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Samuel C. Wong
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Enthusiastic Writer | Share of Wisdom

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Samuel C. Wong @samuelstepsforward.bsky.social · Jan 17
Do you spend more time learning tools than solving problems?

Richard Feynman warned about this "computer disease" during the Manhattan Project—a lesson that's even more relevant today.

Here’s the story and what we can learn from it.👇

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This building in #Toronto is nicknamed Marilyn Monroe. It’s such a fascinating building to shoot. It has many good angles but I love this one as it shows its curves the best and it captures the soul of this building.

www.juliaannagospodarou.com/gallery/

#architecturephotography #bwphotography
March 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Howdy!
“This Red squirrel was posing for me”
📸 #photography by Jim Nelson from Hamilton Canada.
February 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Incredible work from Intrepid 🔥🔥! Amazing photographer 😉
intrepid.bsky.social Intrepid @intrepid.bsky.social · Feb 23
There is nothing quite like the salt mountains in #bonaire

#sailing #landscapes #surreal #photography #saltlake
February 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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TODAY’S NEW HUBBLE IMAGE SHOWING SPIRAL GALAXY NGC 5460 FROM 60 MILLION LIGHT-YEARS AWAY!!! 🌌
A spiral galaxy seen close to face-on. The center of its disk is a bright, pale yellowish, oval shape. Spiral arms extend from either side of the oval through the disk on irregular paths. The arms hold bright bluish-white patches of stars that mark their extent. Distant background galaxies appear as small orangish blobs around the spiral galaxy. In the top-left corner, a nearby star shines brightly, diffraction spikes are radiating from it.
February 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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beautysurroundsyou.com
The jagged ridges of one of the most iconic peaks in the O-Fjord of Greenland's Scoresby Sund appear from behind clearing clouds. The O-Fjord is one of our planet's most spectacular natural treasures!⁠

#bluesky #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #nature #scape
February 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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raybilcliff.com
Softly spills the woodland stream,
A whispered song, a fleeting dream.
Mossy rocks and ferns embrace,
Nature’s touch, a gentle grace.

Through mossy stones, the waters glide,
A whispered song, a mystic guide.
Sunlight dances, soft and free,
A hidden world calls out to me.
A small waterfall deep in the forest.
February 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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lightshedder.bsky.social
Fleischmann’s Glass Frog (smallest I have seen). #FrogHeaven #Sarapiqui #CostaRica 12/24 #Sony #a6700 #Tamron 50-400 @ 120mm. Aperture preferred. f16. ISO 25600. #Photomator #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #Point’nShootNature
February 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Reflections

#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #color #colour #naturephotography #nature #reflection #newzealand
February 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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aaronsimages.bsky.social
Tricolored Heron
Ocean Beach, California

#photography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #nature #birds #sandiego
A tricolored heron catches a fish in the San Diego River.
February 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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armandsarlangue.bsky.social
Some cool light rays over Grand Canyon Cape Royale…
Funny story about this shot is I ended there by total coincidence. Full story in ALT.

#bluesky #photography #nature #art #landscape #light #travel
Divine light over the mesmerizing reliefs of Grand Canyon. Story: back in 2019 I took a long roadtrip in Southwest US, mostly in Utah, in middle of summer. After a week, I was literally dying from the heat, so I followed the advice of a random guy I met on one of the spots I visited: going to GC to get some fresh air (higher altitude). But the thing is I had zero plans, no precise locations in mind… So when I arrived in GC I just went around shooting randomly. On that day, I was exploring a spot for sunset but quickly realized it wouldn’t be ideal for sunset light, so I was hesitant about what to do. That’s when I met a local and started to chat with him, then he proposed to take me to a spot that was ideal for sunset. I followed him and ended in that spot. It’s been one of the best shooting I had during the whole trip 😂. Crazy light, beautiful sunset, incredible location. Sometimes having no plan = good plan on the end.
February 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Grey and wet in Scotland today. Wanna go back out and take pix... Some glassy waves taken on the Isle of Harris in Scotland.

