feathered alibi

just a sailor :) all videos+photos i post are mine and original

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leave me where the light pours down through the leaves like rain 🍂

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Dusk dusting fluffy clouds with a fiery orange.

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In the middle of nowhere with a crisply azure bright sky. If we’re not supposed to dance, why all this music indeed?

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Hedwig the snow-owl. She initially started off as a snowman, but there was something about her sharp-edged nose that reminded me of Hedwig from when I first read the books eight years ago. The mild hypoxia at around 16,000 feet didn’t exactly help my first attempt at even touching snow, lol.

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The calm of the river shore, June 2026.

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An oil pastel rendition of 'Stitching the Standard' by Edmund Leighton (1911).

This was my first time drawing a face with oil pastels. Not perfect by any means, but I had fun experimenting!

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Long Lost.

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Original video taken at 16,040 feet at the merging point of the Pir Panjal, Zanskar and the Great Himalayan mountain ranges at Baralacha La. Cutting through these snow-capped peaks is this small stream dependent on melting glaciers for its water source. The azure blue sky with a bright, scalding midday sun adorning every shift of the meltwater stream was quite a sight to behold!

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Cradled in the lap of the Himalayas at almost 12,300 feet. Absolutely breathtaking!

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