Two red tulips
Tulips
May 2023
π· Nikon D90
@elempeng.bsky.social
Elementary Penguin is an okapi at the San Diego Zoo. He likes math and hates food. www.flickr.com/nicpic
Two red tulips
Tulips
May 2023
π· Nikon D90
it's either "the most incredible machine known to man cranks out 1,000,000 widgets every second" or "this man hand-carves these heirloom skateboards, averaging one every calendar year"
15.02.2026 18:58 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think ultimately my goal when I really get going is less to capture the particular lighthouse here but rather the idea of the lighthouse, or how I felt looking at it at the time. Of course that was ages ago so? Guess I should get 20 copies of it printed out and put them all in a huge frame
15.02.2026 17:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A fun thing to do with modern photography is lose your mind deciding how to adjust the color of your raw image
15.02.2026 17:34 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A house attached to a lighthouse missing its lamp on a grassy beach
Decomissioned Lighthouse
Cape Cod
July 2015
π· Nikon D90
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n-1) this one is even better but I canβt really afford it.
n) oh well, I guess I canβt afford a camera after all.
Deep in the βshould I get a new camera?β cycle:
1) my camera is almost 20 years old, I should buy a new one
2) this one is way better and I can definitely afford it!
3) this one is even better and only a little more expensive!
4) this one is even better and only a little more expensive!
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A macro photo of a green inchworm
Inchworm
May 2014
π· Nikon D90
Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, the camera matrix-style swings 180 degrees making clear what kind of move I was trying to do]
15.02.2026 13:05 β π 1519 π 210 π¬ 9 π 0I didnβt crop it back in 2003 because it was one megapixel big but now I can upscale it so that cropping it doesnβt look terrible
15.02.2026 01:48 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Fiddling with this one in Lightroom to make it less natural, but βbetterβ
15.02.2026 01:48 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Vermont
July 2017
π· iPhone 6s
Graffiti on the concrete support of an overpass that reads βlive to the point of tearsβ
LIVE
TO THE POINT
OF TEARS
March 2003
π· Sony Cybershot
A toddler and a dog resting on a couch. The dog is sleeping and the child is using the dog as a pillow.
Fry and Laverne
April 2018
π· iPhone 6s
A black and white picture of a young child in the back seat of a car.
December 2018
π· iPhone (?)
1970s paperback edition of ayn randβs the fountainhead with a photograph of an attractive woman leaning back seductively on a drafting board
can you imagine how disappointed youβd be if you knew nothing about this book and only picked it up for this particular cover
14.02.2026 08:23 β π 3069 π 523 π¬ 124 π 92lol GdT you fuckin sicko, if you didnβt do this Iβd be pissed
14.02.2026 13:24 β π 23 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0A iMessages chat bubble that says βIβm going to look at images until I feel better.β
Sage advice from my eldest
14.02.2026 15:07 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The previous picture but with horizontal and vertical lines straightened out
Seeing this now (i schedule these posts with Buffer) and annoyed I didnβt bother to fix the geometry
14.02.2026 14:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Three child-sized mannequins and a real child sitting in a row on the side of a porch
Woodstock, VT
June 2016
π· iPhone 6s
The stigma of a sunflower
No idea why I let this one languish on my camera for three years, it turned out pretty well
π· Nikon D90
A sleeping dog
Sleepy Jenny
14.02.2026 02:48 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Need to invest in an actual macro lens. F-mount macro lenses are not too bad now that mirrorless cameras are the state of the art.
14.02.2026 02:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A dragonfly
Dragonfly
August 2023
π· Nikon D90
A white moth on a green wall
Moth
August 2023
π· Nikon D90
Several people looking over a stone fence into an area below
New England Aquarium
August 2023
π· Panasonic DMC-FZ300
Also I hate to say it but this is good advice
13.02.2026 22:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A beach. People are sitting under umbrellas. A boardwalk and buildings are in the background
Rehoboth Beach
August 2004
π· Canon PowerShot
A black and white picture of a man walking on a beach at the edge of the water, holding a boogie board
Ocean City MD
August 2004
π· Canon PowerShot
A child holding a blue umbrella
September 2005
π· Canon PowerShot S2 IS (?)