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Gray @grays.art · 2h

Thank you, Kafka. Overcast with light rain the last couple days, perfect macro lighting. 🖖🏼

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Gray @grays.art · 2h

Thierry Mugler?

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Gray @grays.art · 2h

Gotcha no worries 😸

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Gray @grays.art · 2h

In her Dolph Lundgren phase? I can see that.

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Gray @grays.art · 2h

Lovely, Julie! May be a European Mantis.

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Gray @grays.art · 2h

It’s FlyDay. We made it! Slosson's sharp-tailed bee (Coelioxys slossoni) Male cuckoo bee wakes up early on dry & thorny twig CREW pen flint strand lake trails Bonita Springs, Florida 9-30-26 #FlyDay #eck #macro #nature #art #macroPhotography #native #bees #bugsky #cleptoparasites #threewordgenre

Macro of a male cuckoo bee captured in a head-on portrait as it grips a slender brown twig. Facing directly forward, the insect fills the frame, showcasing its massive, vertically elongated compound eyes with a fine, grid-like pattern. Its face is heavily covered in fine, pale silvery-yellow hairs, while its black thorax displays a densely dimpled, pitted texture. A single dark antenna extends forward and out to its stage-left,while the other, largely extended directly at us, is obscured. The background is a smooth, neutral gray bokeh blur.

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Gray @grays.art · 4h

Slash pine flatwoods (Pinus elliottii) Bare silhouettes anchor a rapidly shifting morning layer, as if trees reach for the migrant clouds with sunrise yoga. CREW pen flint strand marsh Bonita Springs, Florida 9-30-26 #forestFriday #scape #eck #nature #threeWordGenre #art #landscape #photography

Telephoto shot of a pine forest tree line stretching upward into a bright blue, cloudy sky. Positioned across the lower two-thirds of the frame, several tall, slender South Florida slash pines display dark green needle canopies. Interspersed among them stand two towering, dead bare tree snags, one on the far stage-left wrapped in light green climbing vines, and another near the center. The background features a vibrant blue sky filled with a dense, textured layer of soft white altocumulus clouds.

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Gray @grays.art · 8h

Thanks, Graham!

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Gray @grays.art · 8h

Mhm! I see that too.

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Gray @grays.art · 8h

Thanks Robert

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Gray @grays.art · 11h

Boston’s a great city, wonderful to visit, as well as to live.

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Gray @grays.art · 11h

Maybe one day a visit will be in the cards. This time of year we’re replete.

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Gray @grays.art · 11h

Yah, too bad they’re pestiferous.

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Gray @grays.art · 11h

Thanks man. Found a very blue one today, still on the camera…

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Gray @grays.art · 13h

Thanks. Feel less inspired than compelled.

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Gray @grays.art · 14h

Muted whinny keystone, aerial acrobat, monochrome nit-picker: the modest downy woodpecker doesn’t try to escape, nor intend to construct spec homes for barred owls & squirrels, yet within the hollowed slash pine, emanate scratches & pecks, there’s reward by minute reward for lost solidity #poem

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Gray @grays.art · 14h

Thank you, Michelle! Hope you’re well, and to visit your adopted land.

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Gray @grays.art · 15h

That’s social media for ya!

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Gray @grays.art · 15h

Every six months or so. 😸

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Gray @grays.art · 15h

Leo’s doing well. Trimmed his fur, and he seems more comfortable.

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Gray @grays.art · 16h

Morning, Susan ☕️ Thanks for the #bluebrew, bed-coffee this morning for me. An overcast day, calling for a morning marsh-walk. Will I succumb? Perhaps after coffee. Hope you & Loki are well.

Telephoto shot of a cluster of vibrant plumeria blossoms bathed in warm morning sunlight. In the foreground on its stage-left stands a prominent blossom with creamy white petals that transition into a rich golden-yellow throat at the center. To its stage-right, a second bloom showcases soft, pastel pink petals with a warm orange-yellow core. Behind them, two more blossoms are softly out of focus, all supported by thick, smooth, reddish-brown stalks. The background features a smooth, bright green bokeh blur of sunlit garden foliage.

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Gray @grays.art · 01/10/2026

Thanks Mairead 🙏🏼

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Gray @grays.art · 01/10/2026

Lovely, Mitch 😻🖖🏼

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Gray @grays.art · 01/10/2026

Poey’s furrow bee (Halictus poeyi) on wild sensitive plant leaves (Chamaecrista nictitans) CREW pen flint strand lake trails Bonita Springs, Florida 9-20-26 Waking to a dewy world. #insectThursday #colorADay #yellowThu #eck #macro #nature #art #native #bees #bugsky #threewordgenre #pollinators

Macro of a bee perched head-on looking directly forward. Nestled atop a layered arrangement of small, even-pinnate green leaflets, the insect showcases its dense, pale hairs covering its dark face and a prominent bright yellow patch on its lower clypeus. Its dark, segmented antennae sweep upward and outward to its stage-left and stage-right, while its large compound eyes are in sharp focus. The individual green leaflets feature a distinct, thin dark-red margin. The background elements melt into a smooth, dark bokeh blur.

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Gray @grays.art · 01/10/2026

Lovely, Dave 😻🖖🏼

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Gray @grays.art · 30/09/2026

Fantastic news, delighted

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Gray @grays.art · 30/09/2026

Thanks, Molly ☺️

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Gray @grays.art · 30/09/2026

Always. I’ve a reputation to protect.

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Gray @grays.art · 30/09/2026

“When you meet someone who hates the same people you do” #humpDayHumor

The Siamese cats from Disney’s Lady and the Tramp, one smiling at the other.

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Gray @grays.art · 30/09/2026

Morning, Susan ☕️ Hope your appointment went well yesterday, and you’re feeling better. Today’s my turn, have a couple doc appointments scheduled before noon. Going to try to get a short walk in beforehand, with the macro camera. It’s overcast, usually best lighting. ☁️ Thanks for the #bluebrew

A purple, green and white orchid with three blossoms at different stages, from Sunday’s visit to the Naples Botanical Gardens, against a black background.

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Gray @grays.art · 30/09/2026

Thank you Luis 🙏🏼

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Gray @grays.art · 30/09/2026

Thank you, Yvonne! 🙏🏼

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Gray @grays.art · 30/09/2026

Thanks, Mairead! 😸

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Gray @grays.art · 30/09/2026

Harmless to you itty bitty buggy 🤓

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Gray @grays.art · 30/09/2026

No bother at all. It’s English slang for “I understand you,” literally means, “your words are heard.”

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Gray @grays.art · 30/09/2026

Thanks, Will. Here’s another perspective.

Cotton Stainer, from slightly above, cropped, otherwise unedited.
Gray Rothkopf, 9-24-26

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Gray @grays.art · 30/09/2026

Cotton stainer bug (Dysdercus suturellus) on a Caesarweed leaf (Urena lobata) CREW pen flint strand lake trails Bonita Springs, Florida 9-24-26 A red bug for red Wednesday. Happy hump day. #ColorADay #redWed #eck #macro #nature #red #threeWordGenre #art #macroPhotography #native #bugs #bugsky

A macro, head-on photograph of a vibrant red and black true bug resting on a textured green leaf against a dark, out-of-focus background. The insect faces forward, highlighting its bright red face, thorax, and upper legs, which contrast with its long antennae and the black segments of its lower legs. The surface of the leaf displays fine, pale hairs along its edge, and a soft, painterly bokeh isolates the subject.

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Gray @grays.art · 30/09/2026

Yah, IKR, they’re unusual moths, and this is a somewhat complicated scene.

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Gray @grays.art · 30/09/2026

Thanks, and I hear you, Will

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