Phil Ewing

@philewing.bsky.social

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Seapower and aerospace enthusiast. Sometime photographer. Infrequent traveler. Ex-Space Shuttle door gunner.

The sun rises behind a tree sprouting early spring buds near Washington, DC
A red-bellied woodpecker on a tree
A view of the Potomac River and the Wilson Bridge shrouded in mist through bare trees from a muddy, low-tide riverbank somewhere in Northern Virginia
A screenshot from the Merlin Bird ID app shows a number of birds all captured calling or singing at the same time. The image illustrates the gag in the post about how someone must have pushed all the buttons on the bird control panel at once to release all these birds simultaneously
Buds, leaves and shoots begin to appear on city trees and other plant life just before sunrise near Washington, D.C.
The ice-choked Potomac sits idle below the Kennedy Center in Washington DC
An unusually deep indigo surrounds the gathering of dawn behind neighborhood trees and houses in the east
The U.S. Air Force's B-21 Raider, painted a sensible gray, takes off from Edwards AFB, Calif.
A US Air Force B-21 Raider sits parked under its shelter at Edwards AFB, Calif., as the sun sets.
A yard sign invites passersby to a library book sale on May 4th outside a public library branch where sunbeams are breaking through a tree that has dropped a curtain of pink blossoms in an image enhanced via the mobile app Instagram
An image of the British multi-purpose mine countermeasures and undersea operations support vessel RFA Stirling Castle, which integrates a helicopter flight deck in a slightly less offensive way than its sibling RFA Proteus
A meme depicts Nancy Drew wishing that a bad guy would indeed go ahead with his evil scheme and make her day by enabling her to defeat and capture him
"B-1 Bomber;" "Type 45 Destroyer;" and "Avro Vulcan" technical nonfiction books are pictured
A beautiful new Specialized bicycle leans, super casual, on its new black kickstand
A pencil portrait depicts a smiling man in free and loose lines. The man is the owner of this Bluesky account.
A Metro rider climbs the Foggy Bottom escalator from the station mezzanine to the street level in Washington DC.
Downtown Columbus, Ohio, is rendered with false color and a VHS-like digital line effect from one of its many empty surface parking lots via the mobile photography app Hipstamatic
Fallingwater, the Western Pennsylvania masterpiece by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is pictured through the trees via the mobile photography app Hipstamatic. The green tones are rendered with deep saturation and the image has a faux paper border like an old-school instant photo
A woman in sunglasses listens to a podcast on a Metro train; the image is rendered with creative saturation and light leak effects via mobile phone photography apps
A foggy mountain valley is framed through the blinds of a window looking out over trees in summer