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I waited 2 years for them to come back to our Eucalyptus.
And then BOTH show up at the same time!!!!

Just sitting there next to each other 🦉😍
Western Barn Owl AND a Great Horned Owl

#birds #wildlife #owls 🦉🪶

Layers of Wharariki Beach - Tasman Region, New Zealand.

#photography #landscape #nz

WE FOUND IT! We trekked day and night through tiger-patrolled Sumatran rainforests accessible only under permit for this: Rafflesia hasseltii. Few people have ever seen this flower, and we watched it open by night. Magic.

Playing around at the coast last night.

Tendresse : Ce n’est pas seulement besoin de tendresse, c’est aussi besoin d’être tendre pour l’autre…

~Roland Barthes

A couple snaps from a Redwood adventure this week.

if you can't embrace the fact that you suck at a thing and keep being bad at it until you get good enough that you stop being bad at it, you'll never get good at anything

it's impossible to get good at something new without sucking at it first

A weary knight slouched on a rock next to a skeleton. The caption reads: me and the one guy on Reddit that had the same problem as me 10 years ago.

"edit: never mind, i figured it out"

Not the worst place to watch a sunset.

Anemonoides blanda, the Balkan anemone, Grecian windflower, or winter windflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae. The species is native to southeast Europe and the Middle East.

Anemonoides blanda, the Balkan anemone, Grecian windflower, or winter windflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae. The species is native to southeast Europe and the Middle East.

The right half of a remarkably-sculpted mesocyclone of a supercell thunderstorm, photographed at night and illuminated by lightning. The clouds have a clear bell shape to them, indicative of where horizontal air is pulled upward into the storm's updraft. Striations in the clouds hint at the rotation within. While this photo was taken, twin tornadoes were in progress beneath. Central Oklahoma, April 2023.

Mother nature is the finest artist; the sky is her canvas. #photography

An aerial view of Shiprock - a volcanic neck quite literally sticking out of the barren landscape like a sore thumb at Sunrise. An exposed dike serves as a leading line, drawing your eyes from the bottom of the image toward Shiprock in the distance. Light from the just-rising sun is caught on the right side of Shiprock and the dike, while the left side of them remains dark. Clear skies are overhead.

A look down a long Icelandic canyon, with two prominent waterfalls. The first waterfall is near the camera on the right of the image and cascades hundreds of feet down to the canyon floor. In the far distance, at the end of the canyon, is a second waterfall of similar height. This one has numerous smaller waterfalls above it, with a little mountainous peak above.

A look along the columnar jointing on display at Studlagil canyon in Iceland. Large hexagonal pillars bracket both sides of a river fed by a glacier not far upstream. Partly cloud skies are overhead.

A massive wedge tornado churns over fields in central Oklahoma. A very well-defined clear slot wraps around the circulation. There is a cow grazing in the foreground, seemingly unaware of the monster behind it. Ah, to be so blissfully unaware...

Our dynamic planet in monochrome, pt. 5. #photography

An aerial image above the summit of Guatemala's Fuego volcano during a particularly powerful eruption. A large eruption column extends above the summit, with gasses swirling around the vent. An incredible number of pyroclastic debris (rocks and chunks of lava) is blasted outward in all directions, peppering the entire frame of the image.

The towering, rocky column of Shiprock sticks out of the ground at sunrise, with hazy pastel color skies and clouds above, and a very distant mountain in the background.

A photograph looking straight down the center of a road - between brown to yellow fields - that points toward a massive glacier that reaches up into the patchy clouds. The wall of ice has a somewhat wavy appearance, with brown, rocky cliffs on either side.

A large, distant tornado chewing up dirt and kicking up dust in far west Texas, with dark swirling clouds overhead and a row of powerlines leading toward the storm.

Our dynamic planet in monochrome, pt. 2. #photography

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me and my friends love to stand next to conspicuously marked red barrels whenever we're expecting to get into a shootout

🌎❤️

That first full view you get of the Tetons hits so hard. 🌄

braided roots of a desert shrub, arising from bottom of frame, reaching upwards, in black & white

braided dead Atriplex, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, from this weekend

Here is a collection of favorite wave photographs made on December 24, 2024!

Enjoy, and let me know your favorite images.

I Want To Fly A Helicopter, Not Look At A Bunch Of Crazy Dials

I Want To Fly A Helicopter, Not Look At A Bunch Of Crazy Dials
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A large orb weaver spider with yellow, white, and black stripes rests in the center of a web as the sun rises over a meadow.

Sometimes you just need a sunrise and an exceptionally large spider to remind you that the world can be a beautiful place. 🕸️

What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

I've done an unusual number of mentoring calls this week, and one thing I'd like to remind everyone is, you are enough, and you can't forget how far you've come. You're most likely in the best position you've ever been in to build on top of everything you've done until this point.

An aerial view of the volcanic neck known as Shiprock - a massive towering column of rock in the middle of nowhere in NW NM. A dike sticks out from the ground, serving as a leading line toward Shiprock. On the right, the landscape is painted in the golden light of the just-rising Sun. On the right, the landscape is in the shadow of the dike. Clear blue sky is seen above, with a mountain called the Sleeping Ute in the distance.

For the first few moments of sunrise at Shiprock, the long dike cutting vertically across the landscape catches the golden glow of the Sun, casting a miles-long shadow upon the land to its west. The Sleeping Ute sits in the distance.

A family of eight Wrinkled Peach mushrooms grow on a mossy log in a green forest. Taken by me, May 2024

A family of vibrant orange enoki grow off the side of a log, their caps are covered in liquid like over-full glasses of water, their gills are illuminated under a bright winter sky. Taken by me, December 2025

A piece of decayed tree bark covered in tiny white Collared Parachute mushrooms with wavy threadlike stems, the bark is held between thumb and forefinger in front of a vibrant green forest background. Taken by me, June 2024

A tuft of trumpet-shaped golden oyster mushrooms grow upright out of a mossy log, their yellow caps shining translucent through their delicate gills. Taken by me, June 2024

These weren’t all big hits, but here are my favorite mushrooms of 2024

We don’t believe in saying Happy Holidays here. In this house we say “Yippee kiyay, motherfucker.”

Dear Santa,
You didn’t get me the thesaurus I asked for and now I’m mad. You made me really mad. I’m mad at you

I’m having a conversation with my mom about something I want for Christmas and a week later Santa gives it to me.

When will we pass privacy regulations