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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 13/09/2026

Husky Stadium, shot from the Burke-Gilman trail ramp at dusk, Thursday September 10. #uw #huskies #universityofwashington #gohuskies #udub #pnw #fall #dusk #fall

Husky Stadium at dusk, with a dark blue sky and the lights creating a beam effect through light fog.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 11/09/2026

Bit of an ominous-looking cloud rolls into Seattle just after sunset, taken from the UW ramp on the Burke-Gilman trail near Husky Stadium, just before 8pm Thursday September 10. #wawx #clouds #uw #photography #ominous #fall #sunset

A dark cloud on the left takes up about half of the frame, with the mostly clear sky sunset still relatively well-lit on the right. The photo was taken facing the west. Streetlights line the concrete ramp to the Burke-Gilman trail that curves a bit to the left as it crosses the street below (street below is not visable).

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 21/08/2026

Time lapse of the pyrocumulus cloud from the Little Giant fire in Washington state, taken from just north of the Kingston ferry terminal Thursday, August 20, 2026. #pyrocumulus #wildfire #littlegiant #wawx #watchduty #mountpilchuck #pugetsound #photography #pugetsound #washington #fire #kingston

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 16/08/2026

The M/V Puyallup departs the Edmonds ferry dock under Venus and the crescent moon after sunset on Saturday August 15, 2026. #edmonds #ferry #pugetsound #moon #venus #puyallup

A Washington State Ferry, The M/V Puyallup, at the Edmonds ferry dock, with Venus, the crescent moon, the Olympic mountains, and clouds with a pink and blue sunset in the background. A handful of people milling about on the jetty at Brackett's Landing North are silhouetted against the ferry's lights reflected in the water of Puget Sound.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 22/07/2026

Just another stunning Edmonds waterfront sunset. This place is a cheat code for beauty, and especially with the cool breeze tonight, it was another all-around spectacular summer evening. We are lucky to be alive; we are lucky to be here, now. #edmonds #marina #dock #sunset #boats #photography

Sailboats in their slips at the Edmonds Marina dock just after sunset, with a deep orange glowing sky near the horizon, transitioning to blue. The Olympic Mountain range is in the background, across Puget Sound. There are a few distant wispy clouds out over the Olympics.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 07/07/2026

Can't tell if my watch is just sleep-shaming me...or maybe thinks I'm dead?

Garmin fitness tracker watch on my wrist showing "Still awake?" followed by "Sleep is the best way to recharge and recover from a stressful day. Try to clear your mind, relax and get some sleep."

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 05/07/2026

Seems like the vast majority of us stragglers took it all in stride, and appreciate the @ferries.wsdot.wa.gov crew that are going to be working late to get us home. People are playing cards, taking naps, laughing and joking.

Stragglers waiting at the Kingston terminal in lawn chairs and on blankets.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 20/05/2026

I took the #scenicroute on a #roadtrip from Southern California, zig-zagging back and forth across the state. We spent one of the nights in Fort Bragg, California, where I caught this #crescentmoon setting over the #puddingcreek trestle. #photography #california #moon #trestle #sunset

Very thin sliver of a crescent moon setting over the Pudding Creek trestle in Fort Bragg California on May 17, 2026 just after sunset, with birds flying above the trestle silhouetted against the sky, which ranges from deep blue at the top to orange near the horizon.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 23/04/2026

OK so this hits just a little too close to home...

Meme showing kids in dirty clothes and a smiling well-dressed woman standing around a messy table in a run-down room with peeling paint and drywall and a broken window, with the caption "Mom, how did we get so poor?" "Your father spent our life savings on Claude code and shipped nothing."

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 22/03/2026

It cleared up later, and I ran down to the water hoping to get a dramatic shot out over the Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains. Got a potential Aurora alert, too. No dice. Got a fun little photo bomb by The Pleiades, but no Aurora and the moon was hilariously obscured by the ONLY clouds left 😂.

The Pleiades over Puget Sound (with clouds on the horizon)

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 09/03/2026

Current radar is doing an amazing job illustrating the point (expand photo for full screenshot). Tonight's is a beautiful PSCZ, and that blue circle is my location.

Screenshot of weather radar showing a textbook Puget Sound Convergence Zone running East from Edmonds/Lynnwood into the Cascades, with a blue circle representing the poster's location in Lynnwood.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 09/03/2026

Find someone that looks at you like my granddog Minty looks at me. I'm smart enough to know that I'm not the MOST important humans in this big beautiful brindled beast's life (my daughter-in-law is), but she sure makes me feel like it.

