For this week’s #52Frames challenge on #52Frames_Chair, I wanted to strip away the obvious and present the tactile geometry of my work chair’s backing as a metaphor for the daily grind.
#monochrome #texture #pattern #iphone_photography #snap_mobile #snap_abstract

Row upon row, the structure holds,
A tethered rhythm, stiff and cold.
A quiet grid for the weight of the day,
Holding the shape as the hours fray.

She climbs the sky, she asks the blue,
A soft and sudden “Who? Who?”
No answer comes to stay,
Just the day that’s slipped away.
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#mourningdove #poetry #naturephotography #flight #wildlife #ClearSky #bird #Blue #Nature #Motion #Flying #MidAir

#Dog #LapDog #Indoors #CloseUp

I gaze upwards
Past the dark horizon
I find light
In the stillness of her sweet face
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If you look closely at the catchlight, I think I became the accidental human reflector for this shot.
Straight out of camera with Film Sim.
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#52frames #52frames_getlow #dogportrait #bnw_captures #petphotography

#52frames_getlow

The launch, the flare, the mid-air stall,
Then answering gravity’s call.
Wings tucked tight, a feathered dart,
The missile drops—nature's art.
🪶 #bird
#52frames #52frames_frombelow #52frames_2026 #redbelliedwoodpecker #birdinflight #missilemode #wildlifephotography #natureaerodynamics

A shard of sapphire
Caught in January’s blue
Eyes watching
From wild thicket view ❄️
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Exactly one year ago. I need to get out birding again.

#Bird #bluejay #birdwatching #wildlifephotography #naturelovers #winterlight #nikonz #Nature #Outdoors #Perching #Wildlife #Tree #snap_birds

#52frames #52frames_ruleofthirds
#ruleofthirds #stilllifephotography #quietmoments #visualpoetry #intentionalcomposition
#fineartphotography #photographersofinstagram #minimalmood #Lighting #Darkness

Quiet Arrangements

Light chooses
what it touches.

A leaf,
a spine,
a key waiting.

What opens
is never the light,
but the shadows.

An indirect take on the rule of thirds, using relationships between forms rather than symmetry to hold the frame. Edit for a nostalgic/vintage vibe.

A #self_portrait not as introduction,
but as boundary.
Less explanation.
Less invitation.
What remains is deliberate.

(Color was final submission)

#52Frames_selfportrait #52frames #noir #Black #Headshot #Indoors #Monochrome #People #Portrait #Darkness #Serious #Looking

This started as a #52frames_redo, but ended up feeling like a summary — not a #selfportrait so much as a record of motion, hesitation, and growth. Some things only make sense when you stop trying to fix them and let them settle.

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#52frames #52frames_centeredcomposition

Time folded back onto itself.
What remains after a year of trying, missing, learning, and circling back.

Expired #Polaroid.
Multiple exposures.
One light.

Christmas Eve morn—kisses to start, 🐶 💋
Tomorrow night, we’ll end with heart. 🎄 ❤️
🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾
#Carnivora #Dog #DomesticAnimals #Indoors #LapDog #Mammal #OneAnimal #Pet #Portrait

Layers of wood and light
cross and fold into each other—
a quiet rhythm
hidden in the architecture.
#52frames #52frames_architecture
#Architecture #Staircase #Stairs #Baluster #Handrail #Building #Indoors #InteriorDesign #Wood
#snap_architecture

Happy #Thanksgiving. 🦃🍁 🇺🇸
🪶 #bird #turkey #wildturkey

#CloseUp #AnimalWildlife #Wildlife #Beak #Nature
#snap_birds #snap_allnature #snap_moody #shutter_stories #pictasbirds

Among the grit and the noise,
he carries a quiet brilliance—
a small miracle of color
in a city that forgets to notice.
🐦 🏙️ 🪶
#Bird #UrbanWildlife #CityNature #CinematicWildlife #MoodyNature #StreetBirds #UrbanBirds
#PigeonPortrait #WildlifePhotography #NatureInTheCity #IridescentFeathers

#fujifilmxt5 #meridianhillpark #washingtondc #falllight #creativeathletics

He lifts three blue spheres into the warm November light,
letting rhythm and gravity negotiate their own quiet truce.
Focus, breath, motion —
a sport played in stillness.
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#52frames #52frames_sportsphotography
#Athlete #LeisureActivity #Outdoors #People #sports #juggling #actionphotography

#BlackBackground #CloseUp #MacroPhotography #Monochrome #Darkness #abstract
#GhostlikeBeauty #EtherealDance #StrangeAndSacred #MonochromeMysticism #MultipleExposureArt #FineArtSurrealism #SpectralBotanicals #VisualSeance #DarkPoetry

She dances between her own apparitions,
a tangle of light and movement,
as though her spirit forgot
which shape belonged to the living.
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Behind her, the world goes still,
holding its breath
as her many selves
waltz through the dark.

Swipe to fall with me.
Six frames, one breath of wind —
each caught in the space between
motion and stillness.
🍂 🍁
#autumnlight #fineartphotography #fallenleaves #stillness #BlackBackground #CloseUp #Nature #Leaf #Autumn

#stroboscopicphotography
#snap_bnw #snap_abstract #snap_minimal #shutter_stories

It shivers in the wind,
hesitating between movements—
Here, time folds softly,
becoming each version of itself,
layer upon layer,
before settling again,
a memory refusing to fade.
#52frames #52framesblackandwhiteminimalism

#Leaf #MacroPhotography #Monochrome #Softness #stroboscopic

In the warmth of a hazed-over dawn,
he cuts a silent path—
carrying the cool weight of purpose
on steady wings.
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#Bird #osprey #birdportrait #birdinflight #wildlifephotography
#coastalwildlife #delawarenature #primelook #softtones #hazedawn
#Flying #Nature #Outdoors

These three are my dogs’ favorite toys — a tiny woolen family that’s weathered every bout of tug-of-war and nap-time cuddle.
#snap_toys #StuffedToy #Toy #Plush

The Flock at Rest
They wait in morning light,
tongues out and hearts unguarded.
Playtime will come again soon —
for now, the flock dreams softly in gold.
#52frames #52frames_showusyourtoys

Even when the sky burns red,
a quiet sentinel endures.
Watchful. Unbroken.
Even when hope feels like ash,
life carries on.
🪶 🔥 🕊️
#birdphotography #naturepoetry #wildlifephotography #emotiveimagery #naturelovers #visualstorytelling #fineartphotography #cardinal
#Bird #Nature #Perching #Wildlife