My wife and I just returned from a 21 day, 4852 mile road trip. We started by spending 4 days crewing for the POW-MIA hot air balloon at the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta (There were over 500 balloons there, I took hundreds of pictures ... this is just a sampling).
I know this isn't exactly "animals or nature", but I hope you find them interesting.
Dave B

Tallest lighthouse in Canada located at Cap-des-Rosiers on the Gaspe peninsula, Quebec

Other lighthouse can be seen along the north and south shores of the Saint Lawrence River plus on some islands in the river. The mouth of the river is 62 km/100miles wide. Red lighthouse is located in La Matre, Quebec.

Sunset photos from the Auberge Chateau Lamontage, Sainte Anne des Mont, Quebec

A few local pics, - recent sea fog coming in around mid day, zombies in the fog, young guys fog boating, view from my verandah, busy day at my local beach, our tricky boat channel at low tide.

JB

Our "low light " Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset

Lighthouse at dusk, Santa Cruz, California

I caddied for 11 years and was golf obsessed for many many many years and does my heart good to see people on the course ! I love it!

Beautiful place!

Golfing yesterday with my wife at Stonehenge, near Orono, Ontario 🇨🇦.

Also in a drive two weeks ago to see colours!

What fantastic colors Rod!

Its autumn in Toronto, Canada. (there are 4 "Toronto"s in the USA)

It's fall in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. trees haven't hit the color height yet.
Scenery in my backyard

Very nice Jumpugly and Wolle.

Thank you Boatshed! Happily the Bison are making a slow comeback. They are all over Yellowstone now a days, but prefer to be left alone. A small herd has gotten into the habit of crowding near the main entrance of the Yellowstone Hotel near the east entrance near the lake. Hence some of the unfortunate encounters between "selfie" seekers and some of the bulls. I must admit that Mary and I loved Yellowstone this go-around. You drive into the park and you can get lost in it for days. 142 miles around the place, 275 miles if you took every road. And "Old Faithful" geyser was in fine form! Wonderful!

And Yes...I took more figurehead pix; big eye rolls from Mary as I went for the 360 degree views!
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jumpugly,
love the figure head would have loved her on my small 21 footer cabin cruiser when I had her on the Norfolk Broads😂not sure the wife would have approved though. But the Bison, that is my favorite wild animal. Beautiful animals far too few left in the world these days.

Sunset over Stockholm, taken yesterday.

Had a few days away recently and was pleased to get a nice shot of a hare.

Chris

Greetings Friends! On my cross country sojourn I found particularly nice figurehead at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman Montana. Certainly a modern interpretation!

The old bastard is me channeling an old biker! lol!
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Bravo Wolle, great photos.

Que bellooooooo👍👍👍👍

Hello

This morning in Stade.

What a beautiful place Alessandro,

Thanks so much Jumpugly, unfortunately I wasn't able to take many photos because I almost never take my cell phone with me to the beach.
Yes, in Sardinia there are among the most beautiful places in the Mediterranean.
My son and I go for hours-long swims (up to three in a row) but always close to the coast.
The sea is calm, the marine fauna is not dangerous, the water temperature is very warm, the visibility is perfect.
We also go canoeing (I was able to take some photos there).

Gorgeous beyond words Alessandro!!!!!!!

Greetings to all naval modelers and sea lovers.
Cala Fuili and Bue Marino.
Gulf of Orosei, Sardinia.

Beautiful
Thanks for the rainbow

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I recorded it this evening.

Thanks Doogle. I've seen many pheasants on country walks but never been able to get a decent photo of one. But on this occasion, during a walk around a lake, we were sitting down eating our sandwiches when this fella came wandering past only a few yards away!

Chris

Lovely photo

Just enjoying a stroll.

Comm0dore-H,,
That's some name, I used to keep Tropical marine Fish. Mainly Lion Fish. But I knew that one as the Trigger Fish which is it normal name in English.
So the Hawai'ian's.
This name was too simple and boring for the imaginative Hawaiian people who love stories, legends, and myths. They decided to name it Humuhumunukunukuapua`a.

