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Dale

@michigandarkskies.bsky.social

The Milky Way, airglow & aurora reflecting on the calm water of Loon Lake, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan. 10/29/2025 #milkyway #puremichigan #michigan #nightphotography #photography #blueskyartgallery #blueskyartshow

November 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM

Dale

@michigandarkskies.bsky.social

A big beautiful blue sky with just the right mix of clouds over a scenic vista of fall colors near Empire, Michigan. 10/25/2025.
#autumn #trees #michigan #fallcolors #puremichigan #landscapephotography #blueskyartgallery #blueskyartshow

November 4, 2025 at 3:53 AM

Dale

@michigandarkskies.bsky.social

A golden maple tree reflecting the warmth of the morning sun. Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan.
#BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #autumn #trees #foliage #michigan #nationalparks #puremichigan

November 4, 2025 at 3:51 AM

Dale

@michigandarkskies.bsky.social

Autumn colors on the back roads of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan 10/29/2025. #autumn #tress #fallcolors #nationalparks #puremichigan #michigan #photography

November 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM

Dale

@michigandarkskies.bsky.social

A chipmunk taking in the warmth of the sun at Kensington Metro Park, Milford, Michigan. 10/20/2025 #photography #michigan #puremichigan #nature

November 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM

Dale

@michigandarkskies.bsky.social

Empire Bluffs, aurora, with airglow and the Milky Way adding to this enchanting image from Esch Beach, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan. Captured early AM, 10/29/25
#blueskyartgallery #photography #nightphotography #michigan #puremichigan #miklyway #sleepingbeardunes #nationalparks

October 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM

Dale

@michigandarkskies.bsky.social

Roadside Fall colors and a beautiful sky above, taken near Maple City, Michigan 10/25/25.
#Michigan #puremichigan #photography #blueskyartgallery #fallcolor #landscapephotography

October 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM

Dale

@michigandarkskies.bsky.social

Fall colors and beautiful skies at the Old St. Joseph Church, near Maple City, Michigan. Captured October 25, 2025.
#michigan
#puremichigan
#fallcolors
#photography
#landscapephotography
#blueskyartshow

October 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM

Dale

@michigandarkskies.bsky.social

Wood Duck and fall reflections from October 2010, near Cleveland, Ohio.
#Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #Photography #Animals #PhotographersUnited #BlueskyArtShow #Ohionature #woodduck

October 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM

Dale

@michigandarkskies.bsky.social

The aurora over a placid inland lake in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan.
#puremichigan
#blueskyartshow
#michigan
#aurora
#northernlights
#michigandarkskies
#nationalparks
#photography
#nightphotohgraphy

October 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM

Dale

@michigandarkskies.bsky.social

Here's a short timelapse video of the aurora over Loon Lake on 10/1/2025. The video does however illustrate the progression from an aurora arc to seeing aurora beads just before the sub-storm hits. Don't blink...😃
#aurora
#northernlights
#puremichigan
#sleepingbeardunes
#michigan
#michigandarkskies

October 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM

Dale

@michigandarkskies.bsky.social

Wood Duck and fall reflections from October 2010, near Cleveland, Ohio. Remembering my friend Mike Colter.
#woodduck
#birds
#birding
#photography
#Ohionature
#naturephotography
#birdphotography

October 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM

Dale

@michigandarkskies.bsky.social

A Great Egret on the hunt today at Pointe Mouillee State Game Area, Brownstown, Twp., Michigan, 10/16/2025.
#birds
#birding
#photography
#naturephotography
#michigan
#puremichigan
#egret
#wildlifephotography

October 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM

Dale

@michigandarkskies.bsky.social

The Point Betsie Lighthouse on a partly cloudy moonlit night. The moon light is being reflected off some interesting cloud formations as the aurora competes for attention. Taken in the early hours of 10/2/2025.
#northernlights
#auroraborealis
#nightphotography
#michigan
#puremichigan
#photography

October 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM

Dale

@michigandarkskies.bsky.social

The Watchman reflecting the last of the warm light of the setting sun on an April day in 2017. The Virgin River curves gently toward the mountain guiding your gaze toward this wonderful scene in Zion National Park.
#ZionNationalPark
#photography
#landscapephotography
#nationalparks
#Zion
#sunset

September 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM

Dale

@michigandarkskies.bsky.social

Mouillee Creek sunset, Berlin Township, Monroe County, Michigan taken April 20, 2017.
#michigan
#photography
#puremichigan
#sunset
#naturephotography

September 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM

Dale

@michigandarkskies.bsky.social

Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly on a Thistle plant, Oakwoods Metro Park, New Boston, Michigan 8/30/2025. #butterfly #SpicebushSwallowtail #michigan #puremichigan #blueskyphotography #photography #nature #blueskybutterflies #naturephotography

September 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM

Dale

@michigandarkskies.bsky.social

Monarch Butterfly on clover, Berlin Township, Monroe County, Michigan. 8/30/2025

#butterfly
#michigan
#MonarchButterfly
#puremichigan
#photography
#nature
#naturephotography

August 31, 2025 at 2:42 AM

Dale

@michigandarkskies.bsky.social

Sunset at Loon Lake, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, with the smoke and haze the sun has been not much more than a red orb in the sky at sunset for much of the summer. Taken on 8/5/2025.
#sunset #SleepingBearDunesNationalLakeshore #photography #puremichigan #michigan #nationalparks