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“L'automne est une demeure d'or et de pluie.”
Jacques Chessex
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I went out early in the morning, looking for large wildlife to photograph. In June, grizzly bear is the primary target, but I'll gladly settle for moose, elk or wolf.
It was another of those frustrating days, where you see fresh bear scat everywhere but no bears. A solitary elk crossing the road, too far in the distance for photos and a moose that was just teasing me but I knew I would have to be lucky to get a photo.
I had stopped a couple hundred meters from the moose and was down in the ditch, hoping that he would keep moving in my direction. Alas, he trotted off into the trees and although I took some photos, none was worth keeping. I just sat there thinking what a frustrating morning it had been.
Then I looked over and saw this young red squirrel on the ground, enjoying a snack. I am sure that out here, in the middle of nowhere, this squirrel had never seen a human before. I did this nonchalant thing that works with some animals, where you look the other way but leisurely creep towards them. Surprisingly, she didn't run away, even as I laid in the grass just a couple of meters away and slowly swung the camera her way.
We spent a few minutes together, so the morning wasn't wasted after all. I wonder what story the squirrel told when she went back to the trees.
Glendalough, or the Glen of two Lakes, is one of the most important sites of maonastic ruins in Ireland. It is also known as the city of the seven Churches. Fourteen centuries have passed since the death of its founder, St. Kevin, when the valley was part of Ireland's Golden Age.
The two lakes, which gave the valley its name, came into existence thousands of years ago, after the Ice Age, when great deposits of earth and stone were strewn across the valley in the area where the Round Tower now exists. The mountain streams eventually formed a large lake. The Pollanass river spread alluvial deposits across the centre of the lake and created a divide to form the Upper and Lower Lakes. The Glenealo river flows in from the West into the Upper lake which is the larger and deepest of the two lakes.
Before the arrival of St. Kevin this valley (glen) would have been desolate and remote. It must have been ideal for St Kevin as a retreat and area to be 'away from it all'. Kevin died in 617 A.D. at the age of 120 years and his name and life's work is forever entwine with the ruins and the Glendalough Valley
Daisy with her Christmas bird, currently a favourite toy. She had been playing but stopped as soon as I picked up my camera. The photo represents her playfulness & her instinct to chase birds even though she's a house cat. Happy Caturday!
Activity was ramping up in the sea wall as the breeding season got underway
Black guillemot or tystie (Cepphus grylle)
Oban- Argyll Scotland
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This Tri-colored Heron would normally be cruising the shallow waters and scooping up fish as he goes, but when the tides are high, they can adapt to a different technique and use an old branch over the water to help with the process. Photo taken on Horsepen Bayou.
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Who couldn't love a rodent named the Fat Sand Rat?
The Fat Sand Rat is a terrestrial mammal from the gerbil subfamily that is mostly found in North Africa and the Middle East, ranging from Mauritania to the Arabian Peninsula. This species usually lives in sandy deserts, but may also be found in rocky terrain or saline marsh areas. Fat Sand Rats are very selective in their diet, only eating stems and leaves of plants from the amaranth family. In captivity, Fat Sand Rats can become obese and rapidly develop diabetes-like symptoms when fed the diet typically given to other rodents. They have an average lifespan of 14 months in the wild and 3–4 years in captivity.
Boumalne Dades, Morocco. March 2019.
The Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Clark County located in the City of Las Vegas Nevada U.S.A.
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A bridleway running up onto Roundway Down from Bishops Cannings in Wiltshire. Although it's strangely hard to tell here if it's going up or down with those converging parallels.
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Well now I have learned to take two or three balls with me to open fields where children often play or tiny dogs are excercising.. That way I can always get her Roma's attention..Roma rarely brings a ball back or drops it unless I have another... now who trained who?
Un enracinement qui ne passa pas inaperçu au futur pays de l'oncle Sam. La fleur y gagna en effet le surnom de «yeux de coyote» en raison, selon la légende, d'un coyote qui après s'être fait voler ses yeux, combla ce vide, par les pétales couleur or de la renoncule.
Or so I've heard it said. Captured these beautiful freesias in a neighbour's garden on one of my daily Covid Lockdown walks...
Another one from the archives not processed before, again from early this year. I had to put in this one, the wave looks so like a toy teddy bear. February had some fairly exceptional weather with 3 named Storms for high winds and the wettest February since records began. On Saturday 29th February I again visited Newhaven to take in Storm Jorge, so named by the Spanish Met Office. Conditions were ideal with the rain having cleared earlier in the morning leaving sunshine and the winds increasing behind the front. The tides were also ideal being at 2.15. For this one I was on a high shingle beach safe from the waves and shooting with a long lens.
The wall is a breakwater for the harbour and with a serious storm massive waves come in from the SW and hit the breakwater also creating a lot of backwash and turbulence. This picture was taken about 1 and a half hours before high tide.
This picture was taken with a Sony A700 with a Minolta 75-300mm zoom at 210mm. Taken handheld. No chance of a steady tripod in those conditions. The image was processed first in Camera Raw Editor. Then it was Topaz Denoise followed by Topaz Clarity and more contrast with an adjustment layer. Converted to Mono using Topaz B&W Effects.
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The River Ure between the village of Aldwark and the Aldwark Toll Bridge in North Yorkshire, England
The River Ure is a river in North Yorkshire, England, approximately 74 miles (119 km) long from its source to the point where it changes name to the River Ouse. It is the principal river of Wensleydale, which is the only one of the major Dales now named after a village rather than its river. (Wiki)