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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".
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.
Lanterns – Moroccan lanterns are wonderful pieces of craftsmanship and can truly dazzle at night. Marrakech is home to most of the country’s lantern makers, but you can find them almost anywhere. Shop assistants can often help you track down certain shapes, sizes and colors, so be open and honest about what you’re looking for. Even if they don’t have it, odds are they know someone who does!
Papamoa Beach, Mount Maunganui at the far end, Tauranga. Papamoa Beach has 16km of white sandy beach stretching from the boundary with Mount Maunganui in the west to the Kaituna River in the east. Papamoa Beach is renowned as a popular fishing, surfing, and holiday retreat. The population in Papamoa Beach (alongside neighbouring Mount Maunganui) grows significantly during the busy summer months. 37°44'S 176°18'E
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.
According to local Maori legend, the Moeraki Boulders are the remains of eel baskets, kumaras, and calabashes that washed onto the shore after the wreck of Arai-te-uru, a large sailing canoe. The rocky shoals that extend out from Matakaea (Shag Point) represent the petrified hull of the canoe, the Maori say, and the nearby rocky promontory represents the body of the captain.
Weighing several tons each, the Moeraki Boulders originally formed about 60 million years ago during the early Paleocene. Some can measure up to nine feet across. For millions of years, the boulders lay buried underground, covered up over time. Slowly, they have emerged as waves wash away the mudstone.
As mesmerizing as the boulders are there is a stunning array of seaweed, invertebrates, shells, bryozoan and ascidians (filter feeders that sieve food particles out of the water) and sponges washed up on the beach. A third of the 850 species of seaweed native to Aotearoa, are not found anywhere else in the world.
A Moroccan woman wearing kaftan was walking at El Jadida Beach Morocco. Although this shot was captured from behind but it gave the feature of a Kaftan from the back. The kaftan is a traditional Moroccan outfit. In the form of a long tunic, in general with long sleeves, worn with a belt (mdama) which can be extended under a lot of styles and colors. The Moroccan kaftan results from the expertise of craftsmen and dressmakers (maalem) of the country, under the influence of Berber (Amazigh) and Andalusian cultures.
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).
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.
Itsukushima (厳島, Itsukushima?) is an island in the Inland Sea of Japan. It is popularly known as Miyajima (宮島, Miyajima?), the Shrine Island. Itsukushima is part of the city of Hatsukaichi in Hiroshima Prefecture. The island was the town of Miyajima prior to the 2005 merger with Hatsukaichi.
Itsukushima is famous for the Itsukushima Shrine, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to records, the shrine was established in the time of Empress Suiko. The warrior-courtier Taira no Kiyomori gave the shrine its present form. In 1555, Mori Motonari defeated Sue Harukata at the Battle of Miyajima. Toyotomi Hideyoshi built a large building, the Senjō-kaku, on a hill above the shrine.
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Lovely scene is not necessarily to be at the iconic tourist areas but sometime you found it along countryside when seen from a fast going bus. Although chance to capture a very good shot is very difficult as it just usually blinks to my eyes, worth to give a try with your camera handy with preset settings. Hope you like this.
Mt. Yotei in Fudashi Park - Fukidashi Park (ふきだし公園) is a park in Kyogoku town, Niseko located in the southwestern part of Sapporo city, and is well-known for tasty spring water chosen as one of Selected 100 Exquisite and Well-Conserved Waters in Japan (日本名水百選), and around 800,000 visitors come from Japan and oversea. * The Fukidashi means "Gushing out" in Japanese. 80,000 tons a day mineral water of Mt. Yotei (羊蹄山) has been gushing out at the upstream, and it has been flowing to the downstream, and 2 ponds are born. After rain and snow fallen to the Mt. Yotei are in filtered into the underground for nearly 70 years, the spring water gushes out from the ground. The water contains abundant mineral, and is cold water with 6 C on the average, and it tastes mellow. Negative ions are in the air, so it is comfortable space. If you will enjoy taking a walk and restaurants, you should park your car on the parking lot of the road side "Meisui-no-Sato Kyogoku".
The triumphal arch at Volubilis (Morocco) was erected sometime between December 216 and April 217 CE by the council of Volubilis in honour of the emperor Caracalla who bestowed Roman citizenship on its inhabitants and exempted them from paying taxes
This picture frame outside 天都山展望台 located in Okhotsk Ryūhyō Museum 流氷館 allow you to take photo with Lake Ahashiri (網走湖) as well as Ahashiri (網走市) as backdrop.
Lake Matheson - South Island, New Zealand
Water reflection is one of my favourite to shoot landscape especially in a cloudy or rainy day. The day we visisted Fox Glacier that was pouring heavily. As a result, it was closed due to safety reason. Therefore we went to the close-by Lake Matheson.
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.