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🦅 RichKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈
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Honorary Professor, Dilettantory Studies, Tooter U (Intertubes extension campus)... Amateur photography. Photos are my own 'cept reposts. he/him/his #EndTheStigma 🌈 Mastodon: https://toot.community/@Rihilism No unsolicited DMs please
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🦅 RichKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈 @rihilism.bsky.social · May 30
A hazy Chicago #scape taken from Montrose Point.

#StormHour #cityscape #landscape #Chicago #architecture #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhitePhoto #Photography #AltText
A view of downtown Chicago taken from Montrose Point. The photo has been cropped to a 15:5 ratio to create a long panorama of most of the downtown cityscape The foreground consists of prairie plants and tall grasses. Lake Michigan is visible just above the foliage in the foreground. Above the lake is downtown Chicago including iconic Chicago skyscrapers like John Hancock Tower, Sears Tower, etc. The cityscape is very hazy and the haze partially obscures all the buildings in the frame with some buildings in the foreground in sharper focus. There is a clear but hazy sky directly above the cityscape.
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🦅 RichKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈 @rihilism.bsky.social · 4h
Thanks, Brian! Gotta love those bumbles.

I tripled my garden space last fall and this year had tons more flowers and all the insects that come with 'em. Very much macro heaven👼👍
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Damian Ward @damianward.bsky.social · 13h
It's nice to see the misty mornings coming back to me, the last few days have been great.

Here is an image from a few weeks ago, as I haven't looked at my recent images.

#photography
#monochrome
#blackandwhite
#woodland
A black and white image of a misty woodland scene. © Damian Ward 2025.
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Mr. Christian 😊🤘 @rockstarballet.bsky.social · 5h
My wife has fairy lights around our living room windows. They are fun to play with. These are all shot with a Nikon Z6III and Nikkor 70-180, 2.8. 70mm, 1/2 second, f9, iso 100. Except for the 3rd one, which is at 180mm, 1 second, and f13. #ICM #motionblur #BW #photography #blackandwhite #Nikon
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🦅 RichKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈 @rihilism.bsky.social · 4h
IANAL, but likely will be litigated in the courts. We'd seek a restraining order. The arguments (it's illegal) likely similar to those in federal court against Trump's attempts to use the National Guard. IA is his backup plan to NG. How SC rules? Don't know, but general strike should be our backup.
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eddiephotos.bsky.social @eddiephotos.bsky.social · 4h
A Speckled wood butterfly resting on a branch alongside a woodland area, during our local walks.
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Linda @linda2.bsky.social · 4h
The elegance, beauty and grace of a black swan.

#BirdOfTheDay #UKWildlife #Birds #LongNecks #Ornithology #MuteSwan #Photography
A black swan glows in the light if the sun. Facing towards the camera with head slightly turned towards the left. Water droplets leave her mouth.
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🦅 RichKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈 @rihilism.bsky.social · 9h
Male cardinal, like this one from last week, are a bit goofy head-on but it's a lovable goofy.

#StormHour #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #AltText
Photograph of a male cardinal perched on a tree branch amid yellow-green and brown fall leaves with out of focus branches and patches of morning blue sky on the background. The cardinal is facing right in profile with its head turned to the right to look at the camera. Male cardinals have brown legs and feet with grasping claws, red feathers with darker red on their back, wings, and tail, an orange beak, dark eyes, a black mask that wraps from top of the beak to its neck, and a crest on the top of their head that can be raised or lowered. When viewed from the front, the crest tapers from the top of the bird's head into a conical shape with a sharp tip.
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🦅 RichKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈 @rihilism.bsky.social · 1d
Big ol' brown-belted bumble for #MacroMonday (2023).

