Newell & Wright livery 66747 is seen at Eastrea with the 6E88 1226 Middleton Towers - Goole Glassworks sand train 30/1/23. (Taken using a pole)

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

This is a photo of sand patterns at Port Maitland Beach.

This is a photo taken at Clam Harbour Beach of impressions created in the sand by chunks of sea ice, although it could have been done by Jean Arp.

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.

Click here to check out my Vertorama tutorial.

This is a photo of patterns in the sand at Clam Harbour Beach created by the flow of water in a shallow stream.

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.

The wind blown ripple patterns in the sand at Clam Harbour Beach are illuminated by the evening light.

Photographed in Pina De Campoverde Spain

I'm pleased to see the Sand Martin preparing to nest again this year in a small rockface here in my village.

Yesterday, I again witnessed and photographed what I believe may be their mating and pairing activities, with males having in-flight fights that can get quite vicious.

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour." - William Blake

These stunning structures resemble the ruins of an ancient city, but the alien looking 'skyscrapers' are natural sand castles, rising 3-4 ft high.

Similar in appearance to the more famous calcium carbonate tufa towers along Mono Lake's shoreline, these sand tufas formed quite differently. Beneath the surface of the ancient lake, calcium-rich groundwater rose up through brine-saturated sand layers, forming cemented pillars of sand. Later, the lake waters receded, leaving this area high and dry some distance back from the water's edge. Then wind eroded away the sand layers, exposing fluted sand tufas. These delicate formations are being continually weathered completely away, and new ones are exposed.

The image shows the Milky Way arching over the Sand Tufas. Some dissipating clouds along the horizon are a reminiscence of less tranquil conditions with strong tunderstorms in the afternoon. Strong airglow is bathing the lower sky in green, yellow and some reds, which are seemingly echoed by the Hydrogen-alpha emission nebulae dotting the Milky Way band.

EXIF

Canon EOS R, astro-modified

Sigma 28mm f/1.4 @ f/2

IDAS NBZ filter

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

Sky:

8 panel panorama, each a stack of 6x 45s @ ISO1600, unfiltered & 3x 105s @ ISO6400, filtered

Foreground:

9 panel panorama, each a focus stack of 5x 1s @ ISO100 during blue hour

Riparia riparia

This is a close-up photo of rivulets and ice permeated sand at Clam Harbour Beach.

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.

Starting at Stockyard Campsite near the entrance to the Wilsons Promontory National Marine Park, follow the signposts to the northern flank of Big Drift, an extensive series of inland sand dunes. On a clear day, Big Drift offers stunning views across to Corner Inlet, Shallow Inlet, and Cape Liptrap.

This is a 5 stitch image captured by zooming in and panning to get a closer view from afar, but to get a nice high resolution capture of the dunes, mountains, and desert brush. The dunes are 800 feet tall and about 6 miles across in this view, to help give it scale.

Trying to give it my best on a dreary day in Vancouver. The tide is out and the clouds are in. For a while it is not raining and it is time to get out, go for a long walk and find some interesting elements to shoot.

Low tide at Sand Beach on Loch Gairloch, Wester Ross, with the Isle of Skye in the background.

We are home after three wonderful weeks in the UK, mostly in the Highlands of Scotland. Hope to catch up with everyone in the next few days.

Thanks for stopping by and for all of your kind comments, awards and faves -- I appreciate them all.

© Melissa Post 2019

Erg Chebbi, Sahara desert sand dunes

More of these: www.behance.net/gallery/34121159/Merzouga-and-desert-around

Bandon, Oregon

Sand man, or maybe a mud bear? This was on the edge of a pool on the sandy beach at Bear Lake State Park, Idaho.

Sand dunes at Sandbanks, Dorset with holidaymakers in the background.

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Ripple patterns sculpted in the sand by the waves and currents at Clam Harbour Beach.

I have had big suprise today I met very nice people , it was just another day with happy end :)

Lómagnúpur - To spend a day in a nature too large to grasp ...

A Look at the sand dunes at Black Rock Sands Beach, Morfa Bychan, on a lovely January late afternoon walk, with Hef.

The view along Medano Creek on this pretty evening there in Colorado was mesmerizing.

This is Bribie Island, one of three sand Islands in Moreton Bay, this particular one is connected to the mainland by road bridge, it is 45 mins north of Brisbane - Queensland - Australia.

The Glass House Mountains can be seen in the distance.

The New Masterclass.

Kurt Peiser Gallery.

Pinnacle of Excellence Thread.

Leucocrinum montanum, commonly known as the sand lily.

I love marks in sand, how nature creates forms and "waves".

Hope you will join us too.

A shot from the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. We went there in 2019 and only had a few hours to spend there. I would love to go back one day and spend more time. It's a really cool place.

Awfully photogenic they are. I'm going to nail it one of these days.

Crestone Group of the Sangre de Christo making like a backdrop.

Cute couple.

At the Olympic Beach Volleyball venue (Chaoyang Park) at the Beijing Olympics, they had these women dance in between sets and at timeouts.