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CSmayd222

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Hike backpack photograph; love wildflowers, birds, mammals, inverts, fall foliage, waterfalls and whatever gets in front of my lens. USA, resident of NJ, spend my best time at Torch Lake (LP) MI. Retired physics teacher. Older & Crankier. Kzoo'82 & ASU

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Turtle has zoomies & thinks cat is mommy.

19.07.2025 15:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Magpie in flight with starry sky on its wings.

Magpie in flight with starry sky on its wings.

Another vague tattoo concept. I love magpies

#magpie #bird #birdart #natureart #tattooconcept

15.07.2025 10:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 134    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸŒท Es quiรฉn estรก

sin que se lo pidas.

Felรญz miรฉrcoles ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒท๐ŸŒฟ

28.05.2025 04:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 120    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Beautรฉ et sรฉrรฉnitรฉ

inc.

13.05.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 308    ๐Ÿ” 31    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Botanischer Garten in Heidelberg ๐ŸŒธโ˜€๏ธ๐ŸŒบ

01.05.2025 14:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 184    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A little more lavender in the Blue Sky

#photography #nature #sunset

13.05.2025 12:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 54    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Windy Shoreline

13.05.2025 05:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Frรผhling im Berner Rosengarten ๐Ÿ˜

13.05.2025 20:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Flora
Nature
Photography
#Mexico

13.05.2025 20:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Das Foto zeigt eine grรผne Spargelstange, die gekrรผmmt gewachsen ist. Die Form erinnert an ein Herz. Der Spargelkopf hat sich bereits in kleinere Kรถpfe geteilt und wie Blumen an einem Kranz, an die Stange gelegt. Der Spargel liegt auf einer dunklen Holzflรคche

Das Foto zeigt eine grรผne Spargelstange, die gekrรผmmt gewachsen ist. Die Form erinnert an ein Herz. Der Spargelkopf hat sich bereits in kleinere Kรถpfe geteilt und wie Blumen an einem Kranz, an die Stange gelegt. Der Spargel liegt auf einer dunklen Holzflรคche

Spargel? Herz? Spargelherz ๐Ÿฅฐ
#spargel #showheart #gartenschรคtze

06.05.2025 16:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿชถ

04.05.2025 18:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Escape! The 1 Tree Swallow escaped the wrath of the other! I love the reflection of the 2 birds too. ๐Ÿ˜ #birds ๐Ÿฆ‰ #birdphotography #photography #nikon #nature #naturephotography #wildlife
#wildlifephotography
#birders
#birdwatching
#photographer
#birdsofbluesky
#newmexico
#bosquedelapache

23.04.2025 01:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 101    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Ein gelbes einzelnes Blatt an einem Zweig, das mit Regentropfen benetzt ist, an der Seite sind durch die Trรถpfchen auch ein Spinnennetz sichtbar geworden.  Netzfund

Ein gelbes einzelnes Blatt an einem Zweig, das mit Regentropfen benetzt ist, an der Seite sind durch die Trรถpfchen auch ein Spinnennetz sichtbar geworden. Netzfund

Freude, Traurigkeit & auch Wut...
...ist das Herz berรผhrt, kรถnnen
Trรคnen flieรŸen, weil die Seele...
...weint .

22.04.2025 18:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 100    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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This image shows a close-up view of moss with slender sporophytes rising from it. The moss base appears in warm brown and green tones, while the thin stalks are reddish-orange with bright yellow-green capsules at their tips. The background is softly blurred, creating a macro perspective that highlights the delicate structures of this tiny plant growth.

This image shows a close-up view of moss with slender sporophytes rising from it. The moss base appears in warm brown and green tones, while the thin stalks are reddish-orange with bright yellow-green capsules at their tips. The background is softly blurred, creating a macro perspective that highlights the delicate structures of this tiny plant growth.

A tiny forest of moss in the morning sun.
๐Ÿ“ท
#photography #closeup #naturephotography #macrophotography #macro #artphotograph #nature #glowing #light #bokeh #moss

16.04.2025 22:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 123    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Have you seen this petition yet? Defend academic freedom and institutional autonomy. We stand with Harvard!

from Change.org chng.it/kCJMvBLTXP

16.04.2025 22:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Saturn has 128 newly-discovered moons. Here they are color-coded by their MPEC release. Orange: MPEC 2025 E153, Purple: MPEC 2025-E154, Green: MPEC 2025-E155.

12.03.2025 00:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 310    ๐Ÿ” 128    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 31

Kudos an die Stern-Reaktion. Die Vorlage ist klassisch, aber wie viele kรถnnen sich daran noch erinnern?

08.03.2025 17:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 332    ๐Ÿ” 95    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Comics page on how a star forms, whatโ€™s going on inside, and how itโ€™s generating new elements over its lifetime - and a reversal of entropyโ€™s downward flow towards disorder. Thereโ€™s a drawing of a star thatโ€™s about the width of the page in the center - realistic on its outside and diagrammatic on the interior. Running through it from top of page to bottom of page - is an hourglass like shape with various panels, sort of like greek meanders ornamenting it that detail various parts of the narrative here. The interior of the star shape is in four quadrants (a bit of the middle and the center are carved out by the hourglass, which iโ€™ll get to next). upper left quadrant is a diagram of the force of gravity versue the resistance pressue of atoms being shoved together - represented by black arrows drawing inward and white drawing outward - which make a circular star shape complete with the tails of the black arrows as rays of the star. the background for this panel is a warped grid as space would be warped by this massive object. Upper right panel is a closeup on just a few of these white and black arrows - and within them - filled with more closely packed particles and then also tiny arrows pressing from outside. Lower left panel has the path light takes to leave a star - a brownian motion trail, bouncing around randomly in all sorts of directions before eventually leaving the star. The final panel within the star is a more realistic depiction of what the regions within the star might look like. On the hourglass, there are periodic stripes with panels inside them - in the other spaces, we see circles as simplified particles falling down this funnel and getting closer together as they near the center (as with hydrogen falling into a star). the first row of panels is a series of hourglasses - with sand running down. The next one is a quick retelling of the birth of the universe to the first filaments. Then the hourglasses again, now they are spinning, sand running uphill. Tโ€ฆ

Comics page on how a star forms, whatโ€™s going on inside, and how itโ€™s generating new elements over its lifetime - and a reversal of entropyโ€™s downward flow towards disorder. Thereโ€™s a drawing of a star thatโ€™s about the width of the page in the center - realistic on its outside and diagrammatic on the interior. Running through it from top of page to bottom of page - is an hourglass like shape with various panels, sort of like greek meanders ornamenting it that detail various parts of the narrative here. The interior of the star shape is in four quadrants (a bit of the middle and the center are carved out by the hourglass, which iโ€™ll get to next). upper left quadrant is a diagram of the force of gravity versue the resistance pressue of atoms being shoved together - represented by black arrows drawing inward and white drawing outward - which make a circular star shape complete with the tails of the black arrows as rays of the star. the background for this panel is a warped grid as space would be warped by this massive object. Upper right panel is a closeup on just a few of these white and black arrows - and within them - filled with more closely packed particles and then also tiny arrows pressing from outside. Lower left panel has the path light takes to leave a star - a brownian motion trail, bouncing around randomly in all sorts of directions before eventually leaving the star. The final panel within the star is a more realistic depiction of what the regions within the star might look like. On the hourglass, there are periodic stripes with panels inside them - in the other spaces, we see circles as simplified particles falling down this funnel and getting closer together as they near the center (as with hydrogen falling into a star). the first row of panels is a series of hourglasses - with sand running down. The next one is a quick retelling of the birth of the universe to the first filaments. Then the hourglasses again, now they are spinning, sand running uphill. Tโ€ฆ

At last! Finished page: how a star forms, what fuels it, & how it forges new forms into being! A star is a momentary reversal - a wellspring of possibilities that makes life possible. This took me some time to figure out to say the least - but geeked to be done & move onward! #Nostos #Unflattening 2

05.03.2025 17:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 467    ๐Ÿ” 123    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

I had this charming encounter with a chipping sparrow munching on dandelions right at the end of a hike. Apr '22

17.02.2025 16:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Always delightful to see an in-focus kinglet photo (easier said than done, in my experience) but also the alt text on this is delightful.

See how much more evocative and descriptive your alt text can be (versus โ€œphoto of a Golden-crowned Kingletโ€)?

17.02.2025 14:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 50    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Just magic...

ยฉ๏ธ Nimueh11

05.02.2025 13:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 301    ๐Ÿ” 73    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A quiet morning in the Netherlands

05.02.2025 09:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 745    ๐Ÿ” 68    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
wassertropfen in einem spinnennetz im frรผhherbst.

wassertropfen in einem spinnennetz im frรผhherbst.

'Punkte' #FotoVorschlag

kugel und kreis, perfekte formen.

05.02.2025 09:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 194    ๐Ÿ” 37    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Intimate seascape. Trees in the background shrouded in fog. Rocky shore with one large rock in the foreground

Intimate seascape. Trees in the background shrouded in fog. Rocky shore with one large rock in the foreground

Hancock Point ME
#landscape #EastCoastKin

05.02.2025 18:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 147    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Great Grey Owl, on the hunt
#birds #owls

01.02.2025 23:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 52    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Turtle with dragon fly

Turtle with dragon fly

Photo Tzahi Finkelstein

05.02.2025 00:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 59    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Going way back to an old photo today. To this day still one of the best Iโ€™ve ever taken. Great egret at sunset. #photography #birds

01.02.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 94    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Lovely!

01.02.2025 22:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Great words โค๏ธ

28.01.2025 21:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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