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a young cat shoves her nose under a pile of lit Christmas tree lights

... and then she bowed her lil head and let the light wash over her
#photography

she's only in her second year and most of her first year was trauma so . . . this is prolly her first experience of Christmas

which is to say: who knows what will happen when we put the tree up

a young cat lying next to a mess of Christmas lights, with one of the small bulbs pushed up against her closed mouth as she looks skyward in innocent contemplation

she had a taste but didn't bite
#cat #photography

a young cat lying next to a string of Christmas lights and staring wide-eyed at the camera

tiabeanie and the holiday lights
#cat #photography

sunset clouds running across a pale blue sky above a shadowy distant shore. pink and peach

detail of a wispy sunset cloud. pink and peach

huge bank of sunset pink clouds moving out of frame-right, leaving an empty pale blue sky behind

#photography

low focus image of stacks of black and white photos of a life long forgotten and in the top right, a few fingers sorting through yellowed papers.

stacks of old black and white photos, yellowed papers and an old book. in the center in sharp focus is a very young man in a smart new military coat and hat, standing in the snow.

sorting through the forgotten
#photography

fluffy fuzzy seeds (?) cling to the top of a dry woody stem as the sun sets gently in the background. if you stare long enough it kinda looks like a ship on the blurry water

stopped down (prolly f4? manual lens and i didn't take notes)
pic of a thing at sunset

previous was wide open and that minolta lens gets real gooey dreamy at 1.2

#photography

fuzzy seeds (?) cling in a dense bunch at the top of a thin woody stem, limned by a setting sun, deeply blurred in the top left corner. soft sunset pastel colors of purple blue pink and yellow

a thing
at sunset
#photography

two bare branches from different trees cross at the top of the image, forming a triangle with the far shadowed shore as the hypotenuse. behind them, the pale blue sky is filled with softly blurred puffy clouds in sunset retinue. the dominant color is a kind of peach-pink yellow orange.

sunset yesterday
#photography

a bright full moon in a field of sunset purple sky below a long fluffy cloud at the bottom is a gas station and traffic (image flopped to avoid directly advertising an oil company.)

today the sun went down at 415. im not ok with this yet.
#photography

clusters of orange/red berries on a woody stem against clear blue sky. more blurry bunches of berries are visible in the background. the berries look very much like tiny tiny tomatoes, attached backwards.

winter berries
#photography

also , those 5 pics without alt text keep me up at night ...

stats showing that I've put alt text on all but 5 of 1260 photos.

stats showing that 81% of ppl on blusky interact with more than 559 unique accounts...i think? im a lil confused because it also says that my 12 replies is 'above average'? my outgoing likes are also above average?

as per usual, i dont really understand how other ppl use social media (amongst...other things). i take pictures every day while walking around and living my life, and then i post some of them. that's me being social on the Internet.
but i think most ppl play it like a video game or a pastime?

a big tree hanging on to all of its brown leaves

waiting at a crosswalk photo
#photography

Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.

thank you!

a snarl of sticks and branches, light and shadow. through a small opening can be seen dark water

#photography

multiple thin birch trees plumb the shadows. a spray of red leaves is the only visible foliage

abstract shot of a wooded area, with blurry grass and a couple blurry yellow leaves in the foreground.. in the distance a sudden stand of thin new birch trees have sprung up in a small clearing, bright lit like lines of light piercing the darkened wood

birches are the spiderwebs of trees
catching light and filling space with thin geometry

they collectively shiver in the wind
and they seem to appear overnight

2 pics from a walk 2 days ago
#photography

Aquarell eines kleinen weiß grau blauen Vogels. Seine Brust ist weiß, sein Schnabel und die Flügel sind graublau und schwarz. Sein Schnabel grau. Er klettert kopfüber einen Baumstamm herunter der am Rechten Rand ins Bild ragt. Dabei hat er seinen Kopf angehoben und scheint nach links zu schauen. Der Hintergrund ist hellblau verwaschen und geht nach unten in ein verwaschenes grün über.

Ein kleiner Weißbrustkleiber in Aquarell...

#WattIsKunst
#kleineKunstklasse
#Birds
#Aquarell

dark water in the foreground and a sunlit embankment on the far side topped with a mega traffic-signal on a massive metal pole

we take our nature where we can get it

this small pond often hosts great blue (and other) herons, nesting swans (1 pair a year), and various diving ducks. visible at the top of the ridge is a major multi-lane highway with constant traffic (i waited). homeless encampments dot the bank.
#photography

layers and layers of dried plants in deep auburn and rust-red with lighter bunches of tiny seeds at top

thin woody stems with tiny tiny flowers and tiny brown fluff balls against a watery background and super bright specular highlight bokeh.

yesterday was very sunny
#photography

a stand of small birch trees crowded together near a footpath. everything is in deep-shadow blue

blue day
#photography

ugh it doesn't feel good but i just blocked a nice looking person because they were so interested in AI.

NO. just no. sry.

houses jumbled together in light and shadow. a bright white chimney on the left, in front of a dark wall beneath a peaked roof.

a bright sunlit chainlink fence obscures a shadowy yard where one shaft of late light harshly illuminates two plaster creatures decorating the space.

across the street in front of some stone steps, an eager squirrel chews on a tiny pumpkin it's stolen from someone's porch.

thanksgiving walk
#blackandwhite #photography

empty seed pods crowded on a curving branch above wilting flowers

2 leafless trees festooned with thick ivy behind a wooden pole topped with a streetlight

looking up into the boughs of a tree that hasn't yet dropped all it's leaves. near the center is the rounded shape of a paper wasps nest, dangling in the sunlight

an American flag at half-mast on a bright white flagpole behind a bright white fence-wall. the flag is caught on some nearby branches and stretched out despite the lack of wind.

a walk through the neighborhood on Thanksgiving
#blackandwhite #photography

black and white photo of an enormous skeleton, tall as a house, dressed in a pilgrim outfit and pilgrim hat.

black and white profile of a massive skeleton tall as a house dressed in traditional pilgrim garb and hat. its right arm is extended and a large inflatable turkey drumstick is ziptied to the right hand.

this mashup of halloween and thanksgiving decorations is accidentally historically accurate
#photography

old red berries on a sparse leafless branch, dripping with rainwater

silver green leaves on a dead bush next to a seedy grass stalk against a blur of dead leaves

a photo of a field of dead grasses, interrupted by a dense cluster of small bright leaves and berries, red and yellow like frozen fire

a dead leafless branch covered in dry husks

#photography

A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

the trunk of a birch tree runs from top to bottom, against a blurry backdrop of dark, leafless trees.

just a tree
#photography

i love when cats run like their butt's trying to beat their head in a race . . .

white fluffy flowers (?) with small green leaves on a small new bush surrounded by brown shadows.

last tiny bits of fluff cling to a thin dead plant in front of a red blur of fall leaves.

#photography along a small waterway on a public path