Finneon James

#astc2025 was somethin else

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She opened with Mr. Rogers

I've been a fan of Regina since like 2006 or 2007? (Idk sometime in high school) But somehow never seen her live until last night. Something in her voice just feels like home to me and being in the same room as that voice was incredible

Regina Spektor my beloved

After over a decade of science live shows, I finally managed to mess up a demo enough to walk away with second degree burns!

I'm like that woman who was shouting "I still love sharks!" As she was rescued from a shark attack, but about this science demo.

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Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.

iNaturalist Animals and Plants

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A picture of me taking a picture vs. the picture I was taking!

Sprague Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park; 7/11/2025

#NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Canon

My coworker at the museum stole my gems (fake jewels I am using to set up a museum heist treasure hunt for summer camp this week) and left me a trail of ransom notes in their place

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Working on a new contraptions-based ScienceLive show!

There will also be a hero's engine and quite a lot of liquid nitrogen.

(My Van de Graff generator's been on the fritz lately so he won't be coming to the party unfortch)

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Picture of Sandshrew using dig to escape battle with a Primeape in order to watch the Pokémon anime on a tv underground

Sandshrew escapes from battle to watch the pokemon anime

The breaker box is my all-time and the HVAC is Sarah's!!

Possibly one of my favorite pictures I've ever taken

A breeze blows the curtains apart to reveal a performer preparing for their set

Denver Pride, 2025

#Canon #Pride #Photography #Drag #Burlesque #BlackParade

State Forest State Park, Colorado; 6/19/2025

#WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #ColoradoWildlife #Canon

Pretty big protest for a pretty small town
(No faces photographed, obviously)

#NoKings

Thanks, indeed

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Shout-out to museum volunteers. Universally the raddest kinds of people.

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A few of my pictures got selected for a local juried exhibition and then they won awards! So exciting wow!

#NaturePhotography #AmateurPhotographer

I don't own a tripod, so sometimes I just like to brag a little by posting handheld Long Exposure photos

#NaturePhotography #WaterfallPhotography #LongExposure #Canon

Are these the purple mountains and/or majesty i've heard so much about?

#RockyMountainNationalPark #NaturePhotography #RMNP #Landscape #Canon

Majestic elk of Rocky Mountain National Park; 5/17/2025

#NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #RockyMountainNationalPark #RMNP #Canon

Climbers on El Cap 5/8/2025

If any of the pictures are of you, they're yours (and congrats on the climb!)

#Yosemite #ElCapitan #RockClimbing #ElCap #SportsPhotography #Canon

Climbers on El Cap 5/6/2025

This is gonna be a thread cos I have too many for one post; if any of the pictures are of you, they're yours (and congrats on the climb!)

#Yosemite #ElCapitan #RockClimbing #ElCap #SportsPhotography #Canon

Climbers on El Cap 5/6/2025

This is gonna be a thread cos I have too many for one post; if any of the pictures are of you, they're yours (and congrats on the climb!)

#Yosemite #ElCapitan #RockClimbing #ElCap #SportsPhotography #Canon

Climbers on El Cap 5/6/2025

This is gonna be a thread cos I have too many for one post; if any of the pictures are of you, they're yours (and congrats on the climb!)

#Yosemite #ElCapitan #RockClimbing #ElCap #SportsPhotography #Canon

Yosemite wildlife Roundup pt 2

#WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #Yosemite

Yosemite wildlife Roundup 5/6-5/8/2025

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Got another one for my upcoming photo series, "Places where there were very recently birds"

#NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography does this count as #CrapWildlifePhotography?

I got my coworkers to go with me on an iNaturalist walk for the last day of City Nature Challenge today! (Coworkers not pictured)

#iNaturalist #CityNatureChallenge #NaturePhotography

I grew up by a lake with very mean geese so I've always hated them.

I've once again found myself living somewhere with a massive Canada Goose population, so I'm trying to learn to love them instead by photographing them!

#NaturePhotography #Birding #Canon