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Nancy Goodenough

@nancygoodenough.bsky.social
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I photograph 'The Unexpected.' Have had a camera around my neck since that Brownie in the 1950s. Trying to be a realistic optimist. I'll take optimistic realist, if I can keep it. #photographer #photography

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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Holy cow! I know you're damn good at this, yet this is even further amazing.
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Thanks!!!! n
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
🌧️ The #StormChaser Clouds over Panamint Mtns mimic ocean waves #DeathValley #SensoryArt #Adventure #WeekRforRoads #AlphabetChallenge ‪ #Stunday #Eastcoastkin #PhotographersOfBlueSky #MountainMonday #Scape #Landscape #CloudScape #BlueskyMonday #Clouds #Storm #BlueHour #Photography © #NancyGoodenough
A silhouette of a photographer is seen walking up a road into the Panamint Mountain Range at Badwater in Death Valley. California, US. The clouds are rolling in like ocean waves. Blue Hour creates muted shades of blue, purple and magenta. © Nancy Goodenough
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Looks like an old timer judge. Kudos on this awesome shot. So cool!!
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
🎵 Hey Hey It's The Monkeys Black-and-White #Colobus #Monkeys have their eyes on the #green for #BlueSkyArtShow #PhotographersOfBluesky #NaturePhotography #contrast #SensoryArt #adventure #ArtYear #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #Outside #monkey #primate #wildlife #photography © Nancy #Goodenough
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This one stopped me. It's so beautifully done. The colors. The movement. The serenity. The composition. It all works.
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
"ONCE LONG AGO..." Death Valley Mesquite Dunes: NO AI ! #Dream #BlueSkyArtShow #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPForPatterns #eastcoastkin #scape #Stunday #monochrome #classicmono #PhotographersOfBlueSky #MountainMonday #monomonday #together surreal/real #SensoryArt ©NancyGoodenough v Click ALT for story v
"Once Long Ago..."  Photograph of Death Valley Mesquite Dunes manipulated via vertical stretching so slopes become tall mountain peaks, creating a very surreal near-monochrome image in saffron and black. However, the scene is real, just stretched. Unstretched, photographers who have spent time at Stovepipe Wells/Mesquite Dunes in Death Valley will quickly recognize the dunes and the Panamint Mountain Range in the background. NO Artificial Intelligence AI used in image. All by my hand in postprocessing, various versions over the years since photographed on 4/20/2011. 
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Many thanks. It's my joy to see the world in as many new (and wherever possible weird and unexpected) ways as I can. n
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Classic Dead parking lot. Shoreline, Mountain View, California. July 30, 2016
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
"I Need a Ticket!" #Peaceful is theme for #BlueSkyArtShow #Joy = theme for #SensoryArt #Face #Faces #AlphabetChallenge is #WeekOforOodles #classicmono #eastcoastkin #scape #Stunday #monochrome #photography #ArtYear #PhotographersOfBlueSky #GratefulDead #Dead #blackandwhite #BW © Nancy Goodenough
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I agree!
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Wow!!! That's oodles!
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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.
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https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ltbmu/home/?cid=STELPRDB5196661
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
They led good long happy lives. I didn't mean to wrench your heart. Been 15 years and we treasure their memories.
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Ha! n
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Cy, thanks for the info. It may be the first and last cat pic on Bluesky from me. All our cats are underground unfortunately. This one I captured on sensor on a street in Bangkok. Loads of attitude. Seen as sublime by you, even better.
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Ha! n
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Thank you so very much for the compliment!! n
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
So simple. So beautiful. n
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Really fabulous! n
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Thanks!!! n
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Fuji is great!
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
1littlendian,I usually try to say 'fabulous bokeh' rather than just 'bokeh,' since bokeh is the QUALITY of the OOF, not the actual circles we love so much. Most of us pronounce it 'BO-kuh,' but those who are being more accurate say 'BO-KAY' as in 'bouquet.' I say 'BO-kuh' like the masses do. Nancy
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
1littlendian, thanks. Boomer here too! Basically, bokeh is the QUALITY of out-of-focus (OOF) or “blurry” parts of the image rendered by a camera lens – it is NOT the blur itself or the amount of blur in the foreground or the background of a subject. (continued....) Nancy
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Love. Joy. County Fair. #Silhouette #blueskyartshow #SensoryArt theme #Light #Joy #WeekNforNoise #AlphabetChallenge #smArtist #Dark #photography #eastcoastkin #Stunday #ArtYear #Art #PhotographersofBluesky #photoapril #bokeh #red #love #CountyFair #fair #ride #swing #SonomaCounty © Nancy Goodenough
A couple in silhouette are on a swinging county fair ride, reaching out to each other holding hands. Bokeh of bright colors, dominated by red, form the background. Taken at Sonoma County Fair.
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
. The Glare #caturday #catsofbluesky #catsatwork #catsky #catsareweird #catpics #cats #caterdayeveryday #SensoryArt = #Light #smArtist #Dark #WeekNforNoise #AlphabetChallenge #photography #cat #eyes #eastcoastkin #Stunday #ArtYear #Art #PhotographersofBluesky #photoapril © Nancy Goodenough 2020
We see a tortoiseshell-colored cat on the right side of a black background, looking to the right with glaring aqua eyes. Photographed on the streets of Bangkok, Thailand.
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
WOW. Just Wow!
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Travis, it was backlit so the camera captured light filtering in thru part of the iris from the back. I did a lot of postprocessing with the tools of the day in 2012, particularly Nik & PS layers with mode changes. Brought it up to date for today's posting, but it appears I had the same vision then.
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Great eye!!
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
In case it's not obvious, this is a closeup/macro of a dark purple iris, looking like you're viewing into a surreal cave with magical lighting. 2011
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
' "Deep Purple" #Arch =theme for #BlueSkyArtShow #Opposites -Light/Dark theme in #SensoryArt #AlphabetChallenge is #WeekMforMulticoloured #MacroMonday #macro #art #macrophotofriday #eastcoastkin #Stunday #photography #ArtYear #SensoryArt = #Light theme #PhotographersOfBlueSky © Nancy Goodenough
Closeup/macro of a dark purple iris, looking like you're viewing into a surreal cave with magical lighting. Copyright Nancy Goodenough 2011
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Fascinating. And YIKES!
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Fabulous 'seeing.'
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
That is so cool!!!
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
, "STOP! In the Name of Love" 🎵 #Alcatraz #Arch is theme for #BlueSkyArtShow #Opposites =Light/Dark = theme for #SensoryArt #AlphabetChallenge is #WeekMforMulticoloured #eastcoastkin #scape #Stunday #texture #lyrics #Silhouette #photography #ArtYear #PhotographersOfBlueSky © Nancy Goodenough 2012
We're at Alcatraz Prison with a brick wall printed with a rectangular red STOP sign on the left, and dark archway with lit arch in background with couple standing and touching heads in silhouette on the right. "Arch" is the theme for #BlueSkyArtShow on March 29, 2025. Copyright Nancy Goodenough 2012
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🎵 Nothing but blue skies do I see... #BlueSkyMonday #eastcoastkin #Opposites =Passive/Active Soft/Hard #SensoryArt #HangGlider #Clouds #Silhouette #panorama #photography #ArtYear #PhotographersOfBlueSky #mountainmonday #classicmono #Stunday #Fuji #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLyric © Nancy Goodenough
We see a very wide panorama of fluffy clouds in shades of blue, and a silhouette of a hang glider over a silhouette of the land below.
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Yes! I recall photographing the sculpture "Bliss" on Treasure Island too . I believe it was at Burning Man before that, unfortunately too hot for us. Very cool image! n
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Good one! I have that Fuji button too, works the same on wildlife all over!!!!
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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
. The Journey: 'Up Up and Away' 🎵 1967 single by the 5th Dimension #BlueSkyArtShow #TheJourney #WeekLforLyric #AlphabetChallenge #landscape #scape #eastcoastkin #photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #silhouette #PhotographersUnited #hangglider #sunset #ocean #clouds #Fuji © Nancy Goodenough 2015
Hangglider shown in a sky starting a sunset over the ocean.
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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 · 21/03/2025
I am so glad to have shared this with you. I found the chanting so wonderfully peaceful. Oh
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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 · 18/03/2025
Thanks so much, Susan!! n
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
. "... a #peaceful easy #feeling..." #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLyrics "...what the #world needs now is #love, sweet love..." and #sunsets, #photography, #ripples, #ocean, #seascapes, more #scapes, #EastCoastKin, #art, #PhotographersOfBlueSky, a #Fuji, and #Texture for a #SensoryArt theme
Image is of a boy at the beach and his reflection in the outgoing tide. We only see the boy in silhouette from the waist down. It is at sunset with beautiful salmon and orchid colors in the sky and rippled water. 

What the world needs now is a peaceful easy feeling... as well as love, sweet love. For the Lyrics L of #AlphabetChallenge
#WeekLforLyrics

Fuji X-T2 
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
. "The Long Trek Up the Dune at Nightfall" #Texture for #SensoryArt theme #dune #trek #hike #silhouette #eastcoastkin #Stunday #photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #landscape #dunescape #scape #Art #Moody #sunset #nightfall #photographyisart #DumontDune © Nancy Goodenough 2012
Photographer is climbing at nightfall along the ridge of a dune. There are deep chocolate shadows and blood red highlights as the sun sets on him. There is a texture overlay to add to the moody drama.
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
. 'Fading Beauty'– Wabi-sabi portrait of the inner workings of a magnolia 'TulipTree' flower #MacroMonday #macro #WabiSabi #pistil #stamen #SensoryArt #Texture #flower #Stunday #eastcoastkin #photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Art #iPhone #iPhone14MaxPro #MobilePhotography © Nancy Goodenough 2023
'Fading Beauty' is a  Wabi Sabi (Japanese for finding beauty in aging and decaying objects) portrait of the inner workings of a Magnolia 'Tulip Tree' flower, showing the stamen and pistils.  The petals have an out-of-focus texture in pastel colors. Taken by an iPhone 14 Max Pro in 2023 and processed like it's a work of art with a black border.

In traditional Japanese aesthetics,wabi-sabi (侘び寂び) is centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of appreciating beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete" in nature. It is prevalent in many forms of Japanese art.
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Monkeys always great for monkey business. Unless they grab your gear.
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I don't know how commonly they are seen/heard. Heard like a helicopter! We were in Colombia 3 weeks and I only saw this one. Son lived there 3 years and he didn't mention seeing one. But certainly would be a fun topic for your friend! I was certainly thrilled and chased it until it landed.
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Nancy Goodenough @nancygoodenough.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
It's the Day to Stun us with your images. Stunday on Sunday!
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