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When you go out past Kilchoan, towards Sanna on the most westerly edge of Ardnamurchan you enter a very remote, dark and barren land of mountain, moor and bog. The volcanic rock is largely black, but everywhere the dark rock split with patches of white where white quartz has bled through the molten rocks. Seeing this prompted me to look for mountain hares in their winter garb. After all the landscape would appear to be ideal habitat for them, although a large eagle population might cull their numbers. Yet, I haven't seen one so far (this is an old picture from Manchester days). There are some over towards the east in the Cairngorms ( I last saw one near Glendoebeg) but none I am aware of in Ardnamurchan. I wonder if they could be re-introduced in Ardnamurchan?
Sexten Valley with mountains of the Sextine sundial and Dreischusterspitze (3152m), Dolomites, Italy
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Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. For larger print, please visit my website www.sahilhalim.com/
Camellia reticulata, which grows in the mountain forests of the central and western part of the Chinese province Yunnan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camellia_reticulata
I took this picture in the forest near the Golden Temple Park which “is located on the Mingfeng Mountains, seven kilometers to the east of Kunming”, the capital of the province. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Temple_Park
A marshy swamp in the mountains? I know, crazy right? This sits at around 3,800ft in elevation between Clay and Macon County in Western North Carolina. I had considered doing a big impressive sunset over the swamp here, but found this composition by the lakeside as the light was waning a bit. So I scuttled my plans to try and get some decent light shooting from the road and hunkered down on the soft wet ground shooting across the swamp into this mountain top in the distance. Found this log in the foreground, unfortunately I ignored my own advice and didn't bend this sapling back and it sits prominently in the bottom right. Otherwise I enjoy this shot, the colors, contrast, light reflections.
ISO: 160
Aperture: f4
SS: 1/125
Focal: 33mm
A K&F CPL to help brighten the blues in the sky, cut through the reflections a bit.. This is a focus stack of 42 images.
A sure sign of the arrival on Spring, the Mountain Bluebirds have started to return here this week. Always a much looked forward to sight. They have already begun to stake their claims to our nesting boxes:)
One of these shows up about once every other year in our Denver backyard. Sneaks in with its black-capped cousins.
A Mountain Lion (Puma concolor) licks its lips in anticipation of a fine meal or just for relief of dry lips, only it would know for sure. We viewed this feline from our boat, a safe distance away, while on our way to Glendale Cove to photograph Grizzly Bears. The trip originated from Knight Inlet on the north end of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
4 June, 2013.
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Nature has endowed the relief of this vast rock formation with incredible colors. In Spanish, the Valle del Arcoiris means "Valley of the Rainbow", a name worthy of this grandiose landscape of red, white, yellow and brown cliffs standing out against the blue sky. This emblematic site of San Pedro de Atacama attracts visitors from all over the world to admire its splendid colors.
Unfortunately no snow during my visit. Still a great experience to sit amongst the heather with these stunning animals.
Song by Richard Armitage and The Dwarf Cast
Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To find our long-forgotten gold.
Two Thumb Range NZ
This is one of the few private mountain cabins in the Ben Lomond National Park. It would appear the owner has a long-term lease, and this surely has the best views possible. The Ben Lomond village huts are lower down and face away from the valley. But this cabin looks right across the north-eastern ranges of Tasmania and even to Launceston and the Tamar Valley. One very lucky lease holder I'd say.
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This is another photo from Hasliberg. I edited this one rather strongly including copying the person from a photo I took a bit later. The harsh light of the midday worked quite well for this exaggerated high contrast black and white look and the dramatic clouds.
Something about late fall that I love in the mountains. Where winter and autumn combine make spectacular scenery.
Getting away from the ocean to the mountains, the Blue Mountains in particular, with this pic. Bit of trivia for you, I used to live up the Blue Mountains, and belong to the local bush fire brigade, way back in the early 80's, a little place named Warrimoo.
The Blue Mountains cover around 11,400 square kms west of Sydney with elevations up to 1,100m. They are a vast sandstone plateau carved by deep valleys and dramatic cliffs, covered in eucalypt forests that give the region its signature blue haze & name. They boast waterfalls, slot canyons, rainforests & heathlands. It is a paradise for bushwalkers boasting 250 trails ranging from short easy walks to tough multi-day hikes. A mate & I did the Lockleys Pilon hike a couple of years back and the views of the Grose Valley, Mount Hay and Eucalypt rainforests were so inspiring. Might have to dig some of those pics out.
This view here is from Boars Head looking out across Narrow Neck and the Megalong Valley.
Now that's sorted it's time to go workout. Does anyone know how many calories you need to burn off to compensate for 2 large dark cholate eggs & 1 large honeycomb choc bunny.
Speaking of which ..... what type of easter bunny eater are you? I'm an Ear Assassin.
An Ear Assassin - eats the ears first without mercy, no bunny will hear you coming.
The Smasher - whacks the entire bunny to bits and eats it in blissful chocolate chaos.
The Slow Dismantler - nibbles the limbs and features one by one with surgical chaos. The eyes would have to be last I reckon.
The Existential Licker - softens the bunny up by licking it first to gain its trust before biting.
Or is there another secret way of devouring them?
Thanks kindly for any likes/comments, they are always appreciated.
And the rain made it to Bullhead City, so I finally had a chance to use the car's windshield wipers. Excitement.
(translated from Icelandic) Kirkjufell Mountain is iconic and on many people's list to see in Iceland. It is hard to get anything original though :) At this stage it had rained three mornings in a row, and large puddles in fields around, so I used that rather than the waterfall in previous post.
I have a backlog of 2000 photos of Iceland but will probably leave most on my hard drives :)