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🌜Ali🌛
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Sky and travel photography, random tidbits, an occasional haiku ✨
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The birds wait, patient
First rising light
When the sunbeams reach
Stillness breaks
Erupt into flight
All called to the east
Scatter

#birdphotography #sunrise #poetry #naturepoem
Silloutte of a bird against the backdrop of clouds colored by sunrise - blues, purples, grays, and orange
January 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Deep breath I can’t hold
Breaking rays breaking waves
Darkness diminished

Ogunquit sunrise
January 2025
#seascape #landscapephotography
#winterocean #haiku #mainetravel
The sun is rising over the ocean and sun rays are just breaking the horizon. The silhouette of plants and the rocky coast are in the foreground while a house is starting to glow red in the morning light in the background. The ocean is calm and waves lap at the shore below a clear sky burning bright red and yellow
January 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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It is impossible to capture reality

Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon UT

#brycecanyon #travelutah #goexplore #sunrise #inspiration #landscapephotography
January 16, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Sometimes you arrive home in a place you’ve never been before.

Ruby Beach, WA
Aug. 2024
#landscapephotography #pacificocean #goexplore
January 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Be anywhere you want to be.

Canyon overlook, Zion Nat’l Park
#utahtravel #zion #landscapephotography #nationalparks
The view of Zion National Park from Canyon Overlook trail. Towering red/brown rock walls line both sides of the photo. The valley floor of the canyon is speckled with green shrubbery and a winding road in the distance. The sky is stormy and glowing slightly at the horizon beyond the canyon walls
January 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Resolute vision
Evolution of color
The painted on sky

4:39pm MA

#haiku #everydaysunset #sunsetphotography #dusk
A brilliant sunset above a distant silhouetted tree line. Fluffy clouds of all shapes and sizes float through the sky, bright orange and pink at the horizon, fading out into dark purples and grays
January 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Rise of golden blue
Rippled mirror’s reflection
Ethereal dawn

Boothbay, ME
May 2024
#travelmaine #boothbay #haiku #dawn #vacationland
A view of the morning light gently radiating over brilliant blue ocean waters of Boothbay. A small tree glistens on shore in the golden hour of morning and a distant sail boat floats patiently in the waters, hoping the calm waters mean today is a day for sailing.
January 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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🙌

You got this 🙃

It’s all about perspective. Balance rock, Arches Nat’L Park

#balancerock #utahtravel #highfive #landscapephotography
January 6, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Sunrise at Cadillac Mountain, Mount Desert Island, Acadia

May 2024
#sunrise #acadianationalpark #barharbor #travelphotography
January 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Landscape Arch, UT
Devil’s Garden Trail, Arches National Park
306ft of awe

#arches #mightyfive #goexplore #devilsgarden
January 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Let light shine!

Joy to the winter solstice

#solstice #sunrise
The sun is rising and breaking through the trees above raging waters of the Deerfield River
December 22, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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Mount Rainier / ‘the mother of waters’ / Tahoma

Home to at least 26 name glaciers - the most glaciers of any mountain in the contiguous US

#mountrainier #travelwashington #landscapephotography #glaciers

August 2024
Green foliage surrounds the deep blue ‘Reflection Lake’ while the summit of Mt. Rainier rises above the pine trees in the background
December 19, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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Capitol Reef National Park - Panorama Point

Always make time for the “under dog”

8.19.23
#capitolreef #mightyfive #amazingsky #goexplore
Warm pink, orange, gray clouds flood the sky with color at sunrise and just a small line of rainbow appears above the red cliffs in the distance. Small green shrubs are speckled across the land of red rocks as far as the eye can see and the breaking sun glistens on the farthest mountain top while everything else is still shadowed.
December 16, 2024 at 3:26 AM
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Silence at daybreak
Called out to a beginning
Erase the shadows

Winthrop, WA : Aug ‘24

#sunrise #travelwashington #landscapephotography #haiku
In the background the sunrise is breaking over rolling mountains and sun rays are spilling into the sky above puffy orange and purple clouds. There is a small wind swept tree on the knoll of the brush covered hill in the foreground
December 15, 2024 at 3:25 AM
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Sometimes it feels like we are a sea of floating lemons and sinking limes. Divided by a fraction of density that makes all the difference.
December 12, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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The Watchman - Zion National Park

View from the Pa’rus trail - where the magic of Mother Earth is captivating

#zion #landscapephotography #watchman #nationalparks
8.25.23
The north fork of the Virgin River flows peaceful through the valley of Zion National Park. The sharp red and purple peaks of the rock faced Watchman mountain are highlighted in the background by the setting sun and a few golden puffy clouds dot the sky. A small crescent moon is rising above the scene.
December 11, 2024 at 2:40 AM
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No matter how wide we open our eyes, there is so much we cannot see.

#cometc2023a3 #skyphotography #nightsky

10.19.2024
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) takes center stage in the night sky on October 19, 2024. The low horizon is still glowing yellow/orange from sunset as deep twilight blue sets in across the sky, sprinkled with stars
December 9, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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Good morning ☀️

Window Arch sunrise, Moab UT

#archesnationalpark #sunrise #landscapephotography #utah
The sun is cresting the horizon at Arches National park in Moab UT. A large red rock arch frames the picture
December 8, 2024 at 11:19 AM
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When the clouds match the seas
Frenchman Bay, Bar Harbor, ME

May, 2024
#asperitasclouds #maine #landscapephotography #ocean
Asperitas clouds - layers of wavy clouds over the Frenchman Bay in Bar Harbor Maine. Trees and islands surround the calm ocean which is dotted with boats
December 7, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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Lake Diablo, WA - North Cascades

If I hadn’t seen it myself, I don’t think I would believe this color existed

#lakediablo #northcascades
#nationalparks #travel #landscapephotograpy
A rocky shore along the bright turquoise waters of lake Diablo. Across the lake, the north cascade mountains rise up to a cloudy but bright sky
December 7, 2024 at 4:23 AM
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RFOTD (random fact of the day):
The collective noun for rhinoceroses is a crash💥💥

This information brought to you by my 10yo son.

#rhinoceros #randomfact #collectivenoun
December 6, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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Crescent Moon / Evening Star

Tracking Venus on an endless loop - a five petal rose displays across the sky. Each petals brings the morning star full of hope and promise, disappearance, and then the evening star with reflection on rebirth. Optimistic with the moon by her side.

Lake George 10.5.24
The crescent moon and Venus at sunset, above silhouetted mountains and Lake George
December 6, 2024 at 2:43 AM
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Stories of star light
Kissed by the rainbow angel
A wish, hope, and dream

10/10/24
#northernlights #auroraborealis #haiku
December 5, 2024 at 2:39 AM
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Random fact of the day, brought to you by my 10yo son:
A baby seahorse is called a ‘Fry’ 🍟

#randomfact #dailyfact #fry #seahorse
December 4, 2024 at 10:36 PM