Dave Smith

They went for the free samples.

Hulhumalé, Maldives. Sunrise at the beach. The lagoon is simmering in tangerine in the foreground with a vertical line of gold running through the middle of the frame. Mid frame dark waves crash on the reef with corals out of the water due to low tide. The sea beyond it is also in a dark shade of blue with the line of gold extending till the horizon. Above it is scattered light clouds with the golden rays of the golden sun breaking through them. Above the sun are some darker clouds. The color of the sky is gold around the sun and then darkens to tangerine further it is from the sun.

#201

#Maldives #visitMaldives #sunrise #sun #goldenhour #beach #nature #sea #lagoon #reef #sky #clouds #island #photography #guesthouse #travel #PhotographersOfBlueSky #LumixS9 #LUMIX #LUMIXJAPAN

The inside of a pink hibiscus looks like something out of Dr Seuss. The petals are a lighter pink and the inside is red with the green bottom showing through looking like eyes. The pollen that has fallen onto the eyes make it seem as though it is staring into your soul with a very kind and caring gaze. The stamen makes it look a bit like an elephant 🤗

Is it just me, or does this hibiscus have soulful eyes? Happy Monday!
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#DailyFlowers
#MacroMonday #thelittlethings
#PinkMon
#photography #flowers #ArtSky #FlowerReport #PhotographersUnited #onlybeautifulthings #photohour #Bloomscrolling #ArtYear #nature #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky

Eine Wiede voller Mohnblumen.

Guten #Mohntag Bluesky🍀💫

Photo of a man riding a fully-laden touring bike, complete with safety flag. In the background is a wall covered in road signs, many with the names of U.S. towns on them.

Greg Siple riding through the Yukon

from the National Geographic article, "Bikepacking Across Alaska and Canada," May 1973
📷Dan Burden

This trail is wonderful and I am grateful it exists! Cheers!

西伊豆 堂ヶ島近辺
#photography #landscape #seascape

みなさま、今日もお疲れ様です‪(*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)

#風景写真 #photography
#ファインダー越しの私の世界
#スマホ越しの私の世界
#japan_travel #tokyotravel
#キリトリセカイ

Image of the sun, low in a blue sky with scattered wispy clouds. The sun is shining on Dow's Lake, in Ottawa. A few buildings and an ascending line of trees are along the horizon.

White dappled clouds in a blue sky, over a Gothic style stone building.

The glass dome of the National Art Gallery, and a lamppost, is silhouetted against a white cloud dappled blue sky at sunset. The image is taken from a bi-directional bike lane.

The sun can be seen just dipping below the horizon line over the Ottawa River. A bridge truss is at the right side of the frame. The photographer definitely should have been paying more attention to riding her bike than taking this photo, but alls well that ends well.

Just an absolute perfect night for a bike ride with friends.
#ottbike #OBS

おっはよ〜✨🎐

8月もよろしゅうお願いします😊

📷 #photography
@bskyphotos.bsky.social
@botanical.bsky.social

YouTube video by Best Side Cycling It's Finally Here! Bike Tour of the Alaskan Way Safety Improvements along Seattle Waterfront

It's Finally Here! Tour of the Final Piece of the Seattle Waterfront Bike Lanes: The Alaskan Way Safety Project
youtu.be/dmt_H7_PKdY

A Kona Sutra LTD bicycle leans against an old bleached out log along the Willapa Hills Trail. The trail is gravel it is lined by dry grass and green leafy trees.

Dry and Dusty

My bike was so dusty after a 60 mile ride on the Willapa Hills Trail

A man in a flat cap walks with a bicycle on a cluttered street.

Jimmy Cliff in the film The Harder They Come (1972), which introduced Jamaican reggae music to an international audience.

