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Outside Madison, Indiana, I discovered a cloud factory. Must have been on reduced capacity that day. Still, it was putting out quality work.
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.
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the moment you enter the cloud zone...
everything is still yet you move faster you could ever run (:
I hope you are having a peaceful weekend
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add colour to my sunset sky.
(Rabindranath Tagore)
Weekly Theme Challenge - Sunrise or Sunset
Smile on Saturday! :-) - Clouds
(photo by Freya, editing by me)
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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.
La Muralla de Ávila rodea el casco antiguo de la ciudad de Ávila y junto con el casco antiguo y las iglesias situadas extramuros han sido declaradas Patrimonio de la Humanidad. Las murallas son el símbolo universal y monumento más destacado que acoge la ciudad de Ávila. Su importancia se deriva por ser el recinto amurallado medieval mejor conservado de España y probablemente de toda Europa.
La muralla tiene un perímetro de 2516 m, 2500 almenas, 87 cubos o torreones y 9 puertas. Ocupa una superficie de 33 hectáreas y conforma un rectángulo orientado de este a oeste. Sus muros tienen 3 m de grosor y 12 de altura.(Wikipedia)
bit boring, but it’s currently my desktop background.
it makes me feel happy :-) .
taken from signal hill, looking over seapoint.