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occasionally posting moody, undersaturated photos that look bad on a phone screen in the middle of the night when nobody will see them 🚲📚🧪📷🌊👻🦅 [all photos by me]

photo of the northern front range of the rocky mountains at sunset. not sure what peaks these are, it was taken from denver, but they're pretty far north, way north and west of boulder at least. the mountains are just dark silhouettes, they could be big stormy ocean waves. the sky is dark red down by the mountains, then a band of grey clouds crosses all across the frame, then at the very top the clouds break a bit and the sky is just a touch golden.
closeup photo of a fuzzy golden honeybee clinging to the underside of a pale green globe thistle bloom, apparently having a little nap in the shade. a couple other thistle blooms can be seen out of focus in the near background, and the sky behind it all is clear blue.
closeup photo of a bee working on the last few tiny purple flowers on top of a big globe thistle bloom. it's a sunny day and the sky is clear blue behind it. in the background out of focus a messy garden can be seen, and a low wooden fence and some sheds behind that, and finally a couple of tall green trees rising up on either side of the frame.
close photo of the index and middle fingers of my right hand, each with a massive blister on the tip
nightime photo of a graffiti-covered wall along an alley in the city, shot at an angle so you can see down the length of it a ways. it's a one-storey wall lit by three security lights along the top edge and the sky above is black. it's covered with a mural that says "gary lee's" in big curvy letters and then "motor club & grub" in small straight letters. the mural has a lot of graffiti on it, and in spite of the dark you can make out a whole rainbow of bright colors all across the wall. in the upper left there's a heavily tagged glass brick window in the wall, and the right edge of the frame ends with a utility pole disappearing as it rises into the dark above. there are some leafy green weeds and tall scraggly grasses popping up through cracks in the pavement and intruding into the lower left and right corners of the picture.
old ad illustration for the pogo ball! a toy from the 80s consisting of a springy inflatable sphere surrounded by a plastic platform. you'd stand on the platform and bounce around.
closeup photo of a small white bowl filled with latte-colored ice cream, sitting on a sandy speckled fake granite countertop.
photo of a plate of tostadas next to a mason jar of iced coffee, sitting on a wooden countertop. the tostadas are two small corn tortillas fried light brown, topped with shredded pork that's a bit charred around the edges, topped with fried eggs you can't quite see, topped with red and green roughly-chopped tomato salsa, all with a bit of crumbled white cotija cheese sprinkled over it. the coffee is topped with cinnamon-flecked foam from being shaken up with ice in the jar.
photo from directly overhead of a pile of fresh asparagus that's been sliced thinly on a sharp bias, in a white bowl sitting on a wooden countertop.
photo of a haphazard utility pole framed by huge leafy trees, all seen in silhouette against the last fading light in the west after sunset.
photo looking down a brightly lit industrial alley in the middle of the night. the buildings on either side are white, their windows are black, the lights running down the alley are white, the concrete paving is white, everything fades to black where the lights don't reach. there's a line of utility poles running closely-spaced down the middle, power lines strung overhead. overall it looks like a high-contrast greyscale photo, but it's actually full color, that's just what this weird alley looks like.
photo looking out at the ocean from the beach. it's a grey, cold, stormy day, the waves are high and the blue-green water is choppy. in the lower left a man in a black wetsuit can be seen rising up out of the surf. he's a kite surfer, being pulled by the white, crescent-shaped kite seen in the upper right.
screenshot of the following text: i'd never been to pensacola before, but i was stuck there alone for a week in january. pensacola itself is trumpy as hell, like i guess you'd expect from north florida. remember how you forgot trump renamed the gulf of mexico? they didn't forget in pensacola, they've posted star-spangled, red white & blue-striped signs proudly pointing the way to the "gulf of america" on every corner. but the island of pensacola beach was surreal, disorienting. i got a cheap deal on a hotel room with an ocean view, because it was a dead empty ghost town in midwinter, with an icy wind howling off the gulf. wherever i went, i was the only one there. everything around me screamed that i was in a beach party town, except all the people were missing. all silent, nothing moving. the closer i looked the more it all seemed fake, like a movie set. the coffee & sandwich shop was literally named "cafe bistro." it was next to "paddy o'leary's irish pub." i got a shrimp basket at a place called, no shit, "shrimp basket," which was around the corner from "piazza pizza." these aren't real places, these are fake names that give the audience the impression of a pizza place without having to clear copyright. or maybe it's all just carefully designed to help blind-drunk college republicans on spring break understand where they are. there was also a hooters and a señor frog's. (to be fair, the shrimp basket was excellent. cafe bistro was closed, but above the door a foot-tall banner spanning the storefront made sure The Troops were Thanked regardless. i ate at "the reef" instead, the menu of which, in a magnificent display of creativity, turned out to have not one single item of seafood. the waitress called me y'all out of habit before catching herself.)
photo looking out over the ocean at sunset. it's the exact same view as the photo in the post above, but everything is much clearer and the colors are much richer.
photo looking out over the ocean at sunset. the photo is looking south so you can't see the sun, but the sky is fading from pink near the horizon to grey higher up. all you can see is water and sky. it's all very muted. the sea is dark blue.
photo of a VERY worn out t-shirt from the tomahawk + melvins geek show tour in 2003
photo of a mason jar (well, ball jar) of mixed citrus juice. it's dark in the room but the juice appears to glow golden from within. there are strings of christmas lights out of focus in the background.
top-down photo of a red enamel dutch oven on a stove, full of chili simmering. red tomatoes and green jalapenos can be seen floating in the rich, brown broth among chunks of beef.
view from the beach at night of a distant lightning storm over the water. a bolt of lightning hits the ocean and the storm clouds towering above are lit up from within. the lightning is all blinding purple pink but the glow of the moon behind the clouds can be seen in yellow to the left of the frame.
photo of breakers approaching the beach, looking out at the ocean around sunset. the ocean is green, the overcast sky is purple towards the horizon fading to pink up high. all the colors are muted pastels blending together. it's an east coast beach so the sun is behind us and it's getting dark towards the horizon.
photo looking east out at the atlantic from the beach just before sunrise. the ocean is dark with low waves coming in, but the sky is lighting up, and the wispy clouds overhead are faintly pink and purple, fading to orange lower in the sky. far off at the distant horizon huge clouds piled up look like mountains.
closeup photo of a cluster of cockles attached to big granite boulders on the beach. they're about half an inch wide. they're striped with black and gold in arcs, and deep ridges radiating from the hinge, and they shine iridecent where the sun hits them. it's out of the water but everything's wet from the crashing waves. green seaweed, barnacles, and a couple of tiny whelks can be seen nearby on the rocks as well.
closeup photo of sand on the beach. it's taken at a flat angle so only a horizontal strip in the middle of the frame is in focus. the sand is mostly clear white but there are a good many black particles that have somehow by action of wind or waves been deposited in diagonal stripes across the beach. where the picture goes out of focus you can see the sand dissolve into a rainbow of lights.
photo of the ocean from the beach. it's low tide, there are whitecaps and breakers to the horizon. a long tide pool stretches all the way across the frame. a few dead black trees stand at its edge, they were probably growing on high ground until a hurricane came through and reshaped the coast. the sand is dirty white, the sky is clear blue. there are no people to be seen.
photo of a painting of winter farmland. it's a view of small, snow-covered fields, bordered by snowy hedges, small trees and fences, stretching to the horizon. the sky is dark slate grey with heavy clouds at dusk. a road crosses from left to right, also covered with snow. cars have left some tire tracks. another road intersects with that one at a diagonal from the bottom left, and where they meet there's a utility pole with a payphone on it. the phone is hanging off the hook, and footprints in the snow lead up to it and away. the utility pole is just one in a line leading away into the distance ahead of us. in the far distance in that direction an impossibly tall radio mast towers over the landscape, lit with four red aviation obstruction lights. aside from the red lights, everything is dark and grey-blue and frozen.
photo of two prints, one above the other. they appear to be watercolors, or maybe marker work. each is a picture of a fox, at the same time dead and decaying, and bursting with life, and the way they're lying they look almost like they're dancing. the fox in the top print looks mostly whole with orange fur intact, but you can see its ribs where its skin is gone, and springtime plant life is growing from the body in bright green and pink flowers. the fox in the bottom print is also mostly still covered with fur, but both its ribs and its skull are showing. it has fall foliage growing out all over. together the positions of the foxes in the two paintings sort of form a circle, spring-fall-death-life.
photo of a framed black & white print of an ink drawing of an anglerfish. the drawing is super energetic and violent, filling the whole frame. the fish's gaping mouth is huge and full of long sharp teeth. the drawing is very stylized, it looks kind of like a cross between a black seadevil and a dragon.
fairly close photo of an eastern grey squirrel. it's frozen at alert, head downwards on the side of a tree, looking squirrely at the camera.
photo of a haphazard utility pole framed by huge leafy trees, all seen in silhouette against the last fading light in the west after sunset.
nighttime photo of the front of a tall house lit up in the dark with a dim blue light from below. everything around it is dark, except for the full moon in the sky behind.
photo of a row of old houses at night. some of their windows are lit yellow and red, everything else is black dark. the almost-full moon is high in the blue-black sky, silhouettes of big old trees can be seen around the edges of the frame.
photo of a house at night. all you can really make out is the front porch, which is lit very dimly with a single red light. everything around it is completely dark. the silhouette of the roof and huge old trees rising on either side can just be made out against the very last grey light left near the horizon after sunset.
photo of a city at night. too close to be a skyline, tall buildings rise all around, lit in green, red, blue, gold. in the middle a steel pillar that looks like a ship's mast goes up at a slight angle, illuminated from below brilliant white. cables hanging from it support a wide platform that serves as a bridge over train tracks you can't see in this photo. dark, ghostly figures descend backlit stairs coming down from the platform to the dark ground in front.
capture from an old mcdonald's commercial showing their burger packaging with the hot meat on one side separated from the cold tomato & lettuce on the other
photo, looking across a pedestrian bridge at night. three blue lights overhead shine dim spots down the path in the dark. in the distance the bright lights of a large arena can be seen. weathered steel trusses rising on either side show this used to be a railroad bridge.
photo. same spot as in the previous post, but it's sunny, and in the past 11 years trees have grown up along the path and colorful abstract murals since painted on the cement walls have started to fade.
a photo of a rain-soaked concrete path stretching ahead into the distance. there's grass and a few trees on either side, but it's all in a concrete canyon sunk into the city. red and grey condo buildings rise to the left, taller buildings ahead. the sky is overcast dark.
photo of a paper shooting target. it says "marsh hen mill" at the top and has silhouettes of several marsh hens among reeds, logs, and a marshy background. each bird says how many points you get for shooting it.
photo of the pink grits from the previous post, after cooking. they form a glistening, gelatinous, pink flesh-colored mass in a white bowl.
extreme closeup photo looking down on some dry grits (rough ground dried corn) in a measuring cup. this close they look like gravel or glass, in all shades from light pink to dark red mixed together.
photo of a baby hippo looking adorable while biting someone on the leg with the caption "BECOME UNGOVERNABLE"
photo looking across a green lawn from down in the grass on a bright, sunny day. only the blades up close are in focus. a bit of clear blue sky shines through the brown wooden fence back at the edge of the yard.
closeup photo of a spray of pink hyacinths, brightly sunlit from above and behind so they're a little translucent and glowing
closeup of the label on a bag of small red potatoes, describing them as "creamy-fleshed and tender-skinned" for some reason
a closeup photo of a cluster of tiny purple spherical flowers growing on the tip of a green stem, rising out of a snow bank in the sunshine.
screenshot of a helmeted goblin in world of warcraft named "the ztig"
photo of a snow-covered park trail disappearing straight ahead into the distance. the trail is sunk into a channel about 10 feet deep cutting through the city, next to a small river running alongside to the right. here it crosses under a series of railroad bridges. ivy coats the wall to the left, condo buildings rise 8 to 10 stories tall immediately to the right of the channel. the sky overhead is deep, clear blue.
pink, hairless flesh ripples, twists, and waves, illuminated in complete darkness by a harsh blue light.
photo of the top of a utility pole. it's around sunset, the sky is grey and fading behind. lines converge from every direction, some straight and neat, some looped or tangled or just dangling.
photo of an old industrial brick building encased in power lines and steel trusses, surrounded by a chain link fence topped with barbed wire. a sign on the fence says "DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE"