Rina

A minimalist photograph. A cormorant sits on a branch that runs diagonally across the image. The bird is looking to the left. The background is blue sky.

"Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FavouriteOfTheMonth, the Alt theme is #Blue"

To feel freedom, you have to trust your wings 🪶

#birds #birding #wildlife #FlyDay #minimalism #MinimalMonday #thoughts #writing #photography #scape #nature #outdoors #thelittlethings #photohour #EastCoastKin

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #FavouriteOfTheMonth, your favourite/s bird capture/s from January, the Alt theme is #Blue, any bird with Blue on it's plumage.
I've gone with a Eastern White Pelican, Cetti's Warbler, Ring-necked Duck & Kingfisher.

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #ukbirding #Wildlife

Galanthus nivalis

Oh how I long for the first flowers to appear. This time last year both Galanthus and Eranthis started to emerge, but this winter they seem to be awfully delayed..

Meanwhile I'm posting art and here's a pic from last year. 🌱 #flowersonfriday

Fishing on the lagoon #Sedgefield #SouthAfrica #scape

Take it easy...I'll get you a mealworm! Is what you think when a Curve-billed Thrasher glares right at you.

TFW... the #BirdOfTheDay theme for #eyecontact...

...falls on #ThrasherThursday! 🫠

📸 Curve-billed Thrasher 🪶🌿

#Mimidae
#LookingAtYou
#BirdLovers
#Photography

Clouds in sunlight with blue sky above them, a mountain ridge and some trees in silhouette below at the bottom ☮️

blue sky in the clouds

A Milton bound GO train slips through a sliver of sunlight on approach to Kipling Station in Toronto.

Sliver Streak.

#Toronto #GOtrain #Photography

Letting go is sometimes difficult and painful. But you're right, it's worth it 🕊✨️
Happy Friday, dear Audrey 🫶🤗

A cluster of small pink tipped petals, surrounding a pale centre, form the flower head of a Hydrangea.

There is a world, yet unexplored,
untamed, unknown, you can
only enter when you stop, gaze
into the heart of a flower, let go
of all that is not true to self,
where the wisdom of ages whispers
secrets unfathomable,
there within will you find a peace
mysterious to humans

#Poem #Peace #EastCoastKin

​A medium-sized mixed-breed dog named Hanni with brown and black fur. She is sniffing intently at some dry grass poking through a deep, white layer of snow. The focus is on her head and snout, captured in a calm, wintry outdoor setting.

​At least Hanni loves the snow! ❄️🐕

#nature #dog #winter #photography #snow

​A black-and-white photograph of a snow-covered railway yard. In the foreground, several tracks covered in deep snow converge and lead into the frame. On the left side, there is a dark wooden shed with a visible star decoration on its wall. To the right and in the background, vintage train wagons are parked on the tracks. The sky is a uniform pale grey with several small birds in flight, and the ground is completely white with snow.

#winter #snow #urban #train #photography

A bicycle covered in fresh snow is locked to a metal post in a quiet winter setting. Snow clings to the frame, wheels, saddle, and handlebars, softening the bike’s shape against the white ground. In the background, old stone masonry and a few leafless trees appear softly out of focus, reinforcing the sense of cold, stillness, and a paused moment.

❄️❄️❄️❄️
Too cold!
#Amberg #EastCoastKin
#urbanphotography 📷
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#BlueSkyArtShow #Cold

A wide, detailed view of Jökulsárlón, showing layered icebergs in pale blue, white, and translucent turquoise floating low in dark, steel-grey water. The ice is sculpted into smooth curves and sharp edges, with streaks of dark volcanic sediment embedded in some surfaces, revealing its glacial origin. Gentle ripples surround the ice, creating soft reflections on the calm lagoon. In the upper left of the scene, two tiny kayakers paddle quietly between the icebergs, their small scale emphasizing the vastness of the lagoon and the immense size and age of the drifting ice. In the distance, more icebergs scatter toward a low, rocky shoreline beneath an overcast sky.

In places like this, nature reminds us how small we are — and how fortunate.

#Iceland 🇮🇸 #Jökulsárlón
#landscapephotography 📷
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#ThePhotoHour #EastCoastKin
#ImageAndVerse #Stunday

A dramatic black-and-white photograph of Dettifoss, Iceland’s most powerful waterfall, captured from an elevated viewpoint. A vast, roaring white curtain of water plunges over a dark basalt cliff, dominating the image with intense motion and spray. At a distance from the waterfall, small human figures stand on a viewing platform along the canyon rim, their scale emphasizing the immense width and power of the falls. The surrounding landscape appears harsh and barren, with rocky ground and sparse vegetation, reinforcing the raw, untamed character of the scene. The contrast between the overwhelming force of nature and the distant, almost insignificant observers creates a powerful and dramatic visual impression.

Nature can be vast — and overwhelming.

#Iceland 🇮🇸 #Dettifoss
#WaterfallWednesday
#landscapephotography 📷
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#ThePhotoHour #EastCoastKin
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDramatic

4 Passanten, die in einer Fußgängerzone vor einer Wand laufen. Durch Langzeitbelichtung verwischt.

'Bewegungsunschärfe' #FotoVorschlag

S/W-Foto. Ein Bullauge aus dem Schiffsinneren mit Blick auf die Nordsee.

'Fenster(freitag)' #FotoVorschlag
Nordsee
#ClassicMono

📷 Winter wetland wednesday

#ColorADay
#BWFri
#Scape

While visiting the hamlet of Flatford in East Bergholt, Suffolk, to see the famous mill - once owned by, and the subject of more than one of John Constable’s works of art - this nearby building, and it’s doppelgänger in the water, caught my attention. Across a mirror-like river, a large converted, thatched barn and other buildings stand in a row in the upper third of the photo, such as to provide a perfect mirror image in the lake below. Buildings and reflected winter trees lend a warming feel in the late afternoon winter sun.

#scape day! A sunny, cold #winter day at #Flatford, #Suffolk.

#reflections make it twice as good!
#blueskyart #photographersofbluesky #waterscape #JohnConstable #constablecountry #thatch #barnconversion #eastcoastkin #Englishcountryside #artistscountry

📷️Nikon Zf
📸Thypoch Simera 50mm F1.4
#photography #fotografía #Nikon #Zf #Scape

For #ForestFriday, a #forest #scape from Burnaby Lake, BC, Canada.

#photography #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #clouds #reflections

A wide twilight sky stretches overhead, fading from deep blue at the top into soft violet and warm orange near the horizon. Delicate rays of light fan outward from the hidden sun, creating subtle streaks that converge behind the dark line of trees and rooftops in silhouette. Low on the horizon, a single bright point, the moon, glows against the pastel band of color. The houses and trees below are mostly shadowed, with just a few warm lights hinting at the quiet neighborhood beneath the dramatic, radiant sky.

Luminosity
Good morning everyone and have a brilliant day ahead wherever you are in the world.
#Scape #sky #ForestFriday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDForDramatic #photography
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#EastCoastKin

Rocky Mountain Arsenal and Longs Peak
#photography #landscape #scape #colorado

😎😎

Easton, MD

Courage grows.
Rise together.
The light follows. 🌅

#photography #sunrise #scape #landscape #nature #road #sky #kindness

“Snow was falling,
So much like stars
filling the dark tree
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness.” ❄️🌲🤍
— Mary Oliver
#treescape #trees #scape #forestfriday #snow #icicles #sky #winter #nature #hudsonvalley #newyork #photography

A dirt hiking trail meanders through a lush forest. Brownish-gray, green moss-covered tree trunks line the path on both sides. Ferns and other low-lying greenery also line the path. Blue sky can be seen in the background.

My lovely walk in the woods this week!
#ForestFriday #Scape #forestscape #forest #hiking #awalkinthewoods #trees #path #trail #moss #ferns #green #hikinggirl #photography

The sun sets behind the hills and clouds on the far side of a lake. The clouds are orange and hold and the bare trees along the hillside are visible behind the lake. The leak is illuminated in a low golden light highlighting the gulls floating on the surface and the low reeds in the foreground.

🪶 A Flock of Black-headed Gulls getting ready to roost on a lake at sunset. Clare, Ireland.

#birds #birdsofbluesky #birdphotography #naturetherapy #wildlifetherapy #eastcoastkin #irishbirding #sunset #flying #flyday #scape #golden #gull

A reflection of the sky, clouds and trees on the lake.

The sky beginning to clear at Winkworth Arboretum on Wednesday morning.
#Scape
#Landscape
#Reflections
#Photography
#SurreyHills

Good morning Kelvin

Good morning, Bluesky friends
#photos #photography #Scape #landscape