Bryan Steffy

A view of Las Vegas north from the Horseshoe which used to be Bally’s and before that the MGM. Blue cloudy skies and the Las Vegas sphere are seen. The sphere is displaying the iconic “Steel Your Face” skull image from the Grateful Dead. Also seen is the High Roller observation wheel as well as several casino towers. Harrahs, the Linq, the Venetian, the Palazzo, the Wynn and Encore as well as Fontainebleau.

#BlueSkyArtShow in a 2024 summer #Evening from high atop what used to be the MGM, then Bally’s and now Horseshoe, a place I spent a lot of my childhood and youth, a photo of my home, beautiful #LasVegas #Photo #WestCoastKin #Cityscape #MyHomeTown #PhotographersOfBlueSky

A sunset is reflected in the lens of a camera. The ND filter, casting the clouds and sky and ball of light, the sun an eerie red magenta while the brown dirt of the desert and the black body of the camera offer high contrast to the reflection.

#BlueSkyArtShow on a desert October #Evening in 2024 the tools with which I create art became the art. #Sunset #Nikon #WestCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlurSky #PhotographersUnited

A red neon sign reads “SAVE DRUGS” against a moody evening cloudy sky. A red neon lightening bolt splits the top of the sign in half.

#BlueSkyArtShow
On a drizzly #PNW #Evening I yelled, “stop the car!” And jumped out and took this photo. Save Drugs, indeed.
#Photo #Neon #Art #WestCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky

A black and white image of an empty parking garage. A deep sense of loneliness and isolation echoes in the image.

#BlueSkyArtShow a throwback to 2017 #Inside an empty parking garage. I wanted to be with her forever. I wanted to hear her whispers and feel her breath. I don’t know why. I don’t know how. She left me empty. #PoetryInPictures
#Photo
#Photography
#WestCoastKin
#UrbanLandscape

A dark wood framed window with dark wood blinds, slightly open backlight a book box, a giant cinnamon roll and a white cup of coffee on a light wood coffee table. A dim Persian rug under it and a green modern short back couch with matching green pillows behind it. The room is glowing.

Today’s #BlueSkyArtShow post. Cinnamon rolls are my top 5 sweet treat, amongst cake, cookies, pie, danish and cheesecake. In the mid morning #Glow of a rainy 120 year old #Vancouver home, coffee and a cinnamon roll are perfect.
#WestcoastKin
#PhotographersUnited #Art #PNW #LifeIsArt

Thank you Vox!

That’s the stuff.

A reflection of of the Jeep I’m driving in a mirrored tanker truck on a two lane highway in the desert. A red flammable placard is seen as well as the lines on the road in the bubble of the tanker.

#TheRoad has always been a place of reflection. Sometimes I go for drives with no destination in mind. Just go. Reflect. Think.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#PhotographersOfBlueSky #PhotographersUnoted #WestCoastKin
#Photo #Desert #BlueSky

Wow! Thank you Alan for taking the time to look at this image.

Dark moody storm clouds surround the black structure of a yellow roller coaster which is mirrored

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Angles the outer bands of hurricane Hilary in 2023 created a moody sky. An abandoned roller coaster provided the rest.
#WestCoastKin
#Nikon
#PhotographersOfBlirSky
#PhotographersUnited
#Art #Clouds

Thank you Brooks!

Dark moody storm clouds surround the black structure of a yellow roller coaster which is mirrored

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Angles the outer bands of hurricane Hilary in 2023 created a moody sky. An abandoned roller coaster provided the rest.
#WestCoastKin
#Nikon
#PhotographersOfBlirSky
#PhotographersUnited
#Art #Clouds

A lush green meadow draped by deep blue skies and white and gray whispy clouds. A silhouette of a mountain range sits in the distance. The scene is a disruption of the every day noise.

Away from where the noise and the lights, the glitz and the constant need for attention is, there sits a place. Special in its own way. It’s free of our collective selfishness. It’s #Home and that’s where I disappear to.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#PhotographersUnited #WestCoastKin #Landscape #Photo

Thank you Bob I appreciate you having a look.

A view of the Milky Way galaxy with a silhouetted mountain range on the bottom 1/4th of the image. A few meteors can be seen.

#Home is wherever I happen to be. While the surroundings and circumstances might change, I am still me and therefore, home. Home is a mindset.
#BlueSkyArtShow #MilkyWay #Astrophotography #Nikon #Art #WestCoastKin #MeteorShower

A desert scene in the distance a sheer cliff wall, appears as a cathedral. Dark blue sky and white and gray clouds. Better than half of the image is of the ground in the foreground. Pale, dry, arid with a fracture created by water runoff, orange, yellow and red from the irons in the cliffs on the horizon.

#Summer
#BlueSkyArtShow
Time fractures into moments. Fragments stilled in an image, a time stamp never to be repeated. Living and loving deliberately and intentionally is what the desert teaches me.
#Nikon
#WestCoastKin #TheWildImages #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Landscape #Desert

A desert scene in the distance a sheer cliff wall, appears as a cathedral. Dark blue sky and white and gray clouds. Better than half of the image is of the ground in the foreground. Pale, dry, arid with a fracture created by water runoff, orange, yellow and red from the irons in the cliffs on the horizon.

