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California Quail (Callipepla californica) Male

Emigrant Lake - Jackson County - Oregon - USA

Habitat : Scrub

Food : Seeds

Nesting : Ground

Behavior : Ground Forager

Conservation : Low Concern

Backlit - macromondays theme

SMC Pentax M 50mm f1.7

Similar to one posted upstream but this is the original image.

Sycamore Creek Canyon

Tonto National Forest

Summer 2015

Godrevy Lighthouse on a summer's evening.

#Iris Blüte#von hinten mit Sonnenschein angestrahlt.

😃Happy Macro Monday 😄

Backlit

Early morning sunlight filters through the overhead tree and bushes illuminating the petals of this beautiful opium poppy

Centenary Riverside, Rotherham

Pentax K-3 mk lll

HD Pentax-DA f4.5-6.3 55-300mm ED PLM WR RE

Bright morning sunlight shining through the leaves, seen against the corrugated iron roof.

Barn owl

Leaves of an Idaho locust tree at Lake Tahoe.

Hope you have a great weekend! Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for your kind comments, awards and faves -- I appreciate them all.

© Melissa Post 2017

Angola the secretary bird at the Hawk Conservancy in Andover, UK looking magnificent and majestic in the evening light.

Red-veined Darter Female (Sympetrum fonscolombii), Skyros Island, Greece

An infrared photo of ash tree leaves that were backlit by the setting sun.

I get the fact that coyotes get a bad rap - and sometimes deservedly so. We have them around where we live and I have heard the stories of dogs and cats disappearing with the coyotes getting most of the blame. Still, I love it when I get to hear their plaintiff calls at dusk and what certainly sounds like a joyous reunion when they greet each other at the end of the day.

While I was hopeful to get photos of a fox (still waiting) I am also happy to have seen and captured the other two species of the wild canine trifecta, this coyote being the first. It was walking along the Gibbon River in Yellowstone and I think it was trying to cross the road and head into timber. It stopped here between two trees, looking back towards the river. While the light wasn't the best, I still love how the fringes of its fur and chin whiskers are backlit and glow with the late afternoon sun. The thing that struck me the most about it were those amazing eyes - I'll never forget how I saw that golden color looking right at me in my camera's viewfinder!

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© 2016 Craig Goettsch - All rights reserved. Any unauthorized use without permission is prohibited.

Backlit tree branch by an old factory building.

shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a venus optics laowa 65mm f/2.8 2x macro lens

I tried photographing the Common Redstarts early one morning. However, the sun was right in front of me and backlit light is one of the most avoided in wildlife photography. But if you know how to use it, you can take amazing pictures...

Backlit Meadow Pipit, Pembrokeshire, July 2022

Hecale Longwing butterfly at Meijer Gardens

Wings reflected on the freshly watered leaf

Helios 44-2 58mm lens

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An afternoon view of Mt. Oberlin and Mt. Cannon backlit by the sun in the western sky as seen from Paradise Meadow along the Going-To-The-Sun Road as September comes to a close in Montana's Glacier National Park.

A small feather backlit with sunlight

Golden autum sunlight on a golden leaf

Backlit number 5: Fungi in New Forest with strong sunlight peeking over the branch it is growing on. New Forest, Hampshire,UK in September 2010.

Closeup of a backlit flower utilizing 85mm f1.8 prime lens and two-power in-camera digital zoom

……. backlit by the sun.

Wildwald Vosswinkel, Sauerland, NRW, D