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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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“Harbor of Echoes”

An old ship rests beneath the poppies’ glow—Remembrance Day’s light stitched through its rigging and past.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #ColorADay #RedWed #RemembranceDay #Leica
A tall-masted sailing ship floats in Sydney Harbour at night, its ropes and spars silhouetted against the illuminated Opera House. The red poppy projections reflect across the water, mingling with the ship’s warm deck lights. The image folds history into history—timber and steel, war and peace, motion and stillness. The harbor becomes a living memorial, where remembrance drifts quietly on the tide.
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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“Night of Remembrance”

On this Remembrance Day, red poppies bloom across the sails, light rising like memory made visible.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #ColorADay #RedWed #RemembranceDay #Leica
The Sydney Opera House glows in darkness, its white sails illuminated by red poppies edged in gold. Beams of scarlet light fan upward through the night sky while their reflections shimmer on the harbor water. The scene feels hushed, reverent—architecture transformed into a monument of light. Here remembrance takes form not in stone but in illumination, each poppy a brief, bright echo of those who never came home.
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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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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“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
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#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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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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"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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“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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“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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“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
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Built in 1929 for Mountain States Telephone, this tower carried the voices of the West—through AT&T, Mountain Bell, US West, Qwest, CenturyLink, and now Lumen.

The names change, but the building persists (and the fees).

#EastCoastKin #Photography #UrbanGaze #ClassicMono #Fujifilm
The photograph looks steeply upward at the arched entrance of the former Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Building in downtown Denver. The stone façade, detailed with carved lettering and decorative ribs, narrows toward the sky in crisp black-and-white contrast. Shadows deepen beneath the archway while the pale limestone above catches even light, emphasizing the building’s height and symmetry. Once a 1929 headquarters for Mountain Bell and later home to US West, Qwest, CenturyLink, and Lumen Technologies, the structure endures as a monument to communication’s changing forms—its presence steady as the voices it once carried.
October 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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“Oh Captain, My Captain”

Every ship needs a captain and a loyal crew to propel them through the city’s rough seas.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #UrbanGaze #HumansofBlueSky #StreetPhotography #Fujifilm
A woman in a red jacket and headscarf pushes a stroller along a city sidewalk. Inside, a small dog leans forward at the edge of the seat, head high, scanning the street like a lookout. The beige wall behind them is split by light and shadow, forming a clean, almost cinematic backdrop that isolates their motion. The woman’s posture is one of effort and care; the dog’s, of command and curiosity. Together they move through the morning light as if navigating an invisible tide—one guiding, one giving motion. The photograph carries humor and grace, a small story of loyalty and reversed roles: where the cared-for seems to lead, and the caregiver follows with purpose.
October 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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“Dial Tone”

A relic behind glass, waiting for a call that will never come.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #UrbanGaze #StreetPhotography #Fujifilm
A black marble telephone booth stands in a tiled hallway, its glass reflecting the light of an overhead lamp. Inside, the payphone hangs silent, unused. Behind it, a faded mural shows a cowboy gripping a wooden post, part of a larger scene from an earlier time. The booth’s glass is dusty and streaked, the floor a grid of black and cream tiles. The composition blends eras—the painted worker of the past, the obsolete technology of the mid-century, and the quiet emptiness of the present. The image evokes the stillness of places left behind by progress, where history lingers in the architecture, waiting for someone to notice.
October 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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“Waiting”

Everything built for motion waits for purpose to return.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #UrbanGaze #ClassicMono #StreetPhotography #Fujifilm
A black-and-white image of a deserted underground train platform seen from track level. The rails run straight through the center of the frame, vanishing toward a dimly lit distance. Overhead lights cast precise pools of illumination across the platforms, their pattern broken by columns and ceiling grates that form a grid of order and repetition. Reflections shimmer faintly in the glass walls to the right; on the left, shadows consume the far railings. The air feels heavy with silence—no passengers, no trains, only the architecture waiting under its own hum. The image evokes a sense of suspension, as if time itself has paused between departures. Every line and reflection points toward movement that no longer comes, leaving the viewer in the charged quiet of a place meant to go somewhere—but doesn’t.
October 30, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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“Color Glide”

A single duckling gliding through reflections—where color moves, but the world stands still.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #AnimalArtTuesday #NaturePhotography #Fujifilm
A color photograph of a small duck swimming across a calm pond, creating a subtle wake that ripples through mirrored reflections of autumn trees. The background is composed entirely of soft vertical streaks of yellow, green, gold, and pale blue, blending together in painterly fashion. The duck, dark brown with lighter markings, is positioned in the lower left third of the frame, its motion cutting a gentle diagonal through the stillness. The image captures balance and solitude—the serenity of a living creature moving through color and silence, leaving only a brief trace of its passage.
October 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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“Autumn Fence Line”

Morning light and a well-fed squirrel—both quietly beginning the day beneath the red leaves.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #ColorADay #RedWed #AnimalArtTuesday #Fujifilm #NaturePhotography
A morning photograph of a maple tree in full autumn color, its red leaves glowing in the low sun beside a weathered wooden fence. On the top rail sits a plump squirrel, tail curled and fur touched with gold from the rising light. Behind the tree, a tan house with a red deck catches the same soft glow, surrounded by shrubs in deep crimson and purple hues. The ground is carpeted in fallen leaves, and the clear blue sky hints at the crisp air of early fall. The scene feels peaceful and lived-in—a quiet start to the day where warmth, color, and a well-fed squirrel share the stillness of morning.
October 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM