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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Triptych: A Moving Sea of Red: Kokanee Salmon Run Taylor Creek, Lake Tahoe Giving #Joy to the fisherman #SensoryArt For the #Oodles of 12-20" #Salmon #WeekOforOodles #AlphabetChallenge #photography #eastcoastkin #Stunday #ArtYear #Art #PhotographersofBluesky #Canon #Canon5D3 ©Nancy Goodenough 2013

A Kokanee salmon run is presented as a triptych with black bars between the run divided vertically in three parts. The Kokanee Salmon are 12-20 inches and during spawning, the males turn bright red and develop a humped back and an elongated jaw and the females turn dark red. This run is in Taylor Creek from South Lake Tahoe to Falling Leaf Lake, California and photographed on October 3, 2013. Canon 5DMark3 with Canon 70-300mmL lens.
© Nancy Goodenough

https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ltbmu/home/?cid=STELPRDB5196661

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

. ''Watch Out!'' The space alien around the corner is about to claim yet another victim of 'Texting-While-Walking.' Bogota, Colombia. March, 2013 #SensoryArt #Texture #Stunday #eastcoastkin #streetphotography #photography #ArtYear #Colombia #PhotographersOfBlueSky #alien #Canon © Nancy Goodenough

A businessman in Bogota, Colombia is walking past graffiti walls looking at a cell phone. Around the corner is a tall glowing white graffiti of a space alien with its mouth wide open. The idea is to ''Watch Out!'' that the space alien around the corner is about to claim yet another victim of 'Texting-While-Walking.'

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

🎵 Are you going to San Francisco? The 1907 Flatiron Sentinel Bldg leans in to make #TheJourney –Time Travel to the future #SanFrancisco of its neighbor –The 1972 #Transamerica #Pyramid #WeekLforLyric #AlphabetChallenge #BlueSkyArtShow #landscape #scape #eastcoastkin #photography © Nancy Goodenough

Vertical image of the Flatiron Sentinel Building built in 1907 with the 1972 modernistic Transamerica Pyramid on the left, both with shades of teal. The #BlueSkyArtShow for Saturday March 22 is #TheTravel and I envisioned the Flatiron building leaning in to travel in time to communicate with the Pyramid, both iconic structures. With the lyrics, "Are you going to San Francisco..." playing for #WeekLforLyric as this week's #AlphabetChallenge

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

#Buddha in the #Hand of Buddha #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLyrics ‪ #Texture #SensoryArt #Photography #EastCoastKin #Fuji I found this unexpected tiny Buddha #amulet offering in the huge hand of a towering Buddha, photographed in a local Bangkok wat Peaceful lyrics chant here: shorturl.at/20gOn

I found this scene in a wat (temple) near where we were staying for month in Bangkok. I call it "Light of the Buddha on the Buddha" A small amulet of the Buddha is sitting in the large hand of the big Buddha statue, with gold leaf both over the amulet and the large hand of the towering Buddha. I chose this image for the #AlphabetChallenge with it being a #WeekLforLyrics While looking for lyrics to go with my image of the Buddha in the #Hand of the Buddha, I found this wonderful peaceful recording called Chant of Metta (Loving Kindness) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZgsAstw9C0

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

. Portrait of a 6" Giant South American Grasshopper, called a "flying lobster" in La Guajira Peninsula, Colombia #Stunday #macro #macromonday #insect #grasshopper #Colombia #Canon #eastcoastkin #photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #wildlifephotography #complementarycolors ©Nancy Goodenough 2013

Portrait shot of a 6" Giant South American Grasshopper in red and green colors on a branch with a faded green background in La Guajira Peninsula, Colombia. Locals refer to it as a 'flying lobster!' I was excited to see it fly by and right away chase after it to photograph when it landed on a tree branch. It's huge! Sounded like a helicopter flying by.

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

. Reflections of a Monastery's Windows - Wat Ba in the small Northern Thailand town of Ban Lao #BlueSkyArtShow March 8 is #Windows #PhotographersOfBlueSky #eastcoastkin #reflections #photography #Thailand #SaiBaht #wat #monastery #Buddhist #BanLao #WatBa #PhotographersUnited ©Nancy Goodenough 2018

Three Thai monks of Wat Ba are eating from their "sai baht" bowls. "Sai baht" is the giving of food and alms into monks' bowls as the monks walk by in a pre-sunrise procession.

