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The American White Pelican, frequently spoken of as "THE CLOUD DANCER” representing their graceful, soaring flight in groups, often moving together in the sky. The White Pelican is a masterpiece of natural avionic architecture, a creature of stark, snowy elegance and of prehistoric size. On the water, it sits high and buoyant like a regal white galleon. In the air, it transforms into a master of the thermals with its massive 9-foot wingspan tipped with ink-black flight feathers that only reveal themselves in motion.
Unlike its rugged, salt-sprayed cousin the Brown Pelican, the White Pelican possesses a luminous, pristine plumage that seems to glow even on overcast days. It's most striking feature is the massive tangerine-orange bill, which during the breeding season, develops a strange keratinous horn on the upper ridge...a temporary crown that gives the bird a mythical, archaic appearance.
On the water they dip their pouched bills to scoop up fish, or tip-up like an oversized dabbling duck. Sometimes, groups of pelicans work together to herd fish into the shallows for easy feeding. Look for them on inland lakes in summer and near coastlines in winter.
When they move, they do so with a quiet, synchronized grace. Watching a flock circling and soaring in a tight rising column high above the California landscape is a hypnotic experience, as the CLOUD DANCERS alternate between brilliant white to sudden black with every tilt of their black tipped wings against the deep blue sky.
16 July 2010, 197/365 #197
I have been looking at clouds over the past few days to build up a library of them. I started to take pictures just of clouds and this one looked rather drammatic, even more so after I had a play with it in photoshop. I don't do a great deal manipulations like this, but it certainly is dramatic.
This is a 2 shot panorama of the dunes and clouds at Fort Macon State Park, North Carolina. It is about a half hour before sunset.
Taken somewhere over Europe, when we were flying back from our vacation on the island of Rhodes :)
Chmury widziane z samolotu, gdzieś nad Europą. Pstryknięte w drodze powrotnej z naszych wakacji na Rodos :)
bit boring, but it’s currently my desktop background.
it makes me feel happy :-) .
taken from signal hill, looking over seapoint.
After a morning of rain, we finally got a little sunshine in the afternoon. I was quite taken with the clouds
Cloud Gate, sculpture by Anish Kapoor.
One of the modern icons of downtown Chicago.
Millenium Park, Chicago, Illinois
30 minutes after sunset
Nacreous clouds, also called polar stratospheric clouds
Lake Iidesjärvi, Tampere, Finland
Helmiäispilviä
Go early in the morning and it’ll be foggy they said, yea right! Full sunshine when we got there. But what a delight, the magical Fanal Forest on the Island of Madeira. This is one of my better shots, two Laurel Trees with the clouds below us clearly visible in the distance. Taken 01/06/2024
7 of 10 days here in Alabama are blue skies. Great for the soul, but bad for my art. But I patiently waited and I think I got a perfect sky for this perspective. HSS!
So far behind on visiting all your posts..apologies...waiting on grand child #4, busy at wok, and finishing woodworking projects. Soo archive diving!