Allen Bryan

@limulus.bsky.social

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"I do it all" - 12oz Mouse Mostly pictures though, "small world" macro stuff, patterns in nature, quiet places. All images mine, all real, no AI. Other interests include filmmaking, gamedev, and electronic music/instruments. Baltimore/DC based.

a bundle of pale white mushrooms, like ivory or china, growing out of the side of a dark, damp, decaying log. They're backlit by the sun so you can see a translucent glow through the gills on the underside. They look like oyster mushrooms, but I'm not confident enough to say for sure that they are.
a leaf covered in rain droplets, oak I think but I'm no expert
bark of a fallen sycamore tree, the dark parts of the bark turned slightly green from lichens and algae, overall like a white and green camo pattern
some kind of large fly clinging to the side of a log, it has a pale body with dark brown stripes on its abdomen, and bright red eyes
dense, lush moss on the side of a decaying stump, with a single tiny snail nestled in it
ceratiomyxa fruticulosa, white coral slime mold, mostly covering the surface of a damp decaying log. It's like a shag rug made of tiny white translucent tendrils. It's covered in scatted leaf scraps and a tiny black bug is sitting on it near the center of the image.
An ad for solar installation claiming the maryland government will cover the cost, showing a picture that is clearly california
wood ear mushrooms on a mossy log, pale and slightly fuzzy on the surface, but amber where the light shines though. The fully developed ones look exactly like their namesake, smaller ones look more like cheerios
moss covered back of an old, weathered tree with many layers and scarring
Picture of a tik tok ad that is itself just a picture of an ad for makeup products in the app, with an x button that is part of the picture of the app interface, not the ad, getting them a free click if you instinctively go to close the ad.
an insect, looks like a kind of fly, with relatively long legs and wings, black body with white bands, and a white fringe around the eyes, sitting on a jagged green leaf
water droplets like shining gemstones on round green leaves
some spiky looking moss growing on a small hollow in a fallen tree branch
ceratiomyxa fruticulosa, white coral slime mold composed of translucent white tendrils completely covering part of a decaying log, almost looks like a snowy hillside
a water strider in the center of concentric rings of ripples it created
a brilliant ivory-colored bracket fungus grows along the edge of a piece of bark on a moss covered log, part of it illuminated in a beam of afternoon sun
kde defalut apps page where geeqie is selected as image viewer, with a warning that it may not be able to open all file types, which is funny if you have ever used it.
a green and amber colored, slightly translucent spider on a web with a very blurry, soft background
a green and amber colored, slightly translucent spider on a web with a very blurry, soft background
close up of a lush, dense bed of moss in harsh sunlight
red raspberry slime mold growing on a decaying log, genuinely looks like raspberries in this one
video of a white azalea blossom on a bed of moss, shimmering in the sunlight through the trees
wood ear mushrooms on a mossy fallen tree branch, light brown and fuzzy unlike their usual amber, waxy appearance
Mashup of magrittes treachery of images and the "NOW That's What I Call Music" cover so that it reads "NOW That's What I Call une pipe"
Row of mostly sealed vinyl records on a shelf, I'm not gonna list every single one, but mostly electronic music like Kettel, Secede, Clark, Daniel Avery, Susumu Yokota, Apparat/Moderat, Danny harle, pictureplane, Steve hauschildt, siriusmo, and less electronic stuff like Steve Reich, Laurie anderson, and lives of angels
the surface of a decaying log with ceratiomyxa fruticulosa slime mold growing on it which appears as patches white translucent coral-like tendrils, as well as a lime green, nearly circular insect
A doe standing in a grassy forest, in front of a fallen tree, with a nursing fawn standing under it
a nice dense, lush patch of moss on a log with golden brown sporophytes protruding from it
extreme close up of white coral slime mold covering a decaying log, almost like a bunched up shag rug make of translucent tendrils
a fern frond unfurling, with spiraling leaves covered in little orange white and green pod looking things
3 tvs stacked vertically showing, from top to bottom, coppolas dracula, johnny mnemonic, and bill and teds excellent adventure, all Keanu movies
fuzzy beige mushrooms, bracket-like but I suspect are actually wood ears, growing from a mossy log next to some ivy
file size pie chart from the Filelight program, showing a folder called "unsorted" with a size of 3.2tb and hundreds of folders, 73000 files
a moth resting on the bark of a tree, mostly a speckled black and white coloration giving an overall grey impression but with a flash of orange showing in its lower wings
a large bird in flight heading just to the left of frame, with mostly black feathers, white feathers on the trailing edge of its wings, a red head and a white/yellow beak, seems like a turkey vulture
Ad for tiktok on YouTube featuring a "quick story adventure" called "the alpha I couldn't forget" with the tagline "Stole my daughter, humiliated me--ill take everything back" and "5 years apart, the alpha's chasing his wife - is it too late?" and an image of a seemingly demonically possessed woman walking away from a generic romance novel white guy, there also some sort of huge glowing bear behind them? I don't even know man
"otter dislikes watermelon but can't stop eating it"
a dense patch of lush green moss growing on a damp log, almost like a tuft of hair
a white slime mold resembling cottage cheese growing on a log, spot lit by a sunbeam
a handful of shots looking straight down at waves and ripples in a stream, the light of the sky shining like silver in the reflection
a tiny yellow leaf dotted with tons of tiny water droplets, resting on river rocks
turkey tail mushrooms on a damp decaying log, running diagonally across the image. They are green at the base, then beige, and then with a ring of white on the outside where the freshest growth is, like the rings of a tree trunk.
the blue angels, the navy air show squadron, seen mid-flight in profile, flying in formation with a cloud an blue sky behind them
surface of a wet, decaying log covered in tiny mushrooms, like wood ears but pale and wrinkly, some a with a slight orange tint. A tiny centipede hides in the shadow of one of them, on the mid-right of the image.
two damselflies sitting on a leaf, one is blue, the other more of a greenish grey. the tail of the blue one looks attached to the abdomen of the green one, clearly a mating process
scenes of leaves in rain, in slow motion. in order: a wide shot of a bunch of japanese maple leaves, a close up of a few leaves from that same bunch with rain splattering in slow motion, close up of a holly tree branch with rain drops hanging off the bottom, and back to another set of japanese maple leaves with a single rain drop running down one and onto another
backlit, spear shaped green leaves on a branch, a brand new leaf just beginning to emerge from one of the nodes
diagonal grains of a decaying log with moss growing along the grooves in the left side, with shades from dark to light green
extreme telephoto slow motion video looking down a beach in late afternoon, the light glinting off the water making it look like liquid silver, hazy figures run and splash in the waves
cnet article headline saying "adobe says its expanded ai agents are there to 'guide you down the happy path'"
a small white coral fungus, a branching, tree like structure with two prongs on the end of each branch, growing from a piece of decaying wood on the damp forest floor
a small brown moth with light and dark bands of color on its wings rest on the leaf of a bush with pear/teardrop shaped green leaves wet with rain
image of the wavy dark lines in glacial ice, with the contrast boosted considerably to amplify the effect, it looks like marble
A glacier seen from the air, with a stream or some other kind of rift running through in a nice wavy line horizontally through the center of the image. The glacier gives way to rocky terrain towards the top 1/4 of the image, with small mountain peaks casting shadows.
damp, lush green moss growing on a log wet with rain, sporophytes sprouting from the moss near a crack in the bark