Posted on 01/23/2018 2:41:27 PM PST by mairdie
These are the stunning landscape images that have been shortlisted in a prestigious photography competition.
The Outdoor Photographer of the Year contest is running for a seventh year, and has received 18,000 entries from around the globe.
Among the entries this year are dramatic snaps of the stormy waters of the Baltic Sea and the aquatic splendor of the Egyptian Red Sea coral reefs as well as the magnificent Icelandic ‘valley of Thor’ and the atmospheric mystery of a North Yorkshire forest.
There are also giraffes and impalas captured in the Nairobi National Park in Kenya and a drone-snapped aerial photo of a Thai motorbike bridge along the famous Ping River.
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I wish everyone would decide to dress tidily again ... but especially gentlemen.
I'm heading up to Chico, California tomorrow to attend the Snowgoose Festival in the California Central Valley. I'll be visiting several National Wildlife Refuges. First time I've gone to this event and am looking forward to it. Millions of waterfowl stop there on their annual migration up and down the Pacific Flyway.
When my dads aunt passed (she was our surrogate grandmother due to living one block away) we got a box of photos, she was born in 1901 my grandmother in 1898, they had photos like that lady all Gatsby-ed out. We could not believe they were so beautiful and not always 80 years old.
Bring back pictures to post on one of these threads! Oh, please.
Can you post some pictures of her? I’m going to look for mother’s flapper picture, and a glorious costume one out of Dr Who.
There are four photography blinds in the upper refuges. One or two of these require chest waders to get to and you are walking through slippery muck! The others have plank walks out to them. They are reserved by lottery in the fall for winter and spring photography. I'd love to get one next year.
Chest waders!!!! Gawd!!!!
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The subject matter — well, the earth has always had a lot of subject matter. Most amazing to me is the cameras that are able to record such detail and color.
When I blow up my photographs, they’re always, at bottom, blurry. I can’t focus in the view finder and am awed by these people who can.
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