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@mladen I really love this #photo nice work! #workofart

#photography #urban #fujifilm #fuji #streetphotography #art #photo #zurich #switzerland

The ancient faces of Bayon Temple in Cambodia stand beneath a breathtaking Milky Way sky. Once the heart of the Khmer Empire, these serene stone towers seem to watch over time itself, their calm expressions illuminated by the light of distant stars. A peaceful meeting of history and the cosmos.

https://rebeccaherranen.com/featured/faces-of-bayon-under-the-milky-way-rebecca-herranen.html

#history #photography #photo #buyintoart #art #asia #fineartphotography #sky #wallart #milkyway #nightscape #architecture #cambodia

Night photograph of Bayon Temple in Cambodia, showing several stone towers carved with giant serene faces, silhouetted against a vivid Milky Way sky of purples, blues, and pinks.

New Mexico Thistle
Santa Fe National Forest, NM

Another photo from my day trip up to the Jemez Mountains last week. Astute observers may have noticed this Thursday Thistle plant in a previous post growing along the river.

#photo #nature #plants #thistle #NewMexico

A green sphere of spikes is at the terminus of a brown stalk and from it extends a profusion of thin purple florets. The background is out-of-focus green and brown grasses oriented at all angles.
©BosqueBill.com

Chat d'automne

#photo #animal #chat #catoftheday #catofmastodon #automne #nature

@RunRichRun such a #wonderful #photo. #nature is #beautiful

Cool, clear morning. We call it dog weather. 🐶
Have a good day.

#photography #photo #foto #fotografie #fotografia #running #TrailRunning #nature #trees #morning #sunshine

Photo of early morning sun shining through the woods. There are many leafy green trees with straight, dark brown trunks. Near the middle, the sun shines brightly through a small gap in the vegetation. It glows bright orange-gold. There are horizontal golden rays emanating from that spot.

Sperlonga| cane che corre libero sulla spiaggia, un'attimo di scatto rubato
"La gioia di un cane in corsa è la libertà pura"📸
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#nature #fotografia #photography #photo #foto #italy #italia #photographer #travel #picoftheday #love #travelphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #beautiful #canon #sunset #pic #igersitalia #sky #picture #portrait

Formia| Santa madre Maria, uno scatto in bw
"La pace che cerchi è nel cuore di chi segue la via del santo."📸
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#biancoenero #blackandwhite #bnw #photography #photooftheday #italy #photo #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #bw #italia #streetphotography #love #fotografia #bnwphotography #photographer #instablackandwhite #igersbnw #bnw_society #foto #bn #bw_photooftheday #portrait #bw_lover

A Chub trio swimming over an #Oahu #Hawaii #reef . Your #sealife #photooftheday

You can also find me at https://mastodon.online/@hawaiianeye797

Prints available - DM me. #silver #fish #thursday #creature #ocean #pacificocean #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #outdoors #explore #environment #earth #photo #photography #scuba #discover #underwater #art #critter #follow

A trio of silver fish swimming over an ocean reef. The fish are as long as your forearm and have slightly forked and black tails.

Good morning. 🌕🌖🌚

9 October 2025

Snow Geese, and the Law of Kinship

I'm writing this morning from an undisclosed location on the outskirts of Houston, Texas. A big house on a lake. We’re staying with some in-laws for a few days—well, they’re my in-laws, and a couple of them are my wife’s in-laws. That’s how it goes with in-laws, I suppose. I think it’s the law.

Last night, a flock of snow geese descended just behind the house. I felt both thrilled and let down—thrilled by their arrival, let down by the darkness that kept my camera silent. They mingled quietly on the grass near the lake’s edge, like spectral guests at a moonlit gathering. Except for the honking. I don’t think ghosts honk. Do they?

I tried to get a photo, but the light refused to cooperate. I considered stepping beyond the small wrought iron fence to get closer, but something told me that was a bad idea. Snow geese are sizable creatures, and they’ve been known to go on the offensive—me thinks. It’s one of those lessons I learned the smart way: through someone else’s misfortune.

Yesterday morning, I dropped Charlie at the veterinarian’s office. It tugged at the heartstrings. He didn’t want to stay—propped himself up on my lap, tried to make a break for the door and the car. I’ll feel better when I pick him up in a few days.

The house is beginning to stir. Footsteps, voices, the subtle shift in atmosphere that signals coffee and quiet time are drawing to a close.

“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” — Michael J. Fox

“How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? … There is a voice within, if only we would listen.” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.” — Konrad Lorenz

#morning #moon #snowgeese #geese #family #visit #lake #dog #photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers

"A luminous moon commands the frame, its surface etched with ancient memory. Captured on the evening of October 8, 2025, the photograph reveals the Moon in its Waning Gibbous phase, still nearly full, with 95% illumination casting a soft silver glow across the night. Craters ripple across the terrain like fossilized echoes, while dark maria stretch like ink stains on a parchment of stone. Bright rays fan outward from impact sites, resembling frozen bursts of light or the delicate veins of a pressed leaf. The Moon’s curvature is crisp, its texture almost tactile—like weathered marble burnished by time.

This image doesn’t merely depict the Moon—it archives its mythic presence, as if the lunar surface were a sovereign scroll of celestial history. The photograph bears the subtle signature “© Swede’s Photographs” in the bottom right corner, a quiet nod to the witness behind the lens." - Microsoft Copilot

Dubrovnik is a city in southern Croatia fronting the Adriatic Sea. It's known for its distinctive Old Town, encircled with massive stone walls completed in the 16th century.