Evening view. The iconic Prince of Wales Hotel, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada. 3 versions. I did not stay at the hotel, the photos were taken from outside the grounds of an unglamorous garbage dump. I did not encounter any other people whilst shooting these photos, and couldn't find any other angle to include both the hotel and the lakes and mountains together.

Sunrise at Phantom Lake in Crex Meadows Wildlife Area near Grantsburg Wisconsin.

La costa del Mediterráneo, Marbella, España

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Resumir Cuenca en unas pocas líneas no sólo es tarea baladí, sino casi un sacrilegio, ya que por los huecos de la estrechez perderíamos siempre algo valioso, algo importante. Cuenca es ciudad para reposar, no de visita apresurada. Una ciudad para ver por dentro, paseando sus calles, entrando en sus rincones monumentales; y contemplar desde fuera, desde el otro lado del Júcar; para ver bañada por el sol o iluminada por la noche. Para ver las construcciones del hombre y las de la naturaleza. Para descubrir escondidos secretos de callejones fachadas y callejuelas, o para que invada la imponencia de su catedral, o sumergirse de lleno en la envoltura de monumentos de la Plaza Mayor; para la historia del arte o el arte abstracto contemporáneo.

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La ciudad que se asoma al Júcar colgada desde la pared que la sustenta, es, merecidamente, Patrimonio de la Humanidad e invita desde su percha a transitarla con calma, degustarla y llevársela prendida. Cuenca es la ciudad que no se resume, nos resume ella y nos hace vulnerables ante su esplendor y su belleza.

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Cuenca summarize in a few lines is not only trivial task, but almost sacrilegious because through the holes of the narrowness always lose something valuable, something important. Cuenca is a city to rest, not hasty visit. A city to see inside, walking the streets, entering his monumental corners; and look from outside, from the other side of the Júcar; to see bathed in sunshine or illuminated at night. To see the constructions of man and nature. To discover hidden secrets of facades alleys and lanes, or to invade its imposing cathedral, or being immersed in the envelope of monuments Plaza Mayor; for the history of contemporary art or abstract art.

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The city overlooking the Júcar hanging from the wall that supports it, is deservedly a World Heritage Site and invites from his perch to journey it calmly, taste it and take her pinned. Cuenca is the city that is not summed up, she sums up and makes us vulnerable to its splendor and beauty.

ESCOGE CUALQUIERA DE MIS ALBUMES Y MÍRALO SIN PRISAS

The La Sal Mountains just outside of Moab, UT are some of the most scenic I know!

Image Notes: This is a reprise of one of my first really popular images that I had originally shot on an ancient 4 mp Nikon Coolpix 4500. The key was hitting up this place at the right time of year to still have some greens and at least a bit of snow to work with. I used a polarizer and had a fantastic cloudy sky to cap the scape. No HDR on this one, plenty of DR in the -0.33 EV RAW.

Great Blue Heron

Spread Wing Display

Green Cay Photo #2

Other Photos of this Tree Top Heron are in the Comments below

I'm not able to find enough time to follow my eyes! Everywhere I go I see something, but especially when is calm and relaxing like Maldives. The white sand itself gave me a lot of inspirational thoughts..

Parts of my time in Huntington Beach featured some interesting skies but the conditions made a lot of my shots tougher than they should've been. The sky had very little color which surprised me. To my left, it was very hazy and overcast and to my right, a thick golden haze with tremendous glare at most angles and settings. The best and most interesting option seemed to be straight out to sea, though my long exposure shots were pretty harsh and there were hardly any boats off in the horizon for quicker shutter speeds.

At one point, not long before the sun started falling, it got very dark to my left while the sky to my right had an orangish yellow color towards the sun. There was this clear gap (and quite a lot of crepuscular rays over the next half hour through various holes in the sky) that allowed some bluer light through and it created this really nice shimmer on the incoming tide.

It was pretty windy with a heavy mist from the ocean and incoming surf and mostly overcast. The tide was constantly changing it seemed and I didn't stay dry for this photo nor about a dozen other shots. Often, I try to use the edge of the incoming surf as my point of focus, not connecting in my head that the water is--at that moment--6 inches from my tripod. While many of my shots didn't turn out how I had hoped, I was happy with a handful.

