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Rock
@rjrock.bsky.social
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I’m an Army veteran, tech exec, and East Coast Kin member. Photography is presence--a way for me to connect with this amazing world and the wonderful people in it. I enjoy shooting landscape, street, and architecture, but love exploring all milieus.
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Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · Aug 8
"Primal Light"

Before names, before paths, before forests—there was just earth, fire, ice, and water becoming the world. Iceland is still that beginning. It was like nothing I'd felt before.

#Scape #Photography #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin #Iceland #Fujifilm
A wide panoramic view of Iceland’s highlands at dusk, evoking the feeling of a primordial Earth. In the foreground, a dark crater rim surrounds a deep blue lake. A steep volcanic cone rises just beyond, its green and ochre slopes illuminated by the warm light of sunset. Black lava plains stretch across the middle distance, cut with braided meltwater streams and dotted with patches of snow. Soft bands of pink and orange color the horizon, while the sky above deepens into twilight blue. The scene feels untouched—elemental, ancient, and yet alive with the sense that the world is still forming.
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“View from Manly Harbor”

Twilight drifts across Sydney’s northern shore as the day exhales its final light. The harbor deepens to indigo while pink-lit clouds linger. Buildings, and headlands settling into quiet silhouette.
#EastCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #ColorADay #BlueTue
#Leica
A sunset view from Manly Harbor looking across the water toward the distant Sydney skyline. The sea in the foreground is rippled and dark blue, catching faint reflections of the fading light. The sky transitions from golden orange near the horizon to soft lavender and blue overhead, dotted with scattered clouds glowing pink in the last sunlight. On the left edge, a ferry wharf extends into the frame, and across the harbor the city and surrounding hills form a dark silhouette. A gentle convergence of color and calm—the moment when the day yields to night, and the harbor seems to breathe with the sky.
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Hi! Don't forget what always follows #stunday ...
#mountainmonday

Tag your friends! We want to get as many mountain posts as possible.

#stunday #eastcoastkin #art
#mountainscape #mountain
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Mountain Monday
November 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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“Blue Horizon”

A sea of forest ripples under passing clouds, where sandstone cliffs meet the endless haze that gave these mountains their name.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #MountainMonday
#Fujifilm
#Australia
#PhotographersofBlueSky
#BlueSkyMonday
A sweeping view over the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, taken from a high lookout point under a partly cloudy sky. The image captures steep ochre cliffs on the left, their vertical faces descending sharply into a vast green valley covered in dense eucalyptus forest. The ridges and folds of the land extend into the distance, fading into bluish tones that merge with the horizon. Overhead, thick white and gray clouds alternate with patches of vivid blue, casting moving shadows across the landscape below. The foreground includes wild native shrubs with glossy green leaves and hints of yellow bloom. The photograph conveys an immense sense of space and calm, where light, vegetation, and distance form a living gradient of color and texture. It evokes quiet awe at nature’s scale and resilience — a world that seems to breathe beneath the clouds.
November 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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"Sunrise Over the Sails”

Morning light crowns the Sydney Opera House in gold as the harbor turns to liquid glass beneath it. Stillness made radiant.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #Stunday #Australia #SydneyOperaHouse #Fujifilm
The Sydney Opera House rises from the water at dawn, its distinctive sail-shaped roofs backlit by the rising sun. The sun sits just above the central sail, forming a bright halo that spills a golden reflection down the harbor’s calm blue surface. The sky deepens from orange near the horizon to cobalt overhead, while the water holds soft gradients of blue and amber. The edges of the harbor and the far shoreline are faintly visible in the distance, blurred by the early morning haze. The image captures a moment of balance between architecture and nature—the sun’s energy diffused by design, light becoming form. It feels like a hymn to stillness and beginning, when day and structure share a single breath.
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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“Sunrise Moonset”

Today's supermoon sank west just as the sun crested the horizon and kissed it goodbye with its unmistakable hue--the morning light mingling with the night's last remnant.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #BeaverMoon #Moon #Fujifilm #UrbanGaze
The image shows the full Beaver Moon descending behind suburban rooftops at dawn, its immense orange disk filtered through leafless trees. The sky glows in soft gradients of violet and rose as the rising sun from the opposite horizon ignites the moon’s face.In the foreground, rooftops and window lights mirror the moon’s warmth, hinting at people waking to early routines. The air carries the stillness before sunrise—pale lavender melting into rose and gold as the moon slips toward the horizon. This image holds that thin seam between night and morning, where human life stirs beneath cosmic rhythm—a reminder that even the moon must eventually yield to the sun. The branches frame the scene in layered silhouettes, giving the moment both intimacy and scale.
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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"Liftoff”

A northern flicker arcs through the pale sky, its wings etched in russet and black like stained glass in motion.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #AnimalArtTuesday #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #WoodpeckerWednesday #Nikon
A northern flicker (a type of woodpecker) is caught mid-flight, wings fully extended to reveal the intricate chevron patterning on its feathers. The body tilts slightly upward as if gliding through a soft pocket of air; the outer primaries glow with reddish undertones that contrast against the muted gray of a cloud-filled sky. The background holds a wash of soft gradients—warm gray fading toward a faint patch of blue near the top right—giving the bird both scale and solitude in the frame. The image evokes the tension between grace and momentum. The flicker’s upward trajectory and sharply defined wings suggest intent and resilience, a moment of instinct meeting atmosphere. It’s a study of stillness within motion, where even a single wingbeat can carve silence into the sky.
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Getting a jump on #waterfallwednesday
It’s Wednesday somewhere!
🤣🤣🤣
#eastcoastkin
#photographersofbluesky
#photographersunited
#longexposure
#photography
#bwdramaqueen
Roughlock Falls SD
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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#Photography #EastCoastKin #Scituate #Scituate_Harbor #Seascape #Massachusetts #tonight #dock #boats #lighting
November 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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#WordlessonWednesday #EastCoastKin #Fujifilm
A quiet sunrise reflected in the glassy surface of a pond, where soft amber and violet hues mingle at the edge of day. In the foreground, slender stems of wildflowers rise in silhouette, each crowned with tiny round seed heads glowing faintly in the low light. The sun breaks just above the treeline, its brilliance diffused through thin clouds, casting a molten path across the water. The distant trees remain blurred and indistinct, their shapes gently mirrored below, while the air seems suspended between cool morning shadow and gathering warmth. The scene feels like a breath being taken—the stillness before sound returns, before the world begins to move again.
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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"Lingering in Small Spaces"

At The Cascades near Rifle, #Colorado, sunlight spills through the trees onto moss and water. A broken branch bridges the current, holding the hush between motion and decay.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #WaterfallWednesday #Fujifilm
A forest stream at The Cascades near Rifle, Colorado, glows with a patch of sunlight breaking through the canopy. In the foreground, a vivid mound of green moss and grass rises beside the water, its edges softened by fallen yellow and brown leaves. Across the small flow lies a weathered branch, silvered by age and stripped of bark, stretching diagonally from right to left like a fragile bridge. Beneath it, the creek threads in ribbons of motion—silky, blurred, and luminous where it catches the light. Around the scene, shadows deepen into cool blues and greens, forming a quiet frame of ferns, roots, and undergrowth. Farther back, the forest dissolves into haze, revealing only hints of trunks, tangled branches, and a faint red-roofed cabin nearly lost to distance. The photograph holds a moment of stillness within movement—a meditation on how light and time linger together in small, unnoticed places.
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Dancing Queen, pretty in pink, right before she rips her lover's head off post sexual intercourse & eats it?

Mother Nature was in a mood when she made preying mantises!

📷: Andri Priyadi, 2nd place, 35 Photography #Macro photography competition. #MacroMondays #EastCoastKin #Insects #Nature #Scape
A macro photography closeup shot of an Orchid Pink mantis as it climbs up a plant and stares straight at the camera. Its body a pale pink shade with tiny white dots and a few wider yellow splotches. The background of the photo is blurry bokeh green.
November 4, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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"Highland Divide"

A river cuts through volcanic silence, tracing life’s path across the ash-black highlands.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #MountainMonday #BlueSkyMonday #Fujifilm
A panoramic landscape of Iceland’s highlands shows a brilliant blue river winding through dark volcanic earth. In the foreground, a deep blue lake curves gently toward the frame’s edge before giving way to a narrow ribbon of green moss and golden grasses that mark the river’s origin. The water meanders through a barren expanse of brown lava fields and low hills, framed by distant rounded mountains beneath a cool, cloud-dappled sky. The photograph captures elemental balance—water carving its way through fire’s residue, motion within stillness, and the quiet persistence of renewal written into a seemingly lifeless land.
November 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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“High Country Quiet”

Snow settles into the folds of Summit County—mountains and clouds mirroring each other in still, deliberate rhythm.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #MountainMonday #ClassicMono #Nikon #Colorado
A black-and-white landscape photograph of Summit County, Colorado, viewed from an elevated vantage. Snow-dusted mountains roll across the frame, their slopes dark with evergreens and shaded valleys. In the mid-distance, frozen lakes and meadows form pale ribbons between the ridges. Above, layered clouds sweep across the sky in broad, textured bands, echoing the land’s contours. The image carries a sense of restrained grandeur—neither storm nor calm, but the poised silence that lives between them, where winter breathes softly over the high country.
November 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Layers of rock and light.

#monumentvalley
#EastCoastKin
#Scape
#Photography
#WestCoastKin
#RoadTrip
#LandscapePhotography
#Beauty
#Art
November 3, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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“Front Range Fade”

Evening softens the Front Range into a western pastel gradient—Pikes Peak drifting into coral, gold, and sky blue calm while the suburban trees fade into winter.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #MountainMonday #BlueSkyMonday #Colorado #Fujifilm
The image looks southwest from Denver’s southern edge, capturing the Front Range under a fading sky. Layered foothills lead the eye toward the distant rise of Pikes Peak, barely visible as a soft silhouette on the far horizon. The land below stretches in muted browns and greens, dotted with suburban trees catching the last traces of sunlight. Above, the sky unfolds in wide, gentle bands—coral, peach, and honey near the horizon, cooling to pale turquoise and powder blue higher up. The color transitions are smooth and painterly, as though brushed on with light. Clouds thin into gauzy streaks, their edges dissolving into the soft dusk air. The entire scene glows with restrained warmth, a quiet moment of equilibrium between the earth’s texture and the sky’s dissolve. This photograph embodies the Western Pastel palette: a harmony of coral warmth and cyan calm that evokes the luminous quiet of the American West at day’s end. It carries both nostalgia and stillness—echoing the light of desert evenings and the dreamlike restraint of cinematic color. In this space between sun and shadow, the Front Range becomes more than landscape; it becomes memory rendered in tone.
November 3, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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I am traveling to Australia for business and hope to make it to the Blue Mountains. If anyone has any Blue Mountain photos to post for #MountainMonday I'd love to see them.
November 3, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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“Lines of Business”

The Western Union tower catching last light — repetition, reflection, and rhythm in concrete and glass.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #Architecture #StreetPhotography #UrbanGaze #Stunday #Colorado #Fujifilm
A tall modern office tower fills the frame, its façade divided into crisp horizontal bands of glass and concrete. The Western Union logo sits in the upper right corner above a sheer wall of reflective windows that mirror another building’s distorted silhouette. To the left, a separate parking structure rises in rhythmic vertical panels of pale stone, their narrow slots casting deep, even shadows. Warm interior lights glow faintly within the grid, and a thin strip of gold illumination crowns the roofline against a sky softening from blue to sunset amber. The composition feels balanced and deliberate — all lines and edges, light meeting structure in quiet equilibrium. This is the Western Union headquarters in Denver’s Tech Center, seen just as evening light fades. The image transforms a corporate façade into a study of pattern and presence, where repetition becomes almost musical. The geometry feels meditative rather than sterile — a reflection on how design and routine coexist in the city’s twilight rhythm.
November 3, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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“Veins of the City”

Looking east from the Halo Rooftop Bar, I watched I-25 pulse through Denver’s night.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #UrbanGaze #Stunday #NightPhotography #Colorado
The photograph looks east from the Halo Rooftop Bar atop the Denver Tech Center, where the view stretches over Interstate 25 and the city beyond. Long-exposure trails of headlights and taillights slice diagonally through the frame, glowing amber and white against the dark grid of streets. The Western Union building glimmers at mid-left, its lights mirrored faintly in the glass of nearby towers. Above, the night sky deepens into indigo, holding faint traces of air traffic and the haze of distant suburbs. Seen from this height, the highway becomes the city’s bloodstream—its light streaming outward in steady rhythm, connecting people who will never meet but share the same nocturnal current.
November 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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"Passing Season”

A freight train rolls past a cottonwood blazing gold, both moving through the same brief light in their own time.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn #Fujifilm #Colorado
A yellow locomotive and its cars curve through the right side of the frame, crossing sunlit tracks that cut through sage and dry grass. To the left, a grand cottonwood glows with autumn gold beneath a deep blue sky. Behind it, sandstone cliffs and mesas recede toward the horizon, layered in soft purples and browns. The colors feel warm and clean, the light crisp—an intersection of motion and stillness, where industry passes quietly through nature’s fleeting blaze.
November 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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“Rooted in Gold”

A cottonwood in full autumn blaze anchors the valley below the mountains—its branches spreading like memory across the light.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn #Fujifilm #Colorado
A massive cottonwood dominates the foreground, its rough, deeply furrowed trunk splitting into wide limbs crowned with golden-yellow leaves. Through the canopy, a view opens toward distant foothills and ridgelines under a clear blue sky. The landscape below is a patchwork of sage, grasses, and other cottonwoods glowing in fall color, with scattered houses nestled near the base of the mountains. The photograph feels both grounded and expansive—a portrait of endurance and change, where rootedness meets the passing brilliance of the season.
November 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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“Under the Harvest Moon”

Suburbia draped in amber and silver—Halloween night hushed beneath a watchful moon.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #BlueSkyArtShow #Dark #NightmareNov #Autumn
A quiet Colorado neighborhood at night, softly illuminated by a blend of moonlight and streetlight. A large tree dominates the upper left, its autumn leaves glowing orange under the lamps. Below, a curved sidewalk bordered by a low wooden fence leads toward two one-story houses across the street. One porch glows warmly; a white SUV rests in the driveway, and behind it, the silhouettes of bare trees rise into a deep blue sky. The moon hangs high above, surrounded by a faint halo and scattered stars, its cool glow mixing with the warmth below. The air feels still, and the houses, though familiar, take on an almost cinematic isolation—peaceful yet uncanny. The image captures the threshold between comfort and quiet unease: the familiar rendered mysterious under night’s spell. It’s a portrait of ordinary life suspended in the amber hush of autumn, where even the light seems to remember.
November 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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“Horn and Shadow”

A figure of myth stands before the cross, their shadow stretching long into the dark.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #BWFri #ClassicMono #ColorADay #Spooktober #Halloween
A cloaked figure stands before a large stone cross, illuminated by a single hard light source. The person’s back is to the viewer—horns curve upward from their head, and dark feathers drape over their shoulders. Their velvet cloak falls heavily to the ground, gathering folds that catch faint highlights. A staff topped with a skull is held upright in their right hand. The path beneath their feet is paved in brick, and the lighting throws a dramatic horned shadow that extends toward the viewer, sharp and theatrical. The surrounding landscape fades into total darkness, leaving only the figure, the cross, and the long shadow that unites them. The photograph feels ritualistic—caught between devotion and defiance. In black and white, the details of costume and shadow merge into something elemental: a meditation on power, identity, and the presence we cast when the light is behind us.
November 1, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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"Victorian Vigil”

The stately Bloom Mansion in Trinidad, #Colorado stands beneath a restless sky, its ornate trim and shuttered windows now housing a museum--I wonder what century-old secrets lie beyond the facade.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #UrbanGaze #31DaysofHalloween #ClassicMono #Fujifilm
A grand three-story Victorian home dominates the frame in striking black and white. The building’s red-brick façade (rendered in gray tones) features decorative cornices, tall shuttered windows, and a central tower capped with intricate ironwork. A stone retaining wall and staircase lead upward toward the porch, where carved columns and spindled railings accentuate the structure’s symmetry. The trees around it are uneven—some leafy, some bare—adding a spectral quality to the scene. Heavy clouds swirl above, echoing the mansion’s ornate drama. The photograph evokes both elegance and unease—a preserved relic standing proud against time, haunted not by ghosts but by its own persistence.
October 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Trick or treat

#Spooktober #Halloween #31DaysOfHalloween #scape #ColorADay #BWFri

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited
#MobilePhotography
A spooky black and white photo of a rundown Victorian house with a boarded-up window. The sky looks black with white puffy clouds.
November 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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“Roaring Fork in Early Fall"

A quiet pond in the Roaring Fork Valley where autumn gathers light and reflection in equal measure.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #Scape #Colorado #Fujifilm #PhotographersofBlueSky
The photograph shows a tranquil autumn pond in the Roaring Fork Valley near Aspen, Colorado. A broad granite boulder anchors the foreground, its surface etched with lichen and faint fractures. Just beyond, the pond lies still and reflective, mirroring a restless blue sky streaked with white cloud. Around the water, grasses and shrubs blush gold and amber, merging into a dense band of aspens whose leaves burn bright against the darker evergreens climbing the slopes. The valley opens toward distant ridgelines layered in cool blue haze, hinting at the vastness beyond. The image captures a season in balance—a moment where the mountain air stills, and color, water, and light settle into harmony before the wind shifts again
October 31, 2025 at 11:14 PM