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Nebulae, comets, and aurorae, oh my! See the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlist.

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#photography #nature

an astronomy photo of a nebula called the "teapot"
an astronomy photo of nebula over rock formations in New Zealand
an astronomy photo of the spiral galaxy Andromeda

Nebulae, Comets, and Aurorae, Oh My! See the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Shortlist — Colossal

769 photographers and astronomers from 66 countries submitted more than 4,000 images to this year's competition.
Kate Mothes (Colossal)
#photography #nature

A window with a blurry view onto the fjord where I grew up
#365moments #Smartphonepic #Photography
Looking out of an airplane window onto a green landscape and a huge sky covered in white and grey clouds. On the horizon one can see a mountain range and a fjord between the mountain and the flat landscape
#photography #smartphonepic #365moments

Protection

#photography #lakehuron #lake #sky #boats #blackandwhite #monochrome

A rock wall next to a harbor is seen along the shore of Lake Huron. The large rocks that make up the wall are seen in detail as the wall juts out far into the large lake. The masts of sail boats can be seen to the right and large white clouds fill the sky. This is a black and white image.
#photography #blackandwhite #lake #sky #monochrome #boats #lakehuron

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#photography #portrait #nudity

Pink & Teal
#365moments #Smartphonepic #Photography
The interior of a typical Norwegian wooden church from the 1830s, featuring doors in front of the pews, a two-storey gallery and a pulpit-altar (a characteristic Norwegian feature from the 19th century). The wooden walls and columns are painted teal, whilst the panelling and the walls of the two galleries are painted in a pink marble-effect finish. The columns in the nave and around the pulpit altar are also painted in a marble-effect finish (those around the altar in pink). A pale pink carpet runs from the entrance to the altar. A brass-coloured chandelier hangs from the ceiling. The church is one of the largest in the region and has a total of 700 seats … just to put that into perspective when compared with churches in other countries.
#photography #smartphonepic #365moments

Thankfully the weather is cooling down a bit tonight! - Even the birds seem to be more abundant. I always struggle to ID these crows though, at least beyond the genus level.

📷️️️️️️️ Sony A6700
🔭 TTArtisan 500mm F6.3
🎛️ 1/320, F8, ISO 1250
🎨 darktable

🪿 Crows, inaturalist.org/taxa/7998-Corv…
🪿 House Sparrow, ebird.org/species/houspa

#Birds #Photography

Two large black crows standing atop a rectangular hay bale in a recently cut field. The crows are jet black, with one interested in getting a snack out of the hay bale itself while another seems to have spotted me.
A wire fence within a field covered in house sparrows (Over 20), with a couple mid-flight. The photo has been processed into monochrome.
#photography #birds

A rose by any other name..

#photography #flowers #rose #bloomscrolling #nature

Many pink rose blossoms are seen close up along a wooden fence in front of a old stone house.
#photography #nature #Flowers #Rose #bloomscrolling

Playing with #flash is so much fun!
#photography #blackandwhite #selfportrait
A man is sitting on a white chair, looking thoughtfully to the side. The image is in black and white, highlighting his facial features and expression. The background is plain and light-colored.
#photography #blackandwhite #flash #selfportrait

Saturday, July 4th, 4:02 p.m.

#photography

The view from Bernal Heights on a typical San Francisco day. It's summer. In the afternoon. And that means fog covers half the city and threatens to roll over another 25% within the next 2 hours. In thiis photo, the tip of Sutro Tower peeks out from thick bank of fog covering Twin Peaks and Mount Sutro. Above Sutro Tower, there's a bit of clear blue sky... except for one swirl of fog that reaches up and arcs high above Noe Valley. Our house, in Noe Valley, sits 2-3 blocks in front of the edge of the fog. Sometime between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m., the house will be in the fog. This is how it goes most days, from mid-May until September and occasionally throughout the other months of the year.
#photography

A red admiral butterfly hitched a ride on me during my morning walk. She hopped on at about King and Bay heading west and got off around Spadina and Dundas heading north. Hope she found what she was looking for -- I'd hate to be the wrong bus.

#photography #toronto #insect #butterfly

A red black and white butterfly spreading its wings while perched on the breast of a bearded man wearing headphones. They are surrounded by tall buildings.
#photography #insect #Toronto #butterfly

Get your kicks at Ed's Camp on Route 66! Looks like the Kactus Kafe is a great place for some delicious roadkill delicacies!

#Travel #RoadTrip #Landscape #Abandoned #Architecture #Desert #BlackAndWhite #MonoChrome #Photography #Darktable

A black and white landscape photo of a long abandoned roadside stop with gas station and a cafe. The buildings are painted white. There's a small water tower on the left. The background are rugged desert mountains. The branches of a long dead tree are seen directly behind the buildings. The sky is clear.
#photography #landscape #architecture #travel #blackandwhite #darktable #abandoned #monochrome #desert #roadtrip

How many storms did it survive? How many birds found shelter in its branches? How many forests began from its seeds? An old tree is a lifetime of giving. Let's be the generation that protects, not destroys, our natural heritage.
#trees #biodiversity #environment #ecology #ecosystem #forestry #nature #ClimateAction #photography #fediverse #linux #mastodon #agroforestry #afforestation #Reaforestation #deforestation #Greenyouthmovement #wildlife #EcoConservation
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#Environment #fediverse #Linux #photography #nature #mastodon #biodiversity #wildlife #trees #ecology #climateaction #déforestation #ecosystem #agroforestry #afforestation #reaforestation #greenyouthmovement #ecoconservation #forestry

Leap-frogging #cormorants in a cove near Tossa de Mar.

#MondaysAreForTheBirds #birds #seabirds #photography #BirdPhotography #Catalonia #Spain

Color photo of a cormorant with wings extended forward in the air above another cormorant standing on a rock next to the water that has its head tucked behind it.
#photography #birds #birdphotography #Spain #catalonia #mondaysareforthebirds #cormorants #seabirds

A Honda CB175 left on the back of a pick-up truck, rusting together in an abandoned junkyard in the USA.

#Abandoned #Motorcycle #Photography #HondaCB #Honda #ClassicBike #Junkyard

A rusted vintage motorcycle rests in the bed of an abandoned pick-up truck, surrounded by other decaying items under a bright sky.
#photography #abandoned #honda #motorcycle #hondacb #classicbike #junkyard

#Suedtirol2026 - Rising clouds over peak near Sellaronda

#landscapephotography #nightsky #photography

Mountain peak at night with illuminated mountain station and fog
#photography #landscapephotography #nightsky #suedtirol2026

From the hike today

#photography #SilentSunday

A fern bush behind a tree trunk. One fern leaf is standing tall and reflecting the afternoon sunlight creating a mystical moment.
Tree roots coiled over another tree truck
Side view of a mushroom growing along the tree trunk. The mushroom is beige with violet inner. There are rain drops on the mushroom
#photography #silentsunday

Slugs meeting for breakfast
#photography, #potd2026, #photoaday, #pad2026-186, #slugs, #morningwalk, #mushroom, #fungi, #macro, #upclose
Two slugs, one larger and redish and another smaller and brownish, on top of mushroom
#photography #macro #fungi #photoaday #mushroom #morningwalk #potd2026 #pad2026 #slugs #upclose

#silentsunday

#mockfotos #photography #monochrome

im vordergrund des schwarzweißfotos ist die dunkle silhouette einer katze zu sehen. feine schnurrhaare ragen von der rechten seite in die bildmitte. der hintergrund ist unscharf und zeigt eine helles fenster und einen flur. das gesamte bild hat eine stark körnige struktur.
#photography #silentsunday #monochrome #mockfotos

Common whitetail aka long-tailed skimmer (Plathemis lydia) #dragonfly perched on a #yucca blade.

#SilentSunday #Stunday #photography #insect #nature #InsectPhotography #macro #MacroPhotography

Color photo of a large dragonfly with a brown head and underside and brown bars in the middle of its transparent wings perched on a yucca blade.
#photography #nature #macro #MacroPhotography #silentsunday #insect #dragonfly #Stunday #insectphotography #yucca

Exactly two weeks ago I hiked Naches Peak Loop at the Mount Rainier National Park with a few online friends. (We then actually had nachos.) This was said to be a mild trail but the ice on the way made it a lot more challenging. Yes, there's still ice in mid June!

#SilentSunday #photography #hiking

Looking towards Mount Rainier.
A motorcycle on the side of the road. The driver is lying on the grass a few feet away, on an downward incline.
A small pond at about the midway point of the Naches Peak Loop.
Ice formation obstructing the trail.
#photography #hiking #silentsunday

Amazing photo by Cheney Orr from today. Black woman sitting alone on the DC Metro with a crowd of masked white supremacists on their way to the capital to march with confederate flags.

There is also a deeper analogy for what I keep hearing over and over from Black people: finding themselves surrounded by white people who either do not know, or do not care, about how America looks from the Black person's perspective.

#Photography #PoliticalPhotography #July4th

Photo by Cheney Orr taken this morning (July 4, 2026) on the DC metro. Group of masked white supremacists are looming on the subway, as one lone Black woman sits uncomfortably in a seat.
#photography #july4th #politicalphotography

My self-conversation at 05:15

Wise self: You should go hiking
Lazy self: Nah, it looks cold, dark and foggy
Wise self: You should go hiking
Lazy self: Well, ok... but lets not carry the big camera
Wise self: You might miss something important
Lazy self: But my shoulder hurts
Wise self: GET IN THE CAR

Always listen to your wise self

#wildlife #wildlifeWednesday #nature #photography #photomonday #bobcat #sfba #marin

More of my work: captured.earth/

A bobcat sitting next to a field of Mustard flowers looking back at me
A bobcat slinking away from me tracking something in the weeds beyond
A beautiful bobcat walking right at the camera along a trail between some native grasses.
#photography #nature #wildlife #Photomonday #sfba #wildlifewednesday #bobcat #marin

Color harmonizing between the house and front yard. . I see more and more houses breaking out of the suburban color schemes. I really like it.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #OurNeighborhood #BloomScrolling #HouseTrims
The front porch and front of a slate blue house are trimmed in purple with a thread of magenta. A flower bed in the front yard echoes the color scheme with tall stemmed magenta mallows, purple lavender flowers and dusty blue green sage (I think Powis Castle wormwood).
#photography #bloomscrolling #seattlewashington #ourneighborhood #seattlesummer #housetrims

Leaf People

#LeafScrolling #Pareidolia #Photography

Right in the middle of the frame is a heavily textured green and silver variegated leaf. It has two almost perfectly symmetrical, clean-cut circular holes eaten into its upper half. Because of the placement of these holes and the silver-white patterns surrounding them, the leaf strongly resembles a screaming or startled face.
#photography #pareidolia #leafscrolling

The ginger demon’s curiosity has been piqued! Could it be… adventure?!?

Nikon Zf w 40/2
f2.2 & 1/30s ISO1800

#Photography #Nikon #NikonZf #NikonCamera #Caturday

A ginger cat sits on a purple towel, attention captivated by something to our right.
#caturday #photography #nikon #nikoncamera #nikonzf

Early morning wetlands
#nature #photography
A small pond under blue skies with white clouds. Surrounded my marshlands with cat tails in the foreground.
#photography #nature

#PPOD: This image shows satellites crossing the night sky above the northern Atacama Desert in Chile over just one hour. It is a stack of a time-lapse video taken on 15 October 2025 about two hours after sunset. A few streaks are caused by planes and can be easily identified by their blinking colored lights, but most trails are due to satellites. Credit: F. Kamphues, ESO/M. Kornmesser

#space #science #photography

Time-lapse photo of the night sky over Paranal Observatory in Chile, with the observatory seen as a bump on the distant silhouette of the hills. Overhead, the glow of the Milky Way dominates the upper half of the sky while numerous satellite trails cover the sky.
#Space #photography #science #PPOD

Between Tides - Rapanui Beach, Taranaki, New Zealand.

#photography #landscape #nz

A vertical, fine-art landscape photograph of a moody, overcast black sand beach at Rapanui Beach, Taranaki. In the immediate foreground, two large, matching boulders covered in vibrant green moss sit close together, separated by a narrow channel of reflective, wet sand carved by the tide. Further back on the smooth, dark shore, another smaller pair of mossy rocks rests near the breaking white surf of the Tasman Sea. The sky above is filled with heavy, dark grey storm clouds, creating a somber, minimalist, and atmospheric tone.
#photography #landscape #NZ

Steam engine whistle maintenance is probably the most important maintenance task in a railway shop. A steam engine isn't a steam engine without a steam whistle, right?

#Railway #Train #Shop #Trains #BlackAndWhite #MonoChrome #Photography #Darktable

A black and white portrait photo of a man working on top of a steam engine. We see the top of the steam engine and the man's chest and shoulders as he stares intently toward the right on the large nut he is turning with a very large adjustable wrench. The nut holds the steam engine's whistle to the supply line. The metal roof rafters of the engine house are dimly lit in the background.
#photography #blackandwhite #train #darktable #trains #shop #monochrome #railway

Brügge ist sicher unter den Top 10 der schönsten Städte des Universums.

#holgersfotos #foto #fotografie #photo #photography #brugge #bruges

#photo #photography #foto #fotografie #holgersfotos #bruges #brugge

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