James Hengst

@fctikignome.bsky.social

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NoVa Photographer and cat dad

Water in the bottom third, small islands in the distance, and blue skies and clouds in the upper third. The camera is close to the water, so it feels like you are adrift at sea. The water has a few ripples but no breaking waves, and has some distorted reflections of the clouds.
Giant flags lay on the field as four helicopters fly over the stadium. Australia fans are impressive in their coordinated yellow jerseys.
Old glass bottles are backlit in the window of an old west looking interior.
View of Seattle stadium pregame pregame ceremonies for USA-AUS. Four helicopters do a flyover.
Blue sky on top, green foliage on the bottom, with silky rapids in the center of the frame.
At sunset, a Joshua tree is silhouetted against a cloudless blue sky that fades to yellow and various shades of orange at the horizon. The tree rises above some mountains in the far background, also in silhouette.
People sit under outside under a roof watching an Air Canada jet land. The plane is framed by beachfront hotels, the roof and a support post.
View from an airplane window looking out the right side of the aircraft. On the left, the back part of the wing. On the bottom right, closely packed houses with a very green golf course. On the upper right, the ground gets brown outside the golf course, with brown mountains and a cloudy sky in the distance.
A woman walks on the right, dwarfed by a green and white dinosaur on the left, with only one clawed foot and part of its belly visible in the frame. In the upper right are mountains in the distance and a cloudy sky.
A street is blocked by a bar and round sign. In the background are silhouetted mountains with a tongue of fire coming out, smoke drifting to the right. The sky is purple and blue with a few clouds.
A black Icelandic pony peers over a rusted horizontal rail
A cat sits looking out a sliding glass door behind long, blue vertical blinds. The low sun casts his shadow on the blinds and on the wood floor. Some black, red, and yellow flip flops from World Cup 2006 in Germany sit on the floor behind the cat. The edge of a blue-striped mat is visible on the left.
A blurry photo of trees and sky, with the hint of a guardrail on the bottom.
The blue side of a boat with a white stripe on the top edge and the word “Vybes” in red, yellow, and green outlined in white. A thatched building roses from the water in the distance, accessible only by boat.
An orange cat is curled on his side in a cardboard box. He fills the box perfectly with his front paws resting on his rear paws. His nose is tucked under one of his paws. The four corners of the frame show black and white carpet.
Two men open very large doors to a cathedral in France. The doors must be 25-30 feet tall and seem heavy.
Orange pine needles and branches in the foreground, with a large mural of lips and two small figures on a bridge in the background
A large red rock formation worn by a channel where it looks like water flows (but no water is visible). A few trees are silhouetted on the top and look tiny. A few other trees are in the channel until it becomes vertical. A sliver of sky at the top is baby blue with a few white clouds.
A grainy photo with low stone walls, green fields, and the ocean in the background. The sky is mostly filled with gray storm clouds, although there is a sliver of blue sky. “95 9 2” is imprinted in the lower right, indicating this was taken with a cheap point-and-shoot camera in 1995.
Silhouettes of mountains with an orange and blue sunset
Fireworks at Audi Field before the Washington Spirit vs. Portland Thorns game.
Waterfall in upper right with a stream rushing towards the bottom left, slightly blurred from a long exposure. There is green jungle-like vegetation, with solid rocks on the bottom right. At one point the stream splits around rocks in the stream. A tiny bit of blue sky odd visible in the upper-right corner.
Closeup of a yellow hobbit house with timber accents and a red, round door
A gray tabby cat lays on her back inside a large cardboard box, with her head and one paw visible. She’s biting the little tab that locks the top shut.
Streaks of snow lit by flash. A snow-covered walkway and yard in the foreground with a street, neighbor’s yard, and trees in the background.
On a gray day two hikers, one with a bright red backpack, gave away from the camera. They stand in volcanic ash atop a glacier, with s mountain in the distance.
Snowy lawn at dusk, with trees, power lines, a street light, and street signs. Sky is deep blue, snow has tinges of yellow, blue, and red.
A blurry photo of a highway looking out the front windshield of a car with the taillights of another car in the distance. The sky is dusky blue.
Esme Morgan in the highlighter yellow kit in the supporter’s section after a Washington Spirit game.
A festive market with lit-up stars and lights on strings, with some people in the foreground and the poorly-lighted steel stacks of Bethlehem, PA hulking in the distance.
Photo of a small, abandoned, and decaying retail building with a tattered “under new management” sign in the window. Tall weeds grow around the building and trees encroach behind. Superimposed on the image is a quote from the song (Nothing But) Flowers by Taking Heads - “And as things fell apart / Nobody paid much attention.” The text is from a photo of the cd liner notes.
Shire Bliss Hobbiton photo taken in 2023 Photo of a green field, with a fence, small waterway, and giant cask of ale on a wagon with the text “Delving & Oatlock fine ale Southfarthing” Text photo taken in 2025 “and there in that pleasant corner of the world they plied their well-ordered business of living, and they heeded less and less the world outside where dark things moved, until they came to think that peace and plenty were the rule in Middle-earth and the right of all sensible folk. They forgot or ignored what little they had ever known of the Guardians, and of the labours of those that made possible the long peace of the Shire. They were, in fact, sheltered, but they had ceased to remember it."
Beach scene at sunset, with a backlit yacht in the distance, ebbing waves, and a sliver of sand.
A water tower and a black and white lighthouse seen in the distance from the sand dunes of a nearby beach, with sea grass in the foreground.
A white church with a red roof, with the ocean and rock formations in the background, on a very rainy day in Vik, Iceland.
A black and white tuxedo cat with yellow eyes and impressive white whiskers sits on a laptop keyboard
A tuxedo cat with yellow eyes and impressive eyebrows sits in a box filled with paper padding and looks directly at the camera.