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Steve Pepple
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Journalist at the Detroit Free Press, photographer, college instructor, avid reader, explorer, coffee shop connoisseur, proud Detroiter. My photos are copyrighted and may not be used without permission. Reposts and quotes are fine.
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Steve Pepple @steve-pepple.bsky.social · Jun 14
This is one of my favorite photos that I have taken. Whenever I look at it, I feel joy. See ALT for how it happened. #BlueSkyArtShow #Joy #StreetPhotography #Detroit #blackandwhitephotography #Kids #Children
Black and white photograph of six kids playing in an open fire hydrant. I was riding my motorcycle through Detroit’s Brush Park neighborhood when I saw these kids playing in an open fire hydrant. I stopped and started photographing them. When they saw me, they stopped and spontaneously posed. It lasted just a few seconds before they went back to playing. This photo has been part of several juried art and photo exhibitions.
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Ventured out into the cold last night to photograph the annual Canadian Pacific Holiday Train roll by Michigan Central station in Detroit’s Corktown. #NightPhotography #Photography #HolidayTrain #Christmas #Detroit #MichiganCentral #Railroad #Trains
November 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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From my bike ride Saturday, a seagull purchase on a pole along the Detroit Riverwalk. #StunDay #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Painterly #DramaticSky #Detroit #DetroitRiver
Color photograph of a seagull perched on a tall emergency telephone pole on the Detroit river front with the sun behind it. Around the sun are wispy clouds in a blue sky.
November 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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A pair of kayakers pass by the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory on Detroit’s Belle Isle on a summer afternoon (circa 2016). Yes, I’m missing summer already. #Scape #LandscapePhotography #Detroit #BelleIsle #Kayaking #Summer #Scenic
Color photograph of two kayaks on a small lake with a tree in the four ground and a conservatory in the background, with a blue sky and cumulus clouds above.
November 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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A young family heads to the beach in Sorrento, Italy, in May 2007. For me, this has a bit of a Norman Rockwell feel to it. #HumansOfBlueSky #StreetPhotography #Photography #TravelPhotography #Travel #Italia #Italy
Color photograph of a mother and father trailed by a young girl and a young boy who are skipping gaily as they head down a cobblestone path toward beach changing houses in Sorrento Italy.
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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A young woman sits in the bay window of a coffee shop in Plymouth, Michigan. #WindowsOnWednesday #StreetPhotography #Photography #CoffeeShops #Cafés #LightAndShadow #GoodLight #DramaticLighting
Color photograph looking from the back of a coffee shop in an old house with people sitting in the shadows at tables with a lone woman sitting at a hightop table in a bay window illuminated by the light.
November 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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A moored fishing boat glows in the waters of the Bay of Naples in Sorrento, Italy, in the golden hour before sunset in May 2007. #BlueSkyArtShow #Bright #TravelPhotography #Travel #Italy #Italia #Boats #LandscapePhotography
Color photograph of a colorful fishing boat moored by itself in blue waters. The boat is bright from the setting sun.
November 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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The bell tower on in old Catholic Church in Sorrento, Italy, in May 2007. #Scape #LandscapePhotography #Photography #TravelPhotography #Church #Belltowers #Travel #Italy #Italia
Color photograph of an old Belltower on a Catholic Church framed by trees with white, puffy clouds in a blue sky in the background.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Cannelle shop in downtown Detroit at night. #WindowsOnWednesday #Photography #NightPhotography #StreetPhotography #Detroit #UrbanPhotography #EdwardHopperInspired
Color photograph at night taken through a window of people working inside a restaurant.
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Mount Vesuvius seen from the fishing village in Sorrento, Italy, in May 2007. #MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography #TravelPhotography #Travel #Italy #Italia #Volcanoes #Mountains
Color photograph showing a fishing boat in the foreground moored near a rocky breakwater with Mount Vesuvius rising in the background across the Bay of Naples.
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Room with a view. Sorrento, Italy, May 2007. See ALT. #StunDay #Italy #Italia #Photography #TravelPhotography #Travel #LandscapePhotography #Sorrento #RoomWithAView
In the spring of 2007, I had the good fortune to spend three weeks studying photography in Italy through a local college. We were based in a school in the old Italian resort town of Sorrento on the Bay of Naples. Our classroom was two or three stories up, and this was a stunning view that greeted me that first day. Just beyond the church is the bluff overlooking the bay and Mount Vesuvius.
