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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Anyone else find it deeply ironic that MAGAts are about to essentially be responsible for the biggest shift to sustainable and renewable energy in history? Of course, they kicked it off accidentally and traumatically, but still.

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

#BarefootKuata resort in #Fiji offers a bull #shark dive experience which even those not certified can do. Passionate marine biologists and expert divemasters curate the absolutely incredible experience, which I can't recommend highly enough. 🦈 #Dive the pandora #reef while you're there, too!

Underwater photo of me in SCUBA gear taken from behind, as I watch a dozen bull sharks peacefully swimming through clear waters just meters away

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I've been gifted this #antique #German #sewingmachine, rescued from a junkyard in Bali, and I'd love to learn more about it and get it restored. Anyone know how to get started?

Top view of a black cast-iron sewing machine with wheel for hand-turning, on integrated ornamental base

Side view of a black cast-iron sewing machine with wheel for hand-turning, on integrated ornamental base

View of a black cast-iron sewing machine with wheel for hand-turning, on integrated ornamental base. The sewing machine has been tipped back from the base to show the rim

Closer view of the wheel on the side of the machine

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

If you knew me on FB at any point on the past 20 years, this is why my account is gone. FB disabled it at the same time as sending me this - while I was online, with zero warning - and I'm not giving their AI a 3d scan of my head to prove who I am. #facebook #fuckzuck

Screenshot of a Facebook page titled, "Confirm your identity with a video selfie"

"To make sure you're a real person, we need you to record a video selfie. We'll ask you to move your head during the recording to help us capture your face at different angles." wish an option to continue.

Not shown: the complete lack of an alternate option, the fact that my account was suspended in the same minute I received this notice, or that move off my friends can tag my suspended account to let my other friends know what happened.

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I really liked this tree at #Hobbiton, particularly the way the branch came down like an elephant's tusk to seemingly cradle and display a small bower of snowdrops.

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

The laundry hamper at my friend's place judged me for dropping trou. 😂 #pareidolia #anthropomorphism

Tall, dark, woven rectangular laundry hamper with lid and rectangular hole/handle on the side facing the camera. Two rolls of toilet paper sit on top, the one of the left is new and full, the one on the right is half used with a little piece hanging off the right edge looking sort of like a cartoon eyelid, giving it a bit of a "wtf, mate/you are doing me a confuse" expression

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Went to the National Aquarium in #Napier to feed #kororā for my birthday. This is Captain (the '20 Penguin of the Year), wondering why I'm not making with the fish already. He ended up getting 5 sprat during this one of his three daily feelings. #NewZealand #photography🪶

Photo looking down from a seated position, the view being down the side of the right leg towards sand. You see jeans and an impatient little blue penguin standing about 25cm/12" tall just centimeters from the sneaker, looking up the leg with his good eye (he lost the other in a fight with a sea bird, which is why he lives in the Aquarium now)

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Went out on a Black Cat cruise from #Akaroa again, and watched this one Hectors #dolphin jump into and and bounce off of the other 🤣 #photography #NewZealand #Aotearoa

Photo 1 of 2 taken half a second apart.

2 Hectors dolphins underwater, and 2 at the surface (one slightly behind the other). The One slightly behind is coming is quickly and is about to jump slightly out of the water onto its podmate.

This species has a dorsal fin that is rounded and looks like a Mickey Mouse ear rather than the classic fin shape of other dolphins.

Photo 2 of 2 taken half a second apart.

2 Hectors dolphins underwater, and 2 at the surface (one slightly behind the other). The One slightly behind has jumped slightly out of the water onto its podmate, causing a splash as that one is pushed into the water, while the jumper has been captured in the moment of bouncing off its podmate.

This species has a dorsal fin that is rounded and looks like a Mickey Mouse ear rather than the classic fin shape of other dolphins.

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I just liked the colors and the clarity of their reflections even if it wasn't the exact angle I wanted. These pigeons were hanging out on a pylon at the #Picton Ferry Terminal. #NewZealand #roadtrip #photography 🪶

Photo of teal water in the background with ripples from the wind. An orange rusted pylon is in the middle of the photo, with tall rim around a hollow section at the top. 10 pigeons stand around the narrow lip, each within a few inches of each other. There is water in the hollow, and you can see clearly the reflection of several bird butts.

The orange really stands out against the teal, and the several of the birds stand out especially well at the top of the circular rim because their upper halves are shown against the intense blue.

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

An adorable at-risk #kākā enjoying a snack at a feeding station at #Zealandia. Females are especially vulnerable to introduced stoats when nesting, so males outnumber them 5:1. Introduced possums compete for nectar, restricting breeding conditions. #photography #NewZealand #conservation 🪶

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Freshwater #eels at the Wop Wops. Such neat critters! #NZ #photography #roadtrip

5 freshwater eels of varying sizes just below the surface of a stream, hoping I have food for them

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Temple monkey at Uluwatu admiring himself between unsuccessful bouts of trying to rip the mirror and orange scarf off the motorcycle.

