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Pat Lillich
@quietlynow.bsky.social
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sculptor, photographer, enthusiastic but ineffectual gardener.. cameras include Canon, Olympus and OM
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@robcrank68.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Mr&Mrs - here are Falklands Imperial Cormorants #EastCoastKin #photography #birds
Falkland Islands Imperial or King Cormorants in breeding plumage with incredible blue eyes and the funny orange bobble on the top of their beaks. they would preen each other and tap the other's beak with their beaks. Their backs look black against their white chests but when you take a close up picture the feathers shine a deep irridescent blue
November 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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the leaves on our maple trees are strange this year, so i gave up on looking for perfect ones to photograph and started looking at color and light. #StunDay #ColorADay #OrangeSun #eastCoastKin #Abstract #Garden
looking up through the red leaves on one of our maple trees, trying to get a starburst (failing, but still liked it) - the bare branchlets are almost black against the red and orange, with just a tiny bit of blue sky showing through
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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a second post for today's #BirdOfTheDay alternate theme of #silhouette - Bosque del Apache is wonderful for silhouettes. Sand Hill Cranes flying in. #Photography #Birds #Birdphotography
2 sandhill cranes flying in to the big pond at Bosque del Apache against a cloudy sunset sky. they make graphic black silhouettes against the yellow and brown clouds
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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today's #BirdOfTheDay alternate theme is #silhouette so i'm going to use it as excuse to post a companion pic to one i posted yesterday. Great Blue Heron and chick in nest at Venice Rookery, Florida #photography #EastCoastKin #birds #BirdPhotography
evening silhouette of great blue heron standing on its nest with chick peeking out.
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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@robcrank68.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay alternative theme is #Singing - not sure if GBH's exactly sing - but its bill is open - this was at a favorite florida place, before the hurricanes. Venice Rookery #EastCoastKin #photography #BirdPhotography #Minimalism
The Venice Rookery in Florida was a wonderful place to photograph egrets, herons, ibis and more - it was pretty badly damaged in a recent hurricane. Here 2 great blue herons talk while sitting on their nest as the sun sets
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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eagle on a snowy day #BirdsInFlight #FlyDay #Eagle #Photography #EastCoastKin #BirdPhotography #BirdLife
mature eagle flying overhead on a snowy day - snowflakes making dots against its darkbrown feathers
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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sitting in a blind by a pond, waiting for birds to show up - hornets would land on the water and float around. the game was trying to guess which one would be facing the right way and when they were about to take off. #flyDay #EastCoastKin
an orange hornet just taking off from the green and brown surface of a pond, reflection below
November 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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a yellow rose for #ColorADay #YellowThu #EastCoastKin #Flowers #BLoomScrolling #Photography
a yellow rose in San Jose Rose Garden, backlit with a few droplets of water. photographed from the base so the petals look like a flaring skirt around the green calyx and stem
November 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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there are some very red things in the garden right now. so a little over the top red graphicness #ColorADay #RedWed #photography #EastCoastKin
we had very heavy rain over the weekend - and it knocked the fruit off the strawberry tree. so i brought a few inside to photograph. the leaves are from a bush in an empty lot - have no idea what they are, but liked their color and shape
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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California turkey in the fog for #BirdOfTheDay #Round #Photography #EastCoastKin
a very round turkey walking through a field of stems on a foggy morning
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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one last one for @alan678.bsky.social
's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #blurry birds blurred in motion. #photography #EastCoastKin #ICM
a gull blurred in motion against a white sky
November 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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@alan678.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #blurry birds blurred in motion. i love blurry photos (they are kind of like how i see the world) here are some Alaska blurs. #photography #EastCoastKin #ICM thank you Alan for the chance to post some of these!
an eagle flying against Alaska mountains - tried to focus on the eagle while moving the camera so the mountains are wisps of grey a gull flying along the beach in alaska - supposed to be focused on the gull as it flew, - sort of is! a blurred flurry of motion as a gull runs along an alaska beach with wave breaking behind it -
November 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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LLano Seco Unit, Sacramento - pintail ducks for #BlueSkyMonday something peaceful for today #Photography #EastCoastKin
north of Sacramento California is a small wildlife area called Llano Seco Unit - there was an explosion of pintail ducks there on an incredibly grey day - so i added some blue paper behind the image
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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for #SensoryArt #Loud and #water - and #ClassicMono too - sprinkler flower explosion! #photography #eastCoastKin not too #longExposure turning the water drops into lines as they bounce on the petals
this flower under the sprinkler with the red converted to black and white - the water from the sprinkler looks like an explosion! the exposure time was long enough that the individual water drops turn into lines
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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@robcrank68.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #StareDown I was sitting on a rock photographing rockhopper penguins when this one ran past me. Full frame. made me grin when i saw it was sharp - such a glare! #birds #penguin #Photography #EastCoastKin
in the Falkland Islands a rockhopper penguin ran by so close to me that this is all that would fit in the frame. its fierce red eye made me think he was glaring at me. we would find a colony(usually on the top of a cliff) and stay outside its bounds photographing individuals - and meanwhile individuals would be climbing up the cliff from the ocean. this one is still wet. there would be trails that most of the penguins might take up the hill, but some would run off to one side or another
November 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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was going through a very old catalog of Bosque del Apache photos and found this series of sunrise shots. This was before i got brave with ISO so they arent sharp but i love the colors #ColorADay #YellowThu #Birds #photography #EastCoastKin #sunrise this may work for #SensoryArt #Loud too!
in Bosque Del Apache New Mexico 2 sand hill cranes fly beside a flock of tiny birds against the intense sunrise sky.
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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looking at this foggy early morning great blue heron in florida called out for playing in black and white and film effects. #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #paddling ,birds standing or walking in shallow water
#birds #photography #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin
early in the morning with the sun just starting to rise behind it - foggy and a little eerie - this great blue heron stood on its long legs at the ocean end of the florida estuero, a perfect reflection in the mirror like water -- i added grain and contrast to the image to get closer to the feeling i had that morning
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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for #TwosDay and #ColorADay #BlueTue here are 2 Antarctic Whales beside the blue snowy cliffs #photography #whales #EastCoastKin #Wildlife
2 whales swim towards the blue snowy cliffs of Antarctica. One's tail is lifted in the air and the water sheets off of it - the other is just visible as a dorsal fin cutting through the ocean
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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@robcrank68.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay is #birdsontheground and for #TwosDay some Burrowing Owls #EastCoastKin #birds #photography #nature #wildlife
in Florida two Burrowing Owls peer at you from the undergrowth - they have big yellow eyes and are barely taller than the grass they stand in.
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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for monday - a great egret hunting in florida little estero that is shaded pink with sunrise #birds #ColorADay #PinkMon #photography #EastCoastKin #Pink
a shallow inlet in Florida reflected the pink sunrise - a great egret (a large longlegged white bird) is reflected in the stripes as it hunts for breakfast
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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@alan678.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #least . This Townsends Warbler wandered into my yard for a couple of days one summer and i have about 3 pics of it. There was a black phoebe too - but that pic is just a dark blur in a dark bush. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
a Townshend Warbler, a small bright yellow bird with black markings, perches on the long stem of a flower seed pod in a grassy area in my back yard
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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for @mikoxford.bsky.social Bosque #StunDay #birds #photography #eastCoastKin - i am too short to get clear pics of the snow geese here - but still beautiful
the sun is shining golden as it rises over a small puddle near the main road into Bosque Del Apache in New Mexico.
November 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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@robcrank68.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #StandingOnThings with alternate of #gulls - so here are gulls(i think) standing on icebergs in Iceland. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #iceberg #landscape
a distant photo of gulls along the ridges of icebergs in Jökulsárlón Iceland. the icebergs are blue and black
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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here is the unmodified photo
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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natural patterns. when a wild turkey walks by close it shows an incredible array of beautiful feather patterns. #SensoryArt #Patterns #birds #DigitalArt #photography #EastCoastKin
this is the back of a wild turkey in southern California - the colors are mostly true, old silk colors of pale silver/teal, pink and irridescent red. in photoshop ran an action that adds more texture
November 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM