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Hello! Into photography, drawing, hiking, nature, reading, music, movies, cooking, and thinking. INFP-T

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Replaced the cutesy flower motif with a chain and sprocket design. Way better.
September 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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A handful of blackberries. I always want to rip the vines out but then this happens. nom nom
June 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Misty rain on the hydrophobic leaves of the smoke bush. Love to friends near and far. #photogrsphy #blackandwhite #nature #water
June 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Perfect spring day. The light, the colors.
April 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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The Dag - Added some small details. Still a few things to figure out but getting there.

#illustration #mucha #thedag #furyroad #madmax #drawing #art
April 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Mt. St. Helens, August 2021

Hasselblad X1DII 50C, XCD 30mm

#mtsthelens #landscape #hasselblad #mountsainthelens #volcano
April 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Reading Fellowship of the Ring while sipping red wine from a One Ring glass and getting snowed upon by a Japanese cherry on a perfect spring day.

Love to friends, near and far. Space and time are fictions.
April 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Hike at Banshee Reeks

5.5 miles, 100 min.

"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder." – E.B.White
April 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Happy Earth Day 2025, Bluesky peeps.

Zebra Swallowtail hitching a ride a few years ago. Buddy hiked with me for 2 miles before wandering off.
A zebra swallowtail butterfly perches on a finger.
April 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Vasily Polenov (1844-1927) Russian realist and landscape painter. "An Olive Tree in the Garden of Gethsemane" c.1882. Oil on canvas. 30 x 23 cm. Location: Tretyakov Gallery.
An ancient olive tree, lit by the bright sun of midday, sits in the middle of a simple garden. In the background, grass hills with paths cutting across their faces, lead to a massive stone outcropping on the left and a simple tree on the right. The sky is bright blue.
April 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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The Japanese cherry fully opened today. The last two weeks it’s been stuck halfway because of the cold weather.
Full delicate pink blossoms are framed with a bright blue sky and light green leaves. Full delicate pink blossoms are framed with a bright blue sky and light green leaves Full delicate pink blossoms are framed with a bright blue sky and light green leaves
April 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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A color woodcut by Austrian painter and printmaker Joseph Stoitzner, (1884 - 1951), titled "Early Spring," 1917. He was born in Vienna and knew well the open landscapes and mountainous terrain of the Alps.

#woodcut #art #alps #stoitzner #spring
April 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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The Dag from Mad Max: Fury Road, played by Abbey Lee Kershaw. Work in progress as of 04.07.2025.

Graphite on Arches 140 HP.

#madmaxfuryroad #thedag #abbeyleekershaw #illustration #artnouveau #WIP #graphite
A portrait of Abbey Lee Kershaw as the Dag in Mad Max: Fury Road. The Dag gazes at the viewer, hair pulled back with four braids hanging down. Around her head is a halo of thorns. She is framed by a thick ribbon of stargazer lilies. At the bottom of the drawing are two crows.
April 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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The Dag, WIP. Detail. Progress as of 04.06.25

Character from Mad Max: Fury Road, played by Abbey Lee Kershaw. The piece is art nouveau in the style of Alphonse Mucha. Can see the end of pencilling soon. Shew.

#illustration #art #madmax #furyroad #drawing #artnouveau #alphonsemucha #mucha
April 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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89 north out of Page, Arizona into Utah. Picture taken at about 75MPH while driving. Edited for bug splatters.

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #landscape #fujix100
A road goes uphill and between two tall limestone cliffs on either side. The sky is flawless, not a cloud in sight.
April 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Self Portrait 48"x20" - Ball point pen, acrylic, red marker on blotter paper. ~1992 Definitely some things wrong here but eh, I still like the drawing. The bottom of the drawing got wet by accident which sorta works with the water theme.

#drawing #art #illustration #fish #hanging #ballpointpen
In this drawing a man wearing goggles is suspended by two hooks in his shoulders. He is wearing goggles and holding a large fish. His feet dangle below him.
April 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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The Dag, WIP. Progress as of 03.30.25.

Character from Mad Max: Fury Road, played by Abbey Lee Kershaw. The piece is art nouveau in the style of Alphonse Mucha. Long way to still go with this one.

#illustration #art #madmax #furyroad #drawing #artnouveau #alphonsemucha #mucha
Character from Mad Max: Fury Road, played by Abbey Lee Kershaw. The piece is art nouveau in the style of Alphonse Mucha. The Dag looks out at us, four braids hanging down. She is wreathed in lilies and wears a halo of thorns.
April 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Portrait from the Facebook Friends series. Graphite, Arches 140 hot press watercolor. 2020

#portrait #drawing #graphite #art
A pencil drawing of a man with long hair wearing glasses, looking intently at the viewer.
March 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Miyazaki sums it all up.

Keep fighting the good fight, y'all. Much love. 🖤
A profile picture of acclaimed Japanese animator, Hayao Miyazaki. The caption reads: I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
March 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Sketchbook page - quick sketches of bedouin taken from a book on the movie, Lawrence of Arabia. Ball point pen. Sometime in the early 1990s.

#sketch #sketchbook #drawing #bedouin #art
A page in a sketchbook with two quick ball-point pen sketches of bedouin faces.
March 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Hello, wee crocus. Perfect in the form, colors, and lines. Meow.

#flower #crocus #spring
March 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Bozeman, Montana and the Bridger Range of mountains rendered teensy by a June snow squall. You can begin to understand why Montana is known as big sky country.

#nature #landscape #blackandwhite #photography #bozeman #montana
March 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Horse thing from a long long time ago that I never finished because meh. Technical pen, watercolor. #art #horse #penandink #technicalpen #drawing
March 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Three images from Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve, Leesburg, Virginia, USA. August 2019.

#photography #blackandwhite #nature #summersun #hiking #bansheereeks
A giant oak tree spreads out its gangly limbs in the setting sun of a late summer evening. The trunk is in darkness, while the sky glows and flares through the leaves. A path through dense undergrowth is lit by the setting sun. The sun's rays cut through saplings to illuminate the trail. Abstract ripples of reflected light dance across the surface of Goose Creek in the Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve.
February 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Gneiss Creek trail to Cougar Cabin, Yellowstone NP, 2019.

I've never felt so alone in all my life. I hiked to the top of the hill on the left, ate a protein bar, and sat for an hour. I got so freaked out by the isolation I hiked back to the car.

#nature #landscape #B&W #yellowstone #hiking
February 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM