Michael Larkin

a tan long-haired dachshund with incredibly floofy ears sits with his front paws on a window sill and his nose pressed up against the window. he's accompanied by his stuffed squirrel friend. their reflections stares back at them. Stevie the dachshund does not see the irony in watching for squirrels with his squirrel friend. he's too busy being locked in on the happenings outside his window.

This is Stevie. He's on squirrel watch. His stuffed friend is also a squirrel, but he's one of the good ones. 14/10 (IG: longdogstevie)

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

A line of bare, dead trees, stand in a straw yellow field of grass with smaller myrtle green eucalypts and acacias scattered in the background. Uluru provides a vast backdrop of rust-red stone, like the flanks of an enormous beast.

#BlueSkyArtShow #wood #Trees near #Mutitjulu, providing a sense of the imposing scale of #Uluru in the background

#photography #landscapephotography #naturephotography #Australia #NorthernTerritory

“The difference between a good photographer and a bad photographer has nothing to do with whether one makes better images. A bad photographer is the know-it-all person who judges the work of another photographer as being insignificant, always compares his or her work against the work of others, and who seeks to create divisions in an art form that has always been democratic and ecumenical. A good photographer, though, is the person who takes pleasure in his or her work, as well as the work of others, and who doesn’t see the art of making photographs as a competition but as a personal pursuit instead, regardless of whether they make fantastic images or not. Sadly, there are a lot of bad photographers out there making beautiful images.” — Edward Weston

A vertical format closeup image made in Antarctica of an iceberg, with ridges running diagonally from bottom left to top right. The ice is scalloped, like scales, and is a turquoise blue colour. There is a light dusting of snow, like icing sugar, along the edge of the ridges in the ice.

#BlueSkyArtShow #cold A closeup of a #blue #iceberg in #Antarctica. I like the scalloped patterns that remind me of scales and the light dusting of snow, like icing sugar, along the edge of the ridges in the #ice.

#photography #landscapephotography #naturephotography #closeup #intimatelandscape

Dear 24hr News Cycle,

Please sleep through your alarm, lie in, and leave us alone, at least for one day.

Regards,

Humans, just about hanging on.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin

Love these ...

The Dogs of 2025 YouTube video by WeRateDogs

The Dogs of 2025

youtu.be/K_1tNbud-8g?...

Tarbet Isle, Loch Lomond #Scotland #LochLomond #Trossachs www.damianshields.com

Thank you. He was a gorgeous boy.

🙏🐾

A black and white image of a six month old golden retriever, lying on the grass but looking up at my wife (out of frame) with love and mischief all over his face

#BlueSkyArtShow #FavoriteThings Our first #goldenretriever, the magnificent, mischievous, talkative, playful, independent minded, loving and loyal Mr Pickles

#dogs #photography

Javier, a black wire haired terrier mix and the CEO of WeRateDogs, wears a tan suit and brown polka dot tie. he stands close to the camera, his snoot looking very boopable.

Javier, our new CEO, wanted to thank everyone for a fun and motivating first week. You all have made his transition process enjoyable. He has much to do but insisted on relaying that his initial numbers indicate that the dogs are all very good and will likely continue to be ❤️

sleep well darth we will keep your spot warm for you

An Adelie penguin stands alone on an iceberg, his flippers out and his head turned to the side as though he's been caught in the middle of a dance move. It's a crystal clear, sunny day, the sky in the background is cloudless blue and there is a hint of turquoise in the iceberg.

#BlueSkyArtShow #happyfeet ... Adelie #penguins might be #small in size but they're big on personality

#photography #nature #naturephotography #antarctica #wildlife

Mikhail Germachev

“Fall Landscape” (1920).

The artist is John Waterhouse born in 1967, oil painter. This work "Breathing space"

Well, hello!

Thank you Gabriele

Ridges layered in dark blue silhouette as the sun has dipped below the horizon. The last of the light illuminates high, wispy clouds in pink, salmon and orange.

#BlueSkyArtShow #evening
Now in the west the colours change,
the blue with crimson blending;
Behind the far Dividing Range,
the sun is fast descending.
- Henry Lawson

#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #sunset #bluemountains #sydney #nsw #australia

The flower gem

tomato mouse

Fairy light
A favorite image of mine from
Ffos Noddun / Fairy Glen in Eryri, North Wales
Capturing the light rays is such a pleasure to witness

"I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of ocean shores;
I change, but I cannot die."
― Percy Bysshe Shelly, The Cloud

Art by Rachael Mia Allen

Cherry blossom - spring has arrived.

Gorgeous. So delicate.

Peaks of the Dolomites shrouded in clouds.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more

Lord Byron

Painting: solitude by David Lorenz