Don't you just love people with great imaginative brains.
Not an easy word to remember or even say.
When I saw the picture I thought that cannot be right that's a Trigger Fish. I never actually kept one of those I did keep Powder Blue's, Clown fish. Lion Fish and Banded Cat Shark's, Copper Banded Butterfly Fish and a Regal Tang. Used to have two tanks. That was when I was working and was able to afford to keep them. It becomes an expensive hobby. Even keeping the water to a specific Ph and running a Reverse Osmosis Unit. I used to sell the water to other people that had marine tanks at the time as well.
We also kept and showed Afghan Hounds we also breed them some years back, But have been completely pet free now for over 14 years. After loosing the last 2 Afghans it comes too hard on the emotions and we decided enough was enough.
No more. Plus we are now too if we took ion another dog they would out live us and that would not be fair on them.

Alessandro - Yes, fallow deer. Another here from my archives.

Chris

Beautiful photo CommodoreH, great Jumpugly.

Thanks for your kind words gentlemen. Believe it or not it's mostly a rattle can base, supplemented with lightly brushed facial features, and air-brushed highlights. The old less is more approach.
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Nice job on the cat, looks very natural
I didn’t paint that bird, she came like that.

This is the state fish of Hawaii, the name is much bigger than the fish it’s a
humuhumunukunukuapuaa

Jumpugly, very nice painting. Len

Jumpugly
Impressive picture!!!
Whaw

Amen Commodore! I usually get a bit more concerned with the young ones once mom has thrown them out. They get a bit desperate for food and sometimes get interested in the grills and especially garbage left unattended or not disposed of properly. Not long ago a 2 year old walked up on my neighbor's grandkids next door. He's a big tough old dude and the bear hightailed it out of there after some hollering. My wife will not walk the lake without me or friends.

Last year we hiked Lassen Volcanic National Park in northern California. We were ordered to have bear spray. But, that was for Mountain Lions as much as black bear.

BTW: Mountain Lion that I just painted and added to friend's diorama.
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We have the same problem around my house Jumpugly. OOh, I see a a big dog in the woods, oops, it's a bear.

These nice birds show up often at my bird feeder, it's a flicker. This one is the female, the male (of course) is much better looking.

Fortunately, this particular photo was caught on my neighbors trail camera! 😁

Hey Jumpugly, of course this is a big boy!
It's not a very clear photo, but I understand if you used the zoom and didn't get closer, ahahahah.
However, the place where you are staying is fantastic.

This big boy (300 lbs +) was about 75 yards behind our lake cabin. As long as he stays away from my Caltex Lumba-Lumba I won’t get too bothered. 😉

Hi Chris, they are fallow deer (Dama Dama) right?
Do you know that I saw them very close to my city a few years ago?

Thanks, they are cute aren't they. Got to keep the photos coming!

Chris

Beautiful Chris.

Goslings.

Hi Wolle, yes I still dive from time to time.
The video shots are taken by me with a GoPro type video camera (in reality the Nilox costs much less, around 50 or 70 euros).
I had some more beautiful ones, of: octopus, moray eels, congers and other fish but I can't find them.
There is no age limit for diving.
There are many interesting places for diving but to return during the day I go to the Roman coast.

Hello
Alessandro, are you going diving yourself? Great, I've only been snorkeling so far. But I'd like to try diving again.

Some nature images.

P.S. Sorry there is an error in the last video. When we caught the snake and then released it it was still classified as Coluber Viridiflavus, today it is classified as Hierophis Viridiflavus.












P.S. Sorry there is an error in the last video. When we caught the snake and then released it it was still classified as Coluber Viridiflavus, today it is classified as Hierophis viridiflavus.

Beautiful.

Hello
Our "Common Dragonwort" is blooming for the first time in 2 years. It smells really disgusting.