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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 10/10/2026

Fog starting to disperse from the Emmons Glacier on Mount #Rainier (Tahoma), revealing crevasses. #BlueSkyArtShow #weather #photography #landscape #monochrome #pnw

A monochrome black and white image of the surface of a heavily-crevassed glacier, swirling fog lifting from the surface to reveal the detail.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 26/09/2026

The northern #lights explode over downtown Bellevue, Washington a couple years back. Even the setting moon and city light pollution couldn’t drown it out. #iphone capture. #BlueSkyArtShow #photography #nightsky #pnw #aurora

Purples and greens of the aurora borealis, or northern lights, shimmer across the sky providing a colorful backdrop for the city below.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 19/09/2026

#Golden reflections of late-fall heathers and vegetation on hillsides surround a rock and reeds in a lake in the Tromsø area of Norway. Captured while scouting for potential aurora viewing spots on a cold and still day. #BlueSkyArtShow #photography #landscape

An image of a rock and reeds in calm water of a mountain lake, the water reflecting the golden late-fall color of heather and vegetation on the hillsides.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 13/09/2026

Second image, again of the #undulating landscape of the #Palouse, for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow. The setting sun highlights the dust trails at the end of a busy day’s work during harvest season. #photography #landscape #pnw

An undulating landscape of wheat and cereal fields in the Palouse region of Washington State. The dust trails of tractors and harvesters still busy working the fields at the end of a harvest day are picked out by the setting sun.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 12/09/2026

A lone tractor works the #undulating fields of the #Palouse region of Washington State as a spring afternoon draws to a close. #BlueSkyArtShow #pnw #photography #landscape

Green and brown rolling hills form a backdrop to a solitary tractor ploughing its way across a field.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 28/07/2026

For the #EmeraldBackdrop theme for #BirdOfTheDay, a female Rufous #Hummingbird enjoys the crocosmia in our yard - shortly before the local wild deer population stripped the lot! #bird #photography #wildlife

A female Rufous Hummingbird, with orange and green body feathers, sips nectar whilst in flight from a bunch of small orange-red flowers.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 25/07/2026

Where’s the #glass you might ask? Well, it’s molten inside the glory hole of the hot shop. The heat from these ovens feels immense, even from across the shop. I really don’t know how the glass workers stand it (except in winter - I imagine it’s quite nice then, lol). #BlueSkyArtShow #photography

Somewhat abstract image of a glass hot shop’s glory hole where the glass being used is kept molten. The glow from the furnace outlines the doorway.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 25/07/2026

This one was at the Pilchuck School of Glass.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 25/07/2026

I’ve posted this one before but couldn’t resist doing so again given today’s theme of #glass for the #BlueSkyArtShow. A glass artist works a piece in the hot shop.

A ball of glass attached to a glass blower’s pipe glows with heat from a flame as the piece is rolled and worked.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 25/04/2026

That’s fantastic, great shot!

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 22/04/2026

For #WaterfallWednesday, #Palouse Falls and its plunge pool in Eastern Washington, taken during late spring. #photography #landscape #monochrome #blackandwhite #pnw

Monochrome black and white landscape image of a waterfall and river, continuing from the plunge pool, into a canyon.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 05/04/2026

The zip on the door actually froze overnight and it took several minutes to get it to open 😀

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 05/04/2026

Early morning view from my tent, looking towards the peaks of Taboche and Tobuche, after an overnight snow shower at our camp in Lobuche alongside the #Khumbu glacier, en-route to #Everest base camp in #Nepal. #BlueSkyArtShow #openings #photography #landscape #Himalaya

The image shows the view through the vestibule of a tent onto a snow covered rock field, with snowy peaks reaching altitudes of 20,000 feet in the distance.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 21/03/2026

“Amphitheater”, a collection of limpets watch a solid performance from the #stone 😀. #BlueSkyArtShow #photography

Monochrome black and white image of a hole in beach rock containing a large rock with limpets clinging to the walls of the hole, suggesting an audience.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 07/03/2026

An image from #Kalaloch beach on the #Olympic peninsula, waves #flowing around a drift log under a stormy sky. #BlueSkyArtShow #photography #landscape #beach #pnw

Waves flow around several large logs on a beach, some partially buried in the grey sand.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 14/02/2026

“Ghost” The skeletal remains of a decaying leaf lie atop a fallen log, seeming to merge back from whence it came. #BlueSkyArtShow #wood #photography #closeup

The image shows a fallen tree trunk, reddish wood, with the remains of a leaf lying on top. The leaf appears transparent in places, giving off the impression that it’s fusing back into the log.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 07/02/2026

Morning #sunlight reflecting off dew drops lining the petals of a ranunculus bloom. #blueskyartshow #flower #closeup #photography

The yellow petals of a ranunculus flower lined with early morning dew drops reflecting the sun.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 29/01/2026

A grumpy-looking Great Horned #Owl makes #EyeContact from its nest space, wondering (I like to think) what all the commotion is about below (answer - a passing group of birders had spotted it!). #BirdOfTheDay #photography #wildlife #bird

The image shows the top of the head of a Great Horned Owl, yellow eyes peering over the edge of its nest built in a cavity of a decaying tree.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 24/01/2026

A #cold wintry scene at Franklin Falls, near Snoqualmie Pass, from a few years back. The rocks to get down to the plunge pool were like glass! #BlueSkyArtShow #photography #waterfall #pnw

A black and white image capturing a cold scene at a waterfall. Ice encrusts the rocks and mosses, while water continues to flow into the plunge pool at the base.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 17/01/2026

#One photographer seeks solitude from the workshop crowd and stands awaiting dawn’s first light. #BlueSkyArtShow #photography #landscape #silhouette

A photographer stands alone atop a small ridge with just tripod and camera for company, silhouetted against the early dawn light, awaiting the perfect moment.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 10/01/2026

A small mushroom, possibly a moss bell or hooded bell, rises above a #vibrant bed of moss. Three shot #macro focus stack. #blueskyartshow #photography #closeup #fungi #nature

A small sandy-brown mushroom, less than an inch and a half high, stands above a base of fresh green moss. The upper half background is an out of focus mottled brown and green of the woodland in which it was found.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 06/01/2026

That’s a beaut (bird and image)!

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 05/01/2026

New Year’s Eve moon rising over Mount Baker (Kulshan) in the northern Cascades. 830nm #infrared capture. #mountainmonday #photography #monochrome #landscape #pnw

Black and white infrared image showing a rising and 98% full moon over the volcanic peak of Mount Baker (Mt Kulshan) in the northern Cascade range of Washington State. Recent snow cover glows white, with a small inversion at the base of the image, along a river flowing behind grassy fields making up the foreground.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 21/12/2025

For #Stunday, a short-eared #owl hunting low in the grasses at Samish in the #pnw. #photography #birds #wildlife #nature

A short-eared owl, white-feathered wings outstretched, hovers over grasses, yellow eyes fixed on the ground just ahead as it detects a potential meal.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 20/12/2025

A majestic Roosevelt #Elk in the #Hoh Rainforest gets a little too interested in me for my comfort, even with a long lens. Thankfully he got bored and wandered off! #BlueSkyArtShow #openhouse #nature #wildlife #photography

A head and shoulders portrait of a mature male elk gazing at the photographer, against an out of focus forest background.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 15/12/2025

For #mountainmonday the summit of Ama Dablam, wreathed in clouds at sunset, taken while en-route to #Everest base camp. #photography #landscape #nepal #himalaya

The flat-topped snowy peak of Ama Dablam, on the Nepalese side of the Himalaya, is surrounded by orange clouds lit up by the sunset.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 10/12/2025

That’s a typical pnw view alright. Especially right now!

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It’s actually Dave @davidacody.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

The #SensoryArt theme this week is #Monochromatic so I immediately thought of this scene from the front of the ferry to Seattle in the rain. #senses #sensory #contrast #art #photography #EastCoastKin

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 08/12/2025

A rough-legged hawk, readying itself to strike after detecting sound or motion in the grasses below. #birds #birdphotography #hawk #nature #wildlife #pnw

A rough-legged hawk stretches its wings as it prepares to pounce on food in the grass and reeds below its perch. The underside of the wings are creamy white with brown tips. Sandy colored feathers cover its legs, and it has a white head with speckled brown feathers and light blue eyes. Green and brown mottled out of focus grasses and reeds make up the background.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 06/12/2025

I think this meets today’s #sky theme for the #BlueSkyArtShow. The #aurora appearing to arc over the wing of a jet. #photography #airplane #northernlights #auroraborealis #nightsky

A green aurora arcs over the wing of a jet as it heads over Greenland en-route to Europe.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 23/11/2025

The PhotoPills app can help with determining max exposure length based on sensor size and focal length to avoid streaky stars

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 23/11/2025

Depends on factors such as focal length - longer lengths need shorter exposures to avoid the stars streaking, shorter lengths can tolerate longer - and iso to avoid too much noise. I generally start at 20s, iso 6400, and go up or down depending on conditions.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 23/11/2025

Your eyes would just see a light haze in the sky (depending on your eyesight of course), with none of the color.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 23/11/2025

No filter needed. Just a dark sky site or somewhere away from city lights, a tripod, and a longish exposure. This was 20s at iso 6400, f2.8 at 16mm focal length. It’s also helpful to have a night with no or very little moon.

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Steve Roberts @wildoutdoorsphoto.com · 23/11/2025

An alternative take for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow. Standing on Sourdough Ridge overlooking Sunrise Park at Mt #Rainier (Tahoma), I always feel so #small gazing at the peak and the Milky Way beyond. #photography #landscape #nationalpark #nightsky

The Milky Way arcs over Mount Rainier (Tahoma), with the lights of cars and the Sunrise visitor center below.

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