Post Your New Photography Uploads For April 2019

Wisteria draped on a trellis.

A bouquet of alstroemeria are gathered in a polka dot market bag.

This beautiful spot is nestled in the hills of Bucks County, PA.

Perched on a California lilac (Ceanothus), a song sparrow (Melospiza melodia) is doing what it does best ~ singing its praises to the Creator. Found throughout North America, it is a prolific singer, with most males of this species singing up to 24 variations of a song consisting of a few short notes followed by a varied trill.

The bird’s voice box that enables it to sing complex tunes is an amazing instrument called a syrinx, which has been likened to a pan flute. The bird is able to sing through two wind pipes simultaneously.

Those who study evolutionary theory are perplexed, because they have found this vocal structure has “evolved” only once, and according to a geneticist at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, it is “something that comes out of nothing”.

For those who subscribe to creationist theory, it is one more scientific piece of evidence of intelligent design in nature.

Meanwhile, the song sparrow seen in this photo goes along its merry way, doing what the Creator made it to do: sing magnificently.


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A beautiful countryside Cross overlooks the valley near Arvin, Californa, seen while I was taking photos of wildflowers. A meaningful image representing God's love when He sent His precious Son Yeshua Jesus to die for our sins and to give us eternal life when each of us receives Jesus into our hearts. This image is very suitable to celebrate Resurrection Sunday (Easter).

Brian Tada
www.PropheticPortraits.net

I just uploaded a couple images from last years April 29, 2018 full pink moon. I took this from Ozark Missouri.

Neighborhood Watch. Welcome to Newport, Virginia--where we have a mighty fine neighborhood watch unit. These geese patrol the banks of Sinking Creek, and are sure to let everyone know when they see something peculiar. Their honking and quacking is so loud--you can probably hear from where you sit! From left to right: Virgil and Emma, Duprey and Petunia, Camphor and Daisy.

Taken in the Lake District,Cumbria,UK

Daffodil Hill at the New York Botanical Garden

A wild turkey doing the mating dance for the hens near Wausau, Wisconsin.

Traffic control devices and signage.



Bill Tomsa

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Sun light behind saguaro cacti.



Bill Tomsa

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Sunset on the Atlantic coast of north Cornwall, England, UK, with Godrevy Point lighthouse in the background.

Desert flora in a southwestern desert.



Bill Tomsa

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Farm tractor driving though an unplowed field in Arizona.



Bill Tomsa

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OOPs I posted March images by mistake and can't delete post. So I just deleted content of post. Sorry!

Ice in Iceland, black and white long-exposure Photography:



"Diamond Beach" near Jokuslarlon Glacier Lagoon.

Iceland Travel Photography by Matthias Hauser

Unicorn Lake Hatchery...

Two wide-angle images were digitally stitched together to produce this final panoramic view.

This is one of the five culture ponds on site. These ponds are used to raise largemouth bass, bluegill and yellow perch for Maryland DNR Fisheries Service.

Unicorn Lake Hatchery is located at Unicorn Lake near Millington. This facility encompasses a 43-acre recreational fishing lake with boat ramp, access for spillway fishing, five fish culture ponds, picnic tables, one office building and one combination storage/culture tank building. Unicorn Hatchery cultures trout, largemouth bass, bluegill and yellow perch. These fish are used in corrective stocking programs and population restoration work.

Unicorn Lake Hatchery...

Two wide-angle images were digitally stitched together to produce this final panoramic view.

This is one of the five culture ponds on site. These ponds are used to raise largemouth bass, bluegill and yellow perch for Maryland DNR Fisheries Service.

Unicorn Lake Hatchery is located at Unicorn Lake near Millington. This facility encompasses a 43-acre recreational fishing lake with boat ramp, access for spillway fishing, five fish culture ponds, picnic tables, one office building and one combination storage/culture tank building. Unicorn Hatchery cultures trout, largemouth bass, bluegill and yellow perch. These fish are used in corrective stocking programs and population restoration work.

graffiti in Berlin the supreme city of street art

During the Revolutionary War the house was used as a hospital. One of the soldiers who convalesced here was James Monroe who was a young officer from Virginia. Monroe, was seriously injured during the First Battle of Trenton. In 1817, he became the fifth president of the United States.

NZ north Island Light Rays. NZ west coast in the summer is such an amazing place!

The Thompson Neely House dates back to before the American Revolution. It is located at Washington Crossing in Bucks County, PA

Morning Metra

Chicago's commuter train, at sunrise.



A young man homeless man, panhandling in Chicago.



A paramedic crew preparing to get to work, just outside Chicago.



A bright beautiful Dahlia hosting a meal.

A golden toned black and white landscape photograph of the Lone Cypress tree taken on 17 Mile Drive t on the Monterey Peninsula in California.




These monochromatic landscape photograph was taken at Garrapata Beach on the Big Sur coast of California by Dave Gordon.

A metal-steele Grasshopper Oil Rig close-up. It looked to me like a dog's head with a big round eye.

A simple but elegant still life of a tulip bouquet

Shades Of Coral Floral Watercolor. A sketch that turned into a watercolor and some acrylic paint.

Five days out from Florida headed to Death Valley in California and return. We did spend most of the time in New Mexico and Arizona

4/3/19 Mid-January sunset on the Colleton River tidal estuary in Beaufort County, SC, near Hilton Head Island



4/5/19 A cloudy November evening on Hilton Head Island


4/7/19 A pretty Snowy Egret on a Lowcountry dock appears to be showing off some Tai Chi movements.

4/7/19 A digital painting of a March sunset over the tidal marshes of the Colleton River estuary in Beaufort County SC, near Hilton Head Island.



4/7/19 A sunny, mild mid-April day, except over the shoreline of Lake Erie where the ice and water temperature is about 30 degrees colder than the air creating the fog in the trees and over the lake.

4/10/19 A Great Egret at a rookery in Beaufort County, SC during mating season.



4/18/19 Sunset over Port Royal Sound tidal marshes in Beaufort County, SC, presented as a digital painting.



4/25/19 A March evening on Hilton Head Island, SC, presented as a digital painting.

A couple of new uploads of images from Cusco, Peru

A couple of black and white images of the spectacular El Tatio geyser field near San Pedro de Atacama in northern Chile

Recent bee macro shots....

At the end of the road and the end of the parking lot lies this little bar near Charleston South Carolina USA. Colored lights are reflected in the water as seen from the dock.

American Bald Eagles




Female Anhinga or (snakebird ) drying its feathers and warming its body.

Florida farm Angus cows walking in the lake. On the top of them are the cattle egrets. Florida nature.

This is a black and white capture of St. Augustine Cathedral in downtown Tucson, Arizona with a bird flying by overhead

berlin check point
Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the name given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War (1947–1991).

East German leader Walter Ulbricht agitated and maneuvered to get the Soviet Union's permission to construct the Berlin Wall in 1961 to stop Eastern Bloc emigration and defection westward through the Soviet border system, preventing escape across the city sector border from communist East Berlin into West Berlin. Checkpoint Charlie became a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of East and West. Soviet and American tanks briefly faced each other at the location during the Berlin Crisis of 1961.

After the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc and the reunification of Germany, the building at Checkpoint Charlie became a tourist attraction. It is now located in the Allied Museum in the Dahlem neighborhood of Berlin.

In the background is the silhouetted Brandon Shores Generating Station is an electric generating station located on Fort Smallwood Road north of Orchard Beach in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, near Glen Burnie, and is operated by Raven Power Holdings, Inc. In the foreground is a silhouetted elderly couple near the rip rap along the shore of Fort Smallwood Park in Pasadena Maryland.

I saw this colorful reflection of a ship in the water of one of the ports in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and had to take some pictures there.

A Snowy Egret posing with palms in the background, Photo taken near Shark Valley in the Everglades,

A couple sunset images from Arkansas. One is from the Hot Springs National Park with the sun setting behind the old Medical Arts building, while the other is taken out in the countryside in the middle of the Ozark Mountains.

A Garden Spider hanging on to the bottom edge of a pretty pink Rose.


A Goose Family with a Stranger, the Swan Goose hanging out with them and making a friendly bunch with the gosling babies enjoying the lake waters.


This Goose and partner only had one baby gosling this year and is protecting it with stern looks at this photographer. :)

Two images of the one-legged rower fishermen on Inle Lake in Myanmar.

A duk billed tree frog peering over a branch.

"Lone Tree In Yellow Wildflowers"



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Well, here it is, fresh, posted today, shot and edited yesterday, some downtown building views in Baltimore, from the Inner Harbor and looking along the intersection of Light and Lombard Streets -



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Golden light over Mount Warning Australia