in Aqabat in the White Desert (Western Desert) in Egypt

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Sagunto, Spain.

November 2016 - Gran Canaria

summer bliss

The sun goes down over Medano Creek there in Colorado.

Washed upon the shore

Sharqiya(Wahiba) sands, Oman.

Patterns in the sand at Port Maitland Beach.

Oostende 2018

Saudi Arabia Riyadh city Canon-G7

Taken quite some time ago on Saundersfoot Beach with a Lumix FX camera... I'm not sure whether this image is cropped or has been stitched... the former, I think, though either is possible.

This is a photo of sand patterns on the beach at Clam Harbour Beach.

Spent an evening at Sand Point with fellow Flickr member Dom W

Had about an hour without rain, not great conditions to be honest but enjoyable all the same!

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View On White

Interesting formation of sand on Farewell Spit at the end of the Golden Bay (New-Zealand)

Fast shutter to capture the blowing sand the gales where whipping up.

View On Black

This was taken on June 30, 2008 during the California fires. That's a line of smoke in the sky.

Sand dredging 0n the Thames.

...and sun and a splash! Brooking, Oregon, USA

d'estate, la voglia. ►

Here is another Vertorama from Sunday evening’s cloudy sunset at Milnerton beach… what a glorious sunset it was!

I’d like to thank everyone who took the time to make suggestions to my “comment conundrum” that I wrote about in the description of the photo that I posted yesterday. Reading through all your comments has definitely helped me to formulate a plan-of-action to deal with the situation… thank you very much for that!!

Although there were lots of different suggestions… everyone seems to agree on one thing… 1,600 contacts is hopelessly too many!!

So… the first thing that I’m going to do is remove all my contacts who haven’t posted any photos in the last couple of months. Then I’m going to remove all my contacts who post regularly, but who never bother to comment on any of my photos. Then I’m going to remove any contact who often comments on my photos, but who never posts anything that impresses or inspires me. Then I’ll change the status of all the contacts with whom I’ve formed a close friendship… as well as all the contacts who post incredible images that wow me every time… from a “contact” to a “friend”.

Hopefully that will leave me with a hundred (or so) friends and a couple of hundred contacts… which will certainly go a long way to relieving some of the symptoms of the “comment burn-out” that I’ve been experiencing lately.

Thanks again for all your tips and suggestions… I was totally blown away by your response!!

Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm at 10mm, aperture of f13, with a 1/160th second exposure.

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Alone at sunset on a lonely beach

Namib

Looking at the sea or the immensity of the sky we can be fooled that they are infinite, but it is only a question of points of view.

Keeping our feet on the ground, we are not able to understand how small our planet actually is compared to everything else

Sabbia

Guardando il mare o l’immensità del cielo possiamo ingannarci che siano infiniti, ma è solo una questione di punti di vista.

Restando con i piedi per terra non siamo in grado di comprendere quanto in realtà sia piccolo il nostro pianeta rispetto a tutto il resto

.... they looked like transient fossils

Down low to the wide but shallow surging Medano Creek there at Great Sand Dunes National Park.

Scientific name: Riparia riparia.

The tiny, brown-and-white sand martin is a common summer visitor to the UK, nesting in colonies on rivers, lakes and flooded gravel pits. It returns to Africa in winter. Info:RSPB.

Many thanks to people who view or comment on my photos.

My kind of morning....A blue bird Sunday morning in North Lake Tahoe after a fresh dusting (up to 9 inches) of snow at the higher elevations.

Santa Maria del Focallo, Ispica (RG).