View allAll Photos Tagged AmazingPhoto
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
Once a thriving Roman city, this archaeological site evokes a strong sense of the days when the Roman Empire had control over this part of Africa. ItⳠoften overlooked by visitors to Morocco, but a trip there is well worth your time, even if only for a few hours.
Volubilis is one of MoroccoⳠbest-preserved Roman ruins located between the Imperial Cities of Fez and Meknes on a fertile plain surrounded by wheat fields. Established before the Christian Era, at a time when the area was part of Mauretania, Volubilis was considered the administrative center of the kingdom of Mauretania and also one of the most remote cities within the Roman Empire, located in the far southwestern region.
Drunken Bai Garden has an architectural style of Chinese traditional garden which was inherited from architectures in Suzhou: elegant pavilions, winding and zigzagging paves, carved beams and painted rafters. It was such a scenery of exceptional charm that it attracts an endless stream of tourists. In this image, I attempted to imitate the mood that in the eyes of Li Bai after he was drunken. Hope him didn't run into the pond to get to the little house.
Wavelike rocks spreading out for 8 km around Aoshima Island (860 meter around, 6 meters above sea level) near the southeast coast of Miyazaki City. These rocks formed underwater and were later pushed above the surface, and were eroded by the waves for a long time. Sand accumulated on them and they took on the shape of a washboard, earning it the name ”The Devil's Washboard”.
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.
(Length of this caterpillar is about 1cm)
Caterpillars are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera. As with most common names, the application of the word is arbitrary, since the larvae of sawflies are commonly called caterpillars as well. Both lepidopteran and symphytan larvae have eruciform body shapes.
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is the largest and most popular of the many reflecting pools in Washington, D.C., United States. During the cherry blossom period, it is a good chance to frame the monument and its wet reflection with the beautiful cherry blossom.
The Dumbarton Oaks Museum features collections of Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art, as well as European artworks and furnishings. Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss initiated these collections in the first half of the twentieth century and provided the vision for future acquisitions even after giving Dumbarton Oaks to Harvard University.
Crowfoot Glacier is east of the continental divide, and runoff from the glacier supplies water to the Bow River. The glacier has retreated since the end of the Little Ice Age and now has lost one entire lobe; it therefore no longer resembles the glacier which early explorers named.
The Amur Tiger, also called the Siberian Tiger has a "Head and body length of 9 to 12 feet; a tail length of 3 to 4 feet; and a weight of which males are 400 to 675 pounds and females are 220 to 370 pounds. Tigers are the only striped cat. The coat varies from dark orange to reddish ochre with the belly, neck, throat, and insides of the limbs being a creamy white. The vertical stripes may be black or dark brown. Amur (Siberian) tigers are the lightest -- as well as being the largest -- of the tigers, and have longer coats than do their southern-ranging relatives.
In the Amur Tiger, females’ territories may either be exclusive or overlapping, with range size being dependent on the density of the prey species. Males’ ranges are larger and usually overlap the ranges of several females. They are active chiefly at night. They can leap distances of 16 to 20 feet, and 6 feet high. Tigers are not unsocial, despite the fact that they usually hunt alone and, in fact, often come together to share a kill. Neighbors often have amicable relationships. Females spend a large portion of their lives accompanied by cubs. Tigers are tolerant of a wide range of climates and habitats, only requiring adequate cover, water, and prey. They depend primarily on sight and hearing for hunting, and kill by strangulation or a bite to the back of the neck. They will bury the remains of a carcass and may return to feed from it for several days. Tigers can eat as much as 88 lbs. of meat at one time. Although they are excellent hunters, only 10% of all attempts result in a kill. They lead a nomadic life, travelling long distances in the winter in search of food. They can endure intense frost, but when travelling in deep snow they tire rapidly, and must rest often. Vocalizations include woofs, roars, rasping grunts, purring, soft grunts or puffing sounds called “prusten”.