Some big waves crashing at high tide at Middle Beach Merimbula. This beach has a variety of rocks and the red area on the southern side is perhaps the most scenic, the colour deepening when wet. Merimbula NSW.

“A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTxzmLyVFYY

MANFRED MANN – PRETTY FLAMINGO

Flaming June

Flamingos

orange sun

pink feather boas

and tutus swayed

lush green grass

where grasshoppers played

canopies of trees

Summer rain

buzzing bees

jungle cries

humidity

exotic flowers

cooling showers

drums and echoes

salamanders and geckos

giraffes and elephants

breathless now we pant

rhinos and anteaters

peppers and saltpetre

leopards and lions

monkeys and tigers

shadowy blurred and parallel lines

wonder where we were

some kind of dreamland

where worlds collide

where pink flamingos

and pink pigeons coincide

coexisting

we're just visiting

just passing through

hello; adieu

the rain keeps falling

the jungle's calling

don't want to leave

just want to believe

in magic and fairy dust

in all good things I trust

can't tear my gaze away

I just want to stay

I am spellbound

I want to be crowned

Princess of the jungle here

there is nothing for me to fear

I cannot get lost

not unless I want to

I don't count the cost

I will always believe in you

walking through the desert

brightly coloured birds

the noise can be deafening

my voice cannot be heard

it is suddenly hard to breathe

no moisture in the air

and then just as suddenly

it all disappeared

just as I feared

it would

just because

it could …

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Darkness took over there along the Snake River, with the ribbon of light above there in the sky and below in the water.

One of my favorite memories from Sweden. Stockholm at night, a glow with quiet magic. The city lights dancing on the water, the hush of history in every cobbled street, and the sky deepening to blue as I walked, it’s a moment I’ll always treasure.

Merry Christmas to all my dear friends. wishing you a beautiful day filled with peace, warmth, and light.

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Crystalline droplets of summer's morning dew,

Bring gentle moisture, the dry earth to renew.

By Richard Ellis

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Have a WONDERFUL day my friends!!!

Twilight Time, to dream awhile

In veils of deepening blue

As fantasy strides over colorful skies

Of form disappearing from view...

-- The Moody Blues

I have no idea what this plant is but tucked into the bushes, the reddish leaves caught my attention. In this HSS edit, I've emphasized the shadowy branches I was shooting through and boosted a few sliders in LR to deepen the colors! Hope everyone has a Happy Sliders Sunday!

After driving through the night from Plymouth, waking up in the van to this view was an absolute pleasure. Sunrise didn’t produce a lot of colour but what a view!! So peaceful, I seemed to have the whole lake to myself. Wastwater is a lake located in Wasdale, a valley in the western part of the Lake District National Park. The lake is almost 3 miles long and more than one-third mile wide. It is the deepest lake in England at 258 feet (79 m), and is owned by the National Trust. It is one of the finest examples of a glacially 'over-deepened' valley. The surface of the lake is about 200 feet above sea level, while its bottom is over 50 feet below sea level. The head of the Wasdale Valley is surrounded by some of the highest mountains in England, including Scafell Pike, Great Gable and Lingmell. The steep slopes on the southeastern side of the lake, leading up to the summits of Whin Rigg and Illgill Head. Thanks for looking.

A bluish bill, a white head plume, a deepened color of feathers...ready for breeding!

This Tricolored Heron has added a bit of extra color to his three basic colors (blue-gray, white, rust). Seen in the blazing sunlight and shadows at Merritt Island NWR, Florida.

In Explore July 9, 2023

Night deepened there along the Snake River at Oxbow Bend.

ANTWERPEN / STOOFGAT - Shipping on the Schelde needs to take into account the tides. The latest deepening of the Scheldt in 2010 the biggest container vessels in the world can get to Antwerp easily and safely. A constant depth of 13.1 metres is possible and taking into account the tides, vessels with a draught of 15.5 metres are able to get to the Port of Antwerp.

It was a beautiful day for a circular walk from the North Yorkshire village of Whixley to Allerton Mauleverer. the spring greens are begining to deepen in colour now

This view is from the junction of Starra Field Lane and Ox Close Lane at Round Hill. If you look very closely you can see a white blob on the distant hills towards the right. This is the White Horse at Kilburn

2017 08 19

No hypocrite is necessary.

