushes grow.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Sangre de Cristo early autumn scene for #MountainMonday

#classicmono #blackandwhite #landscapephotography #mountains #aspens #colorado #eastcoastkin #meadow
A mountain meadow partly in shadow borders a line of trees, with tall aspens dominating the right border of the image. Rising up to the sky at left is the partially bare slope of a mountain, with forest fringing its upper reaches while its top is barren.
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Sunlit #aspens for #stunday - somewhere east of La Veta Pass, #Colorado

#fallcolor #autumn #photography #EastCoastKin #Canon5D
A striking trio of aspen trees stand tall against an azure blue sky. Their leaves are transitioning from pale green to golden. The base of the trees is in shadow, adding depth and drama to the image.
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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#Evening light on sandstone: Arches National Park, #Utah

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #landscapephotography #Canon5DII #hiking #rockformation #nationalpark
A fortress-like wall of bright orange-red sandstone stretches across the horizon, with occasional gaps allowing for shadows to punctuate the sunlit brilliance. Scattered low green shrubs dot the foreground, while the deep blue sky above shows scattered clouds.
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Unbridled passion

#classicmono #blackandwhite #suggestive #trees #urban #citystreets #anthropomorphic #EastCoastKin
Two trees intertwined, the one in the front appearing to lay back against the other in a passionate embrace, with arms outstretched above. In the lower part of the image we see a driveway with a waste bin at the top of its slope. In the background are numerous other trees below a featureless sky.
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Freshly exposed: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #wilderness, NW #NewMexico

#Scape #EastCoastKin #landscapephotography #hiking #backofbeyond #blackandwhite #erosion #geology #sedimentation
A series of sandstone slabs are eroding out from the surrounding soft sediments in this sloping drainage below a group of reddish cliffs and mudstone mounds. The sky above is blue with a few puffy clouds. Black and white rendition of the accompanying color image.
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Reposted by John Meyer
dmimaging.bsky.social
Buckle up Buttercup!
It’s Thursday!
Good morning my friends 🖤🤍📸
#goodmorning
#eastcoastkin
#classicmono
#blackandwhite
#photography
#reflections
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM