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Ladybower Shows Her Backside In Autumn!! by Brian Mellor

Ladybower reservoir is a Y shaped reservoir fed by two rivers….the Derwent and the Ashop. This is where the Derwent runs from Derwent dam into Ladybower. / Ladybower is the third and final one of a series of dams down the Derwent Valley. It is the biggest of the three at about 3 miles in length.It was buillt between 1935 and 1943 and then took two years to fill up!! / There was some controversy surrounding the building of the dam….two villages in the valley had to be abandoned and flooded. Ashopton and Derwent villages both disappeared under the reservoir….including the old 17th century Derwent Hall and a number of ancient farms. / Sony Alpha 350, 18-70mm Lens.
Hidden Jacoby Falls At Sundown by Gene Walls

I had heard rumors about this waterfall, but very few people told me that they had actually seen it in person. I recently got a positive confirmation from another photographer, who gave me excellent directions to the waterfall. He couldn’t remember the name of the falls, but he was perfectly accurate in his directions. Sunday afternoon I decided to try to find that hidden waterfall for myself. I had very few problems finding the trail. However, it was already after four o’clock and I knew it would be dark by six, so I walked as quickly as possible. It was a fairly rough trail in a few places, but for the most part, it was pretty “smooth sailing”. After about 45 minutes of brisk hiking, I could see the glen in the distance… and then I heard the muffled roar of falling water. I was really hoping that the falls would be impressive enough to be worth the effort it took to get here. A couple hundred yards into the glen, I caught my first sight of the Jacoby Run Waterfall. It sent a thrill right up my spine! I actually spoke my mind out loud… “This was definitely worth the trip!” By this time, the sun was quickly setting. I was now a little worried that the light might make it tough to capture the majesty of the site, so I quickly setup my tripod and started shooting right away. This was the very first frame I captured of the waterfall, out of over 200 shots in total. Hopefully, my photo will give you some sense of the awesome power and beauty of this amazing place! Please show respect when visiting natural treasures like this wonderful site. Leave it exactly as you found it so others who follow, will be able to enjoy the same pristine discovery that you experienced. This photo was captured with a Canon EOS 10D body fitted with a Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L Zoom lens, at the 26mm focal length. The shutter speed was o.7 second at f/9.5. The camera’s ISO was set to 100. A Manfrotto, tripod was used with a remote shutter release cable. This photo has been cropped slightly (too much washed out sky at the top), but no post processing was required. The trail begins north of Loyasockville, Pennsylvania, along Wallis Run Road (State Route 1006). The waterfall is in PA State Game Lands in the Tiadaton State Forest. Watch for a clearing on the right side of the road, where parking is permitted. The trail is just a few miles north of Butternut Grove Road. You will know you’ve found the right place when you see the wooden plank walkway leading across a swamp into the forest. Your comments are always welcome! Constructive criticism is appreciated. © 2009 Gene Walls All copyright and reproduction rights are retained by the artist. Artwork may not be reproduced or altered by any process without the express written permission of the artist. Featured in “The World As We See It …”
Deep in the woods - by steppeland

Goois Nature Reserve – Bussum – the Netherlands There were just so many fungi that morning, in so many different shapes, colours and conditions – and I felt I had to portrait each one of them :) This bracket fungi ‘sculpture’ drew my attention, because of it’s exceptional shape and size… smaller ones were growing out and on top of the larger ones… they must have been growing there for years… Bracket fungus Photograph made with Pentax K10D camera and Tamron 70-300mm Tele-macro1:2 lens Because of the beauty shown in this picture: / SAFE and PROTECT our woods and natural places! Features and top10 placements / Featured in: Earth Keepers (Nov 7, 2009) Thank you so much! / Comments and feed-back always welcome. Thanks for looking :) See all of my Fungi pics here / Natural levels and curves / Just the two of us / Beheaded
Side Burn! - Lions Mane by Voltaire Carlos

Canon 5D Mk2 65 MPE Macro @ 5X Ringlite Flash Handeheld ISO 400 F9 1/200 sec Cronulla NSW Most of us have probably heard that the world’s bee population is declining – from Britain to New Zealand and throughout the United States, crops and wildflowers are being affected by this issue. Recently, scientists have had success in treating parasitic infection in bee hives, giving us new hope in halting the decline. From wikipedia’s entry on pollinators: “Millions of hives of honey bees are contracted out as pollinators by beekeepers, and honey bees are by far the most important commercial pollinating agents, but many other kinds of pollinators, from bluebottle flies, to bumblebees, orchard mason bees, and leaf cutter bees are cultured and sold for managed pollination.” You can choose to become a beekeeper, perhaps by taking a beekeeping school course in your area, and becoming licensed to keep bees. There are lots of resources online with information for beginning beekeepers, places to buy beekeeping equipment, and forums in which you can post questions about bees. As a bonus, if you raise honey bees, the local pollen in the honey can help relieve allergies, however you may want to use caution in eating local honey. Helping the bees out might be enough reason to take up the hobby, but another good reason is to help your garden flourish. Perhaps keeping bees yourself is just more work or time than you care to invest. There are other ways to contribute as well. Maybe you can host a hive for another beekeeper. Or, you can choose to provide environments that need less maintenance like a bumblebee nest box, which you can build (easier to build a bumblebee box in the US, as most places to purchase seem to be in UK) or just purchase a bumblebee home. Another common bee you can host is the mason bee – there are starter kits available, as well as other more attractive mason bee houses. Finally, even if you don’t choose to host any bees in your space, you can provide a bee-friendly garden. Bees are attracted to blue, purple, yellow and white. Old-fashion shrubs with nectar-rich blossoms like lilac, honeysuckle and azalea are bee magnets. Heirloom flowers like cosmos, zinnia, aster and daisies lure them with the promise of pollen. Herbs such as mint, hyssop, salvia, lavender and thyme are covered with bees during bloom time. Select a variety of flowers which will bloom at different times throughout the year for a steady supply of nectar and pollen. There’s a wealth of bee-friendly options, so finding plants that work with your existing garden shouldn’t be too hard.
Mustang Meadow by Arla M. Ruggles

A small band of wild horses enjoying a warm fall afternoon in narrow meadow near Thousand Springs – northeastern Nevada / / (2009.NOV.05) Featured in Earth Keepers / (2009.NOV.07) RedBubble Gallery: Horses Of The High Desert Range Please support American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign / (You do not need to be a U.S. citizen to voice your opinion.) Canon 350D EOS / Sigma 70-300mm Corel PhotoImpact x3 RedBubble Album: “Horses Of The High Desert Range“
Enchantment'... by valzart

” Spirit of the Forest arise again send your guardians, protect the mighty trees from destruction they are the life and breath of the planet and fools of men are tearing them asunder, on their path to oblivion like lemmings on the road to extinction”. by V.Kelly ... save- our- trees.org:.. finished after midnight .
Need I Say More?? by Tonye Banks

Really, what else is there to say??? We all know we should be doing it…so let’s just do it!! Reduce, ReUse,Recycle…. :)
You have the power in your hands by Mika

Well you know how sometimes things dont look as bright as they should? How life gets to you in ways you never expected? You can change it, you have the power to pull yourself out of anything you get into. you always end up on the brighter side of life, not just me being optimistic its true! Think negative you get negative. Oh and my tip for helping shrink your carbon footprint? Change your light bulbs to energy efficient ones, sure they may cost a bomb but they last a heck of alot longer and use alot less energy, ive noticed a drop in my power bill :) FEATURED: Earth keepers – November 4th 2009 Thank you so, so, so very much!
AUTUMN HEART by Sandy Stewart

A low late afternoon sun shines through a heart shaped Cottonwood leaf as it sits so lightly on an outside table. “ABOUT BLACK COTTONWOOD TREES” The leaves are shiny and dark green in the summer, turning yellow/golden in the fall. They are 6 to 12 centimetres ( 2.4-4.7 inches) long, pale underneath and often marked with brown. They vary from oval to wedge-shaped and have a sharply pointed tip. / Black Cottonwood trees are hardy, straight-trunked trees that have large, sticky, fragrant buds. On the coast, black cottonwoods can reach 50 metres ( 164 ft) tall. / Cottonwood trees require ample moisture and plenty of nutrients to grow well. They favour floodplains and moist upland sites with lots of light. They do not grow well in the shade of other species. It is named cottonwood for the white hairs on mature seed which float through the air like wisps of cotton or snow. “PHOTO INFORMATION” Taken on Nov 2/09 at 3:40pm in own back yard. ( South east Vancouver Island) B.C., Canada. / Taken in raw, adobe rgb and aperture priority. / camera; canon 40D / lens; canon EF 100-400 L IS USM lens. / tripod; Manfrotto and joystick head. / Taken at 1/100’s, f/9, + 1/3 EV, 250mm, man col bal 6250 kelvin, iso 100. / histogram adjustment in Lightroom and sharpening via lab mode, duplicate layer, lightness channel, unsharpmask ( amount 25, radius 5, threshold1). No cropping.
Hubbards Hills 5 by Paul Thompson Photography

This is Hubbards Hills in Louth, Lincolnshire showing all the colours of autumn. / Hubbard’s Hills is a glacial overspill channel formed as the last ice ended about 40,000 years ago. A marginal lake of meltwater trapped between glacial ice sheet and the Lincolnshire Wolds spilled over a chalk ridge and gouged a steep sided valley with a flat bottom. The river Lud, far too small to create such a valley, now flows / through it. Please visit me at my website / PaulThompsonPhotography / Canon 5D Mk2 / F16 / ISO 100
Paradise Lost by parmi

Santiago, capital city of Chile. This is the view from the top of the look out at St Lucia Park. The building that leads the climb to the top is seen in World Forgotten. There is nothing like being in a city and being able to see snow capped mountain tops in the near distance. (45 bus ride takes you to the Andes Mountains). As incredible a place as Santiago is, the city has unfortunately been built in a valley, which has trapped the smog and pollution over the years. The view of the Andes, as seen here, is slowly being obliterated by the smokey sky. After speaking with a few locals, they are predicting only 10 – 20 years until the view is faded away to smog totally. It will be a sad day indeed, when the Andes can’t be seen at such a short distance. Featured in Earth Keepers / Featured in Cityscapes & City Skylines Tweaking of levels and curves, increase of lightness and adding of a texture layer from www.deviantart.com free use stock. I wanted to accentuate the dirty polluted feel to this one. All editing done 10pm Canon SX100IS MCN: CP9BU-WNCHA-N8JFX
Earth tree *Greeting card by yanmos

Greeting card preview / Wall print version www.yanmostees.com

Recent Work

Backyard Lizard by Voltaire Carlos

Canon 5D Mk 2 / 65mm MPE MAcro at 5X / ISO 400 F13 1/200s Natural food can be provided by planting native species with flowers, berries or leaves that lizards eat, or attract insects that will become food in turn. Some plants you may try include Native Daisies (Olearia species), Muntries (Kunzea pomifera), Pigface (Carpobrotus species), Native Currant (Acrotriche species), Flax Lilies (Dianella species), or Native Cranberry (Astroloma humifusum), for flowers and edible fruits (Ehmann, 1992).
New Yorks Adirondack region X by PJS15204

Staying dry while watching the rain from a far on the mountain is pretty neat go large view please to see better We are leaving Ticonderoga now and heading towards more lakes and falls in the Adirondack natl park / Taken with the Nikon d-90 and the 18-105mm lens on safari with Lina and Big D
Falling Foss, the usual view. by TallGuy

This was one of the first photo’s I took on my meet with my OLD mate Rob Hardy, it’s the view most people get when visiting. Taken from high above the bottom of the valley the waterfall doesn’t look as tall, but it’s small steps can be seen as the lovely waterfall cascades over them.. / This is one of those shots that so often happens when Rob and I are on a meet, we seem to home in on the same compositions automatically. Is it because it was originally Rob’s waterfall photo’s that inspired me and I took up his style. I’ve seen the reverse happen, I’ve taken a shot and later noticed Rob taken almost the identical shot.. just good taste I guess.. lol / Rob’s posted his b/w photo of this almost identical composition on Flickr. Falling Foss is near Littlebeck in the North York Moors National Park. / Taken with a Canon 5D.
Walker Mill Foss. by TallGuy

My first visit to this unnamed waterfall, I’ve been near a couple of times without even knowing it’s there. This was a very slip slidey walk to the waterfall, both Rob and myself slithered in the mud along the very little used, overgrown pathway. It was fun, especially once completed safely :-) / I liked the arch over the waterfall made by the two different tree branches. I decided to Otronise the background. / Taken with a Canon 5D near Darnholme in the North York Moors National Park. Ps. I’ve now found the name of the Waterfall.. Walker Mill Foss.
Star Bright. by Steve Chapple

A small star shaped plant growing up out of the dark depths in a small piece of native scrub located in the middle of a pine forest at Mt Burr South Australia. Nice to see that we can maintain these natural strips of environment in the middle of commercial forests. Canon 400D, 17-85 lens with 2 stage extension tubes.
Behind the Invisible Wall by Wayne Gerard Trotman

© All Rights Reserved – No Usage Allowed in Any Form Without My Written Consent. Honey bees photographed at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Honey bees (or honeybees) are a subset of bees, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests out of wax. Honey bees are the only extant members of the tribe Apini, all in the genus Apis. Currently, there are only seven recognized species of honey bee with a total of 44 subspecies (Engel, 1999) though historically, anywhere from six to eleven species have been recognized. Honey bees represent only a small fraction of the approximately 20,000 known species of bees. Some other types of related bees produce and store honey, but only members of the genus Apis are true honey bees.
Someone Has to Clean Up the Mess by Pamela Phelps

Crow rests in a limb waiting for the ducks, geese, and gulls to depart down the river so they can clean up any debris left on the shores of the Neversink River, Woodbourne, NY, USA /
Störsvik in Colors by Ritva Ikonen

The photo is taken in Siuntio, Finland October 2009.
Shimmering in Gold and Sapphire by Sharon Mau

From my collection: / Wilderland ~ Alaska North Star Winter Scenics / Sunset on Chena River Lakes blanketed in snow Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Title is an excerpt from With Dreaming Eyes / Poetry by John Greenleaf Whittier 1869 Collection featured in Outdoors Winter Scenics 12 October 2007 / Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi / 27 October 2007 17:04:03 / ISO 200 / Av 20
Lone mushroom by Donna Underwood

Nestled at the base of an old decayed tree trunk along the Azalea trail in Desoto State Park, Fort Payne, Alabama. I have a heart for mushrooms. They remind me of fairies and magical places.
New York's Adirondack region VIII by PJS15204

This would be the falls behind the kissing bridge in Ticonderoga NY in the cities Park / Taken with the Nikon d-90 and the 18-105mm lens on safari with Lina and Big D
Fungi by sternbergimages

Taken at Petrified Springs in Kenosha, WI