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What "anti-woke" looks like.
Dozy Donnie.
December 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Well of course I had to. Northern Illinois, November 11, 8:45pm.
#northernlights #aurora #landscapephotography #nightphotography #auroraborealis #nightsky #photography
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Like an old discarded bauble
gathering dust in some musty attic corner
catching gleams of sun through a broken shade
as hours shift seamlessly by
Looking down on us
not to judge
but to weep for those
who long forgot her true import
#moon #luna #lunar #tides #astronomy #evolution #cosmos
October 4, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Fiery Skipper in the garden Friday.
#skippers #butterflies #moths #lepidotera #photography #insects #insectphotography #garden #gardenphotography #macrophotography #olympus #nature #naturephotography
September 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Beyond the Ridge
#prairie #NachusaGrasslands #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #grasslands #prairierestoration #naturephotography #hiking #thenatureconservancy #conservation #photography #ecology #ecosystem #Illinois
September 13, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Painted Lady in the garden.
#butterflies #insects #macrophotography #photography #garden #lepidoptera #nature #naturephotography #paintedlady #zinnia
September 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Morning on the wide waters
near Starved Rock State Park, Illinois
#birds #nature #greategret #egret #birdphotography #naturephotography #starvedrockstatepark #illinoisriver #wetlands #wadingbirds #wetlandbirds #photography
September 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Setting Moon, 25 August
Gremel Wildlife Sanctuary, Illinois
#Moon #Sunset #Twilight #Dusk #Gloaming #Photography #Luna #Lunar #Sky #Nightsky #Nightphotography #Crescent #Crescentmoon #Waxingcrescent
August 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Broad Winged Tree Cricket on Smooth Ironweed
Gremel Wildlife Sanctuary, Illinois
#insects #insectphotography #nature #naturephotography #macrophotography #crickets #photography #nightphotography #treecricket
August 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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shared resource
Amboy Marsh Nature Preserve, Illinois
#nature #naturephotography #butterflies #bees #blackswallowtail #bumblebee #flowers #thistle #outdoors #insects #insectphotography #amboymarsh #naturepreserve
August 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Silver Spotted Skipper on Zinnia
Trying out a new macro flash on the OM System OM-1 mark ii.
#insects #butterflies #skippers #moths #lepidoptera #photography #insectphotography #macrophotography #gardenphotography #garden #flowers #Olympus #OMsystem #godox
August 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Matthiessen State Park, Illinois, April 2025
#Illinois #MatthiessenStatePark #infrared #infraredphotography #blackandwhitephotography #photography #landscapephotography #Illinoisstateparks
August 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Chasing the Milky Way on a Thursday night. LaSalle County, Illinois.
#milkyway #milkywayphotography #nightphotography #photography #nightsky #stars #universe #nightskies #railroadtracks #starryskies #astrophotography #nighttime #lightpollution
August 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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katydid
#insects #insectphotography #macrophotography #photography
August 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Hanging Thief Robber Fly lurking in the zinnias.
#macrophotography #insectphotography #photography #naturephotography #insects #robberflies #diogmites
August 13, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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IR photo, Hetzler Cemetery, Bureau County, Illinois, July 2025
#landscapephotography #photography #cemteries #oldcemeteries #illinoisprairie #infrared #infraredphotography #naturephotography #landscape
August 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Pugnacious Leaf Cutter Bee on Oxeye False Sunflower, Northern Illinois
#insects #macrophotography #insectphotography #bees #hymenoptera #megachile #leafcutterbee #photography #nativebees #naturephotography #pollinators
August 9, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Brown Belted Bumblebee on Oxeye False Sunflower
#macrophotography #bumblebees #hymenoptera #naturephotography #nature #photography #pollinators
August 8, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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love in the afternoon
Tawny Edged Skippers
Northern Illinois
#naturephotography #photography #lepidoptera #insects #insectphotography
August 8, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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zinnia psychedelia
#macrophotography #photography #flowers #gardening #naturephotography #psychedelic #zinnia
August 7, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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It's one of those "Never forget." things that most folks seem oblivious to. I was in junior high when I first read the book by John Hersey. Growing up with fallout shelters, the Cuban Missile Crisis and 'duck and cover' drills made it all the more real.
#hiroshima #thebomb #nuclearwar #worldwarII
August 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Cicada Killer Wasps seemed a bit more abundant at this particular location this year but somewhat smaller as well.
Dixon Waterfowl Refuge, Putnam County, Illinois.
#CicadaKiller #wasp #hymenoptera #insects #insectphotography #Nikon
August 4, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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a ways away
Matthiessen State Park, Illinois
#sunflowers #sunflowerfield #landscape #photography #landscapephotography #Olympus #MatthiessenStatePark
August 4, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Widow Skimmer in the garden
#dragonfly #dragonflies #insects #photography #insectphotography
July 31, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Ready to rise.
July 29, 2025 at 5:12 AM