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dog admirer ☯️💚☮️ NW Oregon fon fotos are mine except repost
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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 5h
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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 7h
Lesser Ury - "Nollendorf Platz, Berlin" (1922)
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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 10h
📷 Michael Boegl
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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 4h
“There's a bluebird in my heart
that wants to get out..."
~Charles Bukowski 🪶

💙

📸 Sialia mexicana, the Western Blueborb of Happiness 🐦

#MondayVibes
#BlueSkyMonday
#Bluebirds
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
A mature male Western Bluebird is backlit in profile by winter morning light with his orange vest floofed out against a background of snowy canopy in bokeh. Winter birding Zen.
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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 17h
Cool desert bird - Phainopepla. Males are sleek black with red eyes. 🪶
Male phainopepla - sleek black desert bird with red eyes.
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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 3h
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset."
-Crowfoot
💙🌟💙🌛
a sunset over a few roofs.
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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 9h
I really lucked out in these ten minutes. Not only did i get the best snowy plover in flight shot of my life, but then the bird flew back AND I GOT THE FULL FLIGHT SEQUENCE six minutes later! Birds! what the hell!
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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 8d
I was walking back to my van and BONUS SNOWY PLOVER!! I'll post more of this later and explain why this is the best snowy plover in flight shot of my life 🥰 🪶
A endangered snowy plover in flight.
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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 9h
In flight snowy plover sequence. First time I ever got this angle, super rare you can get below the bird, since they're ya know.. in the sand, but luckily they were on a sand... ridge? #birds
a snowy plover going with flapping wings to in flight, 4 different shots
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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 7h
I can't put into words how much satellites and airplanes are my enemy. This was taken about 50 miles from a major city, an hour time lapse.
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Lizzie Wallis DPAGB, EFIAP, BPE3* @lizziewallis.bsky.social · 18h
"Crested Tit"
Today's #birdoftheday theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social. is the "Family Paridae of birds" which constitutes 'Tits, Chickadees and Titmice'.
#EastCoastKin
#Stunday
#birds
#birdphotography
#Birdlife
A lichen covered twig stretches across the bottom of the frame. Perched, facing right, is a small brown tit, with a distinctive black and white crest sticking up above a predominantly white face with black chin and black stripe running from eye round cheek. The background is mottled grey and brown of a pine forest in winter.
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Scott Cunningham @scottbath.bsky.social · 2d
Mystery portal
#Scape
#LandscapePhotography
#Mystery
#EastCoastKin
#Doorway
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Scott Cunningham @scottbath.bsky.social · 1d
Morning mist
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Glow
#Scape
#EastCoastKin
#LandscapePhotography
#MorningLight
#Autumn
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Scott Cunningham @scottbath.bsky.social · 17h
Sunrise on the Kennebec
#EastCoastKin
#Stunday
#LandscapePhotography
#Sunrise
#Reflection
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 1d
NGC 613 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2gMssee
Spiral galaxy NGC 613 and the search for the progenitor of SN 2016gkg. Pockets of star formation are visible as green nebulas of gas in this near-infrared and visible image. The galaxy's bar is quite distinct and completely within the bounds of the image, but much of the outer arms are not included. I will mark the approximate position of the supernova with a Flickr annotation. I find the circumnuclear ring of star formation to be especially beautiful in this image, though you'll have to zoom in to see it clearly. I spent a good number of days working on this, which feels incredibly slow compared to the pace I've been keeping with the single filter (grayscale) images of galaxies from the past couple of months. There were a whole lot of cosmic rays to deal with, and I did my best, though there are still a few hiding here and there. I bumped up the saturation a good bit along with the clarity and dust texture of the nucleus. Data from the following proposal were used to create this image: The Progenitor of Supernova 2016gkg Red: ACS/WFC F814W Green: ACS/WFC F606W Blue: ACS/WFC F435W North is 25.19° counter-clockwise from up.
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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 17h
Nothing like a desert sunrise. 🌅 The trees are date palms. 🪶
Desert sunrise behind a row of date palms.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 11h
The Massive Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/VQgR1z
www.rolfolsenastrophotography.com Link to full resolution image: goo.gl/5UNVFz Link to medium size image: goo.gl/tktTM9 This enormous galaxy cluster is located 2.2 billion light years away in the constellation Virgo. Deeply reddened by the cosmological redshift, it's member galaxies shine to us with a faint orange glow across the abyss of space and time. All the fuzzy light sources in this image are distant galaxies, and only a modest sprinkling of sharp foreground stars, located in our own Milky Way, reveal our cosmic vantage point. The cluster is so massive that its gravity acts as a lens and distorts the light from galaxies behind it. While several other galaxy clusters contain examples of brighter gravitational arcs than Abell 1689, this cluster features the largest known number of gravitational arcs and is an important target for the study of dark matter. The arcs are very small and faint but a few of the brightest distorted images of distant background galaxies are present in this exposure. Abell 1689 also contains the largest population of globular clusters ever found. A deep high resolution view from the Hubble space Telescope, covering just a tiny part of the cluster, reveals that it is home to an estimated 160,000 such globulars. A staggering number compared to the approximately 150 in our own Milky Way galaxy. Image details: Date: 24th, 26th February, 18th, 24th April 2017 Exposure: LRGB: 540 100 90 90 mins, total 13 hours 40 mins @ -25C Telescope: Homebuil...
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Pirjo Sundqvist @pirjosundqvist.bsky.social · 1d
#Caturday meeting in the forest.
Their human told me that the brother of the cats thinks he is a dog, but the sister is a little more cautious, both stay close to him when they are on a walk.💚

