Today's photo of the day is a dragon lantern from the Mampuku-ji temple lantern festival in Obaku. It is made from thousands of tiny jars of colored water. 26 of 365. #photography #challenge

Photographer Scott West calls this shot Alaskan Christmas Tree. 💗 Stunning shot!
#AlaskaWildlife

We visited the town of Djúpivogur in eastern Iceland. I just loved coming across these little towns with colorful streets. This building is one of the oldest commercial buildings in Iceland dating to the 1790's.

#Iceland #Djupivogur #icelandroadtrip #artmatters #AYearForArt #icelandvillage

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Four recent photos from Lake Superior. These were all from one morning. Some of these are vertical shots and some are horizontal. You'll need to click them to see them in their full orientation.

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #LakeSuperior #Minnesota

Dit is een winterse #zonsopgang met een roze hemel en donkere wolken. In de achtergrond zijn bomen zichtbaar, omgeven door een mistige sluier en schitterend in het zonsopgangslicht.

#photography #photomonday #fotografia

This gorgeous female Red Tailed Hawk was giving me quite the stare. The colorful fall foliage was the perfect background for this large raptor.
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#RedTailedHawk #Hawk #raptor #BirdOfPrey #birds #BirdLover #BirdArt #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #fall #autumn #portrait #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #Giftideas #LoveArt #wildlife #nature #NatureLover #NaturePhotography #BirdWatching #WallArt #MastoArt #artwork #FediArt

Another shot from the US Southwest - this is in Canyonlands from one of the overlooks. I believe the edge of that gorge is the White Rim Trail, which I drove part of, up to Mussleman Arch. I couldn't do the whole thing though because I didn't have a proper 4x4. That's a storm in the distance - it reached us before we left the park, and the rain was so heavy that we had to stop at the visitor center to wait it out.

#AYearForArt #Canyonlands #Nature #NaturePhotography

https://john-twynam.pixels.com/featured/a-storm-approaches-canyonlands-john-twynam.html

@daw15 @f Evokes the magnificent Pringle Ringle https://twitter.com/JaneEspenson/status/790579416594132992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E790579416594132992%7Ctwgr%5E740bd1ce1d1f7f7f53598241e26b1a0391d4dd17%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Farticle%2Fpringles-ringle

@eatthelove absolutely. I'm not surprised they liked it. :)

https://theglasspixel.art/somniorum/2022/11/cyclorums.html

#AYearForArt #MastoArt #mastodon #art #artistsonmastodon #artist #abstract #abstractart #painting #fediart #prints

It was a lovely sunny morning and the #MonarchButterfly was flitting from flower to flower. It finally settled to nectar on the beautiful pinky purple #RoseOfSharon bloom in my garden.
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#butterfly #butterflies #insects #flowers #nature #Monarch #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #FlowerArt #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #LoveArt #Animal #bug #RoseMallow #FlowerLover #wildlife #ArtForSale #MastoArt #GiveArtNotCandy

appearing silently
with increasing vibrato
westbound train

Have a good Saturday

Near home
be by me

#FreeHaiku #haiku #sunrise
#Morning #Saturday #sky
#red #train #track #TrainTrack #vibration
#GrainElevator #grain
#country

Svalbard, Norway is where this amazingly beautiful photo was taken by photographer Marsel van Oosten WOW!! 💗

Zion National Park is another great place in the US Southwest to explore. This shot was taken on the hike up to Angel's Landing. Unfortunately, I didn't get all the way up, because my brother was waiting at the bottom... I had told him that I'd just hike up for 10 minutes and see what I see, but then an hour went by and I figured I should probably turn back.

#AYearForArt #ZionNationalPark #Nature #NaturePhotography #Mountains #Southwest #UnitedStates

https://john-twynam.pixels.com/featured/valley-of-zion-national-park-john-twynam.html

Happy Caturday!

Sitting cat portrait soft pastels painting - see more here:
https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/sitting-cat-portrait-karen-kaspar.html

#MastoArt #art #AYearForArt #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #GiveArtNotCandy #ArtistsOnMastodon #TraditionalArt #kunst #cats #CatsOfMastodon #caturday #cat #CatLovers #pets #cute #animals #GoodNight #catstodon #WhiskersWednesday #furry #kitten #kitty #kittens #katze #meow #AnimalArt #PetPortrait

This immature #AmericanGoldfinch perched for some time on the clothes line and was looking quite aristocratic and regal. The juvenile Goldfinches are quite beautiful in the subtle colors of buff and brownish black plumage. I find that the fact that the #Goldfinch is one of the strictest #vegetarians in the bird world quite interesting.
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#birds #BirdLover #BirdArt #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #avian #AYearForArt #LoveArt #BirdsOfMastodon #wildlife

@RafaelSalazar ooooooh pretty!

Duck!

Plumed whistling ducks, Dendrocygna eytoni, Intermediate egret, Ardea intermedia.
Ngurrungurrudjba.

I love the chaos energy of this shot, the apparently awkward yet highly skilled maneuvering, the explosion of shapes after the elegant symmetry of a flying formation, and under it all, unmoved, the intermediate egret, not ducking.

[Can't believe I forgot the hashtags. Sigh]
#photography #landscape #action #birds #art #BirdsOfMastodon #nature #Ngurrungurrudjba #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #ducks #egret #CompulsoryEgretPun

Looking forward to the upcoming Milky Way season! This was taken last year in Avalon, NJ. Shooting the Milky Way at the Jersey shore is always best early in the season before the crowds come back and the light pollution increases.

#AYearForArt #MilkyWay #stars #nightsky #nightphotography #buyartnotcandy #GiftThemArt #NewJersey #JerseyShore

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Rothkoesque facade of an abandoned house near Silves in the #Algarve. 2018
#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #photography #portugal