Above them in the wat (monastery) is a set of four large windows with decorative Xs. On the shiny floor below the monks, the four colorful windows are reflected with wavy lines and color, as if reflected in water.

The wat is in a small town in Northern Thailand called Ban Lao.

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Colleen Miniuk @colleenminiuk.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

New post on my Dear Bubbles column today addresses multiple questions about camera club competitions. My thoughts and a proposal in today’s column at dearbubbles.com/2025/02/on-c.... Thanks for reading!

dearbubbles.com

On Camera Club Competitions

Dear Bubbles: Many photography experts say to be a good photographer one must understand but “break the rules.” Our camera club evaluates, and critiques, photos based on the “rules.” Sometimes, I fin...

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

. Also, include in #BlueSkyArtShow as on March 1, Saturday's theme is #Spring !! "Toxik 1" Check out all the springs in this abandoned mattress in Ryolite outside Death Valley.

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

. #AlphabetChallenge theme is #WeekIforInside What has more of a feeling of being 'INSIDE' than looking from the outside of #Alcatraz Prison into it? That feeling of utter blankness. #decay #desolate #ruinporn #texture #photograph #photography #eastcoastkin #westcoastkin © Nancy Goodenough 2012

We are outside Alcatraz Prison, with decaying walls, looking inside, which is a feeling of white white blankness, representing how it must feel inside the prison.

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

. THUNDERING ZEBRAS "When you hear hoofs, think horses, not zebras" Unless it's zebras #SensoryArt theme: #LOUD For #ClassicMono Monday #wildlife #zebra #monochrome #mono #nature #canon #photography #eastcoastkin #westcoastkin #wildlifephotographer #photographersofbluesky © Nancy Goodenough 2014

Two zebras stampeding toward viewer with dust flying from their hoofs. Monochrome.

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

"Yearning: A Portrait" I felt profound sadness seeing this 2-week old Patas Monkey in captivity. He looks like an old man to me. The bars divide us. #FebruArty Day 22 is #Divide #monkey #PatasMonkey #zoo #bars #eyes #young #old #sadness #photograph #eastcoastkin #Canon5D3 © Nancy Goodenough 2012

"Yearning: A Portrait" - a young monkey behind bars that pull at one of his eyes.
I felt profound sadness seeing this 2-week old Patas Monkey in captivity. He looks like an old man to me and the bars divide us. Today's theme is Divide.

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

. Abandoned Comstock Silver Mill, American Flat, NV (demolished in 2014) #BlueSkyArtShow Theme is #Abandoned #AmericanFlat #ComstockSilverMill #grafitti #musician #photograph #composite #moody #eastcoastkin #light #streetphotography #urbex #ruins © Nancy Goodenough 2013 More story > Click ALT v

A musician is playing his brass instrument leaning against a post in an abandoned building filled with grafitti.

Abandoned Comstock Silver Mill, American Flats, NV (demolished in 2014) - Columns appear to listen attentively to musician

This was a fun image. And a lot of work. The background is from the ruins of the United Comstock Merger Mill at American Flats, Nevada, demolished in late 2014. "The working life of this cyanide-processing operation, once the largest in the country, began in 1922 and ended just four years later with the collapse in the price of silver. All salvageable equipment and building materials were removed soon afterward. The eight buildings on the site slowly decayed, but provided an engaging post-apocalyptic setting for graffiti artists, photographers, and airsoft warriors. For many growing up in the area the site served as a favored coming-of-age venue for escaping parental authority." (From All Around Nevada)

My husband and I found it and photographed these ruins in 2013 over two days.

I took an online class in compositing. Sure, I knew how to composite, but this took us so much further, adding atmosphere and ensuring that the light fit the image, including adding appropriate shadows. The musician was photographed late on Christmas Eve, I think in 2012, in San Francisco. His notes eerily echoed thru the empty canyons of downtown highrises. I knew this was who I wanted to later composite into the Comstock ruin.

This is the mood I'd envisioned with the grafittied columns seeming to lean forward to listen as if the musician's audience. Enjoy. If you like this sort of thing. n

https://allaroundnevada.com/americanflat/
http://www.nv-landmarks.com/towns-ab/americanflats.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xotaj-ywdkE

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

#Kokanee #Salmon, Taylor Creek nr Lake #Tahoe During #spawning, males turn bright red, develop a humped back & an elongated jaw. Oct 7, 2013 #FebruARTy Day 21 Theme #FishyFeb #photography #fish #fisheye #ripples #jaw #teeth #seascape #EastCoastKin #Canon #photographersofbluesky © Nancy Goodenough

Red and Green Kokanee Salmon rising out of water showing teeth.
During spawning, the males turn bright red and develop that humped back and an elongated jaw. They are landlocked and spawn in Taylor Creek, coming from Fallen Leaf Lake near Lake Tahoe. CA Oct 7, 2013
Canon 5D3 Canon 70-300L

https://wildlife.ca.gov/Fishing/Inland/Kokanee

https://visitlaketahoe.com/attractions/fall-fish-fest-editorial/

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

. #FebruArty theme Day 20 is #Turquoise Here is 'Toxik 1.' An #abandoned mattress spring in #Ryolite outside #DeathValley #photography #coils #silhouette #texture #Nik © Nancy Goodenough 2011

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

For #ThrowbackThursday Been carrying a camera around my neck since that Brownie I got for Christmas back in the day. Second pic: 12 years ago. Often carried way too much gear. Now flat cameras rule! 📱 Photo credit (left): Mom Photo credit (right): Gary Goodenough, Husband For story> click ALT

For #ThrowbackThursday:
Two pictures, one a square b/w vacation print with my father and I'm wearing a camera around my neck. Circa: Brownie

Other of colorful graffiti at 1920s United Comstock Mining Co. cyanide mill at American Flat, Nevada, image taken in 2013, demolished in 2014:
https://allaroundnevada.com/americanflat/
http://www.nv-landmarks.com/towns-ab/americanflats.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xotaj-ywdkE

I'm wearing a lot of Canon gear around my neck and lenses around my waist, with a hand on another camera on a tripod.

Later, aging shoulders and knees moved me from Canon to Fuji, also with fine optics, while much lighter and smaller gear.

Now I mostly carry that flat camera, an iPhone. I still get the shot.

My mother gets photo credit for the first image.
My husband, Gary Goodenough, gets photo credit for the second one.

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

. "First Light"-intent is to see an indistinct Beast, as the first light of the day reaches thru the forest onto a rhinoceros. #WildlifeWednesday #wildlifephotography #wildlifephotographer #nature #wildlife #animal #rhino #rhinoceros #light #photography #scape #landscape @ Nancy Goodenough 2016

"First Light" - Sun rays coming thru the woods onto a beast mostly in shadow. A rhinoceros, but indistinct on purpose.
Another one I've worked on for years, this one from 2016. I wanted to make the First Light the subject, not the beast. Dark dark, and then there's the light beginning to expose the beast. It is now as I envisioned, between a painting and a photograph, sort of how the Pictorialists envisioned photography.

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The Sunflower Weeps- It's quite #rough for Ukraine right now. May these seeds of #hope produce a new season of sunflowers, a powerful symbol of #Ukraine, from our garden to yours. #FebruArty #SensoryArt #photography #Fuji #sunflower #monochrome #classicmono #FebruArty2025 © Nancy Goodenough 2022

My artistic rendition to express sadness in what is happening in Ukraine... with hope for the future in its seeds producing a new season of sunflowers, this strong and powerful symbol of Ukraine. From our garden to you.

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Behind the scenes in a dark backroom at a Laotian wet market selling fish and other live animals. Feb 6, 2018 Phosi Market, Luang Prabang, Laos For #ClassicMono Monday #monochrome #greyscale #BlackandWhite #bw #photography #market #wetmarket #fishmarket #Laos #LuangPrabang © Nancy Goodenough 2018

You can see what it looks like behind the scenes in a dark backroom at a Laotian wet market selling fish and other live animals. Feb 6, 2018
Phosi Market, Luang Prabang, Laos

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

. Honeybee gathering pollen on a pattypan squash flower for #macromonday More of the story in ALT. #photography #photographer #macro #honeybee #bee #pollen #squashblossom #squash #flower #stamen #Fuji #80mm Fuji X-T3 80mm Macro © Nancy Goodenough 2020 February 17, 2025 at 4:42 AM

Honeybee with pollen from pattypan squash flower... I spent so long with the honeybee, I anthropomorphized the bee like she looks up to me and asks, "You leaving soon, or what?" since I had the 80mm macro lens right up against her face much of the time. Most of the time though all I saw was the butt end of the honeybee as she gathered pollen under the stamen.

