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Moss on the Roof growing well in the shade and moisture outside, and on the East side as well, shot in North Carolina.
The San Juan Mountains in southwest Colorado are the largest mountain range in the state and contain some of the highest and most jagged summits in the continental United States. They also receive the highest snowfall levels in the state due to moisture blown in from the Pacific Ocean. The annual snowfall at Wolf Creek Pass (elevation 10,850 feet) averages about 400 inches (10 m) and sometimes exceeds 600 inches (15 m).
When the sun jumped out, wrapping with the mist, you were not only listening to the sound of the falls roaring, also breathing the moisture in the air and feeling the sun kissing the skin…
This is another composition from Ramona Falls this summer. This one's focus is on the beautiful deep green moss we have here in Oregon around most of our waterfalls. The perpetual moisture around falls like Ramona in the Mount Hood wilderness is a perfect environment for them to thrive.
... moisture laden summer clouds, seemingly on fire with the intensity of the light, when a plume of rain drops... ...maybe falls on someone, it will be notated " a sudden, intense yet brief storm at sunset. " true, but where's the poetry in that ...
I am not 100% sure of this identification, but I think it's correct. If it is then this is an IUCN endangered species. It was surrounded by small white damselflies as well... its young? I don't know.
The issue here is what is it covered with? I think a combo of water/moisture droplets and thistle leaf debris. Anyway, I found the green/blue body kind of hypnotic...
Two hours before sunset, the sky was solid blue without any clouds - but I still went out in hopes for some moisture and clouds; I got lucky on this night.
A seven-part panorama along a salt formation of an inlet in the Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake - GPS is not the exact spot of the shot
New irises growing up through the grass begin to blossom in Erba Park. A bit of drizzling rain adds some moisture to their petals. Some of Bamberg University's Erba Campus buildings are in the background. [FUJX7576_lr_2000]
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Series "Human element".
In this series I’m working on bringing human presence into my landscape photography.
Sopotnica waterfalls, Serbia.
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Photo taken during a road-trip up the California coast. Had to get out from under the Quarantine nightmare for a bit : )
While the Females are migrating, male Elephant Seals practice sparring with potential rivals in preparation for the return of the females.
Elephant seals are marine mammals classified under the order Pinnipedia, which, in Latin, means fin-footed.
Elephant seals are considered true seals and fall under the family Phocidae. Phocids (true seals) are characterized by having no external ear and reduced limbs. The reduction of their limbs helps them be more streamlined and move easily in the water. However, it makes navigating on land more difficult because they cannot turn their hind flippers forward to walk.
In addition, the hind flipper of elephant seals have a lot of surface area, which helps propel them in the water. Elephant seals spend the majority of their time (90%) underwater in search of food, and can cover 100 kilometres (60 miles) a day when they head out to sea.
When elephant seals are born, they can weigh up to 36 kilograms (79 pounds) and reach lengths up to 122 cm (4 ft 0 in). Male elephant seals can weigh up to 10 times more than females, and have a large proboscis.
Elephant seals take their name from the large proboscis of the adult male (bull), which resembles an elephant's trunk, and is considered a secondary sexual characteristic. The bull's proboscis is used in producing extraordinarily loud roaring noises, especially during the mating season.
More importantly, however, the nose acts as a sort of re-breather, filled with cavities designed to reabsorb moisture from their exhalations. This is important during the mating season when the seals do not leave the beach to feed, and must conserve body moisture as there is no incoming source of water. Northern elephant seal bulls reach a length of 4.3 to 4.8 m (14 to 16 ft) and the heaviest weigh about 2,500 kg (5,500 lbs.)
Elephant seals spend up to 80% of their lives in the ocean. They can hold their breath for more than 100 minutes. Elephant seals can dive to 1,550 m (5,090 ft) beneath the ocean's surface (the deepest recorded dive of an elephant seal is 1,735 m (5,692 ft).
The average depth of their dives is about 300 to 600 m (1,000 to 2,000 ft), typically for around 20 minutes for females and 60 minutes for males, as they search for their favorite foods, which are skates, rays, squid, octopuses, eels, small sharks and large fish.
(Nikon D500, 80-400/5.6, 1/1600 @ f/8.0, ISO 360)
Late day sunlight sneaks into the scene just before sunset captured there from Cadillac Mountain in Maine. Liked the exposed water on the rocks that was reflecting that sunlight. The mix of that light on the rocks, textures, and lichen was pretty amazing to take all in.
As a photographer you take photos because you are recording what your eye is seeing at the time and for me I use this medium as an art form, and from time to time I get goose bumps when I look through the view finder and see something out of the ordinary, and this is one of those shots.
I took this one this morning at around 7.00am my first sunrise outing for some time and to come back with this kind of shot made it all worth while, it even shows up some cobweb strands, and I just LOVE that water droplet at the tip of that thorn! Please let me know what you think of it!!
The tortoises are herbivores that consume a diet of cacti, grasses, leaves, lichens, berries, melons, oranges, and milkweed. They have been documented feeding on Hippomane mancinella ('poison apple'), the endemic guava Psidium galapageium, the water fern Azolla microphylla, and the bromeliad Tillandsia insularis. Juvenile tortoises eat an average of 16.7% of their own body weight in dry matter per day, with a digestive efficiency roughly equal to that of hindgut-fermenting herbivorous mammals such as horses and rhinos.
Tortoises acquire most of their moisture from the dew and sap in vegetation (particularly the Opuntia cactus); therefore, they can survive longer than 6 months without water. They can endure up to a year when deprived of all food and water, surviving by breaking down their body fat to produce water as a byproduct. Tortoises also have very slow metabolisms. When thirsty, they may drink large quantities of water very quickly, storing it in their bladders and the "root of the neck" (the pericardium), both of which served to make them useful water sources on ships. On arid islands, tortoises lick morning dew from boulders, and the repeated action over many generations has formed half-sphere depressions in the rock.
A nice sunset at the end of our first "full" day of fall harvest. This year's harvest is running way behind normal,but corn moisture is still running in the mid to high 20's. Corn is stored at around 15%,so the cost and time to dry it down is exorbitant.We have a good dryer on the farm, many don't.And the fall weather so far...don't get me started!
Spring arrives but Tom departs this Earth - Another sad loss to covid-19 (Shame about what happened in 2023)
Weather, Geology, and Nature paint a unique scene.
A Green Heron puts a bit of an effort in to finding its next meal.
So actually two bonuses - I was photographing the dead trees along the Creek - then a Green Heron pops in - bonus - then it stretches its neck - 2nd bonus!!
Some of the causes of the death of the trees along this section of the Creek include:
Record-Breaking Droughts: The area has faced prolonged, multi-month droughts that left sections of the creek near the outpost bone-dry for long stretches. This severely starves the cypress root systems of the consistent moisture they require to keep their canopy alive. NOTE - the droughts have been going on most every year not just this year - these trees have been dead for years that I know about.
Violent Water Fluctuations: When rains do return, the water levels bounce erratically. The creek can swing from completely dry to swelling up over seven feet deep within days. This sudden, extreme shift from drought to deep, stagnant flooding suffocates the stressed tree roots.
New Cowbone Marsh Channeling: Changes and new channels cut through the nearby Cowbone Marsh have altered how water drains away from the Palmdale section. This causes the creek's water to drop much faster than it historically did, exposing the trees to rapid hydration shock.
Cryptomeria japonica or red cypress, a beautiful specimen of conifer, originally from Japan and China, now vastly dispersed on the Azores islands. It's lush emerald green "foliage" and the enormous moisture on those Atlantic islands conjur into lush, dense rain forests of marvelous greens and reds (the fallen branches). Happy Tree-mendous Tuesday!
M=Moisture for the third in this series, Texture & begins with M.
7DOS Beginning with M Texture Tuesday
Capturing the winter roses along the Rose District in Broken Arrow. Yes, captured on 12/21/2021 and that is a lot of 2s and 1s in a date hand.
Our inclement winter weather is forecast to continue into the foreseeable future. Despite the inconveniences, few people are begrudging the moisture after the volatile wildfire season we just experienced. The good news is, the post office still delivers the mail on schedule. As you can tell from the mailboxes along the road, some of us still get mail the old fashioned way. Email is a great convenience but I find an old fashioned letter, penned in cursive is still the most exciting way to get correspondence from a friend.
Happy Fence Friday with mailboxes everyone.
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