#wave #waves #seascape #longexposure #IsleofHarris #OuterHebrides
A photo of a wave as it builds up near the beach and showing it's arch in it's beautiful turqouise colours.
February 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Sandhill Cranes in a snow storm ❄️
February 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Bobbin the Robin. Photographed yesterday. #birds #ukwildlife #wildlife #nature
February 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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beautysurroundsyou.com
It's when the clouds clear that the majesty & grandeur of mountains unveils itself. Defying the odds, pine trees hang on, dwarfed by the towering cliffs of Castle Mountain, in the beautiful Canadian Rockies.

#bluesky #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #nature
February 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Trevi Fountain, by Bernini
February 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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IR image of the iconic Horsehead nebula by Hubble.
🔭 🧪
This is an infrared image of the Horsehead Nebula taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The image shows a dark, horse-head-shaped cloud of dust and gas, known as Barnard 33, rising from a turbulent background of glowing gas and bright stars. The "neck" of the horse faces to the lower left. The image is dominated by hues of red and brown from the dust, with areas of blueish light outlining the edges of the nebula where it is being illuminated by surrounding stars. Numerous stars are scattered throughout the image, appearing as bright white points of light. The overall scene has a dramatic and majestic feel.
February 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Dark-eyed Juncos, often called "snowbirds," kicking up some snow.
February 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Grey Heron

A reflective moment...
A Grey Heron is standing in a small river. He is fully reflected in the water. The leaves and trees from the bank are also reflected in the water.
February 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Lady finger
Ladyfinger or Bublimating Peak, is a distinctive rock spire in the Batura Muztagh, the westernmost subrange of the Karakoram range in Pakistan.
#Pakistan #mountains #ladyfinger #karakorum #clouds
Ladyfinger or Bublimating Peak, is a distinctive rock spire in the Batura Muztagh, the western most subrange of the Karakoram range in Pakistan.
January 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Sometimes I go ultra wide with the panorama thing. I'm taking my portrait slices and overlapping a lot for the stitch and I just keep going. This one is probably 15 shots or so. But I got the lighthouse and the old pilings all in one image. #photography #astrophotography #panorama #EastCoastKin
January 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Chenonceaux Castle, France.
#chenonceaux #chenoceauxcastle #castle #photography #travel #trip
Chenonceaux Castle, France. #chenonceaux #chenoceauxcastle #castle #photography #travel #trip
January 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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“Something happened here…”

Subway series
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 2024

#photography
#streetphotography
#PhotographersUnited
January 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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zinitaz.bsky.social
Below the heights, a tapestry of yellow

Galbárruli & Cellórigo, La Rioja, Spain

#Galbárruli #Cellórigo #LaRioja #RiojaAlta #MontesObarenes #Spain #travel #mountain #sunflower #SkyAndEarth #clouds #bluesky #nature #vineyard #horizon #photography #chatgpt
January 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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i can’t fix anything that’s going on right now, but i can show you some beauty that’s out there… 🌌✨
Many stars crowd the image, shining in shades of white, blue, and orange, and more closely concentrated at the center. Bright blue stars are in a cluster at the center of the image. They are surrounded by a shell of brownish and burnt orange dust and gas. The shell has ridges that reach towards the stars like teeth. Stars within the dust and gas are hidden from Hubble but visible to Webb in the infrared. A number of more distant galaxies also appear in the background. Ferocious stellar winds, likely from the bright blue star at the top of the image, are blowing through a curtain of dust. The fine dust scatters the starlight at blue wavelengths. Farther down, another bright, super-hot star shines through filaments of obscuring dust, looking like the Sun shining through scattered clouds. A diagonal string of fainter accompanying stars looks reddish because dust is filtering starlight, allowing more of the red light to get through. The bottom of the picture presents a keyhole peek deep into the dark nebula. Hubble captures the reddish glow of ionized hydrogen. It looks like a fireworks finale, with several overlapping events. Fluffy tan-colored nebula clouds, with rust-colored highlights, surround a black central area. Within that area, the focal point of the image is one large yellow star with eight long thin points. To the right of this star is a bright star cluster in an oval shape. The stars within the cluster look like tiny pale blue sparkles. The cluster is more densely packed at its core and scatters outward. Towards the bottom of the image, multiple arms appear to spiral out of a cloudy tan knob. Taken together, the structures resemble a spider or a squid. Other blue and yellow eight-pointed stars, as well as distant galaxies, are dotted throughout the image. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team
January 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM