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It was not only my fifth and final morning, but it was in my final available hour of photographing the beauty of Custer State Park when this lovely lady caught my eye. I had already logged some 3.5 mile of wandering the rolling hills and rock formations in search of a Prairie rattler (another swing and a miss) when I realized that it was time to head back to my car.
As I stood at the back of my car packing away my camera gear, movement caught the corner of my left eye. As I attempted to zero in on the distraction, my mind instantly noticed that of the 50 or so Prairie dog mounds in front of me, not a single dog was up, or alerting on my return…something was very different.
Just as I started to conclude my scan of the area, it happened again. Some 25 yards out, a large amount to dirt was thrown in the air. Something much bigger than a Prairie dog was digging behind the mound, just out of view. Matching the speed of Forest Gump reassembling his weapon in boot camp, I unpacked my largest lens, switched camera bodies and attached my monopod in record time!
It took a while to close the gap a bit because I had to stop every few steps and look through the lens for activity, check settings and be ready to capture a few safety shots. I wrongly assumed that whatever it was, it would disappear into its den the second I was noticed. When she arched her back up, perfectly displaying the unmistakable markings of a Badger, I gasped, gulped and nearly provided a fecal sample instantly!
I took several shots of her back with dirt flying through the air, just in case this would be my only opportunity granted with this bucket listed gift from God. I guess her internal safety alarm went off…or she noticed my need of a shower, but she threw her head in the air, noticeably utilizing her sight, olfaction and hearing…now staring right down my lens.
It was at this point I captured this shot, a personal treasure. Knowing that the 20 or so yards between us was well within both of our comfort zones, I knew she pretty much had three options…dive down into the newly dug den, run away, or my least favorite…jump on my head and eat my face. Once again, I was blessed to be wrong as she chose a fourth option. She trotted away from me another 20 yards or so and started digging again. It was then that I realized she was hunting Prairie dogs, hunger had this normally nocturnal lady out late, away from her den and probable cubs.
The newly acquired distance between us provided much more comfort as she proceeded to hunt, her checks on my whereabouts becoming less and less frequent. It was when she decided to flip over on her back to enjoy a roll in the freshly dug dirt that I knew she was totally relaxed, and I was able to properly sex her. For the record…no photos of her “womanhood” was taken as I did not desire to have them in my camera nor computer…just in case something would tragically happen to me, like her jealous hubby jumping on my head and eating my face! I would hate for my memory to be tainted when “badger parts” photos were discovered in my files!
Several cars passed by, no doubt looking for wildlife…surely noticing me on my knees out in the middle of a prairie dog town. All missing the opportunity of this rare encounter and absolute blessing. I backed away slowly as I did not want to disrupt this mom’s guilty little pleasure, knowing that the hunt probably wouldn’t end until success was achieved.
A lonely tree along a lonely road somewhere in northern Spain and a few spectacular cloud formations.
Part of a hilltop sculpture near Burnley called the Singing Ringing Tree. It is made of many metal tubes in a twisting formation which was designed to harness the elements to create very unusual and eerie sounds as the wind flows through. Worth visiting. This is part of a selection of sculptures around East Lancashire, all with a different design.
Un cadeau de notre chauffeur lors de notre excursion dans le sud tunisien. Comme nous ne sommes que deux, il nous amène voir des formations de sable sculptés par la pluie et le vent.
Bryce Canyon National Park is located in southwestern Utah in the United States. The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon is a collection of giant natural amphitheaters along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
United States
September 2016
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A setting looking to the northwest while taking in views up this hillside to the High Peaks with pinnacles. This is in Pinnacles National Park. My thought on composing this image was to take advantage of the towering heights to my fronts and create this wall with the pinnacle rocks. Blue and clouds would help to highlight that look and bring more of a focus to the hillside.
This is just one of the unusual rock formations to be found at Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park near Agua Dulce, California. This one could almost pass for a sculpture., But, it’s been there for tens of thousands of years and is a natural volcanic formation. It’s a fascinating place and has been used as a back drop for literally thousands of western movies (all the way back to silent movies) and TV commercials.
While walking the Prewett Point Trail with a view looking to the northeast in Pinnacles National Park. My thinking in composing this image was to zoom in with the focal length to that portion where the Balconies and ridgeline coming off the High Peaks came together with the canyon in between. I decided to take advantage of the high ground I was on and angle my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward, so it would create more of a sweeping view leading up to that volcanic formation. Off in the distance would be more hillsides and mountains, and as part of a layered look I was attempting to capture.
I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 6 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.
Arpoador - uma praia e uma formação rochosa entre as praias de Ipanema e a praia do Diabo. Um mirante natural, bastante frequentado, principalmente na hora do pôr-do-sol.
Arpoador - a beach and a rock formation between the beaches of Ipanema and Devil's beach. A natural lookout, quite frequented, especially at sunset.
Arpoador, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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Blackchurch Rock lies on the North Coast of Devon and this impressive Stack is a Photographers playground, I visited back in March and will return in the coming weeks to see if I can get another shot or two.
Blackchurch is part of the Crackington Formation, an Upper Carboniferous formation of sandstone and dark mudstones and shale, an arch sea stack composed of layers of sandstone and shale tilted at about 60 degrees.
These large folds were formed during a mountain building event about 290 million years ago, called the Variscan Orogeny. The rocks were dated by cephalopod fossils called goniatites, an interesting place for sure :)
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The Wave is a rock formation throning on top of Huab Valley near Twyvelfontein, Namibia. It is also called The Lion's Mouth.
WWT Slimbridge - Estuary Tower.
The Wigeon is a medium-sized duck with a round head and small bill. The head and neck of the male are chestnut, with a yellow forehead, pink breast and grey body. In flight, Wigeons show white bellies, male Wigeons also have a large white wing patch. Wigeons breed in central and northern Scotland and also in northern England. Many birds visit the UK over winter from Iceland, Scandinavia and Russia. With large numbers of wintering birds at a few UK sites, it is an Amber List species. (RSPB).
Easily panicked is the Wigeon. This is a large group of wigeon settling down again after who knows what set them off! They only moved about 20 feet! (Just over 6m). At one point they where walking on land in a vee formation, the bravest of them leading the way… then something would spook them and it was back to the water, quick as you like.
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The Externsteine is a distinctive sandstone rock formation located in the Teutoburg Forest, near the town of Horn-Bad Meinberg.
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Such a magical place that I’m patiently waiting to visit again here soon. Those cold chilly mornings get the mist going on the water that turns this already beautiful landscape into an ethereal story from a fantasy book. So eerie, but yet so quiet and peaceful .
Here's an image from last fall. It's easliy one of my favorites from my travels throughout the swamps.
Huanghua formation is a garden modeled on a European maze. the phalanx of the Huang-Hua was a rectangle with gates on the four sides. At the center of the formation was an octagonal European Pavilion sitting on a high round foundation, meaning the sky was round and the earth was square. The phalanx was about 89 meters long from south to north and about 59 meters wide from east to west. The phalanx wall was over 1,600 meters long and about 1.2 meters high. As the wall was paneled with grey brick tiles carrying shaped carvings, the phalanx was also called the wan hua formation (formation of yellow flowers). Historic records indicate that on the evening of the moon festival each year in its heydays, the emperor would hold a lantern evening.
There are two records about the build time of the Huanghua formation in the 12th year of Qianlong (1747) and the 21st year of Qianlong (1756), but there is no definite evidence for either. (From: www.yuanmingyuanpark.cn/ymyyj/yj040/201612/t20161230_4171...)
Taken on March 8, 2019 in Yuanmingyuan Park, Beijing, China.
U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds - #126 in Explore 5/5/22
2022 Fort Lauderdale Air Show - Fort Lauderdale, Florida U.S.A.
Spring 2022 - On the Beach - Broward County - South Florida
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The U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, known to all the world as the “Thunderbirds”, are the Air Force’s Ambassadors in Blue. They represent the 500,000 men and women of the United States Air Force. The Thunderbirds plan and present precision aerial maneuvers to exhibit the capabilities of modern, high-performance aircraft and the high degree of professional skill required to operate those aircraft. The Thunderbirds squadron is composed of eight pilots (including six demonstration pilots), four support officers, four civilians and more than 100 enlisted personnel.
The Thunderbirds air demonstration is a mix of formation flying and solo routines. The four-jet diamond formation demonstrates the training and precision of Air Force pilots, while the two solo aircraft highlight some of the extreme capabilities of the F-16. In all, the pilots perform approximately 40 maneuvers in a single demonstration. An aerial demonstration lasts 60 minutes with an additional 15 minutes for the ground show before takeoff.
During a typical season the Thunderbirds perform no more than 70 air demonstrations in 35 cities throughout the nation. More than 280 million people in all 50 states and 57 foreign countries have seen the red, white and blue Thunderbirds jets.
Thunderbirds were officially activated June 1, 1953, as the 3600th Air Demonstration Unit at Luke AFB, Arizona. The unit was nicknamed the “Stardusters.” Their first aircraft was the straight-winged F-84G Thunderjet. The team transitioned to the swept-winged F-84F Thunderstreak in 1955. In June 1956, the team moved to its current home at Nellis AFB in Nevada and traded the veteran F-84 for the world’s first supersonic fighter, the F-100 Super Sabre. In early 1964, the team changed briefly to the F-105B Thunderchief, but after only six shows returned to the F-100. In 1969 the team transitioned to the F-4E Phantom and then in 1974 to the T-38 Talon, a more fuel efficient jet. In 1983 the Thunderbirds began flying the
F-16 and continue to do so. - Was a huge thrill on a magnificent day!
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I spotted this strange ice shape in a frozen puddle while wandering around Glen Affric on Saturday and thought it would make an interesting foreground feature.
I then started wondering what it was and how it had been created; it was about 8" tall and completely hollow but I have yet to come up with an explanation.
Any ideas?