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First time I have seen this bird around my garden, a pair of Evening Grosbeaks enjoyed foraging around the vegetable plot (and weeds). Thought they would be up in the mountains by now
Much as I hate using slug pellets I dislike the fact that they eat young plants more. There is also tetanus in the soil bit the macro didn't stretch to capturing more than the soil!
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. . . On our drive across the Adams Trail in the Upper Peninsula, we came across a bird I had not seen in many years, the Northern Bobwhite (Quail). As with most quail like birds, they don't fly unless absolutely necessary! Also, the song is amazing, please You Tube the name to hear it say it's own name!
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Bobwhite/id
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On my last trip to Canyonlands National Park, it had been a short added drive to take in a few overlooks based on recommendations from a person at a local Austin camera store. Amazing views, needless to say, but this time I'd hope to explore and hike more locations. That's the story behind this walk about along Grand View Point Trail out to the less explored overlook. This view is looking to the southwest to the Green River area with canyon after canyon seemingly stretching to the horizon. With some angling of my SLR camera, I was able to catch a more sweeping view and not have much of a flattening look. Far (far off) in the distance are peaks of the Henry Mountains, including Mount Pennell and Mount Ellen. What also drew me into this image as I finished post-processing in Capture NX2 was the color contrast between the reds and browns of the national park and then blues and whites of the skies above. A contrast but also a complement for this setting in Canyonlands National Park.
Je suis désolée, c'est vraiment un bouton d'or qui pousse près de mon persil ! MDR !
I'm so sorry, this is really a buttercup which is growing near my parsley !!! LOL !
A Eurasian Stone-curlew that we spotted enjoying the sunshine when we visited Spain.
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A stop not far from the Fossil Exhibit Trail and Castle area. With this image, I wanted to capture that sweeping view across the prairie grasses and nearby creek and let those lead the eyes to the more distant badlands and formations. Given the overcast skies and intermittent rain that day, I decided to angle my SLR camera slightly downward capturing the grassland and smaller formations to my front. I could then work an angle to include the upper portions of the butte and pinnacles off in the distance. I later used a Pro Contrast and Skylight CEP filter in Capture NX2 for the final image to address what I felt was the more muted colors from the overcast skies above.
Lone Brahman appears insignificant, gazing at the seemingly featureless horizon. A section of the productive cattle-grazing country between Winton and Boulia in the Queensland Outback.
"For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they are waking up, because man has come to rouse them. Stones have begun to speak, because an ear is there to hear them. Layers become history and, released from the enchanted sleep of eternity, life's motley, never-ending dance rises out of the black depths of the past into the light of the present."
— Hans Cloos
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This shot was taken at Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada (USA)
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Artist Palette, Death Valley, California
No, the horizon is not accidentally tilted. The camera has a very useful internal level that keeps me honest to within a degree or so. When I remember. Which I did.
It's late afternoon and we're standing in an arroyo near the top of a very large alluvial fan sloping down to the bottom of Death Valley. The boulder was probably dropped there during a particularly large debris flow. The only plants growing in the gravelly soil are desert holly (Atriplex hymenelytra).