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Ari B
@utahraptor1115.bsky.social
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An overpowered mutant. Attorney in environmental and energy law, perpetually learning photographer, aspiring author, and award winning dirtbag.

One cute scuba mermaid.

Follow me on the instant gramophone too: @utah_raptor
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My little life companions and spiritual guides are getting ready for a blissfully lazy #whiskerswednesday

I love their chaos gremlin ways. #catsofbluesky
December 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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It has been a magical experience watching this lil lady get domesticated and what a wild ride to be the human she is most comfortable with, but I think it's possible this street cat doesn't believe in baths or personal space.

#adoptdontshop #catsofbluesky #photography #cats
December 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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#mountainmonday for #photosky with this photo of the mountains on fire from last summer. This is a view of southernmost tip of the south side of the fire maybe a week and a half before it was contained. It burned 73,746 acres of beautiful #utah.

#wildfire #photography #sonyalpha #wilderness
December 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Not every underwater wildlife expedition is a success, especially when you're trying to tread as gently and ethically as possible as an ocean visitor. Oh well! I did, however, meet a most beautiful winged moon worshipper who asked if I had accepted the lunar saviour into my heart.

#moth #photosky
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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What a day! started a journey to photograph some sea lions and whale sharks (here's hoping) and found out this lil ray got second place in a juried exhibition and is going to be printed by the #decagon gallery. Seems auspicious! Go give it a click!

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November 15, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Back on my bullshit #photosky with a trip back to the shipwreck of the Gallant Lady out in #bimini

It was a freighter that ran aground off #Bimini in 1997, and now creates a beautiful haunting view from a small vista, and a pretty great date spot frankly.

#travelphotography #sonyalpha
October 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Four(?) months ago someone dumped this lil mama and her six kittens behind my house. She went through the #humanesociety last litter program, her kittens have all found their own homes, and I guess we've added a mouthy bat-eared gremlin to the gang.
October 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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It has been a while! I guess building a legitimate business is work intensive, and it's also summer and time to quest in search of pictures, in this case making my way through the mountains to a megaburn.

#wildfire #utah #usfs #conservationphotography #sonyalpha #mountains #photosky
August 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Getting ready for Cactus Rat Photography's appearance at an art festival and have been deeply distracted. But if you want a postcard of some mating #octopus, I'm your worm

#hawaii #underwater #photography #sonyalpha #divephotography #photosky #diving #underwaterphotography #marineconservation
A large and very colorful female Pacific red octopus changes colours to send a warning to the camera person, me lol. She has cascading colours from deep blue, to magenta, to orange, to yellow, and has white spikes on her skin to match the surrounding white coral. In the lower left is a small yellow octopus hiding in coral. He is yellow with dark brown eyes, and has his mating arm extended towards the female and one eye turned towards the camera.
June 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Picked up a new photography project at an estate sale. Best i can tell it's a 1961 #Canon Canonet. The selenium meter needed some work, but now she's cleaned, fixed, and loaded with #film. Let's do this.

#photography #filmphotography #35mm #vintage #selfie
A brunette with dark eyes and curly hair pulled back holds an old camera up
June 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Been in a funk, antidepressants stopped anti-ing my depression. And there's only one cure and baby, that's the #sea.

I love this hammerhead more than most humans, and we only just met the once. Sweet murder angel 💜

#photography #photosky #shark #sharkconservation #oceanconservation #sonyalpha
A hammerhead shark crosses diagonally across the frame with its eyes visibly turned upward to the light while bubbles from other divers and animals rise in the background. The white underbelly of the hammerhead is visible as is its tooth filled mouth that looks like it's filled with razor wire.
May 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Back to churning out photos instead of doom scrolling and worked on this seal off the coast of #cornwall #uk.

