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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.
Milford Sound - the 8th Wonder of the World.
Milford Sound is tucked far away in the southwest of New Zealand, but oh so beautiful. If you’re visiting New Zealand you can’t leave without exploring the area. You’ll enter a world of dramatic scenery with its high mountains, waterfalls, sheer cliffs and wild sea.
The best ways to discover Milford are hiking the many walking tracks, taking a cruise on the water or flying above it all, to really understand the vastness of this area.
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
I know, I need to plan my travel well in order to get good photos as many other professionals suggested. However, this is just a theory. Other than what I should do, I also limited by the financial luxury and the logistic of my travel plan. One of the uncontrollable factor is the weather. The day we arrived Hokkaido was sunny, then it rained almost 3-4 days. In this condition, I have to take photos with whatever the available lighting condition. Here is another photos under shady ambient light.
The Roseate Spoonbill's (粉紅琵鷺)pink color comes from what it eats -- a naturally occurring carotenoid pigment in the shells of crustaceans. In captivity, Flamingos and Spoonbills require a specially formulated diet to help them retain their distinctive color. Distribution: South America east of the Andes Mountains, coastal regions of Central America, Mexico, and the U.S. Gulf Coast. Habitat: Shallow fresh and coastal waters. Diet: Crustaceans, aquatic insects, small amphibians.
A Japanese was fishing in the morning, standing at the shore of Hyuga-nada Sea. The Hyuga-nada Sea (日向灘 Hyūga-nada) is the part of the Pacific Ocean that lies off the eastern shore of the island of Kyushu, to the south-west of the island of Honshu, off the south coast of Japan. Its name is derived from the former province of Hyūga, which corresponded to the prefecture of Miyazaki before the Meiji Restoration.