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Luminous Leaves

These beautiful water lily leaves contain so many different colours.  The colours are enhanced slightly by increasing the amount of shadow in post processing. Linked to Daily Prompt: Bright.

Continuous Variations

“I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.” –Laurie Lee Laurie Lee (1914-1997) was an English poet, who wrote much […]

Stilt Walker

I spotted this charming Black-winged Stilt in the Okavango Delta, though you don’t need to travel that far to see them; they are widely distributed around Western Europe, the Mediterranean, Central Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar, and South and […]

Nature at its Grandest

  What could be grander than nature? – seen here at its most expansive and most majestic in Botswana’s Okavango Delta.   Linked to Grand, Panorama and Skywatch Friday.

Showers with an African View

Following on from Loo With a View, I have Showers with a View. Starting at Borana in Kenya, where the bathroom and the shower itself gave spectacular views down to […]

Intangible World

“O world invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, O world unknowable, we know thee, Inapprehensible, we clutch thee” -Francis Thompson, “In No Strange Land” Linked to […]

Stumped!

Last week I was puzzled, this week I’m completely stumped! The wildlife in Africa, especially elephants, cause a lot of damage to the trees and bushes. It all adds to […]