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ATL Bruce
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Earthling. f/8 and be there. 📷 🫘☮️

Mostly a watcher ("lurker") here. Dumped the "bird site" late 2022 and went to Mastodon. Got on Bluesky earlier in 2024. 🚫 DMs for now. If you're following me to promote your OF: Now Blocking
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Less than 50 miles separates the southern edge of the Ice Storm Warning area and the norther edge of the Tornado Watch area. #weather #icestorm #winter #nws Thanks @nws.noaa.gov
Screenshot of a weather map taken at 2:02 PM U.S. Eastern Time. The map shows portions of Georgia and Alabama and is color coded for different weather warnings. In purple is an Ice Storm Warning region and in Yellow is a Tornado Watch region.
January 25, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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A little "clean-up" from 2025. Our church has a Christmas Eve candlelight service. I took the photo in color, did a black & white output, then put the color mask in, and "unmasked" the poinsettia leaves. I did this in GIMP www.gimp.org. #musicians #ChristmasEve #Christmas #church #gimp
Musicians on stage in a church at a Christmas Eve service. The photo is a composite mask, rendered mostly in black and white, but poinsettia leaves along the front of the stage are rendered in red. #musicians #singers #ChristmasEve #Christmas #church
January 4, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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Friday, November 28 ("Black Friday") morning, my daughter and I went to the PATH Arabia Mountain Trail (www.pathfoundation.org/arabia-mount...) at Vaughters' Farm (arabiaalliance.org/landmarks/va...) to take some daybreak/sunrise photos. #photography #pathfoundation #trails #arabiamountain
Two people standing on a paved concrete trail. Their backs are to the camera. They are dressed in cold-weather clothing, and they are holding cameras up the tier eye level. In the background is a field, with a grove of threes to the left and another grove of trees farther away to the right. In the mid-range to the right is a white barn. They sky is light, but the sun has not yet broken over the horizon behind them. A white barn in a grass field. The barn and the trees behind it are in full sunlight, but the grass in front of the barn is still in shade, as the sun rises behind the viewer
December 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Been a while since I posted. Recently took a trip with extended family to the Georgia Safari Conservation Park (georgiasafari.com), a private animal preserve east of Atlanta. #photography #zebra #kudu #animals
Photo of a Zebra. The black and white striped animal resembles a horse. The photo is head-on, the animal looking in the direction of the camera, walking toward the camera in a grass field Photo of a Greater Kudu. The photo is looking at the animal from its right side. This is a large African antelope. The coat is gray with thin vertical white stripes. The antlers are large and in a loose spiral.
October 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Great photo. But I have to say, my next thought was this:
Screen capture of God from the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." The animation God is depicted as a male, wearing a crown, with a graying beard. He is surrounded by clouds and more immediately surrounded by a glow of orange/yellow light
September 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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So did my late mother's cat, Gigi.
A domestic house cat drinking water from a kitchen faucet
September 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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The Savannah River at Savannah, Georgia at dawn on September 4, 2025. Venus can be seen high in the sky.
Photo looking east just before sunrise. The sky transitions from deep blue to orange as it nears the horizon. There is a wide river and the sky is reflected in the river. On the right side of the riverbank are some lights on some riverside industrial sites. High in the photos is a small, bright planet Venus
September 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Shot this earlier today (August 19) at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. I'm in Minneapolis for a work trip and took advantage of some free time to visit the Sculpture Garden and the MIA. #photography #worldphotographyday #museum #art #Minneapolis #framing
Photograph of a painting on the all of a museum. The painting is in color, of a winged human figure wearing blue clothing and red-lined cape. The painting is framed by out-of focus black metal handrail
August 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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"The Shade" by Auguste Rodin. This one was donated to what would become the Woodruff Arts Center by the French Government in the aftermath of the 1962 crash at Orly Airport that killed over 100 Atlanta arts patrons. This photo is part of my ongoing Blue Hour project.
Auguste Rodin bronze "The Shade" in front of the Atlanta High Museum of Art. The figure is standing, one leg bent, the left arm forward but punting down and the head and torso sent forward, facing down. The building in the background is white and the sky and the sky a deep blue.
July 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Our then middle-school daughter introduced us to #pangolins. 2015 or so.The 2017 Valentine's Day Google "Doodle" was all about pangolins. In May 2018, Atlanta Airport had a youth art pangolin exhibit that I nearly missed seeing. Sadly (for this case) we dropped Netflix awhile back.
Youth art exhibit explanatory panel from May 2018 at Atlanta Airport. The text reads: Pangolins are the most poached and trafficked mammal on the planet and most people never even heard of one. All 8 species, spread over Africa and Asia, are being hunted to extinction due to a relentless demand for their meat, eaten as a delicacy, and their scales, used in traditional Chinese Medicine. OMG [One More Generation] joined up with SKA Academy of Art and Design to raise awareness about these animals so people have the chance to act before it is too late. The work of SKA Academy of Art and Design students showcases the uniqueness and beauty of this scaly anteater, who is covered in keratin scales and eats a macrophageous diet of ants and termites. Their keratin armor means that when under threat they can curl up into a ball forming a shield of scales around their soft belly, making them impenetrable predators, but vulnerable to poachers. Their diet and digging habits mean they play an important role in modifying their habitats and so maintaining the delicate balance of an ecosystem. To learn more about the campaign please visit www.OneMoreGeneration.org To learn more about the SKA Academy of Art and Design visit http://www.skaacademy.com
July 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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June 2021. In a tree in our next door neighbor's front yard. #photography #hawk #bird
A Cooper's Hawk sitting on a tree branch. The hawk is looking at the camera
June 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Screen capture of a title card for "Chad Vader Day Shift Manager" A Darth Vader dressed character has a grocery store produce aisle visible over his left shoulder.
June 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Beach sunrise on Sunday. #photography #silentsunday #fathersday #sunrise
Sunrise at a beach. The sun has just fully appeared above clouds on the horizon. Another dark cloud is in the top of the frame, with the underside lit with orange from the sun.
June 17, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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This was toward the end of 35mm days. My daughter - who is now 22. I wanted cameras that I would know when the shutter would fire, as with the Nikon FM2. 2/
A young girl in a long white dress jumping into a puddle. The water is lifting the skirt.
June 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Out of curiosity, my brief search for Georgia says we have a native white Sedum. We do have a fall-blooming yellow sunflower, Stone Mountain daisies or Porter's sunflowers (Helianthus porteri). Photo from Arabia Mountain outside Atlanta. arabiaalliance.org/field-notes/...
Small yellow flowers in bloom, some against a blue sky with wispy, out of focus clouds. The flowers are Stone Mountain daisies or Porter's sunflowers (Helianthus porteri). They are technically not daisies and bloom in the fall in the U.S. State of Georgia.
June 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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I have a print of this one, a gift from my in-laws.
Black and White photo by Winston Link, titled "Hawksbill Creek Swimming Home." The photo is shot at night using a large synchronized flash setup. In the water in the foreground are people playing and splashing in the creek. Moving up there is a roadway bridge over the creek. Above that is a railroad trestle over both the roadway and the creek. A steam locomotive is on the railroad bridge.
June 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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This one, too. www.regnery.com/978168451360...

Full disclosure: I knew the author from a professional relationship. "Friend" is too strong a term. I stumbled across the book looking for "Caste" by Isabell Wilkerson.
Image of the cover of the book "The Myth of the Lost Cause" by Edward H. Bonekemper III
May 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Sunrise over a nearby lake from a few weeks ago. #photography #sunrise #lake #refelction
Just before sunrise over a lake. The sky is a mixture of of clouds and clear, blue a the top of the photo with an orange glow closer to the horizon. These are all reflected in the lake, but the surface is not smooth, so the reflection is somewhat fuzzy
May 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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For Mother's Day, a photo taken in the 1980s at an Atlanta bookstore. Left to right: My mother, Helen Gurley Brown, and me. Mom originally met Helen Gurley in the 1950s, after they each were 1 of 10 winners of a Glamour Magazine writing contest.
Photo of three people in a bookstore. Two women and one man. The moan on the left is wearing a red and black jacket and black top. The woman in the center is wearing a red dress and a colorful scarf. The man on the right is wearing a dark jacket, necktie and white shirt. All three are smiling for the photo.
May 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Here is an eloquent response:
Screenshot of the website of Disabled American Veterans: "DAV statement on the proposal to rename Veterans Day " "Posted on May 2, 2025" "No."
May 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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There's a bunch of others, but I'm done.
GIF from Monty Python's "Life of Brian" from "The Stoning"
April 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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GIF from the movie "Galaxy Quest" the Thermians saying "Those poor people"
April 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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GIF from the 1971 movie "The Andromeda Strain" depicting the organism growing
April 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Ours is not a caravan of despair. A great evening in Atlanta on Friday night (April 25) with Nadia Bolz-Weber #redstaterevival #nadiabolz-weber #stlukesatlanta Thanks to stlukesatlanta.org for hosting
Crowd of people in a church sanctuary listening to Nadia Bolz-Weber Nadia Bolz-Weber speaking in a church sanctuary
April 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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gif image of John Belushi as Jake Blues in "The Blues Brothers" movie saying "IT WASN'T MY FAULT!"
April 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM