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Trina Carter

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Inkslinger. “The earth has music for those who listen.” - Reginald Holmes

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Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 2d ago

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever." — Tennyson 🍃🌸🍃 Poetic/‘Poetisch' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #gardens #flowers #BloomScrolling #poems #poetry #walks

A path through a rose garden on a brooding overcast spring day. US Botanic Garden. Washington, DC (May 2024)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 6d ago

Repurposed watermill. My neighborhood/quarter | 'Mein Viertel / mein Quartier' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #scenic #millrace #Baltimore

Old brick watermill buildings by a stream converted into a Whole Foods Market and a Starbucks in Mt. Washington. Baltimore, MD (June 2026)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · last yr.

Backlight | 'Gegenlicht’ #FotoVorschlag #Photography #Marmaris #Türkiye #harbour #boats #winter #Mediterranean #radiant #light #sky #clouds Heavenly moment✨🙏🏼

Tall wood ship masts with their spars look almost like crosses backlit against the sky. The boats in the foreground are dark as the winter sun sets behind lilac-grey clouds, its rays radiating upward. Marmaris harbour, Turkey (December 2014)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 2w ago

🟣Globe thistle 🐝🦋🐞 Objects starting with ‘T’ | 'Objekte die mit "T" beginnen oder so aussehen ... ' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #BloomScrolling #flowers #USBotanicGarden #DC

Closeup looking down at the spiky spherical flower head of a Blue Globe thistle blooming in summer. US Botanic Garden, Washington, DC (July 2023)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 2w ago

Color: Blue | 'Farbe: Blau (kein Himmel)' I give you the regal Blue Queen (butterfly pea). #FotoVorschlag #Photography #BloomScrolling #FridayFlowers #beauty #USBotanicGarden #DC

Closeup of a deep royal-blue butterfly-pea plant fittingly called ‘Blue Queen’. A few drops of rain are clinging to the flowering bloom. US Botanic Garden, Washington, DC (October 2024)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 3w ago

How it started. How it’s going. 🌳 Old or special trees | 'Alte oder besondere Bäume' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #LOC #WWI #trees #elm

An archival black-and-white photo of a sapling (a Japanese elm) being planted at the southwest corner of the Library of Congress in 1920, in memory of four Library of Congress staff members killed while serving in World War I. A flag, bearing 95 stars for all Library staff members who served, is stretched out in the wind. The crowd wears hats and thick coats, the ladies in long dresses with fur muffs or stoles, the men in dark suits with high white collars and ties, one chap with a bandaged forehead, a few in uniform behind the speaker, the Librarian of Congress, who has removed his hat. Capitol Hill, Washington, DC (photo: LOC Archives, December 7, 1920)

A color photograph of an old elm tree looking up its gnarled trunk and bare branches to blue sky and puffy white clouds overhead. One hundred and five years old, the tree is so tall it appears to dwarf the ornate facade of the Library of Congress in the background. A commemorative plaque at the base of the tree (not shown) lists the names of four soldiers killed in WWI who once worked there. Capitol Hill, Washington, DC (March 2025)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 3w ago

The wind-blown look 🐾🌬️ Disheveled | 'Zerzaust' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #dogs #windyday #Rhodes

A dog lying on a cement ledge by the sea with its face covered by its long black hair blown forward by the wind. Rhodes, Greece (April 2015)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mostly white🤍 'Überwiegend weiss' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #BloomScrolling #flowers #tulips #CapitolHill

White frilly-edged tulips seen against white-domed US Capitol under grey skies. The flowers were planted around Capitol Hill to honor the suffragettes who wore white. Washington, DC (March 2020)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 4w ago

The supervisor has arrived. For today’s theme #Rocky, birds perched on rocks. #birds #Photography #penguins #seagulls #TeamGull #Flyday #ECK

A colony of black-and-white African penguins (a.k.a. the Jackass penguin due to its donkey-like braying call) stand clustered together on a grey rocky shelf while a white seagull stands facing them like a supervisor bossing his underlings. Maryland Zoo (May 2026)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 4w ago

Sometimes I like #books arranged by color.♥️📚 Reds around you NOW | ‘Rotes in deiner Umgebung JETZT' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #BookShelfie

A bookshelf of books with mostly red covers and spines. Titles include spy novels by John Le Carre, Mick Herron, and James Carroll as well as historical fiction by Robert Harris, literary fiction by Colson Whitehead, and nonfiction books by Ben Macintyre, Daniel James Brown, and Susan Heuck Allen. Baltimore, MD (July 2026)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · last mo.

Three colors | ‘Nur drei Farben' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #wild #fruit #berries #ripening #summer ✨Red✨Black✨Green✨

Blackberries ripening on the vine by the roadside. Baltimore, MD (June 2026)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · last mo.

Museum Highlights | 'Museale Highlights' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #art #museums #NGA

A view of a museum visitor viewing a Renoir painting through his cell-phone screen at the
« Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment » show, exhibiting the art from the first Impressionist show. At the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Sept. 2024)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · last yr.

Nature’s sparklers #floralworks #July4th #IndependenceDay #flowers #freedom

Four-in-one photo of some floral fireworks:
* purple Globe Thistle
* red Giant Rattle Poppy
*white Queen Anne’s Lace
*yellow-orange Blanket Flower

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · last mo.

Landscape in b&w | 'Landschaft in Schwarzweiß' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #bw #landscape #arboretum

A black and white view of The Columns, once part of the US Capitol, set atop a slight hill. The sky overhead is feathered with clouds; a shaft of sunlight slants down toward the landscape. US National Arboretum, Washington, DC (November 2023)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · last mo.

Big city at night | 'Großstadt in der Nacht' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #USCapitol #evening #night #city #Washington #DC

The US Capitol is illuminated under a clear evening sky, its white dome and classical facade reflected in the glassy dark water covering the visitor-center skylight. Washington, DC (July 2022)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy #Juneteenth Panel 57 in Jacob Lawrence’s series of paintings showing the great migration north of former slaves. #Freedom #Photography #art #Washington #DC

Painting by Jacob Lawrence depicts a black laundress in a long, white, sleeveless dress and a white head scarf. She is stirring clothes in a big vat of green water with a thin red pole held vertically in front of her face which is cast down. Painting is no. 57 in his series of panels depicting the great migration of former slaves. Caption: ‘The female workers were the last to arrive north.’ Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (September 2018)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In the off season.🏖️🩵 Shielded | 'Beschirmt' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #Marmaris #harbor #beach #spring #Mediterranean

Cone-shaped beach umbrellas of woven bamboo atop thin white poles cast oval shadows on the damp tan sand. A rake is leaning upright against one of the poles, a man just behind it, tasked with readying the beach for the coming tourist season. In the background, small white waves curl onto the sand; the sea is myriad shades of blue as wind ruffles the water. Marmaris, Türkiye (April 2015)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The ever-changing view🌴🇹🇷 On the other side of the street | 'Auf der anderen Straßenseite' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #boats #Marmaris #Mediterranean

View of tour boats and fishing caiques tied up to the promenade along the main street of the harbor. Clouds from a passing rainstorm are parting in the blue sky but are still hovering low over the mountains across the sea. Marmaris, Türkiye (May 2015)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Who lives here | ‘Wer wohnt denn hier' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #NGA #SculptureGarden #House1

“House I" is an optical-illusion sculpture created by pop-art icon Roy Lichtenstein. Set on green grass, it features the hallmarks of Lichtenstein's signature style with heavy jet-black outlines and bold primary colors (yellow wall, red shutters, white roof). It’s actually a 3-D concave (inward-facing) structure. But as you walk past it, your brain tricks you into seeing an outward-facing house that appears to rotate in space. At the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. (May 2016)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In celebration of #WorldOceansDay ‘Tag des Meeres' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #BirdOfTheDay #TeamGull #oceans #birds #Virginia

A seagull strutting along the sand parallel to the waves breaking on the beach. Virginia Beach, VA (September 2015)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“I guess every form of refuge has its price" - Eagles For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #LookingAtYou #birds #eagles #usbirds #Photography #ECK #zoo #nonreleasable #wildlife

A female bald eagle is perched high on a thick branch, staring fiercely through wire fencing. Her dark feathers and white head are soaked in the rain. Her talons are visible, gripping the log, as is the chain tethering her to it. Tall leafy-green trees and a small wooden hut form part of her expanded enclosure. Due to injuries she sustained in the wild, she could not be released back into the wild. The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore (May 2026)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sails, masts, rigging | 'Segel, Masten, Takelage' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #tallships #Baltimore

A tall three-masted white ship out of Sweden is tied up along the brick walkway in the inner harbor. Baltimore, MD (December 2014)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

World Bicycle Day | 'Welttag des Fahrrads' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #CapitolHill #BicycleCops

A line of black bicycles forms a perimeter behind protesters as a group of Capitol Hill policemen stands to the side in black pants, boots, gloves, bike helmets, and bulletproof vests worn over their cobalt-blue uniforms. The ground is frozen, the trees bare, the sky gray above the white-domed US Capitol. Washington, DC (February 2025)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Portrait |’Prachtkerl' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #animals Through a glass darkly🦒

A giraffe calf stares back, very close to the glass window in its enclosure at the zoo. Its large dark eyes are set wide apart, on a level with its ears, which are white and extend outward and face forward. Two knobby horns rise straight up from its forehead. Its head is still, two small oval nostrils open as if scenting something, its mouth closed as if ruminating on the presence of humans inside the Giraffe House. Baltimore, MD (May 2026)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'Nature up-close' | 'Nahaufnahme Natur' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #nature #BloomScrolling #zinnias #butterflies 🦋 #flowers 🌺 Of Bugs and Blooms

A close-up of a blue swallowtail butterfly with its wings upright perching on a vivid red zinnia to feed on the yellow pollen at the center of the flower. US National Arboretum, Washington, DC (August 2025)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Things beginning with C | 'Objekte die mit "C" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #flowers #lilies #BloomScrolling #SaturdayOrange #ReclaimingOrange Canna lily🧡

Close-up view of the giant Canna plant ‘Phaison’, its bold orange petals displayed on the tip of a tall thin stalk, sticking out against a high blue sky and dwarfing the green trees around the US Botanic Garden and the Smithsonian Museum buildings in the distance. Washington, DC (July 2024)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Scribbles | 'Kritzeleien' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #hope #HarpersFerry 🪨

The word HOPE is scratched into a big boulder. Harper’s Ferry, WV (January 2016)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · last yr.

Celebrate #WorldBeeDay on the birthday of Anton Janša, 18th c. Slovenian pioneer of modern beekeeping techniques who praised #bees for their ability to work so hard while needing so little attention.🌼🐝🌺🐝 #pollinators #flowers #photography #garden

A pollen-covered bee atop a red zinnia. Bethesda, MD (Aug. 2014)

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ever since reading Mozart’s Starling, I’ve been quite taken with these glossy little songbirds which are #unloved by many but under appreciated for their mimicry (at least by Mozart). So for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #ScrollBack, I’m going with a murmuration of starlings. #photography

Trina Carter @trinaherself.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Play on.🏟️ Clouds | 'Wolken' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #Nats #Baseball #Clouds

A huge low dark cloud hangs ominously over a stadium during a baseball game. The players stay on the field. Nationals Park, Washington, DC (May 2016)