Challenge: "Earth Week" 4/22-27/2024
Apr 25, 2024 10:27:09 #
PAToGraphy wrote:
Storms have ravaged our coast. Yesterday, the Coast Guard returned a HUGE buoy to its place in the ocean - it had been uprooted from it's mooring and washed ashore during in one of the recent storms. Earth Day/week brought out many groups to clean up miles of shore line.
Familiar areas, Pat. It's sad to see so much damage from those storms.
Tony
Apr 25, 2024 10:30:52 #
joecichjr wrote:
If we take care of the Earth, it enables us to fill our lives with beauty 
These may have been posted somewhere before, but the lesson still stands ⭐⭐⭐
These may have been posted somewhere before, but the lesson still stands ⭐⭐⭐
The lesson is there, if we just look around at our surroundings. A gorgeous set, Joe; thanks for posting them for the rest of us to view.
Tony
Apr 25, 2024 10:48:19 #
Pat, thanks for giving us the impetus to think more about the beauty that is all around and our need to protect it. There are so many areas already being so protected. I have a few examples that may demonstrate.
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an estuary in The Villages, with pedestrian walkway
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Sabino Canyon, Tucson
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Two Lights State Park, ME
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Silver River, Florida
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Apr 25, 2024 16:14:09 #
judy juul
Loc: Cheshire, Ct.
afsalvo wrote:
Pat, thanks for giving us the impetus to think more about the beauty that is all around and our need to protect it. There are so many areas already being so protected. I have a few examples that may demonstrate.
Nice collection,af!
Apr 25, 2024 17:03:01 #
afsalvo wrote:
The lesson is there, if we just look around at our surroundings. A gorgeous set, Joe; thanks for posting them for the rest of us to view.
Tony
Tony
Too bad you live so far away. I think we would get along admirably
Thanks so much for your always kind comments, Tony 🤓⭐⭐🤓
Apr 25, 2024 17:04:22 #
afsalvo wrote:
Pat, thanks for giving us the impetus to think more about the beauty that is all around and our need to protect it. There are so many areas already being so protected. I have a few examples that may demonstrate.
Superb shots, and that GC shot blew me away - something we see so beautifully in color shots also looks exceptional without any color at all 🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤
Apr 25, 2024 17:05:09 #
JayRay wrote:
Beautiful captures Joe!
Thanks so much, Jay, The Master Photographer
Apr 25, 2024 17:08:21 #
lhammer43 wrote:
Thanks for the challenge, Pat. Good start as always. I've gotten something together for this one.
Awesome, and I even got the sniffles looking at that first shot of the combine race.
Was coming home one night in rural Indiana. Pitch black and not a light around. Saw two headlights coming at me, so I want going to pull to the right. Good thing I didn't. It was a combine coming right down the middle of the road. I would have gone into a drainage ditch!
Apr 25, 2024 17:10:07 #
sakitson wrote:
A few from a trip to Aransas NWR a few weeks ago.
My most faithful, exceptional subjects are turkey vultures around my place: photogenic, laid back, and very curious. I can stop and shoot to my heart's content, and they never get flighty 🖤💓🖤
Apr 25, 2024 17:11:35 #
PAToGraphy wrote:
What a story that says a lot about how humans change an environment and how it impacts the animals! Driving my usual routes this past week I saw 4 fields stripped, development lot signs posted and more solar installations that had been hidden behind trees. Fields were stripped of the rich top soil and carted away (same with trees). I'm betting trees will later be bought from a nursery and the area re-plamted and owners will pay for dumploads of loam for their lawns!
Thanks for the comment. And, yes, it does seem that they destroy the land more than necessary. What you mentioned certainly has happened each time there has been construction around our place.
Apr 25, 2024 17:14:34 #
PAToGraphy wrote:
They definitely tell lots about life and habits.
Everybody freaked about stuff like that in the 70s. Now that whole area is full of lush greenery that took over the whole landscape there in that exact spot 🌞💚🌞. Naturally. You'd never know there was a "landfill" there 🤗
Apr 25, 2024 17:17:27 #
PAToGraphy wrote:
p.5 Joe! These are absolutely stunning- such vivid color and crisp edges.
From back in 2010 with two 5Mp cameras. I have never been able to duplicate that clarity no matter the equipment or the price ($500 each back then; one with an attached Zeiss lens and one with a Leica {Sony and Panasonic})
Apr 25, 2024 17:19:13 #
PAToGraphy wrote:
Mud, dirt and sand have long been attractions for humans - especially little humans. It's fun to watch them enjoy the oozy mud, splash - and then hose them down! Adults have their own grown up mud fun. Up here they are called Mud Runs. (I don't have any pix of a mud run)
My favorite place to play as a child was any mound of dirt or the dirt that was under our back porch. Today you would look at me and think, "It figures" 🤓🤓🤓
Apr 25, 2024 17:20:03 #
judy juul wrote:
Ca. still chilly but sunny Skys and lots of beauty, Pat! Have a look!!
My favorite place on Urt - after Fish Lake, Indiana 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Apr 25, 2024 17:22:06 #
LeeK wrote:
Thanks for hosting, Pat. As usual, I've enjoyed ev... (show quote)
Deer are so beautiful and adaptable. I used to meet my buddy every day at the forest nearby. Whenever he used to drive up, all the deer used to go up to his car since he forever had food for them. Other cars? No way!
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