A beautiful brindled beast of a dog looking up at me with LITERAL big puppy dog eyes.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 02/03/2026

I took this shot of the moon tonight while trying to get my settings dialed in, but it's quite possibly in vain. The Pacific Northwest weather: Making a mockery of humans trying to witness celestial events since at least 13,000 BC. #wawx #pnw #eclipse

Close-up of the nearly full moon from Sunday, March 1

Partial screenshot from weather.com, of the weather report for the night of Monday March 2 for the Seattle area, showing "Partly cloudy skies in the evening, then becoming cloudy overnight.", which indicates it's likely to be cloudy for the lunar eclipse. Also shows Low of 47F, Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph, 18% chance of precipitation. 84% humidity, UV index 0 of 11, Moonrise 5:22 pm, Moonset 6:33 am, Full Moon.

Partial screenshot from timeanddate.com, showing a table with seven rows, each of which is one of the stages of the lunar eclipse in the early morning hours of March 3, along with the footnote "The Moon is above the horizon during the eclipse, so with good weather conditions in Seattle, the entire eclipse is visible."

(Poster's note: the Seattle weather at this time is expected to be cloudy)

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 09/02/2026

Apparently Lynnwood, WA appreciates the outcome of tonight's game. #seahawks #superbowl

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 02/01/2026

Watching Shadows Under the Market at seattlepublictheater.org was easily one of the highlights of 2025. Criminally underrated. I still can't believe this just ran for a little over a week and didn't go insanely viral, at least regionally. Such a great show. #theater #seattle

Night photo of the dimly lit front of the historic Bathhouse Theater on Green Lake, with the brightly lit marquee showing "Shadows Under the Market, August 1 to 9, seattlepublictheater.org" over the closed front arched double doors. No one is in the photo, giving it a dark lonely vibe very appropriate to the play.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 26/12/2025

I am pretty sure my daughter has the most photogenic dog on the planet.

Big beautiful brindled beast of a mutt, looking lovingly and forlornly at the photographer as if she were the puppy Mona Lisa herself.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 13/11/2025

Project Plowshare might disagree with your definition of "better done". Which reminds me, I have been to both the beach and Exploding Whale Memorial Park in Florence, but I still need to check the Sedan crater off of my bucket list.

Me beside the "Exploding Whate Memorial Park" sign at Exploding Whate Memorial Park, Florence, OR

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 11/10/2025

Starting to regret not watching this game...

Several BlueSky posts referencing the Mariners/Detroit ALDS championship game apparently very much in extra innings

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 27/09/2025

If you see this, quote skeet with a screenshot from a video game that released the year you were born.

Classic screen from the game Oregon Trail, showing monochrome green block graphics of a covered wagon, with the text caption "You have died of dysentery."

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 25/09/2025

10% waxing crescent moon that set at approximately 242 degrees at 7:46pm tonight, Sept. 24. Ferry is the M/V Kaleetan. Colors and haze courtesy the Bear Gulch Fire. Still looking for that one perfect shot, though. Back out next month! #photography #wawx #moon @ferries.wsdot.wa.gov

Crescent moon after sunset, barely cutting through smoky haze from the Bear Gulch Fire, setting behind the M/V Kaleetan docked at the Edmonds ferry dock.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 21/09/2025

It's the heron's world and we're all just living in it. #photography #birds #pugetsound #wildlife

Great Blue heron sitting in Puget Sound, watching a giant cruise ship passing by in the hazy and obviously distant background.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 17/09/2025

Smoke plume from the #beargulchfire on the Olympic Peninsula, rising behind a docked Washington State ferry, as seen from Sunset Ave in Edmonds, WA. #wawx #smoke #fire @ferries.wsdot.wa.gov #photography @watchduty.org #wildfire #wildfires #wawildfire

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 14/09/2025

Just another Puget Sound sunset. The universe, or God, or nature, makes the art. I'm just incredibly lucky to get to be here to press the shutter release sometimes. #stunday #photography #edmonds #ferry #sunset

Sun setting behind the Olympic mountains across Puget Sound, with a ferry at the dock and the silhouette of a man looking on in awe, alongside his child, who is presumably looking at something else just as fascinating nearby on the beach.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 07/09/2025

Good turnout today at the #Edmonds Car and Motorcycle show. This blue 1967 Chevy Malibu was my personal favorite, as it reminded me of my brother's car, and one of the first insane road trip dates I took my future wife on. #carshow #washington #classic #cars #photography #roadtrip #chevy #malibu

Crowd on Edmonds Washington's 5th Ave South, at the Edmonds Car show.

Full shot of blue 1967 Chevy Malibu, with the trunk and hood open at the Edmonds Car Show

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 01/09/2025

August may have been good, but I don't know because I was flying back from dropping a kid at college. Priorities; no regrets. I did take this shot out the airplane window on my Pixel 7a, somewhere over central California. The next night the smoke from the Bear Gulch fire was in the way.

Crescent moon and clouds at sunset, through an airplane window.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 01/09/2025

One of my (many) attempts from July, still too far north and the clouds weren't right.

Crescent moon setting over the Olympic mountains across Puget Sound at sunset.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 31/08/2025

We used to call #Edmonds, Washington "Deadmonds", and joke about rolling the sidewalks up at 6pm. Not for a while now, though -- vibrant nightlife on a cool end-of-summer Saturday evening. #photography #nikon

Nighttime view looking up well-lit Main street in Edmonds, Washington, with all of the parallel parking taken, trees along the street in the foreground, dark blue sky in the background, and a few cars also traveling up and down the street.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 22/08/2025

Bishop, California cannot possibly be real. Nobody likes to have to navigate around road construction, but when this is the background...well maybe that's not so bad. #bishop #california #mountains #yosemite #sierras

Some stunning mountains after sunset, as seen while looking down the street past some road construction in Bishop, California.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 10/08/2025

I'm Still Here, A Shadow Under the Market #photography

Backlit slightly wilted flower with barely visible wisps of cobweb

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 03/08/2025

Living a few miles inland of Puget Sound feels like a cheat code for #stunday.

Sailboat on Puget Sound with orange sunset in the background

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 02/08/2025

Opening Night Vibe Shadows Under the Market -- a teen horror comedy, at the Seattle Public Theater #theater #theatre #seattle #openingnight #greenlake

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 01/08/2025

TFW you have to reconsider your control group because it turns out they have been eating nuclear fallout. Thought of @funranium.bsky.social just now when I was reading a paper I was using as a reference to settle an argument in my extended family group chat.

Page from a study comparing the concentration of Strontium-90 in deer antlers between two experimental areas and a control area, with a paragraph containing the highlighted text "Consequently, the elevated concentrations of %Sr in the Silver Lake deer antlers is not
unexpected as there is an apparent higher background exposure level because of historic atmospheric
fallout from weapons testing."

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 31/07/2025

This Friday is opening night for Shadows Under the Market -- a teen horror comedy, at the Seattle Public Theater! Looks like opening night is pretty much sold out, but some of the other shows still have a few seats left. Get your tickets now at seattlepublictheater.org

Night photo of the front of the Seattle Public Theater building, showing Shadows Under the Market, August 1-9 on the marquee.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 28/07/2025

Well, I went out last night and tonight, and got a few with the mountains, but none of them nearly as spectacular as I'd hoped for. The clouds were gorgeous, but the glare was just too much until the moon got close to the horizon. (also major "rule of thirds" violations...) Next month! #photography

Moon setting behind the mountains across Puget Sound, although the moon is a thin crescent, the outline of the entire moon is visible as a faint disc.

Crescent moon above mountains across Puget Sound. The clouds have some glare from the moonlight.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 27/07/2025

Yet another Puget Sound crescent moon picture with the ferry. #photography #pugetsound #moon #ferry #nikon

A ferry crossing Puget Sound from Kingston to Edmonds, with the sunset and a crescent moon in the background.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 26/07/2025

I went out last night at sunset for a couple of hours, to try to catch a thin sliver of the moon, but the timing wasn't right, and the haze and clouds didn't work. Luckily, I turned 90 degrees to the north and noticed Mt. Baker trying to hide in the haze. #photography #mtbaker #edmonds

Mt. Baker in the distance across Browns Bay on Puget Sound, almost invisibly rising through the haze.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 22/07/2025

The texture and color in the clouds tonight was humbly stunning. Unfortunately, I was too lazy to swap lenses, so this is the best shot I got, and you'll all just have to take my word for it. #photography