Niamh--Love the Australian shots! It looks like such a great trip. Now I want to go there even more! By the way, the birds in your shots are definitely pelicans. You can tell because they have a very distinctive shape, especially in the beak. It doesn't show in your pics, but in person you may have seen some of them expanding the pouches attached to their beaks? Herons are tall wading birds with long legs and sharp pointy beaks.
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Thanks Petra!
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I have just gotten the best laugh of the day, thanks to you, my friend!Originally Posted by Niamh
I vaguely remember the two of us having a conversation, could have been well over a year ago, maybe longer than that, about phone cameras. I was snapping away with my phone and you were snapping with your camera, and you decided that you then wanted a good camera phone. now look at the two of us! you are snapping away with your phone and i'm snapping away with a camera!
Yes, we did have that conversation ... funny how things go though, eh?
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
~Albert Einstein
I have just gotten the best laugh of the day, thanks to you, my friend!
Yes, we did have that conversation ... funny how things go though, eh?yes it is!
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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Niamh, bouquin, Claes, Kafka, your pictures are awesome!!! Makes me want to travel so badly! In lieu of that, I have your marvelous photographs. You guys are great photographers. I love the Koalas, Miamh. And bouquin, once, long ago, I, too, visited Le Mont Saint Michel...a strikingly beautiful city.
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
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And now some Fall Photos of the Canadian Prairies:
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Ummm, that's enough for now, methinks!
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
~Albert Einstein
Lovely Kizzo. Thank you. Fall is the most colorful of seasons around here too.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
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Kiz, those are beautiful! They really get me in the mood for autumn. You must be ahead of us on fall folliage. Ours is just beginning to turn now. Those trees in your photos are so vivid. I love these.
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I love the warmth to those pics Kiz! I' seriously going to have to see canada in the fall.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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Lovely colours, Kiz. Do you have more?
/Claes
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Thank you.If you take this link Pawsitively Moi - it should take you to my album of nature shots, etc., where there are a few assorted Fall photos.
If you cannot access this album, I apologize -- I only made it viewable by friend/contact/moderator, and not for the general public. So if you wish to see it, and are having troubles, please drop me a line and I'll fix it up.Thank you, everyone, for your kind comments. It really is irresistable to NOT take photos of all the nice surrounding. I have to remember that it is time-limited; once those leaves turn colour, they fall off the trees and we are left with the barren trees that adorn the glistening snow fields and such.
Keeping in the Thanksgiving spirit (yes, it is the Canadian Thanksgiving Day today), I am thankful that the cellphone that I tote everywhere has such a neat little camera feature -- I am having so much fun with it, tee hee!
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
~Albert Einstein
kiz_paws, those photos of fall colors are great!
Optima dies ... prima fugit
Some more pics from Cairns! These are some of my pics from Daintree World heritage site!
First stop wsa at a zoo type place in Port Douglas. More animals and Kangaroos!
(tree kangaroo! looks nothing like a roo!)
(Flying foxes)
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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Really cool pictures Niamh. For some reason I love kangroos. I know this is silly but they remind me of dogs.
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