Hunter Elenbaas

@hunterje

Photography and bullshit, not necessarily in that order. If you follow me for photography be ready to put up with some bullshit; if you follow me for bullshit good news, you'll also get to see some pretty pictures time to time as a bonus! He/they

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Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· 25d

*takes down this sign and puts up a new one that reads "Welcome to our L..."

"Welcome to our OOL, notice there's no 'P' in it... LET'S KEEP IT THIS WAY" sign

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Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· 28d

If you do the refreshments at a key party pot-luck style it's like 80% pineapple upside-down cakes right?

Picture of a pineapple upside down cake

By Kimberly Vardeman from Lubbock, TX, USA - Pineapple Upside Down CakeUploaded by themightyquill, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12011926

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· Jul 7

I don't think he'd do very well at it

Headline: "Trump asked FIFA to review US player's suspension. Now he's eligible to play."

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· Jul 5

Gonna try mixing up some Muley Sauce

Bottle of Guy Fieri's Flavortown branded "Donkey Sauce"

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· Jul 1

Mods probably awake by now (at least in this hemisphere), still posting pinnipeds.

Three harbor seals, one partly moulted from juvenile fuzz, lie on a floating log in the winter morning sun; several double crested cormorants, larger than you'd think relative to the seals, stand at the other end of the log.

Three harbor seals, one partly moulted from juvenile fuzz, lie on a floating log; the middle seal is doing a big yawn.

A harbor seal lies across a floating log, eyes shut head empty, winter morning sun dancing across its fur

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· Jun 28

I just don't understand why they use such different packaging for their brown sauce and their black sauce (the latter is also super expensive and imo tastes awful)

An HP branded black printer ink cartridge

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· Jun 26

Another shot of the same colony

Several grey, white and yellow gracile birds in a tree with multiple nests

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· Jun 26

Cormorant posting? Heck yeah, here's a Kāruhiruhi/pied shag (Phalacrocorax varius) from a colony tree that was near one of the places I stayed in Aotearoa (NZ) last year #birds

A gracile grey-black bird with white along the underside of its neck and a yellow patch ahead of its eye preens its feathers on a tree branch, other individuals can be seen out of focus behind.

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· Jun 26

OK but a basketball dunk, I'm sure even in that prototypical form, just does not resemble that action at all, unless without letting go of the ball they gingerly put it part way into the hoop and then lifted it back out again...

Arthur Daley, Pulitzer Prize winning sports writer for The New York Times . . . wrote that Joe Fortenberry and his teammate, Willard Schmidt, instead of shooting up for a layup, leaped up and "pitch[ed] the ball downward into the hoop, much like a cafeteria customer dunking a roll in coffee."

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· Jun 24

#makeaterriblecomicday #makeaterriblecomicday2026 Decided to draw a favorite stupid gentle pun I came up with years back. May help to read the last panel aloud.

A li'l bug says "where's a thirsty li'l bug s'posda get a drink 'round these parts?!" It walks aroud a while before climbing a thistle plant. Atop the thistle flower it finds some drops of water and says "ahh, thistle dew!"

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· Jun 20

@cbbworld.bsky.social DJ Dead Poisson was right and the Charleston audience was wrong! Source: web.archive.org/web/20110721...

Screen clip from an archived website with white text against an eye-bleedingly mixed-contrast blue and black background image, you can just make out it says in relevant part:

John Entwistle: "We wanted to put 'cellos on the track but Kit Lambert said we couldn't afford it. That's why we sing 'cello, cello, cello, cello,' ... where we thought they should be"

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· Jun 19

Got an ice cream maker for myself for my birthday, this week made stracciatella gelato and it came out really good

An ice cream maker with white gelato with tiny brown flecks churns, a bar of 70% cocoa Madagascan dark chocolate can be seen to the side of the frame

A glass dessert bowl with one and a half scoops of white ice cream with dark brown flecks

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· Jun 18

It's kind of funny how all the licensed stuff is in its own twisted way full circle to the early days before M:tG had developed its own cohesive setting and a lot of the flavor was just a mishmash of literature and scripture and history and myth

Magic card "Giant Strength," flavor text reads:

"O! it is excellent/ To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous/ To use it like a giant." —William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Magic card Durkwood Boars, flavor text reads:

"And the unclean spirits went out, and entered the swine; and the herd ran violently . . ." —Mark 5:13

Magic card Fissure, flavor text reads:

"Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?" —Plato

Magic card "Merfolk of the Pearl Trident", flavor text reads:

Most human scholars believe that Merfolk are the survivors of sunken Atlantis, humans adapted to the water. Merfolk, however, believe that humans sprang forth from Merfolk who adapted themselves in order to explore their last frontier.

