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Looking west-northwest at an elevation of 390 m (1,280 ft.) from 1.3 km (0.8 mi.) east of Du Già village in the Yên Minh District of Hà Giang Province, Vietnam. The village is 62.4 km (38.8 mi.) via Highway QL-4C, TL-181 and TL-176 from Tam Sơn, the capital of the Quản Bạ District. Provincial Road TL-176 is seen descending along the hillside at right. The Quản Bạ, Yên Minh, Đồng Văn and Mèo Vạc Districts of Hà Giang Province encompass the 2,356 sq. km (910 sq. mi.) Dong Van Karst Plateau UNESCO Global Geopark, which was included in the UNESCO Global Geoparks Network in 2015.
My son and grandson exploring Currumbin Creek, in the Gold Coast hinterland. The colour was quite vivid with the very overcast sky. The drizzling rain had just eased up.
Letter V, for Weekly Alphabet group.
The early prominences of a strong auroral display light up the dark winter skies above a stark volcanic and snow dusted landscape near Hornafjordur, Iceland.
After shooting until after the last light of blue hour at Vestrahorn, we headed into Hofn for a delicious dinner of langoustines and other local Icelandic specialties. The skies were mostly clear and the aurora forecast for later in the evening looked very promising so we watched our phones almost obsessively for alerts that activity could be beginning just outside. We were just finishing our meals when the Met Office's aurora page showed the activity level jumping up to Kp5, and then Kp6, which we understood loosely to indicate that something of a geomagnetic storm was beginning!
We hastily paid our bill and rushed out into the street, elated immediately to see shimmering veils of light dancing across the heavens above the village rooftops. At this first glimpse, the light color was still mostly white with only hints of green visible to naked eyes. We jumped in the car and drove out of town a few kilometers, watching the aurora seeming to increase in strength with each passing minute. More color (richer yellow-greens and touches of red) became plainly visible, and not knowing how long the display would last, we decided just to pull off the road at a random location where we could see some texture in the adjacent field leading toward more distant mountains crowned with whirling auroras.
While I had been fortunate enough to experience an auroral display before, I had almost no useful experience trying to photograph this wondrous phenomenon, so there was more than a little trial and error as I tried to focus and hone in on settings that worked reasonably well even as the strength, structure and location of the main display rapidly evolved. An additional variable was soon introduced when another car pulled off across the road a short distance from us, and left its tail lights shining enough to light some of the snow in the foreground of my composition here. I thought about removing that aberrant foreground light from this image, but given that there were some red hues in the aurora, I sort of came to appreciate the balance provided by the touches of reddish light hitting the ridges in that snowy field.
It turned out that nature had much more in store for us this evening than a quick, roadside view of the aurora. I've already posted a couple of images from later that same night when the aurora was even stronger, and its form even more amazing, but I felt like posting this as sort of a prequel, or origin story, before I get back around to posting some more of my later images (from different locations) of this stunning night-long celestial display.
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In a normal August, the grasses in this field would be golden brown. But this has been no normal summer. For the months of June and July a vast pasture area including this section was under a lake formed by flood waters.
Happy Fence Friday!
This part of the wood was so rich, mossy and green that other colours barely got a look in. The rocks exposed under this uprooted tree were some of the few exceptions.
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A verdant primeval forest in the North Carolina mountains.
I love scrambling across the mossy rocks and boulders of a mountain brook to see what treasure I can find.
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Another photograph from Thorndon Park in Adelaide, South Australia. Definitely worth another visit when the algae levels have died down.
This photograph was taken on the path leading up to the Castle Hotel in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
It's a remarkable landscape, if nothing else for how deep the greens are, but equally for the fresh air and rolling topography.
This pathway runs just short of a kilometre from the Castle Hotel down to the actual ruins of Huntly Castle where the path fords a babbling brook. It's all very "Wind in the Willows" to my eyes.
Vine maples, club moss, and oxalis catch golden afternoon sunlight through the canopy of Olympic NP's impossibly verdant Hoh rainforest.
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Digital painting of Moose Falls Bridge in Yellowstone National Park produced using Corel Painter X3.
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