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spider💀rider

@microgorilla.com

occasionally posting moody, undersaturated photos that look bad on a phone screen in the middle of the night when nobody will see them 🚲📚🧪📷🌊👻🦅 [all photos by me]

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spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 3w ago

big solitary cumulonimbus dropping in like a mothership. the scale of this is hard to grasp. that low ridge over there is actually some of the highest peaks in colorado, 8000 ft or more higher than this viewpoint. that storm is MILES tall.

photo of a massive cumulonimbus cloud in the distance. in the foreground the dark silhouette of some city buildings and a few lights can be seen. the cloud is dropping rain over the mountains in the distance. it's dark grey but lit up vivid salmon on its western edge by the setting sun. the sky is otherwise mostly clear aside from a few ragged clouds, steel blue up high, but ominous red down at the horizon.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 2mo ago

landscape photo looking northwest from a high vantage point. in the foreground but still pretty distant are the just the tops of some tall city buildings. i wouldn't call them skyscrapers because let's be honest it's denver, but they're that same blocky shape. it's dusk so they're starting to light up. behind that in the middle distance is a stretch of rolling trees and plains leading up to a line of huge, jagged mountains, stretching back to the horizon sort of in rows with each successive row higher and farther and fainter. the sky above has bands of clouds alternating with white and gold sunlight blasting through, until it's all grey cloud across the top. everything but the buildings in front is washed in a kind of golden haze unless uploading it to bluesky turns it into a blotchy, pixelated mess.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 2mo ago

landscape photo. some distant buildings can be seen in silhouette at the very bottom, but it's mostly a picture of clouds and sky. the sky is more clear to the left, faded grey blue up top turning a little pinkinsh towards the horizon, but dark clouds are reaching in with like jagged fingers from the right. the right side of the frame is almost all grey black cloud. this is looking north, and the low sun in the west has lit the clouds orange around their edges.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 2mo ago

photo of sunset over the mountains, but it really just looks like an almost abstract painting of cloud bands in orange, salmon, and pink, fading to grey at the bottom of the frame. it's super hazy due to (i think) wildfires in the northwest, but if you squint and if bluesky doesn't wreck the colors like usual you can just make out the silhouette of the mountains down at the bottom.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 3mo ago

photo of the northern front range of the rocky mountains at sunset. not sure what peaks these are, it was taken from denver, but they're pretty far north, way north and west of boulder at least. the mountains are just dark silhouettes, they could be big stormy ocean waves. the sky is dark red down by the mountains, then a band of grey clouds crosses all across the frame, then at the very top the clouds break a bit and the sky is just a touch golden.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 3mo ago

not sure what i expected angine de poitrine to be but it wasn't "middle-eastern prog jam metal"

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 3mo ago

closeup photo of a bee working on the last few tiny purple flowers on top of a big globe thistle bloom. it's a sunny day and the sky is clear blue behind it. in the background out of focus a messy garden can be seen, and a low wooden fence and some sheds behind that, and finally a couple of tall green trees rising up on either side of the frame.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 5mo ago

gary lee's

nightime photo of a graffiti-covered wall along an alley in the city, shot at an angle so you can see down the length of it a ways. it's a one-storey wall lit by three security lights along the top edge and the sky above is black. it's covered with a mural that says "gary lee's" in big curvy letters and then "motor club & grub" in small straight letters. the mural has a lot of graffiti on it, and in spite of the dark you can make out a whole rainbow of bright colors all across the wall. in the upper left there's a heavily tagged glass brick window in the wall, and the right edge of the frame ends with a utility pole disappearing as it rises into the dark above. there are some leafy green weeds and tall scraggly grasses popping up through cracks in the pavement and intruding into the lower left and right corners of the picture.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 5mo ago

i made some unplanned carnitas last night, so breakfast this morning was carnitas & eggs tostadas. i thought it looked cool! it was tasty, but to be honest a bit dry. i should've done the salsa in the food processor instead of chopping it but i don't always make the best choices before coffee.

photo of a plate of tostadas next to a mason jar of iced coffee, sitting on a wooden countertop. the tostadas are two small corn tortillas fried light brown, topped with shredded pork that's a bit charred around the edges, topped with fried eggs you can't quite see, topped with red and green roughly-chopped tomato salsa, all with a bit of crumbled white cotija cheese sprinkled over it. the coffee is topped with cinnamon-flecked foam from being shaken up with ice in the jar.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 6mo ago

chili season is over, you fools!!! it is now.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................'𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛

photo from directly overhead of a pile of fresh asparagus that's been sliced thinly on a sharp bias, in a white bowl sitting on a wooden countertop.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 6mo ago

posted a version of this before but i wanted to see if it looked better with the exciting new file sizes

photo of a haphazard utility pole framed by huge leafy trees, all seen in silhouette against the last fading light in the west after sunset.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 6mo ago

photo looking down a brightly lit industrial alley in the middle of the night. the buildings on either side are white, their windows are black, the lights running down the alley are white, the concrete paving is white, everything fades to black where the lights don't reach. there's a line of utility poles running closely-spaced down the middle, power lines strung overhead. overall it looks like a high-contrast greyscale photo, but it's actually full color, that's just what this weird alley looks like.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 7mo ago

pensacola beach, fl, 1/2026 the only person i saw in the water all week

photo looking out at the ocean from the beach. it's a grey, cold, stormy day, the waves are high and the blue-green water is choppy. in the lower left a man in a black wetsuit can be seen rising up out of the surf. he's a kite surfer, being pulled by the white, crescent-shaped kite seen in the upper right.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 7mo ago

don't wanna flood people's feeds:

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i'd never been to pensacola before, but i was stuck there alone for a week in january.

pensacola itself is trumpy as hell, like i guess you'd expect from north florida. remember how you forgot trump renamed the gulf of mexico? they didn't forget in pensacola, they've posted star-spangled, red white & blue-striped signs proudly pointing the way to the "gulf of america" on every corner.

but the island of pensacola beach was surreal, disorienting. i got a cheap deal on a hotel room with an ocean view, because it was a dead empty ghost town in midwinter, with an icy wind howling off the gulf. wherever i went, i was the only one there.

everything around me screamed that i was in a beach party town, except all the people were missing. all silent, nothing moving. the closer i looked the more it all seemed fake, like a movie set. the coffee & sandwich shop was literally named "cafe bistro." it was next to "paddy o'leary's irish pub." i got a shrimp basket at a place called, no shit, "shrimp basket," which was around the corner from "piazza pizza."

these aren't real places, these are fake names that give the audience the impression of a pizza place without having to clear copyright. or maybe it's all just carefully designed to help blind-drunk college republicans on spring break understand where they are. there was also a hooters and a señor frog's.

(to be fair, the shrimp basket was excellent. cafe bistro was closed, but above the door a foot-tall banner spanning the storefront made sure The Troops were Thanked regardless. i ate at "the reef" instead, the menu of which, in a magnificent display of creativity, turned out to have not one single item of seafood. the waitress called me y'all out of habit before catching herself.)

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 7mo ago

pensacola beach, fl, 1/2026

photo looking out over the ocean at sunset. the photo is looking south so you can't see the sun, but the sky is fading from pink near the horizon to grey higher up. all you can see is water and sky. it's all very muted. the sea is dark blue.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 8mo ago

can anyone recommend an image editing app for mac? i don't need much more than the default photos app can do, but some basic drawing tools at least. i'd rather not use adobe. what's the mac equivalent of paint dot net?

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 8mo ago

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 10mo ago

BEHOLD. every year i grab as much citrus as i'm allowed from the fruit basket my aunt sends us and juice it all into what my brother has dubbed CHRISTMAS JUICE. it glows with concentrated christmas power, and let me tell you it is some real holy shit on new year's morning.

photo of a mason jar (well, ball jar) of mixed citrus juice. it's dark in the room but the juice appears to glow golden from within. there are strings of christmas lights out of focus in the background.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 10mo ago

hell yeah it's chili season!

top-down photo of a red enamel dutch oven on a stove, full of chili simmering. red tomatoes and green jalapenos can be seen floating in the rich, brown broth among chunks of beef.

spider💀rider@microgorilla.com · 2y ago

happy solstice, happy winter in the north! the daylight only gets longer from here.

it's winter, there's thick snow on the ground. aspens stand tall and bare white against a cloudy blue sky, the branches of the much lower firs are covered in snow. nov 2024 up the placita trail near marble, co.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · last yr.

spooky season isn't 10/1 through halloween, it's 11/1 through halloween amateurs

Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · last yr.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · 2y ago

it's once again that magical time of year when i spend a month telling myself "maybe if i watch a bunch of horror movies i'll come to like them." the stories look so interesting! but my closet is always so, so dark, and my glasses are never where i left them, when something half wakes me up at 3AM.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · last yr.

couple last beach photos before fall. lightning pics are of course corny and cliche, except mine which are sooooo coooool. i love the huge explosions in the clouds!! south carolina 2008

view from the beach at night of a distant lightning storm over the water. a bolt of lightning hits the ocean and the storm clouds towering above are lit up from within. the lightning is all blinding purple pink but the glow of the moon behind the clouds can be seen in yellow to the left of the frame.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · last yr.

colorado has its charms, but i love the ocean more than anything. not gonna see it this year though, maybe next.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · last yr.

south carolina 2016

photo of breakers approaching the beach, looking out at the ocean around sunset. the ocean is green, the overcast sky is purple towards the horizon fading to pink up high. all the colors are muted pastels blending together. it's an east coast beach so the sun is behind us and it's getting dark towards the horizon.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · last yr.

south carolina 2019

photo looking east out at the atlantic from the beach just before sunrise. the ocean is dark with low waves coming in, but the sky is lighting up, and the wispy clouds overhead are faintly pink and purple, fading to orange lower in the sky. far off at the distant horizon huge clouds piled up look like mountains.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · last yr.

they dropped long rock jetties about every 1/4 mile to try to keep the beach in place. it's futile of course, but the rocks attract a ton of wildlife like these cockles. south carolina 2016

closeup photo of a cluster of cockles attached to big granite boulders on the beach. they're about half an inch wide. they're striped with black and gold in arcs, and deep ridges radiating from the hinge, and they shine iridecent where the sun hits them. it's out of the water but everything's wet from the crashing waves. green seaweed, barnacles, and a couple of tiny whelks can be seen nearby on the rocks as well.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · last yr.

no idea where the black sand comes from, or why it's laid down in a pattern. south carolina 2013

closeup photo of sand on the beach. it's taken at a flat angle so only a horizontal strip in the middle of the frame is in focus. the sand is mostly clear white but there are a good many black particles that have somehow by action of wind or waves been deposited in diagonal stripes across the beach. where the picture goes out of focus you can see the sand dissolve into a rainbow of lights.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · last yr.

this is my kind of beach: endless white sand, low waves and tide pools, no people. this isn't anything exotic and expensive, it's just south carolina. 2013

photo of the ocean from the beach. it's low tide, there are whitecaps and breakers to the horizon. a long tide pool stretches all the way across the frame. a few dead black trees stand at its edge, they were probably growing on high ground until a hurricane came through and reshaped the coast. the sand is dirty white, the sky is clear blue. there are no people to be seen.

spider💀rider @microgorilla.com · last yr.

it's been so long since stranger things s1 came out, i'm not nostalgic for the time depicted on the show, i'm nostalgic for the time when stranger things s1 came out