Time is free, but it is priceless.

You can't own it, but, you can use it.

You can't keep it, but you can spend it.

And, once you've lost it, you can never get it back.

-Harvey Mackay

Taken last year out in Joshua Tree National Park. :)

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I found another shot from Trona Pinnacles in my ready to post folder, that I have forgotten to post. This is one of the taller single pinnacles shot in the first exposure and the moon is a second much faster exposure to kill down the glow. I processed this one a long time ago, but decided to add some sparkles to the stars and upload.

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A little blue heron quietly wades through the shallows in beautiful morning light.

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Every once in a while the photo gods throw me a freebie. :)

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Another fine sunset at La Jolla Potholes. :) Hope you like it!!!

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This station opened in 1853 but it is nowadays abandoned. This photo is my little tribute.

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Here's a blooper shot from day 5 of my southwest tour, it is the only time that Wayne turned a light on during one of my exposures, He had picked up my Brinkman 2 million candlepower torch lamp to test it's ability to reflect light. We were getting the lighting setup and he turned it on and shined it around. and said, I really like the color of this lamp and noticed I was exposing. Ooops!! No problems, we went on shooting the rest of the night.

Somehow when we arrived back at the cars later that morning it seemed like it was 4am when really it was 5:00 Then again, this was day 5 of the trip and I was already walking around like a zombie. :/ Who knows where that time went, but it was time well spent I say!!!

Funny thing is, one of the first comments I made to Wayne here on Flickr was about alien abductions. :)

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I'm always looking for ways to increase the interest in my photos. Adding this model with her arms touching the arms of the Milky Way was something Wayne and I came up with during a trip to Alabama Hills. This is Wayne's daughter posing for us. We tried to get her to go out on the tip but she refused. Can't say that I blame her its a 20ft drop. :) Hope you like it. :)

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7DWF : Fridays: Flora

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American White Pelican

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I had been shut out for 5 nights in a row on this trip and was willing to shoot anything at this point. As I was running around to the different viewpoints on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon looking for some open sky, I rounded the corner along the drive and hit the brakes for a quickie. :) I set up one light panel quickly and snapped 3 shots then jumped back in and off I went. I used a cooler white balance than usual on this one at around 3200. :)

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Spoonbill

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Great Egret

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“If you are depressed you are living in the past.

If you are anxious you are living in the future.

If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

― Lao Tzu

I left Bryce Canyon and took the 45 min drive over to Kodachrome Basin State Park, in Escalante, Utah. The close proximity of this region allowed me to enjoy another afternoon in Bryce Canyon while also allowing me plenty of time to scout this area for the evenings composition. This spot caught my eye so I pulled out a folding chair and my iPad to read more from my book " Guide to The National Parks of the Southwest" which I had downloaded prior to the trip. As I sat here to relax, a wash of peaceful calm surrounded me and I enjoyed myself just sitting there in the present, not thinking at all about the past or the future, I watched the high clouds drift to and fro in the sky, and waited to see if some of them would grace my location and compliment the scene. I wasn't running around like I always do, knowing that I still had another day for exploration here.

This rift is a space in time that is depicted by a red strip of mother earth called the Entrada Layer. The Entrada was formed from deposits that were laid down during the mid-to-late Jurassic Period, approximately 140 to 180 milllion years ago. This thin strip took approx. 10 million years to create. It is primarily composed of fine grained sandstone along with gypsum, shale, quartz and clay. This formation is one of the most scenic in the park due to its color. It also forms the ubiquitous “slickrock” of southern Utah. Most of the sedimentary pipes found within the park occur in this formation. :)

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Wakodahatchee Wetlands.

Picture taken on different day

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Blue Jay

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Male Mocker Swallowtail at Osu in Ghana, West Africa.

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In loving Memory. Greatly missed and forever loved.

My Mum passed away peacefully on August 3, in England, at the age of 90. I was able to see her and say goodbye through a zoom-video chat.

Edited in Topaz Studio

I don't know if this means I'm a full fledged landscape photographer yet, but I can honestly say I have gotten my "feet wet".

A couple of weeks ago a Flickr friend and fellow photographer David Frey, contacted me to let me know that he would be visiting the San Diego area around the holidays and ask if I would like to spend the day shooting Hospital Reef. Of course I jumped at the opportunity to spent some time with a higher caliber photographer than myself which always leads to more learning.

At 3:00am I packed up my gear and headed off down the freeway giving us plenty of time to scout the reef and set up. We checked the tide time and height using a fisherman's site and found that the tide level would be very high, but I wasn't sure how high up on the reef the best formations are situated. It was going to be a total crap shoot as far as tide levels go but I was confident that the weather was going to be perfect. It had rained the day before and the NWS radar that I had been watching in anticipation all week promised a great sunrise and possibly sunset. After chatting with David for a while we soon located the potholes and several other popular formations and then waited for the light as it was still totally dark.

I knew the sun would be behind us in the morning but I was hoping that we would get some good cross lighting which usually happens if it's cloudy in the west and clear in the east, which was case this morning, and it didn't disappoint.

This is a shot taken later in the day. When David and I returned for sunset. He went directly to the composition that he had found earlier in the day and planted himself there for three hours. "I'm gonna wait for the light to come to me" he said. I'm not that confident when it comes to staying put during "panic time" thats what i call the 30 minutes during sunset. I ran around to 7 or 8 different compositions during the sunset and grabbed some really cool shots. I am still learning how to manipulate time through my lens and I think I went a little to long on this shot, but considering I was using no filters I think it turned out fairly good. I hope you like it too. :)

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Red-bellied Woodpecker-female

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Close up view of a paint brush applying glitter onto a handmade birthday card.

Macro Mondays: Intended Contact

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We were leaving late from Swartz bay by ferry for Tsawwassen, B.C. Canada when the sky greatly developed some pinkish colours.

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Dark-eyed Junco

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A close up view, about 12mm x 8mm, of the edge of a blue agate slice sitting on top of a slice of blue fluorite.

Agate is a rock consisting primarily of cryptocrystalline silica, chiefly chalcedony, alternating with microgranular quartz. It is characterized by its fineness of grain and variety of colour. Although agates may be found in various kinds of host rock, they are classically associated with volcanic rocks and can be common in certain metamorphic rocks (Wiki).

Fluorite is a colourful mineral, both in visible and ultraviolet light, and the stone has ornamental and lapidary uses (Wiki).

Macro Mondays: Rock

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Snake River Float Trip

Grand Teton National Park

Wyoming

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Red-bellied Woodpecker

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A bird drinking from one of the poppies greatly distracted him!

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Our previous pets (1991): springer-spaniel cross Fedya and British tortoiseshell short hair cat Myshka. They loved each other!

Happy Caturday

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Vaska was noble from the birth to the end of his life.

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One of the old my favourite Vas'ka's pictures. He is a little impudent in this picture, but he is very handsome, and he knows it himself!

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Grey Squirrel

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Mendocino coast.

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Another visitor to my bird feeder today!

I forgot to bring my 80-400mm lens with the anticipation that this Racoon would be here again, I'm sure she will be back...maybe with some youngsters!

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