Crowded Multitude
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I already almost forgot I had this one. When I went to Mexico I only had two real nature objects I wanted to visit, the Huasteca Potosina, and this wonderful natural phenomenon that you can find in the Reserva de la Biosfera de la Mariposa Monarca (cepanaf.edomex.gob.mx/parque_mariposa_monarca). Millions of Monarch butterflies gather here every year to hibernate. And impressive this was.
They cling in thousands (and many more) to a group of trees at the top of a hill, and when it gets warmer they start to fly.
But it is difficult to get a really nice shot, because there are so many and how to focus on such a group is not easy. I guess this is the best I could do.
The most wonderful experience which can't be shared is that you even can hear them sometimes fly, when a whole group setts of. It is like a wind breeze through the trees. Something I will never forget!
Conditions and the forecast looked great so a last minute decision to visit The Lakes. I know it's a cliche but when you've been to a location many times and the conditions were never right, I make no apologies about this one.
Even so, I still messed up. Was supposed to be a ten shot pano but ended up as six, hence no Fleetwith Pike and I had to crop a lot of the reflections out.
This was about a hour and a half after sunrise.
Masses of purple flowers. Jacaranda is a genus of 49 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of Latin America and the Caribbean. It has been planted widely in Asia especially in Nepal. A cosmopolitan plant, Jacaranda mimosifolia is quite common in southern California, Florida, Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Zambia and has been introduced to most tropical and subtropical regions to the extent that it has entered the popular culture. The generic name is also used as the common name. The species are shrubs to large trees ranging in size from 20 to 30 m tall. The leaves are bipinnate in most species, pinnate or simple in a few species. The flowers are produced in conspicuous large panicles, each flower with a five-lobed blue to purple-blue corolla; a few species have white flowers. 6939
19 ancient windmills can be seen in the Kinderdijk area, several still inhabited. Listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kinderdijk became a typical European victim of mass tourism. The place is overrun by tourists who no longer know how to behave, but on the other hand the income generated by the masses cannot be ignored.
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Masses of small pink and white daisies fill the field near my house. There is something so compelling about these tiny flowers that I find myself collecting a few each time I walk through the grass.
According to Wikipedia, Podranea ricasoliana, called the pink trumpet vine, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Podranea, native to South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, and introduced in Algeria, Spain, the Canary Islands, Saint Helena, Hawaii, Bolivia, Central America, Mexico and many Caribbean islands. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
The species is considered to be a weed in Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii. Its vigorous habit and dense masses of foliage and branches tend to smother surrounding vegetation.
masses of water cascading down the falls, this is a mere 1.6 second exposure and the volume can clearly be seen.
cheers for looking
The frogs have come and spawned. (The egg masses aren't visible here, and the ripples aren't from frogs - the end of a rain.)
At about 10 degrees Fahrenheit, the high temperature on this day was more than 10 degrees warmer than it had been on the preceding two days, but the wind chill was still below zero. It was enough to keep most of these Canada Geese facing the wind with their heads tucked under. Periodically though, one would stand and stretch, and some would take an icy cold swim in the only clear water area on the mostly frozen river.
Our Daily Challenge: "River And (Or) Lake"
Masses of people flock to the Grand Bazaar near the harbor entrance and haggle their way to bargains on all sorts of goods. With over 1,000 shops selling anything from carpets to leather goods, Turkish delight, spices, jewelry, shoes, pipes and belly dancing costumes, there’s nothing you won’t find under its many roof covered streets. This is the best place to haggle and find the best deals. Many shops in the Bazaar sell cheap and good-quality counterfeit products, such as imitations of international fashion brands, perfumes and watches. There is also a wide selection of handicrafts, including ceramics.
© All rights reserved. A low-res, flatbed scan of a 6x7 (2 1/4 x 2 3/4 inch) transparency
And that's just what the Golden Gate does to people from every reach of the world. At no time is that ever more apparent as when there is dreamy, low-creeping fog coming in to display it's charm in the 'magic light' of morning or evening.
Thanks for seeing the shot!
Masses of yellow flowers on this
Hypericum " Hidcote "
Plant - St John's Wort in our garden, blooming in June
Masses of moss and mad root growth down in Coachwood Glen. Shot with a Tak 28/3.5 wide open after a day on the operating table to clean out some fungus.
Super-Takumar 28mm f/3.5
This was taken at about mile 23, five hours after race start. It gives you a sense of the number of people running, there was a continuous sea.
When I closed my eyes last night I could still see the runners!
Happy July 4th...Do you see what I see?
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
The New Colussus
Emma Lazarus (November 2, 1883)
Huddled Masses
The second post from a new collection of images I released earlier this week. Although the collection largely draws on images created during this past summer, there are a few holdovers I captured in seasons past but only recently had the urge to work on. “Huddled Masses” is one of those images and ranks up there as a favorite in the new releases. A couple years ago some friends and I went on a snowy fall backpacking trip to the high mountains of central Washington. Looking back it’s one of the most memorable trips of the past few years. This image, to me, contains so many of the elements which made that trip special: lots of fresh snow, sunlit larch trees, color contrasts, and high mountain walls rising around us. It’s when a photograph succinctly conveys the power of the experience that photography reaches its highest form.