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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Courthouse Towers, Arches National Park. Photographed March 28, 2014. (Daytime time exposure to blur the clouds)

Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The photograph here, of the Three Gossips in Arches National Park, is no longer legal to take using the methods I did when this image was shot March 25, 2014. Light painting of the rock formations has been strictly prohibited since 2017 to protect the dark sky status of several national parks.

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One of my favorite perspectives on Delicate Arch in Arches NP - photographed at sunset (obviously!). Just beyond the arch, to the right, is a bowl often referred to as Delicate Arch Bowl - a steep-sided drop off (requiring caution when walking near the edge!). (3-23-2014)

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Mt. Adams rises above TakhLakh Lake in WA state, July 2026.

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A honeybee feeding on Lucifer Crocosmia flowers.

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A Rufous hummingbird approaches Lucifer Crocosmia blooms to feed.

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A female Osprey doing a little nest remodeling to her nest on the lower Snohomish River in Everett, WA.

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. It is about learning to dance in the rain.”

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"Where flowers bloom, there is hope." - First Lady Lady Bird Johnson

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The honeybees are *finally* returning to my garden. There have been very few in our area this year. Very few pollinators of any type.

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

There must be a special joy in being a hummingbird!

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Two more shots of "little magicians" that float on air:

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Another visitor to my yard, a Black-Capped Chickadee:

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Another common visitor to our yard, a Dark-Eyed Junco:

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Just 15 feet from my front door, a world of magic unfolds each morning this time of year.

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Okay, gotta bore you with hummers. It IS that time of year, and I only have to walk about 15 feet from my front door. Guess I'm just lazy.

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The agility of hummingbirds never ceases to amaze me. This is an Anna's hummingbird, doing a quick body flip to fly back to the flowers it was just feeding on.

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Anna's hummingbird on Lucifer Crocosmia. 7/5/2026

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The Crocosmia are now in full bloom - and the hummingbirds are beginning to notice!

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Shortly after creating and "planting" several "garden post signs" with favorite quotes, a Hairy Woodpecker decided to check out one of my posts and tried to peck at it, finally deciding that it wouldn't find any insects there...

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Serious question. I have trouble reconciling my interest in photography, and the travel necessary for landscape photography with my concerns about climate change. How do you all rationalize/justify travel with the massive problem of climate change

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Adult and juvenile Bald Eagles on the Skagit River, WA state.

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The light was not pretty today in the Skagit flats of WA state, but I was out for a while. Here are two photos of Red-Tailed Hawks. In the left photo, there is a mouse in the hawk's left talon. On the right, the hawk was standing on one leg on a post a long way out (1200mm focal length).

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

An old barn in the Skagit flatlands of Washington state.

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

These large format acrylic prints are a lot of work. This print is 22" x 40" and is mounted on 1/4" acrylic. The print is first made on a metallic paper substrate, then an optically clear adhesive is bonded to the face of the print, then the print is bonded to the acrylic 1/2

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I traveled up to the Skagit flats in WA this afternoon. Too early for the snow geese and the swans, and fall colors haven't really kicked in yet, but it was a beautiful day! (Mt. Baker is the snow covered peak in the photo on the right.

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Carl Sagan envisioned an optimistic future in which humans - would find their way - to populate other globes throughout the nearby universe. Today, perhaps more than ever, we must wonder whether we will, indeed, ever find our way. youtu.be/oY59wZdCDo0?...

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THE SAGAN SERIES - The Frontier Is Everywhere

YouTube video by Reid Gower

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

An old photo that I took way back in 2010, of an American Pika near Mt. Shuksan, WA state.

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Two eagles (old image from several years back):

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

A small forest scene about 1000 feet from my home that we pass on our daily walks.

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

An Anna and a Rufous hummingbird during a brief encounter amongst the Crocosmia Lucifer blooms. A chance encounter, fortunate to have both in the focal plane at the same time!

Two hummingbirds, an Anna's hummingbird and a Rufous hummingbird amongst the red blooms of Crocosmia Lucifer.

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Be well my friends, and cherish every moment you have. All of these photos were taken within 25 feet of my home. View large for best image.

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I am surrounded by beauty, close at hand, just footsteps from my front door and back door. No travel necessary, only the willingness to relax and listen and observe for a short while. Nature comes into my life when I am patient and spend the time to appreciate everything that is close to me.

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

As I've gotten older, I've grown to realize that many of most beautiful things in life come from simply observing the nature that is within a few footsteps of the front door or back door to my home.

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Every day, I am grateful to wake up again, and to be a part of this extraordinary thing we call life, this amazing and beautiful world, a world filled with beauty beyond my comprehension and beyond my understanding. How incredibly fortunate I am.

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Touching Light Photography @touchinglight.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Just can't stop photographing our hummingbirds!

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