It's a soggy day at the end of #autumn in Portland. #orwx

Have seen a lot of focus and press about the high potential for tropical reforestation. All well and good, but *primary tropical forests* continue to be felled at astronomical rates almost everywhere. Safeguarding these is where the focus needs to be. 🌎 www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The #timelapse video I filmed at #sunrise this morning with the DJI Osmo Action 6. #wawx youtu.be/541GM77-qQc

These old Kowa Six Leaf-shutter lenses sure are finicky things! This one is functional, but there's something wrong with it so that you have to cock the shutter to remove the lens, then to attach it you need to manually move the pins in the lens and trigger the shutter in the camera.

Reflection of this morning's #Sunrise Nikon Z9 + Nikkor Z 14-24mm f2.8 #LandscapePhotography #wawx

One of today's projects - I got this new dry stone planter filled with dirt, daffodil bulbs, some flowering vines, and a shrub.

Autumn mood #landscapephotography #autumn #idaho #idahopanhandle #inlandnorthwest #fog

A pretty afternoon, even if they #sunset got cut off before it became colorful by the incoming clouds. #wawx

It is imperative that we replace every last cowardly bootlicker on this list in the next primary election.

Air quality sucks in Toutle today. People who burn slash are inconsiderate jerks. 🤬 #wawx

Underwater in a river with the DJI Osmo Action 6. youtu.be/0WJTJJxVA54

Some truly awesome finds garage-saling today!

Billionaires should be outlawed. "...the insecurity of ultra-wealth is a core driver of our current politics, the tightly bound together mixture of insecurity and aggression which is at the center of everything." The Brittle Grip of Ultra-Wealth talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-b...

Today is the last day to comment & oppose the Dry Falls Energy Center Solar Project, which would result in the loss of native ecosystems just a few miles from Dry Falls in the Channeled Scablands of Central Washington. Send comments to [email protected] apps.ecology.wa.gov/separ/Main/S...

#Sunrise this morning. Nikon Z9 + 14-24mm f2.8 #wawx #landscapephotography

Unexpectedly gorgeous weather today! #wawx

This old BBC documentary is well worth watching! Fred Dibnah was one of the most interesting people to ever live. youtu.be/uZehYnAfvRE?...

Lego Kingfisher building timelapse video, filmed with the DJI Osmo Action 6 using the new macro lens. youtu.be/_bVgXGW60H0

The ticks are truly ferocious out in the hills right now. 😬

2 major accidents on Spirit Lake Highway this morning! Latest one snapped a power pole in half and knocked out power to the entire area.

The Dry Falls Energy Center Solar Project would result in the permanent destruction of over 2500 acres in the heart of the famed Channeled Scablands, only a few miles from the iconic Dry Falls. 11/21/25 is the deadline to comment in opposition of this project. apps.ecology.wa.gov/separ/Main/S...

I'm kinda shocked to see a clear sky this morning! #wawx

Utilities, corporations, and the government officials they've bought don't want transmission lines for the sake of "clean energy", but rather they want them to power AI data centers.

A perfect reflection of the fascinating clouds which passed by this afternoon. #wawx #landscapephotography

It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too

A short underwater video I filmed today with the DJI Osmo Action 6. Longer version coming soon. youtube.com/shorts/pMk6_...

Great documentary from the @ancientforestbc.bsky.social! youtu.be/yozdz8YOXc8?...

A proposed project to build a golf course in Westport Light State Park would cause catastrophic and permanent damage to the ecosystems there. Please sign this petition and consider writing to Washington State Parks directly. c.org/hfgZbK7XPm

This is horrible. It is infuriating how little respect many people in Washington State have for trees, particularly folks in management positions. 🤬 www.king5.com/article/news...

For those in the back: The Abundance agenda's push for "permitting reform" adopts & aligns with the fossil fuel industry's playbook under the false premise that if we let capital build everything anywhere all at once that it'll work out for people & place. It won't.

Sprawl is not a solution to the housing crisis, and the loss of fields & forests is as dire an issue as the housing crisis. Both issues must be confronted in tandem, by making it less difficult & expensive to build apartments in existing community centers, while also banning further sprawl.

$7.50 from Nikon to ship two tiny screws to me to replace the ones which fell out of my 70-200mm lens. 🙄 Also, Nikon support wouldn't tell me which screws I needed to order, so I eventually asked KEH and they researched it and got back to me which exactly the part I needed to order from Nikon.

Very thick fog this morning. Chilly too. #wawx

So the sole human destiny is to keep on killing off nature until the biosphere collapses, and us with it? Sorry, but I believe in another future, in which *both* nature and people thrive. It IS possible.

#Sunset reflections #wawx

I don't quite understand the mentality of people who reply to a post on social media in an antagonistic manner, and then get upset and block you when you refute them with a calm, reasonable response.

Some sample footage I filmed with the DJI Osmo Action 6 yesterday. Enjoy! youtu.be/ZmRPKpv0IUU?...

I'm currently testing out the DJI Osmo Action 6 for an upcoming review, and I've got to say I'm pretty impressed with its performance capturing still images! It has a 1-inch sensor, and is the first action camera to feature a variable aperture. #LandscapePhotography

The unwarranted and malicious attack on Rep. Chuy García by @gluesenkampperez.house.gov delayed the vote to release the #EpsteinFiles. The timing of this action by Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is too glaring to be easily written-off as mere coincidence.

Chilly morning, but it didn't freeze like I had expected it would last night! #wawx

MGP isn't just an idiot who walks roughshod over her constituents, she's also liability to her own party who works with Republican to attack her own colleagues on spurious grounds, and is a filthy liar who took money from the oil and timber industries. www.axios.com/2025/11/18/m...

The way the Sami people are treated in Northern Europe is a big part of why many of my ancestors ended up in the U.S., going so far as to erase evidence of their origin so as to escape persecution. It is disgusting that Europe is now seeking to wreck Sami lands to build industrial energy sprawl.😡

This is really cool.

Incredible sun rays this afternoon! #wawx #LandscapePhotography

We knew that type NP stream protections were necessarily decades ago, but the process of implementing those protections was drawn out for a quarter century. This same sort of foot-dragging is responsible for delaying all sorts of necessary environmental protections.

Trees are looking pretty stark now, particularly with that leaden grey sky overhead. #wawx

The "experts" and the cops preventing rescue efforts and telling people to stay away from the whale are infuriating. 🤬 A mass-effort by the public is clearly the best chance there is of saving the whale, and people should be allowed to do what they can to help. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Young people leave rural areas for higher education. To retain young people in rural areas, it is necessary to make it so that they can pursue that higher education fully while remaining in their home town. Bolstering community colleges is key to creating more cohesive communities.

I know it's stating the obvious, but I've got to say it: 2025 sucks. It's been such an awful year in fact that I'm actually feeling nostalgic for 2020!