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

. "Two Blondes" on Folsom Street, San Francisco "Miss Pinky" is her name. And a pedestrian with a similar stance. Sept 26, 2016 For #FebruARTy2025 Day 16 Theme #Big&Small #streetphotography #photography #MissPinky #blonde #FolsomStreet #SanFrancisco #Fuji Fuji X-T10 16mm © Nancy Goodenough 2016

San Francisco Folsom Street scene with tall Miss Pinky, a cross-dresser in a mask and short dress. Another blonde woman in the near distance, similar stance, leaning against store wall. The juxtaposition is what caught my eye. Similarities and dissimilarities.

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

. Rhesus monkeys at Angkor Wat in Cambodia Not good that they have become dependent on scavenging food from tourists. For #FebruARTy2025 Day 16 Theme: #Big&Small #photography #photographer #AngkorWat #Cambodia #RhesusMonkey #monkey #mohawk #Fuji Fuji X-T2 55-200mm © Nancy Goodenough 2018

Mother and young rhesus monkey at Angkor Wat in Cambodia are eating food scavenged from tourists. Both are staring at the photographer. The young monkey has what looks like a mohawk haircut, which is typical of the growth pattern of young rhesus monkeys.

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

. "Day's End" - Badwater from Dante's View, Death Valley at the Vernal Equinox, 2016 Color Grading in Lightroom Classic for drama Fuji XT10 For #Stunday #landscape #scape #Dante'sView #Badwater #DeathValley #photography #sunrays #blue #duotone #SplitTone #Lightroom #Fuji © Nancy Goodenough 2016

Taken from Dante's View of Badwater in Death Valley. Colors are duotones of blues to give a feeling of water in Badwater and lavender sunrays just before sunset for dramatic effect.

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

. DUNES. NUDES. ANAGRAM. What do you see? I see nudes in the dunes. Called 'pareidolia.' Posted in #BlueSkyArtShow as Saturday's theme is #Monochrome #photography #photograph #silhouette #nude #dune #abstract #texture #golden #reclining #Pareidolia #DeathValley #MesquiteDunes © Nancy Goodenough

Dunes resemble reclining nudes, with texture.

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

. GET. OUT. NOW. Posted for #BlueSkyArtShow as Saturday's theme is #Monochrome #photography #photographer #red #silhouette #creative #dramatic #abstract #pattern #stripes #danger #fear #Fuji Dec 24, 2015 Fuji X-T1 f/4 1/60 ISO:6400 © Nancy Goodenough 2015

2 vague black abstract silhouettes of men with red and black striped background gives a sense of danger and fear to be careful and get out now.

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

. "Midnight Mystery" Minimalist Monochrome with a Japanese Woodcut inspiration to transform Dune Landscape into an Abstract Seascape #BlueSkyArtShow today theme is #Monochrome #minimalist #seascape #landscape #scape #dune #MesquiteDunes #DeathValley #photography Fuji XT2 © Nancy Goodenough 2016

Navy blue background with undulating white stripes that resemble ocean waves are actually backlit dunes.

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

. "The Palouse in Autumn" - a Haiku in 5-7-5 format burnt tawny harvest velvet corduroy hills meet grey cotton-ball skies Steptoe Butte in the distance. Sept 7 2016 #scape #landscape #Fuji #Palouse #SteptoeButte #autumn #harvest #haiku #photography #clouds Fuji X-T1 © Nancy Goodenough 2016

Palouse in autumn, harvest, Steptoe Butte in background, cottonball clouds in sky

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

- "Stepping Out" - East African Grey Crowned Crane Posting for #WildlifeWednesday #photography #photographer #wildlife #crane #birds #feathers #safariwest #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography Canon 5DMk3 Canon 70-300mmL © Nancy Goodenough 2014

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

. Yup. Deep Fried Twinkies!!! In granola crunchy Santa Cruz nonetheless. A Golden Oldie from 2010 when HDR was all the photographic rage. For #Sweet theme at #SensoryArt #FebruARTy #photography #photographer #SantaCruz © Nancy Goodenough 2010

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

'The Beetle and The Rose' – as Renaissance Era still life, an interpretation I worked and worked this one until pleased. Since 2012. I don't give up. Canon 5DMk3 Canon 100mm f/2.8L Macro Posted for #macromonday #photography #photographer #macro #beetle #StillLife #flower © Nancy Goodenough

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