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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 3h

Somebody painted a school of fish onto the boulders of Searles Valley, California. The dry lake by Trona has been worked for borax and other salts since the 1870s, so the fish are the new thing out here. #fishrocks #searlesvalley

Dark boulders painted with white eyes and zigzag teeth so they look like fish, piled in the desert.

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A fighter jet climbing past scattered clouds, caught mid-bank against a blue sky. Shutter priority at 1/1000 or faster, sun at your back. #aviation #fighterjet

A fighter jet climbing past scattered white clouds in a blue sky.

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Halite grows in perfect little cubes, sodium and chloride stacking in a cubic lattice. These formed in the shallow water of Lake Manly on Badwater Basin. 8mm, f/5.6, 1/250, ISO 160. #deathvalley #geology

Hundreds of small white cubic salt crystals, single and in clusters, sit on rust-orange mud under shallow water.

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sunrise at Olmsted Point, Half Dome lit blue through wildfire smoke. Nikon Z6 II, 70-200 at 200mm, f/2.8, 1/50, ISO 100. #halfdome #yosemite

Half Dome's granite face in blue early-morning light beyond dark pine silhouettes, under a smoky pink and gray sky.

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Little guy owned the tallest rock around. Sat up on his front legs and didn't move an inch while I worked the foreground grass. Z6 II, 200mm, f/4, 1/1000, ISO 100. #wildlife #nevada

A lizard perched atop a red boulder, standing on its front legs and looking toward the camera, with desert grass in the foreground.

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A roofless cinderblock ruin with the graffiti still hanging on, framing a daytime moon in the window opening. Desert mountains quiet behind it. Shot at 70mm, f/14, 1/800, ISO 125. #desertphotography #abandoned

A roofless cinderblock ruin with graffiti, framing a daytime moon in a window opening; desert mountains behind.

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A lone Thunderbird F-16, low over Nellis, stars on the tail sharp enough to count. Hard desert sun, 1/1250, f/6.3, ISO 100. #aviation #thunderbirds

A single F-16 in red, white and blue demonstration paint flies with its landing gear extended against a hazy blue sky.

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wind low over the dunes, lifting sand off every ridge. Soft, flat light is when dune texture really reads. #sanddunes #desertphotography

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Three frames from one night on the Carrizo Plain, straight up through the 8mm fisheye: the full dome of stars, the moon flaring at the rim, lit grass ringing the frame. All 25s exposures at ISO 800. #astrophotography #nightsky

A circular fisheye view of the night sky with a faint band of the Milky Way through the center, ringed by orange-lit grass along the horizon.

A circular fisheye view of the whole night sky full of faint stars, the moon flaring at the upper-left rim and grass lit gold around the edge.

A deep blue night sky full of stars above a dark ridgeline, with a strip of lit golden grass and fence posts along the bottom.

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A West Coast lady butterfly flattened out on a yellow wildflower, wings wide enough to count the blue-centered eyespots. Nikon Z6 II, 600mm, f/8, 1/640, ISO 100. #butterfly #macro

An orange and black butterfly, probably a West Coast lady, rests with wings spread flat on a yellow wildflower against a soft gray background.

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A corvid leaning forward on a Torrey pine branch, one wing half open among the needles. Feather tips worn from black to brown, just before the molt. #birdphotography #wildlife

A black corvid leans forward on a Torrey pine branch with one wing half open, framed by long green and orange needles.

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gold-tinted windows running down a high-rise facade, the neighboring towers coming back warped in the glass. Shot at 200mm, f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 100. #architecture #reflection

Gold-tinted windows running down a high-rise facade, with neighboring towers reflected and warped in the glass.

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A near-full moon climbing into pink and blue dusk over a desert highway, the Belt of Venus along the ridge. Save this for the next full moon. #moonrise #deserthighway

A near-full moon rises into a pink and blue dusk sky above a low mountain range, sagebrush flats and a paved highway with a gravel shoulder.

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Two Japanese sports cars, very different flavors. Deep red 300ZX shot low under an overcast sky, and a white widebody RX-7 on the show floor. Both on the 70-200mm f/2.8 at ISO 100. #jdm #carmeet

Deep red Nissan 300ZX with white wheels parked on asphalt, shot low from the front corner, palm trees and desert mountains behind.

White widebody Mazda RX-7 with a black hood, black wheels and a rear wing, seen from the side on an indoor show floor.

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A red-and-black beetle on a white desert blossom, with a second insect drifting through the frame. #macro #insects

A red-and-black beetle sits on a white blossom of a small-leaved shrub while a dark flying insect hovers to the left.

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Jupiter with three of its moons lined up beside it. One second at 200mm and f/2.8 was short enough to stop the trailing and pull the moons out of the glare. ISO 250 on the Z6 II. #astrophotography #jupiter

Jupiter shines as a bright point at the center of a black sky, with three tiny moons lined up close beside it and faint stars scattered around.

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Roofless stone walls on a scrubby hillside above Delamar, haze stacking the far ranges into flat bands of blue. 70mm, f/8, 1/1000, ISO 100. Save it for your next ghost town trip. #ghosttown #desertphotography

Roofless stone walls of Delamar ruins sit on a scrubby hillside beside a rocky track, with a wide valley and hazy blue ranges beyond.

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A greater roadrunner with its crest up on a pale boulder in the Mojave. Streaked brown and white feathers melt into the gravel, easy to miss until it moves. 200mm, f/3.5, 1/1000, ISO 100. #roadrunner #desertwildlife

A greater roadrunner with its crest raised stands on a pale boulder among scattered rocks, gravel and dry brush.

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Death Valley from Dantes View, looking north over water standing on the salt flat with the far ranges in haze. 18mm, f/3.5, 1/4000, ISO 100. #deathvalley #desert

Looking north from a high brushy ridge down Death Valley, with shallow water spread across the salt flat and hazy ranges beyond.

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That winter a shallow Lake Manly spread across Badwater Basin, turning the salt flat into a mirror for an orange and blue sunset between dark desert ranges. #deathvalley #sunset

Shallow floodwater over the salt flat reflects an orange and blue sunset sky between two dark mountain ridges.

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A weathered wooden shack standing alone in the desert, distant mountains behind it. #ghosttown #desert

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EthanHydephotography @ethanhydephoto.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A decommissioned aircraft carrier moored in a calm harbor, San Diego's skyline rising behind it. The calmest thing in the frame might be the biggest one. #sandiego #ships

A decommissioned aircraft carrier moored in a calm harbor below a city skyline.

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