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Ruckel Creek Waterfall, Oregon
Lower Ruckel Falls
by Bonnie Moreland

along the Columbia River Gorge

Lake Pukaki
Lake Pukaki
by Kamil Ghais

Unofficially the biggest penis in the southern hemisphere.

Dreaming in Green
Lower Ruckel Falls

This is another shot of the "Flickrnomenon" (my new term for places/things made popular by and to Flickrites), Lower Ruckel Creek Falls. The first...

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Ruckel Creek
Lower Ruckel Falls

After shooting the Fern Gully, Jeff, Alan and I checked out the rest of Ruckel Creek downtsream. It was so refreshing to see so much moss on these...

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NanFang-Ao Fishing Harbor at Dawn │ July 31, 2011
NanFang-Ao Fishing Harbor at Dawn │ July 31, 2011

南方澳‧晨曦 [ 宜蘭縣蘇澳鎮昭安觀景台 Zhaoan Observation Deck, Yilan County, Taiwan ] Canon EOS 5D + Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 APO DG MACRO │ View On Black...

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Green Velvet
Green Velvet

Lush volcanic landscape under winter morning light, near the beginning of a long windy and partly unpaved road between the Taranaki region and the...

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NanFang-Ao Fishing Harbor at Dawn │ July 31, 2011
NanFang-Ao Fishing Harbor at Dawn │ July 31, 2011

南方澳‧晨曦 [ 宜蘭縣蘇澳鎮昭安觀景台 Zhaoan Observation Deck, Yilan County, Taiwan ] Canon EOS 5D + Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 APO DG MACRO │ View On Black...

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Alice Springs Drive-In
Alice Springs Drive-In

Sadly now demolished.

This shot was used in the recent ABC series Art + soul, in the episode about Warwick Thornton, the award winning film...

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Summer days at Mara Lake, BC, Canada
Summer days at Mara Lake, BC, Canada

My apologies again for being absent for so long again...we've had a busy (but pretty good) summer. A view at Mara Lake located in the North Shuswap...

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Bahrain - Old & New - Traditional Dhow at Bahrain Financial Harbour
Bahrain - Old & New - Traditional Dhow at Bahrain Financial Harbour

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Located in the Persian Gulf, The Kingdom of Bahrain is...

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Shuswap Sunset
Shuswap Sunset

A storm approaching at Mara Lake, BC, Canada taken on one of the evenings during our stay there.

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Garden of Eden - Maui - Hawaii
Garden of Eden - Maui - Hawaii

Driving the road to Hana on Maui's east coast. A long lingering road with curves, bridges and every now and then stunning views over the Pacific...

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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are…
Zion
by Sandeep Thomas

John Dryden.

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I took the above shot while I was returning from the Canyon Overlook hike. While the Canyon overlooks provides a bird’s eye view of the canyon, this shot was taken right inside it with the massive sandstone towers standing guard on each side. As we were going back to the Canyon junction to Park our car we came upon this view on one of the hairpin bends of the Canyon.

The clouds which formed a thick layer were being cleared by some intense winds which were smashing clouds against the huge sandstone peaks and breaking the clouds apart. I created this shot using the 35 mm focal length and stitching 8 shots together as the ultra wide angle was distorting the perspective a little too much and diminishing the grandeur of the majestic cliffs.. I love the intense blue of the sky and the contrast they provide against the red rocks.

Hope you all enjoyed the shot, more to follow soon…

Pigeon Point after sunrise II
Pigeon Point Lighthouse

From Wikipedia:

Pigeon Point Light Station or Pigeon Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse built in 1871 to guide ships on the Pacific coast of...

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NanFang-Ao Fishing Harbor at Dawn │ July 31, 2011
NanFang-Ao Fishing Harbor at Dawn │ July 31, 2011

昭安觀景台 [ 宜蘭縣蘇澳鎮昭安觀景台 Zhaoan Observation Deck, Yilan County, Taiwan ] Canon EOS 5D + Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L II USM │ View On Black No.6009123530 ...

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Light House
Pigeon Point Lighthouse

Thursday afternoon I set out to catch the sunset. The clouds were clearing but it looked like some would hang around to make it interesting. After...

