I have been constantly amazed at the quality of photographs of Mother Nature in all her glory on this site. It is a shame that many photographs get lost amongst all the post and threads, so I thought to start a thread for photographs that has not been altered or doctored in any way, and it will be easier to keep track of photographs if it is all in one place. Please add your photographs here.


Mother Nature in all her glory.











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I fell in love with this pic when Kira posted it a good while back, have used it as screen saver on occasion



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most of these i have posted before.









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Hey Batty, very good idea methinks. I have a few I'd like to share. This one here started as a nice bike ride on the old rail bed & such with my camera. I was about 2 kilometers outside town when I noticed the wind picking up so I headed home. The sky was blue when I first felt this. After a five minute ride the wind had increased & it had cooled off quite a bit so I took a detour to get a good look at the sea & sky. This was a huge storm. I took 5 pictures & got out of there as it is the head of a point, a nice target for lightening & that looked dangerous. Plus the temperature was dropping drastically & the wind was going to be in in my face coming from the northeast & I still had a 2 kilometer ride home. By the time I got back, I was soaking wet, cold & very tired. Totally opposite of what I started with a couple of hours earlier. I always wear a backpack on bike so nothing gets wet. Well, except me.








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This photo was taken by the photographer Hartjesfan, it is in Caniço, Madeira, Portugal.




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Hey there Batty, I don't know what's up with your images. I tried copying & pasting from the gallery with no success so I added the thumbnail to give everyone an idea of what you are referring to & so they can go directly to the image. The same thing happened with your initial post with photo number 3.

By the way, that is an amazing phenomenon. I've seen the rays of light through clouds before but that is dazzling in comparison. Very nice.



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Here are a few I've taken.








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Very nice, this thread strikes home with me so like to share a few I've taken.


Fall foliage

Medicine Bow

W. of Laramie







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Sunrise at Sandsend

Gotta get myself a better camera methinks... or more important..a better eye for the subject..Fantastic shots Silver and cruiser...



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Hi folks. Some very beautiful images there. Momma, even with your substandard camera, that sunset is quite pleasing. I placed the images in your posts but left the links for their respective pages to get a better look. Very nice.



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Wonderful Idea, Batty! I had a photo that I so much wanted to submit, but apparently it was yet another thing lost to my (better half)
It was a photo of a "sun dog"-an odd phenom where the sun mirrors itself, & appeared as two, with moving rainbow-like rays connecting them- the most awesome natural occurence that I have personally witnessed, over the Atlantic, just after sunrise...Oh well. Greta idea you have here! Blessings, NL


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This is one I stumbled across while looking for other things. Great view of how nature can exceed our little expectations. Superb timing on the camera






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theres always a ton of pics here
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I'm so glad that this is not a competition for the best photo as each and everyone of them are truly beautiful. keep them coming, Momma, that picture is fantastic, nowt wrong with your camera.

I have never seen a sunset so high up in the sky like this photo, taken when we returned home from a trip.



My eldest insisted I should put this photo down of Chip and Dale after all they are a part of nature hee hee!!




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A lovely thread to be sure... ..and great that Tobias ? wants to be involved in it Batty.. ..His choice was so cute..

Thanks for your kind words re my camera btw..I was definately going into 'inferiority complex' mode...


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Sure am enjoying everyone's pic's. And Momma, that's a gorgeous sunset... always did love it when the seas quieted down at the shoreline by days end. Beautiful! I come from a town that celebrates the sun set each night (as if into the sea) and yours would stack right up there w/the best! Can't wait to see more.

cruiser

Many thanks cruiser..

I'll see what I can do when I visit there next week...


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and great that Tobias ? wants to be involved in it

yes it is great, he will be a future member of BoT, he certainly has a lot of questions and theories. Bless his little head! I have had to tell him to rein in the amount of photos he wanted to post, believe you me, there were loads!

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Thanks for all the beautiful pics! Great thread Batty

I'd post one but seems I have a problem, so until I figure out what's wrong I don't have any good nature photos in my docs anymore. Tried to save one and it didn't go where it was supposed to. and I don't know where it went!

Great link too minifang.


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Hot water toss hehe



Here's some videos to go along with the pic. This looks like loads of fun.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1702778117174382550


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Scenic state of Utah.

Gosh that is sheer beautiful, I want to move there! I can just imagine the changes as we go through the seasons, just sheer beautiful. Thanks for sharing that.


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I agree Batty. It was actually Spring in the Wasatch Mountains as we headed over to Ogden, Utah. I see why they held the Olympics there.





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i used to live in utah. extremely scenic state.I have tons of pics. to many to post. i will upload to my photobucket at some point and post a link. in the meantime here are a few:

how can you resist a kitten?


cedar breaks nat'l monument


whitmore point, grand canyon nat'l park


virgin river ,zion nat'l park


dinosaur tracks, washington utah



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statistics can be used to prove anything
14% of people know that.

never attribute to conspiracy that which can amply be attributed to the actions of a bunch of greedy stupid self serving men in power

yes i can read minds. yours is blank most days..

Baby doves, in their nest in a cedar tree...look for 'em, they're in there!



This was taken by my mom GnosticLady, and I'm posting it for her because she's not sure how to post images. (I'm getting around to teaching her.) All comments directed at her, please!

She has more pics at her website: http://gnosticlady.webs.com

mini! I've been to Bryce and Zion Canyons... fell in love w/the state right then and there. I should look into the photobucket before I go hogwild w/the photos.

Hi LadyO!

Love those baby doves! Enjoyed peaking at your mom's pics on her webpage. Her garden is bigger than mine, I'm jealous.
If I come across the dove picture I made a while back, will post.

Enjoying the pics!

cruiser

Very amazing photos folks. I'd love to make an excursion into the mountains. We have the Long Range Mountains here on the island but I've only visited once when I was very young & en route to the ferry terminal on a couple of occasions.

Cruiser, I recommend checking out Photobucket. It is a much improved site since I first started using it & the editing options are excellent for a free service. IMO anyway. Plus, I find it's not complicated. It is also pretty fast in uploading images. Right on.



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Thanks Trent. I use a program that came w/my camera for uploading/downloading from the camera...... then same for resizing. It's a Rebel.... usually ask hubby what I need to do w/it. Does take time to move pics around. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll take a look at it.

Sailor is letting me know it's past his bedtime........ he won't go up w/out me.