For Christmas I fixed up and digitized some of my grandma's old slides but some were too damaged to be worthwhile, so instead I tried using them as reference photos and recreated them, filling in gaps from memory, by painting them by hand. This one is for sure the best. #artsky #painting #portraits

What's happening in Gaza is a genocide, netanyahu is long overdue to get put down like the dog he is, and we should criticize every state but especially religious ethnostates. Maligning the Beastie Boys though, that's for sure anti-Semitism. I don't make the rules ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My little life companions and spiritual guides are getting ready for a blissfully lazy #whiskerswednesday I love their chaos gremlin ways. #catsofbluesky

Happy Saturnalia! Chag sameach! The party season has officially begun!

It has been a magical experience watching this lil lady get domesticated and what a wild ride to be the human she is most comfortable with, but I think it's possible this street cat doesn't believe in baths or personal space. #adoptdontshop #catsofbluesky #photography #cats

#mountainmonday for #photosky with this photo of the mountains on fire from last summer. This is a view of southernmost tip of the south side of the fire maybe a week and a half before it was contained. It burned 73,746 acres of beautiful #utah. #wildfire #photography #sonyalpha #wilderness

Currently firing my pharmacy that added an AI assistant to its phone system because I've decided to stick to the rule that I simply don't do AI between myself and health care.

I love my bedside shrimp tanks and i love waking up gasping and sweating from the night terrors and having two emotional support kitties and breaking up a little algae on the side of the tank to summon some little shrimpies and i can watch them graze in dim light until i fall back asleep.

I am an OG hater, oppositional and defiant, but often I'm also just absolutely correct and from JK Rowling to Quentin Tarantino, I am vindicated again and again. Mark my words, someday we'll all recognize the tumbler as the dumbest and worst water vessel.

Rolling out the company social media, maybe give me a follow? It'd be real cool www.instagram.com/cactusratpho...

Not to be insensitive to "I almost drowned as a child and am uncomfortable in water" but that's a consideration to make before reaching out to the underwater photographer for opportunities to assist. Also, volunteering to help on a porn set but being uncomfy when people get penetrated? C'mon kids.

Soliciting thoughts on how to seek out a coconut crab while travelling in the Philipines. Not for catching, killing or eating, but photographing, admiring, and potentially loving because who doesn't love a weird little guy??

My favourite move when sick is to tuck myself into the couch under my old cat and watch Hellraiser, muttering Pinhead's lines with him around my tissue walrus tusks.

It's called Wellington Paranormal

So few sleeps are as magical and deep as the sleep you get on a rocking boat.

Not every underwater wildlife expedition is a success, especially when you're trying to tread as gently and ethically as possible as an ocean visitor. Oh well! I did, however, meet a most beautiful winged moon worshipper who asked if I had accepted the lunar saviour into my heart. #moth #photosky

The fuck I do.

What a day! started a journey to photograph some sea lions and whale sharks (here's hoping) and found out this lil ray got second place in a juried exhibition and is going to be printed by the #decagon gallery. Seems auspicious! Go give it a click! www.decagongallery.com/forgotten-ar...

At the start of every damn dive year I inevitably lose the mostly full tube of silicon lube and have to emergency get another one right before departing. Underwater photographers get it. #underwaterphotography

Every single Dem that caved and agreed to this deal needs to be primaried and voted out. They are cowards who wasted the last month for a half baked promise vote a month from now.

Ok another hot take- I also do this deliberately, including to work subordinates and opposing counsels. I know it makes your anxiety fester, that's the whole point. If it isn't about a fuck up, I'll say so right away. When I just say "we need to talk," yeah you should be pretty freaked out.

Back on my bullshit #photosky with a trip back to the shipwreck of the Gallant Lady out in #bimini It was a freighter that ran aground off #Bimini in 1997, and now creates a beautiful haunting view from a small vista, and a pretty great date spot frankly. #travelphotography #sonyalpha

This season is the fourth anniversary of checking into the hospital for what would be two years of torture with no clear resolution, and begging for the sweet release of death. And I'm finally feeling like my brains are coming back online. Feels good. Takes time. Maybe I'm gonna make it after all.

Full bars, allergy/sensory friendly treats, Halloween decorations, and unbounded enthusiasm for kids in hilarious costumes are my weapons in the war on Trunk or Treating

I'm realizing one of the body changes I have to accept since the last big sick is doing best with closer to 9-10 hours of sleep. The good news is sleepy romantic partners make the best romantic partners- If you always be sleepin, you'll never be cheatin.

Four(?) months ago someone dumped this lil mama and her six kittens behind my house. She went through the #humanesociety last litter program, her kittens have all found their own homes, and I guess we've added a mouthy bat-eared gremlin to the gang.

Unnecessary aside: I say "excuse my language" as a linguistic flourish when I'm about to use profanity in a socially unacceptable place for dramatic emphasis.

Pumpkin spice gets a lot of hype but the real fall seasonal treat we all yearn for is the thanksgiving-leftovers-sandwich. Gimme that in my coffee.

It has been a while! I guess building a legitimate business is work intensive, and it's also summer and time to quest in search of pictures, in this case making my way through the mountains to a megaburn. #wildfire #utah #usfs #conservationphotography #sonyalpha #mountains #photosky

Getting ready for Cactus Rat Photography's appearance at an art festival and have been deeply distracted. But if you want a postcard of some mating #octopus, I'm your worm #hawaii #underwater #photography #sonyalpha #divephotography #photosky #diving #underwaterphotography #marineconservation

We're bored because we are forced into under stimulating environments, live in constant survival anxiety, are exhausted from both, and have no time for joy. Then when you're burnt out from exhausting monotony they call it boredom, so we are failing rather than lucrative systems of power failing us.

Picked up a new photography project at an estate sale. Best i can tell it's a 1961 #Canon Canonet. The selenium meter needed some work, but now she's cleaned, fixed, and loaded with #film. Let's do this. #photography #filmphotography #35mm #vintage #selfie

Been in a funk, antidepressants stopped anti-ing my depression. And there's only one cure and baby, that's the #sea. I love this hammerhead more than most humans, and we only just met the once. Sweet murder angel 💜 #photography #photosky #shark #sharkconservation #oceanconservation #sonyalpha

Back to churning out photos instead of doom scrolling and worked on this seal off the coast of #cornwall #uk. But coming off a spicy photoshoot and spending all day at a computer- I have nothing meaningful to say and I'm done looking at screens. 🦭 #photography #underwater #monkseal #photosky

I think being a prison abolitionist demands not turning to the penal system even when it seems easy and appealing. That being said, send these motherfuckers to El Salvador baby, fuck em, fuck em straight to hell. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

But they're still going to put it in the news when he dies right? You know, for the celebrating? And I happen to personally owe this man, all his peons and, frankly, descendants for foreseeable generations, a big ol shit on their graves.

The Commander is a lover and a fighter. #catsofbluesky #skycat

Haven't been up on the photos but have been laboring in the yard with these two nerds.

One of the most closely held and frustrating beliefs is that all confrontation has to be antagonistic. Like you could just say "hey it's pretty late could you keep it down?" But no, by all means Boomer McKaren raise your blood pressure with your rage. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ok a rare and released photo from a very 🔥 🔥 photoshoot. It was fun playing with light and highlight on this beauty. #boudoir #photosky #portrait #photography #photosky #bdsmportraitartist #blackandwhite

I'm a little torn on the level of cool in this photo. Maybe not great. But I'm not torn on the certainty that #crocodilians are perfect sweet creatures with just the right amount of bloodlust. #vietnam #travelphotography #photogtaphy #photosky #crocodile #conservation #wildlife

The Insomnia Salp, or, I could not sleep so I spent hours manually erasing back scatter on this #underwater tunicate. I am so tired, someone take me out behind the shed and put me out of my misery. #insomnia #photography #sonyalpha #underwaterphotography #wildlife #photosky

Felt cute, might delete later (A #slug I met at #stonehenge last summer) #bugs #insects #cornwall #uk #travelphotography #photography #photosky #wildlife

I don't always post a #selfie but when i do it's because I am feeling myself like a possum on dumpster mdma. Did a couple #bdsm #boudoir photoshoots last week for some smokin hot deviants. Truly this is the recession proof career my parents dreamed for me. (Still an attorney by day, love you mom)

Obsessed with this photo I took of a California Condor at the Oregon Zoo looking out into the rain majestically 🌧️

Editing #underwater #photography is such a wild ride in neuroticism and compulsion. Hours lost in backscatter. But I think this is the first #hammerhead from the #bimini expedition I would call all the way done. I call it The Kiss. I am very clever. #sharks #diving #sonyalpha #photosky

There's nuance between this & chronic illness; in 2022 I had 3 weeks in the hospital & 18 mos. bedbound (murderous immune system). I tell someone, and I am only Sick Girl (burdensome, unproductive). But it must be difficult to be healthy AND less bad ass than a sick scar monster. Die jelly, babes.

used to not have toilets, shade or drinking water cause bosses said it was too expensive. With pesticides we would work too close to the spray. Thanks to Cesar Chavez they changed those things. Join us in marching for Cesar Chávez - Francisco, CA farmworker, 28 yrs #WeFeedYou

A couple of people photos while I still work on my plethora of inane #wildlife photos. Here you see a majestic #hammerhead doing a perfect impression of me when my boyfriend has a snack. Kinda rude, but spot on, big guy. #underwater #photography #bimini #sonyalpha #sharks #travelsky #photosky