Terrific Thursday to you my friend.

The middle of the day is often not the best time for photography, but on the upside, it is also a time when the buzzards and other birds of prey seem to like to hunt. It would be easy enough to photoshop one in of course, but for the record, this one's real!

The fog didn't lift until midday and now it's a beautiful sunny afternoon.

Thanks for your visits, kind comments and faves, very much appreciated.

Taken at Ricketts Glen, love the way the sun hit the water to bring out the golden color. Every time it rains heavy the water at Ricketts Glen gets a golden hue to it. Taken with a 6 stop filter.

FM2

Whaleback Light

The Sun at midday on a frozen Lake Inari.

Diamond python style

Ocean Beach, San Franciso, California

tokina at-x pro 12-24mm f/4 dx ii

Midday clouds

From Berkeley, California

Three-image panoramic stitch. Each image is the median of a stack of 20 images.

Monumento a Papa Pio VI - Andrea Vici - 1785

Monument to Pope Pio VI - Andrea Vici - 1785

Often try to get early morning or late afternoon photos of this tree but I don't mind this midday shot.

High noon in Iqaluit

He looked like he was bowing his head before diving down to the winter supply of sun flower seeds.

It took me over 6 years to get it right, well sort of. I can finally say that I really like the result. From choice of positioning and lighting...

I hope I can recreate my old pictures with the same style and start again.

Galloway Forest Park..

Southwest Scotland

(Original of previous photo)

Kruger National Park

It was great watching this Red Kite fishing

On one of the campuses of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, the capital of the Chinese province Anhui

22° solar halo seen high in the sky over Scunthorpe north lincolnshire

The sun just came up. Don't blink, you will miss it... it will be setting in what seems like only a moment.

-25 (-32C) this morning. The first day of an incoming cold snap.