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We are having a nice wet spring this year, and that translates to snow in the mountains. We went and shot Mt. Hood in the lower light, it had a little pink in the clouds and the sun highlighted the top of the mountain.
Mount Hood is located approximately 90 minutes outside of Portland on the border between Clackamas and Hood River counties. Mount Hood stands at 11,239 feet (3,425 meters). It is the highest point and mountain peak in the state of Oregon, and the second most climbed mountain in the world (second only to Japan’s holy Mt. Fujiyama).
We literally walked out of Timberline Lodge, at Mt Hood, up a small slope and got this great vantage point shot.
Approximately 100 meters long, it is the first breakwater officially open to the public within Victoria Harbour, allowing members of the public to enjoy the stunning shoreline of Hong Kong from a new angle at the inner Victoria Harbour.
The rocket-like structure above the breakwater is the East Vent Shaft of the Central - Wan Chai Bypass. It was designed specifically to be in harmony with the harbour vista and was the winning entry of an exterior design competition.
港島炮台山海濱 東岸公園主題區 防波堤
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Taken approximately 35 minutes after the first photo. The sun has risen and would be hard to photograph straight on, so I used the trees as a shield making for lovely silhouettes and reflections.
Approximately 20 species of armadillo but this is the only one found in the United States. It is an insect eating mammal. Has a lifespan up to 15 years.
This is a wall of rocks approximately 35 meters (114.83 ft) high and 65º incline, considered an easy level climb, but it can be considered a grade 1 climb. However, this does not mean that it is easy for all.
We must climb through cracks in the rock wall, finding places to rest our feet and hands. On the way up it is usually easier because we can see all the support points. Going down, however, is more complicated as you can't see very well where to put your feet.
It is at this time that many people are “frozen” in stone without knowing what to do. Many start screaming and end up creating an atmosphere of panic that spreads to everyone around them. At that moment, one person's fear was amplified for others who are not 100% prepared or safe to go down the Holm Oak Tree / Carrasqueira. As you can imagine, the risk of an accident also increases.
One of the main reasons for accidents in Carrasqueira is misinformation. Many hikers think they are experienced and take the risk of climbing this stretch without a more experienced companion who knows the trail and has the necessary safety equipment to prevent a possible accident.
After the Holm Oak Tree / Carrasqueira, it's another 25 minutes walk to the summit on a very obvious path. There is only one fork in this path and we must go left.
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I hired two guides with all the required safety equipment for this trail.
At approximately 6 weeks old, this Great Horned owlet has flown from the nest to a neighboring pine tree. Its sibling was out on a limb near the nest, but seemed not quite ready to fly across.
Map location is approximate within 1 mile.
Walking on the pier in Ostend, I waited for approximately an hour in the cold and icy wind to produce this shot. All the lights under the benches just went on. Yes, this was the moment I was waiting for, the perfect blue hour with just a bit of the sunset.
Wild. Approximate Focus Distance - 6.31 m. valore di esposizione (eV)-0,33. crop compositivo.
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Australia has approximately 11,500 km2 of mangroves, primarily on the northern and eastern coasts of the continent. Areas where mangroves occur include the intertidal zone of tropical, subtropical and protected temperate coastal rivers, estuaries, bays and marine shorelines. Less than 1% of Australia's total forest area is mangrove forest. Although mangroves are typically found in tropical and subtropical tidal areas,there are occurrences as far south as Millers Landing in Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, Barker Inlet in Adelaide, South Australia and Leschenault Inlet (Koombana Park), near Bunbury, Western Australia. Nearly half of Australia's mangrove forests are found in Queensland (44% of Australia's total), followed by the Northern Territory (37%) and Western Australia (17%). In Western Australia, populations of mangroves are scattered down the coast; the population of the Abrolhos Islands is 300 kilometres south of the nearest population of Shark Bay, and the population at Bunbury is even further south than this (500 km). The Bunbury colonisation may have occurred relatively recently, perhaps only several thousand years ago, with propagules transferred by the Leeuwin Current. The most inland occurrence of mangroves in Australia is a stand of grey mangroves in the Mandora Marsh, some 60 km from the coast. Mangroves protect coastal areas from erosion, storm surge, and tsunamis. The massive root systems of mangroves are efficient at dissipating wave energy. Mangroves retard the tidal movement of water, allowing sediment to be deposited as the tide comes in, and leaving all except fine particles when the tide ebbs. Mangroves therefore build their own environment. The commercial and recreational fishing industries are prime beneficiaries of mangrove forests, which provide breeding and feeding grounds for fish and prawns. About 75% of the fish and prawns caught for commercial and recreational purposes in Queensland spend at least part of their lifecycles in mangroves. In some coastal communities, boardwalks and bird-viewing areas in mangrove forests provide attractions for the eco-tourism industry, for example, at Boondall Wetlands. 25374
At approximately 1500', most would not call Cadillac Mountain tall, though it is the highest point within 25 miles of the shoreline on the North American continent from Cape Breton to Mexico.
The most prominent feature of Acadia National Park and Mount Desert Island, the mountain is known as the first place in the United States to see sunrise, though that is only true from mid-autumn through late winter.
The geology of the mountain is such that the granite on Cadillac Mountain is much more erosion resistant than most of the other layers of rock on Mount Desert Island, and hence forms the highest point, after millennia of glacier ice erosion. The pink granite has high concentrations of feldspar and is a very fine granite, unlike most of the other formations in the region, especially those found on the Cranberry Isles (seen here) to the southwest, which are more volcanic and millions of years older than the Cadillac Mountain granite.
One of America's smallest national parks, Acadia is, nonetheless, a fascinating place to visit and a real treat for explorers, photographers and day-trippers, alike.
Eriksberg Shipyard; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriksbergs_Mekaniska_Verkstad
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden. It is situated by Kattegatt on the west coast of Sweden, and has a population of approximately 570,000.
Gothenburg was founded as a heavily fortified, primarily Dutch, trading colony in 1621. In addition to the generous privileges (e.g. tax relaxation) given to his Dutch allies from the then-ongoing Thirty Years`War, the king also attracted significant numbers of his German and Scottish allies to populate his only town on the western coast. At a key strategic location at the mouth of the river Göta älv, where Scandinavia's largest drainage basin enters the sea, the Port of Gothenburg is now the largest port in the Nordic countries
Gothenburg is home to many students, as the city includes the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology. Volvo was founded in Gothenburg in 1927. Other key companies are SKF and Astra Zeneca.
Approximate Focus Distance - 15
Wild. Approximate Focus Distance - 5.62. valore di esposizione (eV)-0,67. crop compositivo. scatto eseguito da capanno mobile.
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De la taille approximative d'un moineau, la sittelle torchepot est facilement identifiable grâce à son long trait oculaire noir, à son bec large et puissant et à sa queue courte. La couronne, la queue et le dessus sont bleu-gris, plus foncé sur les ailes. Le dessous est brun-orange, virant à l'orange foncé sous la queue. La gorge et les joues sont blanches. Les couleurs du mâle et de la femelle sont semblables mais chez le mâle le dessous de la queue et les flancs sont brun marron, alors que chez la femelle, ils sont plus pâles. Les oiseaux originaires de Scandinavie sont plus pâles en dessous. La sittelle, oiseau forestier, peut fréquenter les jardins avec des grands arbres. Oiseau très peu sociable, la sittelle vit généralement toute l'année en couple sur un territoire bien délimité, auquel elle est très attachée. Elle le défend même en hiver, contre ses congénères et on peut la voir parfois avec les bandes de mésanges lorsqu'elles visitent les mangeoires. Les sittelles visitent les aires de nourrissage à condition de disposer dans les environs immédiats de vieux arbres. Sur les mangeoires, les sittelles sont des oiseaux agressifs, dominants toutes les espèces plus petites et la plupart des espèces de même taille. Si l'autre oiseau ne quitte pas immédiatement les lieux, il est immédiatement attaqué avec virulence. Seuls plusieurs verdiers réussissent à repousser une sittelle agressive. À l'instar des mésanges noires et nonnette, elle est connue pour faire des réserves de nourriture dans des crevasses, notamment des noisettes, qu'elle mangera en période de disette. Dans son long bec, elle peut emmagasiner deux ou trois graines de tournesol. Elle s'envole alors en direction d'un arbre pour dissimuler son butin dans les crevasses du tronc. Elle camoufle ses caches de graines avec des morceaux d'écorce, de lichen ou de mousse. Comme la sittelle est très fidèle à son territoire, elle retrouve toujours ses cachettes aux cours de ses pérégrinations. Elle coince les noisettes dans des crevasses et assène de puissants coups de bec jusqu'à ce que la coque se fende en deux. Ces martèlements sont si forts qu'on croirait entendre un pic.
Image prise en milieu naturel et depuis la tente affût .
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Approximately the size of a sparrow, the Eurasian Nuthatch is easily identifiable by its long black eye line, large, powerful beak and short tail. Crown, tail and upper surface are blue-gray, darker on the wings. The underside is orange-brown, turning dark orange below the tail. The throat and cheeks are white. The colors of the male and the female are similar, but in the male the underside of the tail and the sides are brownish brown, in the female they are paler. Birds native to Scandinavia are paler below. The nuthatch, a forest bird, can frequent gardens with large trees. A very unsociable bird, the nuthatch generally lives all year round in pairs on a well-defined territory, to which it is very attached. It defends it even in winter, against its congeners and we can sometimes see it with the bands of chickadees when they visit the feeders. Nuthatches visit feeding areas provided they have old trees in the immediate vicinity. On feeders, nuthatches are aggressive birds, dominating all smaller species and most species of the same size. If the other bird does not immediately leave the premises, it is immediately attacked with virulence. Only several greenfinches succeed in repelling an aggressive nuthatch. Like the black and barnacle chickadees, it is known to store food in crevices, especially hazelnuts, which it will eat in times of scarcity. In its long beak, it can store two or three sunflower seeds. She then flies in the direction of a tree to hide her booty in the crevices of the trunk. It camouflages its seed caches with pieces of bark, lichen or moss. As the nuthatch is very faithful to its territory, it always finds its hiding places during its wanderings. She wedges the hazelnuts in crevices and pecks hard until the shell splits in two. These poundings are so loud that you think you hear a pickaxe.
Image taken in a natural environment and from the blind tent.
Krzywiń is a small town in the province Greater Poland, with approximately 1,700 inhabitants. It was a private clergy town belonging to the Benedictine abbot in Lubin. The first preserved mention of Krzywiń as a town comes from 1272. In 1382, the city was destroyed during domestic fights, the reconstruction took place half a century later. In 1447, the location privilege was renewed. The center of the development was a Market Square with a town hall (the present one comes from 1905) in the south-eastern frontage. In the middle of the Market Square there is a statue of St. Wawrzyniec street and the frontages are built with houses from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The market was revitalized in 2014 and is a major tourist attraction.
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Krzywiń jest małym miastem w woj. wielkopolskim, liczącym około 1700 mieszkańców. Było prywatnym miastem duchownym, należącym do opata benedyktynów w Lubiniu. Pierwsza zachowana wzmianka o Krzywiniu jako mieście pochodzi z 1272 roku. W 1382 roku miasto zostało zniszczone podczas walk domowych, odbudowa nastąpiła pół wieku później. W 1447 miało miejsce odnowienie przywileju lokacyjnego. Ośrodkiem zabudowy był czworoboczny rynek z ratuszem ( obecny pochodzi z 1905 roku) w pierzei południowo-wschodniej. Na środku Rynku znajduje się figura św. Wawrzyńca a pierzeje zabudowane są domami z przełomu XIX i XX wieku.
Rynek był rewitalizowany w roku 2014 i jest dużą atrakcją turystyczną.
Image taken in the backyard approximately 12 feet from the palm stump. This little guy is my buddy and allows me to be much closer to him but my lens does not. Info from Wikipedia. To my surprise after checking out Wikipedia the count of Yellow-Throated warblers for the GBBC is 2.
I have not photographed the female but I have been seeing her in the thicket of the trees. She is a bit shy and I just could not ID her until this little guy took her some food yesterday and I saw images on Wikipedia. This image was taken yesterday, I have other images that were taken during the GBBC so I will use one of those for ID purposes when I upload the information.
Also like the bluebird diet does not mention peanuts, the diet info for this little beauty does not mention them. This guy is a little peanut pirate. He loves them!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-throated_warbler
These birds breed in southeastern North America, and their breeding ranges extend from southern Pennsylvania and northern Missouri, to the Gulf of Mexico. One subspecies, from northwest Florida, is resident all year round. The other populations of this species are migratory, wintering at the Gulf Coast, eastern Central America, and the Caribbean. Vagrant wintering birds are sometimes seen in northernmost South America.[2][4]
The yellow-throated warbler is a woodland species with a preference for coniferous or swamp tree species, in which it preferably nests. They are insectivorous, but will include a considerable amount of berries and nectar in their diet outside the breeding season. Food is typically picked off tree branches directly, but flying insects may be caught in a brief hover.[2][5]
These birds build cup-shaped nests which are built in a trees, and are concealed amongst conifer needles or Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides). Their clutches consist of 3–5 (usually 4) eggs.[2]
The yellow-throated warbler is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.[1]
approximately 2 miles east of Valley of Dreams in New Mexico is a small area with very interesting locations for milky way photography
Approximately at the point of this photo a volcano has erupted again on the Canary Island of La Palma, exciting for hikers many years later, actually bad for the people directly affected by it.
Ungefähr an der Stelle dieses Fotos ist erneut auf der Kanareninsel La Palma ein Vulkan ausgebrochen, spannend für Wanderer viele Jahre später, aktuell schlimm für die unmittelbar davon betroffenen Menschen.
www.tagesschau.de/ausland/vulkan-cumbre-vieja-ausbruch-10...
Approximately 10 km from the entrance of the Fish River Canyon is the Canon Roadhouse. It bursts with colour, curiosity and the quirkiness of the 1950’s and 60’s with paraphernalia from yesteryear. Old abandon Chevys and Fords, signs, a windmill and red roof tops spring out of the Nama-Karoo scrub where it is located. The cafe and bar are a collectors delight; so much to see including hundreds of old vehicle number plates.
Approximately 6 million people travel into and out of Jakarta's central business district everyday. That is about 1/4 of Australia's population. Sitting in traffic for 2 hrs to travel 10 km is just life in Jakarta.
Approximate Focus Distance : 9.47m
Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS USM Lens
ISO Speed 1250
Aperture : f/7.1
Exposure : 1/80 secs
Exposure Bias : -1 EV
Focal Length : 600mm
Chiwa is a city of approximately 50,000 people located in Xorazm Region, Uzbekistan. According to archaeological data, the city was established in the beginning of the Christian era. It is the former capital of Khwarezmia and the Khanate of Chiwa. Itchan Kala in Khiva was the first site in Uzbekistan to be inscribed in the World Heritage List (1991).
The Islom-Hoja Minaret at Khiva is the tallest, 57m tall minaret, in Uzbekistan. Most of Chiwa's monuments are hundreds of years younger than those in Bukhara and Samarkand.
Islam-Hoja Minaret was built in 1908 by Islam-Hoja of the Prime Minister of Khan. The minaret is a symbol of the country, is an early example of the architecture of the XIV century. The construction was completed in 1910. The tapered shape makes up more slender minaret and strength. The famous Kalyan Minaret is inferior to the height of Islam-Khoja Minaret. Its height is 56 meters and a base diameter is 9.5 meters. Trunk of the minaret is made of bricks, decorated with white and blue tiles made of glazed ceramic.
Islam-Khoja Minaret is the tallest structure in Khiva, visible from anywhere in the city. After rising to the top of the minaret, you will see the most beautiful panorama of the eastern fairy tale city Khiva.
Approximately 70 Metres North Of Thorncroft Bridge ( see previous photo)
in the forest I found another bridge.
The Shell Bridge over the River Mole was constructed in 1837 as an ornamental feature by Capability Brown. It is mainly constructed of flint. It is a Listed Building
Approximate Focus Distance : 6.18m
Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS USM Lens
ISO Speed 1250
Aperture : f/8.0
Exposure : 1/125 secs
Exposure Bias : +1/3 EV
Focal Length : 600mm
Taken approximately 10 hours past Full Moon, the Moon was really pink whilst rising due to the pink sunset (a Full Moon rises at the same time as the Sun sets)
I was really lucky that the only 4 minute gap we had in the clouds was at exactly the right time to catch this stunning pink moonrise!
Photos taken from Oxfordshire with a Canon 1100D with 300mm zoom lens
Approximately 580,000 people visit Mesa Verde each year. Would you like to explore this spectacular habitation all by yourself? Try going to the site in January, which we did in November, 2006.
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Colorado's Mesa Verde, Spanish for green table, offers a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their home for over 700 years, from AD 600 to 1300.
Today the park protects nearly 5,000 known archeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings. These sites are some of the most notable and best preserved in the United States.
The approximately 30 cm long blue-throated parrot (Pyrrhura cruentata) is the largest member of the strikingly colorful group of red-tailed parrots (Pyrrhura). The blue-throated parrot's habitat is the rainforest of eastern Brazil. Because this region, in particular, has been severely affected by deforestation and its numbers have declined sharply in recent years, the blue-throated parrot is considered endangered, with only a few thousand birds remaining. To better promote this endangered species, the European Association of Zoos and Aquatic Parks (EAZA) has launched a conservation program. Currently, 17 zoos across Europe are members of this EEP, with a total of 66 birds.
Because pairing parakeets does not automatically lead to breeding success—like many other parrot species, blue-throated parakeets are highly selective in their search for a mate—the Parrot World zoo in Paris has agreed to provide crucial support in finding a mate. About ten unpaired parakeets are kept simultaneously in a large aviary, the Dating Aviary, which significantly increases the chances of finding a suitable partner. If two birds find each other, the pair is passed on to a zoo that agrees to participate in the conservation breeding program. For example, Nordhorn Zoo acquired a young pair from France in 2021.
www.tierpark-nordhorn.de/zoologische-raritaet-mit-erstem-...