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I walked down by the local creek the other afternoon. The recent rains have increased flow rates and the water in Cherry Creek is tea like from all the fallen leaves. Downstream about 75 feet I notice a disturbance in the water but don't see anything. Then I see something moving upstream on the surface of the water like a big fish. It gets a little closer then I realize it must be an otter swimming vigorously in my direction! It wasn't an otter but an American Mink (Mustela vision). It's in the weasel family and is almost as aquatic as an otter and a nocturnal hunter. They eat voles, frogs, crayfish, waterfowl and their eggs, mice, rabbits, snakes, and aquatic invertebrates.
It got to within about 6 feet of where I stood backlit with camera on the monopod, it looked up at me then swam a little circle around a rock then scurried out of the water on the opposite bank and darted under a fallen log! Wow, glad I had the long lens! Pinch me and I do believe in luck. Mendocino County, North California U.S.A.
This is looking the other direction from my last photo - upstream on the Red Deer River. I'd love to do a kayak trip on the Red Deer....All I need now is a kayak.
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Taken from more or less the same spot as the previous upload, this one taken several days later following a night of heavy rain in the Welsh mountains.
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The city of Rouen occupies a great sweep of the River Seine. A lot of ocean going ships come this far upstream to the docks which are to the far right of picture beyond the bridges
I thought the previous posting should have some salmon swimming in it. It should be viewable if you see my 'photostream' ... pun intended.
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Here was North Yatsugatake in Japan.
The view was seen from the mountaintop of Mt. Kitayokodake (2,472m).
A strong wind blew, and clouds began to flow upstream. The mountain range in the distance was South Yatsugatake.
Purling Brook is a fine feature of Springbrook National Park most especially as it tumbles 105m from the escarpment. However the view upstream provides an appreciation of the flora of the sub-tropical rainforest the stream traverses.
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I really liked the difference in light between late afternoon and my customary morning visits to the botanic garden. In the mornings, this spot—and the lantern—barely has sun touching.
This had been shot around 3:30p that day. I'd need to be there at 4:30 now that we've set our clocks forward for Daylight time.
But the gardens close at that hour.
I might still go again, before the sun gets much farther north.
Whatever time of day, I'm really looking forward to seeing flowers and leaves again.
On a cold dark December morning. A boat passes under the Tacitus bridge at Ewijk, heading upstream towards Nijmegen, or beyond that, Germany.
Back from a weekend in Algonquin where the weather was wet, the colours were beautiful and the company was good.
Two grizzly bears met on the river bank, one travelling upsteam, one travelling downstream. It was a standoff. What happened next? Sorry, didn't see; it's one of life's little unsolved mysteries. Chilko River, BC.
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With side light and ripples. This stretch of the River Esk [at Grosmont] is popular with fishermen for Salmon and Trout. A few jumped while I was taking my shots, causing ripples. The river flows slowly here and there are normally nice reflections.
Looking southwest and upstream from where the blacktop road crosses the creek (just below a couple of old barns that Jim and I photographed during August 2016).
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This time a kayaker gets into the action. But if you look closely you'll see a very different crew to the one I posted yesterday (see the next shot).
Some ducks swim upstream in Yellowstones Madison River as a bull elk walks by.
He was focused on his ladies who were on the other side. They were getting friendly with some dangerous critters. He didn't want them getting too far away.
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Keep safe and warm on this wicked weekend!
Little River, Great Smoky Mountains NP, Tennessee. The main branch of the Little River flows through the tighly stacked mountains of the Smokies, pure and clear on it's way between Sugarland and Elkmont. I am always drawn upstream, against the flow, it seems. Working against gravity. Spring gives me strength, wakes me up, and along the river the forest, too, seemed to be waking before my eyes. The river took on the glow of the sunset lighting the hills and my eyes followed that color as far as the converging banks would let them, upstream, where I am destined to go.
This was a problem for composition, as behind me there was a drop-off so i could not stand high enough to get the whole log or change the composition. Post processing could have eliminated the log or otherwise modified the offending object, but i make a concerted effort to keep things as i see/find them. Old school, I am. Not to mention i am not a computer wizard with enough smarts to make something out of nothing, so i try to stick to the facts. '"Just the facts, ma'am", as Joe Friday would have said.
The top of a series of cascades and waterfall drops known as Saxon Falls on the Montreal River located on the border of Wisconsin and Michigan (U.P).
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