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The Laburnum tree, ones of natures spring time beauties. The trailing yellow flowers wave gently in the breeze. Nature really is spectacular.
A rest stop location along I-10 heading out west. I'd walked around this location taking several other images here and there. For this image, I wanted to capture a peaceful feel under trees and blue skies on a Spring day.
Late afternoon shot taken near Delamere .
Busy week this week , so may not be here much , so i would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and happy new year :)
Thanks to all my contacts for your comments and faves throughout 2010 :)
Camera: Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta III (531/16)
Lens: Carl Zeiss Tessar f/3.5 75 mm
Film: Fuji Neopan Acros II 100
Exposure: 1/100 sec and f/16, hand-held
Film developed and scanned by MeinFilmLab
Edited under Adobe Lightroom
For Slider Sunday
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The Brown Wood Owl (Strix leptogrammica) is an owl which is a resident breeder in south Asia from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, east to western Indonesia, and south China. This species is a part of the family of owls known as typical owls (Strigidae), which contains most species of owl. It belongs to the earless owl genus Strix.
The brown wood owl is medium large (45–57 cm), with upperparts uniformly dark brown, with faint white spotting on the shoulders. The underparts are buff with brown streaking. The facial disc is brown or rufous, edged with white and without concentric barring, and the eyes are dark brown. There is a white neckband. The sexes are similar.
The call is a (hoo) hoo hoo HOO or a deep goke-goke-ga-LOOO or a loud scream. The alarm call is a bark, wow-wow. Some subspecies are known to produce distinct vocalizations; they are also different in appearance and parapatric, and might be distinct species: The northern Strix (leptogrammica) newarensis group (Himalayan wood-owl; present subspecies newarensis, ticehursti, laotiana and caligata) which occur from the Himalayan foothills of Kashmir east to Taiwan have a soft low to-hooh not unlike a rock dove cooing. S. (l.) bartelsi (Bartels's wood-owl), Javan wood-owl from Java, the southeasternmost taxon, has a loud, forceful, single HOOH! with long pauses between calls.
It is an uncommon resident bird of dense forests. This species is very nocturnal, but it can often be located by the small birds that mob it while it is roosting in a tree. It feeds mainly on small mammals, birds, and reptiles. It nests in a hole in a tree or on a forked trunk, laying two eggs.
Lonely tree on the top of Mam Tor in the UK Peak District, back-lit through the sun and rain.
The tree's set back about 10-15 metres from all the other trees there, you can see how it stands alone in the previous shot. As Dave pointed out it's quite eye-catching and you end up noticing all the time when you look up at the peak.
Kauai's Tree Tunnel on the way to Koloa town and Poipu beach, was planted over 150 years ago when the wealthy 'Scotsman' and Kauai cattle rancher Walter Duncan McBryde donated over 500 Eucalyptus trees that were left over after landscaping his estate. The tree tunnel is over a mile long and shades the cars that pass underneath along the highway.
Where I was standing to get this shot was at a three way intersection, and of course I picked one of the busiest times to try and get it! I really wanted this shot without any cars in it and I noticed that every few minutes there would be a break in the traffic. After standing in the middle of the road for about 10 minutes I got this shot a split second before a car came into the frame on my right side. The only thing I had to clone out was some lady standing on the right side of the road taking pictures with her camera phone!
Canon 5D Mark ll
EF 24-70mm @ 70mm
f/3.5 ISO 500
1/100 Sec exposure
Well after sunset, we see many stars over Joshua Tree National Park. Shot at night using a full moon as the light source. Also in the photo you can see the Little Dipper. Best viewed in full size.
I love those old wise trees, they look like very special creatures to me and so relevant for the whole Mediterranean area....
Some nights just call for me to jump in the car and find some silhouettes to take photos of when the clouds are just right in the sky as the sun sets.
Macricostas Preserve, Washington, Connecticut.
We took a short walk up to Waramaug Rock and around the Macricostas loop trail and the fall colors were spectacular. And, they didn't really do anything for me photographically, just nice to look at.
These old and rotting trees, however, had a lot of appeal and now that I've looked carefully at the images, I think I'll return to them today and take some more shots of different sides of them.
Not that fall colors aren't part of a decay cycle, but these old trees seem more interesting to me.
Maple tree at Westonbirt Arboretum
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This picture was made in Photoshop by pushing the RAW file (taken with a Nikon D80 and a Nikkor 18-135mm lens) through DCE Tools ReDynaMix to create a sort of HDR effect.
Tree in the evening light...
Location: Basel, Switzerland.
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Canon EOS 7D | Sigma 8-16mm
f16 | 8mm | ISO 100
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Thanks for your visit!
This was the weather today. Crappy. And just because of the crappy weather I took an extra walk up to the old tree at Välsta. We are expecting 15 C and a blue sky over the weekend so my next photo tomorrow will be a little different.
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