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This is a photo of the original Flying Dutchman from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. I took this shot while on vacation. The boat is located in Castaway Cay Disney Island.
I have never seen a sky as blue as this and it seemed the perfect setting to throw myself off a fallen lifeguard tower.
Photographed on Skomer Island, Wales during breeding season (June)
Forest Bed in the Otway Ranges, Victoria, Australia
Crested Crested Tern with a Pilchard for breakfast
Rockhopper Penguin This species of penguin occurs in subantarctic waters of the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as around the southern coasts of South America. The Southern Rockhopper Penguin is classified as Vulnerable species by the IUCN. Its population has declined by about one-third in the last thirty years. Their common name refers to the fact that unlike many other penguins which negotiate obstacles by sliding on their bellies or by awkward climbing using their flipper-like wings as aid, Rockhoppers will try to jump over boulders and across cracks.
When its not always raining there’ll be days like this / When theres no one complaining there’ll be days like this / When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch / Well my mama told me there’ll be days like this When you dont need to worry there’ll be days like this / When no ones in a hurry there’ll be days like this / When you dont get betrayed by that old judas kiss / Oh my mama told me there’ll be days like this When you dont need an answer there’ll be days like this / When you dont meet a chancer there’ll be days like this / When all the parts of the puzzle start to look like they fit / Then I must remember there’ll be days like this When everyone is up front and theyre not playing tricks / When you dont have no freeloaders out to get their kicks / When its nobodys business the way that you wanna live / I just have to remember there’ll be days like this When no one steps on my dreams there’ll be days like this / When people understand what I mean there’ll be days like this / When you ring out the changes of how everything is / Well my mama told me there’ll be days like this
Oil Pastel on Sand Paper Concept: This is one of the many in Ophelia’s Love Encounters Series, it’s her experience of many facets of this wonderful thing called LOVE.. This is what she has to say about love today : / / “Love is like the deep blue sea, it is there you’ll unravel the mysteries and treasures hidden since the days of old. / / You can view and buy my other “Love Is Like The Deep Blue Sea” creations at my Zazzle Gallery:
To be precise, Caleana major (Flying Duck Orchids) Australian native terrestrial orchids which grow in sandy alkaline heath-land on the east coast. The flowers are only ¾” (2cm) long, two flowers on a n 8” (20cm) stem and with only a single spear shaped leaf at ground level. The flowers of this species are actually upside-down to the normal orchid growth habit. Do you like their little pigtails? When disturbed, the flowers drop their heads, lift their tails and curl up. This is to trap any pollinating insect inside until released perhaps hours later or even overnight. Because of their small size and drab colouring they are difficult to find. This pair was discovered while I was hunting Sun Orchids. Lucky me! These li’l quackers were photographed in the wild, along the Ocean Drive Fire Trail in the Queen’s Lake Nature Reserve , at North Haven, NSW, Australia, on a beautifully overcast autumn afternoon. Visit my Aussie Wildflower collection in my BubbleSite for more native orchidian delights. Fuji S9600: Super Macro, f/5.6 @ 1/52sec, Manual focus, Tripod, Timer. / Lightroom 1.1 & Photoshop CS3. UPDATE: 31-08-08 / I have just printed this on Canon Photo Paper Plus Semi-gloss Satin and it came up a treat! UPDATE: 11-7-09 / This pair of ducks was awarded 3rd Place in the Australian Native Plants Group’s Native Terrestrial Orchids Challenge. Enjoy! WILDFLOWERS: ORCHIDS / (Click the links!) Caleana major – Shot Ducks / Caleana major – Flying High / Caleana major – Landing Gear Down / Caleana major – Tangles the Duck / Caleana major – In Full Flight / Caleana major – Flying Duck Orchid / Diuris pardina / Thelymitra media / Thelymitra pauciflora / Thelymitra pauciflora / Thelymitra pauciflora / Thelymitra ixioides / Pterostylis nutans / Caladenia carnea / Caladenia carnea / Petalochilus quadrifarius / Caladenia catenata / Cryptostylis subulata /
/ Humming the song through a feather in the mists of time. Mountains belonging to the sea. This could be a concept to consider once I get up there panting and wheezing white in the single malt air. Near, down from here is a fiord and a whaling station, blood on the sea. A slip way and a chimney that flourished because of Lord Soap Man and no one seems ready to demolish. Mountains above the sea, each reflected and sinking into deep sleep. The whiskey beach is shell skeleton white and the waves are the colour of that old car on the beach. A tennis court is green on the hillside with a mountain hare trapped inside decalcomanie fencing. A small island of rocket letters and natural asbestos. Black Cock on little bonsai mountain leks attracting females; for the life of me I cannot think why they would be temptation impressed. Stag antler rutting and digging the mud, hanging like suicide from a bullish roaring rough chestnut neck. Mist and mellow nonsense red with fly agaric poison and other wonderful words that sting to the lips and deaden in the mouth. Mountains expecting the sea. Scooping out blue and grey multiple, whales and Ariel, perspectives. Down to fields and trees of gold. Giving what they have in storms, to get it taken away anyway. A beach is a retired mountain wheezy whispering softly of its youth. Breeching and scrimshaw carving into doubt and spindrift on waves of heather and bells. The higher I go when whether weather depressions set in, the wetter I get. Now is that not something? Go higher to feel lower. My feet are wet in my old boots but I could care less. I’m still looking for old ghosts now on the knife edge and precipice. Go higher and bag all the top Monroes you can. Do not come down. Pewter lake mirrors below and steaming mist rising from the streaming morning. A hags glen of peat that becomes difficult and then impossible causing a turn around of the subtle senses much like some fated women. Saying one thing to the world, or at least this small part of it, and meaning another. The three fated crone, woman, and virgin. Becoming which witch, you know not what? Fated three. Graceless but graceful to my eyes. I would like to go/give up but I cannot. If I remember all this with clarity then I can draw when I am rested. In black pen so make no mistake, I will make no mistakes. The Ptarmigan are churring and winging low in fearful flight. You can hear the wind through eagle pinion. A strange hind, not native, barks at me in disgust. Whatever am I to do with you? she says, you come to these mountain islands and get as far away from the sea, upwards as you can. As if that made sense. I thought getting high meant some other things from the past. The Seal Silkie rises out to sea and you see me at least and at last. The last of the Summerisle insects call from out the heather and the butterfly dies above allowing its powdered coloured power to settle gracefully upon your stretched out mind. Eerie eyrie’s sit on clefts covered in painted white marks that advertise death before winter. A fire in the delicate distance disturbs the cause, because it is not alone and that is really how this works. The act of climbing a mountain is changed succinctly and dramatically by the act of observing the climb and making route root choices. She left me and I left you and they are now all come together on this rather crowded emotional peak on a lie detector line. What shall we do if not hum the ending song said Sandy in my ears.
Jellyfish in Palau with sky and forest in the background
A late afternoon quick trip to Canunda National Park yesterday looking for animal tracks and came across this piece of driftwood sitting on the side of a dune some 500 metres from the beach. Canunda National park stretches along the coast in the South East of South Australia and is a photographers paradise, with much untouched. The area where this image was taken in called Oil Rig square, an area accessed from Millicent where they once drilled for oil… Had to laugh though, walked back over a kilometer from the ocean into the middle of nowhere, no human tracks or signs found and there in the middle of some animal tracks was a tennis ball. Weathered but still good for my dog!!
A lone Sea Gull spreads its wings as it flies toward a rising sun. This was taken near Catalina Island, California.
Sunrise in Mexico
Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia is the largest fringing reef in the world and the only reef system on the western side of a continent. The coral emerges from the deep blue up to the oceans surface forming canyons and channels to withstand heavy surf and swell. This photo was taken on an exceptionally calm day out of a microlight aircraft. Equipment: CANON 5D, CANON 24-105 f4 L IS, 1/640s@f5.6 Framing suggestion: / Image was featured in YOUR MAGIC PLACE © aabz-imaging / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia is the largest fringing reef in the world and the only reef system on the western side of a continent. The coral emerges from the deep blue up to the oceans surface. Inside the reef are pristine lagoons with coral and abundant marine life, easily accessible of the beach with a few metres swimming. For those familiar with Ningaloo Reef – you can see turquoise bay at the far left of the image. This photo was taken on an exceptionally calm day out of a microlight aircraft. I’ve done aerial photography here before out of a ‘normal’ plane but this experience left me speechless. Equipment: CANON 5D, CANON 24-105 f4 L IS, 1/1000s@f5.6 Framing suggestion: / Image was featured in SEA – Western Australia © aabz-imaging / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Flying Fish Point near Innisfail, a bit early for pic’s but running between kidz sports….... / Sony A200 f/22, ISO 100, f.l 15mm, ND 8 filter, exp 2 sec’s
A panoramic view of the seaside resort of Apollo Bay, on the Great Ocean Road, as seen from Marriner’s Lookout. This lookout is also a favourite take off point for paragliders and hang gliders. Pentax K20D Camera – 1/15 Sec @ f13. ISO100. / Panorama created in Arcosoft Panorama Maker 4 Pro, using four images. / Edited in ACDSee Pro3. / Sigma 18 – 125mm Lens – 21mm. My Bubblesite showcases images in their categories. Great Ocean Road Calendar
3d background created in Vue 8 / Laura’s Website
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