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• Post #4154912

  Acmispon prostratus (Beach Lotus, Nutall's Acmispon) is a rare California native plant in the pea family (Fabaceae) that is threatened and endangered due to habitat lost to coastal development. Imagine my excitement when I unexpectedly found it growing in a coastal dune restoration area! #NaturePhotography #CloseUp #BloomScrolling #NativePlants #RarePlants #Plants #California #SanDiego #CANativePlants #Florespondence #Yellow #Herbs #Lotus #Threatened #Endangered #Photography #Conservation

• Post #4144816

  The internet monopolist in our area just raised the price from US$90 to US$100. An 11% price increase without any notice because "fuck you, we can, customer". This is for a meager 500 down/20 up connection; internet only, nothing else. One hundred bloody bucks. But yeah, "I'd rather have a private plan", capitalism, free markets, murrica, yada-yada... tough luck when there's no competition. #Spectrum #Internet #ISP #Inflation

• Post #4132525

  Non-native Centaurea melitensis (Tocalote or Maltese Star Thistle), an annual herb native to the Mediterranean region of Europe and Africa. Interestingly, this plant is considered rare on the Maltese islands. Photographed at the Manchester Preserve, Encinitas, California. https://photos.alex-kunz.com/-/galleries/photo-archive/plant-archives/introduced-plants-in-san-diego-county/-/medias/019fa004-7a3a-7379-b8d4-5910246f2bce #NaturePhotography #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Florespondence #CloseUp #H...

• Post #4132523

  PLANT SEX! Clematis lasiantha (Pipestem Clematis) has separate male and female flowers. In this photo are the male flowers, with many pollen-producing free stamens. The counterpart are the pistillate (female) flowers (not in the photo). Photographed in a part of the San Mateo Canyon Wilderness that's in Riverside County, but the plant also grows in San Diego County. #NaturePhotography #BloomScrolling #Plants #NativePlants #Florespondence #CloseUp #SanDiego #California #Flowers

• Post #4132514

  Meet Eriodictyon parryi, aka Poodle-Dog Bush. Pretty, but touching the leaf or stem of this plant will cause severe skin irritation and unfortunately, the inflorescence (flower) looks very similar to other plants also in the Eriodyction genus. (the clear giveaway to identify Poodle-Dog Bush are the leaves.) #Flowers #NaturePhotography #Plants #NativePlants #BloomScrolling #Florespondence #CloseUp #SanDiego #LagunaMountains #California #Irritant

• Post #4118853

  Solanum americanum (American Black, Common, Small Flowered or White Nightshade) is an herb in the nightshade family (Solanaceae) that can be annual or perennial. Photographed near Ramona in San Diego County, California in May 2022. The two common names American Black Nightshade and White Nightshade might contradict each other. However, the "black" refers to the ripe fruit (a berry, unripe it is green), and the "white" refers to the flower itself. #Wildflowers #BloomScrollin...

• Post #3941064

  #SilentSunday

• Post #3886858

  Salvia columbariae (Chia Sage or Desert Chia, growing unusually isolated out of granitic gravel in a wash at Joshua Tree National Park, California in spring. This is not the plant from which the chia seeds that we consume nowadays are harvested (that's Chia hispanica), but the seeds were used in similar ways by Native Americans. https://photos.alex-kunz.com/-/galleries/photo-archive/plant-archives/herbs/-/medias/019f6e6d-cbde-72a6-bf63-336114f32d1d #FlowerFriday #BloomScrolling #NaturePho...

• Post #3811982

  #PhotoBlog with nine photos: Close-ups, intimate landscapes and grand scenic vistas from a desert hike in the Coyote Mountains Wilderness in Imperial County, California. https://www.alex-kunz.com/desert-day-coyote-mountains-wilderness-december-2022/ #NaturePhotography #LandscapePhotography #Desert #SouthernCalifornia #Photography #BlogPost #SanDiego

• Post #3539022

  I'm not usually one to share cat content, but...

• Post #3374959

  "Baker Blues" for #MountainMonday Koma Kulshan (Mount Baker) in the blue haze of wildfire smoke; Washington, September 2022. 6 more photos in my recent blog post: https://www.alex-kunz.com/mount-baker-impressions/ #Mountains #Landscape #Washington #MountBaker #MountainPhotography #KomaKulshan #LandscapePhotography #Hiking #BlogPost #PhotoBlog #Berge

• Post #3356400

  #ForestFriday from the northern California redwoods, where stately Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is surrounded by a dense forest understory of ferns, sorrel, and little shrubs. Photographed along the Boyscout Tree Trail in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park last year in May. The trail is ~5 miles out and back if I recall, and leads to an impressive old-growth tree before it ends at a little waterfall. Worth the hike! https://photos.alex-kunz.com/-/galleries/portfolio/color-work-current/...

• Post #3319425

  #SilentSunday

• Post #3056125

  "Waterfall Light" for #TextureTuesday This rainbow formed in the spray of Upper Rainbow Falls of the San Joaquin River, at Devil's Postpile National Monument near Mammoth Lakes in California's Eastern Sierra. I loved the combination of all the textures and colors and the somewhat abstract quality that the combination of it all took on. #Texture #Rainbow #Pride #Water #IntimateLandscape #Photography #PrideMonth

• Post #3031384

  For #MountainMonday: Indianhead Mountain (aka Chief Rain in the Face) with a rainbow, seen from the alluvial flat at the mouth of Hellhole Canyon in Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California. This isn't the best angle to photograph the mountain to really see the "Indianhead" but who could resist the combination with a rainbow?! :) #Landscape #Desert #Rainbow #AnzaBorrego #SouthernCalifornia #FotoMontag #Pride #PhotoMonday #PrideMonth #SanDiego #Photography #LandscapePhotography...

• Post #2390394

  Found in the feature list of an online website builder: "Hardware accelerated software"

• Post #2390393

  "Dirty" Yep, that's the brand name of potato chips which are being recalled for potential salmonella contamination... https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/utz-quality-foods-llc-issues-voluntary-recall-certain-limited-varieties-zapps-and-dirty-potato-chips

• Post #2390392

  "Driftwood After Sunset" for the lonely #SunsetSaturday hashtag theme. Blended from two exposures: 8 seconds @ ISO 64 for the immediate foreground (without filter) + 60 seconds @ ISO 500 for the water & sky (with ND filter). Photographed in Crescent City, California. https://photos.alex-kunz.com/media/019df56a-9c57-7075-a843-44a07dea5467 #Sunset #Photography #Seascape #NorCal #SunsetPhotography #SeascapePhotography #SeascapeSaturday #LongExposure #Driftwood #Beach #...

• Post #2390391

  #SilentSunday

• Post #2390390

  RE: https://kolektiva.social/@aredridel/116552279213533823 I do have to say that listening to "Nothing Else Matters" is quite painful indeed. SCNR 🤪 (EDIT: yes, I do consider myself a fan of Metallica, nevertheless... I just like their older stuff better; EDIT2: the original post is very good & helpful, I'm obv just a silly idiot)

• Post #2202946

  #ThrowbackThursday to May 2016, when I had the opportunity to use a friend's infrared-converted camera (and had fun with it😁). The invisible IR light is "shifted" into our human range through white balance, so anything goes with regards to color — there's no one "right" way for it to look... Therefore, it's common to use black and white, or to swap the red & blue channels, in order to get a blue sky (what I did here). Variati...

• Post #2142590

  “…we do not understand how much time has passed on this planet and we have no concept of our limited place in the enormousness of that time.” More thoughts on this in my blog post: https://www.alex-kunz.com/the-enormousness-of-time/ #LandscapePhotography #Desert #AnzaBorrego #SanDiego #Twilight #Badlands #Quotes #LouiseErdrich #Landscape #Photography

• Post #2142588

  "Sycamore Patriarch" for #TreeTuesday and #ThickTrunkTuesday An old Western Sycamore (Platanus racemosa), photographed at the Whitewater Preserve near Palm Springs in the Southern California Desert. https://photos.alex-kunz.com/-/galleries/photo-archive/trees-forest/-/medias/019dfa97-12ae-728b-8e8d-321e179344a4 #Trees #NaturePhotography #Sycamore #California #PalmSprings #Desert #SouthernCalifornia #Nature #TreesOfMastodon

• Post #2115815

  "Always On The Move" for #WildlifeWednesday & #MeerMittwoch Twentyone Sanderlings and an incoming wave. These little birds (winter visitors to our beaches) forage in the intertidal zone, pulling small creatures out of the soft sand. They are always on the move, running away with each incoming wave, and then straight back in. https://photos.alex-kunz.com/-/galleries/photo-archive/wildlife/-/medias/019dff55-ac8c-77c7-86f1-308a78e61714 #Birds #NaturePhotography #SanDie...

• Post #1872208

  Charming Centaury (Zeltnera venusta, in the Gentian family) poking its vibrant pink flowers out from between the dead and brittle twigs of an old shrub; Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve, San Diego, California; April 2026. https://photos.alex-kunz.com/media/019de1eb-4949-752e-9c0e-03f34db71f80-charming-zeltnera #FlowerFriday #BloomScrolling #Flowers #NaturePhotography #CloseUp #Pink #SanDiego #Florespondence #FlowersOnFriday #FridayFlowers #FloralFriday #Nature #Resilience #Beauty

• Post #1761956

  Voice-robot phone menus should simply be outlawed, in the name of public health. None of the options match, haven't spoken to a human yet, and my blood pressure is already at 180. (on top of that, the hold music now is way too loud and clips.) But "your call is very important to us" it says. Yeah, right. That's why I have to jump through those silly hoops and say "I'd like to speak to a human" ten times.

• Post #1761952

  I wrote a few (read: too many) words about the ancient art of bracketing 😉 and this is the photo that goes with the article — made last month on a trail near our house when a lovely foggy morning brought temporary relief from the March heatwave here in Southern California. https://www.alex-kunz.com/the-lost-art-of-bracketing/ #PhotoBlog #NaturePhotography #PhotoTech #Exposure #Bracketing #LandscapePhotography #Fog #Chaparral #SageScrub #SanDiego #California #Spring

• Post #1704659

  #SilentSunday

• Post #1619015

  #SilentSunday

• Post #1619014

  For #MountainMonday I have this photo from Wimbachgries in Bavaria's Berchtesgaden National Park. I like how the bright light of spring, the patches of snow and the clear blue sky make the grey rocks of the mountain almost look a little translucent. Photographed during a hike in June 2010. https://photos.alex-kunz.com/-/galleries/themed-galleries/nationalpark-berchtesgaden/-/medias/019b5b6b-fbc3-7c85-9fb8-8d7270ab640c #LandscapePhotography #Mountains #Berchtesgaden #Spring #Photograph...