But coming off a spicy photoshoot and spending all day at a computer- I have nothing meaningful to say and I'm done looking at screens. 🦭

#photography #underwater #monkseal #photosky
A dark photo of a monk seal- a small white/silver seal with black spots and black eyes. The seal is looking at the camera while swimming over a dark kelp bed, with some kelp wrapped around his front flipper. Do we call them flippers? I'm not sure, I'm sorry...
May 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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The Commander is a lover and a fighter.

#catsofbluesky #skycat
May 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Haven't been up on the photos but have been laboring in the yard with these two nerds.
May 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Ok a rare and released photo from a very 🔥 🔥 photoshoot. It was fun playing with light and highlight on this beauty.

#boudoir #photosky #portrait #photography #photosky #bdsmportraitartist #blackandwhite
April 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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I'm a little torn on the level of cool in this photo. Maybe not great. But I'm not torn on the certainty that #crocodilians are perfect sweet creatures with just the right amount of bloodlust.

#vietnam #travelphotography #photogtaphy #photosky #crocodile #conservation #wildlife
April 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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The Insomnia Salp, or, I could not sleep so I spent hours manually erasing back scatter on this #underwater tunicate.

I am so tired, someone take me out behind the shed and put me out of my misery.

#insomnia #photography #sonyalpha #underwaterphotography #wildlife #photosky
A mostly translucent invertebrate floats in shafts of light with strands of yellow organs visible inside of it
April 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Felt cute, might delete later

(A #slug I met at #stonehenge last summer)

#bugs #insects #cornwall #uk #travelphotography #photography #photosky #wildlife
April 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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I don't always post a #selfie but when i do it's because I am feeling myself like a possum on dumpster mdma.

Did a couple #bdsm #boudoir photoshoots last week for some smokin hot deviants. Truly this is the recession proof career my parents dreamed for me.

(Still an attorney by day, love you mom)
April 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Editing #underwater #photography is such a wild ride in neuroticism and compulsion. Hours lost in backscatter.

But I think this is the first #hammerhead from the #bimini expedition I would call all the way done. I call it The Kiss. I am very clever.

#sharks #diving #sonyalpha #photosky
A blue hued photo of a hammerhead coming towards the camera while it turns in the water. The hint of teeth and underbelly are visible while it's left eye checks the camera out. On the right of the hammer a fish cleans the hammerhead with a bright white underbelly while it seems to give the shark a smooch
April 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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A couple of people photos while I still work on my plethora of inane #wildlife photos. Here you see a majestic #hammerhead doing a perfect impression of me when my boyfriend has a snack. Kinda rude, but spot on, big guy.

#underwater #photography #bimini #sonyalpha #sharks #travelsky #photosky
A great hammerhead approaches a scuba diver in a full body wetsuit with mouth slightly ajar A hammerhead swoops around a diver, realizing he has a treat in his hand, and pursues that treat with wide eyed enthusiasm The hammerhead, appearing to smile with mouth open, closes in on a treat in a diver's hand
March 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Photos are off the big camera and backed up and now the processing begins, the sharks are looking spectacular but honorable mention for these kings of #birds, the turkey vulture.

#photography #florida #turkeyvulture #travelphotography #photosky
A black turkey vulture with a bright amber eye perched on a fence giving the camera a sassy side eye A turkey vulture in flight with white tips on its wings, head hung down, coming in for a landing
March 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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The voyage home begins in 12 hours, bags are packed, camera is stored, and dive bruises are catalogued. #Bimini, you're beautiful and should be preserved at all costs.

#sunset #beach #travelphotography #photography
March 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Beloved followers and porn bots, I'm currently on the proverbial road, diving with sharks and checking out wrecks.

But got damn #manatees stole my whole heart in #homosassa #florida. Took some cell photos from the boat for now.

#travelphotography #conservation #seacow #photography
March 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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I don't know if the blue sky cropping is gonna do this any favors, but it was a fun stormy day with the #birds at #stonehenge last summer.

I think I'm at the tail end of being stupid sick and... That's all I have to say. Time for a nap.

#photography #travelphotography #england #photosky #sonyalpha
Starlings fly towards a deserted Stonehenge on a stormy day
March 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM