Unabashedly Backlit

@unabashedlybacklit.bsky.social

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My photography account + queer art appreciation / curation. Occasionally NSFW. Focuses include landscape photography, botanical textures, the intersection of humanity and how we experience nature. Digital. Anti-AI. Will happily remove reskeets on request

Some red Epiphyllum orchid cactus going absolutely ham in my local library. Their large crimson blooms are backlit against a window that gives a frosty texture, framed and interrupted by the long arching leaves casting dark shapes over the bright petals
A orange with pinkish tints bloom on a prickly pear cactus pad
Close up of Daucus carota, wild European carrot, a naturalized species in much of the United States. A single dark red almost black floret amidst all the white ones on the flowers umbell. This is sometimes called Queen Anne's Ruby
Isometric view of a building corner, almost entirely covered in ivy and a stark carpet of green against a pale blue sky
Strip club marquee reading Mary's club Open 365 days a year RIP Bob you will be missed over a mural of strippers, cartoon animals indulging in vice, and money
Monochromatic image of several fern fronds backlit by the Sun
The melted remains of an upright ice cream cone, liquid chocolate running into a puddle that's following the lines on the metal bleachers
Two cultivated varieties of Cercis, the redbud tree. They have larger pendulous heart shaped leaves, one variety is dark purple and the other is a bright green. That are intermixed over a cast iron fence
An open-branched, 2-3 ft. perennial with delicate, blue-green, lobed foliage and pendent, yellow and red, spurred flowers. Handsome red and yellow flowers hang at ends of branches above this bushy plant with several stems and many divided leaves.
Power lines and contrails diagonally across a sky
Same framing but now one leg is hanging down
Black and white photo of a cats rear leg and tail hanging off a window sill behind a curtain
Bright orange California poppies, simple four petaled flowers making a smooth cup shape with a gradient to a darker center, framed against the darker green of their weedy foliage, and a terra Cotta colored fire hydrant in a dry field
A minimalist photograph focused on three large trimmed hedges behind a wooden fence against a featureless sky
A low angle sign post with several colorful arrow signs with writing saying things like perennial garden, rose garden, etc
Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper opposes the Green New Deal, saying the climate change proposal sets “unachievable goals” and shuns the private sector. The former Colorado governor announced his opposition to the resolution Tuesday, as Senate Republicans are forcing a vote on the proposal in hopes of turning it into a 2020 wedge issue. Hickenlooper is the first Democratic 2020 candidate to publicly oppose the plan, which calls for the U.S. to shift away from fossil fuels and replace them with renewable sources.
An old theater in Hawaii, the Aloha Theatre south of Kailua-Kona. The beautiful building has a lush garden of cordyline and other tropical plants in front of it, and the theater's strong light colored wood paneling against dark trim stands out against the dappled cloudy skies
A fake fiddleleaf ficus tree in a blue ceramic pot with dark grey rocks for mulch, against a light yellow stucco wall. Two of the stems have been broken and taped back albeit at sagging angles
A scene with dark clouds rolling in over a cloud shaded valley, full of cows, with tall power pylons in the middle of the scene and dark foothills behind them
Half inflated smiley face balloons in a small animal cages
A small concrete gargoyle, legs originally crossed but since weathered and broken at the shin. It sits on the space between two cobblestones against a wooden plank at it's back, looking off frame
Cat in a sunny window, loafing parallel to the sill and looking back at me. The angle of the glass and curtains makes the framing look narrow and constrained
Orange and white plastic safety bollards piled into a truck with a high mesh screen
A very dull office ceiling except that a single fire sprinkler is illuminated by a streak of rainbow spectrum from a co-worker's desk tchotchkes
A pile of thrown out children's things next to the concrete wall of a dumpster, and the metal pole and fencing of its gate.
A red leafed maple against a cinder block building painted white and a shade of blue that's almost a match for the cloudless sky
Lines of lush green and blooming hanging baskets in a greenhouse, making a geometric pattern as the lines either cross the view horizontally or meet at the horizon toward the back of the frame
A farm dog looking longingly at a thick stick on a dirt driveway
Monochromatic photo of a dove on a metal roof; the negative space around the bird is taken up by the repetition of parallel bars making up the roofs texture
Cherry blossoms and the bronze new leaves of an ornamental cherry coming out of dormancy, backlit against the noonday sun
Pink dogwood blooms as viewed from below in the afternoon sun
Looking up through the wooden beams of a pergola into a blooming wisteria vine
A Sinclair dinosaur statue, a 5' tall green sauropod that is their mascot and logo, on a bed of gravel and sparse landscaping, looking into a mishmash of suburban cityscape against blue stormy skies
A handwritten sign saying "back in 5 minutes", face down in some gravel along a concrete curb, but the rain has made made the paper relatively transparent and the message is legible in reverse
The back of a float in a parade: a chicken coop with a barn like design, cream wood and black trim, is in front of a galvanized stock tank filled with plants like rhododendron and azaleas. It looks like a barn from far away, but the scale is revealed by the straps holding down the tank and the power lines behind it
A very expressionist picture of two tumultuous storm clouds angling towards one another
A plank of wood suspended in the growth of a dormant tree, held almost perfectly level and plane towards the camera with many trunks and branches behind it and a few are in front
Fuzzy Willow catkins against a grey marbled overcast sky
California poppies against a wooden post
Bright green lichen growing on the weathered, scarred horizontal pad of my Opuntia.
A photograph of a contorted juniper shrub, irregularly trimmed, against a dirty white painted cinder block wall streaked with dark stains from the blue metal roof
Photograph of a shipment of houseplant starts taken from a ventilation hole, so the leaves are cast in strong shadows and highlights from the circles cut into the cardboard
A drift of creeping pink Phlox flowers growing over a mat of blue Lithodora, pushing up against one another with a diagonal boundary
Photograph of some bright fuschia Magnolia, possibly a stellata cultivar like Black Tulip. The flowers are framed by a prominent vertical and horizontal stem, and the cluster is intentionally positioned in the lower left of the picture to allow the cloudy bright blue sky to take to the majority of the negative space
A European honey bee head first into some clover blooms
Photograph of plants inside a greenhouse leaning up against corrugated plastic, their forms obscured and out of focus except for where they lean against the window. The picture is framed by the old wood and chipped concrete of a greenhouse that's been used for many years
A low angle shot of a single Western sword fern, backlit full the afternoon light and in front of an out of focus backdrop of tall silhouetted redwood trunks
Black and white photograph of a raven perched on a street light against the lighter inflorescence of a pear tree blooming
A smokebush (Cotinus coggygria) just coming into leaf - the low angle shot has the many branches and their small dark red leaves reaching across the frame and the cloudy blue spring sky
Black and white photograph of half an open tulip capturing the sun in it's translucent petals
Some kind of tulip hybrid with almost toothlike frills on the inside of their pink and yellow splashed petals
A photograph of a tree directly in front of a light pole so the light pole looks like it's growing out of the trunk
Blank and white photograph of a house in Bend perched on a rock outcropping with several ducks in the yard and one is flying in the direction of off frame
Black and white photograph of this unreflecting on the deschutes River and in it are two geese silhouetted
A front-facing color photograph of a warm toned wooden vents next to a old asphalt curb covered in some pine cones and needles. Against the fence is a blooming organ grape berberus mahonia or whatever it is now and just barely passing through it at a diagonal is a yellow powerline connector grounder thing the yellow of the power thing accentuates the blooming organ grape nicely
Street photography of a store window front the text that reads words like bookstore used new and open everyday is casting a strong Shadow on the solid blinds pulled all the way down behind the glass. The building is gray in town, a combination of brick and metal paneling and in front of it on the sidewalk are several wooden half barrels and a raised bed planter
A long straight section of two lane highway thru Umpqua National Forest, paralleled by a gap in the tall Douglas fir old growth forest