November 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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The fishing village in Sorrento, Italy, on a spring #Evening in May of 2007. #BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #NightPhotography #TravelPhotography #Italy #Italia #Sorrento #LandscapePhotography
Color photograph of a seaside fishing village lit up by the early evening light with small boats pulled up to the beach in front of tiered stone buildings.
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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I took this photo of the Detroit skyline reflected in a small lake on Belle Isle several years ago. #Scape #LandscapePhotography #Cityscape #Landscape #Detroit #BelleIsle #Skyline #Photography #GoldenHour #DramaticSky #Sunset
Color photograph taken at sunset showing the downtown Detroit skyline silhouetted in the background against the Golden sky. In the foreground, the skyline is reflected in a small lake.On Belle Isle and framed by a barren tree on the shoreline.
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Mute swan for #BirdOfTheDay with the theme #Close-ups. #BirdPhotography #Birding #WildlifePhotographPhotography #Birds #Wildlife #NaturePhotography
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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My favorite coffee mug for #BlueBrewMugs day.
November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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An industrial scene reflected in the window of an old building in Detroit at sunset (2021). #WindowsOnWednesday #AbstractPhotography #Abstract #StreetPhotography #Detroit #Industrial #Reflections
Colored photograph of an industrial scene, reflected in the panes of a window on a building with vivid gold color from the sunset swirling around through the panes.
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Mountain village in northern Spain in August 2018. #MountainMonday #Mountains #TravelPhotography #Spain #LandscapePhotography #España #Photography
Color photograph showing several buildings along a road leading up a mountain with a craggy peak in the background.
November 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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This is a different photo of the red bridge on Belle Isle that I posted last week. This was taken in about 2015. The bridge has since been removed from that location. #Scape #LandscapePhotography #Autumn #Fall #FallBeauty #FallColor #Detroit #BelleIsle #Photography
Color photograph of a red footbridge over a small stream, surrounded by trees with colorful fall foliage on them.
October 31, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Captured this during a visit to the Detroit Institute of Arts last weekend. #PeopleOfBlueSky #UrbanGaze #StreetPhotography #Photography #Detroit #DIA #DetroitInstituteOfArts #Museums #People
Color photograph of a man seen through a doorway at an art museum. The man is wearing a wide brimmed, white hat in a checkered white and black suit and is carrying an overcoat in his hands. He appears to be staring at art on the wall.
October 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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A white egret gets ready for breakfast on the outdoor patio of a Fort Myers Beach restaurant (circa 2004). #BirdOfTheDay #Funny #Egrets #Birds #WadingBirds #WhiteEgrets #GreatEgrets
Color photograph of a great white egret standing on the edge of a table top on an outdoor patio where plates of leftover breakfast Food are sitting.
October 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Looking in the windows at night of a pizza shop in Detroit’s Greektown. (Circa 2019) #WindowsOnWednesday #StreetPhotography #Detroit #NightPhotography #Photography #Windows #LookingIn
Color photograph taken at night of an old time looking pizza shop lit up on the outside and on the inside. Through the windowsas you can see a man and a woman standing next to each other and looking very intensely at each other.
October 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Old stone bridge in the mountain village of Las Arenas in northern Spain in August 2018. #MountainMonday #Mountains #Spain #Travel #TravelPhotography #Photography #bridges #LandscapePhotography
Color photograph showing an ancient stone bridge arched over a stream with mountains rising in the background.
October 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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The red bridge (circa 2016). #StunDay #LandscapePhotography #Fall #FallFoliage #Autumn #AutumnColors #NaturePhotography #Bridges
Color photograph of a red bridge over a small stream on Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan. The red bridge is in contrast to the brown, gold and green fall foliage around it.
October 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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The former Gather restaurant on Gratiot Avenue in Detroit’s Eastern Market (circa 2018). #BlueSkyArtShow #Inside #Detroit #NightPhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #LookingIn
Color photograph taken at night from outside a lit up restaurant where people can be seen seated around a table in golden light.
October 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Superstition Mountains, Arizona, March 2009. #LandscapePhotography #Scape #TravelPhotography #Mountains #SuperstitionMountains #Arizona #Photography
Color photograph, showing yellow wild flowers in the foreground next to a lake nestled among red rock mountains in Arizona.
October 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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A customer at a table is silhouetted at night through the window of the Cass Cafe in Detroit’s Midtown (2019). #WindowsOnWednesday #StreetPhotography #Photography #Detroit #NightPhotogrsphy #Black-and-whitePhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #monotone #Windows #Silhouettes #Silhouette
Black and white photograph taken at night looking into the window of a café, where a man is silhouetted as he sits at a table.
October 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM