Love watching juvenile Elegant Terns as they figure out their moves. This one was dipping and diving in the water honing some skills. Been waiting all summer for these Elegants to show up along the coast. They were late this year. But I was very happy to finally see them, even on a foggy day.

This takes strength, patience and lots of practice; an indigenous fisher using his dip net to catch a salmon swimming up the Bulkley river. Note his success!

Witset, BC

View On Black

Sunset over city of Zagreb, Croatia.

I'm not sure which tern this is, any ideas?

Taken 14 April 2019 in Florida

A balloon dipping in the water at Prospect lake with Cheyenne Mountain in the background.

Thank you all for your comments and invites. They are much appreciated!

On explore Sep 7, 2009 #455

View On Black

Royalton, St Lucia

hollow dive into

unknown depth

she felt left out

The Posttower, the administrative headquarters of the post is reflected in the setting sun in Bonn

In Rot getaucht

Der Posttower, die Verwaltungszentrale der Post spiegelt sich in der untergehenden Sonne in Bonn

Sooty oystercatcher taking a dip.

Holy dip during Chhat Puja in Sankey Tank, Bengaluru.

During my San Francisco layover in August, I met up with Peter Ensrud at Point Reyes National Seashore. While sipping on a beer (thanks Peter for bringing it along) and waiting for the Milky Way to move into position over our main foreground target, we noticed some strong bioluminescence below the North facing cliffs to our right.

Despite being a bit disappointed that this was the wrong direction for the Milky Way, I moved my camera over and captured the scene. After shooting the foreground frames, I resisted the temptation to turn the camera back to shoot the Miky Way, which I could have used to produce a totally fake, but nice looking composite.

Instead, I framed higher and captured a few untracked exposures of the 'boring' Northern sky with the Big Dipper above the bioluminescent waters.

To my surprise, a strong airglow was bathing the horizon in color. The result is not the typical Milky Way nightscape, but staying true to the scene payed off nicely.

EXIF

Canon EOS 6D

Samyang 24mm f/1.4 @ f/2.4

Foreground:

Single exposure of 90s @ ISO3200

Sky:

Stack of 5 x15s @ ISO6400

Feeding on the water of Leith

Dipper, UK.

Olympus digital camera

CN L521 dips underneath the Wabash at New Lenox, IL on former EJE rails with EJE 659 leading in its original paint. January 2026

A330-202

This Red Kite tries to salvage some dropped food from the lake.

High cloud screws up the sunshine at Ais Gill as 47593 heads for Skipton with Saturday's second southbound working.

Thank you so much for looking at my blog!

Sometimes the photography gods grace you to be in the right place at the right time.

I couldn't have posed or scripted this angle any better.

'0something

A quick dip before bed

Model: Rejara: Rejara

Pose by: BreakSL

Rejara took this pic too! You can see her version of it here.

Another from the dipper session on the Nidd from earlier in the year. Fantastic birds.

Chopsticks dipped in the sunset sky of a pond

From our vacation/anniversary in Bardstown.

Color film developed in B&W T-Max chemicals.

No Dirty Comments.....Unless It Is Absolutely Necessary ;-)

Just Kidding......actually, if anyone wants to tell a dirty joke - Go Ahead....Post Away

rudechic.wordpress.com/2016/11/22/dipped-in-lace/

A dove crashes the Cedar Waxwing party.

Driving through the Southern California Desert.

Taken at Chatsworth earlier this year. Two balloons lining up to dip there baskets in the river.

A pretty neat spot between Kimball and Watkins is here on the Highway 55 overpass. The gradient is quite visible at this spot for a train like this. You can also see the 2 mid DPUs pushing hard in the back. This train was going very slow, so it wasn't hard to catch up.