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Am I the only one who has never seen a single episode of #GameOfThrones ? 😅
Well, if you visit this town in southern Croatia you have no chance to escape the hype...
Happy new year everyone, and here is one last photo of King Eiders, this time flying over ice patterned water. King Eiders are difficult to find in high summer in Svalbard, and when you do find them they are skittish. My Svalbard trip in 2024 was the first time I had managed close photos of breeding-plumaged males, both in flight and on the water. The reason why they are so difficult to find is because after mating the males go to safe moulting places en masse, but they are so safe and isolated that only a few have been located.
I took this stunning shot from Jughoor. I was on a solo hike to Danin from that point.
I was extremely happy on taking spectacular shots of Tirich Mir and Chitral town. But unfortunately I hadn't a digital camera. I took all of my shots with a Nokia73 Cell Phone but I 'm satisfied with shots I have taken over the months with a Nokia73 Cell Phone.
King Edward II at the Didcot Railway Centre, still looking good, Click to see the evening. davebowles.smugmug.com/Railways/Great-Western-Region/6000...
King Morani, one of the original Four Musketeers who use to rule over the famous Marsh Pride, with brothers Scarface, Hunter and Sikio all deceased.
They came to fame when they took over the Marsh pride and many other prides in the area and were known for their prowess and savagery in their heydays.
Morani had seen some females from a ical pride across the Mara River. After having done a quick survey, and seen the coast was clear, he swam across the river to have a closer look and try his luck of mating with the lionesses.
King Morani, is the last survivor of the Four Musketeers and was captured on a photography safari during an early morning game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
The amazing "King Protea" (Protea Cynaroides) - South Africa's National Flower - have started flowering again!
I found this prime specimen early on Saturday morning in the Greyton Nature Reserve... I caught it in all its splendour... catching the first rays of the sunrise!
Nikon D800, Nikkor 14 - 24 mm at 14 mm, ISO of 100, aperture of f/22 with a 1/40th second exposure.
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Buildings on King Hill Ave in St. Joseph, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF24-70mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at ƒ/8.0 with a 1/800-second exposure at ISO 200. Processed with Adobe Lightroom Classic.
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Here is another example of my favourite style of wildlife photography which shows smaller bird images in the context of their environment. In this case it shows six King Eiders in flight with small icebergs in the background. They are not especially common in Svalbard but females nest singly around tundra pools, but as soon as the males have mated they congregate in all-male flocks to moult, leaving the females to rear the young alone. This explains why the vast majority of birds we saw were flocks of males, although these males were accompanied by a single female (second from left). I photographed this flying flock in Kongsfjord on the west coast of Spitsbergen.
Common Eiders are generally pretty easy to find as they nest colonially by the coast. In Spitsbergen there is a big nesting colony right next to the dog kennels at Longyearbyen where the dogs will keep potential predators away, such as Arctic Foxes or even Polar Bears. But King Eiders are solitary nesters, seeking out freshwater lakes, and once they have mated the showy males clear off leaving the females with all the incubation and rearing duties. It's a good job too as he would certainly attract unwanted attention with plumage like that. Male King Eiders are obvious in very early summer but most have cleared off by the end of June, which makes them a difficult species to see. In addition they are very skittish compared with Common Eider so are not easy to photograph, even if you do see them. I have been fortunate to visit Svalbard on a number of occasions but this summer's trip was the first time that I have managed half-decent photos of full breeding-plumaged males. In winter they usually remain near the ice edge where the sea is frozen in the far north, but occasionally they wander south to Britain where they often associate with flocks of Common Eider.
The first British record was in November 1832 in Orkney. Later William Bullock (1773-1848, who ran a travelling natural history museum) claimed to have found a nest in Orkney and there was a belief at the time that they were regular breeders there. But it is thought that this breeding record was either a mistake or a hoax, though they occasionally nest in Iceland, which is well south of their usual breeding range.
The king looks sad... It looks like he was looking in the direction where a lioness was closed in a cage, separeted from him... She was looking in his direction from her cage... I have no idea why she was closed there and why there was another lioness together with him outside but they didn't look interested in each other...
I don't get to see King Rails out in the open all hat much so it's a big deal when I do. This one and a prospective mate put on a big show fpor us in Texas last week, criss-crossing the road and clacking like little maniacs. After watching for about 10 minutes, they convinced us they needed a little privacy.
From our hike on Dartmoor last Sunday. Our second pit-stop was the top of King's Tor, a lovely vantage point overlooking the surrounding moorland and nearby granite quarries. I could not really find out why the outcrops is named King's Tor, maybe anyone has some insight to share?
The tallest rock sculpture in Europe in the Iron Gate Gorge on the Danube River in Romania. It is 131.2 feet tall.
While we were on the Macro photowalk in San Francisco, we turned up Mission Street and found this amazing parade of classic cars.
Wikipedia: King Narai the Great or Ramathibodi III was the 27th monarch of Ayutthaya Kingdom, the 4th and last monarch of the Prasat Thong dynasty. He was the king of Ayutthaya Kingdom from 1656 to 1688 and arguably the most famous king of the Prasat Thong dynasty.
The "King Protea" is one of the most spectacular members of the Proteaceae family, and as a result, has been designated the national flower of South Africa
It is a woody shrub, with thick stems leading to clusters of pink or crimson colored flowers, arranged into large flower heads that are surrounded by large, narrow, colorful bracts and flattened, paddle- shaped leaves. The appearance of the king protea varies substantially throughout its range, and an astonishing 81 variants have been recorded.
It produces spectacular blossoms as large as 6 inches in diameter.
Ideal for low maintenance, low water use gardens.
Tolerant of most well -drained soil types and conditions.
The canal was constructed for trading purpose during 1863–1873 and named in honor to king of Prussia, Wilhelm I. The canal connects Klaipėda port with River Nemunas, avoiding the Curonian Lagoon.