2026-02-15 16:13:03
A huge impact 4.3 billion years ago partially melted the Moon's mantle & made it lopsided
https://skywriter.blue/@coreyspowell.bsky.social/3meoshhxwic2u
A huge impact 4.3 billion years ago partially melted the Moon's mantle & made it lopsided
https://skywriter.blue/@coreyspowell.bsky.social/3meoshhxwic2u
Unseasonably warm SoCal #caturday
With all the best wishes to the next world. 🌻
#photography #nature #flowers
Entering the canyon
(Half an hour earlier we were sitting and basking in the sun at the top of those cliffs on the left...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
Cross To The Other Side III ❎
去向另一边 III ❎
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky C200
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
A very frozen and snow covered Red River of the North, from January; looking south-ish from Grand Forks, #NorthDakota. Rail bridge in the distance. The plume in the far distance is from the Crystal Sugar beet processing plant on the #Minnesota side.
Oh, you just slapped a 1MB image on your web page? That’s nice.
Back in the day, folks were hiding running code and data in the graphics of their games that had to fit into 22KB.
https://revs.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/hidden_secrets_of_the_custom_screen…
Took the day off to head up to Natural Bridge State Park with my wife. Pictures don’t really do justice to how massive it is.
Then there are the Blue Ridge Mountains, always gorgeous. Will return to Skyline Trail later this summer, as it’s an official International Dark Sky viewing location. Perhaps in August for the Perseid meteor shower season.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Pink Floyd:
🎵 Goodbye Blue Sky
#PinkFloyd
https://lullabycompilation.bandcamp.com/track/goodbye-blue-sky
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ESdtt9cjGZUkUbaubSrv2
Rare Colours Blues IV🔷🔷
稀有的色彩蓝 IV🔷🔷
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman Phoenix 200 II (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art
View from my living room window at two different times this late afternoon respectively evening.
#Sunset #Sonnenuntergang #Zürich
On a whim, I went to the Royal Festival Hall to see Bruce Liu playing Ravel. Pretty cool. He makes the fiendishly difficult appear entirely effortless.
I think last time I went there, I was a callow youth. It's bigger than I remember!
#music #classical
I just added a video to my post from yesterday:
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/another-snow-hike-with-unreal-blue-sky/
I just noticed that I had also recorded some video clips which I simply forgot 🙈
Anyways! this is the blogpost includin…
Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Luke Tyler Shelton:
🎵 Blue Sky
#LukeTylerShelton
https://luketylershelton.bandcamp.com/album/blue-sky
https://open.spotify.com/track/2XwjJPenyna7YyCzURSNLh
White-crowned sparrow on a fence. Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, California, USA. February, 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #bolsachicaecologicalreserve #bird
#silentSunday
Coopers Hawk. December 2022.
Cross To The Other Side ❎
去向另一边 ❎
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky C200
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
This is really good https://skywriter.blue/@eliothiggins.bsky.social/3mitbqzpvhk2x”
"Disordered counterpublics simulate VDA but invert its meaning. 'Verification’ becomes selective sourcing. 'Deliberation' becomes a loyalty test. 'Accountability’ means naming enemies. They look democratic on the surface but accelerate collapse.”
So much of this applies to so many spheres right now, but I see a lot of what I quoted in nominally leftist spaces.
I've started a little experiment.
I've erected an instance of Ghost 6 running on a Raspberry Pi and today it finally started talking across the Fediverse and the Bridge to Blue Sky.
In other words it's a Ghost Bloggy Magazine thing. The robot here is at @…
The website is at https:\\www.samizdat.uk
I added a Tier for anyone that wants t…
Sakura in front of McGraw Tower
#photo #photography #cornell #ithaca
Alpenhauptkamm (2025).
Near the central ridge of the Alps. Canon R7, CPF, unedited RAW (only cropped). Sometimes it just feels so unreal how colorful some mountain landscapes can be (even without polarization filter)...
