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.

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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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