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off the blackwater river. A brief respite this morning from the incessant rain and wind of late. Didn’t last for long though, before the downpours resumed for the rest of the day!
***UPDATE*** Was a winner of the "Luminous Sky contest" at "The Award Tree" group and is featured on the front page during the week of Sept 4, 2010
The severe extremes of weather that pound the High Plains of Western Nebraska are hard for any exposed structure
The weird part about this photo is that less than 30 minutes later the clouds all disappeared!
3 exposure, -2, 0, +2, and processed in Photomatrix
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Captured and released. Used 5 lights in studio to get this shot. It was very cooperative while I moved the camera around and nudged him into position. Had to coax him into sticking his tongue out. Nerodia erythrogaster
One last 3-shot panorama from the car on the way out of a wonderful experience on the Carrizo Plain!
Spring skies are filled with clouds over a New Mexico plain.
This is a four image Pano
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'Plains' oil on paper by Erica Bonavida
"The Land We Belong to is Grand" exhibit
The Leslie Powell Foundation Gallery - Lawton. OK
What I believe to be a Plains Clubtail dragonfly from back in late May at Mill Pond. A new one for my Mill Pond odonata images.
Looking at a sea of goldfields with the Temblor Range in the background at Carrizo Plain National Monument in California.
Brachystola magna
The Plains Lubber is an attractive grasshopper when encountered on the open prairie. Not the hopper with the greatest maximum length but certainly the heaviest.
I didn’t realize that the pronghorn antelope is an original “native American”. It has no close relative on this or any other continent. We spotted this pair alone—separated from the herd—and the male was a bit lame. Although he had seen better days, the female was sticking close by him, waiting patiently as he slowly followed her across the stream and up the hill.
Carrizo Plains
The flat plains of the Enborne and behind it Kennet valleys, brown in the parched baking summer of 2018. Taken from White Hill to the south of Kingsclere on the Hants/Berks border.