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Late light at Loch an Eilein, Rothiemurchus #Scotland #Rothiemurchus #Aviemore #Cairngorms www.damianshields.com

Late light at Loch an Eilein, Rothiemurchus #Scotland #Rothiemurchus #Aviemore #Cairngorms www.damianshields.com

The most colorful #squid I’ve ever seen! And such a cooperative poser too!

#🦑 #cephalopod #chromatophores #calamari #underwater #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #kumeisland #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug

Golden light over the Icelandic Highlands

Inside The Race To Save Wild Axolotls Lake Xochimilco in Mexico City is the only place where axolotls live in the wild, and they face growing threats.

What has external gills, a perma-smile, and a limb-regenerating superpower? The axolotl, of course! These salamanders are popular research subjects, but their wild habitat is down to just one lake—and the race to save them is mounting.

More red sails & iceberg reflection from Greenland…🧊⛵️

here's some #jellies at the Monterey Bay Aquarium for #FishyFriday

#nature #jellyfish

Low tide Milford.

The sun is setting, the tide is low and it’s time to get my camera out.

Gotta love Milford Sound…

#photography #nature #landscapephotography

Last light.

On the beach, the sun has set and the last bits of luminosity are fading along the horizon.
Perfect way to end the day…

#photography #nature #landscapephotography

Gold Coast light.

Early morning on the coast as another day commences.

#photography

Glacial Lake.

Moving on from my last and self-congratulatory post 🙄
This image is another from my series taken on the shoreline of the glacial lake at sunrise. Good times...

#photography #nature #landscapephotography

Most of a wolf spider, taken from directly above. The last segments of a few legs have been cut off by the frame. It is standing on holy salty sand, so the background looks like a solid slab of black specked beige. The spider is a mainly soft grey body with four black eyes showing. The abdomen is marked with a grey line and black rimmed blobs all over it. This made it incredibly hard to see if you weren't paying close attention. The legs are a more pinky white with diffuse black barring. If it was big enough people would be wearing the "pelt" as luxury coats. It's gorgeous.

The same spider taken from a low angle, looking at the face slightly angled. This shows the female palps and the entire set of 8 black eyes. It also showed how the spider was right up on its "toes" ready for a fast get-away (or maybe the blinding white salt was hot to stand on). There is a bit of a shadow from the intense sunlight. Spider description is on the other photo.

Sorry spider haters, but this was just the most beautiful beast & I knew (nearly everyone) would need to see it 😉. It sat frozen, up on its toes, on the edge of Leeman (WA) salt lake while I took pics. Unfortunately it was too big (body length 1.4cm) for my lens. #spider #Lycosidae #Tetralycosa

A #seaslugday post about nudibranch FEEDING echinoblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/seas...

Miamira flavicostata Miamira flavicostata in May 2012 by caleidoskopable

A splendid Miamira from Indonesia for #seaslugday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Two colorful Miamira magnífica nudibranchs, one much bigger than the other. The slugs are mainly dark red in colour with cream, yellow and blue banding along the edges of their mantle. They have spots and lines of a lighter red all over their bodies. The big slug is facing the camera while the little one looks away from it, their two heads are close together.

My contribution to #Nudivember today is a close relative of the listed slug. Here is Miamira magnifica, two of them encountered in the beautiful reefs of Cannibal Rock, south Komodo, Indonesia.
🦑🌊
#UnderwaterPhotography

and from the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum, my favorite backward flying #bird for #WingedWednesday

#nature #hummingbirds #avian #birdphotography

Close-up of a spider facing the camera with a yellow egg sac beneath it, surrounded by soil and debris. The image shows fine details of the spider’s eyes, legs, and body texture.

Arthropod Photo of the Week: October 29, 2025
Net-casting spider
Asianopis sp.
Araneae: Deinopidae
By Dennis Botterbusch, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
#arthropodPOTW

hi, folks. hoping to finish cutting up the tree stuff today. only kindling sized branches remain. still need a splitter for the large rounds. here's some #RedWed #roses from the SJ Rose Garden for #RoseWednesday
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#JBCFlowers #flowers #garden #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #DailyFlower #ColorADay

At the risk of over-posting cactus pics… 😁 #cactus #cacti #cereus #cereusperuvianus #arizona #arizonalife #bloom #blooms #bloomscrolling #nightbloomer

Here’s a summer sunrise at Wedge Pond in the Kananaskis area of Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦 near Banff National Park and the town of Canmore. Photo by Adam Jewell. Buy prints, puzzles, fleece blankets and more at AdamJewell.com

Here’s a summer sunrise at Wedge Pond in the Kananaskis area of Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦 near Banff National Park and the town of Canmore.

#provincialparks #canmore #kananaskis #wedgepond #albertalandscape #sunrise #photography #banffnationalpark #canadianrockies

Prints —> adamjewell.com/featured/ear...

When the sky turns into a living painting, Namibia 🇳🇦

In the darkness of night, a spotted orbweaver (Neoscona sp.) is sitting in the center of their web with their head pointed to the ground.

#arachtober
Spotted #orbweaver - Neoscona sp.
(Shot in Cincinnati 9-27-23) 🕷️🕸️ #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #invertebrate #arachnid #spider #spidersky #ento #spooktober

And again some more red sail magic from this summer…
I’m far to be done with the Greenland folders, so except more red sails & ice images 😅.

a tangle of tree roots amidst fallen leaves

Spent some time today getting to the root of the issue! #Photography #EastCoastKin

Dawn at a Sierra classic, Convict Lake

Beautiful Iguana of Mexico. #wildlife #Landscape #reptile #color #fineart #photography #RandyDMorrison #Mexico #Photo #Iguana #lazy

I call this "one leg left ..."

the wasp leg is the only item that remains from the wasp meal of this "camel spider" (solifugid, not a spider)

this past weekend in our local Anza Borrego Desert

A calm moment at a not so calm place

#photography #longexposure

Winter night in Lofoten with the Northern Lights. Winter Norway.

MRAZIVÁ NOC…
snímek z únorové návštěvy souostroví Lofoty na severu Norska, kdy jsme měli štěstí i na parádní polární záři 🇧🇻

#norway #lofoten #lofotenIsland #Nature #Landscape #landscapephotography #nightscape #aurora #winter_lanscape #winter_mood #bluesky

A few details from the coast

Finding calm amongst the chaos

This was one of the windiest days I've ever spent out here. The wind made the typical focus-stacked long exposure shot impossible, so I had to adapt to a narrower composition and avoid the motion blur of the nearby trees. I think it worked well, what do you think?