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I finally finished this raccoon portrait I drew in @secondnaturemb.bsky.social's class earlier this year! I decided to finish it off with some loose watercolor so the detailed colored pencil raccoon would remain the focal point. Also I didn't want to draw a tree.

A color pencil raccoon peers around a tree trunk against an abstract purple background

Oh lawd he comin'

A brown bear with a salmon in its mouth runs across the river while a larger bear lurks behind it

The larger bear has started running toward the smaller bear

Really happy with this shot from Brooks Falls in Katmai!! #mammals

an Alaskan coastal brown bear stands at the top of a waterfall with its mouth open and a sockeye salmon jumping right into it. The salmon's face with its wide-looking fish eyes is still visible

Thinking about storytelling through photos this morning. Social media (and many wildlife photogs) loves a tight crop, but photo 1 doesn't tell you anything. Where is the bear? Why is it running? Is it happy? Excited? Photo 2 tells us a story of competing for survival in the wild.

a close up of a bear quickly changing direction in a river with a fish in its mouth

the same photo zoomed out. Now we can see the river is at the top of a waterfall and another bear is standing very nearby in the direction the first bear is moving away from, watching that bear.

My coach and I completely rebuilt my double loop from the ground up. My technique from childhood was old school and made it a lot harder. I've been working hard on this for two months and finally started landing them this week. 🥹 Here's one from today!

I made a sound 🥺 #mammals

a coastal brown bear sow and her spring cub touch noses on the riverbank

I wish someone had told me when I was a kid that you can just draw things and it doesn't matter if they are good as long as you have fun. IDK where I got the idea that you have to be good at your hobbies

A very rough and loose ink and watercolor sketch of a yard maintenance worker using a weed whacker while a standing riding lawn mower is parked under a tree. It's not good but I had fun!

I have gotten @bluebarronphoto.bsky.social an achievement for "500+ passing yards in a loss" lmao

"Jesus Christ throw a pass" no

Player of the game Jordan Marshall 353 yards on 35 attempts with 7 touchdowns

Doing some loose drawing in marker this morning 🥰 #art #birds

A female tree swallow sitting on the edge of a tree cavity and a male blue gray gnatcatcher attacking a perched male red winged blackbird, drawn in alcohol marker

Rachel Leggett@rleggos.bsky.social · 2w ago

I wasn't serious, but I actually AM putting this on ebird as a picture of a Harlequin Duck. 🪶

an Alaskan coastal brown bear, I think Grazer (128), stands at the lip of Brooks Falls looking back at a harlequin duck perching on a rock above the falls.

putting this on ebird as a picture of a magpie #birds #mammals

a young grizzly chases a black-billed magpie in flight through a field of purple wildflowers while an adult grizzly feeds on a bison carcass in the background

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 2w ago

Smug cyclist rides ebike to grocery store to pick up a few things, has a nice time. More news at 11.

There it is. 🪶

A barn owl in flight above a field with a morning haze, theyre flying towards the ccamera and while the face and talons are in focus, the wings arent due to it being shot 1/250th of a second

I finished a sketchbook for the first time yesterday!! My favorites from the book: a thread. First, this spring cub at Brooks Falls in Katmai that climbed a dead tree to stay safe while its mother fished. I'm especially proud of the waterfall, where I focused on negative space.

an ink and watercolor sketch in a loose style of a spring cub up a tree looking toward the viewer while bears fish the falls in the background.

Felt sad, rode a bike about it, felt better!

My Priority 600 on a singletrack dirt trail through a field heading into some tall shrubs. My bike computer is paused.

imagine being the people on this boat 😳

a humpback whale breaches directly in front of a fishing boat. A woman and a child lean over the edge watching the whale as the woman takes a video with her iphone

I did these paintings/sketches in Alaska last week ☺️ #art

A loose ink and watercolor sketch of the ridge opposite Brooks Falls as seen from the viewing platform. It got rained on

Ink and watercolor sketch of a spring cub up a tree with bears fishing the falls in the background

Cartoonish watercolor sketch with ink eyes and noses of three bears fishing the falls as seen from the falls platform

Mount Denali in watercolor as seen on an almost clear day

I am eating outside in my backyard where there are also two fawns and two rabbits just chilling and it's a very small yard?????

One of my favorite photos I took in Katmai last week is this one of a protective mama bear and her three spring cubs walking on the beach early in the morning. #mammals 🐻

she faces the camera with three cubs looking toward me, one partially hidden behind her back leg, one almost completely hidden behind her raised paw, and a third in front of her belly. It is shot wide so you can see the lake in the foreground and the mountains in the background.

A pair of fawns got the zoomies in our backyard tonight while their mama grazed 🥺🥺 Filmed through a very dirty basement window and not zoomed in

the wildlife equivalent of offensive line photos (Katmai National Park last week)

two bears fighting with their open mouths touching with teeth exposed in a river

two bears fight in a river and one has spit streaming from its mouth

a bear tackles another to the ground in the river

RUN AWAYYYY This little bear didn't want that smoke

oh my god I forgot I saw a lynx in Katmai 😭🥹 #mammals

a canada lynx pauses on the road to look back at me before continuing on

out of the shadows this black wolf in Yellowstone was sizing up its opportunity to feed from a bison carcass a few weeks ago such a dream encounter for me! #mammals

a black wolf wearing a radio collar stands in a shadow between two trees with purple wildflowers in the foreground, looking at something ahead of it out of frame. Its eyes appear bright yellow in contrast to its dark fur.

putting this on ebird as a picture of a magpie #birds #mammals

Rachel Leggett@rleggos.bsky.social · 2w ago

He wasn't done with it yet. #mammals

the same black wolf and young grizzly run away

"Um, hi? We were just wondering if you were done with that yet?" #mammals

a black wolf wearing a radio collar and a young grizzly stand facing an out-of-focus large adult grizzly bear sitting in front of a bison carcass in a field of purple wildflowers. The young bear has its paw up on a branch