The hurt deepens by the hypocrite.

very painful and sad...。

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Showers and sunshine bring,

Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth;

To put their foliage out, the woods are slack,

And one by one the singing-birds come back.

William C. Bryant

Textures thanks to Tòta and 2-lil-owls (from Design cuts)

Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam Zuid, Rijnhaven, Terraforming, Sand dispenser (slightly cut from all sides)

During high tide, the results of the filling of the Rijnhaven get somewhat camouflaged. In this part of Rotterdam, the difference between high and low tide is some 1,5 m. On the left (bottom) are the New Luxor theatre's characteristic protruding parking deck and InHolland (top). On the right is Bayhouse.

Shot from the 20th floor of 'De Rotterdam'.

As I wrote earlier, Rijnhaven is being redeveloped. This harbour was created in 1895 to offer shelter for Rhine vessels ('rijnaken'), which could not operate during the winter due to the freezing of the rivers.

After the creation of the harbour, the transit freight traffic to Rotterdam continued to increase, and the new Rijnhaven was made suitable for large sea-going vessels by deepening it. As planned, the Rijnhaven became an essential port for the transhipment of bulk goods 'on stream' - the sea-going vessels were moored on buoys, separate from the quay, and their cargo was directly moved to rhine ships. In de 70/80s of the last century, the Rijnhaven lost its transhipment function and was brought back to its old function. In 2015, the rhine ship berths were moved to, among others, the Maashaven. Enabling the redevelopment of the old harbour.

It will be partly (30%) filled up (pure terraforming) to enable the realization of, amongst others, an office/apartment building strip with up to 200m high edifices, called the 'Skyline Posthumalaan' with an adjacent park and city beach. And there will be the floating Rijnhavenpark, too.

This is number 10 of Rijnhaven - the redevelopment, 348 of Rotterdam harbour and industry and 43 of De Rotterdam.

One of the sports that I like the most is the basketball, which allows us to have a good time with friends and can be played on street courts, not only in sports center. There are encounters about this sport such as Kuroko no Basket, which has been very successful and deepens the relationships between players, the vision of the plays or personal improvement.

The style card and credits here

Mistaya Canyon in Banff National Park is a scenic gem on the Icefields Parkway. Sculpted by the rushing water of the Mistaya River, which originates from Peyto Lake to the southeast, this deep slot canyon features curvy limestone walls and eroded pothole depressions. One of my many stops along the Icefields Parkway that connects Banff to Jasper NP in Alberta, Canada. Many signs about telling people that there are sheer drop-offs and certain death is imminent. I took quite a few from different angles. It's hard to explain how curvy the gorge is below these falls as it deepens substantially below the frame here. I shot this early in the morning with just a few lingering about. I did manage to capture one gentleman getting out fairly far onto the rocks. Click on the image or click L on your keyboard to it in further detail.

19-July-2020: however the sun has already acted on the layered fog, which I will deepen with the next shots to post, combining it in more dynamic banks of fog, ready to rise and dissipate in the summer sultry-misty air.

The time to photograph these phenomena, in the height of summer, is few minutes after sunrise (I did some shots at dawn, before sunrise, with the tripod, to take a few more minutes), which warms from the first ray and we are talking about 5 CEST in the morning during the longest days of early summer, with the very first lights already at 3.40 in the morning/late night.

The result of a night's work is dissipated in 10-15 minutes.

In autumn and winter the phenomenon lasts longer and occurs at much more "common times" (between 7 and 8 in the morning), but is less frequent due to a greater meteorological dynamism and the frequent influx of the Bora wind (here mostly "in utero") that mixes the air preventing the local inversion and the formation of the hydrometeoric phenomena associated with it.

In summer, as mentioned, the greater atmospheric stability and the scarce presence of mixing winds favors the phenomena of (night) thermal inversion.

wild grizzly

Selected for group cover of "Australia's Gallery of Excellence" (2016-02-23). Thank you so much, I am honored.

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The Rock - Sydney Autralia

It was raining very hard earlier in the day so I figured there had got to be cloudy still. it didn't disappoint.

The histogram looks ok, but my eyes keep saying this looks over exposed. Thoughts? Constructive feedback are welcome please

„Galerie der Gegenwart - Kunsthalle Hamburg

Amsterdam

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The Fred Hartman Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge in the U.S. state of Texas spanning the Houston Ship Channel. The bridge carries 2.6 miles (4.2 km) of State Highway 146 (SH 146), between the cities of Baytown and La Porte (east of Houston). The bridge is also expected to carry State Highway 99 (SH 99) (Grand Parkway) when it is completed around Houston.