#bees #insects #macro #MacroPhoto #MacroPhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #AltText
Extreme closeup photograph of a brown-belted bumblebee standing on top of the red and orange florets of a purple coneflower with vague greens in the background. The bee, which takes up roughly half of the upper frame, is facing right in profile and has its proboscis inserted into the florets directly ahead of it. This species of bumblebee has a black abdomen covered in fine black hairs, a "belt" of fine brown hairs where the abdomen meets the thorax, a thorax covered in fine yellow hairs, a black head covered in black and yellow hairs, two large compound eyes and three, small simple eyes, two short antennae, large mandibles, and six legs with long hairs on the hind legs used to store gathered pollen.
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Andy Lowe @lowekeyone.bsky.social · 2d
Grand Canyon sunset. #Stunday #photography
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🦅 RichKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈 @rihilism.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you!
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🦅 RichKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈 @rihilism.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you, Brian! I think that's my best pic of a female mallard.
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🦅 RichKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈 @rihilism.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you, Brian!
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🦅 RichKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈 @rihilism.bsky.social · 2d
#SilentSunday
Photograph of a Canada goose in flight with an out focus snow-covered bank and a snow-covered retaining wall with patches of concrete exposed in the background. The goose is flying to the right with its head raised and body in profile and its wings curved in a down-stroke as it flies upward. Canada geese have white and tan mottled chest and belly feathers, white under-tail feathers, brown back and wing feathers, a long, slender black neck, a black head with a white cheek patch that run under the upper throat, dark eyes, black bills, and black legs and webbed feet.
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🦅 RichKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈 @rihilism.bsky.social · 2d
#SilentSunday
Photograph of an American bald eagle flying through light snow with out of focus snow-covered branches in the background. The eagle is flying to left in partial profile leaving its left body and underwing as well as its right underwing visible. The eagle's wings are spread wide to the right and left with the wing tip flight feathers curled upwards and its feet tucked in against its tail. Bald eagles have brown body feathers, white head and tail feathers, clear, light yellow-green eyes with large pupils, yellow-orange beaks that curve downward to a point, yellow-orange legs, and yellow-orange feet that end in sharp black talons.
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🦅 RichKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈 @rihilism.bsky.social · 2d
#SilentSunday
Photograph of a female mallard duck swimming in green-brown water that reflects the blue sky above. There is an out of focus male mallard that's mostly obscured by yellow grasses in the lower left frame. The female is swimming to the left in profile leaving one eye visible. Female mallards have brown, tan, and white body feathers, a blue, black, and white striped bar on the lower wings, dark eyes, orange-brown bills, and orange legs and webbed feet.
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🦅 RichKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈 @rihilism.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you, Brian!
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🦅 RichKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈 @rihilism.bsky.social · 2d
Saw some lovely full/nearly full moons last week including this waning gibbous day moon from last Wednesday morning.

#StormHour #moon #sky #SkyPhotography #Astrophotography #Photography #AltText
Daytime photograph of a waning gibbous moon against a dim morning blue sky. The moon takes up most of the right frame and at this stage the moon is nearly full having been a full moon only two days prior.
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🦅 RichKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈 @rihilism.bsky.social · 3d
Good Luck! BTW, if it doesn't work there's a vendor called Prairie Moon Nursery in Minnesota that I like to use. Specializes in native prairie plants. I bought my first eastern prickly pear pads from them and they have been growing like weeds 👍
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🦅 RichKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈 @rihilism.bsky.social · 4d
Over the shoulder pose holder (2024).

#birds #birding #BirdPhotography #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #AltText
Photograph of an American robin perched on a large tree branch with blue sky in the background. The branch angles from the lower left corner of the frame to the center of the far right frame. The robin is facing away from the camera with its head turned to the right to look over its right shoulder leaving its head in profile and one eye visible. American robins have orange chest and belly feathers with white under-tail feathers, grey back feathers, dark grey-black wing and tail feathers, black head feathers with white and black mottled chin feathers, dark eyes surrounded by white eyeliner, orange-yellow beaks, and brown legs and feet.
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Jaycee Crawford / Vision Logic Images @jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social · 4d
'Dividing Lines' (2025) -- in the Eternal Struggle Between Light & Dark, it All Comes Down to a Faith in Balance & a bit of Well Placed Textures, Tidebrook Preserve, Freeport, ME

It's Finally Friday, Let's #SCAPE!! ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
the frozen banks of the Harraseeket river -- ice on one side and frozen weed and mud and stone on the other, the edge of the forest cuts down through the sky aligning in a diagonal with the frozen edge of the river dividing visually and tonal weight both parts of the image, in the foreground a large log cuts from right to left providing the delicate act of 'balance'
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Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 5d
Good morning, today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #spotted now that can mean when you have been spotted by your subject or a bird that has spots or blotches on it’s plumage. I was #spotted by a European Robin yesterday. Good luck. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
A European robin stands alert on a patch of mossy ground, facing directly toward the camera. Its vivid orange-red breast and face glow warmly in the sunlight, contrasting with its soft grey and brown plumage. Bright green blades of grass frame the foreground, while the background fades into a dark, softly blurred woodland scene.
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Rob Crank Photography @robcrank68.bsky.social · 5d
@alan678.bsky.social choice for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Spotted, and it's up to you to interpret how to use the 'Spotted'

i'm going with birds that #Spotted me, and they were a Lapwing, Little Egret, Greylag Goose & Swallow Chick at WWT Slimbridge

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin
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Rob Crank Photography @robcrank68.bsky.social · 5d
Just off to the parents to do a few jobs for them, so i will leave you with some of the Red Squirrels from Monday visit to see them.

#mammals #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #wildlife #PhotographyIsArt #naturetherapy #wildlifephotography #RedSquirrels
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🦅 RichKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈 @rihilism.bsky.social · 5d
So sorry about that ☹️. I'm assuming it's getting some rain? I wish I knew what to tell you but to me those plaques look like a microbial infection (bacterial, viral, fungal). With so much damage at the base I'm not sure it would recover. But I'm not an expert w/ cacti & not seen this issue before.
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Linda @linda2.bsky.social · 5d
I thought I was invisible until spotted by this cygnet which stared into my lens. A face-off commenced. Great symmetry in a bird.

#BirdOfTheDay #Spotted #UKWildlife #cygnet #Birds #Photography
An image of a cygnet which happened to look into my lens at a key moment. This head shot is the result. The symmetry of facial features most evident.
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