#Summer
#BlueSkyArtShow
Time fractures into moments. Fragments stilled in an image, a time stamp never to be repeated. Living and loving deliberately and intentionally is what the desert teaches me.
#Nikon
#WestCoastKin #TheWildImages #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Landscape #Desert

The blue sky and white, gray and dark clouds on the upper half of the image reflected in the lower half of the image in a reservoir. Split by a silhouette of a mountainous horizon.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Shiny
Eagle Valley Reservoir August 2025
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#PhotographersUnited
#WestCoastKin
#Landscape #Clouds

The blue sky and white, gray and dark clouds on the upper half of the image reflected in the lower half of the image in a reservoir. Split by a silhouette of a mountainous horizon.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Shiny
Eagle Valley Reservoir August 2025
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#PhotographersUnited
#WestCoastKin
#Landscape #Clouds

I asked ai to critique and describe this image. Here’s the response. “Towering formations rise like a cathedral sculpted by time, their surfaces layered with fragments of stone shaped by erosion. Each ridge and fissure speaks of pieces once broken apart, now fused into something vast and enduring. Photographed in Cathedral Gorge, this image captures the monumental beauty of earth’s natural architecture, where silence and scale become a form of worship.” The sky is dark to light blue. Dotted with a variety of gray, white puffy and streaking clouds. The sand is beige and appears thirsty and arid. The cathedral spires rise out of the sand creating a towering monument of the same beige sand mixed with deep rose sand. It is jagged and you can see each individual adding its self to rise.

For this #BlueSkyArtShow a place I’d been 100s of times but not in 20 years.

One is small. Little breakable #Pieces collected at the foot of a monument, when all the little pieces are fused, a massive towering cathedral dramatically rises to the sky.
#Nikon #PhotographersUnited
#WestCoastKin

A wide valley stretches beneath layered off white stone mountains, their ridges carved by time. Two horses, one a pinto, brown and black spots on mostly white (L) and one all dark brown? Almost black (R) graze in the open vivid green grass meadow, small against the vastness of the land. Above them, the sky is streaked with soft blue and white clouds, creating a scene that feels quiet, timeless, and fleeting.

#BlueSkyArtShow
“The Quiet Between”

The world unfolds in fragments.
We are all just #Pieces of a dream.

#WestCoastKin
#Nikon #PhotographersUnited #Pinto #Mustang #Nature #Horses #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Photography #Landscape

I asked ai to critique and describe this image. Here’s the response. “Towering formations rise like a cathedral sculpted by time, their surfaces layered with fragments of stone shaped by erosion. Each ridge and fissure speaks of pieces once broken apart, now fused into something vast and enduring. Photographed in Cathedral Gorge, this image captures the monumental beauty of earth’s natural architecture, where silence and scale become a form of worship.” The sky is dark to light blue. Dotted with a variety of gray, white puffy and streaking clouds. The sand is beige and appears thirsty and arid. The cathedral spires rise out of the sand creating a towering monument of the same beige sand mixed with deep rose sand. It is jagged and you can see each individual adding its self to rise.

For this #BlueSkyArtShow a place I’d been 100s of times but not in 20 years.

One is small. Little breakable #Pieces collected at the foot of a monument, when all the little pieces are fused, a massive towering cathedral dramatically rises to the sky.
#Nikon #PhotographersUnited
#WestCoastKin

George Washington's letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport, Rhode Island (excerpts):

"If we have wisdom to make the best use of the advantages with which we are now favored, we cannot fail, under the just administration of a good government, to become a great and happy people." 1/

A wide valley stretches beneath layered off white stone mountains, their ridges carved by time. Two horses, one a pinto, brown and black spots on mostly white (L) and one all dark brown? Almost black (R) graze in the open vivid green grass meadow, small against the vastness of the land. Above them, the sky is streaked with soft blue and white clouds, creating a scene that feels quiet, timeless, and fleeting.

#BlueSkyArtShow
“The Quiet Between”

The world unfolds in fragments.
We are all just #Pieces of a dream.

#WestCoastKin
#Nikon #PhotographersUnited #Pinto #Mustang #Nature #Horses #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Photography #Landscape

A close-up of a white daisy with a yellow center in a square image cropped with just enough room for the flower. Behind the flower is blurred and darker than the flower and the yellow center is circular with infinite fractal petals. The flower exists in the front area of the house where the Goonies was filmed. It is an iconic location. Dozens of people cycled through while we were there. They would snap a selfie and then snap another one from a different angle. The iconic house and beautiful grounds was rarely the visitors focus. Their own faces were priority.

Today is #MacroMonday another one from my vacation last week. Vacations have been rare for me. This little daisy was one of a bunch of daisies out in front of the #Goonies house. I couldn’t resist. The flowers were stunning. #Nikon #BloomScroll #Flowers #WestCoastKin #PhotographersOfbluesky

Being an artist isn’t as easy as some might believe it to be. It is deeply personal to the individual creating it. Every artist I’ve known feels this fear intensely. Quitting is easy. Arting anyway through the fear isn’t easy. You got this. I just started sharing my art regularly. It isn’t easy.

Thank you Madelon!

A brown belted bumble bee, black body with a belted circle of yellow brown hairs sits on the purple/magenta petals of a dahlia flower.

#BlueSkyArtShow

As we traverse the #Jagged road to discover the sense of self we learn on that journey the strengths and weaknesses we possess. It’s a beautiful ride.
#Bees #Wildlife #Nikon #PNW #WeatCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Flowers #MacroPhotography

A black, gray, brown and white feather on a black background. The feather looks out of sorts. Disheveled. The white and brown fluff at the base of the feathers spine looks soft, down like. It was lit with the intent of drama. From a series of 20 individuals 3 years ago, 2022.

#BlueSkyArtShow feathers have always intrigued me. They’re beautiful with their #Alternating tones and textures. #Birds are amazing creatures.
#Nikon #WestCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Art #Macro

Despite the treatment humans inflicted upon him, he held no grudges. He loved everyone, even though he suffered unspeakable abuse. He was my friend. He didn’t care if I smelled or how popular I was and he didn’t ever ask how rich I was, he just loved being right next to me. And I miss him.