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John
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I am a retired college professor. I studied how we see and perceive. I am a very amateur photographer focusing mostly on nature and night photography.


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John @krantzj.bsky.social · Nov 24
The spring Milky Way arch. From April, 2023. Taken with a Nikon Z5 using a Rokinon 14mm lens at f/2.8. These are 30 sec images stitched in Hugin. #astrophotography #astrophos #milkyway #nightskyphotography
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alinagrafik.bsky.social
Your new cheat sheet is here for November 17-23

A list of all the art challenges with their hashtags, themes and dates.

Compiled by @handcranked.bsky.social

#EastCoastKin #ArtChallenges #Photography #Art
Art Challenges: November 17–23 Monday, November 17 #BlueSkyMonday (anything blue) #MacroMonday (any macro) #MountainMonday (mountains) #MinimalMonday (minimalism) #ColorADay (#PinkMon) #NightmareNov (#teeth) Tuesday, November 18 #RockinTuesday (rocks) #TidesOutTuesday #TagTuesday (graffiti/street art) #AnimalArtTuesday #ColorADay (#BlueTue or #CyanTue) #NightmareNov (#liquid) Wednesday, November 19 #WaterfallWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday #WackyWednesdayArt (odd/unusual) #WallsOnWednesday #ColorADay (#RedWed) #NightmareNov (#apathy) Thursday, November 20 #HumansOfBlueSky (people) #UrbanGaze (anything urban) #PalacesAndGardens (#UpholsteryAndTextiles) #ColorADay (#YellowThu) #NightmareNov (#black) Friday, November 21 #scape (any kind of scape) #FishyFriday #ForestFriday #FoodOnFriday #FlyDay (critters that fly) #ColorADay (#BWFri) #NightmareNov (#disease) Saturday, November 22 #BNWmacro #ColorADay (#GreenSat) #BlueSkyArtShow (#small) #NightmareNov (#disgust) Sunday, November 23 #Stunday (stunning) #ImageAndVerse (photos with poems written by you or anyone) #BNWMacro #ColorADay (#OrangeSun) #SelfPortraitSunday (#HiddenInPlainSight)* #NightmareNov (#arms) All Week #ArtYear (any art) #ArtOfSelfPortraiture #BirdOfTheDay (see Alan H or Rob Crank for daily prompt) #ClassicMono (monochrome) #FestiveDailyRobin (robin pics through December 31) #smARTIST (purposeful art) #AlphabetChallenge (#WeekUforUnloved)** #SensoryArt (#water) *Blend into background **Rundown and/or neglected things
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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landguyminor.bsky.social
Daylily
#stunday #bloomscrolling #flowers #daylily #esstcosstkin #photography #macro #pink
November 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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subicrn.bsky.social
In honor of all this wet stuff falling on us in LA....

This week's #SensoryArt theme is ... #Water!

How does it appear in your art?

Inspo: tinyurl.com/SensoryArt

#EastCoastKin #photography #painting #art #create #creative #sensory #senses #sensoryoverload #audhd #autistic #actuallyautistic #adhd
Sensory Art Challenge flyer week of Nov 17-23 Theme is Water -Original work only -New Theme each week -Announced Sundays -Express your style -Repost your favorites -Remember to tag #SensoryArt hosted by Subicorn @subicrn.bsky.social end caption #draw #drawing #design #textileart #fabricart #mixedmedia #music #writing #musician #writer #author #novel #poetry #artist #artistic #themes #artistcthemes #ideas #inspo #challenge #creating #painter #photographer #artsy #photochallenge #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neurospicy #stimming #synesthesia #sensoryshutdown #sensorydeprivation #sensoryartchallenge
November 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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rick8437.bsky.social
Haunted Walker-Ames Mansion | Port Gamble, Washington

#Stunday #Scape #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #LandscapePhotography #travel #paranormal
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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my-liquid-head.bsky.social
Bones and a #mushroom, and a cloudy day on the moors.

#Stunday #ClassicMono #monochrome #photography #infrared #skull #FungiFriends #shroomscrolling #nature
A mushroom sitting alongside a sheep skull on grass. Moorland hills can be seen in the distance, and the sky is grey with heavy cloud.
November 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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phototrippa.bsky.social
Urban Reflection
Boston, Massachusetts -- 10/13/14

#foto #photo #fotografia #fotografía #photography #photografie #fotografie #boston #reflection #reflejo #urbanlandscape #paisajeurbano #BlueSkyArtShow #Stunday #EastCoastKin #UrbanGaze
November 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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#Sunset before storm #stunday #nature #clouds #OrangeSun
November 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
krantzj.bsky.social
Stars twisting through the aurora! #Stunday #EastCoastKin #astrophotography #nightskyphotography #startrails #aurora #auroraborealis
A star trail image with the aurora glowing along the horizon.
November 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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alinagrafik.bsky.social
Every Sunday is #Stunday.

Post whatever you find stunning and repost your favorites from others. All people, types of art and skill levels welcome.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #ArtChallenges #Art
A photo of a boat in turquoise water at sunset with 3 people swimming in front of it. Text on it says, "Every Sunday is #Stunday. Post whatever you find stunning & repost your favorites from others. All people, types of art & skill levels welcome."
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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alinagrafik.bsky.social
Sunday #Stunday

Pismo Beach Pier, California

#EastCoastKin #PismoBeach #Pier #Scape #LandscapePhotography
Standing under the Pismo Beach Pier, looking at the waves coming in. The composition is a symmetrical view of the pilings. It is morning, so the light and hues of the left side (sunny side) of the pier are warm, while the hues of the right side are cool. In the distance waves are coming in. The tide is going out so the sand in the foreground is still wet and reflective while the waves are crashing in some distance away. Pismo Beach Pier, California
November 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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alinagrafik.bsky.social
#Stunday

Fog fills the valley giving the illusion of mountains floating in space.

#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #LandscapePhotography #Hiking
A sea of fog fills the valley below while more clouds are above. The two layers of clouds merge at the horizon to the right. Mountains across the valley appear to be floating in space while we are on firm ground above the fog while standing on Cerro San Luis mountain in San Luis Obispo, California.
November 16, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social
'Spitfire' (2014) -- Fredvang City Limits, Lofoten Archipelago, Arctic Norway

'One Day, All Dem Bags Gonna Get in Your Way...
So Pack Light' -- Erykah Badu

#Stunday ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨ #MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
a high contrast black and white image of a multi layered, descending aurora curtain at night, suspended high over the rocky fjords and lower cloud levels, high above the stars twinkle in the pitch black sky
November 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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nikonzman.bsky.social
Sunrise at Whitecrest Beach Wellfleet, MA October 2015
#EastCoasrKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Bright
November 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow Las Vegas is an exceptionally #Bright city. Cruisin’ the strip, we used to race on the strip, it looks like the jump to hyperspace.
#Nikon #Photo #PhotographersOfBlueSky #WestCoastKin
A rainbow of streaking lights on Las Vegas boulevard, the strip.
November 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
krantzj.bsky.social
Star Trails looking east. I love the twist in the movement of the stars around the two poles from our perspective! #Bright #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #astrophotography #NightSky #NightSkyPhotography #StarTrails
Star trails looking east where the stars appear to twist to rotate around the two poles. Plus a car drove by giving some taillights.
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Stark Realities' (2025) -- Bright Hard Light Streams Through Tree Trunks at the Edge of the Forested Campsite, in the Distance a Few Camper / Trailers, Thomas Point Beach, Outer Brunswick, ME

#BlueSkyArtShow #Bright ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
several spaced apart trees casting hard shadows from the bright light, their black twisted barren branches forming shapes against the white sky - in the distance in the snow covered parking lot at least 2 camper / trailers are parked
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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#BlueskyArtShow #Bright

Sunlight and begonias. 🤍

#EastCoastKin #Bloomscrolling #Begonia
A basket full of peach-colored begonias is backlit by the sun.
November 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday November 15, 2025
The theme is #Bright

Any art, any interpretation
Use both tags to be
included in our feed.
Multiple entries welcome

More details in the comments

#photography #drawing #painting #sketching #poetry
Photo of clouds and blue sky with words over it reading: Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday November 15, 2025 The theme is #Bright Any art. Any interpretation. Use both tags to be included in our feed. Multiple entries welcome
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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alinagrafik.bsky.social
#ForestFriday #Scape #ColorADay #BWFri #ClassicMono

Morning fog in the trees and hills of San Luis Obispo

#EastCoastKin #Hiking #LandscapePhotography
Black and white image of morning fog. The fog is thinning out near the photographer, so you get patchy, muted outlines of trees and mountains. It is very atmospheric. Above the layer of fog is the silhouette of mountains. There are various trees nearby that are in sharper resolution. This is on the M trail on Cerro San Luis mountain in San Luis Obispo, California.
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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'Bathing in Moonlight' (2023) -- a Luxuriously Slow, Barefoot, Moonlit Walk Along an Isolated Beach After Dinner Becomes a Moment of Escapist Splendor, Cảnh Dương, Central Vietnam

#Scape ✨ #BlueSkyArtShow #Bright ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
the full moon, brightening an otherwise stormy evening, illuminates the mists and humidity creating a world of wet, reflective surfaces
November 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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kortduce.bsky.social
My escape is usually nature areas within our town. Here a great blue heron fishes in St. Vrain Creek at Golden Ponds Nature Area in Longmont, Colorado.

#Scape #FlyDay #bird #birds #birdphotography #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #nature #creek #creeks #riparian #habitat
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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landguyminor.bsky.social
Golden aisle
#scape #forestfriday #japanesegardens #gibbsgarden #eastcoastkin #autumn #fall
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social
Maria 'En Papillote' (Pompom, 2016) -- Sometimes We Show Ourselves Off Proudly to the World... But Other Times We Hide Away, Seeking Seclusion & Anonymity, UWS, Manhattan, NYC

#Scape is What You Make It...!! ✨#ClassicMono ✨

#Photography #Portraiture
#Monochrome
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
portrait of a seated, young female Nicaraguan model covered in a Moroccan shawl fringed with pom poms, only the eyes, seductive and mysteriou are visible
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
krantzj.bsky.social
Forest fading into the mist #ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #scape #fog #misty
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social
'Magniloquence' (Jurassic, 2015) -- a Striking & Handsome Tree Belies Gravity on the Outskirts of Blea Tarn, Lake District National Park, UK

It's Finally Friday... Let's #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
an image of a large, proud tree standing tall in the moody winter foothills outskirts of Blea Tarn, the UK's Lake District National Park
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM