Male Finch was the first customer of the day at The Backlit Cafe. #nature #photography #birds #backlight #feeder #arizona

Went out shooting #bees with my #Canon yesterday. #nature #photography #flowers #pollen #shrub

Rainy days and sunshine can coexist. Roamed around the backyard after a shower the other say.

#Retired now for a few years and planned for it. This is kind of how I see the #working world now, working for the man. #blackandwhite #photography #streetphotography

At a height of 7000 feet and mostly dark skies, Sunset Lookout outside of Prescott was the perfect place to shoot Comets Lemmon and #SWAN. We didn’t see Lemmon and SWAN was found after the fact when I got back home; the telltale sign is its green coma. #MilkyWay #stars #AstroPhotography

The Granite Dells of Watson #Lake (man-made early 1900's) date back 1.4 billion years and originated from magma that cooled and solidified beneath the Earth’s surface. Their signature look was created by hundreds of millions of years of exposure and erosion. #photography #landscape #water #arizona

Shadow Dancing is Prescott, Arizona last weekend. #nature #photography #shadow

Watson #Lake hosts a bunch of different water fowl and magnificent geology. Graylag Goose, Canada Goose resting on one leg and a female Mallard scoping the scene. #birdphotography #geese #ducks

Living in the desert south west, USA I feel very fortunate to have this place just a 20 minute drive from me. The Gilbert Riparian Preserve is quite literally an #oasis.

Good walk around #Gilbert Riparian Preserve yesterday. Although the ponds are being drained for maintenance, there are still a good number of birds there. Here are just a few: Great #Egret, House #Sparrow and a Northern #Mockingbird. #photography #birding #Goldenhour

THIS #DOG, oh my goodness. I could tell he wanted to convey something to the owner the way he kept #jumping on him. I held back to get some dog action shots and got him completely off the ground. Turns out he was just done with #walking and wanted to ride the owner back to the car. #photography

Record rainfall put us over the recorded average in one day. North-east of us Globe was devastated with flooding. A town somewhere near Phoenix got almost 4 inches in a couple of hours. It was intense. Sometimes beauty and fury meet. These #clouds and #lightning were coming in the day before.

I have to read this one.

I shoot ducks with my Canon. #photography #birdphotography #mallard #water #nature #birding

Matthew Dowd is fired for stating the obvious. Brian Kilmeade says we should euthanize the homeless, his cohosts agree and they'll be repeating their violent rhetoric regularly for years to come. It's kind of like Al Franken losing his seat over a joke while a criminal rapist gets reelected POTUS.

33rd #anniversary breakfast yesterday morning. A good start to the day with the wife.

Good work local law enforcement and FBI. Now, can we get back to the important matter of the Epstein files? @cnn-news.bsky.social @velshimsnbc.bsky.social

what the fuck is up with people who say they hate communism but then are okay with a dictatorship

Cape Disappointment living up to its name #lighthouses

So, this happened yesterday, the biggest #haboob in #Arizona since 2011. Our first one was early 2000's. These things are biblical in size. It was estimated to be 10,000 feet tall, traveled about 30 mph, was around 30 miles across and produced winds up to 66 miles an hour. #photography #storm

This. 100%.

Such a majestic bird… 🦅

Saving for later.

Richard Foot is a new follow for me. I highly encourage others to check out his photography profile.

That's my son's hand. Little dude was dazed and confused, flew into a wall next to where he was working. Spent the rest of the day in his truck. He took him to a field and he flew away. #Nature

Archive redo from last February. This Mandarin #Duck is a local star of the park in Queen Creek, #Arizona. #photography #animals #water #canon

Creole Shrimp going down tonight. Too hot to go outside for pics, but turning up the heat in the kitchen.

Today's listens... It was a good day.

From @jglass8.bsky.social This baby has GOT to have a great horn!

Epic #sunset at San Tan Mountain Regional Park in Arizona. #photography #silhouette #nature 1/40 sec f/16 ISO 50 EF 24-105 Canon L series @55mm Canon 6D mkII

Forgot to post this one from late last month. An attempt at the #MilkyWay from a local spot, obviously NOT dark skies. Happy with the structure in the foreground. Tried stacking a series of ten but honestly I like this single exposure the best. 15 sec f/1.4 24mm Samyung ISO 250 Canon 6D mkII

Sad news today about the lodge and campgrounds at the North Rim. We were there last summer during a New Moon for some Milky Way shots. Haven't heard of the fire was started by lightning strike or human caused.

Pecan smoked chicken breasts and green chilie be brats. Fine dining tonight!

Foghat from around 2014 at a local music festival. The video is a different venue, but the same lineup of musicians. Slow Ride: youtu.be/Mk9X46bWqBE?... #music #rocknroll #blackandwhite #concert #photography

Not the best conditions as light pollution is the enemy of anything #MilkyWay, but it is the season to get out and snap away. I do like this old water storage tank that I've used before. #photography #nightsky

Pulled off the road in 2019 because the weeds were blooming in a spectacular fashion. #blackandwhite #flowers #nature

Pretty epic shot by @davidblanchard.bsky.social

In Maryland taking care of my 80 yo sis in law who just had a knee replaced. You know why they call it the Lifetime Network? It's about how long you suffer through one of their movies.

🔮🦋🌞Have a magical day🌞🦋🔮

Poking around the backside of Superstition State Park this week. Found three things; A nice backlit saguaro, a dilapidated sign, and realized it heats up really quick this time of year in #Arizona. #photography #nature #decay

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #ColorTheMusic Day 2 Jimi Hendrix 🎸- “Red House” 🎶 I have a bad, bad feeling That my baby don't live here no more That's alright, I still got my guitar Look out now 🎶 🔥🔥🔥 🎸🎸🎸 youtu.be/HVaCfwjl_gM?...

At the gym and my use of deodorant this morning is debatable.

Love this!

53 years ago today, I released my first solo album, Wind of Change. I had just stepped out on my own after Humble Pie, with no idea where it would lead. Looking back, it was the beginning of a journey I’m forever grateful for. Thanks for being a part of it.

On this day in history (May 23, 1934) Bonnie and Clyde were shot to death in a storm of 167 bullets after being tracked down and ambushed on a Louisiana road. I was ten when I saw the movie at the Fox Theater in Fullerton, and the story of the duo still intrigues me. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_...

Watching How the Universe Works. Topic, The Big Bang. Dude says people think it was the beginning of the universe, but what it really is, is the end of our understanding. And I'm like a dog hearing a new sound.

A different version of the archive redo I did the other day. I converted to black and white, made tonal adjustments, merged to a new pixel layer. Added structure by tone mapping then added a gradient map to split tone for sepia. #AffinityPhoto #concert #photography

This series in backyard birding yesterday happened in a span of 1/400 of a second. Birds amaze me. EDIT: I am now just realizing there is a limit on Blue Sky of four photographs, so the math changes. This series is in a span of 1/500 of a second. She stuck the landing.

Your cheat sheet for the art challenges for May 19 to May 25 is here! I'll post a comment with hosts of most of these. #ArtChallenges #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #dailyart #art #painting #drawing #ArtPrompts #TraditionalArt #ContemporaryArt