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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 5d

We moved to a new house yesterday, and during the chaos I heard cardinals, blue jays, Carolina Wrens, and several other #birds in the forest just out the back door. But since my #photography gear is still packed up, here’s a lovely Eastern Bluebird from a few months ago

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 6d

Attempted murder on the terrace…

Our neighborhood #crows stopped by for their last brunch. Perhaps the next tenants here will continue the hospitality

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 7d

Standing in the mouth of the Hurricane River at Lake Superior.

To get here, you go to the middle of nowhere and then it’s another hour past that.

But a beautiful location, especially in the middle of the night when the sky (Bortle 1) is plastered with thousands of stars

#Michigan #GreatLakes

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 9d

White-Crowned Sparrow caught by surprise

In a birch forest somewhere in northern #Michigan

#Birds #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 9d

Semipalmated Sandpiper strolling on the stony beach of #LakeSuperior at Whitefish Point, #Michigan

Sept. 2025

#Birds #BirdPhotography #EastCoastKin

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 9d

#PicturedRocks on the shore of #LakeSuperior in
#Michigan

Sept. 2025

The speck in the sky is a Bald Eagle

#Birds #LandscapePhotography #Eagle #EastCoastKin

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 11d

One of the last sunsets in Rockville

(before we move)

(or the nuclear apocalypse)

#Sunset #Maryland #EastCoastKin

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 17d

Tuesday was a good day

* Excellent sunset

* Lovely Bride’s all-woman curling team played into the elite league by beating a top all-men team

* We bought a house

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 19d

Look at those EIGHTEEN beautiful aperture blades…

Pentax Takumar 200mm f/3.5

I need to take this out soon and shoot more with it

#VintageLenses #Photography

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 19d

Odd things found while packing up the house to move

From 2015 trip to Moldova for friends’ wedding

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 19d

The “Mighty Mac,” Michigan’s Mackinac Bridge, connecting the state’s two paeninsulae amoenae.

#Michigan #Mackinac #Bridge #EastCoastKin

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 20d

The adorable Pie-Billed Grebe

#Michigan #UpperPeninsula

#Bird #Birds #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 21d

“What was that all about?”

Heron strafing a pair of cranes

#Bird #Birds #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 22d

I got an eagle shot last week…Pictured Rocks in northern Michigan.

See the eagle? That little speck in the sky?

😂

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 22d

City Hall
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Framing and exposure test shots for the Mamiya RB67

#Photography #ArchitecturalPhotography #Kalamazoo #Michigan

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 22d

Juvenile Trumpeter Swan, one of four cygnets accompanying a pair of adults

Seney NWR
Schoolcraft County
Michigan

#Bird #Birds #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin #Michigan #Swan

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 23d

Driftwood & Freighter

Whitefish Point
Michigan

#Photography #GreatLakes #LakeSuperior #Michigan #EastCoastKin

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 23d

Trumpeter Swan on a recon flight

Seney NWR
Schoolcraft County, MI

#Bird #Birds #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin #Michigan #Swan

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 24d

Beachscapes, Windy Day

Whitefish Point
Michigan

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #Beach #EastCoastKin #Michigan

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 24d

Pileated Woodpecker hopping along the side of the road

I thought it might have been injured, but it was fine...just looking for a lost contact lens

#Bird #Birds #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin #Woodpecker

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 24d

Lighthouse; sunny mode and creepy mode

East Channel Lighthouse
Grand Island
Munising, Michigan

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #Michigan #UP #UpperPeninsula

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 24d

Milky Way over the mouth of the Hurricane River on Lake Superior.

Very distant auroral glow in the other direction

#Photography #Astrophotography #Nightscape #Michigan #UpperPeninsula

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 25d

Milky Way over the mouth of the Hurricane River at Lake Superior.

Middle of the night in a very remote Bortle 1 location. Just me, the inky black darkness, and the crashing waves.

(and a wide, fast lens)

#Photography #Astrophotography #Nightscape #Michigan #UpperPeninsula

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · 28d

I’ve heard some people put coffee and other beverages in their cars’ lens holders…

#Photography #Canon

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Jason @lousyphotos.bsky.social · Sep 17

Turtle says, “Hi!”

#NaturePhotography #Photography #EastCoastKin #Turtle

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