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FreeAndAbout(in Nature)

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Naturist philosopher sharing nude adventures free and about in nature. #Freehiking, cyclist, wild swimmer, #AANR member. #naturist #nakedhiking #nudeinnature #nudemodel Repost OK 🔁 ✅

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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nature was naked, and I was also. -Walt Whitman . . #nudeoutdoor #normalizenudity #normalizenaked #nakedinnature #nakednature #getnaked #explorenaked #skinandsea
Nude on a boat on open sea.

Whitman’s “Nature was naked, and I was also” becomes more interesting when nakedness is not entirely fearless.

Nakedness holds two impulses at once: the desire to look outward and the reluctance to face what lies ahead. A thin boundary can become a temporary vantage point, a narrow edge from which one can look into the open sea and toward the future without fully entering it.

The sea makes the human figure small. Nakedness makes it elemental. The sail makes it human.

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#nudist #naturist #nudeoutdoor #normalizenudity #normalizenaked #nakedinnature #getnaked #nudeoutdoor#hikenude #nudehiking #freehiking #nudehiker #nakedhiking #nakedhiker #nakedadventures #explorenaked
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Looks like the Empire is experiencing widespread uniform shortages. Thank goodness for recruits with a thick set of fur.
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Looks like the rebels and Empire are experiencing widespread uniform shortages.
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Looks like the Empire is experiencing widespread uniform shortages.
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Looks like the Empire is experiencing widespread uniform shortages. Strong fieldwork here. My account has experienced a similar shortage today.
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Sector boundary confirmation. Awaiting further orders. May the fourth be with you. Except where prohibited by the Empire. #nakedstormtrooper #nudeinnature #freehiking #fineartphotography
A lone stormtrooper stands in a quiet desert clearing. No armor, no weapon, no gear. His body is nude, human, unprotected. There is no command, no support. Still, he continues his patrol.

“Perimeter secure.”

The routine holds. The assignment persists without context. The infrastructure hums on without him.

He stands where function outlives purpose, where the role remains even after the system has disappeared.

#fineartphotography  #modernabsurdity     #desertphotography #humaninlandscape #spaceopera
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
When you go to the hot springs to dip your toe in the cold water. #naturist #nakedinnature #getnaked #hikenude #explorenaked #artnude
Deep creek spring wild flowers hike to hot springs. Taking a nude dip in the river. #naturist #nakedinnature #getnaked #hikenude #explorenaked #artnude
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Attics can get very warm!
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Excellent
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Excellent work!
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Arrived just in time to witness another statue being put up by the river. Proof that great art requires both vulnerability and questionable balance, this stuntwork sculpture is a meditation on escape and transitory balance. #nudeart #artnude #fineartphotography #nakedoutdoors
A bold installation at the waterfront: the figure caught mid-clamber, neither fully ascending nor descending, as if unsure whether art imitates life or just an awkward workout. The bridge arches behind with stoic indifference, while the river reflects everything but the effort of this lone body. It is at once heroic and ridiculous — a study in balance, vulnerability, and the eternal human urge to be somewhere else. 
#artnude #nudeart #nudemodel #artisticnude #nudephotography #artisticnudephoto #fineartnude #fineartnudephoto #nudeinnature #nudestatue #eroticart #nudemale #malemodel #naturistart #nudeoutdoors
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Naked is used as a term meaning without or vulnerable: “the trees were naked without their leaves”, “I feel naked without glasses”. Nude has artistic connotations and seems synonymous with unclothed. It seems much less likely to be used with anything other than human nakedness or skin tones.
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I love the dark hours of my being. They deepen the senses… Then, like colors that aren’t yet known, Roads appear in the mist And mountains stand quietly in the distance. Rainer Maria Rilke The Book of Hours #naturist #nakedinnature #getnaked #hikenude #explorenaked #artnude
Walks in the early hours before sunrise carry an air of solitude — a private exposure to the air, to the self, and to the unfiltered now. The world seems half-made, its edges blurred, still forming in the hush. It belongs to you alone.

The mist and the chill on the skin, the firmness of ground beneath feet — these sensations sharpen when barriers fall away. A nude hike becomes a sensory conduit to awareness, each step a quiet unveiling.

The mist shifts perception, painting the air in colors that resist names; a blue with wisps of vermillion, an ochre that fades to aureolin before cooling into turquoise. Each hue exists for only moments before it is replaced by the next.