The bridge, named for Fred Hartman (1908–1991), the editor and publisher of the Baytown Sun from 1950 to 1974, is the longest cable-stayed bridge in Texas, and one of only four such bridges in the state, the others being Veterans Memorial Bridge in Orange County, Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas and Bluff Dale Suspension Bridge in Erath County. It is the 77th largest bridge in the world. The construction cost of the bridge was $91.25 million.

The bridge replaced the Baytown Tunnel (of depth clearance 40 feet or 12.2 m). The tunnel had to be removed when the Houston Ship Channel was deepened to 45 feet (13.7 m), with a minimum 530 feet (161.5 m) bottom width, to accommodate larger ships. The last section of the Baytown Tunnel was removed from the Houston Ship Channel on September 14, 1999, with removal of the tunnel being the responsibility of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT).

(Wikipedia)

"In the lonely twilight hour,

Looking forth from his old tower,

When the sunset glow has faded in the west,

Then he sees the distant things

Steeped in purple of the kings,

While the breezes come to chill at night's behest.

Then the color from the air

Sinks to--God but knows just where,

And the interval of deepened twilight grows;

But the gleaming streaks of light

From his tower of the night

Send their word to every ship that comes or goes."

© by Helen Emma Maring

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your awards, but most of all your friendship! Stay safe!

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The kea is a large New Zealand

parrot with mainly olive-green feathers, deepening to a teal blue on the wingtips. On the underside of the wings and the base of the tail the features are a reddish-orange. Female kea are slightly smaller than males and have shorter beaks.

Many other native birds in New Zealand are flightless, including the kea’s relative the kakapo. Unlike them, kea can fly very well.

Walking the beach at Southerndown after sunset, with colours deepening, just before darkness descends. Here comes the blackout by Stornoway is fine.

Why not?

I seem to be on an e e cummings kick,

collaborating on these lines:

what if a keen of a lean wind flays

screaming hills with sleet and snow:

cloaks valleys in deepening fleece

and covers the creek in white trousseau?

Blow seeing to blind, blow day to night

(blow sleep to waking and soul to mind)

whose hearts are mountains, and roots are trees,

it's they shall cry -- ah spring! in time

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High noon; shadows deepen. Mysterious adventures loom ahead.

the mother tree project consists of nine experimental forests located across a 'climate rainbow' in british columbia - from hot and dry forests in the southeast corner of the province to cold and wet stands in the north-central interior

...to make educated guesses about which combinations of harvesting and planting will be most resilient to the stresses our planet is facing, how the healthiest connections can thrive alongside our needs to use resources from the forest

we have the power to shift course...by understanding their sentient qualities, our empathy and love for trees, plants and forests will naturally deepen and find innovative solutions

open your senses

from 'finding the mother tree' by suzanne simard

2021

I was shooting the sunset and looked up and saw the jet, I knew that was my Sliders Sunday shot, deepened the colors and added the sun. Now the age old question has to be asked as one watches a jet cross the sky, hmm wonder if they are coming or going?

A big thank you to the contribution of Martin de Lusenet for this photo from www.flickr.com/photos/martindelusenet/13507834553/

I made some changes enhancing those smooth peachy sunset colours and deepening the blues in the water reflection. The OCD in me told me that the image was not 100% horizontal so after using a grid I decided to rotate it by 0.1 of a degree to make it even and added abit of cloud blur to futher enhance that feeling of serenity and calmness I get from viewing this photo.

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,

Love like you'll never be hurt,

Sing like there's nobody listening,

And live like it's heaven on earth.”

― William W. Purkey

Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbJruWd6bmU

I HOPE YOU DANCE – RONAN KEATING

DANCE

In dreams I walked; dazed by events

and blinded to the truthful present

blind-sighted; blinkered by the ensuing darkness

I clung to life like a life-buoy being dragged out to sea

the horizon looked so far away

no land in sight to fill my heart with hope and gaiety

but the further I drifted;

the more the sand beneath the ocean shifted

and a fault inside the Earth cracked wider and pulled me down

I was drowning deeply; water rising

my face upturned to see blue skies

last conscious thought was of the clouds descending

as they lifted me I felt my hopes rise

and consciousness broke gently

as the gentle tide lapped on the shore

I felt so light and free of pain

I began to doubt that I existed anymore

and now I feel the sand between my twitching toes

the salt air invades my pink and shiny nose

the gentle rainfall on my wind-whipped cheeks

I dance on tip-toes; writing poetry with my feet

splashing through the deepening puddles

fulfilling dreams; deconstructing puzzles

I feel alive; I have survived

a miracle set me free

no longer need to wonder now

or wander aimlessly

twirling; swirling; spun by the wind

my body is at one with nature; it will not rescind

I will not let it; I am a fighter; I found my light

and the dark and dreaded “tunnel” is now far from my sight

I need not let my history repeat itself in perpetuity

I can break it down and recreate my newly chosen destiny

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* The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,093 feet or 1,857 meters).[5]

The canyon and adjacent rim are contained within Grand Canyon National Park, the Kaibab National Forest, Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument, the Hualapai Indian Reservation, the Havasupai Indian Reservation and the Navajo Nation. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of the preservation of the Grand Canyon area and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery.

Nearly two billion years of Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. While some aspects about the history of incision of the canyon are debated by geologists, several recent studies support the hypothesis that the Colorado River established its course through the area about 5 to 6 million years ago. Since that time, the Colorado River has driven the down-cutting of the tributaries and retreat of the cliffs, simultaneously deepening and widening the canyon.

For thousands of years, the area has been continuously inhabited by Native Americans, who built settlements within the canyon and its many caves. The Pueblo people considered the Grand Canyon a holy site, and made pilgrimages to it. The first European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was García López de Cárdenas from Spain, who arrived in 1540.

The snow is deepening and everything is very quite. When the sun goes down even the snow gets blue. From a mire in Swedish Lapland 24 november 2016

Antarctic Havn is in the Arctic and on the East Coast of Greenland. This was a late evening landing but the lighting was amazing with the colours deepening as we approached midnight.

Outlet glaciers can erode over-deepened troughs, and, as they retreat, water accumulates in the depressions evacuated by the ice and glacial lakes form. These lakes enhance melting, as ice chunks break off the glacier tongue in a process called calving.

This northern cardinal and all the other birds in the area are likely singing "Snowflakes Keep Falling on My Head" as one big storm after another adds to the deepening snowpack here at Lake Meyer Park.

HBW my friends!

Another shot at the cool house of SBG :)

SOOC except for contrast, level, deepen, hehehe :p

Will try to catch up with your streams later :)

Loch Sunart is a sea loch on the west coast of Scotland. Loch Sunart is bounded to the north by the Sunart district of Ardnamurchan and to the south by the Morvern district. At 31 kilometres long, it is the longest sea loch in the Highland .

I come among the peoples like a shadow.

I sit down by each man's side.

None sees me, but they look on one another,

And know that I am there.

My silence is like the silence of the tide

That buries the playground of children;

Like the deepening of frost in the slow night,

When birds are dead in the morning.

Armies trample, invade, destroy,

With guns roaring from earth and air.

I am more terrible than armies,

I am more feared than the cannon.

Kings and chancellors give commands;

I give no command to any;

But I am listened to more than kings

And more than passionate orators.

I unswear words, and undo deeds.

Naked things know me.

I am first and last to be felt of the living.

I am Hunger

~Poem by Robert Laurence Binyon

I got the inspiration for this photo from an amazing photographer, Ren Matsura. Please visit Ren's wonderful stream and see the original version of this look.

Ren Matsura's Photo

And since my Blue Phoenix has much better taste in music than I do...I asked him to pick the perfect song to accompany this photo. And of course, he did. Thank you, My Love. ISFLY ♥♥.

On Blue Phoenix' Playlist

Photo taken at Bryn Oh's Lobby Cam

Three Black-eyed Susans line up nicely for a vertical capture. I love it when the shadowed green leaves in the background are often rendered blue. I've deepened the blue a bit here for a nice contrast to the gold flowers.

Enjoy!

Groynes, breakwaters and artificial reefs

A groyne is a shore protection structure built perpendicular to the shoreline of the coast (or river), over the beach and into the shoreface (the area between the nearshore region and the inner continental shelf), to reduce longshore drift and trap sediments. A groyne field or system is a series of groynes acting together to protect a beach. Rock is often used as construction material, but wooden groynes, steel groynes, rubble-mound and sand-filled bag groynes, or groynes made of concrete elements can also be found.

