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Sam Turner
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Working stiff in the software industry
Shutterbug with a propensity for macro
Foodie/Cook
Lover of cats
Fly Fisher/Lover of outdoors
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Lichen Growing on a rock in evening light.

#photograph 📷
A very light green lichen growing on a pink hued rock mostly covered in older lichen.
November 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Pictures from a recent walk along the Potomac River.

#Photography 📷
#FallColors
#Virginia
#Maryland
A closeup of golden yellow leaves with dark veins and brown spots. Which maybe some some kind of hickory, against a background green undergrowth and dark brown dead leaves. From the Virginia side Potomac River with a line of warning buoys showing the text "Danger Dam Ahead", zigzagging across to the Maryland shore. The waters are reflecting the trees on the other side side in autumnal colors, and a partly cloudy sky. From the Virginia end of the Potomac River Dam, a long low dam that crosses the Potomac diagonally to divert water to supply the needs of the District of Columbia. Water is streaming over the dam for its entire length. In the background above the dam are trees in autumnal colors of yellow and red. A close up the water below the dam in a rounded sheltered cove, where a slow current moves slowly in a circular motion. In this picture leaves, seeds, and twigs are drifting among bubbles and white foam, interspersed with dark water. I go to this spot regularly, I have taken better shots when there is a little less foam.
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Autumn Trees beside Passage Creek in Virginia. Circa 2005.

#Photography 📷 #FallColor #EastCoastKin #Trees #Virginia
Several trees are leaning over opposite sides of a narrow part of Passage Creek. On the left are bunch of trees with bright yellow leaves. On the right there is a prominent pine with green needles contrasting the characteristic autumn colors of the trees beside it and in the mountain ridge in the background.
October 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Sycamore Leaf floating among duckweed in a turgid pond.
#Photography 📷
#Macro
A top down closeup of a brown leaf floating bed of green duckweed leaves on the of a turgid pond.
October 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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An autumn scene on Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park.

#Photography 📷 #Autumn #EastCoastKin #Virginia #FallColors #Trees #Virginia
Some weathered evergreen trees in the foreground with lush green needles and dark gray twisted branches, and trunk. The background are deciduous trees well into their color change with hues of yellow, red, and orange.
October 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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The Seattle Skyline as photographed from the 13th floor of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bellevue, Washington a little after sunset. August 2012.

#Photography 📷 #Seattle #EastCoastKin #UrbanGaze #SkyScape #SunSet
The foreground is a dark mix of the trees, and houses interspersed with street lights of the well wooded residential sections of east Seattle. In the mid-ground tall office buildings, center to left appear to float on the foreground. In the right hand side several tall red lighted broadcast towers rise high into the salmon sky. Immediately behind the city skyline, thanks to optical illusion of telephoto compression are the jagged peaks of the Olympic Mountains which are silhouetted against the a sky that begins salmon hue that gradually becomes a mix of hues of blue, green, and orange.
October 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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The upper reaches of the Hughes River in the Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. June 2003.

#Photography 📷 #EastCoastKin #NaturePhotography #NationalPark
At the center of the picture is a large boulder, split diagonally with ferns growing out of the crack. There is white water cascading around the boulder with other moss and lichen covered boulders in the foreground and the middle ground. The background is green foliage, tree trunks, and undergrowth of the forest in the Shenandoah National Park.
September 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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A zebra swallowtail, one of the more beautiful and graceful butterflies that can be seen at the local meadow.

#photography 📷 #Butterfly #Insects #Nature
A closeup of a zebra swallowtail butterfly with black and off-white (bleached out chartreuse?) wings spread out flat perched on golden iron weed flowers, feeding. It's head has 2 red-brown antennae, the body is hairy which gets longer on the abdomen. The color scheme of the body is similar to that of the wings. At the end of the abdomen are 2 small bright red dots, one on each of wing. Each wing has a long tail with a similar color scheme, giving the butterfly a distinctive flight pattern. The background is mostly darker greens and browns of undergrowth.
September 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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The east face of Old Rag Mountain taken from Route 231 just north of Etlan, VA. Circa November, 2008.

#Phtography #Virginia #Autumn #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin
The face of Old Rag mountain showing a mix of large exfoliated granite rock in shades of gray, and and trees showing autumnal colors; reds, browns, yellows, and some still green. All against a cloudless light blue sky.
September 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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A kite flying over Rockaway Beach, New York City, August, 2019

#Photography 📷
#minimalism
#EastCoastKin
#BlueSkyArt
A very colorful kite with black, red, green, and chartreuse colors with a very very long black and green striped tail streaming behind it. All against a very blue sky.
September 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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A little autumn color in somebody's backyard on Route 8A, just north of Charlemont, Massachusetts, circa 2018.

#Photography 📷
#NewEngland
#Massachusetts
#Autumn
#EastCoastKin
#Fall
A small pond contained by a dam with water generously cascading from the spillway in the foreground. In the background and throughout the picture is a mix of trees and bushes with mostly yellow colored leaves, and dark evergreens. At the left hand edge of the picture is small red out-building with white trim.
September 20, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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My kind of beachcombing is walking along the edge of the surf holding a camera with a macro lens taking pictures of whatever washes up while keeping an eye out for unusually large waves.

Nauset Beach, Cape Cod, August 8, 2025

#Photography 📷
#CapeCod
#EastCoastKin
#Macro
#MacroMonday
A closeup of a very worm eaten oyster shell with varying shades of gray and warm browns laying in the fine wet sand on the upper edge of the swash zone between waves. A closeup of a slipper snail shell with hues of creamy white and warm brown partially filled with fine wet sand laying on the upper edge of the swash zone between waves. A closeup of a small saturated beige hued feather laying in the coarse wet sand interspersed with (arthropod?) holes on the upper edge of the swash zone between waves. A closeup of a vary dark hued dark brown scallop shell fragment partially buried in wet sand, course textured enough to show the mineral constituents of the granite it was eroded from. On the upper edge of the swash zone between waves.
September 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Sunrise Nauset Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. August 6, 2025

#photography 📷
#CapeCod
#SunRise
#EastCoastKin
A salmon colored sun partially obscured by clouds that appears to hover just above the horizon of the Atlantic Ocean. In a sky with hues of pink but mostly grays. In the foreground is white foamy surf breaking on the beach with a dark gray ocean reflecting hues of pink in between.
September 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Chicory blossoms, on Fort Hill, Cape Cod.

#photography
#macro
#MacroMonday
#BlueMonday
#CapeCod
A closeup of several light blue chicory blossoms in the morning light against a nice boca background light and dark green hues. The individual pedals are blue with serrated tips, the colors gradate to a delicate purple near center of the flower. The lowest blossom has gone by and has wilted, there is a new bloom in the lower left.
September 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Landscape with Hay Bales.

#photography
📷
#landscape
A picture of a landscape of a recently cut hay field showing several dozen hay bales scattered across the green hillside. With scattered trees along the skyline, the right edge, and in the foreground. The sky is lightly overcast.
August 30, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Greetings from your friendly neighborhood milkweed bug.

#photography
#eastcoastkin
#macro
#macrophotography
#InsectThursday
#invertebrates
A closeup of a milkweed bug perched on a jaunty angled milkweed leaf looking directly at the camera lens. It has a harlequin patterned body in orange and black and all black appendages with the exception of the antennae which have gray tips. The background shows the bright green of the milkweed leaf, with darker greens of foliage and dark shadows below.
August 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Sunset/Moonrise over Nantucket Sound

#photography 📷 #capecod #sunset #eastcoastkin #moon
#massachusetts
A picture of the bright orange Sun setting a little more than halfway below the horizon of the dark waters of Nantucket sound. Adjacent to the sun are bright salmon hues burning through the light haze. Further away the colors are more subdued due to the haze. In top third of the picture the sky is clear displaying light salmon a hue of blue. A picture of the moon rising beside the Great Point lighthouse near the tip of Great Point a the northern most end of the island of Nantucket. Near the center is a white lighthouse, streaked dark colors. Just to the right and positioned a bit more than halfway to the top of lighthouse is the salmon colored Moon, the same color as the sunset picture. The sky is an even colored a light blue/gray with a hue of salmon. The lighthouse and attached building are visible in a line of dune grass that goes for the length of the picture. There is a strip of sandy beach going to the water, which would be dark but for the salmon hue.
August 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Busy Bumble Bees on a Thistle Flower.

#photography
#flowers
#summer
A closeup of a thistle bloom thickly covered with light purple florets. Five bumble bees with black bodies and intermittently covered with light yellow hairs are searching it for nectar.
August 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Freshly Opened Black-eyed Susan After a Rain Shower.

#photography
#flowers
📷
A closeup of a freshly bloomed black-eyed susan flower just after an afternoon rain shower. The yellow verging on orange petals have not quite unfurled along their length, and have droplets of water on them. The sepal leaves that protect the petal before blooming are still a fresh green, and are covered in little hairs.
August 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Yellow Ironweed

#photography
📷
A closeup of 2 ironweed flowers each with approximately 6 yellow pedals, and yellow florets radiating from the disk in the center. Photographed against a dark green and black background outside the field of focus.
July 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Sunrise at the beach on the Outer Banks of North Carolina

#photography
A picture of the bright orange Sun just little over halfway above horizon, in a sky of salmon gradating to pink hues with darker colored overcast at the margins. The middle ground shows the Atlantic Ocean with gray waves crashing on the sandy shore in the foreground.
July 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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A very humid summer morning in August 2007

#photography
📷
#humid
The morning golden sun light is shining through green leafy tree branches on an extremely humid summer morning. There is so much moisture in the air that the background is obscured by the golden light.
July 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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A small sprout emerging from a birch stump, in the Maine woods.

#photography 📷
#macro
A closeup of a small sprout with a pair of green leaves, a second pair leaves just forming, on a red stem emerging from a crack in a dense pattern of crevices on the roughly textured white bark of a birch stump.
July 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Hawkweed, Northern Maine

#nature
#photography
#macro
#flowers
A closeup of four mature common hawkweed blooms, with a dark brown one that has gone to seed in the center. The living blooms colors comprise yellow hues around the center gradating to a burnt orange at the fringe tipped petals. The background is entirely outside the field focus comprising mostly greens, and browns.
July 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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A couple freshly showered daisies.

#photography
#macro
#flowers
A closeup of 2 very adjacent common daisies, the white petals on the flower on the right overlap one on the left. The warm yellow pads and petals of both are covered in droplets of water from a very recent rain.
July 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM