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Pat Lillich
@quietlynow.bsky.social
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sculptor, photographer, enthusiastic but ineffectual gardener.. cameras include Canon, Olympus and OM
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a texas green jay calling on a cold day #GreenSat #ColorADay #EastCoastKin #birds #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky
the green jay is a medium-small bird, with many colors - i am used to scrub and stellar jays which are mostly blue and black, so i was surprised to see this very colorful jay in Texas. this one is calling
November 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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a leaf for #BWFri #ColorADay #ClassicMono #SensoryArt #lines
the veins of a leaf make branched lines in a black and white treatment of a bright red leaf
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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since i had helios lens out i thought i would go check out the window displays downtown. #urban #photographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #Helios #abstract #surreal
white lights around a window downtown - photo take with helios 44m which can give distorted glowing results -
November 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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for @alan678.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #MorningLight - bathed in morning light, here are some sparrows before their morning coffee. #photography #birds #eastCoastKin
2 small birds, 1 is definitely a sparrow, are sitting on a branch covered with green and orange lichens - they are arguing over having to share the branch (the branch was several feet long - they just happened to land close to each other)
November 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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@alan678.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MorningLight this owl doesn't quite fit, but found it as i went looking. iso 12800, 891mm because i was too excited to check the lens was fully extended, manual focus on a tiny white dot in the forest #EastCoastKin #Photography #Olympus #Birds #Owl
this Great Horned Owl checked us out from the depth of a distant dark group of trees very early one morning - it was too dark for my camera to be able to autofocus on it, so I manually focused on its bright white breast which was a dot in the distance. ISO 12800 before i was comfortable using such high iso, and a large crop because i was too excited to remember to extend my lens out to its longest distance - so its 891mm instead of 1000mm. My Olympus camera did so much better than the folks with me using much more expensive Canon gear! woot! (ok,, the Sony folk probably did better, but i'm still proud of my relatively tiny, much less expensive Olympus)
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Helios 44-m portrait of a maple tree. the lens gives me the dreamlike effect of swirls and glow that captures the meditative feeling of being alone in nature. #photography #EastCoastKin #Helios #abstract #forestFriday
bare branches make dark lines through the red foliage of a maple tree in fall. taken with a helios-44m lens with front and back elements reversed, the photo swirls and blurs like a dream, or beautiful asian silk
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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maple tree in my yard #YellowThu #ColorADay #garden #Nature #EastCoastKin this is with one of my favorite lenses - Helios-44m with both the front element reversed, and i think also the rear element reversed. I have one lens with only the front reversed - this one is more fun #abstract #photography
the Helios-44m lens is known for giving a swirly effect and wonderful bokeh - if you flip the front element (and possibly the rear one) it exaggerates the effect even more. it is a vintage manual focus lens, with the effect most extreme at 2.8 or 3.2- it also gives a blurry glow overall. really hard for me to focus - a very fun challenge. Here it is one of our maple trees against a sunlit green area of the garden that came out gold in the photo
November 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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I'm hoping its a blue bird of happiness to bless us today! (we need all the help we can get) #birds #Photography #EastCoastKin #photographersOfBluesky
a bluebird launches off of a branch covered with red berries - its wings are outstretched, curved in a graceful arc. It had been eating the red berries just the moment before
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Happy Turkey Day! @robcrank68.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #HeadShots Here is wishing a peaceful Thanksgiving to those who celebrate. #birds #photography #Turkey #Nature #EastCoastKin
the head of a turkey glares at us over a branch of yellow oak leaves
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #OnTheEdge . Here is a giant petrel from the Falkland Islands. these birds were terrifying. eating carrion but also killing other animals, especially penguin chicks and newborn seals. #birds #photography #wildlife #nature #EastCoastKin
the giant petrel is a large bird - with a 70-80 inch wingspread. This one's pink bill tip suggests it is a Northern Giant Petrel.
