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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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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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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
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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November 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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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
November 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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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
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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November 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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#Stunday

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

#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #LandscapePhotography #Hiking
November 16, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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'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
November 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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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
November 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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
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
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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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
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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#ForestFriday #Scape #ColorADay #BWFri #ClassicMono

Morning fog in the trees and hills of San Luis Obispo

#EastCoastKin #Hiking #LandscapePhotography
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
November 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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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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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
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Forest fading into the mist #ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #scape #fog #misty
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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'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
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM