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@pooltoy.info Sep 25, 2026, 12:26 AM

one day we will stop reposting our pictures here when they are also already on @glowcloud.pics (and #nemmypix) but also we are not really sorry for showing more stuff we're kinda proud of.

probably something more like "the second week or so out" rather than the first one here.

@glowcloud.pics Sep 25, 2026, 12:19 AM

slumbering layers of eternity
#photography #nemmypix #landscape #skyscape #grandcanyon #hyperrealism

a broad and sharply shadowed photograph of a section of the southeasterly parts of the grand canyon. the sky is deeply drunk on blue, save for the pale amassment of haze at the horizon. beneath this false cloudline, the canyon and its surroundings are cast in brilliant reds, oranges, and tans, coming up to the broad head of the southern rim lookout and its tower, the scattered greenery rooted nicely with a closer bit of scrub jutting into the lower right third of the frame.

a true union of light, sky, plant, and earth.
animal's included because animals, we, are the ones who capture this stuff.

@glowcloud.pics Sep 25, 2026, 12:08 AM

weathering
#photography #nemmypix #landscape #skyscape #grandcanyon

a photo juxtaposing the lookout tower on the grand canyon's southern rim with the gorge-carved and catastrophically broad expanse of desert and sky beneath and beyond it. the tower can serve those less inclined to crawl from shadow or scrub as a starting point from which travel along the earth in any direction in-frame is possible.

even off in to the distance, if you move the right ways.

overall, the composition plays with angle of image capture in a way that bends one's concept of space. a ridge dominates the frame, and yet the horizon is hardly lower than it. how terribly vast such things must be.

@glowcloud.pics Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM

geologic time
#photography #nemmypix #landscape #grandcanyon

a ground-heavy photo with the horizon on the upper third, this picture showcases the delicate interplay of light and shadow on the nooks and crannies of the canyon walls. layers of sedimentary colour and shape paint a history of the earth itself, and the barely-visible lookout tower near the center of the frame showcases the relative scale of humanity's time.

we've always been suckers for the kind of things you can only get from steep elevation and rough terrain - perspectives and viewpoints that can turn the sky itself to earth, clouds replaced by jutting boulders and rough outcrops from whatever earthen expanse one's lens is pressed close to.

@glowcloud.pics Sep 24, 2026, 11:50 PM

moon landing
#photography #nemmypix #daymoon #abstract

a heavily selectively exposed and contrasted blurry extreme closeup of a small boulder serves as the bright sun-baked anchor to gaze up at the moon in the expanse of night just beyond the fading blue. altogether, there is a tension in the image.

kept it simple with this one. it was a photo captured on a whim anyway, since there happened to be a decent daymoon when we made it out to the canyon. wanted to do something with it that evoked a kind of microscale alien perspective with familiar objects - the moon itself, rocks, etc.

@glowcloud.pics Sep 24, 2026, 11:40 PM

overlook
#photography #nemmypix #landscape #skyscape #grandcanyon

entitled "overlook."

an expansive photograph of the internal ridges of the grand canyon, framed by a chevron-stripe of high desert forest in the foreground. deep shadows cling to the viewer-facing edges of the ridges within, and the sky is awash with the afternoon sun casting those aforementioned deep shadows. the viewer's eye is drawn along the cascading slopes and branches into the journey beyond.

@glowcloud.pics Sep 24, 2026, 11:40 PM

overlook silhouette
#photography #nemmypix #landscape #skyscape #grandcanyon #abstract

a frame dominated by the black-crushed foreground, with hazy blue ridges peeking up and fading into the distance and haze. titled "overlook silhouette"

@glowcloud.pics Sep 24, 2026, 11:33 PM

broad and soft shadow
#photography #nemmypix #landscape #skyscape #grandcanyon

a wide photo of shadowy canyon ridges, mesas, and peaks jutting out and trailing into a forever laden with atmospheric haze.

@glowcloud.pics Sep 24, 2026, 11:33 PM

layer upon layer upon layer upon layer upon layer into the haze and blue
#photography #nemmypix #landscape #skyscape #abstract #grandcanyon

a wide, washed-out overexposed shot of canyon ridges, mesas, and peaks fading into distant grey-blue haze. each layer of earth gets darker and darker as it gets closer, until the details on the nearest are visible only through shaded streaks of highlit surfaces

@glowcloud.pics Sep 24, 2026, 11:09 PM

oooh we did get some of these birds hang gliding at navajo point. nice.

#nemmypix #raven #grandcanyon

an out of focus photograph of a raven hang gliding on thermals at the grand canyon, facing away from the observer. its wings are spread and outstretched and its legs are fully extended; this combines its leg feathers blown by the high intensity winds to give it a sort of pantalooned look.

@glowcloud.pics Sep 24, 2026, 12:05 AM

overlook at navajo point
#photography #nemmypix #landscape #grandcanyon

a photo from an overlook at the south rim, of an overlook at the south rim. you are looking into the grand canyon past layers of time and soil to languidly observe the river that carved the scene basking in the belly of the canyon.

the sun casts long shadows from the interior ridges of the vast expanse.

@glowcloud.pics Sep 24, 2026, 12:05 AM

calibration failure
#photography #nemmypix #landscape #abstract #grandcanyon

a sweeping photo of the grand canyon from the southern rim. the rustic oranges, reds, and browns of the canyon walls have been tone-shifted into orange-shaded minty greens.

a brilliant red-orange cut of fluid wends its way through the distant rolling green, cast in shadow by a ridge sweeping up to the left.

an overlook in the bottom left corner lets you catch your breath.

@pooltoy.info Sep 17, 2026, 11:35 PM

in hindsight perhaps "when we are trying to set up our photography alt account" (@glowcloud.pics) was not the best time to delete 3000 emails. whenever it finishes we will again be allowed to crash bsky's image uploading pipeline and let it ruin our photos with weird compression!

#nemmypix relevant