She waits

White Arizona poppy from #wildwest2012 .

#macromonday , curated by +Kerry Murphy +Jennifer Eden and +Kelli Seeger Kim

Venturing into uncharted territory with some macro photo and post processing.

#macro

#MacroMonday curated by +Kerry Murphy and +Jennifer Eden

Touch the earth, love the earth, honor the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. ~Ernest Dimnet


#MinimalMonday by +Olivier Du Tré
#bwfineart by +Joel Tjintjelaar #FineArtPlus by +Marina Chen

© 2012
➤ Path

There were great long exposure clouds in the sky when I set out to find this place. What I hadn't counted on was that once I had "climbed" for two hours on skis, up to the top of the mountain, I was actually inside the clouds!

So... I'm posting a non-long exposure for a change :-)

Water is Life

I just returned from my late fathers hunt camp in northern Ontario. This is a place I grew up going to in all seasons throughout my life since I was born. Snowmobiling in winter, fishing in summer and autumn and many family vacations. This is why I have grown to love nature the way I do and I have my father to thank for that.

This particular stream which is tucked away in a gorge, has been a mainstay of one of the places I loved to explore as a young boy and I introduced my son Seamus to this very spot. On this day it was chilly, which anyone that knows me, knows I like cold weather... heck I'm Canadian!


#PlusPhotoExtract

Oxbow Bend in Grand Teton National Park is an extremely popular spot for photographers. That's not surprising because it really is beautiful, plus it is very accessible - the road runs right along side it and there is plenty of parking.

If you search for images of this location though, you'll hardly see any winter scenes. This is presumably because the road is closed to normal vehicles during the winter, with the only access being on foot, via snowcoach, or snowmobile.

I took this photo when we passed by a couple of weeks ago on snowmobiles while en-route to Old Faithful. Sadly we weren't quite early enough to catch the morning sun on Mt Moran (the peak on the right), but there was still a little mist around at least.

#MountainMonday by +Michael Russell

sperm whales encounters week #1

I was dreaming about meeting sperm whales for many years. Combination of incredible intelligence and reputation of world's biggest predator these animals possess always fascinated me.

I finally got my chance in October 2010, when I joined +Tony Wu on his trip to the remote Ogasawara Archipelago in Japan. I usually get lucky closer to the end of the trip, but this time I got my best encounter on the very first day.

This image literally depicts my very first underwater sighting of the sperm whale. This is what I saw after entering water and this is how it all started ^_^

southwest coast corse 2010...


#monochromemonday by +Charles Lupica +Hans Berendsen +Bill Wood
#monochrome #fineartpls

Taken in some pretty harsh mid-day light. The sun was breaking through the clouds in just a few spots. More here: http://www.jesse-estes.com/guilin-china/

Inside Out

Another shot from More London. For a while I thought it was just me - but recently I read a blog post by +Tom McLaughlan - here: http://tommclaughlan.net/2012/02/05/returning/ about returning over and over to More London. Its a fantastic bit of public space with great buildings too, and like Tom I find myself coming back here over and over again - constantly finding different views, lines and angles. Not really sure why this office / public space attracts people as it does but its streets ahead of other similar developments in London like Fleet Place, Paddington Basin, Regents Place to name but a few, maybe its its location or maybe its just well designed.

This shot is pretty much the same as the last More London shot I posted (The Gap) just looking straight ahead instead of skywards.

#ministractmonday currated by +Tom McLaughlan
#monochromemonday currated by +Charles Lupica and +Bill Wood
#architecturalvisions currated by +Joel Tjintjelaar and +Julia Anna Gospodarou
#plusphotoextract curated by +Jarek Klimek
And possibly #minimalmonday currated by +Olivier Du Tré although its only minimal in the fact its empty

Oh and PS - +Tom McLaughlan - thanks very much for the shout out in your post

Yes it's another Birthday for my other angel this time. After the joy Georgia had seeing her image online and the wonderful comments I couldn't let Laura down.

So here is a recent morning image, hair still in a mess but so cute. I'd just come home from shooting something to find Laura at the door to welcome me home. How could I resist creating this image, plus this one likes the camera, always willing to step in for a photo. She even doesn't mind B&W.

So Happy 8th Birthday Laura!

Early Morning Reflection
This was one of the many mornings here in Colorado with not a cloud in the sky. I was blessed though with barely a stitch of a breeze which made for a nice reflection of Mount Hope (13,933 ft), Twin Peaks (13,270 ft & 13,333 ft), and Rinker Peak (13,783 ft) in this small beaver pond on the edge of Twin Lakes in central Colorado. I was almost foiled by the resident beaver as he came out right after this and made a reflection shot impossible!

My contribution to #mountainmounday curated by +Michael Russell and #mirrormonday curated by +Gemma Costa and +Elizabeth Edwards.

Here's my submission for the "Top Photos on G+" for a given day.

#monochromemonday #PlusPhotoExtract

M/M Curated by +Bill Wood +Charles Lupica +Hans Berendsen
Plus Photo Extract curated by +Jarek Klimek
(Am I only allowed one submission? I'll remove that other one if I have to).

This was shot just as the first flakes of winter began to fall between 2009, and 2010, just outside of #McMinnville ,
#oregon