LANDSCAPES/ANIMALS page 1

LANDSCAPES/ANIMALS page 1
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Every second, the Sun converts 657 million tons of hydrogen into helium.
That powerhouse makes wind and weather on Earth, shapes our landscapes and lets life live on it.
It took the light 8 minutes to travel the 150 million kilometres (93 206 000 miles) to our 1000mm lens.

Giant red sun rises behind silhouette of gum tree.

Among our landscapes and photos of nature you will find some animal photography.
We hope, over time, to cover much more.
A destination for superb nature photography is, of course: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

on this page:
GIANT SUN //GOING BUSH // OUTBACK STATION // THE ALMOST SUN // MESA COUNTRY // MOON POSSUM // EXIT SUN // WATERBIRDS feeding at dawn // CRADLE MOUNTAIN // COLD MORNING ON LAKE // SERENITY // PEACE & PASSION // ANTECHINUS // AFTER THE RAINS // STORMCLOUDS BARKLY TABLELAND // OUTBACK 2 // FRIENDS // THE PLAINS // OUTBACK DAWN // OPAL MINING - (Coober Pedy) // OUTBACK EVENING // KATA TJUTA (The Olgas) // ULURU - (Ayers Rock) //

Huge red globe of a setting sun standing out dramatically from dark background. Gumtree silhouettes in front of sun. Very eyecatching.

GOING BUSH - red sun setting behind gum tree

Reddish stony desert. Silhouette of dead tree skeleton. Windmill in background behind dam walls of waterhole. Lonely atmosphere.

OUTBACK STATION - western Queensland

Australia’s Barkly Tableland at a misty morning. Straggly trees silhouetted against a veiled sun.

THE ALMOST SUN - hazy morning Barkly Tableland

Typical Australian scattered bush and low scrub setting with red soil leading to prominent flat topped hill, the mesa.

MESA COUNTRY - outback Queensland

Possum on branch nibbling food. Black night and full moon background. Photoshop montage. Very cute.

MOON POSSUM - nocturnal marsupial

Sunset Australian outback. Silhouette of spindly group of trees against fiery sky. Big glary sun half way beneath horizon

EXIT SUN

WATERBIRDS at sunrise

Moody serene sunset atmosphere. The last patch of sunlight on the horizon. Pale sichel of moon above red cloud. Stark silhhouette of two trees. Romantic.

SERENITY - sunset, moonrise in Australian outback

Waterhole in endles barren plain in the Australian outback.

AFTER THE RAINS

Red soil plain, low saltbush scrub, two trees.

AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK 2

Looking over Lake Saint Clair to Cradle Mounntain. Prominent in foreground picturesque driftwood rearing through frame.

CRADLE MOUNTAIN - Tasmania

Dawn or dusk sky covered with red rippled bands of stratocumulus clouds. In front of this fiery restless background are the stark silhouettes of plants.

PEACE & PASSION - altocumulus sky at sunrise/sunset

FRIENDS

Mist rising from water. Silhouettes of dead trees against low sun. Early morning atmosphere.

COLD MORNING ON LAKE - Mist rising

ANTECHINUS

Heavy storm clouds over Barkly Tableland, Northern Territor, Australia. Typical bush setting of low scrub, saltbush and bluebush. Wind-torn tree silhouettes. Wild. Desolate. Loneliness.

STORMCLOUDS BARKLY TABLELAND

Scraggly tree in endless emptyness of desert plain.

THE PLAINS

Red stripes of early morning clouds. Scraggly bush silhouette in Australian outback setting. Romantic atmosphere.

OUTBACK DAWN (or dusk) - red stripes of cirrus

Exotic moonlike landscape covered by the mounds of tailings. This is the worked earth and end result of digging for opals.

OPAL MINING Coober Pedy

Desert Oak against flaming dawn or dusk sky. Central Australia Outback setting

OUTBACK EVENING (or morning) - red stratocumulus under strips of cirrus

ULURU (Ayers Rock)

Uluru – Kata Tjuta National Park.
Inscribed on the World Heritage List since 1987 for its unique natural and cultural values.
The park represents a cross section of central Australia’s arid ecosystem. It is inhabited by one of the few hunting and gathering cultures remaining in the world.
For details see: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/447

Typical Australian outback setting of low scrub. Looking at Kata Tjuta's sculpted rock formations glowing in red hues of sunrise. Unusual eyecatching angle.

KATA TJUTA (the Olgas)

Sunrise - Sunset; one day in the life of ULURU (Ayers Rock)
Uluru’s famous red glo is helped by the countless tiny quartz particles in the rock. They hold a mirror to the sun.
A little haze helps. It filters out the short wave of the spectrum, the blues, so the rock can bathe in, and reflect, mainly red.

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