@bkevinmaples.bsky.social
I travel and take photos of beautiful places. Proudly liberal Christian and political progressive. Previous life and career spent navigating the treacherous waters of American Evangelicalism, often as the most liberal person in the boat.
Spires of layered sandstone below blue sky and puffy white clouds.
Needles District, 105° on the Chesler Park Trail, Utah. July 2021.
📍Canyonlands National Park
#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #utah #publiclands #southwest #redrocks #desert #nationalparks #canyonlands #wilderness #protectourparks #sandstone #geology #outdoors
Jagged rock faces along the Apache Trail in Arizona.
Along the Apache Trail in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona.
📍Tonto National Forest
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Soft sunset over America's tallest sand dunes and the sagebrush of Southern Colorado.
Sunset over the high dunes and high desert in Colorado. September 2024.
📍Great Sand Dunes National Park
#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #colorado #nationalparks #publiclands #desert #sunset #southwest #sanddunes #protectourparks #sangredecristos #outdoors
A sky of countless stars above a pyramid-shaped sandstone formation in Southern Utah.
Infinite stars above White Rim Road in Southern Utah.
📍Canyonlands National Park
A dreamy waterfall cascades through the deep green of Michigan's primordial forest.
Sturgeon Falls in the heart of the Ottawa NF & Michigan's Upper Peninsula. July 2024
📍Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness
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A bown mushroom with white spots on its smooth cap grows on a pale stalk out of the forest floor.
Amanita brunnescens, also known as the brown American star-footed Amanita.
📍Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Kentucky
#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #Kentucky #appalachia #nationalforests #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #fungifriends #protectourparks #outdoors
Honestly, I don't have a need to visit Saguaro NP again, since it is essentially an urban park. I appreciate the park's purpose and mission, but I will go elsewhere to enjoy the cacti.
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I'm missing the desert, so here is a closeup of a Saguaro cactus.
📍Saguaro National Park, Arizona
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#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #arizona #publiclands #southwest #desert #nationalparks #cactus #succulents #botany #closeup #pattern #saguaro #tucson #sonorandesert
Dramatic desert mountains with a 4500 ft. volcanic plug dominating the distant horizon.
Boulder Canyon and Weavers Needle in the Superstition Mountains.
📍Superstition Wilderness & Tonto National Forest
#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #arizona #publiclands #southwest #wilderness #desert #mountains #geology #nationalforests #protectourparks #outdoors #sonorandesert
It was a fluke, and I was fortunate to be there at exactly the right moment. I am a lazy, impatient photographer who will not wait indefinitely for perfect light.
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Glass-like water at the mouth of the 1500 feet tall walls of Santa Elena Canyon along the Texas & Mexico border.
The Rio Grande/Rio Bravo flows through Santa Elena Canyon.
📍Big Bend National Park, TX
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A creek cuts through the Cumberland plateau of northern Tennessee.
Honey Creek Overlook in Autumn. Oct. 2023
📍Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area
#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #Tennessee #appalachia #southeast #rivers #publiclands #wilderness #protectourparks #nationalforests #autumn #creeks #bigsouthfork #nationalriver
Orange clouds and golden aspen trees in the San Juan Mountains of Southern Colorado
Autumn Sunset in Silverton, Colorado. September 2024.
📍San Juan National Forest
#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #colorado #nationalforests #publiclands #sanjuans #aspens #mountains #southwest #sunset #aspens #alpine #clouds #silverton #autumn
Snow and glaciers decorate the high alpine areas of the Beartooth Mountains along the Montana & Wyoming border.
The stunning Beartooth Mountains of Montana.
📍Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #Montana #wyoming #rockymounains #wilderness #nationalforests #publiclands #northwest #protectourparks #alpine #outdoors #mountainmonday
An alpine glacier, tinted blue and with deep cracks, on the southwest flank of Mount Rainier.
Close up of Nisqually Glacier from along the Skyline Trail in Washington. July 2019.
📍Mount Rainier National Park
#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #washington #mountrainier #mountains #glaciers #nationalparks #alpine #publiclands #protectourparks #ice #rainier #outdoors #moraine
The Rio Grande reflects a peach-colored sky as it points toward the silhouetted Chisos Mountains in the distance.
Rio Grande/Bravo & Chisos Mountains of West Texas at dusk. Feb 2025.
📍 Big Bend National Park
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Massive amounts of driftwood at the juncture of a creek and the Pacific Ocean with a sea stack on the horizon.
Driftwood at the mouth of Cedar Creek on Washington's Ruby Beach. July 2019
📍 Olympic National Park
#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #Washington #olympicpeninsula #nationalparks #beaches #wilderness #wildernesscoast #publiclands #northwest #protectourparks #driftwood
A bright full-moon rises through pink clouds illuminated by sunset over the low mountains in the desert of Big Bend National Park
Moonrise through the cotton candy clouds of sunset over West Texas. Feb. 2025.
📍Big Bend National Park
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29.07.2025 15:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Can you please give me a bit more information first? What type of tool? What is its purpose? What would you need from me as a tester?
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A large sandstone arch forms a diamond-shaped opening below a blue sky.
New Mexico's largest arch, La Ventana, from behind.
📍El Malpais National Conservation Area
#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #NewMexico #southwest #mountains #desert #arches #nationalmonuments #publiclands #protectourparks #sandstone #geology #indigenous #native
The sun sets about mountains on the horizon beyond rippled sand.
Sunset above gypsum dunes in New Mexico.
📍White Sands National Park
#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #NewMexico #southwest #mountains #desert #nationalparks #whitesands #sunset #sand #sunsetSunday #mountains #ripples
A closeup of lovely green mosses.
Just a close up of some fine-ass moss in Kentucky.
#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #Kentucky #appalachia #nationalforests #publiclands #moss #plants #closeup #green
A large Ancestral Puebloan archeological site spreads out below a large sandstone overhang in a desert canyon of Colorado.
Cliff Palace, an 800 y.o. Ancestral Puebloan archeological site in SW Colorado.
📍Mesa Verde National Park
#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #colorado #nationalparks #mesverde #sandstone #indigenous #native #southwest #desert #canyons #outdoors #publiclands #protectourparks #pueblos
A river cuts through ancient rock and emerald forest just before it empties into Lake Superior.
📍Temperance River State Park, Minnesota. July 2024.
#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #Minnesota #northshore #lakesuperior #publiclands #waterfalls #waterfallwednesday #greatlakes #stateparks #protectourparks #forest #rivers #indigenous #northwoods #midwest
A colorful sunset over the desert and mountains of West Texas.
Desert sunset between Alpine and Terlingua, Texas. February 2025.
#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #texas #westtexas #mountains #southwest #desert #publiclands #bigbend #sunset #sunsetSunday #protectourparks #outdoors #chihuahuandesert #terlingua
That is amazing to watch. What an incredible form of life.
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A large slime mold that closely resembles a brown koosh ball toy.
An absolutely insane slime mold, possibly Stemonitis splendens, aka the chocolate tube slime.
📍Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, KY
#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #Kentucky #appalachia #nationalforests #publiclands #bigsouthfork #slime #slimemold #protectourparks
Jagged mountains rise from a flat plain below an azure sky.
The stunning beauty of Western Wyoming. July 2017.
📍Grand Teton National Park
#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #wyoming #nationalparks #grandtetons #nationalforests #wilderness #mountains #alpine #glaciers #publiclands #mountainwest #protectourparks
A waterfall emerges from an emerald green forest and splits around a cliff before plunging into a deep pool.
Potawatomi Falls along the Black River of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
📍Ottawa National Forest
#photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #michigan #upperpeninsula #lakesuperior #forest #publiclands #greatlakes #midwest #nationalforests #waterfalls #waterfallwednesday #protectourparks #rivers
