Taken from Chain Bridge - Budapest, Hungary

The low-lying clouds covering the scene looked like a blanket. I completely forgot that these clouds (great for a picture) spelt thunderstorms. And no sooner had I taken this picture, the heavens opened and bolts of lightning filled the sky. I would have loved to have stayed and try to take a picture, but the winds were too strong and I was out in just short and t-shirt.

I'm not sure whether this picture is too dark? But it definitely well conveys the scene at the time.

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She's Thunderstorms - Arctic Monkeys

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A Massey Ferguson 7618 tractor and New Holland Big Baler 1290 at work on spring barley straw under a menacing looking sky.

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The village of Middleton in Teesdale during a brief brighter interval on an otherwise drizzly damp day.

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A patch of bright sunshine on Mickle Fell just behind the dam wall.

Dark rain clouds rolling into the area. Shortly after I snapped this picture, my wife and I experienced a thunderstorm.

Flare at dawn.

Heading along the cliff walk from Bray to Greystones

a view looking north west from 300ft up, on the base of whita hill, langholm, dumfries and galloway, scotland. looking towards langholm, timpen hill, meiklehole hill, the becks, gaskells, caulfield, the lodge ,golf course, and the wauchope valley, good adder habitat in this area. view large

It was a very grey old day. This Sulphur crested cockatoo flew over and was noisy as well.

A small patch of fleeting brightness in the foreground on this field of ripening barley, on a cool and quite blustery morning.

Cows = my arch nemesis'!

Clouds and blue sky above the home where my wife and I reside.

Friday sundown as seen from the property where my wife and I reside.

A view across the skyline of the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne from Gateshead. The Tyne Bridge is in the centre and the football stadium is in the distance. Grey clouds are overhead.

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A patch of bright late autumn sunshine on St Andrew's Church and part of Winston, as seen from across the valley at Winston Gate.

before, the riverbank on left already done. riverbank desecration, river teviot, in the centre of hawick, in the name of the hawick flood relief scheme. so much for being an s.s.s.i site.hawick, scottish borders, scotland.

This kind man allowed me to take a photo of him and his new catch. After I took this photo he released back into the water and it swam off. We were trying to work out what kind of fish it was, we think it was a king fish.

Here was my last change to get a Short-Bill-Corella in flight. After I took these shots, they didn't return.

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A Massey Ferguson 7618 tractor and New Holland Big Baler 1290 at work

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Strong sunshine, deep shadows and a wild sky on a blustery day in this view towards Langdon Beck from the car park at Hanging Shaw.

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A swollen River Tees thunders over Low Force Waterfall.

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The foreground still brightly lit but large raindrops can be seen falling just behind the flowers as a heavy shower moves in. Taken from Stable Edge looking towards Holwick and Cronkley, Upper Teesdale

Panoramic format crop (12X5) from a single digital file showing Canary Wharf in London, UK, in nice lighting conditions, during a brief rain shower with an associated rainbow.

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Autumn colours, a burst of sunshine and a ferocious Low Force waterfall with the River Tees swollen as a result of Storm Babet the previous day. Taken from the Pennine Way long distance footpath. 2-shot vertical pano.

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Holwick lit in a patch of strong sunshine but about to be deluged as a heavy shower moves down the dale towards it. Cronkley Scar still just visible in the background.

Looking downstream towards the castle from the wier which has almost completely disappeared under the flood.

Here is another shot I captured, as we were driving along O Connell RD

Here is another shot I captured at our local park here in Oberon. The park is right behind our house.

The afternoon sky was beginning to get a little heavy, with rain threatened at any moment (though it never came, as it happened). Somehow the sky makes the castle, atop its mound, seem even more imposing. It is an impressive example of its type and is still home to the Armstrong family.

An interesting fact about the castle - the keep was built in 1164 for the princely sum of £4, pretty much the same cost as the guidebook these days

There were a few too many people on the beach so I took some artistic licence and removed them. However, I quite liked the lone child in the image, so there he remains

Black Sea beachy day trip

This was taken on my daily walk.

Storm clouds begin to move into the backyard at the apartment complex where my wife and I reside.

A storm was just about to hit.

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Cheerful flowering heather in the foregound in this view from the top of Bail Hill above Mickleton, looking over to Middleton in Teesdale and the Hudes Hope valley in the distance.

We were on our way to Orange NSW Australia

Taken on an evening outing with Greystones Camera Club.

This is a view across the valley of the upper lake at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow.

The Glendalough Valley is located in the Wicklow Mountains National Park and has many attractions to entice, entertain and enthral visitors, from its world famous Monastic Site with Round Tower to its scenic lakes and valleys, as well as a selection of walks and trails in the area including The Wicklow Way. www.wicklowmountainsnationalpark.ie

Taken by Holland Brook, Essex

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Brief sunshine on this vigourous group of thistles in the foreground with patchy sunshine and shadows on Harwood, Upper Teesdale in the distance.

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A little foreground brightness on these sheep tucking in after the food delivery on a cold snowy January morning. Hutton Hall farm, Teesdale.

three fat cheviot ewes, grazing on green. with the ewes valley, and terrona hill, as a backdrop, as seen from the footslopes of meikleholm hill. langholm, dumfriesshire, scotland.

This was in a parking area behind the big merino here in Goulburn NSW Australia.

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A fleeting patch of sunshine on the lower part of Lunedale as seen from Folly Top. Kirkcarrion on the hillside in the distance. Taken on a very windy morning as the last of Storm Kathleen passes through.

It was a very grey old day. This Sulphur crested cockatoo flew over and was noisy as well.

We had to do a couple of things in Bathurst before heading to Orange, as we were driving along I heard and saw a few magpies attacking and swooping a wedge tail eagle, so Ian stop the car, I quickly grabbed my camera and sadly this was the best i could get, I hope it's still OK? The Eagle and magpie look like silhouettes thanks to the grey clouds and sky. GRRRRRR.

Here is a short video of us heading out of Bathurst, and heading home.

This Sulphur-Crested-Cockatoo know I was waiting for him to take-off and this is want he gave me.