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I take pics -occasionally artistic. Atheist. Doctorate in Armchair Biology & working on one in Law. Terminally Diagnosed w/ Wanderlust & Curiosity. Working on being a better person, … not always successful. Tap photos for further descriptions.
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Thank you! I am humbled by your response!
How did this not get more press?This is my first time seeing this. We are so screwed.
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I frickin’ love this!!!!!! Gorgeous and brilliant!!!
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Sunflower about bloom #NorthPond. Natural Light. #EastCoastKin #Photography #BNWmacro #Macro #PhotoHour #ClassicMono #Flowers #FlowersOnSunday #Art #BloomScrolling #thelittlethings #StunDay #ArtInNature #Nature #ArtYear #FineArtPhotography
Lovely!
Those are very kind words. Thank you.
Thank you. A bit of right time and right place.
N Pond with a new optic. 10mm FF, #720nm #BlueSkyArtShow #Shiny #Landscape #PhotoHour #BNW #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #NikonZ7 #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #ChicagoPhotography #LincolnPark #NorthPond #SurrealNature #Dreamscape #ArtYear #InfraredArt
Congrats!!!
The Shedd, if you’re in Chicago, though always the silver variety. However, they are all mature breeding size. Also Chinatown pet store in Chicago used to carry the more exotic varieties. I would image that is true in most cities with a large Chinatown. There are some amazing YouTube videos, too.
Where is Donald Trump? Tom Adelsbach
#LongTailMacaque in #Monkey Forest. #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #Photohour #PhotographersUnited #Eastcoastkin #WildlifePhotography #Primate #AnimalPortrait #Bali #Ubud
Arowanas are such cool fish. Love the image!
A #GreenMorayEel ( #GymnothoraxFunebris ) with its cleaning buddy, a #BlueBandedGoby in the Sea of Cortez #FishyFriday #Photohour #photographersofbluesky #Photography #PhotographersUnited #Eastcoastkin #Mutualism #Symbiosis #CleaningStation #MarineBiology #UnderwaterPhotography #LythrypnusDalli
Heart breaks for you. Sorry for your loss.
Umm, yeah. With ICE as the most funded arm of law enforcement, enabling a signing bonus ($45k) & salary ($100k) to morons. If he leaves office, hires know they’re outta work. They can be switched on for his personal use on a dime’s drop. They’ll circle the White House and he’ll declare martial law.
I think you nailed it. This is “violence through public policy.” I’ve been looking for the verbiage to succinctly describe their actions. They are mass murderers.
And well you should! Where he was made it difficult to get clear and close. I kind of jogged around to get the best spot I could while he was still arguing. He was fighting with that reed, on and off, for close to a minute. I’m not sure what the reed said…but it certainly got a rise outta Chuck. 😁
Sunflower Detail. N Pond. yesterday afternoon. #Sunflower #SummerVibes #ColorADay #YellowThu #AbstractAug #flowers #bloomscrolling #minimalism #Photohour #Photography #photographersofbluesky #PhotographersUnited #Eastcoastkin
In fairness, there are some riders that have contraptions that can fly, but ride at reasonable rates when near other riders. However, the ones that blaze are going to kill someone. The irony is they aren’t expending any effort and many are the most impatient on the path.
This is a green heron. Not a blue. Brain fart when I typed.
School just started, and we are already mourning two children killed and dozens more injured as they prayed during mass. It doesn’t have to be this way. Congress must act to keep our kids safe.
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
Too Funny!
This is Charlie, a #GreatBlueHeron, caught in a tantrum. I'm not certain the problem, but Charlie was definitely angry with this reed. #BirdsOfBluesky #PhotoHour #BirdPhotography #Birds #ArtChallenges #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #UrbanWildlife #NikonZ8
Spot on.
A Blue Heron doing an imitation of The Road Runner this afternoon. #BirdsOfBluesky #BirdPhotography #Birds #ArtChallenges #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotoHour
Stunning! This is gorgeous. Definitely hits out of the park! I imagine there were more there a few compelling choices in post.
Ms Hunt, Given the SCOTUS we currently have, how do you think the left will vote when the case arrives? If nay, given conservative philosophical inconsistency, what are the odds two conservative justices would enjoin the nays?
By the way, image recognition is an area AI is exceedingly strong and routinely beats human experts in a field. It isn’t infallible and that is why good “hygiene” is to challenge it. It’s used in airports everyday for security. It’s become a ubiquitous and valuable tool in radiology.
And then initiating again to see if it will return the same response. Sometimes it doesn’t. Victor, if you have deeper insight into the animals taxonomy I’m more than happy to be corrected. I found its conclusion that it was female and not male suspicious and spent sometime down that road.
As someone who has dived there on a few occasions and had experience photographing this animal, male and female, I’m not completely out of my depth, either. Chatgtp is a tool and absolutely can mislead. The best way to use it is to be highly skeptical of its conclusions, requiring it to defend them
As a rule, my queries with photos, mine or others are done in temp chat. This means the uploaded image cannot be used for learning. It also means when I start a new chat, it cannot rely on the same image in its research. So, I can pose the same question and challenge its conclusions.
Vector, I’d be more than happy to be proven otherwise. However, I spent sometime challenging its conclusions at each response. It initially said Blanket Octopus, which I would be extremely excited to hear. However that conclusion was based on a miss interpretation of the image.
Matt, so a bit of arguing with the bot and it logic in being female is that were it male, it would be fully mature and exhibit physical traits distinctive to males. Namely the specialized arm. I argued that perhaps the hectocotylus wasn’t visible, but it still feels confident it’s female.
A bit of chatgpt’ing and it seems to be certain it’s a female paper nautilus or Argonauta hians Spectacular Image.
Never considered burning the flag, but passing a law that says I can’t might be thing that motivates me to do so. Conscripted respect of the flag robs the flag of all symbolic meaning. Of course a draft dodging convicted felon and pedofile would performatively show “patriotism” by making it illegal.
Meant to post this earlier today. Late Homework. I love mundane subjects elevated. I think I captured that in this image of a #HouseSparrow - #PasserDomesticus #BirdsOfBluesky #BirdPhotography #Birds #ArtChallenges #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotoHour
It was such a serene, but rather bracing dive.
I don’t remember the name of this #cenote. It may have been Dos Ojos or Calavera. I lean the latter as I recall several entry points. #CaveDiving #DivingMexico #Photohour #Photography #photographerofbluesky #PhotographersUnited #Eastcoastkin #ColorADay #BlueTue
*heroes 🤣
Love it!
sicsemper47 "These assholes would never let a BIPOC get away with this. Fellow white dudes, get the fuck out on the street and starting using your privilege for good."
The hero’s begin to emerge.
Absolutely. I have a feeling I’m now going to start seeing them everywhere.
Those talons look like they could shred titanium.
I’m an atheist and that looks biblical to me.
I didn’t even know they existed until this morning. I found a male, not so pretty but obvious, and the female was sitting a few stems away.
Had a long tele lens, so found an amazing macro subject.😖 #GoldenrodCrabSpider #MisumenaVatia #iPhone13 #NaturePhotography #MacroPhotography #PollinatorPredator #WildlifePhotography #Camouflage #Biodiversity #Stunday #Photohour #photographerofbluesky #Photography #PhotographersUnited #Eastcoastkin
Ohh that's RICH @ohhthatsrich.bsky.social
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.
#HackberryEmperor (Asterocampa celtis) #Photohour #photographerofbluesky #Photography #PhotographersUnited #Eastcoastkin #ColorADay #GreenSat #Butterfly #MacroPhotography #CloseUpNature #ButterfliesOfBlueSky #Pollinator #Wildflower #InsectPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NativeButterflies
Wowowowoow!!!!
Outstanding.
Love your work, particularly with light and shadow. It’s making me think about my imaging.
#OceanicWhitetip Cat Island 2014 IUCN Red List Critically Endangered #photographerofbluesky #Photography #photohour #PhotographersUnited #fishfriday #EastCoastKin #SharkConservation #SaveOurSharks #EndangeredSpecies #UnderwaterPhotography #SharkAwareness #ProtectOurOceans #MarineConservation
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That’s why I cancelled my subscription. You can still read it for free with paywall removers.
They are above the law. They don’t have to either care or understand the constitution. They operate outside of it. Until the high court rightwing realizes what they have allowed to be done to this country, we are in tyranny. This is Germany 1934. Kristallnacht is around the corner.
The Entire point of the House of Representatives being elected every 2 years, half the presidential cycle, was to make them the most REPRESENTATIVE of the will of the people. Trump wants to redraw is for the precise reason they exist. He wants to Usurp that will/power to avoid the report card.
An eagle stares from a rock just above the waters edge thinking…wtf happened to my country. #BaldEagle #WildlifePhotography #BirdsOfPrey #Nature #Wilderness #Raptors #BirdWatching #NaturePhotography #Birds #Birding #EastCoastKin #Photohour #Photography #photographerofbluesky #PhotographersUnited
Thank you …and this was taken yesterday.
Too true
Grasshopper, Flower, Grass #Grasshopper #InsectPhotography #MacroNature #NatureCloseUp #BugLife #MacroPhotography #InsectLovers #NatureDetails #photographerofbluesky #Photography #PhotographersUnited #Eastcoastkin
Rooftop spectator watches a jet fly overhead at the #ChicagoAirshow. Irony & contradiction. More with Image. #WarAndPeace #Spectacle #Violence #Thunderbirds #tech #fundEducation #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #Peace #Duality #Aviation #Photohour #BlueTue #Eastcoastkin#PhotographersofBluesky
An old video- Funny, kind of sad and politically spot on. Chieng and Oliver always deliver. #immigrants #comedy #politicalSatire #RonnyChieng #MAGAIgnorance youtube.com/shorts/i1Hi_...
How is this legal? To begin with Seems like it violates basic constitutional rights against unlawful detainment. Requiring them to have police escorts also seems illegal as it creates a set of rules based on political beliefs.4-1””
Meet George, a Red Spotted #blenny, Favorite Food: Algae and detritus. Voted most likely to bring a keg to a house party. “I like beer…but not Brett” #BlenniellaChrysospilos #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #Nature #UnderWaterPhotography #MacroMonday #Photohour
A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over the course of a month.
Up close and personal with a GreatHammerhead shark in Bimini. The ocean never ceases to amaze #Stunday #SharkPhotography #UnderwaterPhotography #MarineLife #OceanWildlife #EastCoastKin #WildlifePhotography #photohour #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #Nature
I just processed these prior posting and coming back now, the purple and orange do seductively glow.
Perhaps, but I would wager if folks in the media and public started comparing him to Neville Chamberlain, he’d sh*t his golf pants and change his tune.
Vintage Lens. I love both renditions. Which do you prefer? #ClassicMono #ArtYear #BloomScrolling #EastCoastKin #BlueskyArt #BlackAndWhite #BlueskyPhotography #APhotography #Nature #Flowers #FineArtPhotography #DreamyPhotography #FloralArt #ArtPhotography
Trump is the Neville Chamberlain of our time.
Goodness!
A moment of #Zen and a hidden treasure (currently under restoration). The #CaldwellLillyPool Garden. #photography #Photohour #IRphoto #Landscape #photographerofbluesky #PhotographersUnited #Eastcoastkin #BWFri #ColorOfTheDay #Chicago #LincolnPark #NaturePhotography #UrbanOasis #HiddenGem
Michael, I’m no expert, but I think you nailed it “little beauty” might very well be the species…but whadda I know?
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Love it!
So very disturbing. I’m in Chicago, and while we don’t have those issues, the level of Lake Michigan/Huron (technically one body of water), in a span of less than 5 years, is down ~3.4 feet from its high. Down 9,180,000,000,000 cubic feet of water vs June of 2020
Old image of a #GoldenDamsel & one of my favs. It’s oft overlooked. It was also super difficult to get right. #ColorOfTheDay #PhotoHour #photooftheday#AmblyglyphidodonAureus #PhotographersUnited #photographerofbluesky #photography #macro #underwaterPhotography #nature #Eastcoastkin #YellowThu
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In Texas, Senator Gutierrez goes off on GOP, Abbott and Trump for holding up all other business until the redistricting map is passed. This includes needed flood relief and infrastructure. They’re holding the state for ransom. Gutierrez calls it a sham and a scam on the people of Texas.
Noticed an error. Gregory Rothman @gregoryroth... • 1h A #CoralWhipGoby * - #BryaninopsYongei - pauses for its close up. #ColorOfTheDay #RedWednesday #photooftheday #PhotoHour #PhotographersUnited #photographerofbluesky #photography #macro #underwaterPhotography #nature #Eastcoastkin
A #WhipCoralGoby - #BryaninopsYongei - pauses for its close up. #ColorOfTheDay #RedWednesday #photooftheday #PhotoHour #PhotographersUnited #photographerofbluesky #photography #macro #underwaterPhotography #nature #Eastcoastkin
It’s Back-To-School Month! Remember, reading is fundamental for ages 5 through 79!
Everything is to change the news cycle and narrative away from Epstein.
Great Capture!!!!
Love it!
Right you are! Thanks for the correction!!!
Pilsen, Chicago- SENKOE’s “Xōchipilli” blesses the neighborhood. Fuller description if you tap the image. #Graffiti #photography #pictureoftheday #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersofBluesky #Photohour #Eastcoastkin #streetPhotograpy #ArtYear #photooftheday #ColorOtTheDay #BlueTuesday
