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Is there anything more beautiful than an african sunrise?
Ndutu NCA, Tanzania
Better be watched by an animal than a nosy man.
The world is like a book and those, who do not travel, only read the first page.
If you only visit 2 continents in your lifeteime, visit Africa, twice.
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Most photographed place on Goeree-Overflakkee
Thanks for all the nice comments, it is much appreciated
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Most pups tend to sleep off a rather large meal. This grey seal pup was very lively and a complete cutey... lots of engagement with the camera.
Donna Nook is a wonderful place to visit on the Lincolnshire coast. There tends to be a really biting cold wind coming in from the sea but you forget all that with the wonders of what is on that beach. My friend and I witnessed a birth and..... unfortunately lots of fighting between naturally protective mothers protecting their pups and males wanting their pick of who to mate with. Then of course there are the numerous pups who, when awake, will grace your camera with some lovely images.
Photographed at Donna Nook, UK
The most noticeable characteristics of the American red squirrel are the tail and the eye ring. The tree squirrel's tail is bushy and dark red with hints of a white outline. The eye ring is a thick, white circle around the rodent's black eyes. American red squirrels are about 12 inches and have grayish, red, or rust-colored fur with a white belly. Sometimes a black stripe can be seen on the sides.
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Bar tailed Godwit - Liomosa Laponica
Norfolk
The bar-tailed godwit is a long-billed, long-legged wading bird which visits UK shores for the winter. Most usually seen in its grey-brown winter plumage, birds in spring may show their full rich chestnut breeding plumage. In flight it shows a white patch stretching from the rump up the back, narrowing to a point. It breeds in the Arctic of Scandinavia and Siberia and hundreds of thousands of them pass through the UK, on their way further south, or stop off here for the winter.
The bar-tailed godwit breeds on Arctic coasts and tundra mainly in the Old World, and winters on coasts in temperate and tropical regions of the Old World and of Australia and New Zealand. Its migration includes the longest known non-stop flight of any bird and also the longest journey without pausing to feed by any animal.
The bar-tailed godwit migrates in flocks to coastal East Asia, Alaska, Australia, Africa, northwestern Europe and New Zealand.
It was shown in 2007 to undertake the longest non-stop flight of any bird. Birds in New Zealand were tagged and tracked by satellite to the Yellow Sea in China. According to Dr. Clive Minton (Australasian Wader Studies Group): The distance between these two locations is 9,575 km (5,950 mi), but the actual track flown by the bird was 11,026 km (6,851 mi). This was the longest known non-stop flight of any bird. The flight took approximately nine days. At least three other bar-tailed godwits also appear to have reached the Yellow Sea after non-stop flights from New Zealand.
One specific female of the flock, nicknamed E7 flew onward from China to Alaska and stayed there for the breeding season. Then on 29 August 2007 she departed on a non-stop flight from the Avinof Peninsula in western Alaska to the Piako River near Thames, New Zealand, setting a new known flight record of 11,680 km (7,258 mi).
The most common Parakeet found in our state amongst the 4 species. They are found pretty much everywhere - in the cities, jungles, countryside and sometimes even near temples and tall buildings adjacent to trees.
The place we visited had several fruiting trees and when the monkeys had their fill of the fruits, the birds come up to grab whatever is left. These parakeets were the last of the birds - but they didn't seem to like this fruit very much. So they left quickly.
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The most famous of the many waterfalls and flumes in the first few miles of the River Severn's existence.
Hafren forest, Powys, Wales, UK
A male Ruffed Grouse displaying for three hens perched up in a Balsam Fir Tree in the Hersey Lake Conservation Area located in the Township of Tisdale in the City of Timmins Northeastern Ontario Canada
Description
The scientific name for the Ruffed Grouse is Bonasa umbellus. Both terms are from the Latin: Bonasa means good when roasted and umbellus, a sunshade. This refers to the ruff or dark-coloured neck feathers that are particularly large in the male. When he is in display before the female, these are erected and surround his head almost like an umbrella. By nodding his head and ruffs, and spreading his tail and strutting, the male identifies himself to the female and encourages her advances.
The male Ruffed Grouse is about the size of a bantam chicken and weighs about 500 g. The females are smaller. Unlike the chicken, the grouse has a broad flat tail that is usually held down but that may be erected and spread into a half circle.
The dappled and barred plumage ranges in colour from pale grey through sombre red to rich mahogany. In the east, most grouse are predominantly grey, although some are red. Greys are in the majority in the central parts of the continent, and on the west coast most grouse are reddish brown.
