I couldn't decide which version I liked best, so here is the original....

A Chickadee feeding on pine cones....

I spent a lot of time fighting with my camera for this shot. The lens wanted to focus on anything but the little delicate bits of pine. Eventually, I switched it to manual focus and hoped my eyesight was good enough to do the job.

Arches National Park, Utah

Located in the Devils Garden area, this is beautiful hike with many arches, spires and hoodoos.

Blidinje

my pine,your pine,our pine

Where is the ogre?

Roussillon , Provence , France

Situated in the heart of one of the biggest ochre deposits in the world, Roussillon is famous for its magnificent red cliffs and ochre quarries. The red, yellow and brown shades of the earth form a striking contrast with the lush green pinetrees. The vivid blue of the Provençal sky and the exceptional quality of light make this a magical site. It is like an artist's pallet, with the infinite combinations of colours varying from yellow to purple with all the shades of pink and red inbetween.

'Green Pinetree' On Black

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On the forest floor along the shoreline of 13th Lake

Springtime emergence of new growth...

新宿御苑

The UP coal load CNACQ 10 catches the last sun of the day as it passes some flowers in Larkspur.

Current music playing: Faun – Unda

Yes this weekend we Welcome Spring.

And for those of us who suffer allergies it also means here comes the pollen. Technically the pollen has already arrived in our area but there is definitely more on the horizon!

*** Pine tree pollen cones seen at a nearby arboretum during our brief visit.

Merry Christmas to you all!

Happy Falls Friday. The hike to Fairy Falls is an easy 4.5 mile round trip hike with very little elevation climb. The trail to the falls includes a pleasant walk through lodgepole pines. I only had my long lens with me when I hiked the trail, so shot the falls from a distance. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, July 2025

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A city that once smelled of pine trees.

Dried leaves on a wooden dock at the Old Ausable Channel in the Pinery Provincial Park on Lake Huron and near the town of Grand Bend , Martin’s photographs , Ontario , Canada , October 27. 2022

Tall oak tree at a wooden dock on the Old Ausable Channel in the Pinery Provincial Park

Canoe boat launch site at the Old Ausable Channel

Canoe launch site

Old Ausable Channel

Oak leaves

Dried leaves

Tall oak tree

Wooden dock

picnic table

steel fire pit

Dunes at Lake Huron Beach

Campground

Dunes

Lake Huron dunes

Pinery provincial park

Pinery provincial park on Lake Huron near the town of Grand bend

trail through campground

Pinery provincial park on Lake Huron

Ontario parks

glowing

fire iron is a fireplace poker

camp fire on a campsite at the Pinery provincial park

Lake Huron

town of Grand bend

The glowing end of a fire iron just removed from the camp fire

Pinery provincial park

Camp fire on our campsite

Camp fire

campsite

Cardinal flowers and rocks in a swamp

Cardinal flowers in a swamp at Bon Echo Provincial Park

Martin’s photographs

Frog

Frogs

Water plants

Joe Perry Lake

cloudy sky

Mazinaw Rock

Mazinaw Lake

Canada

Ontario

Bon Echo Provincial Park

Bon Echo

Provincial Park

October 2022

IPhone 6

Favourites

HWY. ON. 41 , Cloyne

Martin’s photographs

Cloyne

HWY. ON. 41

clouds

Woods

Trees and roots near the shore of Mazinaw Lake

Lake shore

Trees and roots near the shore

Roots

Lake

Lake Huron beach

sandy beach

beach

September 2019

October 2019

boardwalk

stairs

Oak trees

Cedar trees

Pine tree

Dead tree

Tree roots

Moss

Tent

Evergreen trees

I had been attempting to capture the faint double rainbow behind me when I turned around I saw this scene. I quickly switched my shooting approach to the Skink pinhole disc attachment.

Not clear if it was a logging or farm road but it just narrows into the distance.

just when i think i've seen it all, nature fills me again with wonder: worlds within raindrops, stories within patterns, lessons within silence.

I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny.

It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.

~Ang Lee~

p.s: i'm a kungfu movie mania... i hope you know Ang Lee...

Of all days of all, I was challenged at the day of Christmas Eve to go out in the forrest and take a nice photography in the middle of the snow storm. Here is one result, in my photostream, you will find others. What is amazing, is that there is a lot of motives and so much beauty out there in the bad weather... I love it!