Africa - From Above
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This is a young Dickcissel siting atop a ripe sunflower. They migrate from South America and spend their summers in central North America. This one will have plenty of seeds in the hundred acres of Sunflowers. Not a species I see often.
(I'm finally getting back into Flickr - have been off helping my brother move and other camera club business - hope to continue to be more regular again but may be gaps - it is good to be back)
That said - start this Friday with a cheerful HFF with a Eastern Bluebird perched atop!
I'm usually pretty on it with these things up, but as soon as I started the walk-in from Barber Booth at 16:30, I realised I'd completely messed up my timings 😆 Sunset was due at 17:49, and my intended destination was Swine's Back on Kinder. Hmmmm, yes. Anyway, I had my headtorch so decided I'd use it as practice to see how quickly I could cover the 2.5 miles get up there. Channelling my inner whippet I somehow arrived just before the sun dropped beneath this huge bank of cloud and lit up the landscape.
I'd walked under Swine's Back many a time, but never over the top so had no idea what to expect, and hadn't had much luck finding images looking towards Mount Famine and South Head from there. Turns out it's alright (IMHO)!
Sitting high atop sheer, gray cliffs the Seaview Cottage looks out across the open sea toward imaginary distant shores. Neselted along the northern edge of our home at Gentle Breezes, the cottage is one of our favorite places to just chill and enjoy each others company. Opening to share with the public soon, Gentle Breezes is also the location of our gallery which will be opening soon as well.
This is Muckle Flugga Lighthouse the most northernly Lighthouse in the British Isles at Hermaness in Unst, Shetland Isles. Once manned it now lights up on its own. Best viewed large!!
Perched atop a 160 foot rock and surrounded on three sides by the North Sea, these dramatic and evocative cliff-top ruins were once an impregnable fortress of the Earls Marischal, once one of the most powerful families in Scotland.
Home on the Desert's Rooftop is one of many attractions at the El Morro National Monument in New Mexico.
The Puebloans, smart farmers of the high desert, were master builders. Atsinna Pueblo, the largest of the pueblos atop El Morro, dates from about 1275. Its builders made use of what they had around them: flat sedimentary rock easily cut up as slabs they could pile one on top of another and cement with clay and pebbles.
According to the National Park Service, ~ 355 interconnected room structure is buried under the ground, which was occupied by 500-600 people. Currently, 18-room structure has been excavated.
If this is fully excavated, it could be American Machu Pichu, but the park ranger said, no plan for further excavation.
well I think it looks like I am, but in reality I am standing on the pedestrian part looking over the city
Atop the headland to the right stands one of the most photographed lighthouses in the world, Heceta Head Lighthouse. These rocks under a canopy of threatening clouds caught my eye on this particular afternoon. The tide was out but returning and filtered sunlight had just broken through the clouds for a brief moment. As for my feet and the bottoms of the jeans - well, they were soaked.
View from atop the highest peak in Malalison Island, Culasi, Antique province. A rock outcrop called Nablag Islet is in the left background.
A kestrel finds a dried stalk of a mullein plant to survey its early morning hunting grounds. Photographed in British Columbia's Okanagan-Similkameen region, in April 2022.
Perched atop a weathered metal post, the Northern Mockingbird holds its ground—gray feathers sharp against a pale sky, eyes fixed on something just beyond the frame. The fence is rusted, forgotten. The bird is not. It waits, not for flight, but for silence to break. Known for its mimicry, it listens more than it sings, absorbing the world’s noise and turning it into something sharper. The background blurs into gray and green, but the Mockingbird remains in focus—an emblem of resilience, memory, and quiet rebellion. It doesn’t ask to be seen. It dares you to look.
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The view atop the mountainside along Rt 93 in Arizona. Somewhere between Grand Canyon West and Hoover Dam, you can get this view of Lake Mead.
I don't print a lot of my own work, but this one is going large format.
Here the Broads Fork Twin Peaks can be seen directly above the summit of Mount Olympus. This view is taken from Ensign Peak, directly North of Salt Lake City but only a short distance into the hills.
The Sun U Ponnya Shin Pagoda lies atop a ridge some 12 km (7.5 mi.) southwest of Mandalay, in the Sagaing Hills, Sagaing, Sagaing Region, Myanmar. In this view looking south-southeast from the pagoda, the Irrawaddy River is seen beyond the golden stupa in the foreground. The line of stupas on the right lie in the Mandalay Region, along the true left bank of the river.
Looking northwest into the Yosemite Valley from the top of Sentinel Dome, on the trail near the end of Glacier Point Road. Photographed 10-11-2018 and processed 09-10-19.
1st of two (very faded) See Rock City signs on this particular barn...this one can be seen as you are driving west on Highway 30 between Pikeville, TN and Spencer, TN. It reads "See Beautiful Rock City atop Lookout Mt.". The other side reads the same...stay tuned!
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11