Groynes trap sediments from longshore drift so that the coast behind the sand layer is protected from erosion. Their effectiveness depends on their extension into the river or sea. As any other systems acting on the long-shore drift, they can negatively affect the transportation and sedimentation pattern of underflow areas, causing downdrift erosion. Other adverse effects (especially for rivers) can be an increase in current velocity in the constricted flow area, with increasing bed erosion and a deepening of the bed level. Groynes can also be used in estuaries to decrease tidal flow velocities at the shoreline. Rock groynes can be more effective in this case, as wooden groynes tend to reflect energy rather that absorb it. This depends on the type of wooden structures; in general screens are less effective.

To build groynes, breakwaters and reefs, rock size, face slopes, crest elevation and crest width and toe protections and aprons should be designed according to the natural characteristics of the sites as these factors have an important impact on the shoreline. Sand may build up behind breakwaters and artificial reefs to form salients. Sand can accumulate enough to connect with the breakwater and form a tombolo (a stretch of sand developed by wave refraction, diffraction and longshore drift forming a ‘neck’ connecting the structure to the shore). Considering the significant impact these structures have on the coastal environment, they should only be considered as part of a global adaptive management policy, taking into account the characteristics of the specific site and the potential effects on the whole coast. The construction of groynes and breakwaters could also be linked to a beach nourishment programme, and groynes and breakwaters can be used in a protected beach nourishment approach.

As a final stop on an incredibly long day, I could have done worse. The clouds were sparse, but available. The breeze swayed the canola, at nearly peak yellow. The sky deepened to dark blue. The sun was sinking and I had hours to drive.

I should have captured this in color. I did with the Mamiya, but that's not this.

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'Deepen'

Camera: Graflex Speed Graphic

Lens: Steinheil Rapid Antiplanet 6,5; 27cm

Film: Fomapan 100

Exposure: f/16; 8sec; Grand ND

Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min

Washington

May 2022

Two weeks prior to this day, I went to Glacial Park for the first time. I saw this extensive prairie and thought it would be nice to capture morning mist hanging low across it. A week before, I went to the park at dawn. I saw light mist over the field the previous morning. However, mist didn't generate that morning. The previous day's expected low was 55 degrees. I drove toward the park at crack of dawn. Between home and the park, there is a field in the outskirts which is usually fogged up when the parks are fogged up. As I saw the field clear of mist, I made an U-turn and headed to the beach instead.

This day's expected low was 52 degrees. The field wasn't fogged up. This prairie wasn't either. Instead, I saw this gorgeous sunrise. As soon as the dawn broke, the eastern sky showed a hint that a dramatic sunrise was going to happen. The atmosphere above the horizon began to have colours. The clouds began to dye, reflecting the sunlight. When I was lost in admiration of the clouds deepening their colours, the sun had been risen. I may not see a sunrise over this extensive field again for a long while. I was glad for being able to capture the last sunrise I saw in Illinois State.

Mode: manual

WB: shadow, Image color correction 2 degrees,

Tone isn't post-edited.

Note to self: 要校正

深まる秋

A reworking of an old shot

Wast Water or Wastwater is a lake in the Lake District National Park, England. The lake is approximately 4.6 kilometres (almost 3 miles) long and 600 metres (more than a third of a mile) wide, and is located in the Wasdale valley. It is the deepest lake in England, at 79 metres (258 feet), and is owned by the National Trust.

It is one of the finest examples of a glacially 'over-deepened' valley. The surface of the lake is about 200 feet above sea level, while its bottom is over 50 feet below sea level.

Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,

May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul.

As the wind loves to call things to dance,

May your gravity by lightened by grace.

Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth,

May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect.

As water takes whatever shape it is in,

So free may you be about who you become.

As silence smiles on the other side of what's said,

May your sense of irony bring perspective.

As time remains free of all that it frames,

May your mind stay clear of all it names.

May your prayer of listening deepen enough

to hear in the depths the laughter of god.

John O'Donohue

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Please, don't fave and run, you will get yourself blocked.

Surprising to me is how well these Quail navigate ever deepening snow. They seem able to maintain comfortable body temps by fluffing themselves up to an external volume that often makes them appear to be almost-perfectly round feathery balls.