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Happy New Year and good wishes to all -
“Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson
By the evidence of the criss crossing webs, spiders do though... I am an Arachnophobic and this is the simple truth but when in the woods I just knock them off my arms - how is that ?
I for one have no idea.....
A few years back I was fishing at Lake Feldkirchner See in Upper Austria when the rising sun illuminated the mist over the lake in spectacular fashion.
A very good morning everyone. Hope you are all still keeping safe and well. Wishing you continued good health and have an enjoyable week too.
Here's today's sunrise taken at 5.45am viewed from a slightly different perspective from our home's rear garden this morning.
Back in time to last Wednesday's stunning sunset taken at 20.10pm from the front of my home in the village of Betws yn Rhos, Conwy, North Wales looking West towards the hamlet of Cefin Isaf.
I used a Tamron 28-300mm lens at 300mm and a polarising filter to mitigate the glare. The image is also heavily cropped - wishing to further enhance the focal point of the two distinctive tree silhouettes with the gorgeous sun behind.
House on Highway 161, Aroostook County in northern Maine
Truly nothing was scary about this house. I passed it frequently driving on Highway 161 in Aroostook County, Maine. When I posted this image a friend exclaimed that it looked scary; thus the "scary house" was born.
Better late than never...this was the colourful scene from the rear of my home at 7.55am this morning.
A complete surprise - relatively calm and bright. It sood disappeared becoming grey and overcast once more.
Recently, we've been again 'Battered' with winds and yet more heavy rain. The field in the foreground is again saturated with further surface water running off adjacent fields as well.
Luckily we have land drains under our bungalow!
Very much hope you are all still keeping safe and well too.
Back in time again to 7.00pm on Saturday 25th September 2021, when staying nearby overnight, I captured this stunningly beautiful sunset before travelling back home to North Wales from Oxfordshire.
In Celtic times the island was called Eria's Island. Eria was a woman's name and this became confused with Erin, derived from Éireann, the Irish name for Ireland. The Vikings substituted the word Island with ey, their Norse equivalent, and so it became known as Erin's Ey and ultimately Ireland's Eye.
Although I have many more, this is the last of the captures for the time being of Godrevy Lighthouse. Hopefully I will capture the sunset one day
During a night time walk in the forest I took a couple of long exposures of myself while I was swirling around my headlamp..
A different crop to an earlier version of this capture. If I have learned anything over the past 8 months, a crop will have a dramatic affect on the presentation of a composition
Accepting it's much more different from my normal daytime HTT postings, I thought you'd appreciate seeing another spectacular sunset from three weeks ago.
Took this shot at 21.30pm on Friday 14th June 2021 from the front of my home looking towards the village of Llysfaen and beyond the North Wales Coast - using a Tamron 28-300mm lens and a polarising filter to mitigate the glare.
Very much hope you are all still keeping safe and well too!
Another cool cave in Sedona with an epic “window”view. They call it the Altar Cave because of the rock slab in the middle, but archaeologists believe it was most likely used as a chopping block of some sort.
Took this shot at 17.55pm last Saturday, from the front of my home in Betws yn Rhos, Conwy, North Wales - after the sun had just disappeared behind the hillside. Now, it was illuminating the Cumulus Clouds that had replaced the Cirrocumulus Clouds seen twenty five minutes earlier and photographed from the same POV.
Please see my earlier image posted - 7.3.2022 in comparison. .
Carrying on the Godrevy theme; I do like LE however, why would you disguise the reflections of light on the ripples of the sea?
Took this shot of last night's 'Vibrant' sunset at 20.30pm, just before the sun dipped below the horizon, from the front of my home in the village of Betws yn Rhos, Conwy, North Wales looking West towards the hamlet of Cefin Isaf.
I used a Tamron 28-300mm lens at 50mm and a polarising filter, on a high setting, to mitigate the glare.
Once again, we're in a Northerly Artic Airflow - dry and sunny by day - albeit a cold breeze too and overnight frosts when calmer - resulting in such clear and colourful sunsets.
Compositionally, luckily I was able to use the rapidly moving Cumulus Clouds to good effect not only as an encircling frame but also to further diffuse the sun's brightness.
Good morning everyone! I very much hope you are all safe and well.
Windy, raining and overcast again today, so I thought I'd brighten up the day by taking you back in time to 19.00pm on a glorious September evening, when I took this close up of the more intense area on the horizon looking West towards Trofarth.
Last September, saw many spectacular sunsets - this being another fine example.
Isn't nature wonderful!
Took this distant image using a Tamron 28-300mm lens at 300mm focal length with a Polarising Filter, beneath the low cloud that had just cleared sufficiently exposing the Carneddau (foreground) and Glyderau (distant) Mountain Ranges.
It's no longer possible to capture sunsets from my home in Betws yn Rhos, Conwy, North Wales as the sun is now so low in the sky - soon disappearing below the hillside surrounding our village. This, however, was well worth the 'Lung Busting' one and a half mile climb to their summit! Very much hope you all agree.
The setting sun cast its last bit of reflected glow on the Missouri River, while the park lights accent tree limbs along the river walk marking the end of a serene and beautifully quiet evening.
This was the scene looking West towards Trofarth at 18.30pm tonight from the front of my home in Betws yn Rhos, Conwy, North Wales just as the sun was disappearing behind the bank of cloud above the distant hillside creating distinctive silhouettes too.
Today's weather has been far more settled - hence the appearance of these much higher altitude Cirrus Clouds. They are made of ice crystals and commonly occur at heights of between 5,000 and 13,700m above sea level.
Makes a pleasant change to at last see the setting sun compared to the recent overcast skies seen here at dusk.
This was tonight's somewhat unusual sunset at home this evening - looking towards the village of Llysfaen and beyond the North Wales Coast. It's as if someone has broken an egg - we have the distinctive oval shape with the yellow yolk colouration surround. Took the shot at 9.30pm using a Tamron 28-300mm lens and a polarising filter on a low setting to mitigate the glare.
The following question again springs to mind - "How do you like your eggs? Answer - Sunny side up please"
On 9th April 2020, I photographed a similar sunset from the front of my home - but not as complete a round shape as this.
***Yosemite Firefall, Horsetail Fall
The natural Firefall is one of Yosemite National Park’s most amazing spectacles. Around the second week of February, the setting sun hits Horsetail Fall, which flows over the eastern edge of El Capitan at just the right angle to illuminate the upper reaches of the waterfall. And when conditions are perfect, Horsetail Fall glows orange and red at sunset.
Beautiful Ginkgo tree is estimated to be 190-200 yrs old. Largest Ginkgo in North America. Displaying its beauty this autumn, waited for the sun to get low on a 45°, sun broke through for few seconds for this vibrant shoot
Golden Hour before sunrise at Joshua Tree National Park.
14Aug2016
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Back in time briefly to earlier this week....
This was the scene looking West towards Trofarth at 16.30pm last Monday from the front of my home in Betws yn Rhos, Conwy, North Wales.
Although the setting sun was obscured by the distant hillside. the increasing cloud breaks in this now Northerly Artic Airstream produced this 'Colourful Starfish' effect. I only say that as the middle left cloud pattern reminded me of those fascinating sea creatures I used to find as a child in the rock pools on the nearby North Wales coastline.
Such beauty was short lived this week though. Now, like most parts of the Northerly UK, we're now experiencing rapidly worsening weather caused by the strengthening Artic Airstream with overnight freezing temperatures, squally rain, hail and hill and mountain snow - courtesy of 'Storm Arwen'.
Despite this, I very much hope you are all still keeping safe and well and able to have an enjoyable weekend too!
Took this shot at 21.35pm at low tide - from a sandbank 100 metres out from Llandudno's West Coast shoreline where the River Conwy enters the Irish Sea via its tidal estuary. The river was close by and I kept a watchful eye out for the incoming racing tide so as not to get stranded like so many other less well informed previous people.
A minute later the sun dipped below the silhouetted lower slope of the Great Orme, which is a limestone headland on the North Wales Coast - North West of Llandudno. Its English name derives from the Old Norse word for sea serpent and as well this spot is an ideal place to capture sunsets between March and September.
The 'Volcanic Glow Peak', pictured centre, is Yr Aran 747m (2,450ft) which majestically towers above Nant Gwynant near Llyn Gwynant.
Many millions of years ago it could well have been an active volcano as the varied rock strata within Snowdonia includes Igneous rocks.
Thought in taking and sharing this remarkable 'After Glow' sky effect at 16.15pm, after the sun had just set, was a fitting to my brilliant day.
Better late than never...this was the colourful scene from the rear of my home at 7.15am this morning.
A complete surprise - relatively calm and bright. Last night we were again 'Battered' with 75mph winds and yet more heavy rain. The field in the foreground of this shot was flooded and so were many of the side lanes in our village with surface water running off nearby fields - as the ground is so saturated.
Luckily we have land drains under our bungalow.
Very much hope you are all still keeping safe and well too.
This was the scene looking West towards Trofarth at 19.00pm last night from the elevated frontage of my home in Betws yn Rhos, Conwy, North Wales, taken hand held with a Canon EFS 24-70mm Ultrasonic lens at 70mm.
Just as the sun disappeared below the horizon, with its ray's being diffused by the several Cumulus Clouds still above it, this laser/searchlight effect with distinctive silhouettes resulted.
There was aslo a strong North Westerly Onshore Air Current passing over from the distant Irish Sea bringing with it much lower and smaller scattered Cumulus Clouds. As they passed through the suns' rays, at varying heights, it was akin to a 'Volcanic Eruption - as they appeared to be blasted upwards.