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I haven't been to Penmon for a while and after posting yesterdays shot decided today would be as good a day as any .....some wonderful wave surges over the close reefs made for several aborted exposures while i pulled the camera away form the incoming waves ....after many close shaves and many splashes over myself and the camera I managed this shot .....
Not only did we arrive Great Sand Dunes National Park a bit late and lost most of the golden light on the dunes, I believe we also came at the wrong time of day.
Judging by the dunes' orientation (facing east) and the trek marks left by the day activities (hiking, sandboarding, sand sledding), early morning hours would be a much better time for photography in here!
Nevertheless, I'm happy with the few images that I got, for they are much better than the ones I took from the first visit (early afternoon, Sep 2019)! 😉
I will share a funny encounter with you in my next Great Sand Dunes photo at a later time, so please make sure you follow my journey!
(Ha ha ha, did I just do a good job to promote my Stream here?!? 😂😜)
Have a fun-filled day, my Flickr-friends!
We finally made our way to Great Sand Dune National Park near the end of the Golden Hour (sigh!), the sun was about to disappear behind the sand dune (sigh-sigh!).
The water sight scared me (I can't swim); why was it flooded, it's supposed to be nothing but dry sand!?!
I knew it for a fact for I was there in Sep '2019!!!
As we got closer, we saw that it's just a few inches of water, very walkable without shoes and sock (sigh a big relief!).
Little did I know that for a few months each year, the melting of the snowfields in nearby Sangre de Cristo Mountains flowed into Medano Creek, which then flowed into the basin of the sand dunes, where it turned into a wide and shallow stream.
As the melted snow trickled down to the sand ridges, it created many underwater ridges in the sand that build up and break every 20 seconds, which then produced waves in the creek, a phenomenon known as Surge Flow.
Live and learn!
With so much rain we've been getting lately (8 days and still counting), the surrounding rivers are overflowing and so is Clear Lake.
Our fishing pier took a beating, several wood planks were lifted by the surging waves. The water level was so high that it almost reached the top of the pier.
The rain should be completely gone by Wednesday.
Longing for a blue sky with bright sunshine...
Had a quick trip out to catch the big waves on the coast this afternoon after work, here's one just at high tide as we were leaving of St Mary's shooting from Colywell Bay, slightly different angle to the norm but I quite like the low point of view
Detached Headlands and eroded Sea Stacks with surge channels below the Coastal bluffs. A calm day on the Mendocino coast. Pacific Ocean, U.S.A.
Trial Harbour, west coast of Tasmania.
In these crazy times i'm missing going to amazing places to take photos and immerse myself in the isolation of nature.
A big swell this day and the surf coming right through the gap at Wallagoot. There is also another small beach just beyond this gap before the rolling surf in the distance. A few weeks before this I was able to walk to the inner beach but not this day! I would like to be at this place for a sunrise. The Gap Wallagoot in the Bournda National Park.
Abstract - "GLOW and GLEAM" Challenge #67
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Diese speziellen "Brandungswellen" werden "Vogesen" genannt. Oder, klangvoll, weil französisch, "Les Vosges" (hier aus Sicht des Südschwarzwaldes/ Schauinsland; darunter die Nebeldecke des Oberrheingrabens).
Sea wall and groynes at Landguard, Felixstowe, Suffolk, one of the few east coast locations worth visiting for a sunset
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Starling blurmuration taken during my initial experimentation with this technique in February 2015.