Bryan Steffy

The sun setting on a silhouetted dry lake bed with desert mountains on the horizon. A few lingering wispy clouds remain in the deep blue sky and the sun in gas left lower third of the image has starbursts coming from the brilliant golden center. A reminder that there’s only one of you. You are the only you there is. Let your soul shine bright. You are a beacon of light for people you don’t know.

#BlueskyArtShow The weather calls for #Sunshine but it sure feels like rain.
Lookin for the #Sunlight but it sure looks like darkest night.
The #Sun will rise. The sun will set.
Gotta let your soul shine, we are each other’s warmth and light.
The sun after a storm ©️2024
#Nikon
#WestCoastKin

Lovely! Since I was a child, seeing the moon has inspired me to run, ride or drive straight at the it, believing I could catch it.The fuller the moon the stronger the inclination is, but, I can’t catch it. So I just stop what I’m doing for as long as I can and just look at it and imagine I can

A nearly full moon is seen in the afternoon sky in rural Utah. The blue sky is light blue. The moon is bright white framed by a canopy of leaveless trees. Low moody clouds act as a backdrop for the branches of the trees.

#BlueSkyArtShow
The #Moon reflects #Sunlight like a mirror and can sometimes be visible during the day. This #Sunshine moon in the East Canyon area of #Utah last week looks almost full. No AI trickery here. #Nikon #PhotoOfTheDay #WestCoastKin #EastCoastKin #Art #Sky #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Every American needs to watch this:

A variety of colors and intensities of clouds in a sunset bluesky. the desert horizon on the lower quarter of the image is silhouetted and purposely subdued. The sun, in the center of the image is a vivid and robust brilliant yellow ball. The horizon is orange and blue and some pinks and lavenders. From a few years ago this image was taken in a dry lake bed in the Nevada desert.

#BlueSkyArtShow
As a child, I would lay on my back and stare at #Clouds imagining they looked like other things. As an adult, I still stare at clouds and imagine. Reality is wondrous.
#Nikon
#PhotoOfTheDay #PhotographersOnBlueSky #WestCoastKin #Sky #BlueSky #Landscape #Nature #PhotoArt

A variety of colors and intensities of clouds in a sunset bluesky. the desert horizon on the lower quarter of the image is silhouetted and purposely subdued. The sun, in the center of the image is a vivid and robust brilliant yellow ball. The horizon is orange and blue and some pinks and lavenders. From a few years ago this image was taken in a dry lake bed in the Nevada desert.

#BlueSkyArtShow
As a child, I would lay on my back and stare at #Clouds imagining they looked like other things. As an adult, I still stare at clouds and imagine. Reality is wondrous.
#Nikon
#PhotoOfTheDay #PhotographersOnBlueSky #WestCoastKin #Sky #BlueSky #Landscape #Nature #PhotoArt

A single rock sits in a wet dry lake bed after a rain at sunset. A variety of blues, yellows, oranges, whites and browns fill the frame. Every one brings value to the whole.

#BlueSkyArtShow
Every #One brings value to the whole.
#Nikon
#Sunset
#BlueSky
#WestCoastKin
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#Art
#Landscape

The Scream is an image with a circle of light with two reflections that look like eyes on a half silver and half whispy deep blue background. Under the eyes where a mouth would be is an exploding water jet and crater from a drop of water forms a screaming shaped mouth.

For my third #BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant shade, “The Scream”. Suggestion: shut off all light, enlarge it and look at it in the dark. I created this series to be viewed like that. #Nikon #PhotoOfTheDay #PhotographersUnited #WestCoastKin #Art #PhotoArt #Abstract

Thank you. If you read the alt description I share a little how I created it.

It appears as streaking ball inside a metallic shell in a black void. Firey blurred trails that appear as flames, trail behind it. It stretches from the right upper corner to almost 2/3rds of the frame diagonally towards the left corner of the image. It was created by hardening a couple aluminum foil balls, I ran through every dryer cycle for about 4 months. Adding layer and layer to the balls. From there the process was to use the spheres in a variety of photos. The trail was, dyed and dried hot glue, streaks. It took about 5 months to get to this particular image. I think. I’ll name it, Vibrancy Is A State Of Mind.

Going back a stretch for the #Vibrant #BlueSkyArtShow my birthday, a photo you’re seeing for the first time. I create art from imagination and awe.
#Nikon #Art #Abstract #WestCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #Photo

Water drips on a vibrant metallic red/purple background.

#BlueSkyArtShow
Reality is #Vibrant

#WestCoastKin
#Abstract
#PhotographersUnited
#PhotographersOfBlueSky

The deep irony of threatening Iran if it shoots protesters while threatening to shoot protesters is evidence that authority will hurt and punish the innocent to prove they’re in charge and the rules only apply to inferiors.

Me too man! It’s been too long!

Hahaha. We didn’t have a great relationship. His father was a POW in WWII in Japan. He also worked out in mercury. He was even more badass. lol.

The trombone is awesome!! My step dad played the trombone on the strip when all the lounge acts had live orchestras. He became a music teacher when the strip went to tracks. He used to play it to annoy and irritate me awake sometimes. Sometimes lol he’d follow me around taunting me with it.

It is nice, it’s my workhorse.

That’s awesome! I love looking up and seeing how small we are. Here’s the set up when I took it.

A modern faucet flowing water. Mineral deposits are seen through the flowing water and a design appears in the water as it flows out of the open faucet.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#NewYear
May the flow of creativity never stop. #WestCoastKin
#Nikon #PhotoOfTheDay
#PhotographersOfBlueSky #Abstract #Art

A orange, brown, white spotted and black Monarch butterfly sits on a plant. Taken on 12/23/25, Nikon Z9, Voigtlander 65mm APO Lanthar lens.

#BlueSkyArtShow The #MonarchButterfly is celebrated during the Dia de los Muertos #Holiday as representing the spirits of loved ones. This #Butterfly was seen at the Desert Botanical Garden in Scottsdale, AZ on 12/23/25
#Nikon
#Voigtlander
#WestCoastKin
#Nature
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#Photo

A portrait of 3 go-go dancers in their dancing outfits, tall stiletto boots, fishnets, short short shorts, red bras, blonde hair and Santa hats. In the center of them is Little Tim, a little person who manned the elevator at the once world famous nightclub at the Hard Rock Las Vegas, Body English. Tim is smoking, he was a chain smoker and he’s wearing a tux and Santa hat. The photo was taken as a promotional series for a show at the hotel at the time, Beacher’s Madhouse. I titled it “Merry F’in Christmas” because that’s what came to mind during the session.

Happy 1 year #BlueSkyArtShow it’s fun to submit and to see others submission. For this weeks #OpenHouse from my archive way way back in 07ish, a photo titled “Merry F’in Christmas”.
#Nikon #Portrait #WestCoastKin #Art #MerryChristmas

A portrait of 3 go-go dancers in their dancing outfits, tall stiletto boots, fishnets, short short shorts, red bras, blonde hair and Santa hats. In the center of them is Little Tim, a little person who manned the elevator at the once world famous nightclub at the Hard Rock Las Vegas, Body English. Tim is smoking, he was a chain smoker and he’s wearing a tux and Santa hat. The photo was taken as a promotional series for a show at the hotel at the time, Beacher’s Madhouse. I titled it “Merry F’in Christmas” because that’s what came to mind during the session.

Happy 1 year #BlueSkyArtShow it’s fun to submit and to see others submission. For this weeks #OpenHouse from my archive way way back in 07ish, a photo titled “Merry F’in Christmas”.
#Nikon #Portrait #WestCoastKin #Art #MerryChristmas

The moon, full and massive in the nights sky rises over the small town of Searchlight Nevada. The moon an orange ball looks huge in the sky.

#BlueSkyArtShow Another of my #FavoriteThings is the #Moon. I always think if I drive straight toward it, eventually I’ll catch it. Science and stuff ruins that imaginary past time, but, still the moon is amazing.
#Nikon #WestCoastKin #AstroPhotography #Sky
From 2024. That’s Searchlight, Nevada

From 2022 a pigeon feather. It took several days of soaking with food coloring to dye the feather. I then cleaned the center. The pigeon is hated. Yet it eats our trash, our litter and it does tasks for us. But, they’re viewed as ugly and dirty and dumb. Imagine if pigeons were rainbow colored this feather is a mix of blue, purple, yellow, orange, green and black, white and gray.

#BlueSkyArtShow
One of my #FavoriteThings is birds and one of my favorite birds are pigeons. They clean up after us. Without them the litter would be overwhelming. They carry communications for us. Where we are, pigeons are and we hate them for it.
#WestCoastKin
#Nikon
#PhotographersUnited

A brown pelican flies against an all white cloudy sky making the pelican look as if it was in a high key fashion portrait. The pelican is tho the far right and gliding on its enormous wings. It was raining. More accurately it was misting not raining. A few wing feathers on the pelican can be seen as an iridescent yellow brown. It appears to missing whole feathers and chunks of feathers.

#BluSkyArtShow
One of my #FavoriteThings are birds. Birds fall into 3 categories. Pests. Foods. or Idols. Even on a cloudy #PNW day at Long Beach, the brown pelicans were fun to watch.
#Nikon
#WestCoastKin
#Birds
#Pelicans
#PhotographersOfBlueSky

Dramatic white to dark gray clouds dominate the image. Blue sky peaks through from deep blue to light blue and the dry lake bead and distant mountains are silhouetted.

#BlueSkyArtShow
Sometimes the #Sky is so dramatic I have to stop what I’m doing and watch the light fade. Sometimes I have a camera. From 2023. #Clouds #Nikon #WestCoastKin #Nevada #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Art #SkyScape

Thank you Pat!

A dramatic sunset with yellow and brown and black tones and whispy clouds. Small sky blues peak through the clouds.

#BlueSkyArtShow
We look to the #Sky for so many things, but answers are the ones we find just for us. 2023 Nevada #Sunset
#Nikon
#WestCoastKin
#PhotographersOfBlueSky #PhotoOfTheDay #Art #Clouds

A bunch of wooden stick matches explode in orange, red, yellow, blue, pink and purple flames against a black background. The soft light swirls around the blackened match heads, fractions of seconds in time. Timing and white balance creates the magical rainbow of colors and shutter speed and aperture created the depth and motion of the explosion. Setting the camera within inches of the matches, I used my left hand to ignite them with a long lighter and I used my right hand to plunge the shutter release as the chain reaction occurred. This project used several thousand matches over weeks of daily shoots. 4-5 hours a shoot to set up, focus and photograph something so common we never watch, in awe. This is but one of the many images I created during this campaign. I even made a Spotify playlist called Matches which was the soundtrack to the series.

#BlueSkyArtShow Throughout human history, #Fire has been a source of #Warmth A project from 2022, capturing matches as they explode in flames. The alt text has more info.
#Nikon #WestCoastKin #PhotoOfTheDay
#PhotoArt
#ArtOfPhotography
#PhotographersUnited
#PhotographersOfBlueSky

A light pink to deep pink camellia flower with drops of fresh rain and an ant, searching. The yellow stamen hidden with the center.

#BlueSkyArtShow During a brief break in a #PNW drizzle, pink camellia flowers looked stunning. And, there within the petals #Small ants wandering around. I know I looked goofy buzzing around from #Flower to flower saying out loud, whoa! May we never lose our wonder.
#Rain #WestCoastKin
#Art #Nature

Thank you John !