A vertical, medium-depth shot taken from a low angle on a sandy shore at Seabright Beach. In the immediate foreground, clusters of dry, light-colored beach grass and dark seaweed create a textured, rugged terrain. The mid-ground features a singular, dark, triangular rock sitting at the water's edge, acting as a focal point. Beyond the shore, the blue water of the Long Island Sound transitions into a soft blur. The horizon is punctuated by a thin, glowing band of golden light from the setting sun, contrasting sharply with the cool blues and muted earth tones of the landscape. The photographic intent is to capture the quiet, architectural transition between the rough textures of the land and the fluid calm of the sea during the "golden hour."

#RockinTuesday at dusk.
#BlueTues
#SeabrightBeach
#photography

A vertical, street-level self-portrait of a photographer reflected in an ornate, weathered oval mirror hanging in a shop window. The mirror has an intricate brass or gold-toned frame decorated with vine and leaf motifs, featuring a decorative crest at the top and scrolled feet at the bottom. The glass within the mirror is aged and mottled with silvering spots, creating a textured, painterly effect over the reflection. The photographer, a woman with short silver hair wearing a dark coat and a light-colored scarf, is centered in the mirror's reflection, holding up an iPhone to take the picture. Because the mirror is hanging behind a window, the image is a complex "double exposure" effect: the viewer sees the photographer’s reflection, the interior of the shop behind the mirror, and the reflection of the street, bare trees, and a bright blue sky with wispy clouds on the surface of the exterior window glass. At the bottom right, white vinyl lettering on the window pane reads: "Welcome to Ordinary. Minors may enter on 265 College St. through the Taft lobby. Please call 203.907.0238 for assistance." The composition uses the vintage aesthetic of the mirror to contrast with the modern smartphone, while the layers of glass create a dreamlike, surreal atmosphere that questions the boundary between the interior and the outside world.

#BlueTues
#Selfie
#reflections
#photography
#PhotographersofBlueSky

Welcome to Ordinary.

Drought is starting to hit us hard. Hoping the slight chance of rain actually comes. This pond is shrinking more everyday. The animals are trying hard to find any water and it isn’t even April yet.

#eck #bluetues #buck #pond #landscape

The largest swallow in North America, roughly the size of a Starling or a Robin, males like this one are covered in glossy, iridescent feathers that shimmer in direct sunlight, with a sheen that looks royal blue here (can look deep purple, and even green), he has a broad, powerful chest and a slender physique, with long, tapered, and pointed, wings reaching almost to the tip of its tail when folded, as pictured, sitting on a white horizontal rod, in contrast against a bright blue sky.

Purple Martin
(Progne subis)

CREW flint pen strand nature trails
3-20-26 in Bonita Springs, Florida

Tuesday’s #BirdOfTheDay is the last day of the month, so show us #BestOfTheMonth: your best bird capture/s of March.

#ColorADay #blueTues #AnimalArtTuesday #eck #birds #birding #blueSkyMonday #art

Interesting formation of bare tree branches in front of a Blue Sky

#ColorADay
#BlueTues
#ECK
#photographersunited
#photography
#tree

tight, atmospheric street photography crop for Blue Tuesday. The image is dominated by deep blues, featuring a person in a black hoodie and royal blue patterned joggers stepping through a teal-blue door. A solid blue umbrella at the top of the frame creates a heavy, moody canopy. The subject’s downward gaze and the reflection in the glass door panes add a sense of quiet introspection, framed by the rigid geometry of the door’s white-trimmed panes and a textured blue brick wall.

#BlueTues
#Photography
#BlueSkyHumans
#Streetphotography

A BlueTuesday post without flowers!

Close-up of some small blue flowers under a "stage light" in the angle of a dark pot.

When you think a plant is long dead and she begs you to give her a second chance.
#TinyFlowerTuesday #BlueTues #BloomScrolling #Gardening 🌱

Pale blue berries on evergreen fingers {copyright M. Frost}

blue moons of juniper
terrestrial orbit

#ColorADay #BlueTue #bluetues #Juniper #photography x #haiku #postku

Tall buildings in NYC against a Blue Sky

#ColorADay
#BlueTues
#reflections
#ECK
#photographersunited
#photography

Beach Combing Spoils

Sea Glass &Cook Inlet Agates.

#seaglass
#agates
#beaches
#alaska
#BlueTues

A young woman in a striped sweater stands barefoot on the beach looking out on the ocean. It’s a sunny day, with just a few clouds in the sky.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Blue Sky! 💚 🇮🇪

Here’s a favorite of my daughter, captured at Barley Cove Beach, near Mizen Head, Ireland.

#TidesOutTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTues #EastCoastKin #Photography #Portrait #Seascape #StPatricksDay

Two birds (silky-flycatcher and jay?) in a pine {copyright M. Frost}

More fond memories of #Sedona for #ColorADay #BlueTue #bluetues x #BirdOfTheDay #two #birds #photography

Pulled in to fill up, took ten minutes to find someone, only to be told: " Well now, it must be all of twenty odd years since our last fuel delivery. You're a little late. Perhaps we should change the sign but everyone around these parts knows we're closed."

#BlueskyArtShow #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaput #ColorADay #BlueTues #EastCoastKin

Life in rural England. A country petrol station (gas to the cousins). The sign says 'open' - see alt text.

#PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited #Landscape #Abandoned #Derelict #Garage #Cars #Devon

Utah hike
#BlueTues
#EastCoastKin
#Blue
#ColorADay
#Red
#Landscape
#PhotographersOfBluesky

I copied this one from a library book in 2010.

#AnimalArtTuesday #SensoryArt #Animals #BlueTues
#Art #ArtYear #Watercolor #ECK

A top-down, close-up photograph of vibrant Asiatic Dayflowers scattered across a bed of lush, waxy green leaves. The flowers feature two prominent, rounded petals of an intense, saturated cerulean blue, contrasted by delicate, spindly yellow stamens at their center. The composition captures the "messy" beauty of nature, with sunlight filtering through, creating bright highlights on the surfaces of the broad leaves and deep, cool shadows below. The photographic intent focuses on color theory—specifically the harmony between the vivid blue of the petals and the varied emerald and lime tones of the foliage—highlighting the fleeting elegance of these "day" blooms in sharp detail.

#BlueTues
#ColoraDay
#Bloomscroll
#nature
#photography

Happy Tuesday! Here’s some lovely Asiatic Dayflowers nestled in green from last September. Their blue is so lovely.

Ball of small blue flowers before a sea of green foliage {copyright M. Frost}

#BloomScrolling #ColorADay #BlueTue #bluetues #agapanthus #flower from my aunt’s #garden

Eyes and nose just above the almost white, mirror-like water’s surface, and maybe just a hint of the reflected blue sky?

Gator
(Alligator mississippiensis)

Not a baby,
amid a suggestion of blue.

CREW flint pen strand trails 3-6-26
in Bonita Springs, Florida

#colorADay #blueTues #blue #animalArt #eck #florida #wildLife

Rainbow color lights in the sky for Peekskill Pride 2025

Revisiting 🌈Pride Month 2025🌈 for #ColorADay
#BlueTues
#ECK
#photographersunited
#photography

A color a day

I took this photo in a glacial area here on the Kenai Peninsula.

#bluetues
#blue
#acoloraday
#photography
#alaska

Birds on posts, reflections on water {copyright M. Frost}

#ColorADay #BlueTue #bluetues x #BirdOfTheDay = #cormorants on pilons #photography

Stunning Eagle high up in a tree against a Blue Sky

#Abstractia
#Faces
#ColorADay
#BlueTues
#Birds
#BaldEagle
#EastCoastKin
#photographersunited
#photography

Blue metal wind spinner in snow {copyright M. Frost}

Scene from my #snowy world for #ColorADay #BlueTue #bluetues #photography

From June 2021 Flax I grew from seed
#bloomscrolling #coloraday #bluetues #fkower #gardeningincanada

My wife can't stop measuring our kids, who are fully grown now.

#ColorADay
#BlueTues
#moms

A statue endures snow at a BC winery.

It's a #snow day here. Winter is back, reminding everybody who's the boss in February. This image is from a cold excursion to #Kelowna a couple of years ago.

A statue endures falling snow at a winery.

#ColorADay
#BlueTues
#EastCoastKin
#Photographersunited
#Photography
#Art
#Blueskyartshow

Florets at the center of a blue lacecap hydrangea, tiny buds at different stages of opening {copyright M. Frost}

#BloomScrolling a lacecap #hydrangea on #macro for #ColorADay ##BlueTue #bluetues — this from a #temple in #Tokyo on a #layover from a few years ago

Sea lion and pup in the shallow water having a moment (touching noses).

#animalarttuesday
#tidesouttuesday
#coloraday #bluetues
#rockintuesday

A bright slightly iridescent band of blue on a duck's wing.

A Mallard hen rearing up out of the water, back to the camera, displaying an iridescent patch of blue, shining in the sunlight on it's left wing.

A Mallard duck perched on a log, facing left. Her wing, slightly unfurled, displays a shiny blue bar in the sunlight.

A Mallard hen, her head underwater, displays a bright shiny blue band on her partially unfolded wing.

#ColourADay #BlueTues A showcase of 'blues', presented by a Mallard hen.

A blue and white bowl with a salad of green leaves, cucumber, vivid orange nasturtiums and blue borage flowers

Dreaming of summer salads on #BlueTues 🌱