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Thorn and Benediction

Quiet Exchange

Sleep crosses earth'scurve and caststhe world's return to birth. The eagle folds at last;the moth ascends.The day’s brief hour has passed. The fox’s vigil ends;the owl begins.Each life concedes and lends. No creature names these skins,this older rule,the law beneath their limbs. Sleep keeps the poolwhere futures lie,unformed and cool. All waking must complyand enter night,a wordless lullaby. The world grows slight.The stars revolve in keep;the turning holds the light. And all […]

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Thorn and Benediction · Quiet ExchangeSleep crosses earth’scurve and caststhe world’s return to birth. The eagle folds at last;the moth ascends.The day’s brief hour has passed. The fox’s vigil ends;the owl begins.Each life …
#biology#existence#memory
Maikel de Bakker
A Morning in Layers

Yesterday’s morning light was something else — the kind of light that shifts the entire mood of a landscape. I started early, camera in hand, watching as the first rays of sun broke through the horizon at the Loonse en Drunense Duinen. The Canon 5DsR with the Sigma 24–70 Art captured that dance between storm clouds and sunlight — a fiery sky meeting cold, dark clouds above a golden line of dunes.

Later that morning, a flash of movement caught my eye. Perched high in a tree, a Lanius excubitor — the Great Grey Shrike (Klapekster in Dutch) — scanned the landscape. A master of patience and precision, this bird is both predator and poet of the heathlands. Just as I focused, it launched into flight, wings twisting into the sunlight — a single frame of balance between control and freedom, taken with the 5D Mark IV and the Sigma 100–400.

Before heading home, I found a small Mycena mushroom rising from a bed of moss, surrounded by acorn caps and fallen leaves. Humble, delicate — yet part of the same story. The sun, the bird, the fungus — each a layer in nature’s quiet symphony.

#ByMaikeldeBakker #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #MacroPhotography #LandscapePhotography #CanonPhotography #SigmaArtLens #5DsR #5DMarkIV #DutchNature #LoonseEnDrunenseDuinen #GreatGreyShrike #LaniusExcubitor #Klapekster #Mycena #FungusAmongUs #MushroomPhotography #AutumnVibes #ForestMood #MorningLight #NatureStorytelling #ScientificPhotography #EcologyInFocus #FieldObservation #NaturalHistory #Heathlands #SunriseGlow #SkyDrama #BirdInFlight #AvianBeauty #MacroMagic #MossAndMushroom #ForestFloor #NatureDetails #CanonLover #Sigma100400 #Sigma2470Art #PhotographyJourney #DutchWildlife #ByMaikelPhotography
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Global Museum

Natural History Collections and Repatriation: Beyond #NAGPRA
Date: December 8, 2025
Time: 2:00-3:00 PM ET / Noon-1:00 PM MT / 11:00 AM-Noon PT
Co-hosts: Natural Science Collections Alliance, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, American Institute of Biological Sciences
This webinar will be recorded.
Register here👇
nscalliance.org/webinar-nhc-re #globalmuseum #NaturalHistory #museums #collections

Thorn and Benediction

Abyssal Zone

Depth: 8,178 metres.Pressure: eight hundred times the air.A place without dawn,where light has never leaned. Temperature steady as grief.Sound moves as a thief through basalt corridors.The sea floor expandswith the slow tectonic breath of the world. There, a body,soft as the thought of mercy,spine dissolving into translucence,eyes wide though no sun exists. The snailfish drifts, ethereal,its skin a blur between presence and surrender.It does not resist the weight,it becomes the weight,and […]

dhjervis.xyz/2025/10/12/hadal-

Thorn and Benediction · Abyssal ZoneDepth: 8,178 metres.Pressure: eight hundred times the air.A place without dawn,where light has never leaned. Temperature steady as grief.Sound moves as a thief through basalt corridors.The sea floo…
#biology#naturalhistory#Poetry
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