Curves and arabesques in the Navajo sandstone. Snow Canyon State Park, UT. #Photography #Geology #SnowCanyon #SedimentaryPetrology #NavajoSS #XBedding

Alpenglow on the Pine Valley Mountains, Utah, USA. Not strictly alpenglow because this is looking north not east. #Photography #Utah #PineValley #AlpenGlow #Sunsets #Clouds #Goldenhour

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Night of 11/11/25. As the show was winding down. More to the east than the north. Some city lights on the right side. #Photography #Astronomy #Skies #Aurora #Arizona

The last one was the cellphone picture. This is a pano from the MFT camera taken about 25 minutes later near the height of the activity we saw. Watch this space; tomorrow will be as it was almost done. #Photography #Aurora #Astronomy #Skies #Clouds #Arizona

Aurora from Northern Arizona. #photography #astromomy #auora #arizona

US50 thru Nevada is called the Loneliest Highway. NV722 is a former route of US50 which is even lonelier. It traverses the 25mya Desatoya Caldera. This canyon is where 722 crosses the rim of that caldera. The rocks are welded tuffs. #Photography #US50 #Nevada #LoneliestHighway #Caldera #Oligocene

Shasta Lily? Taken near Mt. Shasta, CA. #Photography #Wildflower #Flowers #Lilies #MtShasta #Shasta

Lost Creek covered bridge. Lake County Oregon. oregondiscovery.com/lost-creek-b... Cellphone pano + RawTherapee. #Photography #CoveredBridges #TimberFraming #Panorama #Oregon #LostCreekBridge #LakeCounty

Stone flowers? #SensoryArt #Patterns

When basalt cools the resulting contraction can create hexagonal weathering. Navajo Sandstone can also show hexagonal weathering; but, it is caused by expansion of the rock as it decompresses when exposed. #Photography #Sandstone #NavajoSandstone #Utah #YantFlat #Geology

Same storm, less lightning more composition. #Photography #Storms #Lightning #Blitzortung #Clouds #Weather #Sunset

Great thunderstorm last night. Kind of hard to frame a random event. The bolt on the right was very close; no delay between the light and the sound. #Photography #Storms #Lightning #Blitzortung #Thunderstorm

Store bought orchids; didn’t notice the variety before giving it away. But I did take a snapshot. #Photography #Flowers #Orchids

Oh no. Hyacinth Bucket (sorry, Bouquet) has died. Patricia Routledge RIP.

Pisces Rising… 30 minutes of star trails on the eastern horizon. Kolob Canyon, Zion National Park, USA. 50mm lens, 15 second exposures stacked in camera. #Photography #Astrophotography #Stars #StarTrails #ZionNP #Pisces

Rose in monochrome #Photography #B&W #Monochrome #Flowers #Roses

55 minutes of star trails with a dieing tree. It was a calm night but there were occasional breezes. If a star trail looks like it in front of a branch that branch moved during the exposure. If it didn’t move it look like the star went behind the branch. #Photography #Astrophotography #StarTrails

Smelt Sand State Recreation Area, Oregon, USA. #Photography #Oregon #SmeltSands #Yachats #Shoreline #Waves

Tired of florals; Exchange Club Beatty Nevada. Before there was neon there iron. #Photography #Beatty #Nevada #Signs #SteamPunk

A splash of color for today. Crepe Myrtle. #Photography #CrepeMyrtle #Flowers #Blooms #Fruit #Red

International Cloud Appreciation Day www.memorycloudatlas.org/index.php This is what I woke up to this morning #Photography #Clouds #CloudAppreciationDay #Sunrise #Morning

Sunset, Snow Canyon State Park, Utah, USA. Golden hour, about five minutes before sunset. #Photography #SnowCanyon #GoldenHour #Sunset #Clouds #Sagebrush

Dahlia, Sequim Botanical Gardens #Photography #Flowers #Dahlia #Sequim

Macro lens in a dahlia garden; fun way to spend a morning. Sequim Botanical Garden, Sequim, Washington, USA. 7/18/25 #Photography #Flowers #Dahlias #Color

Shore Acres Oregon State Park; formerly owned by wealthy shipping and timber magnate Asa Mead Simpson. They still maintain a formal rose garden. These are from 7/24/25 #Photography #Roses #ShoreAcres #Flowers #OregonStateParks #Pink

Kolob Canyons Area of Zion National Park, Utah, USA. Time-lapse composite. Fish eye lens with an 180 degree field of view pointed up in a steep walled canyon #Photography #Astrophotography #Landscape #MilkyWay #Kolob #TimeLapseComposite #zion

Mural on SW Coast Highway Newport Oregon. I’ve tried to identify who created this and piece and a title, google has no info and google lens does not either. Does anyone have more information. #Photography #Murals #Newport #Oregon #CoastHighway

Exchange Club Beatty Nevada, USA. Steam Punk on steroids. Casino,coffee shop & speakeasy will open soon. They will share the theme. Beatty is an hour north of Las Vegas. #Photography #SteamPunk #ExchangeClub #US95 exchangeclubbeattynv.com Next door is Smokin’ J’s Barbecue, great food.

Taken near Neah Bay, WA July 17, 2025. Neah Bay is the closest town to Cape Flattery, the northwestern-most point in the contiguous United States. The drive along the coast was gorgeous. You can see Vancouver Island across the Strait of Juan de Fuca. #ocean #photography #westcoast

Lost Creek bridge, Lake Creek, Oregon #photography #Oregon #bridge #CoveredBridge

Driftwood detail. New River ACEC, Oregon, USA #photography #driftwood #beach

Circles in the Sand. "The medium is the message." M. McLuhan. #Photography #circlesinthesand #beach #temporary #transient

#Photography #Driftwood #Beach

College town existential graffiti. Corvallis Washington, USA. Oregon State University. #Photography #OSU #Corvallis #Existential

Concorde cockpit. Museum of Flight Seattle Washington USA #Photography #Airplane #Flight #Supersonic #Airliner #Concorde #BOAC #AirFrance

Tree growing in a stump which grew on a rock? #photography #trees

Drift wood Rialto Beach. Olympic national Park, USA

Go to the end of the road and jump off. Then convince others to do the same thing. #photography #hanggliding #Gammon

High tide. Yachats, Oregon, USA #photography #OregonCoast #waves #rocks

Why do people move to the middle of nowhere? #signs #photography

Pakoon Springs Stream View, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument #NPS #NationalParkService #GrandCanyon-Parashant

Jedediah Smith Redwoods, California. Coastal Redwood(?) burl #Photography #Trees #Redwood #JedediahSmith #burl

Driftwood detail. Pacific coast, Washington, USA. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #B&W #Driftwood

July 3rd sunset looking east. #Photography #Weather #Clouds #RedWhiteAndBlue

Jimson Weed, I wonder if the beetle is susceptible to the hallucigens in the flower? #Photography #Wildflowers #SacredDatura

OM System has a ‘high res’ mode where the camera takes multiple exposures and stacks them; upping resolution and reducing noise. The ‘hand held’ option aligns the shots before stacking. This is that mode on a GEM mount; 15 min. of data; 50mb of picture. #Astrophotography. #Photography #OMSystem

Capitol Reef cellphone #photography #astro #Astrophotography #CapitalReef

Pine valley mountains