this is not a flat bee; it is a flat hoverfly if you've never seen a hoverfly hover, the name is spot on! --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/MCEX-16/Camera JPEG

おはようございます😊 まだご近所にいる オナガさん(•ө•)♡ 夏が終わると どこに行くのか いなくなります… 火曜日ボチボチとです #オナガ #野鳥　#birds @bskyphotos.bsky.social

And then I saw this. #photography

Ground Control to Major Tom Take your protein pills and put your helmet on Ground Control to Major Tom (ten, nine, eight, seven, six) Commencing countdown, engines on (five, four, three, two) Check ignition and may God's love be with you (one, lift off)... #sbgphotography #photography

earth, air, fire, water: the sand beneath the water, the reflection of the sky above the water, the light of the sun, the water itself. --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

monarch butterflies make themselves unpalatable by eating milkweed leaves, and apparently fireflies do it by sucking on milkweed roots! --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

"Everything's so GREEEEEN!!!!" (when you're a woodland stream) --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

morning breeze. #photography #littlethings #visualnarrative #windowwednesday #eastcoastkin

when i see a stream, i wonder: how long does it take to flow to the sea? or, like the Okavango, does it flow into the desert and vanish? (this one flows to the sea, via two ponds, two swamps, two streams, and three rivers) --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

a study in contrast #photography #macrophotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #art #nature #flowers #bloomscrolling spent white lily sharp and clear in the foreground. bicolor chrysanthemum behind it. the opposite of what you'd expect to be in sharp vs soft focus. photograph.

the world made strange - this is a little woodland stream rippling around a stone, reflecting trees and sky, flowing from right to left --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

life consists largely of hidden moments --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

Uneventful #SkySunday 🤷🏻‍♂️

Big dahlia, little wasp #Stunday #photography #BloomScrolling

“Hold still…I got you” says the days first light 📷🌱 …

above: the sky; below: the soil; and in between: a thin skim shimmers separating forest air from woodland stream --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

forest water shines with the green of the leaves rather than the blue of the sky --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

there's a little woodland stream about an hour hike from my home, and apparently my new project is to photograph it ... under full forest canopy, using available light --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

i love these lilies that seem to burn with an inner fire in the morning light --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/MCEX-16/Camera JPEG

morning dew on hosta this is one of those photos that i returned to over and over trying to decide what to do; i think this crop works --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

i walked past this leaf, thinking "i've taken that photo before", then turned around to take it anyway, and was gifted a harvestman --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/MCEX-16/Camera JPEG

i took a two hour photo walk this morning; i found this flower at minute four --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/MCEX-16/Camera JPEG

Nothing of bloom that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change Into something rich and strange. - Shakespeare (paraph.) --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/MCEX-16/Camera JPEG

my office is cold today, so i am thinking about winter --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

some days it is deeply satisfying to go out under a wide-open sky and soak up the sun --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF18-55/Camera JPEG

A few of us went to the sculpture park and the non-photographers were very patient with me waiting until the light was just right. This kind of abstract sculpture makes such a good canvas for light! --- #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF18-55/Camera JPEG

My parents' neighborhood association sprinkles wildflower seeds in the meadows where they burn their brush and it creates jubilant patches of color -- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF18-55/MCEX-16/Camera JPEG

softly fades the light of day --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF18-55/Camera JPEG

i bumped the ISO dial and accidentally under-exposed this even more than i usually do. i under-expose because i prefer the saturated colors that result; the water, lilies and clouds here show exactly that --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF18-55/EV+2 in Post

evening sun on lily pads i saw a glint of gold as i drifted through the lily pads under the late evening sun, and was lucky enough to capture it --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF18-55/Camera JPEG

damselflies on the pond at sunset --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

to me, the "chukka-chuk" of these old engines is the sound of farming. years ago, haying season was rainy; as soon as things dried out tractors old and new came out to get the haying done, and "chukka-chuk" echoed across the hills --- #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

今シーズン最後の紫陽花☂️ #TLを花でいっぱいにしよう #ブルスコ写真部 #photography #青空写真部 #ブルスカ写真部 @bskyphotos.bsky.social @botanical.bsky.social

みなさま、今日もお疲れさまでした --- 夏が来れば思い出す...（尾瀬ではありません😅） 今日も美しの塔です FUJIFILM X-T5 SIGMA 18-50mm F2.8 DC DN Contemporary #長野　#信州　#美ヶ原　#美しの塔 #風景　#landscape　#青空　#雲 #キリトリセカイ #写真好きな人と繋がりたい @bskyphotos.bsky.social

the world can be resplendent, if only we let it be i almost missed lilac season this year, but happily caught the tail end of it at my parents' place --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

steam mechanism i love talking to hobbyists about their hobbies - to discover what delights them, and the odd things they get up to. this steam engine runs a pump that used to clear bilge water from inland steamships --- #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

many trees make their leaves and branches the year before, so their new growth in spring has been biding in bud since last summer --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

sometimes details of cars (or, in this case, a classic pickup truck) make an aesthetic arrangement --- #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

I worked with a product manager who used "rusty old tractor" to describe products with no safety features or niceties that helped people do jobs they couldn't do otherwise. --- #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

i really like this interplay between light and form creating figures that exist only in the photo; i have another where you can actually see the statue, but i prefer this Sculpture: Susan Zurles, "La Bailaora" --- #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

looking at old engines it's clear that one of the big changes in society is that these engines are from a time when the labor of a single person still mattered --- #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

郵便物置いといたら乗られた… #今日のねこ @bskyphotos.bsky.social

my old boots fell apart so i had to get new boots; i'm 3 weeks into a 6-week breakin process, and theyre already fantastic. somehow, a good boot feels like a fern to me --- #nature #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/EV+1 in Post

steam mechanism two students hand-built this engine, starting mostly with raw metal it was fascinating to talk to them about the process, which included making some tools --- #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

portable steam-powered saw with all exposed mechanisms has the brutal design of a wild beast --- #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

Iron and brass, springs and steel - there is an elegance to old engines. Granite State Gas and Steam Engine Association --- #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

A creative challenge when photographing people is to not photograph the people, but to work with the people to create a photograph. --- #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG

Whale Sharks 🦈🌌

While I was photographing a patron asked "What do you see in this?" I replied, "light; color; texture." It was not the answer he was looking for, but it was the answer _I_ was looking for. Sculpture: Craig Anderson, "The Rising" --- #minimal #photography #fujifilm 📸📷🎞️ X-T4/XF55-200/Camera JPEG