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Bow Falls is a major wide river waterfall on the Bow River, Alberta just before the junction of it and the Spray River. They are located near the Banff Springs Hotel and golf course on the left-hand side of River Road.
The Amazon Milk Frog (Mission golden-eyed tree frog) is rather large for a tree frog. It is about 2.5 inches in length. Its body is light blue, blue-green or gray with black and brown banding covered with white and dark spots and bumps. As juveniles their patterning is more contrasting and then fades some with age.
The Amazon Milk Frog is nocturnal and lives in the rain-forest canopy. They often breed in tree cavities and seldom descend to the ground.
Wander through beautiful native forests and over a swing bridge to experience the pristine waters of Makarora River's Blue Pools. Stroll through beech/tawhero forest to a swing bridge that crosses the Makarora River. Follow the boardwalk to a viewing platform over the Blue Pools then cross the Blue Pools bridge for great views up the river gorge.
Along the way look out for large trout feeding in the pools and listen for the threatened yellowhead/mohua, which can often be heard in the canopy. Nestled among mature beech and podocarp forest, these pools of deep, clear water flowing into the Makarora River offer a moment of tranquillity. This is one of our best short walks.
Borago officinalis, also known as a starflower, is an annual herb in the flowering plant family Boraginaceae. It is native to the Mediterranean region and has naturalized in many other locales.[2] It grows satisfactorily in gardens in the UK climate, remaining in the garden from year to year by self-seeding. The leaves are edible and the plant is grown in gardens for that purpose in some parts of Europe. The plant is also commercially cultivated for borage seed oil extracted from its seeds. The plant contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids, some of which are hepatotoxic, mutagenic and carcinogenic (see below under Phytochemistry).
This has been published in 'Digital Photographer Magazine' Ukranian edition, as part of an article talking about lightning!!
This was taken in Rapid City, South Dakota. I have been photographing, or trying to photograph, lightning for many years now. I have got some beautiful shots, but I never had felt like I got THE shot. Well, I feel like I finally got THE shot with this one, now I have to try and one up myself. Actually, I just got lucky here, I have seen a lot of beautiful lightning, but my camera was pointing the wrong way, the evening I shot this their was so much lightning, it didn't matter where I pointed the camera, I was going to get something.
Check it out in B&W
www.flickr.com/photos/kevinaker/3717823425/in/set-7215762...
Here are some more lightning photos
www.flickr.com/photos/kevinaker/sets/72157609571304508/
And here are some Cloud & Storm Photos
The rain made the tourists staying away from uncovered area that I got the chance to take this photo with no people standing in the open area. The rain didn't stop me taking photos and in fact I do like the wet look and the atmosphere being raining.
The Monastery of Saint Ivan of Rila, better known as the Rila Monastery was founded in the 10th century, the Rila Monastery is regarded as one of Bulgaria's most important cultural, historical and architectural monuments and is a key tourist attraction for both Bulgaria and Southern Europe. It is situated in the southwestern Rila Mountains, 117 km (73 mi) south of the capital Sofia in the deep valley of the Rilska River at an elevation of 1,147 m (3,763 ft) above sea level, inside of Rila Monastery Nature Park.
The Rialto Bridge is the oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It was recently completed the repair in 2017. Today, the Bridge is one of the top tourism attractions in Venice. I captured this image at night becuase of less people.
There are so many beautiful scenes that you can see in Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia especially if you can view from high elevation. It was bad
to me that I had only half day there and couldn't go higher up to get better vista. This was the one I captured to be my best one over there. The time was around 5pm mid October last year. The sun was low that I was at the shadow side overlooking a footpath along the lake gave a sense of direction and also cast a beautiful reflection on the water. On the other side of the image was full of autumn colour with late afternoon sunlight that pushing out its brilliant foliage.
(2nd Place award)
Shiretoko National Park (知床国立公園 Shiretoko Kokuritsu Kōen) covers most of the Shiretoko Peninsula at the northeastern tip of the island of Hokkaidō, Japan. The word "Shiretoko" is derived from an Ainu word "sir etok", meaning "the place where the earth protrudes". Along the way, besides the four marshes of varying sizes, we encountered scattered wet plants (hygrophytes) and alpine plants at late autumn with fall foilage,
First Church is a prominent church in the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located in the heart of the city on Moray Place, 100 metres to the south of the city centre. The church is the city's primary Presbyterian church. The building is regarded as the most impressive of New Zealand's nineteenth-century churches,[1] and is listed by Heritage New Zealand as a Category I structure. Externally, First Church successfully replicates the effect, if on a smaller scale, of the late Norman cathedrals of England.
A barrier between the ocean and inland water to form Tairua Harbour.
Looking farther, you'll see Slipper (left), but Penguin and Rabbit Islands were hiding behind the mountain at right. The image was captured from Mount Paku.
A closer look of Dubrovnik, Croatia is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea. Dubrovnik, Croatia, with its characteristic medieval city walls. Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea, in the region of Dalmatia. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean, a seaport and the center of Dubrovnik-Neretva County.
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.