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Sunset @ Lake Macquarie
Sunset @ Lake Macquarie

Sunset in Belmont, Lake Macquarie, Central Coast, NSW, Australia

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Golden Hour - Pigeon Point Lighthouse
Pigeon Point Lighthouse

Taken from across the water. I like how things mostly lined up.

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Sunset @ Lake Macquarie
Sunset @ Lake Macquarie

Sunset in Belmont, Lake Macquarie, Central Coast, NSW, Australia

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Garwin Falls
Garwin Falls

Along with Lower Purgatory, one of the better waterfalls within an hour+ of Boston. Stopped by here Saturday after my afternoon suddenly freed up. My...

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Big Sur
Big Sur

Big Sur, California, USA.

Big Sur is a sparsely populated region of the Central Coast of California where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise...

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The Fog
The Fog

Pacific ocean coast at Port Orford, Oregon, USA, on a foggy morning. Fog is a very, VERY common occurence along the coast, but in Port Orford, the...

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Rain storm at Mara Lake, BC, Canada
Rain storm at Mara Lake, BC, Canada

Rain storm moving in at Mara Lake located in the North Shuswap area of British Columbia, Canada.

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Failure is success if we learn from it…
Zion
by Sandeep Thomas
  • Malcolm Forbes.

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My first trip to Zion National park was the first time I genuinely spend time planning for a road trip. I painstakingly created an excel page with locations that I wanted to visit with GPS coordinates, notes, and sample images taken at the site. I was proud of the planning and was confident that this new planning method would help me with my pictures. It did not quite work out as I intended. The trouble was light. I underestimated how much of a role light plays in the success of the photography in a canyon.

At most locations, early morning and evening lights are perfect for making images but not when you are inside a canyon. The area depicted in this image is a rather popular pullout on the Zion-Carmel highway that provides a nice view of the Zion canyon, the switchbacks, and the canyon junction. The photo was taken at 7:45 am, and you can already see the massive shadow in the composition. I initially did not want to process the image because when I cropped the shadowy bit out, the picture did not look well balanced. I learned the valuable lesson of minding the direction of light after this trip. If you plan a trip for landscape photography, I think it is imperative to consider planning your photo locations based on light quality and direction.

To Hug A Waterfall
Lower Ruckel Falls

*This image is copyright, all rights reserved, and not part of the public domain. Any use, linking to, or posting of this image is prohibited without...

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Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque @ Muscat, Oman
Grand Mosque, Muscat

Nikon D850 Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G

Muscat is a fascinating city. It has an amazing mix of Western and Arabic architecture making it very...

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Squids Ink Jetty
Sunset @ Lake Macquarie

Squids Ink Jetty

Sunset in Belmont, Lake Macquarie, Central Coast, NSW, Australia

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Kapa'a Sunrise
Kapa'a Sunrise

Hawaiian sunrise over a bunch of nothing rocks, uploading because of the nice tropical skies and the fact that I had to drag my ass out of bed in a...

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Kapa'a Sunrise
Kapa'a Sunrise

Hawaiian sunrise over a bunch of nothing rocks, uploading because of the nice tropical skies and the fact that I had to drag my ass out of bed in a...

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Road to Nowhere - USA
Road to Nowhere

Well, actually i was heading for Spokane when this landscape came in front of me after passing a hilltop. It's taken on road 2 between Wilbur and...

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Kalaupapa from Above
Kalaupapa from Above

Kalaupapa peninsula, Molokai island, Hawaii, USA, taken mid day from the state park viewpoint. The peninsula used to be a leper colony, there is no...

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NanFang-Ao Fishing Harbor at Dawn │ July 31, 2011
NanFang-Ao Fishing Harbor at Dawn │ July 31, 2011

南方澳‧晨曦 [ 宜蘭縣蘇澳鎮昭安觀景台 Zhaoan Observation Deck, Yilan County, Taiwan ] Canon EOS 5D + Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L II USM │ View On Black No.6009840145...

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Thanks to all Phoide contributors to Highway!
Most notably Sandeep Thomas, Bonnie Moreland and Kamil Ghais.