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Kitty at the drinking hole.

Photo by Xer S. Rowan, Creative Commons Attribution license

This photo may be freely used, for personal and commercial purposes, as long as the license terms are followed. For more information about me, my free photo project, and the licensing I use, visit linktr.ee/DoingItForTheExposure.

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A couple of acorn woodpeckers, atop their utility pole home.

Photo by Xer S. Rowan, Creative Commons Attribution license

I'm a disabled hobby photographer, taking and sharing photos for the love of photography. This photo may be freely used, for personal and commercial purposes, as long as the license terms are followed. For more information about me, my free photo project, and the licensing I use, visit linktr.ee/DoingItForTheExposure.

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Despite claims to the contrary (by the fuzzbutt), this fuzzbutt is not our cat. You would be forgiven for thinking that this fuzzbutt was our cat, given how much it loves to beg us for food and pets, sneak inside our home, and hang out outside our door.

But, no, this fuzzbutt is a neighbor's fuzzbutt, who has decided that we're better to hang around than the people who also keep two large dogs.

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Photo by Xer S. Rowan, Creative Commons Attribution license

This photo may be freely used, for personal and commercial purposes, as long as the license terms are followed. For more information about me, my free photo project, and the licensing I use, visit linktr.ee/DoingItForTheExposure.

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Baby crow got big.

Photo by Xer S. Rowan, Creative Commons Attribution license

I'm a disabled hobby photographer, taking and sharing photos for the love of photography. This photo may be freely used, for personal and commercial purposes, as long as the license terms are followed. For more information about me, my free photo project, and the licensing I use, visit linktr.ee/DoingItForTheExposure.

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Eurasian collared dove

Photos by Xer S. Rowan, Creative Commons Attribution license

These photos may be freely used, for personal and commercial purposes, as long as the license terms are followed. For more information about me, my free photo project, and the licensing I use, visit linktr.ee/DoingItForTheExposure.

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It's a crow!

Photo by Xer S. Rowan, Creative Commons Attribution license

I'm a disabled hobby photographer, taking and sharing photos for the love of photography. This photo may be freely used, for personal and commercial purposes, as long as the license terms are followed. For more information about me, my free photo project, and the licensing I use, visit linktr.ee/DoingItForTheExposure.

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Northern flicker.

Photo by Xer S. Rowan, Creative Commons Attribution license

I'm a disabled hobby photographer, taking and sharing photos for the love of photography. This photo may be freely used, for personal and commercial purposes, as long as the license terms are followed. For more information about me, my free photo project, and the licensing I use, visit linktr.ee/DoingItForTheExposure.

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Lamium purpureum, or red dead-nettle (actually from the mint family, not the nettle family—'dead-nettle' meaning approximately 'something that looks like a nettle but doesn't sting'

Photo by Xer S. Rowan, Creative Commons Attribution license

I'm a disabled hobby photographer, taking and sharing photos for the love of photography. This photo may be freely used, for personal and commercial purposes, as long as the license terms are followed. For more information about me, my free photo project, and the licensing I use, visit linktr.ee/DoingItForTheExposure.

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Gliding turkey vulture.

Photo by Xer S. Rowan, Creative Commons Attribution license

I'm a disabled hobby photographer, taking and sharing photos for the love of photography. This photo may be freely used, for personal and commercial purposes, as long as the license terms are followed. For more information about me, my free photo project, and the licensing I use, visit linktr.ee/DoingItForTheExposure.

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'Chilling at the public park.'

Photo by Xer S. Rowan, Creative Commons Attribution license

I'm a disabled hobby photographer taking photos for the love of photography and sharing them under a free-to-use-as-long-as-I-am-properly-credited license. For more information about me, my free photo project, and the license terms, visit linktr.ee/DoingItForTheExposure.

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'And Nine Tenths.'

Photo by Xer S. Rowan, Creative Commons Attribution license

I'm a disabled hobby photographer, taking and sharing photos for the love of photography. This photo may be freely used, for personal and commercial purposes, as long as the license terms are followed. For more information about me, my free photo project, and the licensing I use, visit linktr.ee/DoingItForTheExposure.

