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Photo: foreground is a brown grassy flats at the edge of Livingston Bay on a sunny late winter day and in the center stands a great blue heron in profile, neck tucked in, mostly gray feathered except for a chestnut patch upper back, and its yellow spear of a beak, the shape of its head (neck and beak) is echoed by a large driftwood log behind it, there’s a strip of blue bay, then pine trees and houses on the far shore, all dwarfed by Mount Baker, jagged flanked and snow-covered, rising to meet the sky in the distance, compositionally striking one might say, I couldn’t possibly comment
The view from Iverson Spit #CamanoIsland #heron
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Art always #inspires me. Taking a break from #writing and exploring other forms of #art can be very #inspirational. yesterday I enjoyed the sculpture park here on Camano Island at Matzke galleries —-beautiful work. #camanoisland
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Really cool book club where you read what you want and then talk about it and people ask questions. No pressure because there’s no deadlines, and you pick your own book!
#camano #camanoisland #Stanwood #bookclub #pflag
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A photo of the articulated skeleton of a whale stretching long and sinuous through a tall, glass-encased stairwell, as though she were swimming away from the viewer through the air.
Lovely few days in #Seattle and #CamanoIsland #Washington. Included a trip to @burkemuseum.bsky.social and several #bookstores. Got to see my #book The Everyday #Naturalist on multiple shelves--yay! Back home catching up, but feeling much refreshed. #PNW #PacificNorthwest #VultureCulture
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Photo: a young great blue heron about to land on an old pier, background blurred, its dark wings with mahogany splotches are outspread, probably 6-foot wingspan, landing gear legs are extended, bent forward at the "knees", it has a speckled white-and-brown breast with longer fringe feathers at the sides and a sturdy looking beak, dark on top and yellow below
Photo: a young great blue heron stabs its beak into gray and black water, splashing beads of water, yellow eye focused intently, its nexts is a mahogany gradient (lighter on the upper neck, darker towards body) with longer, thin feathers creating a fringe where neck meets body (it has in fact caught a tiny fish if you're wondering), photo is cropped so only head, neck and upper torso are visible because this is dramatic KAPOW
two for the heroneers #greatblueheron #heron #camanoisland
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Seascape & cloudscape at sunset in Camano Island, Washington State. Summer (June) 2025.
#scape
#Washington #PNW
#CamanoIsland
#IslandCounty
#MapleGrove
#Sunset #Seascape
#Cloudscape 🧡💛 #Beach #Ocean
#Summer 06.24.25
📷 Isac Martin
Best Wishes to ALL for a peaceful & safe weekend!
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Photo: six paddlers in a wooden canoe with a gorgeous teal salmon painted on the raised, pointed prow, the exterior otherwise black, red interior
big fan of the art on this canoe which if my googling skills are correct make it a Swinomish craft, the lettering 'Sqelalitut a sti saladxw' at the stern meaning 'spirit of the salmon woman canoe' #camanoisland
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Photo: a small great blue heron perched atop a rotting, yellow-lichen covered pier, its right yellow eye on the camera, the blue feathers on its back are ruffled by wind
young heron on a rotting pier #birdphotography #englishboom #camanoisland
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Photo: taken from the bluff above Port Susan, 100% crop at 600mm, you can see an orca with its head mostly out of the water, with black head and white jaw, along with white side, tip of dorsal fin just emerging behind
think this is mom, not familiar with the family tbh #orca #portsusan #camanoisland
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Photo: taken from the bluff overlooking Port Susan, 100% crop at 600mm, in the very center is a tiny lil' baby orca with yellowish rather than white sides, surfacing with head out of the water right next to mom's dorsal fin
look at this little doohickey swimming with mom #orca #babyorca #portsusan #camanoisland
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#Washington State #June14 UPDATE [ A- K ]
#NoKings
#Auburn
#Bingen
#CamanoIsland
#Cashmere
#Centralia
#Chelan
#Clarkston
#CleElum
#Colville
#Coupeville
#DesMoines
#Eastsound
#Ellensburg
#FederalWay
#Hoodsport
#Index
#Kalama
#Kenmore
#KeyCenter
#Kingston
#Kirkland
#FiftyFiftyOne
www.nokings.org
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Photo: a blue kingfisher is perched on a rotting pier, blue sky all around, with a small silver-sided fish stuck on its bill, it tried waggling its head for a while and then flew off, fish still attached
you know how you can sometimes spear an hors d'oeuvre with your tiny fork and then it doesn't want to come off gracefully? that's #kingfisher life #birdphotography #camanoisland
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Photo: Camano Island heron rookery in Davis Slough, four large twig nests are visible in the branches of a dead tree, one bottom left, one top right, two adjacent in the middle, each nest has about three juvenile (visibly more brown) herons--in the left middle nest an adult heron has returned with food and the kids are heads-down, butts-up as they devour it
checking in at the #heron rookery, this year's crop of herons are fledged and hungry as a pack of teenagers #wildlifephotography #CamanoIsland
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The entire piece will be in view in the Reading room of the Camano Island library in a few weeks!
#sno-isleslibrary #camanoisland #camanoislandlibrary #snoislelibraries #acrylic #publicart #brain
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A male green-winged teal (small duck, shorter black beak) stands in shallow water covering its legs, it's got a chestnut head with a dark green swoosh from the eye to the back of its head, its breast is white with light chestnut speckles, but this changes to a patterned gray on its sides, wings and back
A killdeer stands partly obscured by green shoregrass, foraging in the mud--it's got a short 1-to-2 inch beak, a white collar around its neck, and a bright orange circle around its eyes, mostly brown-headed with a white blaze, body and wings are a mixture of brown and orange
tide was out at English Boom t'other day so there was a lot of local mudlarking* (*not actual larks) #birdphotography #camanoisland #greenwingedteal #killdeer
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#dowitchers doing some late afternoon beachcombing (probably long-billed, from coloration) #birdphotography #camanoisland #englishboom
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Photo: a great blue heron flying against a blurred backdrop of black and green (out of focus pine trees), the heron is center frame, flying toward the setting sun so the front feathers in its outstretched wings are lit, along with its beak and chest, revealing chestnut highlights and one bright yellow eye, you can see how it keeps its long neck folded up for flight in an S-shape
Blue #heron at sunset, 1/2500 sec f8 ISO400 with the trusty Z8 #camanoisland #englishboom #birdphotography
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Another painting--a standing screen-- from around 20 years ago, painted on #CamanoIsland but of #California #coast. I love painting standing screens because they may tell a story, show a comparison, or simply show movement as observers walk by them. I am really happy to have re-found this one.
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When I moved to New Mexico from the #PugetSound, I gave away a lot of things that were part of my life there. I had this eagle carved by #KevinPaul a coast salish carver and #Swinomish tribal member. It now resides in a friends' home on #CamanoIsland. It stands about 3 feet.
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Painted: #CamanoIsland: showing flow of sea into the sky, dark rocks into clouds. Only parts that use traditional perspective are cliffs, beach and edge of water, edge of land & edge of trees with the sky.
Painted on a vintage mirror frame with wood as surface. 3D of frame adds to the abstraction.
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This was and is one of my favorite paintings. Madrone trees and path painted on #CamanoIsland in the #PugetSound. Just looking at it again, color, movement composition and the ideas of Nature rather than the exact copy of a landscape were important to me, as now.
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Early exploration of using window screen frames to both break up a scene and frame it. #CamanoIsland scene
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Photo: a great blue heron is wading in a pool of water, with grasses and reeds in the background, you’re looking from behind it just after it’s snatched some kinda water bug in its orange and yellow beak, it has a dark blue cap with a kind of tassel and a periwinkle smudge beneath its eye
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“A crimson whisper stretches across the sky, as twilight kisses the restless tide goodbye.”
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#photography #landscapephotography #washington #camanoisland #sunset #pnw #pacificnorthwest
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Photo: the back of a gray whale arching as it dives in Saratoga Passage, high tide, likely feeding in the shallow water
Today’s #graywhale #camanoisland #camabeach my first whale sighting of the year
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