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· Jun 14

Figured out why I've been seeing these guys around so much. (Thankfully nothing I need on that shelf the next few months so as long as they need it it's theirs!) #birds

Picture of a messy potting shelf with a sign hung across reading "NEST Do Not Disturb"

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· Jun 11

These Bewick's wrens have chosen the bushes around my back patio as a favorite foraging this spring (had seen them around once or twice in the past but last few weeks they're here every evening) <3 #birds #birding #birdphotography #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography

A small brown and grey bird with a prominent white stripe over the eye stands on a wood rail, a large moth in its bill

A small brown and grey bird with a prominent white stripe over the eye stands on a branch, a cricket or grasshopper in its bill

A small brown and grey bird with a prominent white stripe over the eye stands on the rim of a terra cotta pot, a cricket or grasshopper in its bill

A small brown and grey bird with a prominent white stripe over the eye clings to a mossy tree limb, a large moth in its bill

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· Jun 10

I recently got an ice cream maker which means I can now make my favorite old person ice cream flavor that none of the brands available here even seem to sell anymore:

Plastic freezer container labelled "Rum Raisin (6/26)"

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· Jun 3

My brain really wants to set this to the tune of the Bush song

Set of pins depicting the character Pusheen depicted as a variety of baked goods, lavelled "Pusheen Breads"

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· May 29

Took pics of two very differently sized pollen and nectarvores this evening—black tailed honeybee (Bombas melanopygus), about the size of my thumbnail, and varied carpet beetle (Anthrenus verbasci), about the size of a small sesame seed #insects #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography

A bumblebee crawling on the stamens of a purple rhodedendron flower

A flattened beetle covered in an intricate mosaic of black, orange and white pigment scales crawls on a queen anne's lace flower

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· May 25

It’s still #FemaleBirdDay! It’s celebrated all through Memorial Day weekend. So please bring out more lovely ladies! Red-winged blackbird, no namesake epaulettes but makes up for it with the patterning created by the contrasting margins on her wing feathers #birds #birdphotography #photography

Medium large dark- and light-brown mottled bird perched on a branch

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· May 19

My favorite way to solve these is to introduce variables, until defined "p" can equal any value so there's nothing "incorrect" about defining it as seven ninths!

Matchstick puzzle that originally read "7/9=3" in seven-segment form; two segments of the numeral "3" have been moved to turn it in to a letter "p"

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· May 15

Ignored TLC's advice this morning. Teneriffe Falls, near North Bend, WA, USA #photography #landscapephotography #waterfall

Long exposure of a fan-style waterfall cascading across exposed rock between green trees and mosy rocks

Long exposure of a section of a fan-style waterfall spreading across exposed rock

Long exposure of few streams of a waterfall, one falling in to a small pool and the rest running under a fallen log

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· May 8

I am fundamentally incapable of picking single favorites of anything but very much enjoy a younger Pat Stewart playing a massive piece of shit (with a full head of hair) in I Claudius

Patrick Stewart as Sejanus in I, Claudius

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· May 7

This was the part that always god me, idk seeds germinating feels like just plain old normal activity?

X files opening titles screen clip, the words "Paranormal activity" over two mirrored germinating seeds

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· May 2

My very regionally specific answer. Ugly and unappetizing-looking and only ever seem to be available at non-chain hardware stores in the PNW but I have a deep soft spot for them (in part I think because the mfr once donated a bunch to a day camp I went to as a kid so we were eating them all summer?)

Photo of a Brown & Halley Peanut Butter Mountain bar

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· May 2

Fun fact, 100 Grand Bars came on the market in 1964 (under the name "$100,000 Bar"), so as of two years ago they could've changed their name to Million Dollars Bars if they wanted to keep up with inflation...

Inflation calculator showing that $100,000.00 US in 1964 is $1,011,900.00 in 2024

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· May 2

It's pink understory shrub time here in the PNW! (Ribes sanguineum)

An inflorescence of small bright magenta flowers grows from green foliage

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· Apr 30

The guy who hit it with a wrench a few times:

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· Apr 30

This anythin?

Panel one Mario says "It's-a me, Mario!"

Panel 2 Mario looks at baby Wario and says "It's a wee Wario!"

Hunter Elenbaas@hunterje· Apr 27

Brought my macro setup hiking this weekend to celebrate #invertefest and found a spectacular velvet mite (family Trombidiidae, poss genus Allothrombium though my mite ID resources are too sparse to say so confidently) #arachnid #photography #macrophotography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography