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The Lake Pangong is 134 kms long at a height of 4,350 mts....a fascinating natural beauty in Ladakh Himalayas, India.
As it turned out, -30 degree (°C) weather is not so good for outdoor walking, but quite interesting for the shapes of industrial smoke
As we enter another weekend of what seems to be the never ending lock down, it has given me plenty of spare time to go Through the archives and Process some of the images I wasn't so happy with the after taking them, as I've said previously I only like to post my best work to the internet. for now its time to change things up a little.
Please Stay happy, Healthy and safe in these times of UN-certainty
EXIF Data
Date captured: 28th March 2021
Time Captured: 06:32Am
Date Processed: 20th August 2021
Camera: Nikon D850
Lens: Tamron 24-70G2 F/2.8
Shutter: 30sec
Aperture:F/8
ISO: 64
No Filters, Although i did try this shot with the Nisi Neutral Night filter.
As I wandered across the black sand beach at low tide I saw a number of rounded mounds of sand topped with sea grass (Zostera marina). Getting up close, I realized that this was Mother Nature's way for dealing with heaps of fishing gear and netting that had washed ashore. You can see just a bit poking out here, almost buried in the mound. Stokksnes beach, Vestrahorn mountain, Iceland.
17/12/2020 www.allenfotowild.com
Pictures with Zeke, Joaquin, Garett and Andy at their house. The kids are Jewish, Mestiza (Mexican Indian/Spanish) and Cherokee. I love taking pictures of siblings, but it was also neat to work with brothers. Somehow I managed to get a bunch of sisters together, but this is the first brother set. They're the same as girls in the sense that they are young and respond well to the camera. I like how two brothers can have the same parents but such different hair. I suppose that will also be more evident when I put my eventual self portraits up with Rachael's.
Joaquin was a total ham. You can see in some pictures he's literally dancing in the background. Or the foreground. But hammy kids always love the camera, so I love them. Zeke, the older boy was not as energized, but he had a quiet brooding intensity that photographed well, too. I've learned so much about working with young people on this project. I can say I'm a fan of their energy and passion.
Elephants line up near the watering hole, with wildebeest in the background, as sunset approaches in Hwange National Park.
As I was processing this image, this song popped into my head. Happily singing away, I realized I had forgotten, or maybe never really known, all of the words. So I looked them up and decided to share. Read over the lyrics and I bet you at least start humming.
Thank you everyone. This made Explore!!
Cheers......
Take Me Home Country Roads
(John Denver-Bill Danoff-Taffy Nivert)
Almost heaven West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
LIfe is older older than the trees
Younger than the mountain blowing like a breeze
Country roads take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia mountain mama
Take me home country roads
All my mem'ries gather round her
Miner's lady stranger to blue skies
Dark and dusty painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine teardrop in my eye
Country roads take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia mountain mama
Take me home country roads
I hear her voice in the morin' as she calls me
The radio reminds of my home far away
Driving down theroad I get a feeling that I should have been
Home yesterday, yesterday
Country roads take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia mountain mama
Take me home country roads
As promised, some more photos of Melissa and Amanda from Sunday. Here are a few more. I wanted to capture how beautiful their relationship is. I have so many more to edit. I think I will do several a night until I have a collection that feels complete. The girls are simply...well...breathtakingly gorgeous.
As the saying goes timing is everything. As I watched this show develop I was hoping for a train before all the color disappeared. Fortunately it all worked as a short train appeared at the right moment.
As for spiritual life: what I object to about “the Spiritual Life” is the fact that it is a part, a section, set off as if it were a whole. It is an aberration to set off our “prayer” etc. from the rest of our existence, as if we were sometimes spiritual, sometimes not. As if we had to resign ourselves to feeling that the unspiritual moments were a dead loss. That is not right at all, and because it is an aberration, it causes an enormous amount of useless suffering.
Our “life in the Spirit” is all-embracing, or should be. First it is the response of faith receiving the word of God, not only as a truth to be believed but as a gift of life to be lived in total submission and pure confidence. . . . From the moment that I obey God in everything, where is my “spiritual life”? It is gone out the window, there is no spiritual life, only God and His word and my total response.
… As for your having defects and still knowing about the life of prayer, well, all I can say is that this is not unusual. I have never met anyone who did not have a lot of defects, and this seems to have relatively little to do with it, provided they are just things in their character which they can’t really help. Such defects are very useful and do a lot for one, if one accepts them rightly. On the other hand there are a lot of defects which we could easily be without if we were not dominated by our environment, and caught as it were in a kind of trap by our own surroundings and our own history. (2.16.64 HGL 365)
-The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns
As I was driving out of the park, a car stopped in the middle of the road. I wasn't sure if they needed help or if they saw something interesting. When I looked to my right, I had the answer, something interesting. We usually call these stops bear jams when we visit parks, but this time it was a long horned sheep jam. I only had one lens with me, so I pulled out the camera and took a couple of landscape views out of the truck window.
This was the only wildlife I had seen the whole trip. If there would've been a pull out, I would've stopped and taken out my D500 with my big lens, but it wasn't meant to happen this trip. Next time I visit here, I'm going to keep my eyes looking out for these guys and hope I'm in a better place to shoot.
As many of you know each year I set myself a goal of knitting a hat a week with the end result of the 52 hats being donated to to our homeless citizens. I have made a decent start on this years batch but find myself wondering if I will actually be able to meet my goal this time around. I am finding it harder and harder to come by yarn in the shops. Last week I went out to pick some up and came home with only two skeins. Hopefully as the year goes on the supply chain will open up and it won't be such a challenge to get supplies.
As the only botanical garden in Los Angeles connecting dense urban neighborhoods to wide open spaces, Descanso Gardens invites you journey from highly cultivated gardens to nearly wild, natural landscape
As I knelt low in the field this roe buck looked in my direction but couldn't see me clearly with the result she kept on grazing.
As you can imagine, it was unspeakably awesome cruising through Beverly Hills with this thing and the G65. And yes, this is pretty grainy, but seeing as it's a Huayra I think we can get over that.
As the seasons change and the ice on the north shore begins to break up in early March, a top down view reveals the myriad of blues and intricate formations that begin to drift off the shoreline with the winds and current.
as a throw away society we in the West have created a way of life not altogether successful or necessary
This is the case of man-made Androids having reached the end of their usefulness & being cast away to be broken down into spare parts....
Having given the Androids limited intelligence to suit us humans during their short lifetimes we thought no more about them & moved on to supposedly better things
These old Androids have manged to get themselves moving & are heading back to supposed civilization to settle a few scores
thanks for having a look....appreciated....best bigger.......hope you have a Great Day
As I was photographing the previous image folks here I saw something coming out of the thicket, and sure enough it was what I think was a sibling. At first I thought they were going to mate, but .........not to be.
Have a great day everyone and as always thank you so much for visiting.
As I was walking around the rose garden I almost ran in to this spider, made me think he was trying to string me along. :)
As smoking is not allowed in any of the establishments, Declan must step outside to partake of his habit!
I finally got the chance to photograph my Monarch Declan today!!!
And no matter what anyone else thinks ... I prefer this body!!!
Veigas (As Veigas en eonaviego) es una aldea y una parroquia del concejo asturiano de Taramundi, en España.
En sus 23,25 km² habitan un total de 84 personas (sadei 2008).
A fecha de febrero de 2006 la aldea de Veigas se encuentra deshabitada. Se halla a unos 400 metros sobre el nivel del mar, a 7 km de la capital del concejo. En ella destaca su iglesia del siglo XVII, dedicada a Santa María de las Nieves.
En el norte de la parroquia se encuentra el conjunto etnográfico de Teixois, en el pequeño pueblo del mismo nombre.
As I left La Platforma de Gredos and started to walk along the path leading towards El Circo de Gredos the sun rose behind me and, of course, the scene made me stop to retrieve the camera from my backpack much earlier than expected.
As the population grows, the availability of water decreases. There are a number of ways to save water, and they all start with you.
My winter series is slowly coming together! The photographs I took with Jessie Harbron are amazing! This picture is a good pre-view of what is to come !
Model: Jess Harbron
As a lot of the UK is either hit with snow or flooding - so far the south west has been relatively unaffected - but today's forecast is for light snow.
Quite where the snow will fall is difficult to predict so we might still miss the disruption it always causes in the UK.
Wellington, Somerset, UK. January 2025.