Michael R Photography 🌿
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Retired research scientist in North Florida. Biologist. Hiker and forest wanderer. Springs lover. Photographer of natural things. Nikon Z8, Z6iii full spectrum, D750/Ikelite housing underwater. www.artpal.com/msriffle
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It's #BlueSkyMonday! Even though this is faux color from an #infrared image edit, it's still blue. This image was made on a good cloud day at our local wildlife refuge with a full spectrum conversion at 720nm. #photography #landscape #fullspectrum #ir #EastCoastKin #clouds #reflections
November 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It's #BlueSkyMonday! Even though this is faux color from an #infrared image edit, it's still blue. This image was made on a good cloud day at our local wildlife refuge with a full spectrum conversion at 720nm. #photography #landscape #fullspectrum #ir #EastCoastKin #clouds #reflections
It's been a while since I've posted a nice and wide multi-image #panorama. It's a powerful way to get a lot more of a scene into one image. Especially salt marsh vistas along our coast in North #Florida. I've shot this scene many times. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #clouds #Bluesky
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
It's been a while since I've posted a nice and wide multi-image #panorama. It's a powerful way to get a lot more of a scene into one image. Especially salt marsh vistas along our coast in North #Florida. I've shot this scene many times. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #clouds #Bluesky
I've posted similar images for #Stunday. I stood in knee deep water with a couple friends and opened the shutter many times for somewhere between 15 and 30 seconds hoping to catch oak leaves doing their fall dance on the water. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #oaktrees #trees #longexposure
November 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I've posted similar images for #Stunday. I stood in knee deep water with a couple friends and opened the shutter many times for somewhere between 15 and 30 seconds hoping to catch oak leaves doing their fall dance on the water. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #oaktrees #trees #longexposure
I think this #HighKey image of a beautiful tern landing on an old piling fits today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #bright. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin #birds #terns #birdsinflight #Bluesky
November 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I think this #HighKey image of a beautiful tern landing on an old piling fits today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #bright. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin #birds #terns #birdsinflight #Bluesky
Today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #bright. I'm interpreting this as a bright blue sky. I've made many #longexposure images from this spot in our local wildlife refuge. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #clouds #Bluesky #reflections #Relax
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #bright. I'm interpreting this as a bright blue sky. I've made many #longexposure images from this spot in our local wildlife refuge. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #clouds #Bluesky #reflections #Relax
It's #scape day. This is a long exposure of three minutes made of my favorite old snag on my favorite beach. I got to this spot at 5:30am and left 2 hours later. The sunrise was incredible. I had the beach all to myself. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #clouds #longexposure
November 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
It's #scape day. This is a long exposure of three minutes made of my favorite old snag on my favorite beach. I got to this spot at 5:30am and left 2 hours later. The sunrise was incredible. I had the beach all to myself. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #clouds #longexposure
It's #FlyDay. This is another in a series of images I made of a great blue heron that came in for a landing very close to me. They have incredible wing spans and are extraordinarily beautiful. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin #herons #birds
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
It's #FlyDay. This is another in a series of images I made of a great blue heron that came in for a landing very close to me. They have incredible wing spans and are extraordinarily beautiful. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin #herons #birds
For #HumansOfBlueSky, I used a zoom lens to photograph two of my friends under the trees of what we refer to as the Oak Garden. It floods occasionally and we wade out into it and make images. You might have to zoom in to see the humans. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #oaktrees #trees
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
For #HumansOfBlueSky, I used a zoom lens to photograph two of my friends under the trees of what we refer to as the Oak Garden. It floods occasionally and we wade out into it and make images. You might have to zoom in to see the humans. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #oaktrees #trees
Awwww! This adorable litte hispid cotton rat was munching on a blade of bermudagrass at our local wildlife refuge. I had my long lens and made its portrait. I mentioned to it that there are raptors about and to be careful. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Awwww! This adorable litte hispid cotton rat was munching on a blade of bermudagrass at our local wildlife refuge. I had my long lens and made its portrait. I mentioned to it that there are raptors about and to be careful. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin
For #NightmareNov and #legs theme, I present this golden silk orb weaver. It was face high on the trail. Unfortunately I didn't see it and had a very close encounter. It moved from my face to what was left of its web very quickly. What a beauty! #photography #wildlife #EastCoastKin #spiders
November 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
For #NightmareNov and #legs theme, I present this golden silk orb weaver. It was face high on the trail. Unfortunately I didn't see it and had a very close encounter. It moved from my face to what was left of its web very quickly. What a beauty! #photography #wildlife #EastCoastKin #spiders
For #ColorADay #RedWed and #WackyWednesdayArt, this is a rose photographed behind textured glass using a technique called Ultraviolet Induced Visible Fluorescence or #UVIVF. Processed in #Lightroom and #Photoshop. #photography #fullspectrum #flowerphotography #bloomscrolling #ultravioletphotography
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
For #ColorADay #RedWed and #WackyWednesdayArt, this is a rose photographed behind textured glass using a technique called Ultraviolet Induced Visible Fluorescence or #UVIVF. Processed in #Lightroom and #Photoshop. #photography #fullspectrum #flowerphotography #bloomscrolling #ultravioletphotography
My gosh, they are so damned cute! Can I say that about a bird?! I hope so because they are. This fancy and beautiful little juvenile yellow crowned night heron was living its best life in our local #wildlife refuge. #photography #birds #wildlifephotography #herons #birdphotography
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
My gosh, they are so damned cute! Can I say that about a bird?! I hope so because they are. This fancy and beautiful little juvenile yellow crowned night heron was living its best life in our local #wildlife refuge. #photography #birds #wildlifephotography #herons #birdphotography
It's #RockinTuesday. This image has great big rocks. It was made on coastal #Maine in Acadia National Park. What a beautiful area of this country. I'd love to go back again. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #Acadia #NationalParks #CoastalPhotography #AcadiaNationalPark
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
It's #RockinTuesday. This image has great big rocks. It was made on coastal #Maine in Acadia National Park. What a beautiful area of this country. I'd love to go back again. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #Acadia #NationalParks #CoastalPhotography #AcadiaNationalPark
For #BlueskyMonday, this popup storm raced across the salt marsh that lines coastal North Florida at our local wildlife refuge. It was just after sunrise. I dodged several of them that morning. So much fun to photograph. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #clouds #rain #storms
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
For #BlueskyMonday, this popup storm raced across the salt marsh that lines coastal North Florida at our local wildlife refuge. It was just after sunrise. I dodged several of them that morning. So much fun to photograph. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #clouds #rain #storms
For #BlueskyMonday, this great blue heron was perched in a tree. I almost didn't see it. It didn't mind as I walked up almost right underneath where it stood. I filled the frame with its beauty. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin #herons #birds
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
For #BlueskyMonday, this great blue heron was perched in a tree. I almost didn't see it. It didn't mind as I walked up almost right underneath where it stood. I filled the frame with its beauty. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin #herons #birds
Thank you, Rob!
November 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Thank you, Rob!
For #Stunday, I'm posting an image of a beautiful great blue heron. It flew right towards me before slowing down and landing in the water about 50 feet away in early morning warm light. There's very little crop on this image. #photography #birds #wildlife #wildlifephotography #herons
November 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
For #Stunday, I'm posting an image of a beautiful great blue heron. It flew right towards me before slowing down and landing in the water about 50 feet away in early morning warm light. There's very little crop on this image. #photography #birds #wildlife #wildlifephotography #herons
It's #Stunday! I think this Magnolia grandiflora flower is stunning. I photographed it on the tree with a full spectrum #infrared camera at 550nm. It was processed in #Lightroom and #Photoshop. #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #EastCoastKin #fullspectrum #ir #flowerphotography
November 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's #Stunday! I think this Magnolia grandiflora flower is stunning. I photographed it on the tree with a full spectrum #infrared camera at 550nm. It was processed in #Lightroom and #Photoshop. #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #EastCoastKin #fullspectrum #ir #flowerphotography
Faces in the clouds. Do you see them? This is for today's #BlueSkyArtShow with theme #evening. Taken from a dock in the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. #photography #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #clouds #cloudscape #longexposure #nightphotography
November 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Faces in the clouds. Do you see them? This is for today's #BlueSkyArtShow with theme #evening. Taken from a dock in the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. #photography #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #clouds #cloudscape #longexposure #nightphotography
For today's #BlueSkyArtShow with theme #evening. This was a wonderful night on a local beach which I had all to myself. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #stars #astrophotography #milkyway
November 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
For today's #BlueSkyArtShow with theme #evening. This was a wonderful night on a local beach which I had all to myself. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #stars #astrophotography #milkyway
For #scape day. I'm late posting today as I was out all morning photographing birds at our local refuge. This is an #infrared image made in a place that takes my breath away every time I'm there. #photogrpahy #landscape #EastCoastKin #fullspectrum #ir #rivers
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
For #scape day. I'm late posting today as I was out all morning photographing birds at our local refuge. This is an #infrared image made in a place that takes my breath away every time I'm there. #photogrpahy #landscape #EastCoastKin #fullspectrum #ir #rivers
This #infrared image fits for #scape day I think. It was made at 720nm on a local river. The interesting thing about it? It was made on April 18th, 2020. We were being told to stay at home. But I slipped out and got some shooting in. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #fullspectrum
November 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This #infrared image fits for #scape day I think. It was made at 720nm on a local river. The interesting thing about it? It was made on April 18th, 2020. We were being told to stay at home. But I slipped out and got some shooting in. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #fullspectrum
For #BirdoftheDay, the theme is #LunchTime. This juvenile reddish egret was playing with its food. It kept dropping it in the water and then picking it up again. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin #egrets #birds
November 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
For #BirdoftheDay, the theme is #LunchTime. This juvenile reddish egret was playing with its food. It kept dropping it in the water and then picking it up again. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin #egrets #birds
It's #YellowThu for #ColorADay. The rising sun lit up these clouds over the salt marsh. I was photographing the sunrise in the other direction. I read a long time ago, when out looking for things to photograph, don't forget to look behind you. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #clouds
November 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
It's #YellowThu for #ColorADay. The rising sun lit up these clouds over the salt marsh. I was photographing the sunrise in the other direction. I read a long time ago, when out looking for things to photograph, don't forget to look behind you. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #clouds
It's #WackyWednesdayArt day. This #longexposure #infrared image fits I think. Admittedly, it's a bit different. When I process these images I never know where I'll wind up. (Ease up on the gummies, Mike 😳🤣) #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #clouds #fullspectrum #ir
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
It's #WackyWednesdayArt day. This #longexposure #infrared image fits I think. Admittedly, it's a bit different. When I process these images I never know where I'll wind up. (Ease up on the gummies, Mike 😳🤣) #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #clouds #fullspectrum #ir