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Spring tulips in bloom in Madison Square Park in Manhattan, with New York City's famous Flat Iron Building in the distance. Shot with the Olympus E-M1.
With Columbia Lake as a background, an empty Canadian Pacific coal train cruises into Canal Flats, British Columbia, on a beautiful June 27, 2006.
A rainbow seemingly sitting on top of the dam wall at the end of Loch Glascarnoch on the Inverness-Ullapool road. The buildings in front of the dam are those of the Aultguish Inn - or, as my son commented, the Anguish Inn if the dam leaks!
I spotted this mountain like cloud with a flat top, known as a cumulonimbus in the Beagle Channel.This type of cloud usually means a storm may be on its way.
Salar de Talar is a large salt flat located in the high puna of northern Chilean Andes, at an altitude of 3,950 m. It is part of a series of salt lakes and salt flats located at the foothills of a chain of volcanoes stretching along the eastern side of the much greater Salar de Atacama. The salty flat is bordered on the west by Caichinque and on the east by Cerro Medano, is a mountain with striking shades of grey and brown, which contrast nicely with the sparkling white of the salt flat's surface. On top of that, colourful ponds fringe its shores. Salar de Talar is a part of the Central Andean dry puna ecoregion, which in this zone is characterized by tussock grass vegetation.
Up until Autumn 2006, Alkborough Flats was agricultural land. The flood-bank of the Humber Estuary was breached and 450 hectares of farmland were flooded. the confluence of the River Trent and River Ouse as they flow into the Humber. It was all part of a huge scheme that will restore some of the Humber Estuary's natural flood control basins, while simultaneously creating a haven for wildlife.
Eastbound ballast empties with a CMQ SD40-2F leader pass through Flat Creek, about to enter the snow shed to the east.
Death Valley is best experienced in the morning and during Winter.
At this time of year, you are alone and there are massive weather fronts that travel over the valley. The desert pools with water and the sky's are full of attitude.
This image is an exposure blend from the Salt Flats with its huge octagon shapes. It's a short hike from the roadside and the playground begins.
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"Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled.
All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything."
[C. S. Lewis]
The Isle of Wight Red Funnel ferry 'Red Osprey' in IKEA colours - not bad for a flat-pack!!
Southampton, UK.
Banyule Swamp at Banyule Flats Reserve, Viewbank (Melbourne, Australia).
Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
59mm; 1/40 sec; f/8; ISO 100
Roadside view of miles of flat Arid Region in Wajir County Kenya. Coolest temperature here about 20°C with high of about 40°C Despite the dryness and very little rains all year round the bushes will provide adequate food for wild animals like envelopes. After travelling miles of this flat land I lost the bearing of directions ..