(@kbroquard) — Bluesky Profile

3 days ago

A high-dynamic range photo showing waves against a stretch of Hawai'i volcanic coastline. A rainbow bisects heavy dark clouds covering half the sky. In the foreground, two people are small figures, giving a sense of scale to the image.

One small stretch of the always stunning Hawai'i coast. #Stunday #EastCoastKin #ECK #photography #Hawai'i

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4 days ago

I love how you framed this picture!

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4 days ago

Waves of water??
Reminds me of some pictures of sand.

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4 days ago

A pile of oranges with 2 half oranges on top. The half oranges are pointed up so that we can see the reddish interior.

#FarmersMarket
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors

Blood oranges

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4 days ago

A pile of purple sweet potatoes with some cut slices for interest. The whole potatoes are long and brown. The slices have the brown skin on the outside rim and mottled red and purple on the flat surface.

#FarmersMarket
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors

Purple sweet potatoes

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4 days ago

An American Avocet, standing in water, just landed and wings stillstretched out. Head and long curved up bill visible just over the left wing as it steps away from the camera.

#StandinginWater is today's #BirdoftheDay theme from @robcrank68.bsky.social with #Green as the alternate. I offer up an American Avocet, just landed and wings still outstretched. #Birds 🪶 #ECK

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5 days ago

Ty 🤣🤣

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5 days ago

You see an early March morning unfolding as a quiet drama between winter and spring. The sun, still low and hidden behind a layered cloudbank to the left, sends long crepuscular rays fanning through moisture-laden air, each beam made visible by the soft mist that fills the spaces between the trees. The atmosphere is suspended and hushed as only in the first hour after dawn.
The colors span two emotional poles, warm amber and gold blaze in the upper left where sunlight breaks through cloud, while a cool teal-blue sky stretches across the right, calm and receding.
The tall spruce and fir trees rise as dark blue-green silhouettes against that pale sky, their pointed crowns sharp and composed. To the left, a bare deciduous tree holds its grey winter branches, a few rust-brown leaves still clinging on. The mist between the trunks glows silvery-white where the rays strike it, and fades into a dusky jade-green in shadow.
The single most telling detail is the small flowering shrub in the lower right corner, a blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), whose chalk-white blossoms open on bare, dark branches as one of the very first signs of spring, typically from late February into early March. It is a punctuation mark of pure white set against all that grey and mist, quietly announcing that the season has already turned.

First light
#Scape #ForestFriday #photography
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#EastCoastKin

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6 days ago

I guess that someone likes the wax doll look.

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1 week ago

view of concrete sidewalk with a metal bars guard railing on the left side and on the right side a guard railing made of grey metal plates, with many different forms of fish shaped cutouts in them, throwing a long dark strip of shadow longitudinally in the middle of the sidewalk, with many bright illuminated by the sunlight fish shaped swarms seemingly going in all directions through the length of the sidewalk

#sidewalks #bridges #Fishy #fish #fishes #bridge #Architecture #swarms #school #street #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography #UrbanGaze #LightAndShadow #Shadow #photosky #PhonePhotography #photo #MobilePhotography #photography #Phonetography #AltText #NoAI

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6 days ago

Wow. That shadow down the middle is amazing!

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6 days ago

An American Coot, with a white bill, black feathers, and red eye, is drifting on blue water next to green plants.

American Coot. Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, California, USA. February, 2025. OM System OM-1 + M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #bolsachicaecologicalreserve #coot #bird #birdphotographý #nature #naturephotography #amateurphotography #photography

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6 days ago

Un froid de #canard

#birds #bird #duck #photography #photographie #winter #fujifilm #wildlife #wildlifephotography #eastcoastkin #oiseau

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1 week ago

So sorry for your loss

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1 week ago

Small brown sparrow on top of brown fence. Yellow bill, reddish-brown eyes, black and white stripes on head. Blue water then green trees and marsh in background.

White-crowned Sparrow this afternoon sitting on top of a fence next to Albany Mudflats, Albany, California.

#birds #nature #eastcoastkin

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1 week ago

Congratulations!!

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1 week ago

A pink flower surrounded by green leaves on a tall bush.

#PinkMon #ColorADay
A pink camellia from January

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1 week ago

The Blue Tit is a small, energetic, and colourful garden bird, often described as a tiny ball of yellow, blue, and white feathers. It is roughly 12cm long—slightly smaller than a sparrow—and has a very distinctive "masked" face.

Visual Description for Partial Sight
Head: The most defining feature is a bright blue "cap" or crown on top of its head, which looks like a little blue hat.

Face: Below the blue cap, it has a stark white face. This white area is framed by a thin, dark black line that runs through the eye and around the back of the head.

Underparts (Belly): The breast is a bright, sulphur-yellow, making them stand out against green foliage.

Wings and Back: The wings and tail are a contrasting shade of bright blue, while the back is generally a mix of yellow green.

Body Shape: They are very small, plump, and agile, often seen hanging upside down on feeders.

Key Identifiers
Contrast: The high contrast between the bright white cheeks and dark blue crown makes them easy to spot even with limited vision.

Movement: They are very fast-moving "buzzy" birds that rarely stay still.

Size: They are often seen in small groups (flocks) at nut feeders in winter.

Juveniles: Younger birds appear more washed-out and duller, with yellow cheeks instead of white, often appearing around April or May.

Common Sounds
They are noisy birds. Their call is a high-pitched, buzzy "see-see-sedoo" or a fast, rattling call.

Where to Spot Them
They are incredibly common in gardens, urban parks, and woodlands, often visiting bird feeders, especially those with peanuts or sunflower seeds.

Today's Alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Blue, any bird with Blue in its plumage set by @robcrank68.bsky.social ~ this was my last photo of February 28/02/26 of a Blue Tit yesterday evening in fading light 🪶🦉 #birdingWales #ukbirding #birdphotography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #naturetherapy

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1 week ago

A small Northern Pygmy-Owl with bright yellow eyes and spotted brown and white feathers, perched on a mossy tree branch.

A Northern Pygmy-Owl from this morning.

#owls #birds #nature

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1 week ago

Brown Pelican on a little sand spit with an entirely awkward and derpy takeoff

Poetry in Motion 🪶

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1 week ago

She is mixing up her statistics
A quick search shows that the number of unhoused people in California is 28% of all the unhoused people in the country.

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1 week ago

A white-crowned sparrow perched on a weathered gray wooden fence and facing the camera. The bird has light gray underparts and black and white stripes on its head. There is blurred green and brown foliage in the background.

For #FeatheredFriday and #FlyDay, a white-crowned sparrow
#photography #birds #sparrow #nature 📷🦉🪶

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1 week ago

Woohoo! Congrats

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1 week ago

A white door has a rectangular silver door handle.

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekHforHs

A door handle

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1 week ago

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekHforHs

On my walk I spotted a metal heart in a yard.

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1 week ago

Several great blue herons lined up along the edge of a large industrial dock. The heron closest to the viewer is in crisp focus, and the herons behind it get progressively blurrier. Most of them are facing in the same direction as the bird in front, looking out across the dock, which has a few large pipes running along its length. Taken at Ballard Locks.

A photo from today's walk. I sometimes get my ducks in a row, but this is the first time I've managed to get my herons in a row.

#photography #BirdSky #PNW #BallardLocks #UrbanWildlife #herons #BirdOfTheDay #NoBranch #nature #wildlife #WeekHForHs #AlphabetChallenge #UrbanGaze #birds

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2 weeks ago

Sometimes I finish the book, sometimes I skip ahead to almost the end. I borrow a lot of ebooks through the libraries and the ebooks are easy to return.
I don’t appreciate many books with ghosts and vampires in them. Sometimes I try a book- and it is ok to read or return.

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2 weeks ago

Early variety cherry blossom with raindrops.

First cherry blossom I have seen this year.
#ColorADay
#PinkMon
#Flowers
#Bloomscrolling
#Photography

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2 weeks ago

So did you pack up your food and head home??

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2 weeks ago

Ty. Sigh.

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