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There has been a significant amount of rain over the past week or so and as a consequence the route of my daily walk to the North Downs has thrown up some different photo opportunities!
Finally. The weather was beautiful this weekend and it's supposed to be warm into the first of the week! Yay! I took a short walk in the woods and found the patch of periwinkle I raided last spring. Conveniently, this fallen tree was nearby. The backlighting and FA 77 lens provided some nice bokeh
It has a 600 ft. (183 m) wide crater.
Most of the volcano is covered by snow.
After the Arenal, climbing a steep snow (glacial) ridge. Extra 32 minutes for me. It normally takes 40 minutes.
We left from the Hut at 2:00 am.
It is 6:20 am (sunrise time).
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With its elevation of 5,023 metres (16,480 ft), Tungurahua just over tops the snow line (about 4,900 metres (16,100 ft)).
Tungurahua's top is snow-covered and did feature a small summit glacier which melted away after the increase of volcanic activity in 1999.
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The glacier is small and represents only the final 40 minutes of the climb.
Crampons are recommended.
The rest of the climb is scree and demanding, especially if it is muddy.
White Stork migration has changed over time. For years, these birds stayed in Europe for the winter.
In the past, most of them flew thousands of miles each year after breeding. During white stork migration, these birds spent almost a month crossing half of Europe, to the Strait of Gibraltar, and over the Sahara desert, a dry and inhospitable place.
Most of the European White Storks today travel south-east across Europe over Turkey and Egypt.
On these migration routes the birds get together at specific locations to rest and feed in large groups. On the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt at least 500,000 storks pass through Egypt (or 80% of the European population), the majority flying through Eastern Sinai.
In the beginning of February they return to Europe.
White Stork(Ciconia ciconia) evening meadow_w_0666
Every sunset has its own beauty. Sometimes it's the clouds that make the scene spectacular. Sometimes it's the sun that dives into the sea. Sometimes it's just the warmth you get from the colors and the feeling that you are the viewer of one of nature's most spectacular sights. You don't have to think about composition rules, settings and POVs. The beauty is there.. All you have to do is hit the shutter speed and forget about the rest.. chances are that you just captured something amazing.
The title has been inspired by the U.K comedy duo, Little and Large from the 1970s and 80s. They were hugely popular around that time and as the name suggests comprised one who was a lot bigger and fatter, Eddie Large and the other who was smaller and thinner, Syd Little!
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Snowy Owl has a Conservation Status under the IUCN of Vulnerable www.iucnredlist.org/species/22689055/205475036
This first year female Snowy Owl was unconcerned at my presence, though I wasn’t standing out in the open nor was I using using a short lens to get this photo. Rather, I was inside my vehicle and deploying an 800 mm lens, so this bird was not as close as it might seem [the image is also cropped]. Although it was buzzed by a Common Raven at one point, this majestic bird definitely exuded an aura of not being too worried about any threats.
It has taken some time to get to grips with the intricacies of night time photography. The next task is to create a more natural environmental setting.
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May. Rain has been pounding the Adirondacks for several days, and supersaturated the mountains. Seasonal streams have awakened, runoff and percolation feed the flow, all that water finding it’s lowest level and charging the whole Schroon ecosystem. Some miles below the dam at the lake, the river picks up speed on gradients through boulder fields, now inundated and drowned under the flow. They are immovable, their resistance invisible but for the standing waves throughout the volume. A light mist hovers above the raging current. Standing this close, I can feel the vibration of it’s power, urging my blood pressure higher to match the atmosphere I’m in. Here is spring as allegory to life, the relentless wildness of youth, bursting to race ahead towards that age when you don’t. What I wouldn’t give to truly feel that voltage again, and know the trajectory of where I was headed, instead of treading, spent, looking back at where I’ve come. I stay awhile on the edge of the surge, enjoying the power of the season.
That cold has got worse, and it kept me up all night with the runs. Sorry for being so graphic. Today I have had no energy to do anything, Carla took the dogs for a walk, morning and afternoon, I can’t remember that being the case when I’ve been at home. As always I have a horrible raking cough now I hope it wears go. Day two, I didn’t post this photo yesterday as intended as I had to retire to bed again and so at 15:15 the next day I try to finish what I started. I think I may have named an oak tree Medusa before but I think this one better suits the name, taken last November.
The Ritz SL has been given a pre Christmas makeover (pictured here, Hitchcocks Bar).
It's also one of my recommendations for places to stay over the Festive season.
The plasterer has finished such a messy job. Mind I can’t the knock plasterer other than nailing him down to do the job in the first place. His boast was he’d been plastering for 65 years and it looked it. He was nobbling around on bad knees talking to Carla a lot of the time drinking tea, but I have to take my hat off to him still doing it at his age. The biggest part of our job was replacing ceiling boards which I ripped out after water Ingres problems with the sunroom roof a couple of winters back. I was concerned as the job involved some heavy lifting, but he managed and put in two days hard grafted, still having plenty of time to natter with Carla. Now the job is done, the cleaning starts. The sunroom facing northwest is freezing cold this time of year, so we use it as make shift fridge for extra Christmas food and drink. It give my visiting family some exercise to walk to the back of the house to get plate of Christmas leftovers or another can of beer. Todays photo was taken in early November, no clever composition, no dramatic lighting, just a pretty view, well I think it is.
Legend has it that the Gertrudshöhle is located below the sandstone rock. The cave allegedly served as the hermitage of the hermit Gertrude. Who knows? This is the last photo from my series Hiking in the Eggegebirge. A really beautiful area.
“August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer
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Singapore has a sensibly regulated free market economy, combined with political stability and certainty based on the rule of law. A laser sharp focus on quality education has produced an industrious and well educated work force. Singapore is probably the only country in that has graduated from being a Third World Country to a First World one within a single generation.
These attributes have attracted many international investors that have turned Singapore into a powerhouse for global business and finance.
Several leading multinational corporations have established their regional headquarters in Singapore, and announce their presence in the form of competing skyscrapers that rival any skyline found in the leading countries of the world.
Looking towards Inverlochlarig & the River Larig from the lower slopes of Beinn Tulaichean. A beautiful morning to be up the hills.
Tibor has a flock of sheep that varies in size but is anything up to 600 strong after the lambing season. Here he is with part of his pack of livestock guardian and herding dogs.
Many people ask why does Tibor require so many large dogs? His flock graze on agricultural land on the lower slopes of the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania. Bears and wolves are regular visitors from the forest and they test the defences of his dogs, in the hope of gaining an easy meal.