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Cultivating🌿Awareness of the World🌎 through Synthography(ai)🤖, Photography📸, and Videography📽
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The Forest Before Us @theforestbeforeus.bsky.social · May 31
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kathat.bsky.social
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BerriesandBeaks

A species very interested in Berries is the

Common Blackbird, female here
blackbird sitting in a hedge with dark red berries. The bird is looking to the left, has one berry in its beak. you can even see the little long tongue. Background is greyish with unsharp branches.
November 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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witchspace.bsky.social
I miss magpies (yes, and even the counting rhyme), instead around here we have these colorful #corvid, blue jays, as seen in William Kain State Park south of York, PA a week or so back. Professor Yaffle from Bagpuss anyone? 🐦 🦉

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #nature #BirdOfTheDay #Stunday
Color photograph of a couple of blue jays standing in short grass in the sunlight. One on profile, looking to the right, one from the rear. Color photograph of a blue jay standing in short grass in sunlight, looking to the left.
November 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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kat3638.bsky.social
Desert beauty #stunday #desert #landscape #photography #EastCoastKin
Rust and sand colored mountains of Nevada. Desert shrubs on the dark rust colored dirt floor. Wispy clouds in a blue sky.
November 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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damianshields.bsky.social
A very happy St Andrew's Day to ye all! Awa for a dram.. Slainte! Winter on Loch Affric, Glen Affric #Scotland #StAndrewsDay #GlenAffric damianshields.photoshelter.com/p/2026-calendar
November 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Cladonia lichen. #Newfoundland, Canada.
#fungifriends #fungi #hiking #lichen
Close up photo of a pale green lichen with brown apothecia. The lichen looks like a musical instrument from a Dr. Seuss book.
November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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lynzieflynn.bsky.social
Saffron Finch, Panama
#bird #birds #wildlife #photography #audubon #nature #naturephotography #birdnerd #wildlife #natgeowild #bbcwildlife #bbcearth #birdsofbluesky #birdphotography #blueskyartshow #planetbirds #photography #bestbirdshots #lynzieflynn #birdsofpanama #birdsoftheworld #finch #finches
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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thecraigmancometh.bsky.social
Morning shine

#photography #naturephotography #landscape
Rows of cypress, tupelo and hardwood trees in fall colors, lit by morning sun and reflected in calm, dark water.
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
theforestbeforeus.bsky.social
“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
-Markus Zusak
#ai #synthography #nature #quotes #literature #beauty
An illustration(ai) of a melting ice sheath
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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true-conservative.bsky.social
Saw these last week growing on a grand fir snag, for #FungiFriday
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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swandiveswim.bsky.social
#Mammal #BlackBear #BlackFridayNature Late summer, a Black bear stopped wrestling with it's sibling to stare at me.
A Black bear sitting in light green grasses, up to it's shoulders, stares at the camera. The bright sun shines on the bear, highlighting it's brown muzzle, from the left.
November 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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betheljoe.bsky.social
This morning, Truchas Peaks from the SE ridge of Picuris Peak, in the Carson Nat'l Forest north of Peñasco, New Mexico. Winter is coming!
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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wrenandbee.bsky.social
I had to be very patient to get this picture of a Hedge Beauty 🤩

It is one of the year’s top highlights for sure 🥇

#BestOfNature2025 #NatureWithin #TeamMoth
November 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
theforestbeforeus.bsky.social
"Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"
-Garth Nix
#videography #nature #philosophy #quotes #forest #literature
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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incnaturalist.bsky.social
A fat adult Cane toad showing off its prodigious poison packed parotoid gland.
November 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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robyaxley.bsky.social
A jelly lichen at the north end of the East Bank at Cley Marshes. There’s a small section of concrete with a few interesting lichens there. This is either Scytinium turgidum or Enchylium tenax, not sure which.
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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danjbrown97.bsky.social
White deadnettle and red deadnettle at Lakeside at lunch time
White deadnettle, white flowers with green leaves, in the sun Red deadnettle, purple flowers with green leaves, in the sun
November 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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menestune.bsky.social
Red Rock country loaded with cool stuff to look at.

#photography #scape #landscape #nature #Sedona #Az #love #zen #hiking #peace #nokings #bluesky
High desert landscape scene with towering red rock and sand colored hills in the background. Scrub and driftwood dot the foreground over a red sand covered land.
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
theforestbeforeus.bsky.social
“The way to realize is to open. The more you open, the more you know, and soften, and
love.”-John de Ruiter
#ai #synthography #nature #forest #quotes #philosophy #love
An illustration of a tropical lake shrouded in fog
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Leotia viscosa aka Chicken Lips. Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends #hiking
Photo of a fungus with a green cap and bright yellow stem.
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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kevinpjennings.bsky.social
Cardinal
#photography, #365photodgraphy2025, #potd2025, #photoaday, #everydayphotographer, #photooftheday, #pad2025-330, #red, #bird, #morningwalk, #cardinal, #songbird
A red bird (cardinal) is perched on a branch of a tree
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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lesleylovesnature.bsky.social
Jelly Ear fungi growing on Elder
#WildWebsWednesday
Brown Jelly Ear Fungi growing up an Elderly branch
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
theforestbeforeus.bsky.social
Prairie Petunia(Ruellia humilis) is a perennial native to central and eastern North America. It thrives in dry prairies, open woodlands, glades, and sandy soils, preferring full sun to partial shade. The flowers open in the morning and fall off by evening, lasting only one day
#ai #nature #petunia
An illustration(ai) of a purple-blue flower on the forest floor
November 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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sonoma-tim.bsky.social
Bright orange and yellow colored foliage in the Eastern Sierras of California.

#Photography 📷 📸 #Leica #fotografía #foto
#November_Kiek
#oranje
@ikbendaan.bsky.social
In the foreground is a stand of aspens in their bright orange fall foliage. In the background the Sierra Nevada mountain range shadowed by clouds.
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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quietlynow.bsky.social
an indigo bunting for #BlueTue #ColorADay #Birds #Photography
an indigo bunting is a smallish blue bird - this one stopped to sit on a branch as it was traveling through Galveston, Texas on migration(I think) - the blue is so intense - i tried decreasing saturation a bit, but this is how it came out of the camera. OM and Olympus cameras tend to overdo the blues though -
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
theforestbeforeus.bsky.social
“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
-Aristotle
#ai #synthography #nature #forest #quotes #philosophy #Aristotle #knowing #understanding
An illustration of a snowy night in a coniferous forest
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM