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Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 26/09/2026

It's unusual that we get this sort of display in Oregon. Taken with a smartphone and enhanced a little, but it was still amazing to see aurora #Lights by eye. 📷 #photography #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #oregon #sky #aurora

An aurora display fills the night sky with bands of vivid green near the horizon shading upward into deep magenta and violet, with faint vertical rays streaking through. A ragged line of conifers stands in full black silhouette across the bottom, and a scattering of stars is visible through the glow.

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emilsea22 @emilsea22.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Flower of the day. The river lily (Hesperantha coccinea), in late September, a late blooming member of the Iris family. #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #nature #ECK

Brilliant red blossoms of river lily, most commonly Hesperantha coccinea (formerly known as Schizostylis coccinea), A vibrant, clump-forming perennial flowering plant belonging to the iris family (Iridaceae)

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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Time we spent

Wastwater, Lake District
27mm, f/8.0, 1/80 sec

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Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 25/08/2026

A miniature luminous forest, waiting to bring spores into the world. #photography #closeup #EastCoastKin #nature #moss

A ground-level macro view of moss sporophytes — slender reddish-orange stalks topped with bright yellow-green spore capsules — rising from a warm russet moss bed. Shot at eye level with very shallow depth of field, the backlit stalks glow like tiny torches against a soft lavender-grey background, transforming a patch of ordinary ground moss into a miniature luminous fore

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Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 22/08/2026

A rusty plate. #Chaos and entropy are often cousins -- both showing disorder, lack of pattern or organization. #photography #closeup #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #abstract #texture #artphotography #beautyindecay

A close-up of a heavily rusted steel plate filling the entire frame, its surface a richly textured landscape of bubbled, pitted, and pockmarked oxidation in deep burnt reds, russet oranges, and dark browns, with faint streaks of the original bare metal still visible beneath. The varied tones and complex surface texture give the corroded metal an almost painterly, abstract quality.

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Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 15/08/2026

One of many waterfalls on planet Earth. This is a "little planet" version of a 360 panorama that can be seen here: worldwidepanorama.org/wwp1209/JimC... #photography #360panorama #littleplanet #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Earth #landscapephotography #waterfall #oregon #pnw

A 360-degree panorama of a Pacific Northwest forest waterfall rendered as a "little planet" projection, which wraps the scene into a sphere. The mossy rock and flowing water of Upper North Falls form the curved ground at the center, while tall conifers and lush green trees radiate outward in all directions like spokes, their tops pointing toward a white overcast sky at the edges of the frame. The result transforms a serene forest waterfall scene into a miniature, self-contained world.

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🌳🌿Lover of Trees🌿🌳 @gwtreelover.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Goodnight #Bluesky I leave you with a restful scene (painted by Normov Art) of silver birches in a woodland glade. #trees #woodland #nature #treelover

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Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 01/08/2026

A #Big river cutting through the mountains. A repost, but since most of my photography is of the small... #photography #EastCoastKin #columbiarivergorge #pnw #BlueSkyArtShow #oregon

This image captures a serene waterway known as the Columbia River Gorge, framed by steep, forested slopes on both sides. The water displays beautiful gradations from greenish-gold tones in the foreground to deeper blue hues as it extends toward the distance. Densely wooded shorelines with evergreen and some deciduous trees line both banks, with the right slope showing touches of autumn color. Layered mountain ridges recede into the misty background, creating a sense of depth and atmospheric perspective. The overcast sky features soft white and gray clouds with hints of blue breaking through, casting diffused light across the peaceful landscape. The scene conveys the quiet majesty of Pacific Northwest.

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Mark Seawell @seathemomentbymark.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Glan-munchweiler on a dreamy day in Germany...the land of light. #germany #landscape #Rheinland-Pflaz #seaons #clearingstorm

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Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 25/07/2026

A picture of a bowl of M&Ms, processed so that they look like #Glass beads being lit from behind. #photography #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #closeup #abstract

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Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 21/07/2026

This Echinocereus expels tiny galaxies into the night air. Naughty flower left a tiny, invisible spine in my finger. I finally got it out after a month of minor agony. I did get a photo op out of it, though! #flowerphotography

Portrait of a UV-illuminated Echinocereus flower against a black background.

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Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 06/07/2026

Pbbt! Thunbergia, on a mission to make people smile. Happy Monday, hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend. #flowerphotography #NaturePhotography

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Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 04/07/2026

A very #Wide (360 degree, actually) picture of a local wildlife refuge. This is part of a 360 panorama. Here is the interactive sphere: link.wholereality.net/dY364t Details in alt-text. #photography #oregon #naturephotography #nature #landscape #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #360photography

Located ten miles south of Corvallis, Oregon, the William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge protects the largest remaining tract of native Willamette Valley wet prairie — fields of wildlife food crops interspersed with Oregon white oak savanna, meandering creeks with bottomland ash forest, old growth bigleaf maple, and native prairie. This is an exception of ecological rarity: today only 1 percent of the valley's wet prairies remain, and within this refuge's more than 5,000 acres you'll find the Willamette Valley's largest remaining intact wet prairie.

The refuge is also exceptional for a very specific bird: dusky Canada geese are unlike other Canada goose subspecies, with a population hovering around 16,000. They nest on Alaska's Copper River Delta and winter almost exclusively in the wetlands of the Willamette Valley.

This was taken for the recent "Exception" theme on the World Wide Panorama Project. https://worldwidepanorama.org/

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Kilian Schönberger @kilianschoenberger.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Layer Cake from the Dolomites It's a fantastic mountain range. #landscapephotography #Dolomites #Dolomiti #Dolomiten

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Konrad Cox @konradcox.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

A riot of colour and movement in the garden. #blueskyartshow #busy #photography #flowers

360 panorama showing a swirling vortex of summer flowers, pulling the viewer into the image.

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Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 17/06/2026

Playing around with something seen on a walk. A spiderweb full of debris, inverted to make it abstract. 📷 #photography #closeup #abstract #artphotography #EastCoastKin #beautyindecay

A spider's web photographed against a bright white sky and then tonally inverted and processed, so the silk threads appear as dark lines crossing a pale, luminous background. Trapped debris — small insects, leaf fragments, and other detritus — appears as dark silhouetted shapes suspended in the web's irregular lattice. The result looks remarkably like a microscope slide or a neuron diagram, the web's structure rendered abstract and scientific.

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Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 13/06/2026

Amidst a collection of crisscrossing pine needles, the #Sharp end of one single tip. 📷 #photography #closeup #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #texture

A close-up of fallen, dried pine needles carpeting the ground, their long flat forms crisscrossing at every angle to create a dense lattice of warm tawny browns and russets. A small intact needle cluster fans out near the bottom center, with a single needle tip pointing straight upwards, and the base of a cluster of needles is visible in the upper right.

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Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 09/06/2026

More experiments with abstracted leaves. Playing around with different ways of changing the colors. This isn't quite as striking as the version posted three months ago, but interesting in different ways. 📷 #photography #abstract #artphotography #EastCoastKin #leaves

A top-down view of a forest floor carpeted in dark, heavily processed oak leaves rendered in moody blue-grey tones, scattered with small bright pink-magenta wildflower-like shapes. The shapes are actually color-inverted green plants, but look like wildflowers because of the processing. They pop vividly against the somber, almost monochromatic leaf litter. The color treatment creates a striking tension between the cool, dark background and the glowing pink shapes pushing through it.

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Henk-Jan Kooiman @hajeka.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Photo-a-Day: Jun 02 - Puddle A kind of abstract version of rain in a puddle of water in my garden #photography #garden #rain #water

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ralphpk.bsky.social @ralphpk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The world lies between pain and hope-well, perhaps I have found my love and my freedom in the twilight. #inbetween #blackandwhite #theone #eternityrose #monochrome #twilight #hope

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Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 16/05/2026

An earlier morning photo of mine -- long exposure on the Oregon coast. This was an experiment; I hope to try more of these. 📷 #photography #artphotography #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Morning #landscapephotography #seascape #oregon

This serene coastal scene captures dark, rugged rocks surrounded by a dreamy, mist-like veil of water. The effect, achieved through a long exposure, softens the ocean into silky layers of pale lavender and blue. The gradient sky transitions from soft blue at the horizon to deeper blue above, enhancing the tranquil, ethereal mood of the morning seascape.

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Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 14/05/2026

Swells. I like the infinite variety of tones and shapes in ocean waves. My pictures usually include sky and perhaps land, but this just focuses on tones and shapes. 📷 #photography #seascape #EastCoastKin #oregon #ocean #waves

A telephoto compression of ocean swells, with no horizon or sky visible — just layer upon layer of rolling dark blue-green waves streaked with white foam and spray. The translucent emerald green of each cresting wave glows against the deep slate-colored water, conveying the raw, churning energy of a rough Pacific sea.

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