mountains

Mountains. I was standing at about 2,926 m (9,600 ft) elevation looking northward. The mountain is on the north side of the Sacred Valley and I was on the south side.

Portrait of an Ibex, shot in the Italian Alps. We had to walk 7 km and climb 1500 meters, but it was all worth it...

Circling over the Comeragh Mountains in County Waterford yesterday.

Shot yesterday in Waterford's Comeragh Mountains. I read that these guys undergo one of the most remarkable migrations of any songbird, flying all the way from sub-Saharan Africa to northern Europe.

Lake Wakatipu and the Glenorchy mountains near Queenstown, NZ

A 53 year old photo.

Portion of full Himalayan Range seen from Daman (alt. 7700ft) , Nepal.

It might be hard to believe, but this picture was taken in early June not too far from Petropavlovsk Kamchatskiy.

This is one fascinating sight to see. The way the light dance across the sky. It is actually luminescence cause by charged particles from the sun hitting gases atoms in our upper atmosphere.

Two colours that describe a world of beauty. Living in the Arctic has its advantages.

Magnificent Hummingbird (Eugenes fulgens fulgens) Species sexually dimorphic. Four subspecies have been described with two or three being recognized, author dependent. Only the nominate is mapped for the US. This hummer is ca. 13.3 cm (5.25 in) long. The only other US Hummingbird that compares...

Fan-tailed Warbler (Basileuterus lachrymosus) Photographed in lower Madera Canyon, Santa Cruz County, northwest side of the Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona, USA at ca. 1,494 m (4,900 ft) elevation; part of the Coronado National Forest. Riparian, adjacent to Madera Creek, mixed oak/alligator...

Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis fulva) Six subspecies are recognized and are divided into two subgroups, the eastern group and the mexican group. Subspecies fulva belongs to the Mexican Group and is only found in the USA in the South-central mountains of Arizona. Photographed in Harshaw...

finishing a very long, solo hike from the low lying amazon to the top of the Andes

This wonderful spot is sort of the icon for the Rocky Mts.

Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus formicivorus) Seven subspecies are recognized with only the nominate being mapped for Arizona. Birds are slightly sexually dimorphic. The male lacks a black strip between the white and red on top of his head. Photographed in Ramsey Canyon in the...

Adelie Penguins, pygoscelis adeliae, crossing the sea ice to get to open water to go fishing, at Cape Hallett, Ross Sea, Antarctica. These little birds are a long way from the regular "Penguin Highway" from the rookery to the open sea, and are definitely making a new path for...

Taken during my last year's trip to Wunam, China. The tour guide said that the mountain scene in the film "Avatar" is based on this. Processed from one of my limited Raw images, and uncropped.

Bealach na B is a historic pass through the mountains of the Applecross peninsula, in Wester Ross in the Scottish Highlandsand the name of a famous twisting, single-track mountain road through the pass and mountains. The name is from the Scottish Gaelic for Pass of the Cattle, as it was...

Taken during a walk in Umbria - fab place.

One of the areas I was in last June on my Montana birding trip. I was never hurting for something worth looking at, even when the birds were not around.

A shot from the garden of our holiday cottage on Loch Duich showing the Five Sisters of Kintail in the background I don't have a wide angle lens, so this was taken with my nifty fifty!

Another of my landscape shots taken this evening of the view about three miles from my home.