Jeff Studley

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At a height of 7000 feet and mostly dark skies, Sunset Lookout outside of Prescott was the perfect place to shoot Comets Lemmon and #SWAN. We didn’t see Lemmon and SWAN was found after the fact when I got back home; the telltale sign is its green coma.

#MilkyWay #stars #AstroPhotography

The Granite Dells of Watson #Lake (man-made early 1900's) date back 1.4 billion years and originated from magma that cooled and solidified beneath the Earth’s surface. Their signature look was created by hundreds of millions of years of exposure and erosion.

#photography #landscape #water #arizona

Shadow Dancing is Prescott, Arizona last weekend.
#nature #photography #shadow

Watson #Lake hosts a bunch of different water fowl and magnificent geology.

Graylag Goose, Canada Goose resting on one leg and a female Mallard scoping the scene.
#birdphotography #geese #ducks

Magical!

Living in the desert south west, USA I feel very fortunate to have this place just a 20 minute drive from me. The Gilbert Riparian Preserve is quite literally an #oasis.

Good walk around #Gilbert Riparian Preserve yesterday. Although the ponds are being drained for maintenance, there are still a good number of birds there.

Here are just a few: Great #Egret, House #Sparrow and a Northern #Mockingbird.

#photography #birding #Goldenhour

THIS #DOG, oh my goodness. I could tell he wanted to convey something to the owner the way he kept #jumping on him. I held back to get some dog action shots and got him completely off the ground.

Turns out he was just done with #walking and wanted to ride the owner back to the car. #photography

Record rainfall put us over the recorded average in one day. North-east of us Globe was devastated with flooding. A town somewhere near Phoenix got almost 4 inches in a couple of hours. It was intense.

Sometimes beauty and fury meet. These #clouds and #lightning were coming in the day before.

I have to read this one.

I shoot ducks with my Canon.
#photography
#birdphotography
#mallard
#water
#nature
#birding

Matthew Dowd is fired for stating the obvious. Brian Kilmeade says we should euthanize the homeless, his cohosts agree and they'll be repeating their violent rhetoric regularly for years to come.

It's kind of like Al Franken losing his seat over a joke while a criminal rapist gets reelected POTUS.

33rd #anniversary breakfast yesterday morning. A good start to the day with the wife.

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Good work local law enforcement and FBI. Now, can we get back to the important matter of the Epstein files? @cnn-news.bsky.social @velshimsnbc.bsky.social

The military oath taken is to The Constitution. Clearly this woman deserves no such honor from the military.

what the fuck is up with people who say they hate communism but then are okay with a dictatorship

But at what point will kids ask a question of a teacher and the answer is I don't know?

Cape Disappointment living up to its name #lighthouses

We have some friends in East Sussex, England. It made their news!

It was amazing to witness. The winds tore off the roof at the main airport in Phoenix (Sky Harbor - terminal 4 I believe).

So, this happened yesterday, the biggest #haboob in #Arizona since 2011. Our first one was early 2000's. These things are biblical in size.

It was estimated to be 10,000 feet tall, traveled about 30 mph, was around 30 miles across and produced winds up to 66 miles an hour. #photography #storm

This. 100%.

Such a majestic bird… 🦅

A geological history book. Love these scenes.

Sadly/hopefully 2028

Saving for later.

Yeah that one was from a farm about an hours drive from my house. Got pulled over for speeding down an isolated road I've never been down but they were actually looking for drugs (apparently a bad road). But when I found it... wowsers!

FYI - the wife is recovering from surgery, my feed will be pretty empty for the foreseeable future.