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sky mountain #16
Hong Kong, 2021
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This sweeping landscape photograph captures the open beauty of the Peak District, where golden gorse fills the foreground and rolling hills stretch into the distance beneath a bright, cloud-drifted sky. The composition uses layers of colour and depth to guide the viewer from the textured moorland edge toward the soft contours of the valley and distant ridgeline.
The artistic concept focuses on seasonal light, openness, and the quiet richness of upland landscapes. The vibrant yellow flowers contrast with the cool blues and greens of the hills, creating a sense of warmth and movement across the frame. The image celebrates the natural rhythm of the countryside, where wild growth, expansive skies, and ancient landforms meet in a moment of calm clarity.
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Xakanaxa Lagoon | Moremi
I was looking especially for him on this boat-trip and put all my trust in the guide, who was fantastic and found one, that unfortunately flew away.
This one is special, as I found it and this little beauty was so nice to hop around from spot to spot, so we could follow him for quite a while through the channel.
Landscape photography often rewards patience more than planning. This image was created during a period of rapidly changing weather when dense cloud cover obscured much of the surrounding landscape. For a brief moment, the clouds parted, allowing shafts of sunlight to reach the mountainside and lake below.
The composition uses the winding path as a visual guide, inviting the viewer into the scene while emphasizing the scale of the landscape beyond. The contrast between the darkened foreground, the illuminated slopes, and the dramatic cloud formations creates a sense of tension and balance that reflects the constantly changing nature of mountain environments.
This work explores the relationship between weather, light, and place—capturing a fleeting moment that existed for only a few seconds before disappearing back into shadow.
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Not much in life is certain. Death and taxes are the oft quoted things that will surely befall us all according to Benjamin Franklin. Although I wonder whether he anticipated the arrival of the global giants that would one day place their registered offices on a conveniently obscure atoll somewhere near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and render the second half of his assertion rather less assured as well. I'm pretty sure I know one or two individuals whom I should have reported to HM Revenue and Customs years ago for forgetting to fill in their tax returns as completely as they might have done, but then again I like my car to still have all four wheels on it when I leave for work each day.
I think we each have a few things in life that are pretty certain. For example you can guarantee that every time I pour myself a gin and tonic at home, I will get the respective proportions completely wrong, and unlike the ones you may have sampled in the pub, it will taste of gin - overwhelmingly in fact. Possibly linked to this I am certain that despite my best intentions I will not get up two hours before dawn tomorrow to capture a misty sunrise image. There's only one each of 5, 6 and 7 o clock in every day in my life and unless I start experimenting with products that are best left avoided for my own safety, that's not going to change. I'm also pretty sure that I will not finish reading "One Hundred Years of Solitude" before this time next year, despite having started it several months ago. It's one of those books we're apparently "supposed" to read. I just haven't quite got into the rhythm of it yet. Let me know if I should continue with it won't you? I normally read about six books during the annual fortnight on the beach, and one more during the remaining fifty weeks. I suspect that's not an uncommon phenomenon.
There's one other thing I feel quite certain of, and it's that for as long as I'm able, I'll keep returning to this place. I'm not enormously well travelled in truth. I've only been out of Europe once in my life and that was just for one week, and only just out of Europe too for that matter. There are places in the world that I'd quite like to visit, but it doesn't burn inside me like it did when I was a young man. I've been to Iceland and I'd like to go again, and I'm really keen on going to the island groups of the Hebrides, the Faroes and Lofoten in the next few years, all with the camera bag of course, But those ambitions aside, I'm very content with my lot. I live ten miles from here, my favourite place in the world. I love watching how the sea, the land and the light change here throughout the seasons. This is the shot I was looking for when I came here three weeks earlier in a storm and got something completely different, albeit in exhilarating conditions. This is my happy place where I come to stand and gaze and dream and plan. The place where the seals watch me watching them. The place where I'm still finding new compositions each time I visit. This weekend I finished up here on Saturday and Sunday, watching happily as the colours changed in the sky.
There are some places that we like to photograph once or twice and then move on because we think our business is done there. For me at least, Godrevy isn't one of them. Happy almost midweek everybody!
One of the best sunrise experience I have encountered. Pacific Northwest West is the best location to bond with nature..
A serene autumn trail with golden leaves and filtered sunlight. Rota das Faias in Serra da Estrela, Portugal.
A double rainbow arches over lush green and golden rice fields in Laos, creating a surreal scene of tranquility. This moment showcases the harmony between nature, light, and land. The soft mist in the air adds a beautiful glow to the landscape. I felt very fortunate to be able to withness and photograph it.
Some beautiful light to start the day at Machu Picchu! Machu Picchu really lived up to its beauty and was an amazing place to explore!
As the day draws to a close in Santa Cruz das Flores, the sky is bathed in gold and pink, and the horizon is coloured with the softness of the last rays of light. An ephemeral spectacle that reminds us that beauty is in the details and in the moments we know how to appreciate. Who else has lost themselves in these magical colours?
🌿✨ Atemberaubende Aussicht über den Walensee und die Churfirsten – Natur pur, wie sie schöner nicht sein könnte. Ein Moment voller Ruhe und Weite. ️🌄
Welches ist euer Lieblingsplatz zum Abschalten? 🌍💬
The horizon exhales its last breath of color,
a shoreline caught between memory and forgetting.
Tourists and locals pause together at the edge of light,
witnesses to the day’s surrender.
What remains is not the day itself,
but the echo of its passing.
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