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The pool at the front of the image even has a seat in it, you would think this would be a perfect place to sit on a hot summers day, if it wasn't for the midges!
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I have more of this fascinating swimming pool to add from our visit to Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. It is the most striking outdoor pool I have ever seen. Easy to imagine movie stars such as Clark Gable and Marion Davies here.
Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene Carolina Carolina). Found this little girl in the pool trap. I took her out to the woods by stream where she didn’t have to be in chlorine.
I’m feeling a bit out off sorts with photography at the moment. My last two outings with the camera have been with my OM camera’s, great for travelling light but I feel my photography suffers, maybe not in it’s imagery but definitely in my empathy for that image. This may be just my imagination or just the winter blues but being in the woods on Sunday primary using my Canon R5 with Benro tripod and geared head started the healing process again. While processing this photo of this quiet little pool I have experienced that inner peace I have with my work I’ve not felt in months. It’s not just the processing the image, I know when I took the photo I had it right, down to the correct polarisation of the pools reflection. I feel my light OM camera’s are great to take a photograph, ideal when the location, conditions and light briefly appear, but to make a photograph I have to slow down and it’s only when I’m purposely out with my FF Canon I do that.
So much fun to watch this school of fish while I was in a large, deep tidal pool. The turquoise spots on the top glowed in the sun. They were 1 1/2-2" long. If anyone knows what kind of fish they are, please let me know. They were taken in Maine.
Leather Pool - Yellowstone National Park ~ Wyoming ~ USA ~ Tuesday August 22nd 2017.
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From our shorebird trip a couple days ago. Many yellowlegs and other sandpipers were crowded into a small pool full of minnows. One Lesser Yellowlegs in particular seemed determined to keep one place in the pool for himself, and predictably lashed out at any bird to come within pecking distance.
Autumn leaves
In ephemeral pool.
Small, quiet tableau.
DeKalb County (Stonecrest), Georgia, USA.
20 October 2024.
▶ Notice the small rocks in the pool: granitic scree from the mountain's slopes.
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Morning Glory Pool is undoubtedly one of the highlights of the Upper Geyser Basin despite being less beautiful than it once was, since large amounts of rocks and trash have been thrown into the pool by thoughtless visitors, significantly reducing the water temperature. The pool used to be filled by rich blue water, with a narrow ring of orange-yellow bacteria only around the edge; now the water is more greenish and the algae band is much wider. The pool is 20 feet in diameter, 23 feet deep, round and symmetric, with a conical vent at the center, and may be viewed from a raised boardwalk that extends along nearly half its circumference. The spring drains westwards into the Firehole River, 100 feet away. It was named in 1883 for its resemblance in color and shape to the morning glory flower.
Hot spring in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park.
6 vertical shots combined panorama taken at Porteau Cove Provincial Park near Squamish, BC. It was a low tide night revealing this night pool near the campground. walking along this night pool and take photos was a great experience.
The lights behind the mountain on the left is from Gibson, BC. And the lights on the right side is from Squamish.
Here’s a Vertorama that I captured at the Camps Bay tidal pool on Sunday afternoon… about half an hour before sunset.
Although the sky was completely overcast with rain the whole day on Sunday… I was really hoping that the clouds would clear up a bit by sunset… just enough to allow some sweet light through. As luck would have it… that’s exactly what happened!!
So there I was at the tidal pool… admiring the amazing cloud reflections in the calm water… and looking around for the most interesting compositions. I really liked the way that the rocks on the right of this composition all seemed to be pointing towards the sun… and how the heavy right-hand side of the composition was balanced out by the bright sun in the upper left-hand corner. All I needed was for someone to walk along the rim of the tidal pool… not only would that improve the composition… but it would also add a human element to the photo (which is something that I’ve been consciously trying to do). I looked around me to see if there was anyone whom I could kindly ask to walk around the tidal pool for me… but as I turned around… I noticed this smartly-dressed guy was already walking along the wall… without me even asking! I waited till he was in my frame and directly below the sun… and snap… got him!! :)
Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm at 14mm, aperture of f11, with a 1/400th second exposure.
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The Pool of Tranquility, River Etive, Glen Etive, this was one of the images i managed to get on my November trip around Glencoe
Sony Alpha A700, Sigma 10-20mm, F16, 11mm, ISO200, Exp 0.3 Seconds
Lee ND 0.9, Hitech Soft Grad 0.6,
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Following Aira Beck upstream from Aira Force, this clear pool opens out in front of us, providing a tranquil spot in which to rest.
This was taken a few days after a 10 inch snow fall. The pool had the best color I have every seen. The colors come from algae and lichen. Different areas of pools and geysers maintain near constant temperatures. Different color algae and lichen grow at these different temperatures.
Taken in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U.S.A. Made from 2 photos. (CRW05936-37)
#9 on Explorer's Most Interesting on 1/20/06.
Turquoise Pool is a hot spring in the Midway Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Turquoise Pool has a temperature between 142 and 160 °F and was named by members of the Hayden Expedition of 1878.
The title 'Blue' arose, because there are minute particles of clay in suspension within the water.
These suspensions variously diffract the reflected light, yielding colours from 'cloudy' grey, through green, to the more typical turquoise.
The Blue Pool in the Isle of Purbeck, started life early in the 17th century as a chalk pit.
Purbeck Ball Clay was dug from the pit from the mid 17th century to the early 20th century.
The Ball Clay was used to make fine ceramic products, such as smoking pipes, plates, cups and tea pots.
The pit became disused before the first world war, but Purbeck Ball Clay is still extracted from other pits in the area...
The public area contains sandy natural walkways through the heath and pine and occasionally the quite rare Sika deer as well as squirrels, badgers and sand lizards can be found here.
The colours show best when lit by sunshine and preferably at a small amount of ground elevation rather than at water level....
Some days we are enjoying really pretty light....... between overcast days.
Mineral rights in this area mean that companies such as English China Clay,work the area quite profusely .. In 1999 ECC International was acquired by the French company Imetal which subsequently changed its name to Imerys .... local word of mouth seems to be that the company may keep within it's bounds legally but is not a great favourite and holds to it's guns despite local voice.
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( a write up with intensive photo work of the Clay Pit at Arne, very close to the "Blue Pool ".......
blog.domgreves.com/2012/07/09/arne-claypit-reclamation/
Unfortunately at present there appears to be some discrepancy preventing the donation of this land to the RSPB ..... Whether or not it becomes a great wildlife sanctuary, then as the writer says - only time will tell )
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A monster lives in my pool. I don’t know how it got there. It only comes out at night.
I first saw it when I went for a swim one night. There it was, lurking in the corner. I was scared witless. I ran away screaming. I did not call the police. Who would believe me?
One morning, I awoke to find my glasses on the back porch. The glasses I had lost in the swimming pool. Somebody had placed a flower beside my glasses.
Later that same day, I left some biscuits by the poolside. Nobody touched them during the day. In the morning, they were gone.
This all happened some weeks ago.
Now I lie awake at night, listening. Waiting and listening in the dark. I like listening in the dark. It’s wonderfully relaxing, to listen in the dark. Waiting for the monster.
I hear the garden door open, gently. I hear naked, wet feet tiptoe towards the kitchen. I hear the fridge door open. I hear the satisfying sound of munching. Isn’t it wonderful?
At night, I don’t bother locking my front door anymore. You’d have to be crazy to break into my house. I have a monster living in my pool. It's in the kitchen right now.
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(Inspired by ‘Mrs. Caliban’, by Rachel Ingalls, 2017)
For further info:
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Moderate safety level so I don't scare kiddies and grandma's.
The monster in the pool: Kangsom
(Kangsom is not a monster in real life, let me assure you, she is a very nice person. We’re just versatile).
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