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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge
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Belgian-American photographer and archaeologist exploring visual histories and material cultures.

Website: https://studioceleste.art/
Substack: kimvanlief.substack.com

All images are my own unless stated otherwise.
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Haystack Rock from a quieter angle.

#photography #landscapephotography #fineart #nature #cannonbeach #oregon
The famous "haystack" rock at Cannon Beach, OR.
January 26, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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Most people go to Pfeiffer Beach for the pink sand. I spent most of my time with this wind-shaped cypress instead.

#photography #landscapephotography #nature #fineart #bigsur #california
Wind-shaped Monterey cypress with a wide, flattened canopy and twisting trunks, growing on a coastal hillside beneath a pale blue sky.
January 19, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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Wood waves. Beautiful how the same patterns repeat everywhere, isn’t it?

#photography #macrophotography #california #fineart
Close-up photograph of weathered wood with flowing, wave-like grain patterns, deep cracks, and layered textures in muted gray and brown tones.
January 16, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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I quietly sat and waited for the moment a wave met the rock at the center of the frame—now hidden. The California coast has a way of rewarding patience.

#photography #fineart #landscapephotography #BigSur #California
Low-contrast ocean landscape along the California coast, with soft, misty light blending sea and sky.
January 12, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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Waterfall on the Olympic Peninsula. I experimented with exposure times and landed on this one—soft flow, but with individual streams still visible. How do you like to photograph moving water?

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Close-up photograph of a waterfall on the Olympic Peninsula, showing water flowing over dark, moss-covered rock.
January 8, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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Anyone else settling into a photographic theme this year?
I didn’t plan one, but fog keeps showing up—here's to 2026!

#photography #landscapephotography #fineart #PNW #fog
Fog drifts over a wide river on the Olympic Peninsula, with dark, fast-moving water in the foreground and a rocky riverbank leading to leafless and late-autumn trees fading into mist. Muted greens, grays, and soft gold tones dissolve into the fog, obscuring the forested hills beyond.
January 5, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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Ocean of logs.

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Logs are piled up on a beach in the PNW, creating the illusion of an ocean.
December 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Pacific Northwest beach strolling.

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Triangular rock formation on a deserted beach in the Olympic Peninsula.
December 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Everyone visits the Hoh Rainforest in summer. But its true character lives in the wet months. Temperate rainforests are built on moisture and shade—conditions that turn fallen trees into nurseries and forests into layered systems of life.

#photography #art #landscapephotography #PNW #hohrainforest
Moss-covered trees and dense green understory in the Hoh Rainforest, with soft light and mist filtering through the canopy in Olympic National Park.
December 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Yes, living in the PNW can be dreary. It's wet, gray, and relentless. But it’s also atmospheric, contemplative, and breathtaking in ways that sunnier places never are.

#photography #nature #landscapephotography #PNW #fineart
Foggy mountain landscape in the Pacific Northwest, with tall evergreen trees fading into mist and soft gray clouds obscuring the distant ridgeline.
December 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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A bright wave crashes down on the rocks
shattering into a thousand drops,
free at last in clouds of steam,
drifting towards a new beginning.

#BlueSkyArtShow #bright #photography #landscapephotography #art #photographersOfBluesky
Waterfall, Oahu, Hawaii
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Winter is coming.

#photography #landscapephotography #art #lassenvolcanicpark #volcano #snow
A wide view of the Cinder Cone area in Lassen Volcanic National Park. The foreground shows dark, porous volcanic cinder slopes with a shallow crater holding patches of late-season snow. Beyond the cone, reddish-brown volcanic ridges stretch across the scene, also dotted with white snowfields. In the distance, forested mountains rise toward a clear, pale-blue sky.
November 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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As the season winds down, the aspens give us one last burst of autumn beauty.

#photography #art #aspen #utah #landscapephotography
Bright golden aspen trees in full autumn color, their yellow leaves glowing in the sunlight. Tall white trunks rise vertically through a dense canopy, with dark evergreens and shadowed mountain slopes visible in the background. The scene feels vibrant, warm, and richly textured.
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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When the sunset slips into a full-on fantasy world.

#photography #art #fineart #landscape
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Lichens always stop me in my tracks. They’re not plants but rather a symbiosis between a fungus and an alga living as one. And this California coastal cypress is the perfect home base for them to anchor to.

#photography #art #california #landscape
Close-up of a coastal cypress tree in Big Sur covered in long, pale strands of hanging lichen. The lichen drapes from the branches like soft curtains, with dark green foliage behind it. The shaded light highlights the layered, stringy texture.
November 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

- Excerpt from "The Brook" (1886), Alfred Lord Tennyson

#photography #poetry #landscapephotography #art #river
turbulent mountain river at peak flow, its current foaming and swirling around jagged stones.
November 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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There's no sunset like a California sunset.

#photography #art #landscapephotography #california
California sunset with pink and purple skies and god rays shining through clouds, a coastal cypress silhouetted in the foreground.
November 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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More fallscapes 🍂 🍁

#photography #art #landscape #utah
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Time for some fallscapes.

#photography #art #landscapephotography #utah
Utah mountain landscape with layered fall colors
October 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

—Robert Frost, 1923

#photography #art #california #tahoe #seasons
October 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Late afternoon at Donner Lake, CA.

#photography #dailyart #tahoe #california #landscape #landscapephotography
September 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Painterly photography

#photography #dailyart #art #macro
Macro shot of little purple flowers
August 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Oahu, Hawaii.

#photography #art #mountain #rainforest #hawaii
Steep mountain, covered in rainforest, slopes downwards in the foreground.
August 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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My research background deeply shapes my work. For "Imperial Harvest," I explored food history to uncover what it reveals about the European exploitation of the Americas.

Shortlisted for "Food Politics," World Food Photography Awards 2023.

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A close-up of a decaying onion, its surface covered in dark mold.
August 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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I love the things,
with their infinite details,
each one with its own
invisible soul,
tingling with the light
of simple perfection.

Pablo Neruda – Ode to Common Things, 1954

#photography #poetry #art
Closeup of seaweed on the shore
August 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM