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Posts by Against the Grain

Featured Photographer: Allen D. Pecorino (@adp-landscapephoto.bsky.social)
The vertical trunks fill the frame, with the fog compressing depth into one plane. The exposure holds dark bark while the background dissolves. And that palmetto anchors the base. Very nice! #landscapephotography #photography

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Featured Photographer: José Ferreira (@josejfferreira.bsky.social)
A low angle drives converging lines from the planks to a backlit sun. Long exposure stills the water to glass. Love it. Browse their feed. #longexposurephotography #photography

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Featured Photographer: Meandering M (@pathwaymoments.bsky.social)
Still water doubles the sky, mist flattens the treeline into a soft grey band. A bird in flight breaks the symmetry at the top corner. Backlit and cool throughout. Check out the rest of their work! #landscapephotography #photography

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That soft hazy light turning the whole Chicago skyline warm — old stone towers, glass curtain walls, the river below, all pulled into the same golden wash. The tugboat helps.
Chicago, March 2026
#ColorADay #OrangeSun #stunday #chicago #architecturephotography #photography

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All that red — the bus lane, the Muni livery, the colorful Mission storefronts behind it. Flat winter light, which somehow made the colors pop more, not less.
San Francisco, January 2026
#sanfrancisco #streetphotography #ColorADay #photography

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Late golden hour filtering through the redwoods, leaves carpeting the ground, and the dog heading straight for the light like she knew exactly where to go.
Berkeley, CA, January 2026
#forestfriday #sunburst #berkeley #photography

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Featured Photographer: Linda (@linda2.bsky.social)
Shallow depth of field isolates the subject while soft light reveals every scalloped feather edge in copper and indigo. The repeating pattern becomes a compositional structure in itself. Beautiful. #naturephotography #photography

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Featured Photographer: Bill Montei (@billmontei.bsky.social)
Diagonal bands organize the frame: vegetation, valley floor, cliffs to sea. Light hits the valley hard, producing electric contrast against the shadowed cliff. Check out their feed! #landscapephotography #photography

1 week ago 13 2 1 0
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Marina City never gets old. The grain matches the texture of all those repeating curves. Overcast sky keeping it all flat and graphic.
Chicago, March 2026
#urbangaze #monochrome #BnW #architecturephotography #chicago #photography

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That red sign does all the work, but the L train cutting through the frame at just the right moment is what makes it. Gray winter light, layers of the city stacked up behind it.
Chicago, March 2026
#ColorADay #RedWed #chicago #streetphotography #photography

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Featured Photographer: Sophie Carr (@sophiecarr.bsky.social)
This is the kind of light I love — backlight threading through trunks, each one glowing from behind, depth pulling the eye toward a bright center. Bluebells hold the foreground. Wonderful. #naturephotography #photography

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Featured Photographer: Jesse Chapman Photography (@jessechapmanphoto.bsky.social)
Reflection fills half the frame, creating symmetry through still water. Golden light illuminates sky and water equally. Mirroring becomes the compositional device here. #landscapephotography #photography

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Late afternoon sun catching the Oski bear just right — that warm golden light against an almost impossibly blue sky. Hard not to stop and point a camera at it.
Berkeley, CA, January 2026
#animalarttuesday #coloraday #bluetue #berkeley #photography

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Featured Photographer: The Pentaxian (@the-pentaxian.bsky.social)
Interior darkness gives way to light where decay meets graffiti. Great focus on this threshold between abandonment and beauty. #urbexphotography #photography

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That hazy morning light softening everything — the redwood bark, the concrete, even the pale sky. A quiet corner of the Berkeley campus.
Berkeley, CA, January 2026
#sharemondays2026 #berkeley #morninglight #architecturephotography #photography

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Flat winter light on still water, trees reflecting the sky like a mirror. That in-between moment when the snow is almost gone but nothing has greened up yet.
Madison, March 2026
#stunday #photography #landscapephotography #madisonwi #wisconsin

3 weeks ago 27 1 0 0
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The soft greens of the needles with that warm cone center—there's always something satisfying about finding these small patterns up close.

Madison, Wisconsin, March 2026

#photography #macrophotography #greensat #coloraday #madisonwi

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That orange and silver against all that cool blue — the aquarium light did something unexpected here.
Shedd Aquarium, 2026
#fishyfriday #photography #aquarium #underwater #sheddaquarium

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Featured Photographer: Marjamjars (@marjamjars.bsky.social)
Apartment blocks double in a pond. Buildings and water merge into abstraction as monochrome flattens reflections. Love the restraint and quiet observation in urban space. #blackandwhitephotography #photography

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Flat midday light, the whole skyline compressed into the corner, and then these two just walking through the frame like they own it.
Chicago, March 2026
#photography #streetphotography #chicago #UrbanGaze #HumansOfBlueSky

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The repetition got me — floor after floor of balconies, all those warm lights glowing against the cool interior. There's a certain vertigo to it.
Chicago, March 2026
#photography #architecturephotography #chicago #WindowsOnWednesday #WallsOnWednesday

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Featured Photographer: Damian Shields (@damianshields.bsky.social)
The mountain rises from the Isle of Skye's mist and merges with the clouds. Damian photographs Scottish mountains in dramatic light. Love it. #mountainphotography #photography

3 weeks ago 10 1 0 0
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHs
A hillside near Glossop.
📷 #photography #landscapephotography
#PeakDistrict #Derbyshire #hillwalking

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Two jellyfish lit against pure black — one cool violet, one burnt amber. The contrast feels almost compositional, like the tank arranged them. Shedd Aquarium, March 2026. #photography #animalarttuesday

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That stillness between seasons — frozen marsh thawing, bare trees holding on. The pale sky reflecting in dark water was the whole reason to stop.
Madison, WI, March 2026
#photography #landscapephotography #madisonwi #wisconsin #sky #sharemondays2026 #blueskymonday

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Featured Photographer: Michael Grolys (@beardedwalker.bsky.social)
The valley fills with mist. Snow marks higher fells. Michael photographs as a hiker—capturing conditions, not waiting for ideal light. Mountain work grounded in place. Check out their feed. #mountainphotography #photography

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The way that golden light hit the ornamental grasses while the building stayed in shadow—loved the interplay between warm and cool tones, brightness and darkness framing the path.
Madison, WI, January 2026

#photography #goldenhour #madisonwi #light #shadow

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That bell tower rising above the quiet courtyard—pale stone and clean lines. The paving draws you straight through, everything calm and ordered.

Uzès, December 2025

#photography #architecturephotography #travelphotography #uzès #france

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