Huntington Beach

Huntington Beach, CA

March 13th, 2016

SETTINGS:

Canon Rebel T4i

EF-S 18-135mm IS STM

@18mm

ISO 100

f/5

1/1000th second

CPL

un coucher de soleil dans les herbes hautes avec cette petite brise qui dessine des rayons ...

Carantec pointe du Cosmeur .

Les Salles-sur-Verdon est une commune française située dans le département du Var en région française Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Ses habitants sont appelés les Sallois

Un Site une Histoire.

En 1974, l'ancien village des Salles sur Verdon fut détruit pour permettre la mise en eau du lac de Sainte Croix. A l'Office de Tourisme, une exposition de photographies, des maquettes et une vidéo vous feront revivre la fascinante histoire du village.

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I skipped a Christmas party last night to watch the sunset from a little fishing pier outside our condo. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and happiness in the New Year. I will be away visiting family. Leaving my laptop at home! Thank you all for your inspiration and support during the past year. You have enriched my life in many ways.

Thanks to all who take the time to Comment etc...it is appreciated...

Peregrine Falcon - Falco Pelegrinus

Yesterday I started my quest for Winter inspiration. It was -5 degrees and I was ridiculously cold. I found I am very ill prepared for this venture in terms of the OBVIOUS like gloves and something for my ears. I felt like I was trudging through a blizzard. I've already started my online shopping so I can continue my winter adventures in a much more warmer (and yes dignified)manner. (suggestions are welcome btw!) On my way back to the outside grounds of our condo, the sun had began to set and the skies were a soft blush of pink and light lavender. The tall fence that gates our community was covered in a glittery veil of snow and the sun was barely peeking over. But enough so that it's rays were beautifully crisp and visible. It made it seem as if something warm and beautiful was just over the fence. Wouldn't it be nice if lost loved ones were "just over the fence"? There's a country song I love by Justin Moore called "If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away." It always pulls on my heart and imagination. I hold onto my memories of Rebekah like tightly kept secret. In that aspect she is always on my side of the fence. <3

Cet oiseau se nourrit principalement d'insectes et de larves, capturés sur le sol. Il recherche particulièrement les fourmilières dans les prés, car les fourmis représentent plus de 90 % de son alimentation

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Taken from a boat on the Chobe river near Kasane, in Botswana!

A young Puku chasing a young Bushbuck! See previous upload of this nice spectacle!

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Panorama realise depuis le magnifique point de vue du Maido.

Ile de la Reunion / Reunion Island

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Rodovia Transpantaneira - Mato Grosso - Brasil

Woke up early this morning to photograph this beautiful sky from my bedroom window,

I'm deducting the $20 it cost to enter the park from the overall $1,000,000 views. I think that's fair.

I wasn't totally sure what to expect since I've traditionally been a person who explores around home rather than do destination or tourist photography. It had been pleasant but windy most of the morning through New Mexico but now it was much colder (in the 40's), had higher swirling winds and a constantly dramatic sky. At one point, Scotch almost blew off a cliff. Then my camera nearly did the same.

My biggest regret was poor time management, I spent about 90 minutes covering the first 4 miles and about 30 minutes flying through the last 24 miles. I called the info line at about 4:55 when i realized i had another 15 miles to drive to make sure I wouldn't get...locked in. I may have even paid $40 for the fee. Who knows.

Crystal Forest

Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

28 MPH winds

36°F 3:43 PM

Alt: 5,550ft

SETTINGS:

Canon T4i

EF-S18-135mm IS STM

@18mm

ISO 100

f/8

1/250th sec

CPL

My apologies for the infrequent posts lately but I haven't been shooting a ton and my last trip out last saturday was a waste, with basically zero color, no reflections at all and the kind of light where every shot looks dull. In fact, lately it's been very tough to tell what the weather will do and while I've missed a few colorful sunsets over these last couple weeks, it's mostly been just those really gloomy days where the time for the sunset comes and goes with nothing changing. I've been skipping days where the conditions seem like they could go either way and mostly have made the right decision. I can see both East and West from the balcony (albeit a bit off from the sweet spots) and if I stay home, I can at least see if I was missing anything.

Anyway, I did take a bunch of shots a few weekends ago when I was alone on the beach at Venice in the rain, watching storm clouds out at sea in one direction and a golden reflective sunset a little more West. Shooting at a beach in the rain is a new experience for me and despite being fun, I had some big issues mixed in including not being as well prepared for blowing rain as I should have been. Also since I wasn't shooting long exposures, I turned the lens image stabilization on and it sort of malfunctioned. It was windy enough on the shore to make things fairly difficult for my "wind proof" umbrella and when the IS was turned on, there would be a slight hiccup with each manual adjustment to the focus. It seemed strange but I focused where I wanted and then shot away not realizing until I got home and viewed the photos on my mac that it ended up making half the shots I took shaky and completely unusable. They're like how a 3D photo or video looks without the glasses, if that makes sense. Fortunately, the lens seems to be functioning properly again.

I did get an interesting group of shots from the half that didn't suffer from the lens issue and weren't taken when the light got too dark and I experimented with ISO 800. I shot every photo from the right side of the lifeguard headquarters and the giant stacked boulders that divide the beach facing Santa Monica. The tide wasn't what I had gotten used to and there was no reflective areas where I normally shoot so I had to walk a bit to find a clean reflective surface within view of both the storm cells and the sunset. This was basically where West and North meet I guess and with the clouds rolling over the mountains, it was pretty amazing to watch. While this is facing Santa Monica, the pier itself is out of frame to the right. The conditions were better in this direction as most of the remaining rain clouds were behind me and the blowing rain became more of an annoying drizzle. I wish the mountains were a bit better detailed, but fog and the dense clouds covering the mountains made it tough and i was mostly focused on the lower middle of the frame. Even though it was a fun night, I found it really challenging to get the settings and focus in harmony. It was so dark and windy over there at times that I'm surprised any details in the background show. Most of the shots that focused more on the mountains than the reflection and foreground were among those that fell victim to the IS issue though some did turn out well enough. I think the next time I go, I will drive further down the road and get closer to these mountains and Santa Monica Pier. As long as I can arrive early enough to take my time, I will pick a new area of this beach to focus on :)

WHEN & WHERE

Venice Beach

Venice, California

November 26th, 2016

SETTINGS

Canon T4i

EF-S 18-135mm IS STM

@18mm

ISO 200

f/10

1/30th second

CPL

B l a c k M a g i c

high desert grasslands outside Taos;

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The previous post was from my favorite night of shooting in California (and perhaps anywhere) and this was is as well, only about 16 minutes later and facing the other direction.

I was thrilled after arriving when I realized the long sloping shore and low tide made for perfect reflections. I had never shot a reflection before and didn't have much to go on so I did a mix of both long and short exposures for the next few hours.

As I shot, the sky became more and more vibrant and the intensity of the sunset was unlike anything I've ever seen. The colors changed rapidly and the concentrated crimson sky in the previous post seemed to appear out of nowhere and faded not too long after. For about a half hour, people slowly gathered around the area I was shooting, watching the sky and taking videos and photos with their phones.

After the crimson began to fade away, the people left and I was all alone on the beach again, shooting until the last dot of color was gone from the sky. A bit of that fiery red is still visible in the far right and the colors were still very bold at this point, but it wasn't long after this that the only light between me and the pier was the the flashlight on my phone and the planes overhead.

I arrived here in no hurry and with very little expectations other than the hope for a nice sunset and a new place to shoot. I ended up being the last person to leave the beach and I returned a half dozen times over the next month hoping for a repeat sky that never came.

Venice Beach Pier

Venice, California

January 27th, 2016

SETTINGS:

Canon T4i

EF-S18-135mm IS STM

@24mm

ISO 200

f/10

10 seconds

CPL

A pair of wood bison seen in northern British Columbia. They are noticeably larger than our Plains Bison. Another fine specimen in comments.

Wood bison, the largest animal in the Americas, once roamed throughout present-day Alaska and western Canada. But unregulated hunting in the 1800s nearly wiped them out, and by the middle of the 20th century some thought the animals were extinct. But then, in 1957, a small herd was found in a remote part of Alberta by the crew of a plane flying overhead. Since then, their numbers have rebounded to around 11,000 in Canada, as governmental organizations have helped breed and repatriate them to a few parts of their former range. May they thrive and prosper.

Have a wonderful Spring week!

Another shot from the Hawaii Convention Center, and many more to follow. This is taken outside just to the right of my last shot. I would really love to come back here for a sunset shot. Well I'm off to work and very ready for the weekend. Have a good one everyone.

HDR vertorama made from 2 shots of 7 exposures each and then blended with 2 of those exposures. Same old curves, saturation, blah blah... you get the idea :)

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Perfect conditions for the Milky Way, calm, clear, and cool night with fantastic visibility... it was an amazing site to see it span the sky. Taken outside Woodland Park, CO. Many of the mountains are still bare from a forest fire 10 yrs ago.

A series of three shots of Poppy dashing about on Irvine Beach last weekend, merged together. I had originally planned to present them a different way, but while I was messing about in Photoshop, I found the `Panorama' tool---this clearly isn't a pano, but I pushed the button just to see what would happen! It merged two of the shots quite nicely, so I messed about some more in layers to blend in the third shot.

A sub-adult with changing plumage

My Photoblog- My Third Eye...!

Whitethroat - Sylvia Communis

Baby it's cold outside.....

Seattle Washington USA

Still no decent light so here's a non-flying Robin from yesterday in my garden hide

There were Fritillaries there, but not many, and they were all in the middle of the meadow - well past the 'KEEP OFF THE MEADOW!' signs, so I couldn't get too close!

Lovely to see, you can't beat frosty early morning walks :-)

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Highest position: 43 on Sunday, January 20, 2013

Wat Chaiwatthanaram (Thai: วัดไชยวัฒนาราม) is a Buddhist temple in the city of Ayutthaya Historical Park, Thailand, on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River, outside Ayutthaya island. It is one of Ayutthaya's best known temples and a major tourist attraction.

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Santa Monica, California

Day 248 of my 366 Project

Truly one of a better e-mail you may not have seen:

A mother asked this President... 'Why did my son have to die in Iraq ?'

A mother asked this President... 'Why did my son have to die in Saudi Arabia ?'

A mother asked President... 'Why did my son have to die in Kuwait?'

Another mother asked President... 'Why did my son have to die in Vietnam?'

Another mother asked President... 'Why did my son have to die in Korea?'

Another mother asked President... 'Why did my son have to die on Iwo Jima?'

Another mother asked President... 'Why did my son have to die on a battlefield in France?'

Yet another mother asked President... 'Why did my son have to die at Gettysburg?'

And yet another mother asked President... 'Why did my son have to die on a frozen field near Valley Forge?'

Then long, long ago, a mother asked...

'Heavenly Father ... why did my Son have to die on a cross outside of Jerusalem?'

The answer is always the same... “So that others may live and dwell in peace, happiness, and freedom.”

This was emailed to me with no author. I thought the magnitude and the simplicity were awesome.

If you are not willing to stand BEHIND our troops, please, please feel free to stand in front of them....

“Lets go to WAR is a political decision usually made by governments leading nations. A person can try to influence that decision, before and after, War begins or is averted. Once in war, a citizen’s duty to his/country is what if asked to served, or if asked to support those serving in hostile territories in HARM’s WAY”? I pray for the military folks abroad and at home, anxiously awaiting exercise of the right to vote out this current top government officials. What do you do?

EXPLORE # 479 on Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Winter photo with minor cropping and re-sizing. Colors are natural though. This scene is taken from outside of the back door of the community room at the McFarlin Chelmsford housing. It is almost dusk in this photo. I like the hill and the glow of the lights on the snowy ground.

Pinchar sobre la foto para verla en grande.

El haber visto las cabricas significa habermelo currado mucho, pues verlas no es nada fácil, y hacerles una foto antes era complicado, gracias a grandes CORAZONES que me rodean como Pericles, Oda y Dani, que llegaron a mi hace muchos años de la mano de José Miguel Pantaleón.

VOSOTROS SOIS MI MUNDO MUNDIAL Y MI VIDA.