Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️

A new volcanic eruption in Iceland fills a small valley with lava. Bright orange lava spills out of a vent at the center of the photo and spreads out toward the camera (a drone above the landscape). In the background are numerous tall, rocky hills, the tops of which are illuminated by the just-setting Sun.

Brand new Earth (Meradalir, Iceland, 2022). #photography

A two-level waterfall in the UP of Michigan is surrounded by mist and dark, golden rock. A few out-of-focus purple flowers hang into the frame on the left. Above the waterfall are lush, green trees.

Step into the UP of Michigan to find endless, lush forest, stunning limestone cliffs overlooking clear blue waters of Lake Superior, approximately 8 billion mosquitoes per square meter, and an incredible variety of waterfalls at every turn. #photography

Thank you, Judy! 😊

A picture of my dog, wet, standing in a tub with a white towel over his head and body. He looks directly into the camera, mortified.

Can you tell he's not a fan of bath time? 😭

Thanks! :)

A black and white photograph of the iconic Shiprock taken from the center of a narrow dirt road pointing straight toward the geologic wonder. The sky is filled with numerous horizontal streaks of clouds.

Approaching Shiprock. #photography

Thank you! 😊

Delete this.

Check out my thumbnail specimen of autunite, which is nearly 50% uranium by weight! Radioactive ☢️ and absurdly fluorescent under UV light 🤩

It sure is, everywhere you look! ✨

A lone white road separates blue waters from pink waters, with sunlit mountains at the end of the road.

Vibrant pinkish-red waters along the top half of the image meet the salty white shoreline on the bottom half. The shoreline is shaped into a wave-like pattern.

Top down view of the Spiral Jetty. The Spiral Jetty is built of mud, precipitated salt crystals, and basalt rocks. The path is 1,500-foot-long (460 m), 15-foot-wide (4.6 m), and curls into a counterclockwise coil originally jutting from the shore of the lake, though due to the drying of the lake, as of 2022 a mile of lakebed separates Spiral Jetty from the shore.

An inaccessible road extends out into the waters of the lake with an appearance like a sword. In the distance are mountains with the setting sun on the right.

Aerial views of the beautiful Great Salt Lake. #photography

Absolutely stunning display as episode 34 of the Kilauea eruption came to life with dual lava fountains looking like wings of a Phoenix!

Live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...

A waterfall (seljalandsfoss) flowing over a cliff, shot from behind the waterfall (between the water and the cliff), looking out toward a vast open landscape and the setting sun. The sun casts a vibrant orange glow on the landscape and water, with clouds and blue sky above them. A single bird flies across the scene, light reflecting off its wings.

This and never having to think about generative AI again. #photography

"unusual" is what you got out of all of that, huh. Incredible.

A meme that says "live your life in such a way that if the escalator stops, you don't assume it's because people hate you."

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Holy cow! Check out this beautiful watercolor based on my photo of a storm I saw earlier this spring! 😍

Referenced photo below.

Literally nobody is asking for this.

Indeed, I think it's quite obvious. I just say guess because I don't like to speak in absolutes.

Portland isn't "war torn." My guess is the plan is:
1. Label Antifa a terrorist organization (not an organization btw) for justification to send troops.
2. Send troops to cities to intentionally provoke violence.
3. Use the "violence" to crack down harder.
4. Rinse & repeat until we are numb to it.

Hah, thank you! 🙏

Thanks, Mel! 😊

A stormy sky filled with mammatus clouds with a blueish hue over a corn field in Wisconsin. The nearly setting Sun creates an orange glow on the left of the image.

Popcorn skies over un-popped-corn fields. #photography

A photography looking out over a small boarded walkway that leads directly in to the water of Lake Superior. In the distance are rocky shores with numerous pine trees that are shrouded in misty fog. The distance part of the image has a subtle warm tone to it while the foreground is a cooler temperature.

A little misty, moody scene on the Canadian side of Lake Superior.

Thanks, Dan! 💜

Incredible timelapse! ⚡

No kidding. Such a remarkable feature/landscape.

Thank you! 😊

I agree to all of what you said, but also:
1. it doesn't matter if its what they want - it works, and
2. it is okay for people to feel shitty during very shitty times (yes, as long as we don't give up).

My desire to stay well-informed is at odds with the onslaught of horrific news every hour of every day. It is a soul-crushing moral obligation I feel that I must maintain. I am genuinely doing fine, but optimism is harder to come by each day. We can, and should, be so much better than this. 🙃