#catsofbluesky
#forestbathing
#forest #cats
Two snow leopard colored cats on the forest path.
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Pirjo Sundqvist @pirjosundqvist.bsky.social · 15h
My Magpie friends are always happy to see me and the feeling is mutual. 💚

These remarkable birds can use tools, solve problems, work in teams, play games, and even mimic human speech.

#Forestbathing #forest
#corvids #Stunday #birds
#photography #eastcoastkin
Four Magpies on a large moss-covered rock in the forest munching some cat kibbles.
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Pirjo Sundqvist @pirjosundqvist.bsky.social · 13h
Sunday greetings to you all from Rissne forest. 💚

"When we walk into a grove of trees or under an open sky the magic of nature takes over and the heaviness of life lifts a little.- Natasia Cassinero

#Stunday #nature
#woodland #forest
#photography
#eastcoastkin
Group of Quaking Aspen trees in a forest some yellow leaves on the ground.
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Mira🌺 @deepgreens.bsky.social · 17h
Belong Together…🌺
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 16h
Sometimes Crows look black and sometimes they don't #birds
Head and shoulders portrait of a crow, looking right over its shoulder showing a profile. It has a large, thick beak. The background is soft focus beige and grey.
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Island Girl (IG)🇨🇦 @tenoaks6.bsky.social · 16h
Welcoming a new colour palette beneath a bright blue sky

#Autumn #change #photography #nature #Stunday #daybyday
Looking outward a lake surrounded by forest. There is no shoreline as the evergreen trees and forest bramble come right to the edge of the lake. The sky is hosting some swirling clouds that are reflected in the still waters.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 23h
Hubble Gazes at a Cosmic Megamaser - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/Q8i3dC
This galaxy has a far more exciting and futuristic classification than most — it hosts a megamaser. Megamasers are intensely bright, around 100 million times brighter than the masers found in galaxies like the Milky Way. The entire galaxy essentially acts as an astronomical laser that beams out microwave emission rather than visible light (hence the ‘m’ replacing the ‘l’). A megamaser is a process that involves some components within the galaxy (like gas) that is in the right physical condition to cause the amplification of light (in this case, microwaves). But there are other parts of the galaxy (like stars for example) that aren’t part of the maser process. This megamaser galaxy is named IRAS 16399-0937 and is located over 370 million light-years from Earth. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image belies the galaxy’s energetic nature, instead painting it as a beautiful and serene cosmic rosebud. The image comprises observations captured across various wavelengths by two of Hubble’s instruments: the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). NICMOS’s superb sensitivity, resolution, and field of view gave astronomers the unique opportunity to observe the structure of IRAS 16399-0937 in detail. They found it hosts a double nucleus — the galaxy’s core is thought to be formed of two separate cores in the process of merging. The two components, named IRAS 16399N and IRAS 16399S for the northern and southern pa...
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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 15h
Another very pleasant valley Sunday (not at all like the song).
A landscape blurred by morning mist, in shades of blue and brown: a mowed brown field, a couple of isolated small trees, low wooded hill beyond. Horse silhouetted against the rising sun on a hill, with a stand of eucalyptus trees nearby.
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Peter Durst @peterdurst.bsky.social · 6h
Yashica 35CCN | Kodak Gold
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