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Technologist 📍 Seattle+Vancouver. He/him. Unlikely to post much. The dog's name is Serenity.
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Standing at the edge of a rock beach, water breaking gently. The photo is framed with a lot of sky, wispy cirrus clouds and some contrails form a v-shape mid-frame with the point in the center. At the far right a small amount of wooded peninsula is visible, and wooded islands frame the horizon
July 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Saw this weird and interesting crenellated poppy in a planter bed outside an apartment building
A field of green, tiny leaves covers almost the entire background. Poppy plant leaves are delicate and fractal, fingering out groups of three. The flower is center frame and resembles nothing so much as a flamenco dress. The tops of the petals are a bright creamsicle orange, with rose pink undersides. Unusually, each petal is pleated all the way down five or six times, giving it a rumpled paper look as if it was balled up in someone's fist and tossed on the ground
June 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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House sparrow britches
Against a backdrop of trees in the distance, the foreground contains a concrete patio, gunmetal grey railings, with glass panels. Center frame, a mostly grey house sparrow has fluffed up all his downy feathers - several of them caught in the wind at jaunty angles, as he's standing at the precipice of the patio floor - covered with his pinfeathers in various shades of brown and black. We're looking at him facing away from camera, turned sharp left. His tailfeathers are miniscule in comparison to his downy bulk, and he's peering into the distance to the left
May 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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My second favorite. (Plumeria is my favorite)
This shot was in full sun, but the whitebalance on my phone decided to make it cloudy. Midframe is a chain-link fence; straddling both sides of the fence is a dense stand of California poppies. Amazingly, unnaturally bright orange, these flowers have delicate cup-shaped blooms with petals that curve gracefully away from an equally-orange stamen. The greenery below and surrounding the flowers is lush, contrasting with the bright orange and griegy asphalt and high-rise background (condo towers) and foreground (a paved bike path)
May 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Bee on a lupine
Lupine is a violet-blue-purple flowering plant. Tall stalks rise majestically out of vibrant green leaves 1-2 feet high. In this close-up, we see the striations on the paddle-shaped petals. To the right of the frame, a very fat bumblebee is perched on one such petal/pedal cluster. Her back is to camera and her left wing is fairly still - so was captured relatively clearly, the veiny branches sparkling in the sun - while her extremely fuzzy yellow and black striped fuzzy body contrasts with the field of violet-purple dominating the frame. It's a little late in the season already, so some of the petals have faded to a beige-y burgundy color
May 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Blue bluebells, pink bluebells
Against a heavily bokehed tall grass field, a single stem of violet-blue bell-shaped flowers is backlit by the sun, turning the edges of the petals nearly white. The shot is a cropped close-up of the flowers in mid-frame. Against a blue sky with a few wisps of cloud, soft pink bell-shaped flowers stand out from vividly green stems, topped with a few unbloomed buds
May 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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I love these hoopty froods.
In the foreground are dozens of delicate miniature tree-like leaf structures, stretching several inches high and fading into the mid-frame. They are vividly green and have the structure of a tiny spruce tree. In the mid-frame are the fruiting bodies of the plants - a common horsetail - which consist of vertical spikes alternating brown and translucent beige, topped by a beige and stippled brown pod-shaped body that narrows to a point. The plants are arrayed in front of a railroad track in the background, with a small signal structure far in the background, and some additional several-feet tall grasses and miscellaneous bushes
May 2, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Still a few cherry blossoms left
In center frame is a downward-facing cluster of light pink and white curly flowers from a Japanese flowering cherry tree. The rest of the tree is laden with additional blossom clusters in the background
April 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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It's crocus time
Among a few dead leaves and bare ground, surrounded by a few clumps of green ground cover that's something in the carrot family, stands a clump of over a dozen light violet crocuses. At the bottom of the frame is a solitary white crocus
March 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Woohoo! #jetlag #thegame #thecardgame
Photo of the just-arrived Jet Lag: The Game home edition card game, a YouTube and Nebula game show about hide and seek played on public transit
February 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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As a final series, some sunset silhouette shots 🪶
Orange and blue sunset sky in the background, a river gradient from grey to orange. A shepherds crook is in the foreground with a suet feeder and hummingbird feeder. In silhouette, two hummingbirds; one sitting on the feeder, the other several feet away on the balcony rail The edge of the sun is visible in this shot - the railing bird is gone, but the sitting bird now has his wings extended still in silhouette up and out. The feathers are slightly transparent, and you can see the tone of the sky through the wing feathers Nearly the same as the previous picture, but a majority of the sky is gold at this point save wispy blue and white clouds at the top of the frame. The silhouetted bird is still in frame but fully at rest
December 3, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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I stuck by the window while the original convention departed; soon, I had one combative Anna's, happy to flash some plumage 🪶
Anna's hummingbirds are green, grey, and appear to have an all-black head. At the right angle, the black turns into bright fuchsia. In this shot, the bird is sitting on top of the lower of a dual shepherds crook, above a suet feeder and next to a hummingbird feeder. He is looking stage left past the camera and has a bright pink cap on his forehead The same bird, pink streaks now on eyes and neck, is facing fully away from the camera in flight behind the bird feeders. His tail is fully fanned-out, wings also at full extension
December 3, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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Had a record at the feeder today; all spots were occupied and no combat. That didn't last, but I did catch 3 on camera with a fourth flyby 🪶
Three hummingbirds sit eating together at a feeder. The furthest bird is obscured by the feeder bottle, a large upside-down red glass, but has politely expanded its wings to its full span so it's visible. At the top of the frame, a fourth bird zooms past like some kind of 1950s fantasy vehicle. A river is visible in the far background, and the sky is slightly orange-tinged from the sunset.
December 3, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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Sleepy
A small predominantly black wirehair terrier mix with white and tan is curled up into a crescent on a purple and white mat that is sitting on a black field floral carpet. She's almost under a coffee table, staring contemplatively out of frame.
November 16, 2024 at 4:33 AM
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Fellow overseas Americans, it may not be too late to vote! Go to www.fvap.gov and see what the options are in your state. Oregon allows ballots via email, my old county emailed me back today after I sent in my ballot via email last night and attached this sticker to the email to boot!
An extremely low-resolution image of a badge that says I VOTED My Voice Matters
October 25, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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Blue sky
A tightly-cropped sky photo, background showing various wisps and shades of clouds in rusty medium blues and whites. In the foreground, a single cumulonimbus cloud dominating the frame, the bottom is very flat. It it's structured in much the same way a tall tower of whipped cream falls over several minutes after being piled onto a dessert
August 19, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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Incredible meme potential
A screenshot of a headline, "Speed bump approval process too slow for Aldersbrook resident" from CBC London. The article picture has a background of a quiet suburban street with one vehicle driving past, but in the foreground an older man looms large. He is comically world-weary, wearing a white t-shirt and tan vest. He is staring into the middle distance off camera, and his expression appears to be a neutral resting face of supreme disappointment. As an emoji I would say he's giving :[
June 18, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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Lupines and a bee
Lupine is a vibrant purple bloom, a long stalk of tiny flowers rises from a field of green against a fence background. In focus is a shot with a busy honeybee, in soft focus in the background, two more lupines transition from fully blooming purple to closed, not yet ready green buds
May 16, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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Finally getting to some of the good wildflowers
Three tall and one short stalk of bluebells, violet, delicate bell-shaped flowers that hang down off of a central grass-like stalk. Taken in a park in close focus, surrounded by very green grass, dappled in sun and shade from nearby trees in evening light
April 24, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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Post dog.
February 10, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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Broke: Swarovski bedazzled banana
Woke: London Drugs ducknana

Also $200, but Canadian rubles
In the garden section of Canadian department store London Drugs, large fiberglass sculptures of a duck head and neck coming out of a partly-peeled banana skin
February 7, 2024 at 2:24 AM
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A long-haired black, white, and tan terrier is centered in the frame, head tilted to the sky, brown eyes highlighted in the sun, ears fully upright. You can't see in the picture but she's staring at a squirrel
February 3, 2024 at 5:05 AM
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Winding up to chase a rival away from the feeder 🪶
A green hummingbird with a ruby face sits floofed-out on a red deck chair The same hummingbird has raised its head and turned slightly; it's greener but its face now appears black as the light has shifted The hummingbird is now bolt-upright and has turned its face once again so there are flashes of deep red into purple. The feathers on its head are raised like hackles Turned now fully away from the camera, the bird's wings are now raised and are blurred - those suckers move fast!
January 13, 2024 at 1:11 AM
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Photos of very cold hummingbirds are much easier when the sun is out
A floofed-up green hummingbird with a red face sits on the edge of a red deck chair, monitoring for feeder rivals to chase off
January 12, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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Taking shelter from the snow
A small green hummingbird sits on a curved arm of a deck chair
January 12, 2024 at 2:04 AM