Kalu Waterfall, located in Maharashtra, India 🇮🇳 It is deep within the Sahyadri ranges and is most vibrant during the monsoon season. The area is also known as "Gods Valley”
Steve Batch
@stevebatch.bsky.social
Amateur photographer focused on our natural world, mainly macro trying to capture the beauty in the small stuff that we often overlook. bit.ly/FlickrSB Born at 317ppm - it was 423ppm on 10 Nov 2024 when I joined Bluesky and is now 430.92 ppm 11 May 2025!
Protecting whales and dolphins means protecting the seas—and, by extension, life on our planet. Save the Ocean: If the ocean dies, humanity dies.
Whale Tail Dives in Frozen World
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I planted this rose, called Rhubarb and Custard, this year. The flowers are delicate and beautiful but only last a day. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEphemeral #RoseWednesday #Flowers #Bloomscrolling #Photography
@helenbennett.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #Speckled, so here is a pair of limpkins showing their speckles off in style. #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin #ECK #EricOlsonPhotography
Thank you, Jen! Here is the same tree from a different angle. The above shot was taken looking down the long, low branch on the left side of the tree. Beyond is ground fog settled over the lake. #ECK #AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEphemeral #LagunaLake
We have not long to love. Light does not stay. The tender things are those we fold away[…] So moments pass as though they wished to stay. We have not long to love. A night. A day. -Tennessee Williams #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscape #imageandverse
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEphemeral #Macro #MacroPhotography #Bee #WeeBee #ECK The moment between being here and being gone 🐝😉
Because it's the law, according to Soph, @soph0517.bsky.social here is today's #WeeBee a very fluffy caramel coloured common Carder Bee on a red Salvia at the garden centre. #Bees #Insects #ColorADay #RedWed #Nature #PhotographersOfBluesky #iPhonePhotography #EastCoastKin
Earlier this evening, soaring above my garden, a bird taking flight. Sweet dreams, good night.
A bunch of five roses which are orange when they first open and slowly change to red as they mature. #RoseWednesday #Roses #Flowers #BloomScrolling #ColorADay #RedWed
The #Ephemeral nature of lightning. A thunderstorm moving over Colpoy's Bay, Ontario at dawn for the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekEForEphemeral #BrucePeninsula #BruceCounty #ECK #photography #TenMinutesFromHome #LongExposureProject
Your pink-bronze pendulous leaves slow dance with the admiring cool breeze Sun’s early light traces the lines of your luscious foliage Weeping dichromatic Lilly Pilly count me as one of your admirers Enchantress of the bush #Verse #ECK #poetry #Wordsmith #LillyPilly #Australiana
Another of several impressive thick trees that I came across on a trail along a forest service unpaved road above Hope Valley, #California, off of Highway 88 in the #SierraNevada mountains. For #ThickTrunkTuesday. #ECK #landscapephotography #hiking #trails #nature #outdoors #trees #WestCoastKin
Who says guys don't look good in pink and purple? Here's a male roseate skimmer (Orthemis ferruginea) in the Corrales Bosque on August 4, 2026. #nature #naturephotography #dragonfly
"Love is the answer And you know that for sure Love is the flower You gotta let it, you gotta let it grow..." - John Lennon. 🌅Good morning! Wishing you a lovely Tuesday! #ColorADay #BlueTue #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling Agapanthus: Greek words agape (love) + anthos (flower)
#ThickTrunkTuesday #Abstractia #Angles Twisted oak tree covered in green lichen at Laguna Lake Park, San Luis Obispo. #ECK #Lichen #OakTree #LagunaLakePark #WestCoastKin
Marsh wren is a tiny, active AGILE songbird 12 cm lives in freshwater and saltwater wetlands across North America, eating mostly insects and spiders. Found during the summer breeding season across much of southern Canada and the US migrate south to winter along coastal regions of southern US.