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Taken on 21 June 2024 at 20:33 US Eastern Daylight Savings Time, as I hurried up the street through the break in the rain.

My limited equipment does the scene nothing even remotely resembling justice: neither the multi-layered gauzy rainbow-sherbet luminosity nor the grand theatricality of the skyscape, with the air of a vintage book illustration or a meticulously painted film backdrop. A detail I particularly like is the small dark cumulus cloud at bottom center that suggests a person astride a charging (pig? bear? huge dog?)

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Taken at 5:52 PM EST 22 December 2023, this is something I really should’ve posted a year ago; I’m squeezing it under the wire just as the outgoing Lunar Year expires.

From the parking lot of my neighborhood Publix: the Rabbit prepares to hand the year over to the Dragon.

ysabetwordsmith

Today I took some pictures around the yard. These are images from the house yard.

( Walk with me ... )

Current Mood: accomplished

ysabetwordsmith

Today we went out to the lake. These pictures primarily show the pollinator gardens around the parking lot and the approach to the lake paths.

( Walk with me ... )

Current Mood: accomplished

jesse_the_k

Picture taken on my birthday boat ride at 6 pm 7 Sept 2020 from the center of Lake Mendota. The pale blue sky hosts cirrocumulus (?) clouds at various levels. Hints of sunset in pale orange above the hills of Middleton Wisconsin.

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rydra_wong

photo of a rainbow stretching over the Burbage Valley in the Peak District

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A bird’s nest, probably belonging to a song thrush, dislodged since last year’s breeding season.

Bird's nest, dislodged since last year, Worcestershire 03-14

( In like a lion and out like a lamb? )

spiralsheep

( Six small images in total. )

Tree with tangled branches.

A hole in the tree trunk, about a metre above ground level: who lives in a house like this?

( Knock, knock. Is anyone at home? )

lark_ascends

Australian Emperor, 7 Nov 2011, Sydney

Taken at my uni with my new DSLR. With my old camera it was almost impossible to get a somewhat decent shot of these dragonflies as they never seem to land. With my new camera using the telephoto lens and manual focus, I can get some decent shots. This was the crispest shot I got in the air. My first dragonfly/damselfly forage for the summer at my uni's lake.

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Hilda's Lookout, Blue Mountains, 17 Sep 2011

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Scaly-Breasted Lorikeet, Canberra, 15 Oct 2011

Taken at a walk in aviary using my telephoto lens.

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Everglades Gardens, Blue Mountains, NSW, 19 Sep 2011

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Current Mood: happy

rydra_wong

Last week, I spent five days bouldering on the gritstone in the Peak District. Here are some photos taken on my crappy little phone camera.

They have a lot of sky up there.

[Boulder against bright blue sky with fluffy clouds.]

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Entries tagged with sky

Sunset between storm fronts, en route to Publix and Walgreen’s.

A happenstance silhouette at the neighborhood grocery.

Photos: House Yard

Lake Pictures Part 1: Approaching the Path

Lovely Trending-Autumnal Sky

This happened

March of the daffodils, also damson blossom, a bird’s nest, and sunset

January trees, hills, clouds, and a crow

Dragonfly, landscapes, and bird from Australia

A bus ride from the centre of Sheffield