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Kevin Wertman
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Just getting started in photography and Bluesky seems like a place where that's happening now :)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/201677566@N06/

All photos are mine other than reposts
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Kevin Wertman @kevin.wertman.org · Mar 22
About 3 months ago I shared my first photo, a cardinal. 🪶

The response encouraged me to get out there to take more photos and keep sharing which is helping me in more ways than one.

Thanks to the #photography community for being amazing. Your work inspires me daily.

#TheJourney #BlueSkyArtShow
A bright red cardinal sits on a branch that runs diagonally from the left upper part of the frame to the bottom center. Branch has some lichens on it. Across from the cardinal is a little spanish moss. The background is blurry blues and brownish yellows.
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Kinda just liked the colors and how the leaves framed the flower for this one.

#FlowersOnFriday #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling
A purple and white flower with a bright yellow center grows into a muted scene. It is framed by leaves on all sides. Background is mostly white.
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Good morning! For Alan and Rob's #BirdOfTheDay, here's the cutest little pied-billed grebe soaking up the #MorningLight at the Orlando Wetlands.

#photography #birds #wetlands
A single small water bird floats in blue water which reflects reeds from above. Other reeds grow in the foreground, slightly out of focus.
November 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Taking #urbangaze to NYC and slipping into the symmetry of the Oculus today.

Have a happy Thanksgiving! 🦃✌🏽

#eastcoastkin #sensoryart #lines #nyc #classicmono #scape #landscape #monochrome #blackandwhite #b&w #urbanphotography #art #architecture #thanksgiving #thursday #bluesky #humansofbluesky
A black and white photo capturing the Oculus’s sweeping ribs converging toward a dramatic V-shaped corridor of light, with small figures below adding scale to the towering, cathedral-like structure. A black and white photo showing the Oculus’s curved ribs stacking rhythmically upward, creating a flowing, wave-like architectural pattern beside the vertical glass panels.
November 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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A lovely monarch butterfly for #InsectThursday

Hope everyone has a nice Thanksgiving if you celebrate it 🌞

#photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #butterflies
A single monarch butterfly from the side hanging off some light pink or purple flowers. Behind it a single blurry cactus rises up the frame.
November 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #Headshots, so here's a great egret I saw yesterday hunting in the gardens.

This one seemed nearly tame, it walked by me about 4 feet away.

#photography #birds #nature #egrets
A great egret's head and long neck stretch into the middle of the frame from the left, its body cannot be scene. It is staring intently at a diagonal angle to the right bottom corner of the frame.
November 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Good Morning Friends

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is all about #HeadShots, any Birds 'Close Up Capture'.
The Alternative Birds are #Swans.

I've gone with a Cormorant, Whooper Swan, Glossy Ibis & Little Egret with lunch, captured at various venues.

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #ukbirding
November 27, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Good morning! Here's a lovely yellow rose I saw yesterday playing around with a new manual lens in the gardens.

#RoseWednesday #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #roses
A yellow rose sits clustered in shadowed green leaves, the sun shines directly onto it, lighing up the center.
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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A rare capture of Dozer having a quiet moment, maybe just pondering the lizards or butterflies he'd like to be out chasing. 🙂

#DozerDay #photography #dogs #dogsky #classicmono
A black and white photo of a handsome tan and white dog's head resting between his two paws which are draped over the side of a couch. The light shines on him from the left. He is looking straight ahead as if lost in thought.
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Exeter, 2019

#streetphotography
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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If I told you about my day, you would not believe me. Here is a moulting heron instead.

#UKWildlife #Birds #GreyHeron #ornithology #Photography
A heron preening her feathers. She looks bedraggled and the outer layer of her beak peeling.
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Good afternoon. The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #OnTheEdge , any bird at the edge of a body of water. The alternative is #pigeons I’ve went with a European Shag standing on a rocky outcrop at the edge of the coast. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
A European Shag stands alert on dark, seaweed-covered rocks at the water’s edge. Sunlight highlights its brown plumage, slender hooked bill, and webbed feet. Foamy waves and soft blue water blur in the background, creating a strong contrast with the textured rocks and the bird’s sleek profile.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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A red-bellied woodpecker #HangingAround for the #BirdOfTheDay today.

#photography #birds #woodpeckers
A woodpecker grasps onto a tree trunk that fills the right half of the frame, it's hanging somewhat upside down, looking up and towards the tree. Background is blurred browns.
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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A couple of sandhill cranes coming in for a landing for #TwosDay

#ColorADay #BlueTue #photography #birds
Two sandhill cranes are flying towards the photographer, with a bright blue cloudless sky behind them. The both have their wings full extended.
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Alan and Rob's alternative #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #yelloweyes, so here's a green heron having a little snack out at the wetlands. 😎

#photography #birds #herons #wetlands
A green heron stands in water covered with green growth with a small branch in the lower right corner. It's beak is open and a small fish hovers in the air between the top and bottom of its beak.
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Good morning everyone!

Hope you have a great week. 🌞

#ColorADay #PinkMon #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #hibiscus
A single pink hibiscus in full bloom sits in the center of the frame, above it as well as to the right of it are some green leaves. Behind is blurry greens, yellows and blue sky.
November 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Good morning/ afternoon/ evening. Today’s #BirdOfTheDayTheme is #warblers any member of the warbler family and the alternative is #yelloweyes any bird with yellow eyes. Hope everyone is well, once again apologies for not being around. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
A small Sedge Warbler stands sideways on a thick green stem, its body angled forward as if ready to move. The bird has warm buff and tan plumage with darker streaks along its back, a pale belly, and a distinct cream eyebrow stripe above a dark eye. Its slender beak points ahead, and its thin legs grip the stem. Soft green leaves frame the upper left, while the background fades into smooth, muted blue-grey blur.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Saw this gator burst from under the water and grab and eat a medium sized water bird. Might have been a coot.

Not something I've ever witnessed in person before.

#photography #stunday #alligators #wetlands
A gator has it's snout fully out of the water, which is reflecting below. A couple of feathers can be seen sticking out of the corner of its mouth from the meal it was currently eating.
November 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Got up early today to greet the sun out at the Orlando Wetlands. It was beautiful out there this morning.

#stunday #coloraday #orangesun #photography #scape
An orange sky with the sun forming a bright white ball. In the foreground, a line of mostly palm trees and various dead looking trees form a skyline. Vultures can be seen perched throughout the scene, as well as a single bird flying just under the sun.
November 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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For a fleeting moment, the clouds perfectly mirrored the peaks of Manaslu (the 8th highest mountain in the world).

#stunday #eastcoastkin #photography #nature #classicmono #monochrome #blackandwhite #b&W #art #clouds #cloudscape #nepal #hiking #sunday #bluesky #scape #landscape #mountains #sky
A black and white photo of Mount Manaslu framed by a plume of cloud drifting upward, echoing the mountain’s peaks. Light and wind carve a temporary silhouette that hangs for only a heartbeat.
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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An itsy bitsy tiny little lizard for the #BlueSkyArtShow today 🦎

#Small #ColorADay #GreenSat #photography #lizards
A small lizard clings to the tops of several small vertical green stems of a bush that have yellow tips. The sun shines from the upper right of the frame.
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Good morning!🌞

Running with a camera got me this far, and I've decided it's no fun not bringing one. So I guess I'll keep stopping for photos since it always gets me out the door and makes the runs infinitely more interesting.😁

Hopefully I'll get faster anyways 🏃‍♂️‍➡️📸

#photography #sunrise #running
A early morning shot over a lakefront. A small peninsula with a dock juts out from the right side into the middle of the frame. An anhinga can be seen sunning itself in the lower left corner. A single tree branch runs across the top of the frame in the foreground. Sun is rising and shining from behind the treeline of the peninsula.
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Insignificant

#blueskyartshow #small #eastcoastkin #photography #nature #classicmono #monochrome #blackandwhite #b&W #art #mountainmonday #stunday #mountains #travel #nepal #hiking #himalayas #saturday #stormhour #photohour #bluesky #scape #landscape #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited
A black and white photo of two silhouetted hikers, dwarfed by Pumori’s immense sunlit icy slopes as swirling clouds drift upward, highlighting the contrast between human fragility and the mountain’s overwhelming power.
November 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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A white peacock butterfly for #FlyDay 🦋

#photography #butterflies #insects
A white butterfly with brown and yellow-ish markings stands on the tip of a reed that grows directly up from the bottom of the frame. The background is blurry green and brown reeds.
November 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Good morning!

Here's a little black and white #scape for today that I enjoy quite a bit. 🖤🤍

#ColorADay #BWFri #ClassicMono #photography #birds
Two branches of a mostly dead tree grow diagonally into the frame from the bottom right corner. The bottom one curves downward to be mostly horizontal and the upper continues mostly on the same diagonal and branches out to three smaller branches. On the middle branch a single raven or crow perches, and it has its head bent down, appearing to look at its own feet.
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Moments like these cleanse the soul.

Six incredibly humbling weeks in the Himalayas. Excited to share what I saw with you! 🏔️ 🌅 ✌🏽

#eastcoastkin #scape #nature #art #sunset #animals #mountains #himalayas #travel #hiking #stormhour #friday #photohour #bluesky #photography #stunday #landscape #nepal
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM