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Whole Reality

@wholereality.com

I'm Jim, an amateur photographer/writer in the PNW: macro, nature, spherical (aka 360) panoramas, abstract. Exploring relationships between regular and spherical photography and what it teaches us about how we see. Photos by me except reposts.

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Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 7d ago

The autumn season is a transitional one. From dry, cracked ground to changing leaves and fading light. #photography #leaves #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn #beautyindecay

Golden and fading green leaves lie scattered on cracked, dark earth, their colors glowing softly against the soil’s deep texture. A patch of light touches the center, evoking the quiet transition between life and decay — a fleeting moment of beauty illuminated in fading light.

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 2w ago

This looked like a #Spooky horse to me. #photography #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #oregon #carousels

A close-up of a carousel horse's head and neck, glossy painted wood in cream and tan with a sculpted black mane, a dark blue bridle, and a glinting red glass eye. Warm fairground lights and the ride's decorative canopy glow out of focus behind it, with a second horse visible lower in the frame.

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 3w ago

Fun view of a 360 panorama, part of a small virtual tour of this old electric railway transfer station. Check the tour out here: link.wholereality.com/uNnqVN #photography #BlueSkyArtShow #Transportation #ArchForma #EastCoastKin #360panorama #littleplanet #oregon More info in the alt-text.

A 360-degree panorama rendered as a “little planet” projection, wrapping a railway scene into a small sphere. Gravel-bedded train tracks with wooden ties curve around the planet’s center, a graffiti-marked concrete structure rises at the upper right, and autumn-tinged trees radiate outward against a pale blue sky with a contrail streaking the lower left.

More information on the building can be found in these links:
https://hh-today.com/trashed-relic-of-rail-history-exposed/
https://hh-today.com/revisiting-pirtle-a-station-in-rail-history/

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 3w ago

Tired. #photography #closeup #EastCoastKin #plantphotography #naturephotography #texture #beautyindecay #bokeh

A slender arching grass stem, its narrow dried blades hanging down in a row like the ribs of a fan, catches low side light in pale gold and silver tones. The background is a dark, softly blurred tangle of foliage with scattered bokeh highlights, isolating the curve of the stem against the shadow.

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 4w ago

Breaking through the wall. #photography #BlueSkyArtShow #Walls #EastCoastKin #texture #artphotography

A small ivy-leaved plant, its bright green leaves and tiny pale purple flowers left in full color, spills from a crack in a stacked stone wall rendered entirely in black and white. The selective color isolates the single patch of life against the grey, weathered masonry filling the rest of the frame.

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · last mo.

Some of my thoughts about how photography can help us "learn to see". #photography #artphotography #360panorama #photographersofbluesky wholereality.com/2026/10/14/l...

The banner on my new web site. WholeReality -- "Learning to See"

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · last mo.

An isolated storm cell out at sea. #photography #naturephotography #nature #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Weather #seascape #oregon #ocean #pnw #sunset #weather #clouds

A single large storm cell hangs over a calm ocean at sunset, its anvil-shaped mass of blue-grey cloud spreading wide at the top and tapering to a visible curtain of rain falling to the sea below. Warm gold and orange light glows along the horizon beneath the cloud, and gentle waves break in the foreground.

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · last mo.

Dancing in the fading summer sun. #photography #plantphotography #photographersofbluesky #EastCoastKin #beautyindecay

Two dried teasel seedheads on spiny stems, their bristling oval forms rendered in warm coppery browns and lit from the side against a soft, blurred earth-toned background. Long curving bracts arc up and around each head like thin wire cages, and the taller head's densely packed spines catch the light along its edge.

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · last mo.

This is part of an interactive 360 panorama of the inside of our church, where you pan around in all directions and zoom in. You can see the whole thing here: link.wholereality.com/DKoVBr #photography #EastCoastKin #360photography #360photo #360panorama #BlueSkyArtShow #3rdPlace #albanyoregon

A wide panoramic HDR interior of a church sanctuary, the extreme angle of view curving the walls and ceiling outward. Curved oak pews face a chancel with a pipe organ, pulpit, and red paraments, flanked by two large stained-glass windows. A coffered ceiling with recessed lighting arches overhead, balconies run along both sides, and deep burgundy carpet covers the aisles.

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · last mo.

Caught in the sun. #photography #closeup #plantphotography #naturephotography #morning #leaves #eastCoastKin #bokeh #backlit

A backlit rose leaf stands upright at the center of the frame, its translucent green blade threaded with a fine network of glowing yellow veins and rimmed by serrated edges in vivid crimson. Smaller leaflets fan out below along a red stem, and the dark background is scattered with soft circular bokeh highlights.

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 2mo ago

It's unusual that we get this sort of display in Oregon. Taken with a smartphone and enhanced a little, but it was still amazing to see aurora #Lights by eye. 📷 #photography #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #oregon #sky #aurora

An aurora display fills the night sky with bands of vivid green near the horizon shading upward into deep magenta and violet, with faint vertical rays streaking through. A ragged line of conifers stands in full black silhouette across the bottom, and a scattering of stars is visible through the glow.

emilsea22 @emilsea22.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Flower of the day. The river lily (Hesperantha coccinea), in late September, a late blooming member of the Iris family. #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #nature #ECK

Brilliant red blossoms of river lily, most commonly Hesperantha coccinea (formerly known as Schizostylis coccinea), A vibrant, clump-forming perennial flowering plant belonging to the iris family (Iridaceae)

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 2mo ago

Summer is ending. 📷 #photography #closeup #EastCoastKin #plantphotography #texture #artphotography #beautyindecay

A dried seedhead atop a dark stem, its packed pale golden bristles fanning out like the worn tip of a paintbrush, glowing softly against a deep brown-black background. Spent, darkened flower heads trail off to the left in soft focus, and the very shallow depth of field and low light give the image a quiet, almost melancholy stillness.

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 2mo ago

Trending towards #Golden. #photography #closeup #plantphotography #rosegarden #flowerphotography #BlueSkyArtShow #eastCoastKin #rose #morning

A fully open golden-amber rose, its petals shading from deep saffron at the center to paler cream-yellow at the ruffled outer edges, with fine water droplets beading on the inner petals. The bloom is sharply rendered against a softly blurred background of dark foliage and muted brown, so the warm glow of the flower carries the whole frame.

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 2mo ago

Floral undulations. #photography #closeup #plantphotography #rosegarden #flowerphotography #BlueSkyArtShow #Undulating #eastCoastKin #rose #morning

A tight macro photograph of an apricot-orange rose, filling the frame with overlapping petals whose rippled, undulating edges roll across the image like sunlit dunes or waves. Raking light picks out the fine texture and crystalline sparkle of the petal surfaces while dropping the folds between them into deep shadow, reducing the flower to a study of curve, ridge, and warm color.

Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Time we spent

Wastwater, Lake District
27mm, f/8.0, 1/80 sec

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 2mo ago

Just a curve. #photography #closeup #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Minimal #texture #artphotography #bokeh

A softly curving pale surface sweeps diagonally through the frame, scattered with tiny water droplets and marked by faint parallel striations, set against a dark background with a hint of deep green. Only a narrow band along the curve's edge is in sharp focus, the rest falling away into soft blur, producing a spare, almost abstract study of line, texture, and light.

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 2mo ago

Looks like a dandelion, but different, I think. #macrophotography #photography #EastCoastKin #closeup #plantphotography #naturephotography #bokeh

A dandelion-type seedhead photographed straight-on against a pure black background, its white feathery seed parachutes radiating outward from a dark center in a near-perfect sphere. The delicate filaments catch the light with hints of rust and amber toward the tips, and the whole form reads like an exploding firework or a star suspended in empty space

dboydart 🦋@dboydart.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Lilly in the Sky #Quiet for the #BlueSkyArtShow and #ClassicMono #landscape #Lilly #plant #water #trees #G+Circle #EastCoastKin #ECK 🦋

A black and white photo of a water lilly. It is shot low and the lilly looks like it is in the sky.

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 3mo ago

Bathing in the #Summer sun. #photography #closeup #plantphotography #rosegarden #flowerphotography #BlueSkyArtShow #eastCoastKin #rose #morning

A fully open cream-and-yellow rose with densely packed, ruffled petals photographed against a near-black background. Strong directional light rakes across the bloom from the left, illuminating the inner petals with warm golden tones while casting deep shadows between the layers, giving the flower a richly sculpted, three-dimensional presence. A few dark green leaves are just visible at the lower left.

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 3mo ago

A miniature luminous forest, waiting to bring spores into the world. #photography #closeup #EastCoastKin #nature #moss

A ground-level macro view of moss sporophytes — slender reddish-orange stalks topped with bright yellow-green spore capsules — rising from a warm russet moss bed. Shot at eye level with very shallow depth of field, the backlit stalks glow like tiny torches against a soft lavender-grey background, transforming a patch of ordinary ground moss into a miniature luminous fore

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 3mo ago

A rusty plate. #Chaos and entropy are often cousins -- both showing disorder, lack of pattern or organization. #photography #closeup #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #abstract #texture #artphotography #beautyindecay

A close-up of a heavily rusted steel plate filling the entire frame, its surface a richly textured landscape of bubbled, pitted, and pockmarked oxidation in deep burnt reds, russet oranges, and dark browns, with faint streaks of the original bare metal still visible beneath. The varied tones and complex surface texture give the corroded metal an almost painterly, abstract quality.

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 3mo ago

One of many waterfalls on planet Earth. This is a "little planet" version of a 360 panorama that can be seen here: worldwidepanorama.org/wwp1209/JimC... #photography #360panorama #littleplanet #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Earth #landscapephotography #waterfall #oregon #pnw

A 360-degree panorama of a Pacific Northwest forest waterfall rendered as a "little planet" projection, which wraps the scene into a sphere. The mossy rock and flowing water of Upper North Falls form the curved ground at the center, while tall conifers and lush green trees radiate outward in all directions like spokes, their tops pointing toward a white overcast sky at the edges of the frame. The result transforms a serene forest waterfall scene into a miniature, self-contained world.

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 3mo ago

A study of zigzagging ocean waves. 📷 #photography #seascape #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Water #oregon #ocean #waves

Telephoto view of ocean swells breaking into white foam, with no horizon or shoreline visible — just layered ranks of dark blue-grey waves rolling across the view. Where each wave crests and curls, the water turns a vivid translucent green before dissolving into churning white water, capturing the raw power and color of the Pacific sea.

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 3mo ago

Like a fireworks explosion of tiny flowers. 📷 #photography #closeup #EastCoastKin #plantphotography #flowerphotography #artphotography

A flower head in mid-bloom, its spherical umbel of pale pink-white buds and tiny open florets radiating outward on slender pink-green pedicels from a single thick green stem, photographed against a pure black background. The outermost flowers are most fully open, showing small orange-tipped stamens, while the inner buds remain tightly closed — the whole structure resembling a botanical firework frozen mid-burst.

🌳🌿Lover of Trees🌿🌳@gwtreelover.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Goodnight #Bluesky I leave you with a restful scene (painted by Normov Art) of silver birches in a woodland glade. #trees #woodland #nature #treelover

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Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 3mo ago

A #Big river cutting through the mountains. A repost, but since most of my photography is of the small... #photography #EastCoastKin #columbiarivergorge #pnw #BlueSkyArtShow #oregon

This image captures a serene waterway known as the Columbia River Gorge, framed by steep, forested slopes on both sides. The water displays beautiful gradations from greenish-gold tones in the foreground to deeper blue hues as it extends toward the distance. Densely wooded shorelines with evergreen and some deciduous trees line both banks, with the right slope showing touches of autumn color. Layered mountain ridges recede into the misty background, creating a sense of depth and atmospheric perspective. The overcast sky features soft white and gray clouds with hints of blue breaking through, casting diffused light across the peaceful landscape. The scene conveys the quiet majesty of Pacific Northwest.

Mark Seawell @seathemomentbymark.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Glan-munchweiler on a dreamy day in Germany...the land of light. #germany #landscape #Rheinland-Pflaz #seaons #clearingstorm

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Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 4mo ago

Layers of petals. #photography #closeup #plantphotography #rosegarden #flowerphotography #eastCoastKin #rose #morning

A fully open purple rose, its densely layered petals stacked in sweeping tiers, photographed against a near-black background. The petal edges catch a pale lavender-white light that separates each layer from the next, giving the bloom a sculptural, almost architectural quality. The deep violet tones and dramatic low-key lighting lend the image a moody, velvety richness.

Whole Reality @wholereality.com · 4mo ago

A picture of a bowl of M&Ms, processed so that they look like #Glass beads being lit from behind. #photography #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #closeup #abstract