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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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
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from Florida for #ThickTrunkTuesday #nature #Photography #trees #EastCoastKin i love the duckweed(I think) covered water they are growing in)
in the edges of a swamp in Florida - 2 (maybe 3?) trees in duckweed covered pond - trees are draped with silvery spanish moss
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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@alan678.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #yelloweyes . here is a burrowing owl. #birds #Photography #EastCoastKin
burrowing owls are small small mostly terrestrial owls found across a lot of southern united states. we have some in california - but building cities are killing them off. this one with its huge yellow eyes was in florida.
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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@alan678.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #warblers. This one was in galveston, texas - pretty sure its a warbler but have no idea which one. #EastCoastKin #photography #birds
a small yellow bird with black stripes on its belly standing on a branch watches a bee fly over its head
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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@robcrank68.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Mr&Mrs - here are Falklands Imperial Cormorants #EastCoastKin #photography #birds
Falkland Islands Imperial or King Cormorants in breeding plumage with incredible blue eyes and the funny orange bobble on the top of their beaks. they would preen each other and tap the other's beak with their beaks. Their backs look black against their white chests but when you take a close up picture the feathers shine a deep irridescent blue
November 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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the leaves on our maple trees are strange this year, so i gave up on looking for perfect ones to photograph and started looking at color and light. #StunDay #ColorADay #OrangeSun #eastCoastKin #Abstract #Garden
looking up through the red leaves on one of our maple trees, trying to get a starburst (failing, but still liked it) - the bare branchlets are almost black against the red and orange, with just a tiny bit of blue sky showing through
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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a second post for today's #BirdOfTheDay alternate theme of #silhouette - Bosque del Apache is wonderful for silhouettes. Sand Hill Cranes flying in. #Photography #Birds #Birdphotography
2 sandhill cranes flying in to the big pond at Bosque del Apache against a cloudy sunset sky. they make graphic black silhouettes against the yellow and brown clouds
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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today's #BirdOfTheDay alternate theme is #silhouette so i'm going to use it as excuse to post a companion pic to one i posted yesterday. Great Blue Heron and chick in nest at Venice Rookery, Florida #photography #EastCoastKin #birds #BirdPhotography
evening silhouette of great blue heron standing on its nest with chick peeking out.
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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@robcrank68.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay alternative theme is #Singing - not sure if GBH's exactly sing - but its bill is open - this was at a favorite florida place, before the hurricanes. Venice Rookery #EastCoastKin #photography #BirdPhotography #Minimalism
The Venice Rookery in Florida was a wonderful place to photograph egrets, herons, ibis and more - it was pretty badly damaged in a recent hurricane. Here 2 great blue herons talk while sitting on their nest as the sun sets
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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eagle on a snowy day #BirdsInFlight #FlyDay #Eagle #Photography #EastCoastKin #BirdPhotography #BirdLife
mature eagle flying overhead on a snowy day - snowflakes making dots against its darkbrown feathers
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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sitting in a blind by a pond, waiting for birds to show up - hornets would land on the water and float around. the game was trying to guess which one would be facing the right way and when they were about to take off. #flyDay #EastCoastKin
an orange hornet just taking off from the green and brown surface of a pond, reflection below
November 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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a yellow rose for #ColorADay #YellowThu #EastCoastKin #Flowers #BLoomScrolling #Photography
a yellow rose in San Jose Rose Garden, backlit with a few droplets of water. photographed from the base so the petals look like a flaring skirt around the green calyx and stem
November 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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there are some very red things in the garden right now. so a little over the top red graphicness #ColorADay #RedWed #photography #EastCoastKin
we had very heavy rain over the weekend - and it knocked the fruit off the strawberry tree. so i brought a few inside to photograph. the leaves are from a bush in an empty lot - have no idea what they are, but liked their color and shape
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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California turkey in the fog for #BirdOfTheDay #Round #Photography #EastCoastKin
a very round turkey walking through a field of stems on a foggy morning
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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one last one for @alan678.bsky.social
's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #blurry birds blurred in motion. #photography #EastCoastKin #ICM
a gull blurred in motion against a white sky
November 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM