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view of Sedona, AZ, for the theme 'Weite' (vastness, expanse) #FotoVorschlag
#stunday
©TonyNuspl2023
#ArizonaPeakery
#landscapephotography
#outdoorphotography
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#AmericanRegionalism
#cellphonephotography
#AndroidOptics
March 22, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Winter scene, fallen tree
©TonyNuspl2026
#woodlands
#naturephotography
#outdoorphotography
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#Monochrome
#ClassicMono
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#AmericanRegionalism
#cellphonephotography
#AndroidOptics
In the foreground, windbreak: specifically, an oak tree about 80 years old, pushed over horizontal. Snow accumulation. In the background, upright trees, in a holler. Copyright notice, top-right.
March 3, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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theme proposed by #FotoVorschlag
Lieblingsplatz draussen » Favorite place outside
©TonyNuspl2023
#SecretSpaces
#AmateurPhotography
#AmericanRegionalism
#cellphonephotography
#AndroidOptics
An infinity pool along Oak Creek, in Sedona Arizona, with famous red rock formation in the distance copyright notice, img bottom-left
May 26, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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"snowed in"
©TonyNuspl2025
for theme 'Landschaft in Schwarzweiß' #Fotovorschlag
#landscape #photography #black&white
#ForestFriday
#AmericanRegionalism
#AmateurPhotography
#AndroidOptics
#photographers
#BlueskyArtShow
A tree line with a house, after snowfall. Panoramic format. Converted to monochrome image using GNU Image Manipulation Program, free open source software (FOSS). File size (image quality) reduced for upload to social media and sharing. copyright notice, img-right
July 3, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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Study in Blues
for today's theme 'In the harbour' ('Im Hafen') #FotoVorschlag
©TonyNuspl2023
#amateurphotography
#AndroidOptics #panoramic
#BlueskyArtShow
#photographers
Butchart Cove, Brentwood Bay, Saanich Inlet, view from Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island, Canada original image resolution 1472 x 3264 pixels (4.8MP), vertical panoramic forrmat; original filesize 1.2MB (reduced for sharing on social media) copyright notice, img bottom-right
July 28, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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nocturne in NOLA
for the theme Time Travel ('Zeitreise') #Fotovorschlag
©TonyNuspl2013
#streetphotography
#amateurphotography
#urbanscape
#publicspaces
#AmericanRegionalism
#AndroidOptics
A nighttime view of a horse and carriage passing, in the foreground (the photo subject is in motion, both blurred and partially obscured). In the background, the marquee of the Cafe du Monde, in New Orleans. copyright notice, img top-left
June 13, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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stick-built
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proposed daily theme: 'the beauty of a construction site' ('Die Schönheit einer Baustelle') #FotoVorschlag
also 'something made of wood' ('Etwas aus Holz gemacht') -- earlier suggestion
#amateurphotography
#AndroidOptics
Blue sky peaks through a window frame original photo dimensions: 4000 x 3008 - 12.0MP (filesize 7.58 Mb) reduced for sharing to social media copyright notice, img bottom-right
July 23, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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Vintage opulent dining room, in Victoria, British Columbia, set permanently for ghostly guests
for the thread #PalacesandGardens
theme #UpstairsDownstairs
#banquethall

#AmateurPhotography
#indoorphotography
#cellphonephotography
#Androidoptics
#PhotographersOfBluesky
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interior view, upper floor, Craigdarroch Castle, former home of a tight-fisted Scot industrialist, apparently. Rockwood neighborhood, Victoria, BC, Canada. With copyright notice, img bottom-left
March 19, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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Thriving on the forest floor
for the theme 'Zahlen: Fünf' proposed by FotoVorschlag
©TonyNuspl2026
#ForestFriday
#nature #photography
#AndroidOptics
A wild petunia: Ruellia strepens ("limestone petunia" -- although not related closely to petunias proper), with a flower sporting five flaring lobes, and laceolate green leaves, the herbaceous plant appearing on an eastern-facing slope of an bottomland forest, mixed in with leaf detritus, after wet weather, with a single, delicate pink-purple bloom. Because the bloom is located in the middle of the stem, and the plants are located in almost full shade, in a holler with mesic soil, growing in heavy leaf litter, blooming mid-May, I am going to ID this as Ruellia strepens (limestone ruellia) as opposed to Ruellia humilis (that blooms later perhaps, and called "plains petunia"). This plant pictured here is also called "smooth wild petunia", presumably because the leaves are smooth, not hairy (as opposed to Ruellia humilis, aka "hairy wild petunia"). Not a poditive ID.
May 15, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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brokendown Yard Machine, winter
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part of a series on Pissarro Pessimism
#AmericanRegionalism
#landscapephotography
#cellphonephotography
#Androidoptics
Oklahoma lawn art, winter scene. Abandoned machinery covered in a thick layer of fresh snow. A few trees, a few dead leaves. Photo taken with legacy cell phone.
January 29, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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horse, fountain, tower > 'Pferde, Brunnen, Turm' (or perhaps the non-sensical 'Pferdebrunnenturm')
part of larger statue group of bathing horses > Pferdeschwemme
in Kansas City
©TonyNuspl2017
#cellphonephotography
#FotoVorschlag
#amateurphotography
#AndroidOptics
A river symbolized as a horse as part of a monumental, neo-baroque, New World, statue-themed fountain in an urban area. A replica of the Giralda Tower in the background. photo taken with Samsung SPH-D710 smartphone (released 2011), aka Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch, featuring 8MP camera. Filesize reduced for sharing on social media. Copyright notice, img bottom-right.
August 14, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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Abstracted in Her Element
©TonyNuspl2024
'Abstrakt' #FotoVorschlag

#AmericanRegionalism
#wildlifephotography
#cellphonephotography
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#BlueSkyArtShow
A young deer displays prowess hiding in bushes, almost evading detection. An example of photography that uses shapes/colors rather than realistic figures to achieve an effect, with the subject almost unrecognizable (nature transformed), the focus being more on palette, the play of light, texture, and shape (here fragments of the subject matter, partially obscured, partially revealed) creating a rhythm (pattern in the middleground). There is virtually no depth to the photo, everything appearing in the same plane. An amateur original, untouched, digital photo, with copyright notice added, bottom right. Taken with OnePlus 9 Pro 5G smartphone Nov2024, NE Oklahoma.
February 22, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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Count to 3, with Ohio Spiderwort
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for the theme 'Zahlen--Drei' suggested by FotoVorschlag
#flowers #bloomscrolling
#naturephotography
#OklahomaNatureWildlifePhotography
#AndroidOptics
In the photo: A three-petal flower at the top of the stem of Tradescantia Ohiensis, aka Bluejacket, aka Ohio Spiderwort Not a positive I.D. (definitely the right genus, but not sure about binomial species name) in Rogers Co., Oklahoma, spring 2026 cooyright notice top-left corner
May 25, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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in response to the prompt 'Barrieren' for the daily/nightly #FotoVorschlag
©TonyNuspl2022
#urbangaze
#SecretSpaces
#AmateurPhotography
#AmericanRegionalism
#cellphonephotography
#AndroidOptics
A black metal grill, or gate, bars the way leading to a courtyard or cloister beyond, with white stuccoed arches, in Spanish neocolonial style, in San Antonio, Texas. The canopy of some trees visible in the background, providing some color. With copyright notice, img top-right.
March 25, 2026 at 6:13 AM
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The saddleback between East & West Twin Buttes, Sedona, AZ
©TonyNuspl2023
'hohe Berg' theme proposed by FotoVorschlag
#SedonaPeakery
#landscapephotography
#AmericanRegionalism
#cellphonephotography
#AndroidOptics
The saddleback between East&West Twin Buttes (with Streaker Spires visibke to the lefyt, afaik). Gibraltar Rock in distance, img-left. Bear Wallow Canyon, in foreground. All set against an early evening sky. Munds Mountain Wilderness, Red Rock district, Coconino Forest, Mogollon Rim, Arizona. copyright notice, bottom-right
March 1, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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Carre St Louis
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for theme 'Warenauslagen' (sidewalk display of wares) proposed by #Fotovorschlag
#streetphotography
#publicspaces
#AmericanRegionalism
#AmateurPhotography
#AndroidOptics
#photographers
#BlueskyArtShow
Depicted in the photo: artwork (such as unframed paintings) on display streetside, mounted temporarily on the iron fence, in the shade provided by the tree canopy; with two vendors at their stalls, with three umbrellas providing shade for them, on a sunny day. There are just a couple of potential customers, in the background. The scene takes place in what appears to be a pedestrianized zone of the city, or at least a broad sidewalk, that festures prominently in the foreground. photograph copyright notice, img top-left
June 17, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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'Eingerahmt' (framed) for #Fotovorschlag
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#landscapephotography
#AmateurPhotography '
#cellphonephotography
#AndroidOptics
#gridmix
diptych comparing #photo with famous Japanese woodblock print
two images, side by side, edited with GridArt: on the left: original photo, farm / country house in the middle ground, framed (or bordered, flanked on the sides or partially surrounded) by branches of an oak/hickory forest in the foreground, with rolling hills in the background, under a gray sky. Power lines are visible criss-crossing the landscape. The time of year is early spring. From a photographic series titled 'Backroads of Green Country' (American Regionalism) copyright notice, img bottom-right on the right: 'Maple Trees at Mama, Tekona Shrine and Linked Bridge', 1857 woodblock print, by Utagawa Hiroshige (Brooklyn Museum), from the series “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)” The time of year is autumn. Mama was located over ten miles east of central Edo.
March 28, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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Foxglove-like
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#flowers #bloomscrolling
#naturephotography
#OklahomaNatureWildlifePhotography
#AndroidOptics
In the photo: loose, terminal clusters of white, trumpet-shaped flowers (to 1.25" long) atop erect, rigid stems. Flowers blooming in mid to late spring. Tentatively identified as Foxglove-like Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis), or 'False Foxglove'. It could be White Wand Beardtongue (Penstemon tubaeflorus). More info, via Missouri Botanical Garden: The genus name Penstemon likely comes from the Latin paene meaning "almost" or "nearly" and the Greek stemon meaning "stamen". The name may also comes from the Greek penta meaning "five" and stemon meaning "stamen". Both refer to the fifth, sterile stamen (staminode) that characterizes members of this genus. The common names of this species refer to the appearance of its flowers and growth habit. Penstemons are sometimes commonly called beardtongues because the sterile stamen (staminode) can be hairy. The specific epithet digitalis refers to the genus Digitalis, the members of which are often called foxgloves, and the flowers of which this species is thought to superficially resemble. Copyright notice, img bottom-right.
June 2, 2026 at 5:55 AM
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Restoring order / 'Ordnung im Chaos schaffen'
for today's theme 'Sails, masts, rigging' | 'Segel, Masten, Takelage' #FotoVorschlag
©TonyNuspl2013
#Photography
#AmericanRegionalism
#AndroidOptics
#cellphonephotography
#obsoleteformats
A photo of coiled ropes, or more precisely, heavy-duty dock lines, or mooring lines, that form part of a ship's rigging, or ship's tackle. Aboard the SS. Natchez, plying the Mississippi River (the ship is underway). A ship's docking cleat is also visible. A study in red, whire and blue. Cooyright notice, img top-right Photo captured using Samsung SPH-D710, a 2011 Android smartphone (better known as the Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch), sporting an 8-megapixel camera, running Android 4.1.2, an o/s nicknamed "Jelly Bean'
June 5, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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Bloomstrolling
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for this week's shutterbug proposed theme: wildlife #BeyondTheHedge
#flowers #bloomscrolling
#naturephotography
#OklahomaNatureWildlifePhotography
#AndroidOptics
Katydid Nymph on Heal-All (Prunella vulgaris), that is, a kind of insect on the delicate pink-purple flowers of a common weed, growing at the forest edge. The flowers grow in tight, terminal clusters, desfribed as a spike. Not a positive I.D. photo taken today 22 May 2026 in Rogers Co., Oklahoma copyright notice, img bottom-left
May 23, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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Count to Five
for the theme 'Zahlen-: Fünf' proposed by FotoVorschlag
#nature #photography
#AndroidOptics
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An oak sapling, with five red leaves, in early April. 'Embryonic' leaves are unfurling, or likely completely unfurled or unfolded with the base of each diminutive leaf visible, leaves displaying a red hue (a temporary aspect of this phenophase, the leaf-unfolding phase), leaves possibly with bristle-pointed lobes. The species is either Quercus Rubra (Northern Red Oak) or Quercus Alba (White Oak). Leaves appear to have seven lobes each. Photo taken in eastern Oklahoma, the western limit of the native range of both these two species. Comparative leaf phenology, at the early stage of a tree sapling's growth. NOT a positive I.D. Copyright notice, img bottom-left
May 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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two neoclassical arches ('zwei neoklassizistische Bögen')
for the theme: backlit 'Gegenlicht' #FotoVorschlag contre-jour
#BuiltEnvironment
#vintagedigitalphotography
#amateurphotography
#AndroidOptics
#ObsoleteFormats
SAMSUNG SPH-D710 📸 cell phone camera
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interior view, Union Station, Kansas City, built in the Beaux-Arts style, in 1914 original photo resolution 8MP (2448 × 3264 pixels) 3.1Mb filesize reduced for sharing to social media Photo captured using Samsung SPH-D710, a 2011 Android smartphone (better known as the Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch), sporting an 8-megapixel camera, running Android 4.1.2, an o/s nicknamed "Jelly Bean' copyright notice, img top-left
July 27, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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David Hockney-esque
'Von innen nach außen' theme suggested by FotoVorschlag
'Through the frame'
©TonyNuspl2013
#SecretSpaces
#AmateurPhotography
#cellphonephotography
#AndroidOptics
#Zen #photographers
#BlueskyArtShow
in the photo: A glimpse of an urban pool through a doorway, with a trickle of water coming from a fountain spout in the wall. A metal table and deck chair in the foreground. Brickwork in both the middle ground and the background. Some greenery in both the foreground (img-top) and in the background (img-center). cooyright notce, img bottom-left
June 14, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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Cathedral Rock, view from NW, Verde Valley beyond (Yavapai County)
Sedona, AZ
FotoVorschlag themes 'Weite' (vastness, expanse) & 'hohe Berge' (high mtns)
©TonyNuspl2023
#RockinTuesday

#aerial #NotFromADrone
#bubblephoto
#ArizonaPeakery
#landscapephotography
#AmericanRegionalism
#AndroidOptics
Prominent butte, primarily composed of Permian-aged Schnebly Hill Formation sandstone (roughly 270–290 million years old), originally coastal dunes that were part of the ancient Pedregosa Sea, now known for its flat-lying sedimentary red rock layers. The presence of hematite – iron-oxide (rust) – gives the sandstone a red color An uplifted plateau along the Mogollon Rim of the Colorado Plateau (uplifted 3 million years ago), the tan layer being Coconino Sandstone (lithified sand dunes from 265 million years ago). (Wikipedia)
April 28, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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Over- and underpasses
©TonyNuspl2022
'Überführungen und Unterführungen' theme suggested by Fotovorschlag
#streetphotography
#urbanscape
#publicspaces
#AmericanRegionalism
#amateurphotography
#AndroidOptics
A cast-iron stairwell joining two levels of pedestrian walkways, including an overpass with a cast-iron rail. On the ground level, there is also a cast-iron bicycle rack, but no bicycles parked there. There is a "Lone Star" theme on both the overpass and the bike rack. With oversize planters on the pavement stones in the foreground, and the branches of a tree visible, img top-left. Image captured with a 2015 Samsung On5 smartphone (now deprecated), running Android 6.0 (o/s nickname 'Marshmallow'), and an 8megapixel digital camera. Copyright notice, img top-right
June 7, 2026 at 8:00 PM