Beautiful morning sky in Santa Barbara. Winter skies are more colorful and less foggy than in summer. Well, we here in Santa Barbara get very picky with our weather, really no reason to complain at all 🙂

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Der Hopfensee ist ein maximal 2,1 Kilometer langer See mit einem Umfang von 6,8 Kilometern nördlich von Füssen im Landkreis Ostallgäu, Bayerisch Schwaben, Bayern. Er gehört mit seiner gesamten Fläche von 1,94 Quadratkilometern zum Stadtgebiet Füssens, grenzt mit seinem Westufer jedoch an die Gemeinde Hopferau. Der mit maximal zehn Metern Wassertiefe relativ flache See wurde während der Würmeiszeit durch den Lechtalgletscher gebildet. Er entwässert nach Süden über die Hopfensee-Ach, die nach einem Knick nach Osten in den Forggensee mündet.

Touristisch erschlossen ist hauptsächlich das Nordostufer durch den Kurort Hopfen am See. Am Ostufer liegt ein Campingplatz, das Südufer ist verschilft. Neben dem Baden, das wegen der guten Erwärmung bereits ab Ende Mai möglich ist, ist auf dem See auch das Fahren mit Ruder- und Tretbooten möglich, ebenso Segeln, Windsurfen und Kitesurfen.

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Great sunset with the Smoking Volcano, the Popocatepetl

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Walking in the mud for the shot.

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It looks as if the clouds have started springing from Fuji like.

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Greece

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Wish I could say I planned this shot but it just happened to be a clear day and it just happened to be when I was driving past Seljalandsfoss on my way to VIK. I’ll take any good fortune that comes on a photo trip when you have too many things to see and places to go in too few days time. Seljalandsfoss in Iceland. Closer crop than previous upload.
The red dot under the rainbow is someone walking behind the falls.

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Morning meditation at the lake Constance in Steckborn

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New planet – Mastoura – KSA

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**NOTE** If you happen to be on the Android mobile app and made it this far, please go take a look at this image on the website. The Android colors are all wrong. It looks OK on the iPad, hopefully on the iPhone too? I just learned (through this experience) that if you don’t convert your final image from ProPhoto to SRGB, you may end up ruining the colors in the image on browsers/apps that don’t like ProPhoto **End of NOOB info**

Original Post;

I visited Torres del Paine for the first time this May. Such a spectacular place! We explored first on our own, and then later as part of a tour with Marc Adamus. This mountain range sits in front of a glacial lake so I was very tempted to shoot the “whole scene.” I’m virtually certain I would never have zoomed up and captured this photo, if it were not for Marc Adamus telling us all “long lens, long lens” for the two weeks we were together! I’m grateful, Marc! (Btw, my back is not grateful now that I feel compelled to carry an 80-400mm lens around all the time! ) Lastly, I’m eager to see the shots of classmates and now friends who also witnessed this along side me 🙂 !

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