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Little Rock Today
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Looking at Little Rock, Arkansas through the lens of a trans femme. 💅🏽 🏳️‍⚧️ 📸

Weekly, I share pics & a journal entry in the Little Rock subreddit.

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This is a beautiful framing of the Stephe ‘sInc tower in #LittleRock #Arkansas

This building is a daily reminder that the good ole boys still think they call the shots in our town.

#photo
#art
#skyscraper
#transjoy
#queerphotography
A skyscraper in Little Rock, Arkansas, that has a gray blue reflective glass and his framed thigh, green trees, and the fancy green railing of a parking deck.
May 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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A strange orange glow emerges in the sky, after 5 months of snow, tornadoes, and rain.

#littlerock
#arkansas
#sunrise
#sunset
#clouds
#photo
#art
#transjoy
#bridge
#nuclear
Exhaust cloud from the nuclear reactor in Russellville, Arkansas is silhouette on the horizon by a sunset with the Broadway Bridge from Little Rock, Arkansas in the foreground. Photo copyright Gynger 2025. Sunrise over the Arkansas River, pink orange and deep purple clouds roll diagonally across the frame from the center left to the upper right the horizon is stable and the Broadway bridge and Junction bridge and state street Bridge in Little Rock Arkansas can be all same. Photo copyright Gynger 2025. Sunrise over Little Rock, Arkansas sky is pink and purple and clouds form a triangle perspective line the converges in the upper right third of the frame Photo copyright Gynger 2025. Trans woman and queer photographer Gynger from Little Rock, Arkansas poses for a selfie, wearing a maxi pink pencil dress with white horizontal stripe at the waist and neck line and olive Drive coat and light pink glasses. The angle of the selfie is from overhead looking straight down Gynger’s silhouette
May 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Just a reminder :

All who protest under the American flag are not Americans.
Protest against invasion of ukraine by russia at the arkansas state capitol In february 2022 3 women of different generations sit under the American flag at the arkansas state capitol the day Roe v Wade was overruled Nazis in Little rock in 1957 Nazis in Little rock in 1957
May 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Watching a thunderstorm come straight at you while you are 10 stories above ground in a glass enclosed room is an experience that’s hard to put into words

So I tried to put it in a picture

What do u feel when u see this scene?

#littlerock
#nature
#storm
#arkansas
#monochrome
#bridge
#rain
#fuji
Black and white image of the junction bridge walking bridge across the Arkansas river in Little Rock, Arkansas. The scene is composed with a heavy atmospheric perspective; the building buildings trees and bridges progress from Black and the foreground to White in the background Motion blurring of the trees and the streaks of rain on the window imply a very dramatic storm
May 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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"The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play, so we sat in the house all that cold, cold wet day. I sat there with #Fujixt5 … We sat here we two and we said 'How we wish we had something to do.'"

#littlerock
#arkansas
#photo
#art
#Storm
#clouds
#wallcloud
#nature
#urbanlandscape
Two bridges across the Arkansas river in Little Rock, Arkansas. (left to right) the main street bridge, and the junction walking bridge are shown in black-and-white slightly obscured by the fog and rain storm covering the river. The vintage point of the photo is behind a window because one can see the streaks of water coming down the glass window A thunderstorm begins to obscure the Hillcrest area of Little Rock as the storm moves into downtown. The left side of the image is the Marriott hotel and the state House convention center, and the right side of the image shows a portion of the arch of the Broadway bridge and the bearing crossing railroad bridge behind it. The center of the image is cut with trees and varying degrees of sunlight and shadow A wall cloud rolls across Little Rock, Arkansas. The top half of the frame is a bright white storm cloud. The bottom, half of the frame is a view looking west from river market. The two portions of the image are separated by the dark blue of the Stormy area itself. Gynger, Trans woman and queer photographer from Little Rock Arkansas, poses for a selfie, sitting on a stool with her camera and telephoto zoom lens held up to her eye as she looks to the upper left corner of the frame. The vantage point of the portrait is from below her knees, looking up to her chin, which is just above center in the picture
May 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Have you ever stopped to watch the police work?

Each car has the gestapo’s +1 (bestie?)… So that’s 3 cars & 6 cops, plus 1 car & 2 officers I couldn’t fit in frame

What catastrophe led to this police engagement?

A Black man w/ a speech impediment asking for
Money

#acab
#LittleRock
#overpoliced
Six police in three cars summoned to arrest a Black man with a speech impediment for asking for money Racism: it’s why our 911 systems don’t work anymore. All the pigs are out harassing Black people.
May 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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I haven’t seen storm clouds like this since 1997 in Texas

The next day - I was in the army at the time - we were deployed to pick up the pieces of the town of Jarrell, Texas.

#photo
#art
#storm
#tornado
#clouds
#fujixt5
#littlerock
#arkansas
Black and white scene with little Rock arkansas broadway bridge in foreground. Overhead, a giant storm Cloud that is over 30 miles Rolls Like a log across the sky. Photo taken by trans woman lesbian photographer Gynger. A giant 30 mile long storm cloud rolls over a little rock, Arkansas… To the east the sky is sunny, and so the reflection of the building look like candles against the backdrop of a windy storm. Photo taken by trans woman and lesbian photographer Gynger. A 30 miles long storm cloud rolls towards downtown Little Rock Photo taken by trans woman and lesbian photographer Gynger. A 30 miles long storm cloud rolls over the Arkansas River and North Little Rock Arkansas Photo taken by trans woman and lesbian photographer Gynger.
May 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Canadian Geese in Little Rock are restless. Seen here preparing to invade an engineering firm downtown.

I blame tairiffs and trans ppl

#littlerock
#arkansas
#candiangeese
#tairiffs
#transjoy
#photo
#art
#urban
#birds
Trans woman and Arkansas queer photographer Gynger used her Fuji XT5 to photograph this gaggle of seven Canadian geese appearing to gather in the tall yellow green weeds in front of a engineering firm’s red brick office building in downtown Little Rock Arkansas
May 15, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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#CoopersHawk attempts to murder a pigeon in downtown #littlerock

The #pigeon escapes

For a while anyway

#photo
#art
#urbanlandscape
#birds
A Cooper’s Hawk attempts to get a grip on a pigeon it killed on a city sidewalk before flying away with it A bloody mangled pigeon escapes for a moment from the Cooper’s Hawk The Cooper’s Hawk regained the upper hand and destroys the pigeon
May 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Hes been sitting here for 2 hrs and 51 minutes.

During that time, how many people are waiting on cops to show up from a 911 emergency call?

#ACAB
#1312
#photo
#art
#LRPD
#cops
#popo
#police
#wastingourmoney
A black and white Little Rock police SUV parks under the interstate 30 bridge near downtown Little Rock while the police officer in it takes a three hour nap
May 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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I dont #photograph the Stephens Tower often

The name marks a family that has thrown down w/ MAGA Nazis & have invested heavily in their success

But this week, I started confronting the things about #LittleRock I dont like, to look deeper for what i do

#photo
#art
#urban
#skyscraper
#mustafar
The windows in the stephens tower in downtown little rock arkansas reflect the leading edge of a thunderstorm to the east of town while the foggy green of the trailing edge to the west come up behind the tour. The overall vibe of the photo is ominous.
May 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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“And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, & the floods came, & the winds blew & beat against that house, & it fell, & great was the fall of it.”

#art
#photo
#littlerock
#arkansas
#stephens
#nazis
The Stephens family building in Little Rock appears to be falling, with a Little Rock parking lot in the foreground, and a sign for a museum to the 19th century . The Stephens family built their fortune by taking Walmart public, and protect it by bankrolling Trump and MAGA Nazis.
May 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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We talk of Arkansas’ Natural Beauty

On thurs, this was a bright and wild patch Of red clover, pink primrose & yellow coreopsis.

Bunnies & ground nesting birds lived here, an urban coyote used a path at night.

Today, its a patch of dead grass and runoff mud

#arkansas
#naturalstate
#photo
#art
The city mowed this downtown Little Rock Arkansas field of colorful pink primrose, red clover and yellow coreopsis. In exchange, we get dead grass and mud runoffs.
April 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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On a #photowalk through #downtown #LittleRock this morning, i came back to #reflections in the #urbanlandscape

One reason: they r the only way to “tie” downtown spaces together

other towns have bodegas & shops on edges of downtown spaces: LR has #parkinglots

#arkansas
#photo
#art
#urban
This building in downtown Little Rock at 212 Center Street stands by itself. It was designed by architect George Man in the early 1900s. George Man was a prolific architect in Little Rock design designing most of its building buildings and most of the suburb of Pulaski Heights, which remains one of the most segregated neighborhoods in the US. Anither George Mann building on Louisiana street in downtown little rock obscured by a covered elevated walkway that is reflecting buildings behind the camera. A famous little Rock landmark reflected in a downtown window. Buildings are reflected in a Gothic-esque rose window of a church in downtown Little Rock
April 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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#Fireworks set me off everytime

They dont sound alike, but when u hear celebratory pops, i hear & feel #grenades

They harm birds & all manner of wildlife

They coat the #environment with the residue of burnt plastic

But hey, the Travs won?

#art
#photo
#baseball
#littlerock
#arkansas
#travellers
Fireworks over the Arkansas travelers baseball stadium in north Little Rock, Arkansas reflects in a patio window across the Arkansas river A cloud of smoke covers the entire town of North Little Rock after fireworks at the Arkansas Travelers baseball game in North Little Rock, Arkansas Fireworks being shot Off after a win by the Arkansas travelers baseball team at dickey Stephens park in North Little Rock, Arkansas are reflected in the mirrored surface of a skyscraper over a Little Rock, Arkansas Trans femme photographer, Gynger, poses for a selfie on the Clinton presidential library walking bridge over the Arkansas river with the city of Little Rock skyline and the interstate 30 Highway bridge in the background
April 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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I feel like if we just replaced all the grass with wildflowers, our cities and towns would have a much cooler vibe.

#photo
#art
#littlerock
#arkansas
#wildflowers
#primrose
#urban
#landscape
A patch of pink Primrose dominates the foreground in front of a highway passing through downtown Little Rock, Arkansas Sparse but vivid wildflowers pepper green grass of an overgrown vacant lot in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas Tall grasses help to create safe spaces for small wildlife and insects and other pollinators in downtown environments such as that pictured here in Little Rock Arkansas
April 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Fireworks at the Arkansas Travs game at Dickey Stephens Ballpark this past Friday night.

#photo
#milb
#baseball
#arkansas
#fireworks
#fuji
#xt5
Image shows Fireworks over the dickey stephens ballpark in north little rock arkansas. The arkansas river and the broadway bridge are in the foreground Image shows Fireworks over the dickey stephens ballpark in north little rock arkansas. The arkansas river and the broadway bridge and the little rock river market are in the foreground
April 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Family Fishing at MacArthur Park in #LittleRock #Arkansas

#art
#photo
#fuji
#xt5
#blackandwhite
#fishing
#family
Black nd white high key photo adult and two children fish alongside a pond in MacArthur Park in downtown Little Rock
April 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I will leave this to you to interpret.

It is titled: “Stopping to take a picture while on a dogwalk in #LittleRock #Arkansas to see if that car is following me or just driving slow.”

The second photo was my outfit.

#outfit
#feelingcute
#newspaper
#horsetrailer
#rust
#nostalgia
#photo
#art
Image taken with iphone shows a rusted horse trailer, and a pile of white rocks in a parking lot that is overgrown by grass and weeds in front of the Arkansas Democrat is at printing and distribution facility on the east side of downtown Little Rock, Arkansas Selfie of Little Rock Arkansas Trans Femme photographer Gynger 🍯 wearing a lime green body con miniskirt a peach, orange spaghetti, strap, Cami, dark purple sunglasses, and a pair of headphones while walking dog
April 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Red clover grows in an open downtown field under the light of a full moon in #LittleRock
#Arkansas

#art
#photo
#clover
#moon
#urban
Image is taken at night with red clover in the foreground, tall, yellowish green cat grass behind it and in the background, a black sky with the moon in the top center
April 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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My quarterly #PSA

To every photography instructor who taught “The Photography Rule” that you should “never tilt the horizon”:

Go fuck yourself.

#art
#photo
#fuji
#xt5
#rules
#trans
#photographer
#queerart
#littlerock
#arkansas
The horizon is tilted to an extreme 60° in this image, with the left edge of the horizon in the lower left corner and the right edge of the horizon in the upper right corner. The one point perspective brings viewers focus to the very center of the photograph. Sections of terrain on the ground, Follow the same perspectival line to the center, creating - counter clockwise from lower left cornrmer: triangles of orange (buildings), green (grass), white (sidewalk), Gray (shadows under bridge), brown and Yellow (Highway Bridge), blue (sky). The resulting composition creates an effect of the scene being on a pinwheel.
April 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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A Tree Grows in Little Rock.

Or does it.

Sometimes, shadows look real.

#art
#photo
#fear
#LittleRock
#Arkansas
#tree
#fuji
#xt5
#shadow
A tree grows in a small square of earth cut out of a city sidewalk. The shadows of tree branches reflect on a white brick wall, giving the illusion that the shadows are the trees branches.
April 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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After My grandfather retired as a Court Reporter in US Senate (1954-75), he took me on weekly tours of the US Capitol.

I love capitol buildings. The marble, details, smells, echoes.

This one in #Arkansas, built by unpaid Black labor, has been hard to connect to

#photo
#art
#architecture
The dome of the Arkansas State capital of Little Rock is in the lower left corner of the frame Along the right edge of the frame is a spring tree bursting with new green leaves. The back is a cloudless blue sky The entrance to the Arkansas State Capitol is underneath a marble staircase that walks up to the main (nonfunctional) bronze doors of the capital
April 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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This week, Arkansas State Capitol House Courtesy Officer Jay Grelen took pictures of my butt & my friends breasts, & tried to take an “upskirt” photo of me.

I dont know what makes a white xtian man think he can point his camera up someone’s dress.

But i know Trans ppl arent to blame

#art
#trans
A traffic light hangs from a steel cross beam with the red light showing behind the traffic light is a concrete side of a highway overpass and a blue sky
April 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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The whole town if #LittleRock #Arkansas was on edge all day, yesterday, as parallels to 2023 emerged

But the storm has passed

For now

Sending love & calming energy to all fellow humans still in harms way

Last pic is me, Gynger, trans photographer

#photo
#art
#storms
#fujixt5
#urbam
#skyline
The Arkansas State capitol against a dark navy sky caused by a spring thunderstorm Arkansas Capitol and skyrises stand out in white against a black stormy sky over little rock arkansas Chalky white Broadway bridge over arkansas river stands out against purple and green storm clouds. Trans femme photographer Gynger poses for a selfie with big red iris apfel glasses with downtown littke rock arkansas as a backdrop.
April 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM