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Taken while hiking the Castle Rock Trail at Big Bear Lake, CA. Castle Rock is in the center of the photo.
Sunset patterns on the beach.
It was like a warm glow had taken over the whole beach.
A really beautiful late afternoon walk on Black Rock Sands Beach, Morfa Bychan, North Wales.
The last photo from the reserve "Piekło" ("Hell") in Poland :)
The Rocks "Piekło" (Hell Rocks) near Niekłań is the inanimate nature reserve, located in the Stęporków commune. The reserve was established in 1959 to protect interesting sandstone formations caused by wind erosion. It covers an area of over 6 ha of mixed forest with a predominance of 200-year-old pines and oaks, but the greatest value of the reserve are picturesque rocks carved by erosive processes in Triassic and Lower Jurassic sandstones. On a length of several hundred meters, there is a series of monadnocks, taking unusual shapes, such as rock mushrooms, chimneys or pulpits. Their height reaches in height from 2 to 8 m. Fantastic forms and their dark color were probably the reason for many legends and names. The reserve is also a concentration of rich flora and fauna.
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Ostatnie zdjęcie z rezerwatu "Piekło" pod Niekłaniem :)
Rezerwat "Piekło" położony jest na wschód od Niekłania Wielkiego, w gminie Stąporków. Został utworzony w 1959 r. w celu zachowania osobliwych form skalnych. Obejmuje powierzchnię ponad 6 ha lasu mieszanego z przewagą 200-letnich sosen i dębów, jednak największą wartość rezerwatu stanowią malownicze skałki wyrzeźbione przez procesy erozyjne w triasowych i dolnojurajskich piaskowcach. Skałki tworzą dwa oddzielne skupiska: wschodnie i zachodnie. Na długości kilkuset metrów znajduje się ciąg ostańców, przybierających nietypowe kształty, takie jak grzyby skalne, kominy czy kazalnice, osiągające wysokość od 2 do 8 m. Fantastyczne formy i ich ciemne zabarwienie były prawdopodobnie powodem powstania wielu legend oraz nazwy. Rezerwat jest skupiskiem bogatej flory i fauny. W skalnych szczelinach prawdopodobnie przetrwało stanowisko bardzo rzadkiej paproci zanokcicy północnej (Asplenium septentrionale) - reliktu klimatu polodowcowego. "Skałki Piekło pod Niekłaniem" uznane są za najpiękniejszy rezerwat przyrody nieożywionej w województwie świętokrzyskim.
So taken up with many Sand Martins and Fulmars, I nearly missed this wee bird that flipped across my bows, then very conveniently sat as shown maybe forty feet away for more than long enough for me to snap a few shots, then his jumping departure. I'm not certain that Rock Pipit is correct, so corrections will be welcome.
It's better to be lucky than good. I was heading to meet my friend Andrew, who was kind enough to offer to give me the lay of the land in the Ridgeway, Telluride area of Colorado. We agreed that we would try to connect after sunset, as we were each traveling from another part of the state and weren't sure where we would be at the end of the day. I headed up Owl Creek, not knowing what I would find. Lo and behold it was this scenic point and Andrew!
Flickr has gone bonkers today. Nothing was working, comments all disappeared, everything was a Time-out and Bad Pandas.
Here's an ancient upbeat Christmas song.
Popular rock climbing formation for the Smile on Saturday challenge: "Look up to the Sky"
Near Gunlock Pond, Washington County, Utah.
Cali on her walk at Black Rock Sands, late afternoon in February, in The Golden Hour.
A lovely walk for the three of us as there were only a few people and dogs there, she was free to wonder in her own time!!
The black rocks are what the beach is named after.
Balanced Rock est l'une des attractions les plus populaires du Parc national des Arches, situé en Utah, aux États-Unis. Balanced Rock est situé à côté de la route principale du parc, à environ 14,8 km à partir de l'entrée du parc.
D'après diapositive.
I posted two non-falcon images from the terminal this evening. I caught this beautiful Rock Pigeon and a Common Raven there today.
The Rock Pigeons at the terminal come in all sorts of colours from almost pure white to raven-black and hundreds of colour combinations in between. I suspect this might be a true albino because of the pink legs, bill, and what seems to be a pink eye.
Added to my Canada 150 Album.
I took another trip to Perch Rock Lighthouse, New Brighton after work. It had been wet and cloudy all day but there was enough break in the cloud to give some colour.
In the Rifted Rock I'm resting,
Sure and safe from all alarm;
Storms and billows have united,
All in vain, to do me harm:
In the Rifted Rock I'm resting,
Surf is dashing at my feet,
Storm-clouds dark are o'er me hovering,
Yet my rest is all complete.
Many a stormy sea I've traversed,
Many a tempest-shock have known;
Have been driven, without anchor,
On the barren shore and lone.
Yet I now have found a haven,
Never moved by tempest shock,
Where my soul is safe for ever,
In the blessed Rifted Rock.
(Lewis Hartsough, 1828 – 1919)
Iowa Interstate's RISW-18 crosses the Rock River on the return trip to Rock Island after working Steel Warehouse and Bluelinx on the Milan Branch.
November 18, 2019.
We spent a glorious day alone on Housel Beach, so as it was too sunny , I played with delicate balances. I could only just lift up this rock, and I think that's why it stood up to so many breaking waves. I waited till it looked like there was no rock beneath it. The title is a favourite Frank Zappa track.
In Otter Rock, Oregon, a scenic viewpoint opens up to the breathtaking Otter Rock Marine Garden and the expansive Pacific Ocean stretching into the horizon.
A juvenile rock beauty (holacanthus tricolor) in front of mountainous star coral (orbicella faveolata).
Rock beauties are teases. They are relatively numerous, obviously easy to spot and they allow for a somewhat close approach, but not as close as you would like for an underwater shot as they often turn away or duck into a crack at the last moment. This juvenile wasn't as skittish as a typical adult. Unlike many other fish, juvenile rock beauties look like what they will become as they age, but maybe more of a red accent on the dorsal and anal fins.
It is a challenge to get a clean background underwater. Here, the rock beauty is posing in front of a large mountainous star coral. Unfortunately, there is a good chance this coral is dead now. This image was taken earlier this year. We returned to this site in the summer and much to our disappointment, probably 1/3 of the hard corals, if not more, were dead.
I don't know if it was "just" coral bleaching or due to disease, such as the stony coral tissue loss disease (first identified in FL in 2014, bit.ly/3fBTIEt), but it was very deflating to see it happen at a site that had so many magnificent and massive hard corals. Mountainous star coral is listed as "endangered" by IUCN.
A pair of UP SD70Ms lead LDG51, the Potash Local, into Bootlegger Canyon after departing the potash mine on its weekly round trip down the Cane Creek Branch. Fun fact: the branch was originally built with 112-115 pound rail originally laid on the D&RGW mainline between Brendel and Cisco.
Rock hyraxes, also called rock dassies or rock rabbits, are small, stub-tailed, rabbit-like animals native to Africa. Though rock hyraxes resemble rodents, their closest living relatives are actually elephants and manatees. These social mammals primarily eat vegetation. [text credit: Smithsonian]