The colours worn by the grouse are related to their habitat: the dark-coloured grouse inhabit dark forest, as on the coast; grey grouse live in lighter bush. This camouflage helps protect the grouse from their predators.
Males are hard to tell from females at a distance, but they are larger with larger ruffs and a longer tail. In the male the broad band of dark colour in the tail is usually unbroken.
The Ruffed Grouse is frequently called the “partridge.” This leads to confusion with the Gray, or Hungarian, Partridge, which was introduced to Canada from Europe. The Ruffed Grouse is only distantly related to the Gray Partridge, which is a bird of open areas, not woodlands.
Source: Hinterlands Who's Who
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The most wonderful thing about this time of year is being with those you love. Or, the anticipation of being with those you love. ❤️
It's the most wonderful time of the year
There'll be much mistltoeing
And hearts will be glowing
When loved ones are near
It's the most wonderful time
Yes the most wonderful time
This is the most popular subject to photograph on the Isle of Skye and understandably so. The rock stacks making up the structure - the old man, the needle and the other features that escape me - are like something out of Lord of the Rings. You wouldn’t be all that surprised to see a dragon flying overhead with all that gothic looking geology going on around you.
The day I was there was wet, cold and very windy making it difficult conditions to catch any shots never mind taking the time to get some HDR exposures. I had timed the trip to be there for sundown but the clouds were so thick and low that there no chance of getting any nice colour. So here we have a colour image of the stormy weather conditions on the Storr mountain ridge. Maybe I’ll get better luck on the weather next time.
The ancient Gravina palace with the most beautiful balcony on the island
The Palazzo dei Principi Gravina, a family of Norman origin, related to the Altavilla, is the oldest in Caltagirone. Survived the earthquake of 1693, it stands on previous medieval buildings, including a tower still visible. A corner balcony runs along the Renaissance façade, attributed to the chisel of Antonuzzo Gagini. The corbels, which depict monsters, mermaids, ladies, knights, are interspersed with medallions with protagonists of Greek history and Roman emperors: it is one of the most elegant and important balconies in Sicily. The residence, which over the centuries has hosted kings, viceroys, cardinals, is now owned by the Pace Gravina barons. Inside, vaults painted by the Vaccaro brothers and the memories of the famous archaeologist Biagio Pace.
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L’antico palazzo dei Gravina con il balcone più bello dell’Isola
Il palazzo dei Principi Gravina, casata di origine normanna, imparentata con gli Altavilla, è il più antico di Caltagirone. Sopravvissuto al terremoto del 1693, sorge su precedenti edifici medievali, tra cui una torre ancora visibile. Lungo il prospetto rinascimentale corre una balconata angolare, attribuita allo scalpello di Antonuzzo Gagini. I mensoloni, che raffigurano mostri, sirene, dame, cavalieri, sono intervallati da medaglioni con protagonisti della storia greca e imperatori romani: è uno dei balconi più eleganti e importanti di Sicilia. La dimora, che nei secoli ha ospitato sovrani, vicerè, cardinali, oggi è di proprietà dei baroni Pace Gravina. All’interno, volte dipinte dai fratelli Vaccaro e le memorie del celebre archeologo Biagio Pace.
Good Friday morning everyone, and hoping that a great and safe weekend will be had by all.
I thought that the last Yellow Crown would be the last, but thought this was the most interesting position of the series, although not the best image. Just the position of this guy trying to maneuver a way to get out of the place he was in, I thought it was very clever, and from keeping his wings from hitting the trees, only my opinion.
Thanks to all for everything.
This will be my last posting. I will be away for most of the summer but I will continue to fave and make comments whenever I can. I wish everyone a safe and happy summer!:-)
Like most of Galapagos, Sombrero Chino (Chinese Hat) is volcanic in origin. The exploration path starts with a gorgeous beach, bright red Sally Lightfoot crabs and marine iguanas. The path goes past a colony of endemic Galapagos sea lions before passing a lava field: look for the lava cactus growing in the cracks. On the beach, keep your eyes open for the American Oystercatcher, a wading bird with a distinctive orange beak. On the trail, you may see lava lizards.
Barn Owl - Tyto Alba
Like most owls, the barn owl is nocturnal, relying on its acute sense of hearing when hunting in complete darkness. It often becomes active shortly before dusk and can sometimes be seen during the day when relocating from one roosting site to another. In Britain, on various Pacific Islands and perhaps elsewhere, it sometimes hunts by day. This practice may depend on whether the owl is mobbed by other birds if it emerges in daylight. However, in Britain, some birds continue to hunt by day even when mobbed by such birds as magpies, rooks and black-headed gulls, such diurnal activity possibly occurring when the previous night has been wet making hunting difficult. By contrast, in southern Europe and the tropics, the birds seem to be almost exclusively nocturnal, with the few birds that hunt by day being severely mobbed.
Barn owls are not particularly territorial but have a home range inside which they forage. For males in Scotland this has a radius of about 1 km (0.6 mi) from the nest site and an average size of about 300 hectares. Female home ranges largely coincide with that of their mates. Outside the breeding season, males and females usually roost separately, each one having about three favoured sites in which to conceal themselves by day, and which are also visited for short periods during the night. Roosting sites include holes in trees, fissures in cliffs, disused buildings, chimneys and haysheds and are often small in comparison to nesting sites. As the breeding season approaches, the birds move back to the vicinity of the chosen nest to roost.
Once a pair-bond has been formed, the male will make short flights at dusk around the nesting and roosting sites and then longer circuits to establish a home range. When he is later joined by the female, there is much chasing, turning and twisting in flight, and frequent screeches, the male's being high-pitched and tremulous and the female's lower and harsher. At later stages of courtship, the male emerges at dusk, climbs high into the sky and then swoops back to the vicinity of the female at speed. He then sets off to forage. The female meanwhile sits in an eminent position and preens, returning to the nest a minute or two before the male arrives with food for her. Such feeding behaviour of the female by the male is common, helps build the pair-bond and increases the female's fitness before egg-laying commences.
Barn owls are cavity nesters. They choose holes in trees, fissures in cliff faces, the large nests of other birds such as the hamerkop (Scopus umbretta) and, particularly in Europe and North America, old buildings such as farm sheds and church towers. Buildings are preferred to trees in wetter climates in the British Isles and provide better protection for fledglings from inclement weather. Trees tend to be in open habitats rather than in the middle of woodland and nest holes tend to be higher in North America than in Europe because of possible predation.
This bird has suffered declines through the 20th century and is thought to have been adversely affected by organochlorine pesticides such as DDT in the 1950s and '60s.
Nocturnal birds like the barn owl are poorly monitored by the Breeding Bird Survey and, subject to this caveat, numbers may have increased between 1995-2008.
Barn owls are a Schedule 1 and 9 species.
Population:
UK breeding:
4,000 pairs
Europe:
110-220,000 pairs
...aaaaaand finally I manage to take some shots. Who knew how much 'fun' it is, to get going on a new machine ;)
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ireland's most westerly point,Tearaght Island, which lies in the Atlantic Ocean 12.5 km west of Dingle Peninsula, county Kerry.
Driving home the other day I noticed three deer so inquisitive, watching a couple and a golden retriever walking by. Everybody was staring at everybody, so I stopped and took a picture of the deer.
panoramski pogled na slap Deveterac i Kudin most, rijeka Krupa, Park prirode Velebit, Hrvatska / panoramic view on the Deveterac waterfall and Kuda's Bridge, river Krupa, Velebit Nature Park, Croatia
Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is :-)
James Rufus Agee
HPPT! HBW!
camellia, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
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Whilst not the biggest of the major glaciers in Los Glaciares National Park, Spegazzini Glacier is a hugely impressive sight, if for no other reason than the sheer size of its wall, which can tower as high as 135 metres (440 feet).
The Spegazzini glacier is one of the bordering glaciers between Argentina and Chile after the Agreement to specify the route of the limit from Mount Fitz Roy to Cerro Daudet in 1998 . The lower section of the glacier is located in Argentina, in the Lago Argentino department of the Santa Cruz province . Its source is in Chile, in the province of Último Esperanza in the Magallanes region . It is protected by the Bernardo O'Higgins and Los Glaciares National Parks.
It has an area of 134 km² and an average width of 1.5 km . The glacier originates from the South Patagonian ice field and flows eastward, reaching the Spegazzini arm of Lake Argentino . Its main characteristic is the great height of its front, which reaches 135 m, making it the highest in Los Glaciares National Park and one of the most important. The vegetation around it produces a marked contrast of colors, produced by glacier erosion, humidity, wind and the sun.
It owes its name to the botanist Carlos Luis Spegazzini , who was the first to study the local flora.
The glacier is fed by the Mayo Norte and Peineta glaciers. In addition, it has the peculiarity of not showing signs of retreat, which is a phenomenon common to large glaciers.
📍 Los Glaciares National Park, El Calafate, Lago Argentino, Santa Cruz, Argentina
DOUX - Bellami Hairstyle
REBORN feat Axolotl - Juicy Boobs & Top
**RE** DragonBorn Choker
Vibing -- Anna Earrings -- Silver
AG. Idol Eyes
Green Grass Dart (Ocybadistes walkeri)
This one obliged by opening its wings just as I was about to click.
Way behind today, we had a two hour wait to see Di's cardiologist - he had been called to the hospital. All is going well.
Will catch up as soon as I can.
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This is the most beautiful lake in Slovenia. Its water is so clear that you can see fish swimming in it.
The lake is surrounded by the peaks of the Triglav National Park.
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Glacial lake Bohinj, Julian Alps, Slovenia
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See my new photos in the "My Travels" album:
Cloudy weather in the Scandinavian mountains
www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52287284589
Tales of Forest lake
www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/51796390161
The rain is passing
www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/51682273330
Autumn colors of a mountain lake
www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/51664908385
The pearl of the Salzkammergut lakes
www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/51646863403
Autumn that steals the heart
www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/51630700818
Face to face
www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/51432025427
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Весна на озере Бохинь
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Это самое красивое озеро Словении. Его вода настолько прозрачна, что вы можете увидеть плавающих рыб.
Озеро окружают вершины национального парка Триглав.
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Ледниковое озеро Бохинь, Юлийские Альпы, Словения
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One of the most Beautiful moments of my Life! African sunset, I had just got the Canon camera, it was late wintertime, and the cold couldn't bother me in all the new excitement, our winter's not being so bad after all. My first ever real sunset experience, a sea of clouds above, with the feeling and spirit of Ra!! ☀️ The Magaliesberg mountains, leading out into the distance, they stretch for many many miles across, they are some of the very oldest in all the world-wide; the reason they appear smooth.
Dear friends, hope the picture can bring peace and hope in these crazy times happening to us all, may it find you well, our God bless.
Thanks for your loyal support, it has meant so much to me.
Sint Nicholaskerk is the most seen and at the same time overlooked church in Amsterdam as well as being one its most recent constructions, no one can miss this iconic structure upon arrival to the city walking from Centraal Station your eye is immediately drawn to it at 58 m in height it towers over the city skyline.
This Roman Catholic Church was designed by Architect Adrianus Bleijs and is a nod to the past combining elements of neo-Baroque and neo-Renaissance styles, completed in 1887 it was made a minor Basilica in 2012.
The church is dedicated to the 4th century charitable patron saint of children that became our Santa Claus as well as the patron saint of sailors and prostitutes, another winning combination.
In the Netherlands Santa Claus is known as Sinterklaas and a feast has been celebrated for over 700 years in his name and adopted in the early part of 20th century the tradition of leaving small gifts in children’s shoes was practiced on Dec 6th which has evolved now to become a Dec 5th evening tradition of gathering of family and friends to exchange gifts and laughter.
While Dutch Sinterklaas celebrations are mainly for the children its adult component is an annual grievance poem written to the recipient that must rhyme and be read out loud by the subject at the evening party all in good fun but beware you may get as good as you give.
I took this on Sept 10th, 2017 with my D750 and Nikon 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens at 58mm 15 sec f/16 ISO100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , Luminar and DXO
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress
WIKI:
Mostar (Bosnian pronunciation: [mǒstaːr]) is a city and municipality in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Inhabited by 105,797 people, it is the most important city in the Herzegovina region, its cultural capital, and the center of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation. Mostar is situated on the Neretva River and is the fifth-largest city in the country. Mostar was named after the bridge keepers (mostari) who in the medieval times guarded the Stari Most (Old Bridge) over the Neretva. The Old Bridge, built by the Ottomans in the 16th century, is one of Bosnia and Herzegovina's most recognizable landmarks, and is considered one of the most exemplary pieces of Islamic architecture in the Balkans.
Perhaps the most famous view with Prague Castle and the St Vitus Cathedral on the hill. My first attempt at a blue hour shot, only heard about it a few months ago, still not used a tripod. This was taken from a river side restaurant, every table was taken by 5.00 pm.
Then as the sky darkened, cameras came out & you could not move or see the bridge for all the people, tripods & selfie shooters.
Great watching the more professional photographers with their multiple shots,long exposures & different filters.
One even felt sorry for me, looking at my expensive camera balanced on railings, he offer the use of his tripod, too late already taken this, not bad for a first attempt