Piles and piles of wood line the North East coast of NZ, after recent storms

I had a friend from London staying for the weekend and we had a day out in Brighton. It was a beautiful, sunny day, so I was wearing just a T-shirt under a light coat. We went for a walk on Brighton Pier, but when we glanced to our right we could see what was coming our way! It's a shame I didn't have my usual camera with me, but I was glad I had my little compact in my pocket to record what happened.

North Western Slope Of Camels Hump

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the river teviot, at the auld weensland cauld, lower mansfield. rising fast after a night of heavy rain, the river here can flood the road and houses on the left causing great damage, and the hawick rugby club at mansfield park a few yards downstream. hawick, scottish borders, scotland. view large

Finals at EDI Edinburgh Airport

Cow near Fox Glacier, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand

More of the miserable weather at Delamont Country Park. This is such a pretty place when the weather is nice. Here the dark clouds and dry stream (feeder for Strangford Lough as far as I can tell) give it an ominous, post apocalyptic feel :-) (photo taken here)

This picture is an HDR created from 9 exposures (-4 to +4 at 1 stop intervals) combined in photomatix.

Views from Polesden Lacey, near Dorking, Surrey.

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

Here is another shot that I captured as we were driving along the Hume highway heading towards Moss Vale, in NSW Australia.

This picture is so titled after the mythological river of forgetfulness, as this was a gondola ride that you would want to forget. Drenched to the skin as the heavens opened up, two inches of water sloshing around your feet, nowhere to hide from the relentless pounding of rain during a late summer storm, but still, a moment that I will always remember, perhaps with a more romantic twist than when I experienced it!

Nature's art. As if a big piece of charcoal art stick was rubbed zig zag across the sky.

Balangay or bangka-double outrigger pump boat for touristic use in one-day trips to the Honda Bay islands off the NW shore of the city moored at the Baywalk dock. Puerto Princesa-Palawan-Philippines.

September 24, 2020 - Today the cornfield across from the radio station was being harvested. As I was leaving work, this was the scene. I snapped the photo from the end of the station's driveway before heading home to spend the evening with my wife.

Even on a cloudy wet day there is Beauty to be found.

A 2-car Scotrail passenger train passes the ruins of Lubnaclach Cottage near Corrour in the wild landscape of Rannoch Moor in the Highlands of Scotland.

Model: Agnese

My wife had noticed some rain clouds rolling into our area.. I decided to snap a few pictures. A few minutes later we had thunderstorms moving through.

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

The railway track is hiding behind these shrubs, I took this from the car window going along.

Storm clouds gathering as I was leaving work. By the time I got close to home, I was seeing lighting. Then soon after my wife and I were home, it started to rain.

Looking downstream towards Demsnes Mill.

...but here are some runes I can read - Grimsetter, the aerodrome in Orkney (aka KOI) - and another wild sky...

The Isle of Oxney was once part of the Coastline bordering Romney Marsh with the River Rother in a Channel to its North. The channel Silted and the River moved away to the west connecting Oxney with the surrounding low land in the 18th century. Oxney was once the haunt of smugglers, as was much of that coastline.

Bridgwater Services with Dec Everard

Views from Muncaster Castle, Lake District, Cumbria

Cobholm Island - best place to live in the Great Yarmouth area.

alberta, canada

1971

jasper national park

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A cryptic message on the garage behind an abandoned house in Grey Cloud Island, MN.

Dawn light adds a welcome touch of colour to the skies above this gently curving paved path on Stanage Edge. A light mist is partially obscuring the distant hills. Autumnal scenes in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England, UK. September, 2014.

Interesting cloud above the property where my wife and I reside.

From Wikipedia:

"St Paul's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral dedicated to Paul the Apostle.

It sits at the top of Ludgate Hill, the highest point in the City of London, and is the seat of the Bishop of London. The present building dates from the 17th century and was designed by Sir Christopher Wren.

It is generally reckoned to be London's fifth St Paul's Cathedral, all having been built on the same site since AD 604. The cathedral is one of London's most famous and most recognisable sights.

At 365 feet (111m) high, it was the tallest building in London from 1710 to 1962, and its dome is also among the highest in the world. In terms of area, St Paul's is the second largest church building in the United Kingdom after Liverpool Cathedral.

Important services held at St Paul's include the funerals of Lord Nelson, the Duke of Wellington and Sir Winston Churchill; Jubilee celebrations for Queen Victoria; peace services marking the end of the First and Second World Wars; the launch of the Festival of Britain and the thanksgiving services for both the Golden Jubilee and 80th Birthday of Queen Elizabeth II.

The British Royal Family holds most of its important marriages, christenings and funerals at Westminster Abbey, but St Paul's was used for the marriage of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer. St Paul's Cathedral is still a busy working church, with hourly prayer and daily services.

"Old St Paul's" (generally thought to be the fourth on the site) was gutted in the Great Fire of London of 1666. While it might have been salvageable, albeit with almost complete reconstruction, a decision was taken to build a new cathedral in a modern style instead. Indeed this had been contemplated even before the fire.

The task of designing a replacement structure was officially assigned to Sir Christopher Wren on 30 July 1669.

On Thursday, 2 December 1697, thirty-two years and three months after a spark from Farryner's bakery had caused the Great Fire of London, St Paul's Cathedral came into use.

The 'topping out' of the Cathedral (when the final stone was placed on the lantern) took place in October 1708 and the cathedral was declared officially complete by Parliament on Christmas Day 1711. In fact construction was to continue for several years after that, with the statues on the roof only being added in the 1720s. In 1716 the total costs amounted to £1,095,556 (£147 million as of 2011)."

I'm not 100% sure of the location of this photo. My GPS wasn't working when I took it. I believe it's somewhere near Whitehorse, Yukon.

Here is a cute pair of Short-Bill-Corellas. One was watching out while the other one was cleaning.

Angels in the Clouds

If you love Seattle for its summers, you probably hate it for its winters... Although we don't get a lot of super cold weather or snow, we do get some extended stretches of really crappy rain. The rain held off this day, but the skies sure looked pretty ominous. It shouldn't be much of a surprise that I woke up the next day to puddles on my doorstep and a leaking gym roof at work. My trip to Costa Rica can not come soon enough!!

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The storm had passed. Baycliff Beach on Morcambe Bay.

A swimmer emerges from Bronte Pool