The animal kingdom is filled with almost an infinite variety of creatures. Scientists discover new species and subspecies every year. Each one is a wonder unto itself and one could labor for years to uncover its secrets. It is an unfortunate fact that the closest that most of us get to wildlife is through bars at the zoo. Our urban lifestyle has the effect of cutting us off from the glorious world of the animal kingdom. Every animal has a lesson to teach us that we are not hearing. We may think that we have evolved away from contact with animal kingdom, the question is, at what cost?

Caticlan Aklan , Philippines

While cruising in the mid of the sea

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

Albert Einstein

For Smile on Saturday - Bee-autiful

Main Beach, Nth Stradbroke Island (Australia), shot during a hill hike in the hinterland. The waves are very plentiful along the extremely long beach, which often has a very good deep water surf to ride (e.g. see 'Riders On The Storm' photos down this page). Enjoy your holidays.

Canon EOS 7D Mark II

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Saxony, Germany

Just taken from home I wake up seeing the mountain you forget how beautiful it is

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I love this summer 'golden' sunset at Rainbow Beach, Gold Coast, Australia, here, where a lot of surfers enter the water and where a good wave break is. The shimmering light over the wet sands really caught the eye.

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Just taken from home I wake up seeing the mountain you forget how beautiful it is

A small starfish on the beach in St. Pete Beach, Florida.

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La cathédrale Notre-Dame-Immaculée de Monaco est un édifice romano-byzantin érigé à Monaco sous le principat de Charles III. Elle est l'église principale de l'archidiocèse monégasque.

The Notre-Dame-Immaculate Cathedral of Monaco is a Roman-Byzantine building erected in Monaco under the principality of Charles III. It is the main church of the Monegasque archdiocese.

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Off track just one of many of the waterfalls you can see up on MT Taranaki

Christmas in Provence

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.

Thomas Berry

Crocus

Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.

Paul Stamets.

For Smile on Saturday - mushrooms

A walk in a small, local woodland provided a good opportunity to study the body of some of the oak trees while they are bare in the winter months

Zwar nicht Leonardo DiCaprio auf einem zum Untergang verdammten Dampfschiff, aber nicht minder elegant sonnt sich dieser Seehund hier im Abendlicht am Sylter Ellenbogen.

Although not Leonardo DiCaprio on a steamship doomed to sink, this seal is no less elegantly sunbathing here in the evening light at Sylter’s elbow.

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