Today in pictures

[Turtle]

Number four is an absolute stunner, Margaret

[Margaret Pilkington]

It is very similar to the picture I put in to the last competition...except perhaps this has more definition.
I love this picture......and yet I can't tell you why...it has reflections and I like reflections.

The pic I put into the last comp I sent to my brother and he is having it put onto Canvas for their dining room....they have just redecorated and he was looking for a picture to finish off the room. He says that this fitted the bill and it is even better because it reminds him of England and home(he is in Sydney)......and no-one else will have one like it!

[davemac]

Originally Posted by mobertol

A selection from today's local wander - found some funghi under an oak tree (do you know what they are Dave?) and spotted one of the very elusive wild duck that populate the river it looks quite startled in the pic I managed to get before it flapped off into the undergrowth. Bright and breezy out -some great cloud formations around.

The fungi looks similar to a Boletus fungi, but the colours are a bit different, I have never seen one with pink ish colours.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by Turtle

A few from my mother's visit of a few days ago. The weather was perfect - not too hot. I drove both her and my aunt to a couple of parks in Oakville, bordering Lake Ontario: Gairlock Gardens (I really like these purple/black leaved plants, don't know what they are) and a bit further west up the coast, Tannery Park. If you look in the distance from that park you can see the skyline of downtown Toronto. I wished I had your new camera with its zoom lens, Margaret! Also, one of Miss Pris: she's discovered that bathroom sinks are fun places to play

That purple jobby had me guessing, possibly Elephants Ear (Colocasia) I had to look it up, but even now not totally sure.

[davemac]

Today in Pictures, a visit I have not been able to make for a while, things aligned today for me to take a longer than usual perambulation around Pendle Hill.

1. Undulating landscape, Sabden is off to the right.
2. For an open space there are miles of walls.
3. Churn Clough Reservoir.
4. Thistles with a view.
5. A girl I wanted to marry had the same name, my mum said I was too young, but at 6 years old I was certain I was old enough.
6. More rolling landscapes, walls and vast skies.
7. I think this tree thinks its something else, perhaps a bush.
8. The Bracken Fern marches on, but things try to survive in the dense foliage, there time is limited.
9. The view from this property are stunning, you can see for miles from most windows.
10. Despite the warnings, the publicity, the tragedies, still idiots jump into the icy waters of large expanses. I suppose Darwin had a point.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Dave those are really beautiful pics.
I like them all but 7 and 9 are my favourites.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Dave those are really beautiful pics.
I like them all but 7 and 9 are my favourites.

Thank you, I like walking on Pendle, but I get that absorbed with the area that time just passes so quickly, and inevitably I end up with hundreds of photos to sort through

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Dave those are really beautiful pics.
I like them all but 7 and 9 are my favourites.

My favourite is number 2 - 3 comes a close second!

[mobertol]

Was planning to go for a short walk after lunch but it's too hot and humid today - will be busy watching Wimbledon men's final later so for todays offering I'm going back just over a week to a local walk I did then round Castelnuovo del Zappa. The Magnolia flower was huge -about 1 foot across.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Was planning to go for a short walk after lunch but it's too hot and humid today - will be busy watching Wimbledon men's final later so for todays offering I'm going back just over a week to a local walk I did then round Castelnuovo del Zappa. The Magnolia flower was huge -about 1 foot across.

I do like the buildings even though some don't look very stable, The water wheel has further potential for close up stuff, perhaps when the foliage has died back.

[maxthecollie]

Yep it's the word "water" that attracts you Dave.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by davemac

Today in Pictures, a visit I have not been able to make for a while, things aligned today for me to take a longer than usual perambulation around Pendle Hill.

1. Undulating landscape, Sabden is off to the right.
2. For an open space there are miles of walls.
3. Churn Clough Reservoir.
4. Thistles with a view.
5. A girl I wanted to marry had the same name, my mum said I was too young, but at 6 years old I was certain I was old enough.
6. More rolling landscapes, walls and vast skies.
7. I think this tree thinks its something else, perhaps a bush.
8. The Bracken Fern marches on, but things try to survive in the dense foliage, there time is limited.
9. The view from this property are stunning, you can see for miles from most windows.
10. Despite the warnings, the publicity, the tragedies, still idiots jump into the icy waters of large expanses. I suppose Darwin had a point.

Dave is number two 'cropped'?
If it is please can I ask that you put the whole picture on for us to view?
OK so I know you can't do it today.
I just would like to see the background...the hills or whatever is in the distance.
I know...I'm nosy!

[davemac]

Originally Posted by maxthecollie

Yep it's the word "water" that attracts you Dave.

Its not just water there is also moist, wet,& droplets, so its a wide range of precipitations that attract, and remember "if its not wet, you are not doing it right", if I say that often enough it will become a catch phrase.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Dave is number two 'cropped'?
If it is please can I ask that you put the whole picture on for us to view?
OK so I know you can't do it today.
I just would like to see the background...the hills or whatever is in the distance.
I know...I'm nosy!

There is a slight crop to remove the burnt out highlights.

I did take about 4 of this location, I think this is the one I used, but they are mostly the same with slightly different exposures.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by davemac

There is a slight crop to remove the burnt out highlights.

I did take about 4 of this location, I think this is the one I used, but they are mostly the same with slightly different exposures.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/davema...in/photostream
This is almost the same location, I just hadn't reached the wall at this point.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/davema...in/photostream and this is one past the wall.