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Breonny Lee
@breonny.bsky.social
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photographer. artist. storyteller.

www.breonny.com

Executive Producer @ Deep Ellum Community Arts Fair + Visionary @ Deep Ellum Community Center.

Dallas, Texas
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Breonny Lee @breonny.bsky.social · Jul 27
“The day we left our worries in Dallas.”

We also left the cast iron dutch oven cooling over the coals and Mama still asks about it.

#sunrise at the Davis ranch, west Texas.

Nikon D800, ca. 2015

#stunday #landscape #photography #BlueSkyArt
Deep indigo clouds reach toward the heavens over a still pond. Golden light peeks over the horizon in the moments before dawn, somewhere in west Texas.
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Lavender Clouds.

A Stairway.

Though

still not sure where it goes.

New piece, made for #SelfPortraitSunday.

iPhone #collage, 2025

This one plays with #duality more than usual. See comments for details/alternate.

#ArtOfSelfPortraiture #dreamscape #EastCoastKin
A surreal, dreamscape photographic collage made from multiple images overlaid. A woman looks off into the distance while a stairway climbs over her shoulder, leading to a doorway. The door opens to a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. Grounding and background elements include brick work, lavender clouds, sprawling vines, a “one way” street sign, and pink flowers.
September 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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I tend to think buildings and manmade constructs when I think #angles but I love how the geometry of these young dancers in motion lines up.

#DoubleExposure in camera.

Nikon D800, 2015

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #dance #photography
Young ballerinas in long, pale blue gowns dance around the stage. The flurry of flowing skirts dominates the frame. A double exposure outlines the shape of the dancers, like hazy spirits floating larger than life across the scene.
September 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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This used to be sprawling forest.

We razed giant oak, cedar, pine, redbud, dogwood… all in the name of development. First for the lake, then for housing, businesses, and recreation.

This is what deforestation looks like.

Beautiful, isn’t it?

#ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #scape #CedarCreekLake
The sun sets over Kings Creek Country Club golf course, near Cedar Creek Lake in east Texas. Pink and orange sunlight rolls across the hills and settles in the pond, while a storybook rock bridge gently rises over the water. The grass needs to be mowed; it tickles the edge of the frame, inviting the viewer in for an evening stroll. #sunset #landscape #iPhoneography
September 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Hi. 👋

I’m still new here. Came to make friends with artists and #HumansofBlueSky who are also disenfranchised with the current social media climate.

I’m a #photography based artist and commercial #photographer based in #Dallas.

Pleased to meet you.

#EastCoastKin #ArtofSelfPortraiture #UrbanGaze
Selfie in a window reflection in Tucumcari, New Mexico. Clutching my Yashica-D twin lens and a Barbie doll in my right hand, while balancing a red iPhone in the left. The Blue Swallow Motel lights up in the background. Feeling extra touristy in my bright blue Route 66 t-shirt I picked up because I didn’t pack enough for the trip. 💁🏻‍♀️ Really enjoying it here on BlueSky in a way I haven’t since MySpace. Looking forward to “meeting” more of you!
September 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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I missed #BlueSkyArtShow because I am wrestling with “home” these days.

To me, #home is not the place where you live, but the place where you belong.

And lately, I feel like a stranger in my homeland.

Grappling with this all on #stunday

A cell snap driving into my hometown #Dallas

#EastCoastKin
An American flag waves proudly as Downtown Dallas towers in the background on a sunny afternoon. The bright blue sky is filled with cheerful white clouds. Snapped from a car window facing north while passing into “the canyon” (the part of I-30 depressed below street level running south of Downtown.)
September 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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I call this series Space Between #Dreams.

Partly because they’re surreal dreamscapes and partly because I work on these pieces in the night battling insomnia. Sometimes I barely remember doing it so I get to see them with fresh eyes in the morning, which is neat.

#SleepySep #EastCoastKin #collage
This is a surreal dreamscape collage created on iPhone. A woman in a yellow dress walks off toward the left. She is on a door. We do not know where the door leads. In the foreground, a streetlamp competes for attention, while a lone, fluffy cloud floats above and to the right. Deep blues and purples imbue a pensive tone.
September 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Sometimes, all I need is a dose of #cloudporn and a reminder to #lookup to keep the crazies at bay.

It’s beautiful out there, this #BlueSkyMonday.

(Not from today, but wanted to share anyway.)

Hope your day is beautiful, too. 💙

Nikon D800, 2014

#EastCoastKin #MinimalMonday #photography
The sun glows from behind fluffy, smoky white clouds, while the deep, blue sky anchors the frame.
September 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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On the road again, so here’s an old favorite for #stunday

Edwards Crossing is a magical place. Built in 1904, you can still cross these timber slats on foot today. The view over the South Yuba River is breathtaking and a little dizzying.

Nikon D300, 2010

#EastCoastKin #landscape #photography
The view from the center of the Historical Edwards Crossing Bridge in Nevada City, California. Looking over the edge, timber slats peek up from the bottom of the photograph. The crystal turquoise water of the South Yuba River rushes under the bridge, winding through large, granite rock slabs that make up much of the river bank.
September 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Another place that used to be someplace.

Stumbled across this little structure, burned out, melted glass running down rock, barely peeking out amongst the sunflowers.

Lost on some little highway between little nothing towns, somewhere (nowhere) in Texas.

2013, Nikon D800

#summer #BlueSkyArtShow
A tiny building made of rock and colored glass brick peeks through a sunflower patch. The roof is completely gone, burned up in a fire.
September 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Been struggling creatively lately. Perhaps because worldwide dumpster fire?

Beat my head against this piece. Went probably too hard on that window to the soul thing.

Anyway, still not distracted. Release the Epstein files.

iPhone collage, 2025

#EastCoastKin #scape #dreamscape #collage #surreal
A photographic collage comprised of multiple layers. At the center is an eye, framed inside a window. Eyelashes interwoven with vines and pink blossoms surround the edges. A small boy sits at a bistro table looking lost. A man stares at the viewer, his eyes hidden by sunglasses. He looks impatient.
September 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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On that day, we ran out of cookies.

(A one sentence story.)

“Nomnomnom”

Nikon D800, 2014

#thecampfire #EastCoastKin #photography #Barbie #CookieMonster
A bright blue, homemade, life-size Cookie Monster doll from Jim Henson’s “Sesame Street” casually munches on Barbie and her kid sister, Skipper.
September 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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With the world upside down right now, the fantasy of exiting society to live off grid in the middle of nowhere grows stronger by the day.

Stumbled upon this sign in Marfa, Texas a few weeks back. Makes my wanderlust soul happy.

#BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin
Blue skies and fluffy white clouds frame a tar black telephone pole reaching heavenward. A small, hand painted wooden sign nailed to the pole reads, “THIS IS NOWHERE” in bold, black letters.
September 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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“These are not anonymous acres in forgotten corners of the map…”

As a citizen, photographer, and tourist, these sacred spaces have helped define my life and shape who I am.

This is a quick read—poignant, succinct, articulate, and important.
August 29, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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“Your eyes. The light. The heat.”

iPhone collage, 2015

#HumansOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
A multi-layer photographic collage featuring a portrait of a young girl with flowers covering her eyes as clouds play across the image in warm hues of red and orange.
August 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Was fascinated by this window and the Giant Swallowtail frolicking in it.

Patiently tried to catch the shadow of the butterfly at play.

Alas, the decisive moment was as elusive as this tiny fluttering beauty.

#EastCoastKin #WindowsOnWednesday #window #iPhoneography
Blue skies peek through a domed window as the framing from the window panes cast shadows against the wall. A tiny butterfly, a Giant Swallowtail, casts a tiny shadow as it flutters above the window.
August 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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The #skyline is breathtaking overlooking #Chattanooga today.

First time visiting Tennessee and just blown away the beauty.

These mountain clouds feel otherworldly.

#BlueSkyArtShow #iPhoneography
August 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Found this old favorite for y’all for #scape day.

Taken off the coast near Pointe Dume, Malibu, California.

Nikon D300, 2010

#EastCoastKin #photography #seascape #sunset
The sun sets off the coast in Malibu, California near Point Dume. A wave crashes off the rocks making a big splash right in front of the camera. A rainbow lens flare completes the vibrant scene.
August 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Some called him Keyboard Bob, others Deep Ellum Bob. To me, he was just Bob.

A legend in our little neighborhood, he will be sorely missed.

Enjoy swapping dirty jokes with the angels and I will catch you on the flip side.

Celebration of Life | 08.24.25 @ Reno’s.

#DeepEllumPeople
#HumansOfBlueSky
A portrait of Bob Crawford, of Deep Ellum legend. Bob is wearing a yellow and blue striped polo shirt, black suspenders, and a straw fedora, with a mischievous grin and a sly twinkle in his eye. To learn about Bob’s incredible life story, watch “His Name is Bob”, available for streaming in all the usual places.
August 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Once upon a time, this was someplace.

Probably a bookstore, by the look inside (pics in comments).

Redford, Texas

Now forgotten, abandoned, imploding, like much of the town.

Given time—and soon—nature will reclaim what was once built here.

#BlueSkyMonday #photography #EastCoastKin
An abandoned patio in Redford, Texas. Concrete benches tilt askew beneath a patchwork of roof slats. Most of the roof has broken away and blue skies break through overhead casting long shadows on the ground. Wrought iron window bars hide the contents of what was once a bookstore.
August 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Melting in this east Texas humidity tonight and staring at my little black mirror, can’t resist one more for #stunday

The #sunset over the Trinity River a few weeks ago, somewhere east of Corsicana.

It’s been a rainy year, so the river overflows and the forest is happy.

#EastCoastKin #photography
The Trinity River brims after recent rains. The forest encroaches on the banks of the river as the sun sets on the left side of the frame.
August 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Ballerina silhouettes at the pier for #stunday

2015, Nikon D800

I started my professional journey almost 25 years ago and I still love my job and, most of all, my clients.

How lucky is it to make art for a living?

#EastCoastKin #ballet #Dallas #BathHouseCulturalCenter #WhiteRockLake
Ballerinas pose at the pier, silhouettes against the sky as the storm rolls in. Photographed outside the Bath House Cultural Center on White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas.
August 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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“Entire Block For Sale”

2016

The city in #pieces to the highest bidder. Progress paves the path for gentrification.

I guess kinda like the road to hell? Good intentions and all that jazz.

Whatever happened to that project anyway?

#Dallas #ForestTheatre #BlueSkyArtShow #dreamscape #ballet
This is a collage featuring the Forest Theatre in south Dallas overlaid with images of ballerinas and florals in pinks and blues. The marquee reads, “Entire block for sale.”
August 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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After Dinner, a moment.

Sc a tt ere d.

Starlight Theatre, Terlingua

#FoodonFriday #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #iPhoneography
A black and white photograph of a restaurant table after dinner. Light shines through water glasses casting crystalline shadows on the table. Salt and pepper shakers, a knife, a dirty napkin, a pair of glasses, and the check complete the scene.
August 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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“I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

~ Oscar Wilde

#gratitude #BlueSkyArtShow #eastcoastkin #photography #collage #dreamscape
A woman’s hand covers her face. Her eyes are closed. The branches and leaves of trees trace lines across the whole picture. Shades of red evoke feelings of longing.
August 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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I live at the edge of civilization, where the road meets the forest.

Nestled in the sprawling woodlands of east Texas, men have dammed a lake.

I watch as trees succumb to “progress.”

And refuse to surrender.

At least for now.

#ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #photography #sunset #cedarcreeklake
The sun sets behind the trees near Cedar Creek Lake in east Texas.
August 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM