Nature Art by Gibson

Thanks Luis!

Two glorious and friendly Mule Deer, both paying more attention to the admittedly better looking wife (not pictured), despite my best whistles and kissy sounds...Zen in black and white.

Apparently two,
but one in soul,
you and I...
~Rumi

🕉️ Have a sweet #TwosDay peeps! 🫶🦌🫶

#ClassicMono
#MonoChrome
#Mammals
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#ImageAndVerse

Tyty Helen!! ✨🙏

The cholla patch sure seems less harsh and much more friendly in bokeh as a background for this male Gambel's Quail standing watch on a weathered fence post.

🌿Quail post🌿

🪶 #TopknotTuesday

A cedar waxwing from fall, enjoying plentiful berries 🪶
#BirdOfTheDay #SideProfiles

A close up photograph of a European Robin perched on a lichen covered branch. He is facing slightly forward and looking to the left as viewed showing his distinctive bright orange-red breast, face, and cheeks, bordered by grey-blue on his neck. The background is a buff colour with highlights from the sun shining through the branches of the tree.

A beautiful Robin for today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme 🪶 📷

With so much terrible news and conflict around, noticing the beauty of our natural world, even if for just a moment, brings me comfort and hope. 🙏 Wishing you all the best week possible. 🕊️

#Photography #Birds #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin

Rob Crank says: Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideProfiles, any bird side on to the camera, the Alt theme is #Robins, any Robin will do.

#birds #photography #ECK #WestCoastKin #PhotographersUnited

I've got a daily double with an American Robin's profile!

For #BlueSkyMonday, a female Wood Duck has some #blue and purple feathers showing as she preens on water coloured by a blue sky reflection.

#birds #photography #ECK #WestCoastKin #PhotographersUnited

All waterfowl is welcome on #MallardMonday! Here is a beautiful female Mallard on a rock on the edge of a pond.

#birds #photography #ECK #WestCoastKin #PhotographersUnited

A beautiful female Belted Kingfisher actually sat still long enough for me to get a few shots! Here's a close-up!

#birds #photography #ECK #WestCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Canada

𝙹𝚃 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟼

☁️☀️☁️🌩️

𝙻𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝙻𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚑𝚒𝚍𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝚍𝚘𝚘𝚛..

𝚃𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚗,
𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚑,
𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚝

𝙱𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚍,𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝙸 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔—
♥️⋰⋱⫷⫸

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚘 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚒𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛.

#Sun
#Photography

The sky is struggling to decide the fate of the day.. could there be a storm, could the Sun win … The cloud activity is overhead a very still waterway surrounded by golden grasses.

The clouds are draping and deciding atop the landscape 📷🕊️ …

A vertical, eye-level photograph taken during the golden hour, looking through a dense thicket of bare, slender deciduous trees toward the calm, blue waters of the Chesapeake Bay in the distance. The intricate, interlacing branches of the foreground trees create a natural, textured screen, while the soft afternoon light casts a gentle glow over the dormant brush and leaf litter on the ground. The horizon line of the bay is visible through the trunks, meeting a pale blue sky with light, wispy clouds.

For a dreamer is one who
can only find his way by
moonlight, and his
punishment is that he sees
the dawn before the rest
of the world. —Oscar Wilde
#ImageAndVerse #Stunday
#Trees #ChesapeakeBay
#QuietSunday

Golden hour stillness,
yesterday before sunset.
03/07/25 #EastCoastKin
#Nature #Photography

A day at the wetlands near sunset. A large tree is on the right among grasses. Water runs between the tree and mountains.

"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
-Samuel Beckett

Sunset over rooftops. Tonights sky.

“The sky takes on shades of orange at sunset that no painter can duplicate.” — Kahlil Gibran

sweet dreams💙

A forest in silhouette down low with fog and low clouds behind and above. Beyond that two forested ridges recently dusted with snow. Under very cloudy skies ☮️ Let your curiosity be greater than your fear. -Pema Chodron

southeast of Gates, Oregon

A haunting

For #ClassicMono

#photography #art #photographersofbluesky #weareroamers #artyear #explore #monochrome #blackandwhite

taken from a bamboo boat, the shallow river delta flows smoothly between rice paddies and mounds of karst covered in dense jungle giving the forms animalistic and sometimes fantastically monstrous shapes

'of Beasts & Monsters' (2023) -- These Karst Entities, These Biomorphic Creatures Roamed the Land, River & Sea..., Red River Delta, Ninh Bình, North Vietnam

#MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨ #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford

Un Ocell plantat sobre una branca que surt de les aigües de l'estany sembla observar, tranquilament, com es fa de dia.

L'ocell que contempla l'albada a l'estany. Estany d'Ivars i Vilasana.
#Fotografia #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Scape #RuralScape #BlueSkyMonday #BirdOfTheDay #SideProfiles

...hey, you should see all the Big Horn Sheep scat up there! The obviously named Finger Rock, none of the locals even know it as Thumb Butte, rises out of the Mojave Desert to give a one-finger salute to all the gamblers down at the river...ok, that's a bit of creative license. She's flipping everyone off, especially those that climb her. Try it.

🖕Thumb Butte, aka "Finger Rock" is a prominent, roughly 800 ft volcanic & granite monolith in the Black Mountains, overlooking the Colorado River near Bullhead City & Laughlin. It is a rugged landmark visible from both towns.

I peed on it.

#MountainMonday
#Monochrome
#ClassicMono
#Landscape
#Scape

Lone Tree

#Stunday #ClassicMono #Aspen #EastCoastKin

Black-and-white landscape photograph of a dense forest of dark conifer trees seen from slightly above. Behind the treetops, layers of mist drift across distant hills or low mountains, softening the horizon. Above, a dramatic sky fills most of the frame: thick, textured clouds swirl and stretch across the sky, with brighter light breaking through in places, creating strong contrasts between glowing cloud edges and darker patches. The overall mood is atmospheric and slightly mysterious, with the fog and towering clouds emphasizing the quiet, wild landscape.

“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.”
— Hermann Hesse

#landscapephotography 📷
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#ImageAndVerse
#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono
#treescape #cloudscape
#ForestFriday #Scape

A black and white photo of a small clump of pine needs floating on the surface of a pond. The ripples in the water catch the sunlight in a way that makes them look almost like smoke.

Just liked the ripples around this branch I saw floating across a pond one day. Figured it kinda worked for today's #BlueSkyArtShow prompt. 😁

#Flowing #ClassicMono #Photography

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Flowing
#Waterfall
#Photography
#B&W
#ClassicMono

Black-and-white photograph of Lake Chiemsee in Bavaria, Germany, on a calm day. In the foreground, a narrow pebbled shoreline curves gently along the water’s edge. Above, the dark silhouette of a leafless tree stretches across the upper part of the frame, its fine branches sparkling slightly in the sunlight. The bright sun shines through the branches, lighting up scattered clouds in the sky. The lake is very still, reflecting the clouds and distant mountains on the horizon almost like a mirror. A small sun reflection glows on the water near the shore, enhancing the tranquil, contemplative atmosphere of the scene.

“The lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye.”
— Gaston Bachelard

#Chiemsee #Bavaria
#landscapephotography 📷
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#ImageAndVerse #ClassicMono
#lakescape #cloudscape
#EastCoastKin #Scape

Sunbeams stream through tall, closely spaced trees in a quiet forest, illuminating mist and the leaf-covered ground. The scene has a cool blue tone, with long shafts of light breaking through the trunks and creating a dramatic, almost ethereal atmosphere among the shadows.

In The Heart of the Forest

#Scape #ForestFriday
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors
#ColorADay #BWFri
#ClassicMono
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin

Black and white image of a cattle fence and partial gate which then transitions to a barbed wire fence running through a field of grass. It's a foggy morning, and the image was shot into the sun, adding to the atmosphere and lighting contrast. The sun is reflecting off of the metal cattle fence creating a strong contrast of tones and dimensionality. This is at Laguna Lake Open Space in San Luis Obispo. California

#Scape #ColorADay #BWFri

Morning fog.

#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #LandscapePhotography #WestCoastKin #SLO

Good Morning. Here is my shot the Oxararfoss Waterfall in Pingvellir National Park in #Iceland for the art challenge of

🌟 #BlueSkyArtShow #flowing

#Photography #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #OMSystem

Deep snow covers the foot path that leafs away into the depths of the forest, the barren branches and foliage laden with wet, pristine snow

'Into the Wilderness' (2026) -- Woodward Point Preserve, Brunswick, ME

'In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect' -- Alice Walker

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨ #BWFri ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford

I love the frame and the quote! 🫠

Used it a few times, myself! Jo's on here, too! 🥰💙