Luci Westphal
@luciwest.bsky.social
https://LuciWest.com
Maker of photos, videos and thoughts.
German ex-NYer currently based in St. Pete, Florida. Gardener. Bird Nerd.
Maker of photos, videos and thoughts.
German ex-NYer currently based in St. Pete, Florida. Gardener. Bird Nerd.
The opening reception of Creative Pinellas Arts Annual is TONIGHT! It’s an honor to be part of the best group exhibit in the county IMHO. This year is extra special because the work I created is deeply personal. It’s called Papi’s Garten (Dad’s Garden). Photo shows an excerpt of the installation.
November 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The opening reception of Creative Pinellas Arts Annual is TONIGHT! It’s an honor to be part of the best group exhibit in the county IMHO. This year is extra special because the work I created is deeply personal. It’s called Papi’s Garten (Dad’s Garden). Photo shows an excerpt of the installation.
Thank you Michelle and Dan for featuring my photo and thoughts (I originally shared on FB) in the quarterly Historic Kenwood magazine - and for your caring words and sentiment.
November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Thank you Michelle and Dan for featuring my photo and thoughts (I originally shared on FB) in the quarterly Historic Kenwood magazine - and for your caring words and sentiment.
There she goes again…
3rd time in a row makes it a tradition right?
3rd #mondaymorning #sunrise at the #StPeteFL waterfront.
Good morning, everyone. Have a splendid week!
3rd time in a row makes it a tradition right?
3rd #mondaymorning #sunrise at the #StPeteFL waterfront.
Good morning, everyone. Have a splendid week!
November 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
There she goes again…
3rd time in a row makes it a tradition right?
3rd #mondaymorning #sunrise at the #StPeteFL waterfront.
Good morning, everyone. Have a splendid week!
3rd time in a row makes it a tradition right?
3rd #mondaymorning #sunrise at the #StPeteFL waterfront.
Good morning, everyone. Have a splendid week!
TWO art events with my work this Saturday. Of course, there is St. Pete 2nd Saturday Art Walk and my studio will be open (and I hope to see you), I also have work in the Photography Invitational at the Stirling Gallery in Dunedin.
The Aspen tree photo is one of mine, none of the others are.
The Aspen tree photo is one of mine, none of the others are.
October 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
TWO art events with my work this Saturday. Of course, there is St. Pete 2nd Saturday Art Walk and my studio will be open (and I hope to see you), I also have work in the Photography Invitational at the Stirling Gallery in Dunedin.
The Aspen tree photo is one of mine, none of the others are.
The Aspen tree photo is one of mine, none of the others are.
Parents! Aren't they the best? The way they nurture and guide us and put us first, before themselves even.
🕊️ what: #mockingbird
📍where: my garden, #HistoricKenwood, #Florida
🗓️ when: May 2025
#birdphotography #backyardoasis
🕊️ what: #mockingbird
📍where: my garden, #HistoricKenwood, #Florida
🗓️ when: May 2025
#birdphotography #backyardoasis
October 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Parents! Aren't they the best? The way they nurture and guide us and put us first, before themselves even.
🕊️ what: #mockingbird
📍where: my garden, #HistoricKenwood, #Florida
🗓️ when: May 2025
#birdphotography #backyardoasis
🕊️ what: #mockingbird
📍where: my garden, #HistoricKenwood, #Florida
🗓️ when: May 2025
#birdphotography #backyardoasis
Magnificent Frigate Bird Eye-to-Eye. So far my favorite photo from my outings with the Friends of the Tampa Bay National Wildlife Refuges. I've been in awe with frigate birds since 1st spotting them flying high above Barbados in 2005 looking like Pterodactylus
#birdphotography #wildlifephotography
#birdphotography #wildlifephotography
October 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Magnificent Frigate Bird Eye-to-Eye. So far my favorite photo from my outings with the Friends of the Tampa Bay National Wildlife Refuges. I've been in awe with frigate birds since 1st spotting them flying high above Barbados in 2005 looking like Pterodactylus
#birdphotography #wildlifephotography
#birdphotography #wildlifephotography
BIG NEWS! I’m thrilled and honored to be the 1st Featured Wildlife Artist for Friends of the Tampa Bay National Wildlife Refuges.
See more photos and get more info in my NEW BLOG POST: luciwest.com/tampa-bay-wi...
#wildlifephotographer #naturephotography #featuredartist #wildliferefuges #TampaBay
See more photos and get more info in my NEW BLOG POST: luciwest.com/tampa-bay-wi...
#wildlifephotographer #naturephotography #featuredartist #wildliferefuges #TampaBay
September 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
BIG NEWS! I’m thrilled and honored to be the 1st Featured Wildlife Artist for Friends of the Tampa Bay National Wildlife Refuges.
See more photos and get more info in my NEW BLOG POST: luciwest.com/tampa-bay-wi...
#wildlifephotographer #naturephotography #featuredartist #wildliferefuges #TampaBay
See more photos and get more info in my NEW BLOG POST: luciwest.com/tampa-bay-wi...
#wildlifephotographer #naturephotography #featuredartist #wildliferefuges #TampaBay
Good morning, Beautiful
September 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Good morning, Beautiful
The simple, imperfect beauty of wild blackberry flowers give us the opportunity for a moment of awe. And a moment of awe triggers happiness.
I ignore the thought this might be a different plant since blackberry is usually white because overthinking keeps us from being happy.
#naturephotography
I ignore the thought this might be a different plant since blackberry is usually white because overthinking keeps us from being happy.
#naturephotography
September 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The simple, imperfect beauty of wild blackberry flowers give us the opportunity for a moment of awe. And a moment of awe triggers happiness.
I ignore the thought this might be a different plant since blackberry is usually white because overthinking keeps us from being happy.
#naturephotography
I ignore the thought this might be a different plant since blackberry is usually white because overthinking keeps us from being happy.
#naturephotography
This female common redstart / Gartenrotschwanz (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) I first saw with my dad during a Germany visit in spring when he was still alive. I took these two photos in my mom’s garden this summer. Ties that bind.
🐥 what: Common Redstart
📍where: Haselau, Germany
🗓️ when: August 2025
🐥 what: Common Redstart
📍where: Haselau, Germany
🗓️ when: August 2025
September 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This female common redstart / Gartenrotschwanz (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) I first saw with my dad during a Germany visit in spring when he was still alive. I took these two photos in my mom’s garden this summer. Ties that bind.
🐥 what: Common Redstart
📍where: Haselau, Germany
🗓️ when: August 2025
🐥 what: Common Redstart
📍where: Haselau, Germany
🗓️ when: August 2025
Often times, it's the little things. So excited to see a small Atala #Butterfly / Coontie Hairstreak / Eumaeus atala in my front yard. This is an #endangered species and requires the coontie as a host plant. I have two of those plants (not pictured here). I plant for butterfly caterpillars! Do you?
September 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Often times, it's the little things. So excited to see a small Atala #Butterfly / Coontie Hairstreak / Eumaeus atala in my front yard. This is an #endangered species and requires the coontie as a host plant. I have two of those plants (not pictured here). I plant for butterfly caterpillars! Do you?
Thank you for all you have done, especially for independent film. RIP Robert Redford
Robert Redford was one of the foremost actors of his generation, a champion of modern cinema and independent film, and a deeply good man.
September 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Thank you for all you have done, especially for independent film. RIP Robert Redford
It's happening again: #OpenStudio during #ArtWalk TODAY 5pm - 9pm. Come say hello, have a candy, buy a thing, tell me what's happening in the other studios and galleries I can't visit during ArtWalk anymore. The gallery off my hallway has a must-see USAid exhibit.
#StPeteFL #Florida #artist
#StPeteFL #Florida #artist
September 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It's happening again: #OpenStudio during #ArtWalk TODAY 5pm - 9pm. Come say hello, have a candy, buy a thing, tell me what's happening in the other studios and galleries I can't visit during ArtWalk anymore. The gallery off my hallway has a must-see USAid exhibit.
#StPeteFL #Florida #artist
#StPeteFL #Florida #artist
Community. A safe place to land. So important. Especially now. But also always.
what: Magnificent Frigate #Birds
where: Saint Joseph Sound, #Florida
when: June
#birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #naturephotographer
what: Magnificent Frigate #Birds
where: Saint Joseph Sound, #Florida
when: June
#birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #naturephotographer
September 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Community. A safe place to land. So important. Especially now. But also always.
what: Magnificent Frigate #Birds
where: Saint Joseph Sound, #Florida
when: June
#birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #naturephotographer
what: Magnificent Frigate #Birds
where: Saint Joseph Sound, #Florida
when: June
#birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #naturephotographer
September 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This is the email I sent to the Pinellas County commissioners today on behalf of continued funding for Creative Pinellas.
For the #arts and the health of our community!
We are currently losing many ways of self-expression and freedom in #Florida. We can't afford to lose anymore!
For the #arts and the health of our community!
We are currently losing many ways of self-expression and freedom in #Florida. We can't afford to lose anymore!
September 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Endings and beginnings.
Loss and hope.
Every sunset.
Every sunrise.
Everything could change at any moment.
Let’s celebrate what we “have” on this day
Let’s be gentle and kind (including to ourselves) as we handle loss, disappointment, and broken dream
Let’s hope for a great tomorrow
Loss and hope.
Every sunset.
Every sunrise.
Everything could change at any moment.
Let’s celebrate what we “have” on this day
Let’s be gentle and kind (including to ourselves) as we handle loss, disappointment, and broken dream
Let’s hope for a great tomorrow
August 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Endings and beginnings.
Loss and hope.
Every sunset.
Every sunrise.
Everything could change at any moment.
Let’s celebrate what we “have” on this day
Let’s be gentle and kind (including to ourselves) as we handle loss, disappointment, and broken dream
Let’s hope for a great tomorrow
Loss and hope.
Every sunset.
Every sunrise.
Everything could change at any moment.
Let’s celebrate what we “have” on this day
Let’s be gentle and kind (including to ourselves) as we handle loss, disappointment, and broken dream
Let’s hope for a great tomorrow
I couldn’t love this more! Sunshine City Mosaic in the making in Sunset Park #StPeteFL - by my girl Miss Crit (Laura Spencer) and her man George Ratkes and Alex Kaufman.
#publicart
#publicart
August 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I couldn’t love this more! Sunshine City Mosaic in the making in Sunset Park #StPeteFL - by my girl Miss Crit (Laura Spencer) and her man George Ratkes and Alex Kaufman.
#publicart
#publicart
August 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Thank you so much!
America’s own St Petersburg—prettier than Russia—offers a bluesky sunrise. Thanks Ms Westphal. Nice comp.
Good morning to the word, from St. Pete, #Florida.
(Yes, I’m #jetlagged, been up since 4am and just walked 45 minutes to see the sun rise over Tampa Bay)
#StPeteFL #photography #sunrise
(Yes, I’m #jetlagged, been up since 4am and just walked 45 minutes to see the sun rise over Tampa Bay)
#StPeteFL #photography #sunrise
August 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Thank you so much!
Resilience!
Grateful and excited: I received a Resilience #Artist Grant from the St Pete Warehouse Arts District.
Took this photo in #Hamburg while urbex-ploring with @fraustehr.bsky.social + @jakomoro.bsky.social
#urbex #artistlife #photographer
Grateful and excited: I received a Resilience #Artist Grant from the St Pete Warehouse Arts District.
Took this photo in #Hamburg while urbex-ploring with @fraustehr.bsky.social + @jakomoro.bsky.social
#urbex #artistlife #photographer
August 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Resilience!
Grateful and excited: I received a Resilience #Artist Grant from the St Pete Warehouse Arts District.
Took this photo in #Hamburg while urbex-ploring with @fraustehr.bsky.social + @jakomoro.bsky.social
#urbex #artistlife #photographer
Grateful and excited: I received a Resilience #Artist Grant from the St Pete Warehouse Arts District.
Took this photo in #Hamburg while urbex-ploring with @fraustehr.bsky.social + @jakomoro.bsky.social
#urbex #artistlife #photographer
Good morning to the word, from St. Pete, #Florida.
(Yes, I’m #jetlagged, been up since 4am and just walked 45 minutes to see the sun rise over Tampa Bay)
#StPeteFL #photography #sunrise
(Yes, I’m #jetlagged, been up since 4am and just walked 45 minutes to see the sun rise over Tampa Bay)
#StPeteFL #photography #sunrise
August 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Good morning to the word, from St. Pete, #Florida.
(Yes, I’m #jetlagged, been up since 4am and just walked 45 minutes to see the sun rise over Tampa Bay)
#StPeteFL #photography #sunrise
(Yes, I’m #jetlagged, been up since 4am and just walked 45 minutes to see the sun rise over Tampa Bay)
#StPeteFL #photography #sunrise
Last night’s St Pete ArtWalk brought much laughter and joy. Very happy to be back with my artist family and excited to create in my studio among my people again.
August 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Last night’s St Pete ArtWalk brought much laughter and joy. Very happy to be back with my artist family and excited to create in my studio among my people again.
So it hasn’t been exactly a flood of nature images… but waves… and I aim to continue as manifested on July 20 “without measure, expectation, or apology.”
Here’s a Kohlweissling (cabbage white butterfly) on the Schmetterlingsflieder (butterfly bush) I can see from “my room” in my mom’s house.
Here’s a Kohlweissling (cabbage white butterfly) on the Schmetterlingsflieder (butterfly bush) I can see from “my room” in my mom’s house.
August 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
So it hasn’t been exactly a flood of nature images… but waves… and I aim to continue as manifested on July 20 “without measure, expectation, or apology.”
Here’s a Kohlweissling (cabbage white butterfly) on the Schmetterlingsflieder (butterfly bush) I can see from “my room” in my mom’s house.
Here’s a Kohlweissling (cabbage white butterfly) on the Schmetterlingsflieder (butterfly bush) I can see from “my room” in my mom’s house.