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Fink:
🎵 Wishing For Blue Sky (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #Fink
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/5sve9siP9a27cIgSzbhuOM
I spent the last two days hiking with @… across the Bogong high plains from Cope Hut to the Fainters. Day 1 started with perfect weather as we followed the Australian Alps walking track for the first 10km. #hiking
Grand River, Ontario #spring freshet is underway after temperatures in the teens and significant rainfall. Bank-full and rising.
Rare Colours Blues III🔷🔷
稀有的色彩蓝 III🔷🔷
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman Phoenix 200 II (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Susumu Yokota:
🎵 Blue Sky and Yellow Sunflower
#SusumuYokota
https://susumuyokota.bandcamp.com/track/blue-sky-and-yellow-sunflower
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Mk96t3t5qR5YJ8ftCW18V
Shout outs to both blue sky and mastodon in this morning's @eurcorrespond.bsky.social on network effects, plus the role of misinformation in #TheWarOnWind which is seriously starting to hamper the green transition, and how Europe's economic heart is migrating S E.
"Denmark generates 54% of its electricity from wind while maintaining a GDP per capita of $71,026 (the 12th highest globally)"
https://newsletter-cdn.europeancorrespondent.com/go/rr03kj8tcubn00ufgk463ev9dgptv6k2fwm8k0occ6wh/2866
My #silentsunday.. I only had a chat with two guys at the summit and one guy a bit below.
Besides that... 4-5h silence. If we don't count the minutes I was following the activities of a woodpecker a couple of meters away from me 😊
It took me really efforts to get out. But - as usual - it was worth it.
Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC
Cross To The Other Side ❎
去向另一边 ❎
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky C200
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Electric Light Orchestra:
🎵 Mr. Blue Sky
#ElectricLightOrchestra
https://8-bitslushy.bandcamp.com/track/electric-light-orchestra-mr-blue-sky
https://open.spotify.com/track/2RlgNHKcydI9sayD2Df2xp
It's quite ok. A bit crowded meanwhile. Last time I've been here in 2000. There were almost no people back the. #Beijing #ForbiddenCity
Got to do an actual local TV news interview about early-blooming Joshua trees, failed to anticipate that I should've given the producers a photo of the correct species of yucca moth
https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/south…
Stolen from @dragonsandsapphics@bsky.social who doesn't seem to bridge their account:
Do you want to see tragic Greek lesbian gods? Polyamorous lesbian dragons? All #trans, too? Click right here!
https://itch.io/b/3594/tdov-bundle
Yet another #SuperbOwl. September 2023
This really belongs on blue sky but I just don't have the patience for that. There's also probably some mutation of this that would make sense on Facebook, but I'm still enjoying having deleted my account 8 or 9 years ago now.
Nostalgia
#SilentSunday
Western #Minnesota from the air the other day, after a snowstorm had passed through.
Hey friends of the #mountains - I almost didn't make it away from my couch today morning. But as you can see, I did!
I spent a couple of hours hiking into the snow. During the ascent I was happy that I left my snow shoes at home. Yet for half an hour or an hour, I really missed them when I sometimes sank in deeper than my knees.
But it was all well manageable and I regained so …
Rare Colours Blues 🔷🔷
稀有的色彩蓝 🔷🔷
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman Phoenix 200 II (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art
Bluesky raised a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto in April 2025, following a $15M Series A in 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023; it now has over 43M users (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-af…
Red-tailed hawk looks down from a tree while its partner eats a squirrel that fell from a similar tree -- this population is rather famous #photo
#lichensubscribe #Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, #EastSussex
My #silentSunday is from last week. Maybe I'll also add a blog post later.
Anyways - enjoy some snow for which I went to the mountains for you :)
Enjoy!
#photography #mountains
The train smells like a
Wet dog this morning. We could
Use wind and blue sky.
#haiku
Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC
#silentSunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
Rainbow in Horseshoe Park. September 2004.
Looking at this property description in Glasgow on #Rightmove. The clouds from one photo to the next seemed strangely similar so I took a screenshot of them from each different room and outside POV...
they're all the same clouds
They have CGI-ed the clouds?? Why?? Is this even legal?
I'm definitely not going to trust this agency in future.. "Keys estate ag…
Sickly Red II ⭕️
病态的红 II ⭕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ CineStill 800T
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography …
Friday!!! Finally! Ah I'm so happy for the weekend.
This photo is from a recent walk near #Murnau . I also blogged about it here:
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/practic
Toblinger Knoten / Torre di Toblin
(October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
Rare Colours Blues II🔷🔷
稀有的色彩蓝 II🔷🔷
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman Phoenix 200 II (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art
#silentSunday #clouds #sunset
Clouds at sunset. November 2017
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Ought:
🎵 Beautiful Blue Sky
#Ought
https://ought.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-blue-sky
https://open.spotify.com/track/5vs3jJj3AhJMgIycoiF5Tx
Sunflower with honeybee. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. January, 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko300mm F4. #laarboretum #sunflower #honeybee
When in doubt, always remember the blue sky. 🌿
#photography #sky #clouds #DailyAppreciation
Massabesic Lake East of Manchester, N.H. where I grew up -- I hiked here almost every day as a kit
#photo #photography #landscape
Evening walk. Beautiful Wetterstein. Exceptionally clear air & light tonight... 🤩
#EveningWalk #LandscapePhotography #Photography
Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC
Some photos from today's hike in the mountains. To escape the fog.
It was very very icy at the bottom. And I was super happy to have my micro spikes.
The way up was pretty calm. Right the #silentsunday I had desired. At the summit there were a bit too many people and I didn't see proper motives. So I just enjoyed the view and the really warm temperature.
On the wa…
Heron and reeds. #silentsunday
Lighthouse at the end of the Cayuga Lake Inlet Near Stewart Park and the municipal golf course
#photo #photography #lake
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Electric Light Orchestra:
🎵 Mr. Blue Sky
#ElectricLightOrchestra
https://8-bitslushy.bandcamp.com/track/electric-light-orchestra-mr-blue-sky
https://open.spotify.com/track/2RlgNHKcydI9sayD2Df2xp
#silentSunday
Coopers Hawk February 2026
After He's Gone.
(Chosen for #TextureTuesday, but also as addendum for the recent #WorldDayOfGlaciers...)
"He" is referring here to the Gepatschferner (masculine in German), one of the once largest glaciers in the central Alps (and still Austria's 2nd …
In The Garden Of Eden.
(From one of my favorite hikes last year, October 2025... a place of absolute solitude, harmony, peace and positive vibes, a feast for the eyes)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography
Harman Switch Azure First Impression 🥰
哈曼Switch Azure第一印象 🥰
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Harman Switch Azure
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite
First weekend of spring, but dreaming of autumn...
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Lamont Dozier:
🎵 Blue Sky and Silver Bird
#LamontDozier
https://open.spotify.com/track/6n9A4yspCXCUwUrOISpkFT
'Schnee und Eis nah dran' #FotoVorschlag ' Snow and Ice closeup'
Oh I have to post this photo again. Sorry if you've seen it in the past already.
But lying on the ground on top of a summit, waiting for the next gust of wind blowing the snow into my direction... this day will stay in my memories! - To me it is my absolute closeup of snow and ice.
(up to …
Historic Glacial Confluence
This is the site of confluence of the former glaciers Vernagtferner and Hintereisferner, two of the most (and longest) studied glaciers in the world. It is the site (at ~2200m) where several times over the past thousand years the ice of the Vernagtferner would pile up to form a massive dam, 150-200m tall, which caused a semi-permanent ice lake to form in the Rofen/Hintereis valley above (the one visible from ~7 seconds). Many times this lake would get up to …