As one walks, the path appears step by step, revealed only in motion. The mist’s boundaries remain invisible until, suddenly, a single step more thrusts you beyond it. The journey is sensory and spiritual. It is a movement wrapped in trust, carrying you through the unknown.

#nudist #naturist #nudeoutdoor #normalizenudity #normalizenaked #nakedinnature #getnaked #nudeoutdoor #hikenude #nudehiking #freehiking #nudehiker #nakedhiking #nakedhiker #nakedadventures #explorenaked
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
It was a great ride!
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I saw you at PDXWNBR and I loved your hair!
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Congratulations-it was a fun ride. There were more participating. I wasn’t specifically looking, but I noticed at least 4 others.
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I always appeal the “adult content” I say “ this is non sexual nudity”. It’s only defaulting to “adult content” for its protection, and its AI can’t tell. Nothing to feel personal about— just correct it through appeal.
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
You are the only you. This body is yours alone — carry it with care, shape it with courage. It will take you up climbs you once doubted, to places that test your limits and expand your horizons. Fear and shame is the mountain — climb it. #nakedinnature #naturist #freehike
You are the only you. This body is yours alone — carry it with care, shape it with courage. It will take you up climbs you once doubted, to places that test your limits and expand your horizons. Fear and shame is the mountain — climb it.

#naturism #nudeinnature
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The trail asks little. You carry what you need. The rest you leave behind. -Summer Solstice 2025 #freehike #nakedinnature #nakedhikeday
Summer solstice hike

There’s something fitting about walking exposed to the elements on the longest day of the year. Not for boldness or spectacle, but for simplicity. No layers between skin and sun, between breath and wind. The rhythm of footsteps, the sound of gravel shifting underfoot, the warm air rising from the trail — all of it pulls you into the present. No hurry, no destination beyond the next turn.

The body adjusts to the climb, to the light, to the warmth. Discomfort becomes a companion you work with rather than against. And as you move, you start to notice the small things: the curve of the ridgeline, the patterns in the dirt, the way the sun arcs across the afternoon sky. The trail asks little, but gives back its own kind of peace.

Naked Hiking Day 2025
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
When the sun warms my bare skin and the canyon echoes my breath, I am not seeking meaning—I am becoming it. #freehike #nudeinnature #artnude #naturist
There is no script out here, no roles to play, no mirrors to distort with demands. Freed from the choreography of civilization, I walk nude in rhythm with the earth itself—raw, exposed, and honest. The canyon doesn’t offer answers or ask questions. It simply exists, and in that simplicity, I do the same.

Existentialism posits that we are cast into the world and left to create our own purpose. Here, in this golden expanse carved by time and silence, purpose feels irrelevant. Not because life is empty, but because it is enough. The sun is more than metaphor, it is felt as heat on my skin, the whispering canyon winds as cooling breath on my body. My breath and footfalls are a proof: I am alive, and in that aliveness has its own affirmation. The canyon does not need me, and yet, by being here, I am part of its momentary truth.

To hike nude through such terrain is an act of return. In this place, stripped of everything but breath and movement, I am not performing significance. I am significance—fragile, fleeting, and utterly real. The world may never notice this moment. But I will. And that is enough.

#naturist #freehiker #nudeinnature
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Thank you for supplying the source.
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Wonderful work
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Great beach
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Wonderful color contrast between skin and rocks.
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Thanks @travellighter.bsky.social
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Wonderful reflective pose and capture!
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Wonderful ethereal look!
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Stunning image!
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
What did it for me was to try to normalize the difference between the image pairs. This helped me recognize differences easier without the tonal and lighting noise. Then it turns into a “spot the differences” game.
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Ah! I can see the wider noses in the second column, the lengthened and higher contrast eyes in the upper right corner and removal of nose ring in the lower right. The sets look like different people though. I’ve always thought the account was lust harvested images of different people.
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Naturism, for me, isn’t about fair weather or comfort—it’s about presence. I go nude at dawn, on cold beaches, amongst misty trees. It’s not about exhibition or ease. It’s about authenticity, stepping outside the frame others set, and meeting nature honestly. #naturism #nudebeach #nakedhiker
Some see naturism as something just for summer—something to try when it’s convenient, warm, and easy.
But I’ve always felt it differently.

T.S. Bremer writes, 

“The poet goes into nature to strip away the layers of disguise that society demands.”

And that stripping away isn’t seasonal. It’s spiritual. It’s about presence, not temperature. 
Some wait for the sun. But for a true naturist, it’s also about meeting the world unarmored and unadorned—whether it’s hospitable or not.

#freehiker #nudist #nakedoutdoors #nudeinnature
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I’m with you on this. I see that there is some image optimization but see no feature changes.
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Most excellent use of shadow and light!
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
“The earth laughs in flowers.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson #naturist #nakedhike
Spring doesn’t ask permission—it bursts, it giggles, it flings petals into the wind like confetti from the earth itself. Flowers don’t wait for an invitation to bloom, and neither should we. There’s something deliciously rebellious in joy that’s uncontained. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “The Earth laughs in flowers”—and maybe, just maybe, it dances in bare feet too.

#nakedinnature #freehike #naturist #nudist
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Great riding with you 😺
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I like the natural warm toned one, but whenever the lighting is that good, the B&W is an excellent substitute.
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Another week—another protest. Caption contest: “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus “There’s something happening here / But what it is ain’t exactly clear.” – Buffalo Springfield Or suggest one #nudeoutdoors #bodypaint #nudeinpublic
This weekend at City Hall, time and space ran short—but outrage ran wide.
“Hands Off!” protests against administrative overreach, anti-DEI policies, and systemic disenfranchisement shared the pavement with a rolling band of body-positive WNBR cyclists demanding visibility and cyclist rights.
One side raised fists and placards; the other disrobed and lifted handlebars.
And in between them stood an orange tiger—defiant, singular. A participant in both, yet oddly separated from either.
When it comes to diversity, who better to demand inclusion than the one who stands out?
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Such a grand pedestal!
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
It is a wonderfully contemplative pose.
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I need the sea because it teaches me. I don’t know if I learn music or awareness, if it’s a single wave or its vast existence, or only its harsh voice or its shining suggestion.. —Paul Neruda (The Sea) #naturist #nudebeach #nakedinnature
Paul Neruda’s  poem flows like water itself—its free verse rises and fall unconstrained by meter or rhyme. It is solitude, a lyrical surrender to natures pull, and it is transformation through immersion in the natural world. We are the driftwood: weathered, reshaped and cast ashore.

The Sea
Paul Neruda

“I need the sea because it teaches me.
I don’t know if I learn music or awareness,
if it’s a single wave or its vast existence,
or only its harsh voice or its shining
suggestion of fishes and ships.
The fact is that until I fall asleep,
in some magnetic way I move in
the university of the waves.    

It’s not simply the shells crunched
as if some shivering planet
were giving signs of its gradual death;
no, I reconstruct the day out of a fragment,
the stalactite from the sliver of salt,
and the great god out of a spoonful.  

What it taught me before, I keep. It’s air
ceaseless wind, water and sand. 

It seems a small thing for a young person,
to have come here to live with his own fire;
nevertheless, the pulse that rose
and fell in its abyss,
the crackling of the blue cold,
the gradual wearing away of the star,
the soft unfolding of the wave
squandering snow with its foam,
the quiet power out there, sure
as a stone shrine in the depths,
replaced my world in which were growing
stubborn sorrow, gathering oblivion,
and my life changed suddenly:
as I became part of its pure movement.”
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
When I don’t post anything on social media late at night, then I tend to not feel eager to pick it up in the morning.
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
One of mine is also an ADSB feeder. It’s been on for at least 6 years. I forgot when I last updated the image.
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Trying to get a head start on us for the 5k in June?
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
They usually slap the Adult content on immediately after a post occurs, but you only need to appeal and say “this is non sexual nudity” and the adult content goes off. I usually pre label my posts as “non-sexual nudity” rather than let them decide.
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
In general I find acupuncture too subtle an art to be able to recognize changes from it. The side effects of this cupping was more of an increase in annoyance than any relaxing or tension relieving benefits.🤷
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Last year I would do cold plunges every couple days. It’s a great test of will. This year, I’m more about cuddling in warm blankets.
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Dramatic
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Wonderful
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Lovely!
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FreeAndAbout(in Nature) @freeandabout.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I see the videos in your video feed. So far you have 2 of them? You can post them natively in Bluesky or use a YouTube or Vimeo.
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