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I wasn't sure I would get anything on this night as there was a thick set of horizon clouds. As the sun fell below the mountains, my patience was rewarded.
The Great Salt Lake - GPS is not the exact spot of the shot.
Normally, we like to sleep late on vacation:). This time it was worth getting up early. The light, the fog, the landscape and the fresh morning air rewarded us for our stresses and strains.
The Bastei rock formation in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. Saxony, Germany.
A long drive and a tricky day. I had thought it might be reasonably sunny, but it was a mix of sun and cloud, with a pretty good breeze on the top of the escarpment, so the Skippers stayed low down a lot of the time, given their preference for a warmer, sunny day to be active. Fortunately, I stuck around until late and was rewarded with a prolonged sunny session after 5 pm.
Never been to Aston Rowant or seen these before.
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Found this great blue heron just as he had captured a frog at Circle B Bar Reserve near Lakeland, Florida. The bird measures 45-47 inches (115-120 cm) from beak-tip to tail-tip. As are most birds, they are patient and relentless in their search for food.
After stalking the Rainbow Bee-eaters for days I finally captured one in flight. Making all the near misses and blurred images worth the effort. A true reward.
After enduring on and off again rain, we were finally rewarded with a touch of color for a brief while before we left for the day. This is not a sunset, as it was at least an hour or so before. It was more like the sun was trying hard to penetrate the heavily overcast sky.
This was a really hard one to pull out of the mostly under exposed Raw file. I was pushing the limits of my little XTI, so don't look too close... ;)
Took a walk in the snow today and was rewarded with not one, but two white=breasted nuthatches. The othr one sstayed a bit high for a decent shot!
Quail Ridge, Kelowna, BC, Canada
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I surprised myself today. So I was surprised when I found myself on the jetty around 6:30. How the hell had I got there? Had the Corona Virus caught me and my brain was affected? Had I ended up in some bad TV series and couldn't get out? I winced and looked around. Fortunately, no bites nearby. I got ready for the "Games of Drone" series and really, it was freezing cold. I literally froze my ass. Drones take off at minus 4 degrees ... Ice crystals everywhere on my stuff. Where had I had breakfast and what was there? Fish? My back was freezing cold. I tried myself as a jetty dancer to keep myself supple. The Alpha 7 on the tripod also looked kind of frozen. We tried to be big friends, but the beast of tripod was freezing cold. I was rewarded with the wonderful position lights from the sight of my beautiful drone. It was worth giving the Local Hero. Everything went well and none of us crashed. Unfortunately I had parked my car in the middle of the market place and - hell the devil - sausage and cheese, fruit and vegetables around me and this damn orderly who immediately issued me a ticket. Become expensive photos again. I think I have to leave my bank details here for donations.
So take care, don't let it bite you and we'll see you ....
Yarin
She found a cut off limb where she could insert the peanut into a crack, to hold it while she broke the shell open to get at the nut inside.
I love summer storms.... They are wild and windy, with thunder and lightning... and occasionally....there is a beautiful treasure at the end..... :)))
I'm running off to work.... I look forward to returning to visit all of you later!!! Have a fantastic Thursday! xoxoxox
«In your lifetime you will have many reasons to be happy. One of them is called water, another is called wind, another sun, and it always comes as a reward after the rain».
~ Luis Sepulveda, The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly
A trip to the Fairy Pools on the Isle of Skye involves a hike up a slope along a pretty river with lots of cascades and falls. These cascades into this pool are particularly dramatic with the mountains behind. If you were with me that day, you know that we were drenched to the bone with the heavy showers we had that day. "Waterproof" only goes so far and I still don't feel quite dry a week later.
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Pictured here is the second falls from the bridge and the real reward of the hike along the river and one of the many portages if you plan to canoe the river in either direction you will enjoy a minimum 29 portages before reaching the source lake of the river. The Pinguisibi River also known as Sand River in its English translation from Anishinaabemowin the Ojibwa language drops about 185 m (600 feet) in elevation from Sand Lake to Lake Superior making for fast water, rapids, waterfalls and lots of rocks.
You literally cannot miss this great rest area 150km North of Sault Ste. Marie as you have to drive over it to get to where you are going, there is a marked parking lot with restrooms and the Pinguisibi trail along the river is clearly marked and only moderately difficult to reach these falls making this a great leg stretcher. Water levels vary with season and year and so offer a different scenic experience each time you happen to be in the area also while there make sure to stop as well at Old Woman Bay one of the prettiest coastal landscapes that is reasonably accessible along Superior
I took this on Sept 21, 2021 with my D850 and Tamron 24-70 f2.8 G2 Lens at 24mm, 1/50s, f11 ISO 64 processed in LR, PS +Topaz ,and DXO
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress
I noticed that this Snowy Egret was focusing in on what I hoped was going to be a substantial catch! Ah well, every little helps!
Taken at Myakka River State Park, Florida.
Arundel Castle is a restored and remodelled medieval castle in Arundel, West Sussex, England. It was established during the reign of Edward the Confessor and completed by Roger de Montgomery. The castle was damaged in the English Civil War and then restored in the 18th and 19th centuries by Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk.
Since the 11th century, the castle has been the seat of the Earls of Arundel and the Dukes of Norfolk. It is a Grade I listed building.
The original structure was a motte-and-bailey castle. Roger de Montgomery was declared the first Earl of Arundel as the King granted him the property as part of a much larger package of hundreds of manors. Roger, who was a cousin of William the Conqueror, had stayed in Normandy to keep the peace there while William was away from England. He was rewarded for his loyalty with extensive lands in the Welsh Marches and across the country, together with one fifth of Sussex (Arundel Rape). He began work on Arundel Castle in around 1067.
The castle then passed to Adeliza of Louvain (who had previously been married to Henry I) and her husband William d'Aubigny. Empress Matilda stayed in the castle, in 1139. It then passed down the d'Aubigny line until the death of Hugh d'Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel in 1243. John Fitzalan then inherited jure matris the castle and honour of Arundel, by which, according to Henry VI's "admission" of 1433, he was later retrospectively held to have become de jure Earl of Arundel.
The FitzAlan male line ceased on the death of Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel, whose daughter and heiress Mary FitzAlan married Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, to whose descendants the castle and earldom passed.
In 1643, during the First English Civil War, the castle was besieged. The 800 royalists inside surrendered after 18 days. Afterwards in 1653 Parliament ordered the slighting of the castle; however "weather probably destroyed more".
Although the castle remained in the hands of the Howard family over the succeeding centuries, it was not their favourite residence, and the various Dukes of Norfolk invested their time and energy into improving other ducal estates, including Norfolk House in London. Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, was known for his restoration work and improvements to the castle beginning in 1787. The folly that still stands on the hill above Swanbourne Lake was commissioned by and built for the Duke by Francis Hiorne at this time.
In 1846, Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, visited Arundel Castle for three days. Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk, remodelled the castle in time for her visit to a design by an architectural firm, Morant: a suite of six rooms were built on the second floor of the south-east range at this time.
The 19th-century embellishments had not been completed when this picture was published in 1880. Soon after the 1846 Royal visit the 14th Duke began re-structuring the castle again. The work, which was done to the designs of Charles Alban Buckler and undertaken by Rattee and Kett of Cambridge, was completed in the late 19th century. The 16th Duke had planned to give the castle to the National Trust but following his death in 1975 the 17th Duke cancelled the plan. He created an independent charitable trust to guarantee the castle's future, and oversaw restorative works.
The extensive gardens had received significant improvements by early 2020 through the efforts of head gardener Martin Duncan and his crew. A horticulturalist and landscape designer, Duncan has been working at the Castle since 2009; in 2018, he received the Kew Guild Medal. The gardeners and volunteers "have worked wonders with their bold and innovative plantings", according to an April 2020 report by Country Life. Their most recent efforts led to a wild water garden around the ponds.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundel_Castle, www.arundelcastle.org/gardens/ and www.arundelcastle.org/
A struggle with the contrasts of this early morning shot at West Bay. But it was worth getting out while the scenic bay is being revealed by the rising sun. Probably should have done an HDR.?
The Inca Trail is a great way to experience the lost Inca city of Machu Picchu built high up in the Peruvian Andes. Our hike along the Inca Trail began at the Km 104 Station and ended as we entered the "lost city of the Inca" with this view being our reward. This photo is taken in the dry season, with late afternoon sunshine and smoke in the air from forest fires in the region. Technical Note: At the time it was taken in 2007, this photo was bracketed, full frame in RAW. It is truly wonderful to now process the original RAW file as an HDR image using current software.
I will never forget the precious time that I shared with this young Kingfisher. Our paths crossed at a small pond near my home, where, unfazed by my presence, we went about our work. The Kingfisher was practicing it’s fishing skills - I was practicing my photography skills. Sticklebacks were captured and so were images. I think we were both rewarded for our endeavours.
A wonderful and unexpected encounter forever captured and forever remembered.
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Mother Goose leading her two goslings out of the nest.
Greylag Geese.
Miller Knox Regional Shoreline, Richmond, California
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If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I could not see anything even though the weasel wanted something very close to me. I thought it was a clump of grasses, and I was shooting quickly without seeing what the little guy was trying to get at.
The viewfinder is not that good in my camera and only on the monitor at home I saw it was a fish.
Long-tailed weasel / Łasica długoogonowa (Mustela frenata)
Our efforts were rewarded when we hiked high up Sheep Mountain via the headwaters of the little creek running past our camp. The sheep were everywhere. This ram appears to be interested in me, but really he was just following the edible plants downslope, where I happened to be, cropping a mouthful here and a mouthful there.
Dall Sheep are sometimes called "thinhorn sheep"; you can see how their horns are thinner and more flared than those of the Bighorn Sheep found to the south. We spent a couple hours with a small band of rams, and then some ewes that were scattered in twos and threes across the tundra slopes. One of the highlights of that summer.
Photographed in Kluane National Park, Yukon (Canada); scanned from the original Kodachrome 64 slide. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©1982 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Schwabacher Landing is one of the must see locations in the Grand Teton National Park. I've seen countless images from here and have taken many myself but I never tire of them. If you can get there for sunrise to catch the alpine glow in the morning, you will be rewarded.
Earlier on this morning there was a mama moose and her baby in the pond just on the other side but I missed it. But I was happy to have gotten this shot.
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The Watts Dodger drops down grade from Siloam Springs, across the Oklahoma/Arkansas state line at the across the Illinois River bridge. Mike Biehn and I held out for some drop under light and were rewarded as it was looking pretty grim right up till train time.
Largo da Sé is a charming square lined with orange trees […] and dominated by the city’s impressive cathedral plus a cluster of palatial buildings, including the Bishop’s Palace.
Built on the site of an old mosque following the Reconquest in 1251, Faro’s magnificent Sé Cathedral is blessed with a bold, basilica-like interior particularly notable for its 18th-century Baroque organ and wide nave flanked by exquisite azulejo tiles. Visitors who ascend the bell tower are rewarded with the most breathtaking views of the city’s old quarter, nearby wetlands and far beyond. Google