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Picturavis @picturavis.vernissage.photos.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

Heather in full bloom at the Döhler Heide in August 2025. Calluna vulgaris | Common heather | Besenheide #photography #Nature #heather #Purple #Bloomscrolling #SilentSunday #Germany #Darktable #digiKam

Heather shrubs blooming with tiny beautiful pale purple flowers. The flowers are located near the tip of each small branch, with buds at the tip. Further down, each branch has tiny green leaves. The part of one shrub with about 8 of these branches is in focus, while numerous more flowering branches can be seen out of focus in the background, painting it in the same purple and green colors.

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Piotr Walicki 📸 🦅 @zvrt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Goldcrest (Regulus regulus, 🇩🇪 Wintergoldhähnchen, 🇵🇱 mysikrólik). #birds #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #nature #naturephotography #vogelflausch #ptaki

A goldcrest is perched facing forwards on a cherry tree branch, surrounded by leaves.

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Picturavis @picturavis.vernissage.photos.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

An orange-chinned parakeet doing some lunch acrobatics in Tayrona National Park, Colombia. Nothing beats eating upside down to help with digestion. Probably. Brotogeris jugularis | Orange-chinned parakeet | Tovisittich #photography #bird #wildlife #animal […] [Original post on vernissage.photos]

A green parakeet with partly brown and blue iridescent wing feathers eating a melon-lookalike fruit. It hangs upside down on the branch of the tree the fruit is growing on. The fruit is orange and half the size of the bird. It has already eaten a large hole into the fruit, and parts of its green head and beige beak are inside it. The tree in the background has many green leaves. I have no idea what tree it is and could not find out in the short time I tried to find out.

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Picturavis @picturavis.vernissage.photos.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

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Picturavis @picturavis.vernissage.photos.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

A scaled dove scaling a tree in the nature reserve El Encanto de Guanapalo in Colombia. Columbina squammata | Scaled dove | Schuppentäubchen #photography #bird #wildlife #animal #dove #Colombia #Darktable #GIMP #GMIC #digiKam

A panorama crop of a dove climbing a diagonal tree branch. The small dove is white and gray, and its feathers have black tips, making them look like scales. The branch has similar colors as the dove. The background is various shades of green.

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Picturavis @picturavis.vernissage.photos.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Kitten on a Tree A curious kitten from a farm in northern Germany. Since cats are usually not my photography subjects, I am very happy to participate in this #caturday for once. #photography #pet #cat #kitten #farm #cozy #Darktable #GIMP #GMIC #digiKam

A curious dark gray kitten with black stripes and white paws is half sitting, half lying near the bottom of a tree trunk. It has striking white markings around its eyes and nose that look a bit like makeup. It is surrounded by branches and leaves, giving a cozy vibe.

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Picturavis @picturavis.vernissage.photos.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

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Picturavis @picturavis.vernissage.photos.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

This parakeet is one of the endemic species of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. It lives in the mountain range between 2000 and 3500 m. We had to get up very early and drive up the mountain on a very bad road to see this beautiful parakeet. It […] [Original post on vernissage.photos]

A green parrot perching on a tree, eating its dark red berries. The parrot has a striking white ring around its eye and orange-to-yellow wing shoulders. An orange line can also be seen across its chest. The background is white.

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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Over the weekend I got some good data on the Horsehead Nebula so now I have decent images of both of the big showy nebulae in the constellation of Orion. All data taken with my Seestar S30 Pro from my Bortle 7 backyard in Sydney, and processed in Siril with RC […] [Original post on aus.social]

Astrophotograph of the Horsehead Nebula, centred on the vaguely horse head shaped dark dust feature silhouetted against glowing red nebulosity.

Astrophotograph of the Great Nebula of Orion.

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Picturavis @picturavis.vernissage.photos.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

I wanted to see what happens if you treat a simple image of the sky with similar post-processing as an astrophoto. So I took an image of the sky, developed it with Darktable, and then ran it through denoising, stretching, etc. in Siril. This is the result […] [Original post on vernissage.photos]

A black and white image of the sky with high-altitude clouds. Many fine details strands can be seen of the wispy cirrus clouds.

A color image of the blue sky with high-altitude clouds. The strands of the wispy cirrus clouds are visible, but fine details and fainter clouds are not visible.

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Starry Time Podcast @starrytimepod.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Here we have NGC 5882 -- a planetary nebula! Although this isn't the planetary nebula we discussed in this week's episode on the #astronomy of the #constellation Lupus: ( listen here: starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/lup…), it's […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

A Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 5882, a planetary nebula showing a roughly spherical shell of glowing gas in pale blue and white, with irregular patches of pink and red ionized gas scattered across its surface and outer edges. A small bright yellow-white central star is visible at the core. The nebula has an inner elongated bright region surrounded by a softer outer halo, set against a black background with a few faint foreground stars.

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Picturavis @picturavis.vernissage.photos.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

This is what a composition of two hours and 14 minutes of meteors during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower looks like. About 85 meteors per hour were expected during where I live, but you can only photograph a small section of the sky, reducing the […] [Original post on vernissage.photos]

A vertical nightscape with trees in front of numerous stars. The Milky Way rises behind the trees, and 24 greenish meteors streak down roughly parallel to the Milky Way. Some meteors have a gradient from green towards a reddish yellow. Two trees and the overgrown ground are illuminated by torchlight. The Milky Way near the galactic center is a milky white to yellow band with a black band of dust in its center.

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Picturavis @picturavis.vernissage.photos.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

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Starry Time Podcast @starrytimepod.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

This... is Hoag's object -- one of my honorable mentions in this week's podcast episode. STUNNIN. You can find out why it didn't win my gold star on this week's episode: starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/ser… 📷 […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

A Hubble Space Telescope image of Hoag's Object, a ring galaxy consisting of a bright, compact yellow-white core surrounded by a nearly perfect circular ring of blue star-forming clusters, separated by a dark gap. The ring is comprised of bright blue-white star clusters and is almost completely symmetric. A small background galaxy is visible through the gap between the core and ring at roughly the 12 o'clock position. Numerous distant background galaxies are scattered across the black field.

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Picturavis @picturavis.vernissage.photos.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

From the archives (2022): This is the view down the Sørfjorden from Lofthus Camping, Norway. This fjord is a branch of the large Hardangerfjorden. It has an interesting microclimate, allowing the cultivation of orchards. The region is known for its cider so […] [Original post on vernissage.photos]

A vertical grayscale image of a fjord, where the sea cuts deep into the landscape between mountains. Clouds hang over the mountains, raining onto the landscape below, creating a dramatic image.

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Picturavis @picturavis.vernissage.photos.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Golden Hour This scene taken after sunrise at the nature reserve Geltinger Birk perfectly captures why it is called Golden Hour. #nature #landscape #GoldenHour #sunrise #photography #SilentSunday #Darktable #digiKam

A photo of a meadow and a tree silhouetted against the golden morning sky. The scene is backlit, creating many golden highlights in the plants in the foreground. Four birds fly to the right of the tree.

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Picturavis @picturavis.vernissage.photos.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Guly Thing The Gulder Thing near Gulde in Germany was used as an assembly place for decisions or justice (Guly). Gulde is more than a thousand years old, and the Thingplatz was used until 1867. This is a reconstruction from 2003 based on historical data […] [Original post on vernissage.photos]

A night photo of a gray stone circle illuminated by a white and red torchlight. The green grass and trees directly around the stones are illuminated as well. The background trees are black against the starry sky. The red only highlights the shadows in the stone circle, giving it a mythical look. A see-through red figure can be seen standing in front of the largest stone, like the ghost of a jarl.

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Geoffrey Giebelhaus @geoff-eg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025

#ThrowbackThursday to the image I sprained my ankle for. I wanted to capture the sunset from the peak - I had a suspicion that the sky would light up for #Sunset and match the #Mountain flowers. On my descent I stepped funny, bending my ankle and reinjuring […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

An image of BlackTusk peak from Panorama Ridge in Garibaldi Park. The link mountain flowers blanket the foreground, with granite boulders in between. The sky is lit up pink and purple as the sun sets to the left of the image.

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Picturavis @picturavis.vernissage.photos.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

A view of the Lofoten island Vestvågøya from the European road E10 from the archives (2022). #photography #landscape #nature #clouds #fjord #norway #lofoten #Darktable #GIMP #digiKam

A moody photo of a rugged island landscape with a cloudy sky. Dark green shrubs are in the front, the grey sea with a few grey rocks near the coast in the middle, and a low mountainscape on the horizon. The sun shines through less dense parts of the cloud.

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Picturavis @picturavis.vernissage.photos.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Standing in the Rain This black-billed thrush was one of the many birds that visited the feeders at the Tinamú Birding Nature Reserve, Colombia. I learned that many birds REALLY like bananas. Turdus ignobilis | Black-billed thrush | Schwarzschnabeldrossel […] [Original post on vernissage.photos]

A small brown songbird with a pale breast perched on a mossy branch. Its feathers are wet from the rain. The background is a dark green with a few streaks from raindrops.

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Picturavis @picturavis.vernissage.photos.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

Hi, It is time for a new #introduction. I am a German hobby #photographer who started in 2015. Everything I find interesting on my travels ends up in my image archive. I focus on #nature and #wildlife and, more recently, #astrophotography. To improve my […] [Original post on vernissage.photos]

A beautiful male white-tipped quetzal is perching on a branch behind El Dorado Nature Reserve's huts in Colombia. It is a larger bird with metallic green plumage.

A fairytale-like nightscape of a small pond between low shrubs and a few trees. A strong aurora with green and purple colors is in the sky, as well as twinkling stars. A torchlight was used to illuminate the landscape.

A black and white panoramic crop of a serene scene on a field. A European roe deer stands, looking to the left, while a flock of common linnets fly across the image.

A false color image of the Cat's Paw Nebula NGC 6334 from infrared James Webb Space Telescope data. It is colorful with swirls of reddish brown, orange, and yellow with a blue veil across most parts of the image. The single-filter data were downloaded from the MAST portal, combined and processed, and then every single star was removed by hand.

Data attribution: NASA/ESA/CSA JWST/NIRCam Proposal ID 6778

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