Ailsa’s travel theme: Near Please click on any image for a better view. A silk floss tree (I think) – Buenos Aires Tiled floor in the Vatican Museums Flora, Otway Sound, Chile Close up of I’m-not-sure-what in an archway in Munich Highland cattle in the Scottish Highlands Continue reading Near and Far
This is series on couples – street photography capturing two people – which for lack of anything more imaginative I have named the Odd Couple series, when in fact they may, or may not be odd. I’ll leave that to the viewer. Please click on image for a better view. Taken at Otway Sound, Chili. For my solo series click here. Continue reading Odd Couple/34 – lady and wildlife
“I determined to gather together all things of beauty … that I could, and preserve them here, against the doom toward which the world is rushing.” “The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between … Continue reading Visual Quotation 32: Horizon
For Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Couples I posted some photos of penguins. These fellows are just so engaging I need to post some more. We saw these Magellanic penguins at Otway Sound in southern Chile and, as I said, they build burrows in the sand – not the first material that comes to mind for penguin habitats.
Burrow Boulevard …
Mr. and Mrs. Pen Guin burrow shopping …(photos courtesy of my sister) Continue reading “Burrow Shopping”
Not the usual setting one might expect for penguins. I never thought of sand and rock; I always thought snow and ice. I learned that penguins, at least these Magellanic penguins, Continue reading “They Come in Pairs”
Beyond the Brush 