The cloudy and shady day always provide diffused lighting condition with less contrast specially after the rain. The foliage of late autumn in Hokkaido gave the leaves different colours at the same time from green to red. I personally like the shape of the leaf in Hokkaido like various broad leaf trees and conifers are mixed together, such as maple (kaede), Japanese rowan (nanakamado), black locust (niseakashia), Ezo spruce (Ezo matsu, and Sakhalin fir (todo matsu). Here is just the beginning of Hokkaido autumn foliage.

Mt. Yotei in Fudashi Park - Fukidashi Park (ふきだし公園) , Hokaido, Japan These leaves were turning colour, now from green to yellow, orange to red.

Bali annual art festival

Grandma's Room

Blue hour at Madari peak Cyprus

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

Herbert Lake is a small glacial lake situated on the Icefields Parkway.

The Minden Whitewater Preserve is a 100 acre park with trails adjacent to a some of Canada's best whitewater rapids for park'n play kayaking and canoeing. A visit at any time of the year will be inspirational. You can walk along the Minden White Water Rapids and marvel at the beauty of the rushing water. At times you might see paddlers, or fisherpersons, or photographers, etc. also appreciating what the rapids provide to one's soul. On one side of the Minden White Water Rapids is the Minden Wild Water Preserve and on the other side is Harrington Park. This is a location that is worth visiting during any season.

When hand-held capture this image in the late afternoon (6:30pm) in October, it was in a low light situation. However, to make the flowing stream water silky, the exposure time was set to 1 sec as I also want to keep the low ISO and my lenses sweet spot aperture.

Stone Arch Bridge are alos beautiful in Chinese Ancient Town, The Fengjing is no exception with the well known three bridges. This one wasn't one of the 3 but looks good to me with its reflection on the smooth waterway. To the end of the Qing Dynasty, the town of the bridge as many as 52, and now also retained more than a dozen. It always said "No other better scene than Fengling three bridges", In Chinese, it is "楓涇三橋麗景無雙".

Leather tanning in Chouara Tannery. - Since the inception of the city, tanning industry has been continually operating in the same fashion as it did in the early centuries. Today, the tanning industry in the city is considered one of the main tourist attractions. There are three tanneries in the city, largest among them is Chouara Tannery near the Saffarin Madrasa along the river, built in the 11th century. The tanneries are packed with the round stone wells filled with dye or white liquids for softening the hides. The leather goods produced in the tanneries are exported around the world.

Hiwayama Lighthouse (Japanese: Hiwayama Lantern Stand, Hiragana: ひ よ り や ま と う だ い, Roman Pinyin: Hiyoriyama-toudai) is a medium-sized lighthouse at the Tsuzu Takashima Cape, Otaru, Hokkaido. In Hokkaido, it is the second-lighting lighthouse that ranks second only to the Cape Nashab Lighthouse.

It is observation deck (70.9m above sea level) located in "Niseko-Shakotan-Otaru Kaigan Seminational Park".

The Sea of Japan spreads through one side in front and can look around weather mountain Lighthouse, Otaru City Nishin Goten of brave shoreline and Cape Takashima of the Akaiwa area and is known as famous place of the morning sun, the setting sun and can see fishing boat and ferry depending on time, too.

A different view showing how the park road winds it's way through this beautiful park and again is at it's best in the large size.

A blue hour shot from Mercure Queenstown Resort, Queenstown

When I visited any European countries, Asian countries including China even my home (Canada) in N.America; I rarely find time to take photo without people. This time, I found very least people / visitors in Fukidashi park in Kyogoku, Hokkaido, Japan perhaps due to the rainy and windy day with fair low temperature around 5C. In this image, I framed the foot bridge over water in the centre with the colorful foliage on both sides and the back.

Cape Kamui (神威岬 Kamui misaki) is located in Shakotan, Hokkaidō, Japan. The Shakotan Peninsula in Shiribeshi, on the west coast of Hokkaidō, Japan, is a mountainous peninsula which projects some 30 kilometres (19 mi) into the Sea of Japan. The Shakotan Peninsula forms part of the Niseko-Shakotan-Otaru Kaigan Quasi-National Park. The beautiful foot path/trail lead you walk from start gate toward the end so that you can see the very end of the peninsula that you can see the little island and the huge rock erected on it called 神威岩 (かむいいわ).

Fall colors in Hokkaido start from Mount Asahi in the Daisetsuzan Volcanic Group and move south. A unique feature of the mountains in Hokkaido is various broad leaf trees and conifers are mixed together, such as maple (kaede), Japanese rowan (nanakamado), black locust (niseakashia), Ezo spruce (Ezo matsu, and Sakhalin fir (todo matsu).

For this reason there are three colors of red, yellow and green which come together and create something special. Also you don’t have to go to the mountains or forest to enjoy the fall colors: you can find here in Fukidashi park in Kyogoku (Hokkaido prefecture), Japan.

The name of the town was derived from the nearby Lake Toya (Toya-ko). Toyako-cho) is a town in Iburi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It was formed on March 23, 2006, through the merger of the town of Abuta and the village of Toya. Nature Observation Trail) and the Nishiyama Sanroku Crater Trail. There are also onsen managed by the town of Toyako that offer a view of Lake Toya. There are also a number of hand and foothbaths nearby. Uniquely, large vending machines near the onsen offer spring water that can be taken to be used at home. Surrounding Lake Toya, there are numerous parks each with their own unique character and charm. There are also numerous walking trails along the lake to take a stroll in, such as the Waterfront Forest Lane (Takarada Toyako (????,

Torres del Paine is a national park located in southern Chile, towards the tip of South America

Visitors at Daisetsuzan Asahidake (大雪山旭岳), they hike to go up the mountain to see closely. There are steam vents at Asahidake. When you walk close to it, the roaring sound came out probably from the boiling water underneath.

The painting Apotheosis of Pennsylvania is visible on the far wall of the chamber. - The Chamber of the House of Representatives .

In Flickr, I found his photo of the same location was way better than mine (flic.kr/p/28ZfyRU).

A black-billed gull was captured at Eely Point, Wanaka, New Zealand.

The black-billed gull has the undesirable status of being the most threatened gull species in the world.

The black-billed gull is more slender than the red-billed gull, with a longer bill. Breeding adults have a white head, neck, rump, tail and underparts, and pale silver-grey wings and back. The outer primaries are mainly white with white-tipped black margins. A diagnostic white leading edge to the wing shows in flight. The bill and legs are black; during late incubation and hatching the legs become vibrant blood red. The eye is white, and the eye-ring red. Non-breeding adults have a bi-coloured bill, reddish at the base with a black tip and line through the middle.

Pancake Rock, Punakaiki to Hokitika - South Island, New Zealand. It takes a while to make a pancake on the West Coast of New Zealand - 30 million years actually!

The Pancake Rocks at Dolomite Point near Punakaiki are a heavily eroded limestone area where the sea bursts through several vertical blowholes.

Part of the Paparoa National Park, the Pancake Rocks are accessed by the easy Pancake Rocks and Blowholes Walk right in the centre of Punakaiki.