You can learn a lot of things from a flower most especially the month of June…

Champaign County, outside Rantoul. Illinois.

Rigi, Switzerland.

Going through some really rough stuff. Haven't been able to really get much joy out of nature (or anything else), this past week, but I did drag myself outside one day and saw this little one.

He certainly tried to evade my camera's view, but I did get him once him this time. :)

Sukhumvit or thereabouts. Bangkok, Thailand.

Cairina moschata

Monaco.

Palilula storefront (detail). Belgrade, Serbia.

Amanda swims through a layer of minnows. Eleuthera, BAH.

"what do you mean predators?!"

Hogfish have such beautiful vermiculations. I was hoping for a bigger specimen for this photo.

This cat is so beautiful. I wanted to pet him like it was one of mine so badly. :) Unfortunately I couldn't completely hide the enclosure.

Uonuma, Japan.

I wasn't there but my money's on the octopus. Fort Smith, AR.

Craig yr Aderyn ( Bird Rock ) rising 258m above the valley of Dyffryn Dysynni not far from Llanfihangel y Pennant, Tywyn, Gwynedd. This hill is renowned for its bird population and is believed to be the only inland location of a breeding colony of Cormorants in Wales, it's also an important roosting site for several species. Its summit slopes is also the site of an Iron Age fort. This was taken from the ruins of the 13 century Welsh castle of Castell y Bere.

Hardly been on Flickr these last 5 weeks so a lot of catching up to do.

Brussels, Belgium.

Incheon, South Korea.

Angkor Wat. Cambodia.

Lord Stirling Park, Basking Ridge, New Jersey

I was fortunate to be in position for this shot as the last remnants of fog burned off and warm sunlight struck some of the foliage. When considering a landscape shoot I check the weather in advance. Had the forecast said "clear sky", I would not have gotten out of bed for this.

Tamron 18-400mm VC + Canon SL2

León, Mexico.

Bucharest, Romania.

Testing Canon EOS Rebel SL2 / EOS 200D

Cyanocitta cristata

Made with a prism and the Auto Chinon Multi-coated 28mm f/2.8 lens.

Cairina moschata

León, Mexico.

Buteo lineatus

Seabob train, Florida Keys.

Testing Canon EOS Rebel SL2 / EOS 200D

My first usable photo with my new underwater strobe. An old Ikelite DS-50. Angled from the left. Strobes and strobe arms run in the hundreds of dollars. My set up cost me around 45 dollars :).

Quiscalus quiscula

Genoa, Italy.

Antigua & Barbuda.

Cardinalis cardinalis

Even a bad day in the Bahamas is awesome. It was windy and there were white caps off shore. But off the beach was a Beautiful underwater sunset, Bimini, Bahamas.