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Joy Sussman
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Photographer & Founding Editor of Catch Light: A Magazine of Creative Inspiration for Photographers & Visual Artists. Here for creativity + kindness. I follow artists sharing their own work. linktr.ee/Joy_Sussman
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Happy Saturday! Here’s my offering for the #BlueSkyArtShow with the theme “jagged.”
Sunflowers are so cheery and full of hope, much needed these days! #photographers #flowerphotography #floral #summer
Closeup of bright yellow sunflower petals against a blurry background of sunflowers
August 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Happy Saturday! For today’s #BlueSkyArtShow , may I present to you “2025: A Light Odyssey” which is a composite of several images I took at Chicago O’Hare Airport. Grateful to have it included in the “elsewhere” exhibition currently at A Smith Gallery. #photographers #light #photographersonbluesky
Tunnel of bright light and colors
May 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Happy Saturday! Time for the #blueskyartshow and today’s theme #green ! Can’t wait to browse all the greens!

#photography #photographers #nature
Close up of green succulent leaves
May 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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My latest capture of the Andromeda Galaxy , our closest galactic neighbor, 2.5M light-years away.
It holds ~1 trillion stars, most with planets.
Yet it's out of reach. #Earth remains rare, fragile, and the only home we know.
#blueskyartshow
@kat-astro-bot.bsky.social what do you see ?
A deep-sky photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy, captured using a Newtonian 130/900 telescope and a Sony A7S camera. The image is composed of 30-second individual exposures, totaling 12 hours of integration time, revealing intricate spiral arms, dust lanes, and a luminous core against a star-filled background.
April 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Here’s my offering for today’s #blueskyartshow with the #earth theme. Taken at one of my favorite places, Claude Monet’s #garden at Giverny. My idea of heaven on earth!
#photographers #photography #nature #France
Path through the center of a flower garden
April 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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My favorite photographic theme is #Dream so of course I’m happy to share for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow ! Looking forward to exploring everyone’s dream work!
#photography #photographers #artists #fineartphotography #surrealism
Neon green trees against a vivid red forest with a wooden door at the end of the path
April 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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For today’s #BlueSkyArtShow with the theme of #windows I present to you this heavenly window in Madrid, at the palace.
#photographers #photography #Spain #travelphotography
Stone steps leading to a large window with shutters
March 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Getting in under the wire again for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow with the #abandoned theme. There’s always an interesting story behind forgotten objects, don’t you think?

#PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #SCAPE #photographersonbluesky #photography #landscape #photographers
Red kid’s bike in a field in front of a shallow forest
February 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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“Rainy Day, The Bronx” - pretty much sums up my mood lately: In the midst of an absolute deluge of bad news, just trying to see my way through it. Bit of good news: It was accepted into the “Expressionism” exhibition at A Smith Gallery. #photography #februarty #turquoise #PhotographersonBlueSky #art
Silhouette of tree through a rainy windshield
February 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Since other mARTch challenges are happening, I've changed our hashtags for next month. You can use #MakersmARTch or #mkrsmARTch, whichever is easier to remember. Also, open to suggestions for easier-to-remember tags. #FebruARTy #JanuARTy

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A vibrant digital graphic for Makers mARTch, an art challenge encouraging creativity across various mediums. The background is a colorful collage of crafting supplies, including buttons, beads, fabric, thread, and paper, with a circular cutout on the right featuring a geometric, layered paper design in bright colors. At the top, the challenge title "MAKERS MARTCH" is displayed in bold, dark purple capital letters against a yellow-orange background with a textured, painted look. Below, a tagline in black and pink text reads: "Any medium, any style, any way you like; new or old, soft or bold. A prompt a day to create in your way." A list of 31 daily prompts is centered in four columns, written in bold purple text: Woven Button Jewel Bead Wood Soft Glue Pin Carve(d) Glaze Paint Ink Felt Clay Sculpt Collage Thimble Glass Fire Print Spray Draw Stain Pattern Stab Leather Stamp Plastic Hook Flash Connect At the bottom, two hashtags #MakersmARTch and #MkrsmARTch are prominently displayed. Below them, the event host is credited: "Hosted by: That Anxious Artist @whitneyyoh.bsky.social" The design is playful and colorful, celebrating various art forms and materials. Let me know if you'd like any refinements! 😊🎨✨
February 19, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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This has been a proper Buffalo Winter lately.