Monkey sits between the handlebars is a parked motorcycle, holding the right mirror with both hands as he admires himself in it. Unseen: the motorcycle has no seat cover or cushioning anymore, thanks to these cute, destructive kleptomaniacs.

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Excellent night to be an insomniac. Not bad for phone photos (camera was doing time lapses). The show is going to continue on and off all night - so go outside! #aurora #Wellington #photography

Long exposure of waves crashing in a rocky shoreline with a thin dark band of sky spring deep pastel pinks gradually turning purple into navy blue at the top of the image. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds and others stars are visible

Long exposure of waves crashing in a rocky shoreline with a vivid red pillars and glow against a dark night sky. Stars are visible through the vibrant colors

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Excellent night to be an insomniac. Not bad for phone photos (camera was doing time lapses). The show is going to continue on and off all night - so go outside! #aurora #Wellington #photography

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Fun with sun rays ahead of the storm moving in yesterday, before things got to rough in #WaitataReach and we had to turn back. #NewZealand #PelorusSound #MailBoat

Forested hill between a cloudy sky and dark water off the sound, with sun rays piercing the textured clouds and highlighting streaks of forest

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Two years ago today, I hosted my last crawfish boil. Not on purpose, but Life happened before the ones I would have had in 2024, and I left the country before the first one I would have had this year. I'm lucky and grateful to have so many great (and delicious!) memories with wonderful people.

Photo of a Louisiana-style crawfish boil spilled across a table for serving, showing the mix of crawfish, shrimp, corn, sausage, potato, heads of garlic, celery, orange, lemon, etc

Photo of a Louisiana-style crawfish boil spilled across a table for serving, showing crawfish, shrimp, corn, sausage, potato, heads of garlic, celery, orange, lemon, etc

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Red-beaked and black-backed #gulls going after offal and trim tossed overboard by fishermen in #Akaroa at the end of their day. I think I'll always be able to hear these photos. 🤣 #photography #NewZealajd 🪶

Juvenile and adult black-backed gulls having a disagreement over who's snack it is. The juvenile is brown and grey mottled, standing up to a full-grown adult who had their wing outstretched to and behind them as they get close to the juvenile, who has their wings partially open.

Red-branded guild. 2 sure on the water looking calm, one sits if the water with wings back mod-flap, and the first gull is in the process of trying to drag a big chunk of guts and skin out of the water. Their wings are curved around them and over their head as they backwing hard to try to take off with their prize.

4 seagulls sit calmly on the dark water as a fifth tries hard to take off with a huge snack

Two gulls go after a piece of fish guts and skin, one tugging with a bite in it's break trying to backwing away, and the other in the process of landing just behind the first. The water is deep, dark blue, with red reflecting off the fishing vessel from which their snack came.

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

This little autumny #mushroom really caught my eye on a walk in the #Catlins on the way to #CathedralCaves. #photography #NewZealand #fungi

A small, bright yellow mushroom with a deep orange top of its cap stands out against a backdrop of brown and mahogany leaves, twigs, and seeds, offset by green fern leaves in the upper right, and bright green leaves of a tiny plant in the lower left

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Here are some dusky #dolphins playing in #Kaikoura 's South Bay. Couldn't pick one photo for today, so you get 4. #photography #wildlife #marinemammal #NewZealand #conservation 🐙

Two dolphins leaping in the distance, on their way back down to the water. The dolphin on the left is pointed down at a fairly steep angle, and the one on the right is curved in a rainbow arc fairly parallel to the water.

3 dolphins swimming past a dark brown beach with trees behind the beach. Only the dorsal fins of the two in the front can be seen as they swim towards the left side of the image, and between them and the beach on the left side of the image is a dolphin mid-leap, caught in a nose-down position as water streams off its hack half.

Close photo of two dusky dolphins in green water, splashing back in as their backs are exposed for a breath while they swim fast next to the boat

Dolphin flipping through the air in front of a brown beach backed by trees and green hills. It is leaping from left to right in the photo, and you can see the splash from its exit left of where it has been caught in a nose-down position as its butt flips over its head. Not shown is the impending belly flop.

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

#NewZealand fur #seal pup at the colony in #Kaikoura The side-eye game is STRONG. I was sad to hear several adults coughing (not in warning), and wondered how many dead pups is normal to see on a visit this time of year (I saw 6). Really want to learn more. #wildlife #photography #conservation 🦑

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Forgot the hashtags to boost visibility. Again. 😒 #photography #NewZealand #Canterbury #Akaroa #wildlife #penguin #adorable🪶

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I got to briefly meet Arwen and Aragorn, a pair of Little White Flippered #Penguins at the #Pohatu Conservation Trust in Flea Bay a couple days ago. 😍 Support important efforts (conservation, rehabilitation, reforestation, predator control, education, etc) at www.pohatu.co.nz/Trust/adopt-...

Guide largely off camera crouching behind a wooden penguin box marked with a plastic tag that says, "B38." The simple box is on on dry dirt and pine needles, lifting the lid to check in on the mated pair of Little White-Flippered Penguins inside. Tourists get a brief, special glimpse of these shy creatures as their guide (Ben, in this case) checks the birds and notes the time, date, number of penguins there, and their condition in their special app. The encounter is brief, and cut extra-short if the penguins make any sign if distress or unhappiness.

This feathered couples' names are Arwen and Aragorn, named by the person who sponsored the box.

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Something different from my usual photography subjects, because this spray of wild rose hips popping off the drab late autumn drying grass at the south end of #LakePukaki just really caught my eye. #photography #roses

Drying grass makes up the backdrop to a deep brown rose branch entering the photo from the right. The branch has smaller green- and yellow-leafed twigs, and dozens of bright red rose hips catching the eye.

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Watch the pole on the other side of the gate. 🫨 😳 🎼🎵Slide to the left Slide to the right Let me hear you clap your hands 🎶

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Some quick phone shots this afternoon. #Akaroa gives me very strong SF Bay Area-adjacent vibes in the best ways. With bonus FANTASTIC legit French bakery that makes the best croissant and baguette I've had since Paris.

Evening fog creeping over verdant rolling hills dotted with trees and the occasional sheep

Photo looking down a hill to Akaroa Bay. Grasses on the foreground, rolling vivid green hills with fingers of fog just starting to creep over from the right, a shining bay in front of the hills on the opposite shore, and light clouds in a blue and yellow late afternoon sky

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

That time I wore my No Face/Kaonashi cosplay to see @joehisaishi.bsky.social conduct the #SeattleSymphony playing the wonderful #StudioGhibli music he composed, and got to meet some of the brass players who were about to play a piece from one of the boxes after the intermission.

4 people standing in Benaroya Hall hallway. From L-R, Seattle Symphony trumpet and french horn players, No Face, and a second french horn player. Since this was in 2021, all three musicians are wearing black facemasks, and No Face was also wearing a mask behind the mask.

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Throw-Back Thursday to a trip of a lifetime with #Lindblad / #NatGeo to the #Galapagos. This SUPER curious juvenile blue-footed booby didn't see me as any threat; walked right up while I crouched to take pics of other birds, and I had to move when it tried to get into my lap! #conservation 🪶

Photographer crouched holding a camera to their chest on a sandy patch with low grass and shrubs behind them, sliver of deep-blue ocean in the distance under a light blue sky. Their face is obscured but a tan hat that blends in with the same. Directly in front of the person is a juvenile blue-footed booby, neck stretched out, its break maybe 10cm from the person's knee.

It is illegal to get this close to the birds in the Galapagos, but this one walked up to the person while they were focused on other birds on a nest in the distance.

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The #sunrise this morning from the VERY comfy bed at #Skyscape near #Twizel was stunning, and made it even harder to leave this beautiful part of the world. My hosts' hospitality was wonderful, and I really enjoyed tramping up to the saddle and seeing the next valley. #NewZealand has a hold on me

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

That time you're on a photography jaunt in a foreign country and the new tripod you bought a week comes apart and dumps your camera and telephoto lens on the ground, damaging the body and lens mount to the point that you can no longer remove the lens from the body. Tears have been shed. 😩

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

From today, here's a silver eye/wax eye, or tauhou in Maori. Native, but not endemic. These little ones can often be found in small flocks as I saw on Rakiura and in Curio Bay, and this one was kind enough to hold still long enough for me to get a shot. #Aoraki #MtCook #NewZealand #Photography 🪶

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Lake #Tekapo is gorgeous in the snow. I'm really loving the autumn foliage on the trees contrasting with the white and blues of a clear winter day. #NewZealand #landscape #photography

A large, bushy yellow-leafed tree on the snow-covered bank at the edge of a blue lake. There is fog rising from the water just in front of the dark forest on the opposite bank, standing out in front of snow-covered hills under a clear, light blue sky.

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

A quiet moment on the trail to #CathedralCaves. The feather popped out at me, the bright contrasting so beautifully with the shaded forest home of the original owner. #NewZealand has gifted me with so many amazing moments. Big & spectacular ones, quiet & lovely ones, and everything in between. 🪶

A small, bright white body feather rests on the lower left quadrant of the photo, against a dark backdrop of twigs, needles, and leaves in various shades of brown punctuated by occasional tiny, delicate green mosses.

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Three Hector's Dolphins (the only cetacean endemic to #NewZealand, and the smallest dolphin species in the world) play near a lucky surfer in Curio Bay. The Māori have several names for this marine mammal, mostly calling it tutumairekurai, meaning "ocean dweller." 🐬 #photography #wildlife #dolphin

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Here's a juvenile South Island Saddleback (tīeke in Maori) snacking on Ulva Island a couple weeks ago. This bird nearly went extinct, (no) thanks to humans introducing rats to this paradise, and their recovery is a great success of conservation efforts. #Ulva #Rakiura #NewZealand #conservation 🪶

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Decided to try my hand at some night sky photography here in Lake Tekapo. I liked the idea of the #MilkyWay pouring into the #MtJohnObservatory telescope door last night. #NewZealand continues to amaze, and the #AorakiMackenzieInternationalDarkSkyReserve (there's a mouthful) is gorgeous.

Night photo with an observatory telescope in the lower right, silhouette of dark hills in the distance on the bottom right, and the clear night sky with the Milky Way appearing to pour into (or come out of) the open door of the telescope, out of which shines a red light.

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Waterfalls, Cathedral Caves, and a tasty burger at Peake's Kitchen in Papatowai today.

Looking out of the huge mouth of a rocky cave to the sea. The sand floor is wet and reflecting the grey, clouded (yet still bright) sky, water from a wave is starting to gently flow in from the extremely shallow beach.

Looking out of the other side of the rocky Cathedral Cave, with two people in the shadows and one person outside the cave for perspective (to show how tall the opening is). You can see waves and first one the distance through the large opening in the rock.

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

2 photos of the moon reflecting off the Southern Ocean, 1 photo of Venus/Saturn/Mercury in pre-dawn light, and one photo of this morning's electric early dawn over Curio Bay. I don't think I'll ever get tired of the beauty here in New Zealand.

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Spent hours at Curio Bay in the hopes of seeing penguins come in, to no avail. Amazing moonrise and pretty ISS pass, though. Came home and see/hear a rustle a meter from the path to my door, so I shone my light expecting a rat. SO much better. LITTLE BLUE PENGUINS!!!! 😍 🪶

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Ocean Beach, #Rakiura last night, lit so well by the moon that we could see colors! We checked to make sure it was clear of sea lions before enjoying the view - until a trio came galloping up from the water. New respect for how fast their 20kph is, but fortunately all made it safely away.

Beach scene, sand in the foreground, water on the middle of the image, sky dotted with clouds above. Moonlight filtered through clouds reflects off water, there's a small stream of silver flowing out to the calm ocean

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I SAW KIWIS FIGHT! (thread) Got a ride back to the place I'm staying and was talking with the guy who drove me. Door was open to get out, when 2 big kiwis ran through the headlights, with the car on. I stayed still, and we watched to see if they would come back. 🪶 #Rakioura #tokoeka #kiwi

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

White-capped albatross yesterday and today, Halfmoon Bay, Rakiura, NZ 🪶

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I can't believe this is my view for the next 2 nights. Really need to win the lotto so I can reserve a peaceful place like this to conserve native flora & fauna, and live in peace. If I'm really lucky, I'll get you see a kiwi bird or two while I'm here. #NewZealand #rakiura #MamukuPointConservation

View looking off a deck over a small bit of talk grass and over dark subtropical greener, or over Lee Bay and the Foveaux Strait north towards New Zealand's south island. It is nearing dusk, and the sky is muted blues and pinks, with light grey clouds dominating the pastel blue sky. The sounds are wind in the leaves and the constant roar of surf on the coast below. It smells fresh, with some salt and some green on the breeze. There's a slight chili starting to take over what was a warm and sunny day, promising a cool night.

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

$DoubtfulSound is incredible. Milford had drama and angst the day I went, but Doubtful feels old and more serene. If not for the sandflies, I'd love to spend a week or two camping out there. Unfortunately, I'm entirely too edible to the insects to give that a real try. #NewZealand #wild #nature

View of Doubtful Sound from the road going over the pass into the valley. Misty clouds obscure the top halves of the mountains surrounding the water, and you can clearly see the moraine scar left by the ancient glacier that created the sound.

Bottom half of the photo is dark water with very little chop, and under fluffy grey clouds broken with brilliant blue skies are steep hills and mountains covered in greenery rising from the water

Grey water in the foreground, slightly lighter grey sky above, layers of dark hillside rise from the water creating a V-shape in the center of the image. Darkest hills are in the front, behind them less dark hills, behind them the hills are even less dark as the drizzle obscured the colors.

Bottom half of the photo is dark water with very little chop, and under fluffy grey clouds are steep hills and mountains covered in greenery rising from the water. You can see that the body of water extends past the closest slopes, but it isn't clear which way the waterway goes before it ends at another mountain directly behind the opening created by the closest slopes

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