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Squash bees are solitary-living ground-nesting pollinators of gourds and squashes, native to the Americas.

Photos by Xer S. Rowan, Creative Commons Attribution license

I'm a disabled hobby photographer taking and sharing photos for the love of photography. These photos may be freely used, for personal and commercial purposes, as long as the license terms are followed. For more information about me, my free photo project, and the licensing I use, visit linktr.ee/DoingItForTheExposure.

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"Crow Departing"

Photo by Xer S. Rowan, Creative Commons Attribution license

I'm a disabled hobby photographer taking photos for the love of photography and sharing them under a free-to-use-as-long-as-I-am-properly-credited license. For more information about me, my free photo project, and the license terms, visit linktr.ee/DoingItForTheExposure.

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'Beginning Astrophotography.'

When I won my Disability claim and received several years of backpay, I bought my digital camera and various accessories for it, including a small star-tracking mount. Astrophotography generally requires longer exposure times, and the stars appear to move across the sky as the earth rotates, so star trackers rotate the camera in the opposite direction at the same speed, so that the lens stays pointed at the same spot in the sky.

More expensive star trackers use computer-guidance to align the tracker axis with the earth's axis, regularly checking to make sure the alignment is maintained. My (relatively) cheap star tracker requires manual alignment (less precise, can't get as long of an exposure). The combination of mobility issues, sleep cycle stuff, lack of open sky near my house, and general inexperience with astrophotography has kept me from getting much practice.

This image was created by stacking, in Siril, a free astrophotography pre-processing program, approximately 15 exposures of 6 seconds each. This is from my second attempt at using the star tracker I bought years ago. I really want to get at least a 20 second exposure with crisp stars, but I'll need to learn how to use the polar scope (and find a location where I can easily see Polaris).

Once I'm comfortable enough with alignment, then I can start thinking about the subject matter — constellations, nebulae, galaxies. For this one, I just aimed the camera to point directly upward, since the purpose was to work on polar alignment / star trailing.

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Photo by Xer S. Rowan, Creative Commons Attribution license

I'm a disabled hobby photographer, taking and sharing photos for the love of photography. This photo may be freely used, for personal and commercial purposes, as long as the license terms are followed. For more information about me, my free photo project, and the licensing I use, visit linktr.ee/DoingItForTheExposure.

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'Just dandi.'

Photo by Xer S. Rowan, Creative Commons Attribution license

I'm a disabled hobby photographer, taking and sharing photos for the love of photography. This photo may be freely used, for personal and commercial purposes, as long as the license terms are followed. For more information about me, my free photo project, and the licensing I use, visit linktr.ee/DoingItForTheExposure.

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"Murder is in the air."

Photos by Xer S. Rowan, Creative Commons Attribution license

I'm a disabled hobby photographer, taking and sharing photos for the love of photography. These photos may be freely used, for personal and commercial purposes, as long as the license terms are followed. For more information about me, my free photo project, and the licensing I use, visit linktr.ee/DoingItForTheExposure.

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Unfortunately, my brain rebels at the thought of adding another site to upload to. I struggle to add more than a title, hashtags, and a pasted license blurb to my posts. I don't even upload to my Flickr account anymore. (Executive function issues / lack of spoons.)

For those who do have the capacity to upload their wildlife pics/videos/audio and tag them with all the pertinent data (location, time, etc.), the site is https://www.macaulaylibrary.org

FOR SCIENCE! FOR ART!

@tinylongwing complained that not enough photographers upload pics of front-facing birds. So here's a front-facing crow.

Photo by Xer S. Rowan, Creative Commons Attribution license

I'm a disabled hobby photographer, taking and sharing photos for the love of photography. This photo may be freely used, for personal and commercial purposes, as long as the license terms are followed. For more information about me, my free photo project, and the licensing I use, visit linktr.ee/DoingItForTheExposure.