You can learn to find joy in snow. If not, you'll still have the same amount of snow but less joy. -Old Swedish saying

#EastCoastKin #photography #winter #snow #trees
A row of young maple trees running along a road is lost to sight in the falling snow.
February 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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For #STUNDay may I present to you the incredible ceiling at Moynihan Train Hall in NYC, with the inverted city sculpture by Elmgreen & Dragset. What a mesmerizing piece of sculpture! #FebruARTy #bigandsmall #EastCoastKin #photographers #artists #NYC #sculpture
February 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Hi! Thought I’d introduce myself! I’m a photographer & editor of a magazine called Catch Light. (You can see all the issues available at the link in bio; the latest issue features #birdphotography from around the world.) Favorite quote: “Earth without art is just ‘eh’.”
#photography #photographers
Hawk on a sunny branch, photograph by Joy Sussman, on the cover of Catch Light magazine
February 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Squeezing in a photo just in time for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow with the theme #monochrome. I was honored to have this photo, called “Trio”, included in the recent juried group exhibition “In Praise of Trees” at PhotoPlace Gallery in Vermont.

#photographers #photography #landscapephotography #trees
February 16, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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pale yellow-green dianthus
#photography
#macroMonday
#abstractPhotography

straight on dianthus.
looking head on at the edge.

frankly, the only edge i want to be looking at today.

photograph.
a very closeup look at a pale yellow-green dianthus flower. on its green stem. purple flowers in the background, just a blur. thanks to the 105mm lens at f/3.3
February 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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One more shot for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow …

#Reflections #photographers #photography
Raindrops on a car window with reflections of trees
February 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Happy Saturday! Looking forward to seeing all the lovely submissions in the #BlueSkyArtShow !

#Reflections #photographers #photography
Japanese Maple leaves in a silver pitcher
February 8, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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This long exposure infrared image was made on Moccasin Creek in Rabun County Georgia. I used a full spectrum Nikon D750 with a Nikkor 17-35mm f2.8 lens and a 720nm filter. Processed in Lightroom.

Get out there.

#photography #ir #infrared #EastCoastKin #longexposure
February 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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The #BlueSkyArtShow is open! Saturday February 8, 2025 the theme is #Reflections

Plan all week then on Saturday show us your photos, paintings, drawings, poems, microficiton, pottery, knitting, anything that fits. Post as long as it's Saturday where you are.

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Join the #BlueSkyArtShow All day Saturday February 8, 2025 The theme is #Reflections Post your photos drawings paintings poetry microfiction pottery fiber art or anything. Hold your posts till Saturday then unleash the flood!
February 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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It takes high speed photography to catch this nutcase. When I Iook in her eyes I see only madness.

#FebruArty day for #Eyes

#pets #cats #phitography
A closeup of a cat's face with the eyes emphasized by a splash of golden light
February 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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The #eyes of Black Socks for #FebruArty. A most handsome fox too!
#nature #fox #UKWildlife #photography #PhotoHour
Portrait of the face of a fox looking away from the camera lens but relaxed!
February 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Multiple exposure of fall aspens. I wanted to convey the feeling of being totally enveloped in these leaves so I took several exposures, each at a slightly different angle, in bright mode, to make the leaves repeat themselves. #photography #multipleexposure #trees #colorado #aspens
Multiple exposure photo of yellow, fall aspens in. Colorado.
February 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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I’m a few days late for #februARTy but here’s my #eyes submission. Have you ever studied the eyes of sheep? Mesmerizing! Also: I’m still doing square formats as a protest against Instagram for switching to rectangles (do they even care about #photographers anymore?)! #photography #artists #animals
Frontal close-up of sheep
February 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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February 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Looking forward to seeing everyone’s work in the #BlueSkyArtShow today! #light #photographers #photography #stilllife
February 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM