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John Murrell
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Ink-stained wretch, retired; suburban hermit
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Local squirrel
#photography #squirrel #animals #nature 📷
A brown squirrel sitting on top of a brown wooden fence and nibbling on something. There are some green leaves at the far right.
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Is #MallardMonday a thing? In any case, here's a mallard
#photography #birds #ducks #mallard #nature 📷🦉🪶
A mallard drake with a bright green head, tan body and brown chest swimming in rippled green water.
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Some lines
#photography #SomeLines #abstract #AbstractPhotography 📷
The curved black tire marks left by a motorcycle doing burnout spins in an intersection.
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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For #SkySunday, sunset clouds and a fading contrail
#photography #sky #clouds #sunset #nature 📷
Gray and light orange sunset clouds in front of a fading white contrail in a pale grayish blue sky.
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Egrets, great and snowy
#photography #birds #egret #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷🦉🪶
A monochrome image of a great egret (foreground) and a snowy egret and their reflections in a pond. At right are the dark rippled reflections of tall reeds.
November 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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For #Caturday, watchful
#photography #cats #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷
A monochrome image of a gray and white cat sitting in a grassy spot and looking into the distance.
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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For #ColorADay #BWFri, the men's room entrance at the park
#photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷
A monochrome image of the entrance to a men's room at a municipal park. There is a corner of a white cinder block wall in the foreground, with vertical black, gray and white areas behind it.
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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For #FeatheredFriday and #FlyDay, a white-crowned sparrow
#photography #birds #sparrow #nature 📷🦉🪶
A white-crowned sparrow foraging among fallen leaves and detritus, with some grass in the foreground and ivy in the background. The bird is brownish gray with brown and white wings and black and white stripes on its head.
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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The cover of the Judy Collins album "White Bird: Anthology of Favorites," showing a painting of a white bird against a dark, indistinct background.
November 7, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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When a shot is a miss, but you kinda like it anyway -- snowy egret taking off
#photography #birds #egret #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷🦉🪶
A monochrome image with a slight blue tint showing a snowy egret taking off from a pond. The bird is in motion and blurry, surrounded by rippled reflections in the water.
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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For #HumansOfBlueSky and #UrbanGaze (and maybe #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForShadows ?), late afternoon cricket practice at the park
#photography 📷
A cricket batter standing next to a wicket and about to swing at an incoming ball (at right). The man is holding a bat and wearing a red jersey and white padded protective gear on his legs, hands and back, as well as a helmet with a face guard. A shaft of sunlight illuminates his midsection as long shadows stretch across a green lawn. In the dark background are a chain link fence and a parking lot.
November 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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A fiery skipper on lantana in the late afternoon
#photography #butterfly #butterflies #insects #flowers #nature 📷🦋🌱
A fiery skipper butterfly, brown with black spots, on red lantana blossoms amid green leaves in warm late afternoon sun.
November 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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For #WaterWednesday, an abstract reflection
#photography #nature #abstract #abstractphotography 📷
An abstract image in various shades of brown, black and white of the rippled reflection of a structure at the edge of a pond.
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Great egret taking a peek
#photography #birds #egret #nature 📷🦉🪶
The head and extended neck of a white great egret peering out from among some green reeds, with blurred green foliage in the foreground.
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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For #TextureTuesday, a smoke bush with its wispy flower plumes backlit by the afternoon sun
#photography #plants #smokebush #garden #nature 📷🌱
A smoke bush with its tan wispy flower plumes backlit by the sun and dark maroon leaves below. The background is blurry green foliage.
November 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Waxing gibbous moon rising between the trees
#photography #moon #sky #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷
A monochrome image of a gibbous moon rising, framed on either side by blurry dark leaves.
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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A black-crowned night heron sleeping in a tree
#photography #birds #heron #nature 📷🦉🪶
Standing on one leg with its beak tucked into its chest, a large bird with a white chest and grayish blue cap sleeps in a tree. In the background is a blurred green lawn.
November 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Some lines
#photography #SomeLines #abstract #AbstractPhotography 📷
The pattern of angled lines in a detail of a sunlit blue metal roof.
November 3, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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For #SkySunday, some cloud lines
#photography #clouds #sky #nature 📷
Some horizontal lines of gray and white clouds with small areas of light blue sky behind them.
November 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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The redbuds are getting down to their last few leaves
#photography #leaves #trees #nature #fall #BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn 📷🌱
Two bright gold redbud leaves on thin branches against a blurred dark green background.
November 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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For #Caturday, an afternoon nap
#photography #cats 📷🐈
A fluffy gray tabby cat taking a nap under a few green leaves and among some dry brown leaves and twigs, half illuminated by the warm afternoon sun.
November 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Happy #Halloween!
#photography #witch #Spooktober #31DaysOfHalloween 📷🎃
An image of a Halloween lawn decoration at night -- a witch with glowing eyes with one hand raised and the other holding a book titled "Potions & Poisons." In the background are a blue ghoul in the upper left and a red gravestone with a skull in the lower right.
November 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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For #FeatheredFriday and #FlyDay, a dark-eyed junco investigating a fallen leaf
#photography #birds #junco #nature 📷🦉🪶
A dark-eyed junco looking at a yellow leaf in the green grass. The small bird has a medium brown body with a dark gray hood and gray tail.
October 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Startled, the two birds of paradise turned to see what the commotion was
#photography #flowers #BirdOfParadise #plants #garden #nature 📷🌱
Two bird of paradise flowers in profile, pointing to the right. The flowers have bright orange sepals and blue petals emerging from a green bract. The background is blurry dark green foliage.
October 31, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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These days, even the ghouls are like "WTF, man?"
#photography #31DaysOfHalloween #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷🎃
A monochrome image of a Halloween decoration -- a skeleton in a dark cloak with its hands raised to shoulder level -- hanging in front of a white door.
October 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM