Weekly Photo Challenge No. 477 - Nature

[Sepiana]

Hi everyone,

Would you like to participate in the Weekly Photo Challenge? Just take a photo that is your interpretation of the theme and post it in this thread.

The rules are rather simple.

- Your photo(s) should be your own, i.e., they should not have been taken by someone else.
- Photoshopping is allowed but should be kept to the basics only rather than a total transformation.
- Grab your camera, experiment, and, most of all, have fun.

[hmca]

Before I knew what this week's theme was, I happened to take this picture this morning. I was up earlier than usual and liked seeing the moon in the morning sky.  So I have the moon, clouds and trees.


And then the sun in the evening sky.

[billz]

Beautiful evening Helen!

Here's a bit of nature from my morning walk.




Thanks for the theme Sepiana.

[dennis9]

Nature, in the form of the much despised common nettle, has defiantly established itself on the vertical wall of a man made water course.  You have to admire it.

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Brenda

[dennis9]

Mother Nature prepares her Autumn offerings.  Anyone for apple and blackberry pie in September?

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Dennis

[billz]

Nature's call, in nature.

[pontiac1940]

hmca poked me.  She might regret it. I am posting a LOT of photos from the past two days.

June 24 in SW Alberta. (Today's will be in a second post. )  

Native brome grass blowin' in the wind



Native brome grass and a bug 


Male mountain bluebird with dinner for the kids. 


Plains cottonwoods in a river valley 


A member of the daisy family  ... species unknown 


Native gaillardia 


Native gaillardia


Sunset over the Livingstone Range 


Male mountain bluebird


Female mountain bluebird...bugs for the kids 


Sharptail grouse 


I sat in a camp chair for one hour watching the parents bring food to he kids in the nest box. This is super special. This is a fledgling as it came out of the nest box for the very first time


Herringbone cloud

[pontiac1940]

This evening (June 25) across the road from our house at "my" ponds. 

Coot


A family fo Canada geese...they ain't goslings anymore 


A male mallard showing off 


Mom mallard and kids 


Mom mallard 


White pelican 


White pelican


Willow reflections 


Willow reflections


Female ruddy duck 


Native scarlet mallow 


Yellow-headed blackbird 

[hmca]

You certainly had beautiful light for your pictures, Clive.

[Peterj]

From my front yard!

[tonyw]

From a walk round the lake this morning:



Tony

[pontiac1940]

At the risk of being excommunicated, herewith are a few of today's nature photos. Most taken in the park where we own a lot. 

Killdeer eggs


Wild lupine


Young magpie 


Mule deer bucks 


Osprey 


Wild rose...Alberta's floral emblem 


Raven 


Red-wing blackbird 


Sticky geranium 


Three-flowered avens


Young magpie


Cinquefoil


Jackrabbit


Killdeer

[Jim]

Fantastic assortment of nature images!

Jun 28, 2024 4:03:23 GMT pontiac1940 said:

Three-flowered avens

Those are very unusual flowers, Clive.
I especially like those and also your Raven in flight. Are its wings that silver in person or caused by the light reflection, etc. I always thought ravens and crows were totally black colored?

[pontiac1940]

Jun 28, 2024 6:38:50 GMT Jim said:

Are its wings that silver in person or caused by the light reflection

Thanks for your kind words, Jim. Three-flowered avens has a nondescript flower but cool fluffy seed heads. 
You are correct ravens are jet black. However, the feathers will reflect iridescent colors if the sun angle is "right." In this case, it was (say) like a smooth ebony mirror surface tilted the right way. I was shooting toward the sun and in this shot it was tipped toward me. Sure, I did some work on Photoshop. 

Same bird and flight sequence. Here is was quartering away vs being directly in line with the sun.

[pontiac1940]

Jim
This is the raven photo out of the camera with no adjustments. It is a screenshot of the raw file.