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Matthias Stone

@matthiasstone.com
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Lover of birds, bikes, books, and building stuff.

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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 17/11/2025
I'm still watching the Blue Jays play.
A Blue Jay in flight, wings just beginning a down stroke.
Nikon z6iii, 400mm, f4.5, 1/2000s
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 06/11/2025
Blue Jays are yesterday's news. Today is about the Pileated Woodpecker.
Close crop of a Pileated Woodpecker in flight, wing stretched towards the camera just below its eye.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 31/10/2025
Dear Google photos app: I am never trying to take a picture of the dust on a window. Focusing on it is not helping.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 08/05/2025
Successful portrait of a very black cat!
Close frame of a black cat on a yellow chair looking into the distance.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 06/05/2025
I appreciate that cats spend so much time licking their butts. It makes me confident they're putting clean things on my face.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 01/05/2025
Guess which side is the edge of the camera frame.
Close crop of a Red-winged Blackbird in flight.

Nikon z6iii, 400mm, f7.1, 1/3200s
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 25/04/2025
That's awesome! I've had to filter-branch to move subdirectories and an octopus merge to bring the different origins together. 10x more elegant, I want this.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 22/04/2025
This sizable Pileated Woodpecker was hammering on a hollow log next to the trail. Loud, bright, hard to miss. I went a few steps away to watch strangers get excited spotting them.
Pileated Woodpecker
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 07/04/2025
Waxwings hit up the mountain ash berries today. An intimidating reminder that they outnumber me.
A flock of Bohemian Waxwings flying through the berry laden branches of a Mountain Ash tree.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 26/03/2025
This might be more iconic than, "Nobody wants to work anymore."
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 10/03/2025
You both wanted to exit the conversation politely but ended up dating for three months because it's the culture.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 10/03/2025
Flirting in Montreal is just the local Minnesota nice.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 07/03/2025
Foam? A Cheeto? I never figured it out.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 04/03/2025
They should go wearing T-shirts and jeans.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 04/03/2025
Peek-a-boo!
A ruffled grouse peeks through a handful of bare of branches, convinced it is unseen.

Nikon Z6iii 400mm f6.3 1/1250
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 25/02/2025
Sometimes you just get lucky. This blue jay with its meal. Me, with this picture of this blue jay with its meal. You, reading this post about my picture of this blue jay with its meal.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 20/02/2025
Thanks for this, shared it around with a few anxious folk. "Five bridges are closing at the same time," is a lot quicker to say than the truth, not surprised it got around so fast.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 20/02/2025
I read this as Catholic and thought, "Yup. Just go to confession."
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 11/02/2025
"Timeliness is thoughtfulness," I remind myself again hitting send on a text that isn't perfect — but maybe didn't need an hour of revisions.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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CANADA WINS
TARIFF TERMS ACCEPTED BY AMERICA
--The Guardian Journal, 31 Mar 1910
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colinmochrie.bsky.social @colinmochrie.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I realized that when I think of writing a book or a script, or creating a podcast or doing a TikTok video, that that is the best part. Thinking about it. No one understands the trauma of the really lazy.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 22/01/2025
Today I learned that Facebook has settings you can change to show less low-quality and unoriginal content. The default settings are... not less.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 14/01/2025
There are many photos of tonight's wolf moon. But this one is mine.
The full moon.

Nikon Z6iii, 400mm, f10, 1/320, ISO100
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 26/12/2024
My mom's dog knows how to celebrate a holiday.
A Shetland Sheepdog gleefully bounding across a snowy field.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 25/12/2024
I love the light at winter's minimum up north. Here the sun peaks at 13 degrees above the horizon so sunrise slowly eases into sunset. This looks due south at 1230. Waking up before the sun is miserable, but the light all day can be ethereal.
A wooden staircase in snow layered with low sunlight, ash berries, and out of focus leaves hanging on from the fall in the foreground.

Nikon Z6iii, 400mm, f11, HDR
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 19/12/2024
Yay! Make the switch permanent so they stop spreading litter on the floor. I love top entry litter boxes.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 15/12/2024
Because he knows how regal he looks.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 10/12/2024
Not to worry, there will be a new quantum release of Teams to prevent that.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 09/12/2024
"I promised the boy I wouldn't tell anyone." - My brother, declining to tell an embarassing story about his 6 week old son. He's gonna be such a good dad.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 06/12/2024
I like the technical aspect of this type of photography, thinking: This will work out later in post. I have the tools and process and present this how I want.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 06/12/2024
I've been using Hugin to stitch panoramas together since 2005. This shot of Calgary is a top 5 result to my tastes.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 06/12/2024
Friend: Why are we stopping the car? Me: 👇 (Calgary, 2022)
Full double rainbow over the city of Calgary.

15 frame HDR panoramic composite, Nikon Z6.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 06/12/2024
According to NVidia over 80% of their revenue is from Linux powered computers. So, probably.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 04/12/2024
I once borrowed a car from someone in Christchurch, NZ. They'd never been to the west side of the island in 35 years, because 3 hours was, "Too far."
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 03/12/2024
Waiting for more data, but after changing my handle to a domain fewer bots are adding me as a follow. Kinda wanna spin up some bots just to measure this effect...
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 30/11/2024
Hard work and patience led to this lucky shot. By, "hard work and patience," I mean holding down the shutter button and terabyte sized storage cards.
White Breasted Nuthatch in flight.
Nikon Z6iii 400mm
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 29/11/2024
Made the difficult decision to learn something instead of being right today.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 28/11/2024
I love flies when they're outside. Where they belong. Outside.
Macro photo of a cluster fly.
Nikon Z6 with custom 3d printed macro tubes.
August 2022
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 28/11/2024
My sister has a unique 6 letter middle name that rhymes with, "dot com." Today I found out the actual .com was available, never owned. Great use of $11.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 27/11/2024
This reasoning also explains why Montreal is the most fashionable city in Canada. Dense, walkable, cheap rent (for Canadian metros).
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 27/11/2024
Hungry hungry heron.
A Great Blue Heron holding a fish in its beak.
March 2023, South Padre Island, Texas. Nikon Z6 @ 400mm.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 27/11/2024
Seeing as on Mac that's CMD + Shift + V, I think you're remembering from somewhere else ;)
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 22/11/2024
Mt. Collie, my favourite mountain. a few years later I got to reach its summit.
Mt. Collie looking fucking majestic.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 21/11/2024
It's very hard for me to spend less than an hour in a butterfly conservatory. Only 1% of the photos turn out well, but if you take a few thousand each visit...
A Blue Morpho butterfly resting with it's wings unfolded.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 20/11/2024
Big birds are much easier to catch in flight as the autofocus has more subject to deal with.
Bald Eagle in flight - Inglewood Bird Sanctuary, 2022
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 20/11/2024
Local sock mogul promotes sock drive 🤨
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 20/11/2024
When I come across older references to "playing dice" I pretend the author meant DnD.
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 19/11/2024
After forgetting ice axes at the top of the climb I had to hike up around the waterfall and was blessed by this moment - 2018
A frozen stream at sunset. Nikon D5300, HDR
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Matthias Stone @matthiasstone.com · 15/11/2024
Surprisingly easy shot as they hovered from spot to spot on the hunt.
Darner Dragonfly in flight
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