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Jimmy!
July 30, 1944

A photo of a tall waterfall, it starts at the top of the frame and continues as it fans out toward boulders and a small tree at the bottom of the image. It's a sheer drop all the way down the cliff face it spills over. At the bottom it is about 4 times as wide as it was at the top. The water is white and very textured from dropping a long way (272-ft (83 m)). The cliff face behind the falls is a light buff tan at the top, to a light charcoal color from being damp near the bottom. And throughout it is heavily textured with random fractures and facets. Toward the bottom left of the cliff face, it is covered with yellow/green mosses. The same as what cover the boulders in the foreground. A tree frames the left edge of the image, it's tall brown trunk rising past the top of the image where some of it's green branches can be seen. A smaller tree with green conifer branches grows at it's base. The right side is framed by several small and medium sized green conifers. The boulders in the foreground form a jumbled slope from bottom left, up to lower right. A fallen dark red tree decays atop some of the boulders along the slope.

You know what day it is?
That's right! #WaterfallWednesday!
Today we visit Watson Falls up above the North Umpqua River. It's a tall one at 272-feet (83 m)! I caught it a spring run off flow levels, and it's tough to get close to because it spits A LOT!
#waterfall #nature #Oregon #Umpqua #ECK #WCK

A short while ago, there was an 8.0
earthquake off the coast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

We are in touch with the National Tsunami Warning Center. The threat of a tsunami to the Washington state coast is UNKNOWN at this time. We will post more when we know more.

More: tsunami.gov

#wawx

Blowing in from Skull Island! 🦍

Trail Conditions - Olympic National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

Nice, WTA trip reports are an amazing resource! The NPS trail conditions page can be useful too: www.nps.gov/olym/planyou...

Have fun and take lots of pictures!

Many back country camps in Olympic do have bear wires, but the condition of the wires can be in question. The WIC (Wilderness Information Center) in Port Angeles will have the most current info and they respond pretty quickly to email.

Lots of nights out in Olympic National Park and the Cascades. In ONP I primarily carry a bear canister because that's what is required in some areas (Enchanted Valley, 7 Lakes Basin etc). A bear hang is adequate in the cascades other than North Cascades NP that might require a canister or Ursack.

I have never had a problem using a standard stuff sack or dry bag on a bear wire. I prefer a lightweight dry bag for protection from the elements.

Photo of a dog in a hat and goggles on a cargo bike

Pollo the pup impressed everyone with his sporty élan at the @bikegridnow.org ride around Logan Square, Avondale, and Hermosa neighborhoods of Chicago, but

Too early in the season for so many fires. ☹️

Cookie Puss!

My gravel bike leaning next to a swamp

I’m out looking for the swamp thing.

#bikesky #cycling #swamp #puremichigan

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Absolutely! The weather was perfect too but it sure got hot on the last 15 miles into Cle Elem 🥵

A view across the deep blue Easton Lake. A jagged mountain range in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness rises above ground a stand of trees along the lake. Puffy clouds cast shadows on the mountains.

A tunnel on the Palouse to Cascades Trail (formerly the Milwaukee Road Railroad) is framed by tall evergreen trees.

I am sitting on my bike next to Kachess Lake. The lake is blue and so is the sky although there are some cottony clouds

A bikepacking bike (Kona Sutra LTD) is facing the camera and an old train trestle crossing the Yakima River is in the back.

Cascade Crunch

The sound of gravel was my constant companion today riding on the Palouse to Cascades Trail
#bikesky #bikepacking #bluesky

Ein Teil eines alten Fensters. Auf der Fensterbank liegen drei alte Kameras.

Fenstersims am Wegesrand 🚲

Cramond is a village and suburb in the north-west of Edinburgh, Scotland. It stands at the mouth of the River Almond, where it enters the Firth of Forth. The area has a long history, with evidence of Mesolithic, Bronze Age and Roman activity. The older houses along the wharf are typical of traditional south-east Scottish vernacular architecture, constructed in stone with harling white lime render finish, facing stone windows and door surrounds. The image is an idyllic Summer scene with blue skies, opposite the wharf and shows people dining outside the village inn. The area is decorated with floral hanging baskets and planters. The houses and Inn are white washed with black painted doors and window surrounds.

Cramond Wharf, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Cramond is a village and suburb in the north-west of Edinburgh, at the mouth of the River Almond.

#photography#art
#Scotland#Edinburgh
#buyintoart

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