The Jordan "River", Israel:


The Golan Heights, Israel (sorry for the poor quality for some, they were taken through a moving bus... they do not do the landscape justice ):


Note the "Danger: mines!" sign... mines left by the Syrians heh.


Masada / Dead Sea desert, Israel:

this is cool, the foreground is blurry but the rest isn't

from china

Managed to get out last week and get these before the shitty weather rolled in.

All 5 were taken on the Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia coastline.

From Pasajes port to San Sebastián in my brother's little yacht:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_de_Pasajes



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasaia
http://ports.com/spain/port-of-pasajes/











































































































Nice views of the Pasajes port entrance, mount Ulia and San Sebastián city from the sea.
Imagine yourself entering this port at night in the preindustrialized times!

-Map from 1636:



-Trip of Isabel II and María Cristina to the place:

Here is some new photos. I hope you like them!

Nice photos Emperor! Love the colors on the last photo. Yellow, red and green, awesome!
You haven't got the snow yet I suppose?

We got snow about a week ago, but now it has sadly gone away with all the rain we have had the last days

Some photos:

tres bon

Sympetrum corruptum (Variegated Meadowhawk)

Full resolution

Lactarius rubrilacteus


Antron quercusechinus (Urchin Gall Wasp)


I think Clitocybe odora


Dryocosmus minusculus (Pumpkin Gall Wasp)

@ mindshadow,
1. pretty
2. Suillus sp.
3. Idk
4. Mycena sp. I guess
5. Amanita muscaria ofc.

Looks like some nice woods, any poison oak or similar to worry about over there?

I was hoping you might do that, thanks Byrain.

Not heard of poison oak before, don't think there is any here We have foxgloves, and deadly nightshade.


Edit: Afew more from today.




Common Puffball?

Puffball

Coprinus disseminatus - Fairy Inkcap?




Any idea what the last one is Byrain?

Some more winter photos from me:

Its kinda comical how some of you guys posting in this thread have such epic backyards. All I see when I look out my window is a bunch of barns and cows.

Hopefully my plans on going to Alaska within the next month will be fulfilled and I will able to post some nice pictures here.

I think it's kind of comical how some of you guys have actual SNOW and we here in Idaho have...nothing. Actually, it's really not that comical at all. It may as well be fucking July, with as little snow there is in the mountains around here. Sun Valley is the only ski area open, and even it just has a couple skiable runs with man-made snow. Tell Forestcorpse and you lucky Canadians to send some of that white stuff down our way!

These photos are taken 6.12.2011




You might think this picture is a little bit weird but I like it

Could you please explain this last one, 666Emperor666?
Sorry for the shitty phone photo:

http://70.38.38.9/c/2/6abda96b-a904-490 ... d60bd1.jpg



Walking through the forest with snow near the waist and we saw a group of 8 wild pigs looking for food under the snow

P.S: This is my selection of my "photographs of the year":
http://www.mejuba.com/member/folder/def ... d=12_81859

2 examples from Switzerland:

http://70.38.38.9/c/2/25828f3d-5c80-44c ... 55308a.JPG



http://70.38.38.9/c/2/c9db639e-cfb1-461 ... 662778.JPG

1. Don't know, what color gills/spore color would help.
2-3. I hardly know the puffballs in my area, no idea.
4. Looks like a Mycena sp., there are lot of these that require microscopy to identify.
5. Laccaria maybe, like the first one, gills/spore color would reveal a lot more.

And really, if you are interested in identification, gill pictures are nearly always a must. Also, you can probably get better answers trying shroomery.org (They identify a lot of non-hallucinogenic mushrooms too) or mushroomobserver.org, I am just starting to learn the basics in my own area. I won't be very helpful as many others could be, especially for someone in Europe.

Nothing to explain really It is just a gap in a "bridge" and I thought this picture looked nice so I shared it with you. I hope you understand what you see in that picture when I show you this photo of mine. I took this photo of that same "bridge" at night in November.

Uhm... Ok.
This last one is amazing!

Thanks ! Do you see whats in that picture now? My brother also had some problems with understanding what's in that picture, when I showed it to him.

The Aurora? though looks very bright





Thanks Byrain. Next time I'll try and get pics from underneath, though I don't like to disturb them. The large fungi was part of a very large circle, though most had been bashed and partly eaten by deer(?).

Edit: This thread needs more Aurora Pictures!

Oh no I mean the picture you asked me to explain. Those lights in that new picture of mine are just reflections of lights.

The last one is just some reflections on the water, no?
Althought I have problems with the first one... I see some water but not much more.

not taken by me but this was our boxing day sunset, pretty sweet aye.
the webcam it came from

Cool photos Emperor!

Some more winter photos from me. The snow is gone again now, but this was about a week ago :

the winter landscapes are awesome, we never get snow in auckland

Amazing pictures forestcorpse! The fourth one is my favourite.

Uloborus diversus, been getting a few of them in the house lately.

I took some black and white pictures today.

This is beautiful

That's an incredible photo, you can see it's eyes, and that blue background. What camera took those? Surely not a Canon Powershot G6.

Thanks, and yep, I used my Canon Powershot. It was indoors at night, so I turned on the lights, a low level of flash, and made the shutter speed rather fast. Then gimp to slightly adjust the colors to make it appear less washed out. Turned out better then I expected.
As for the blue background, its just an old jug, would of looked ugly if it came into focus.

Thanks a lot! I liked that one a lot to, down by the lake here.
Killer photos from you again to, I love Black/white photos

The snow is gone again here, so some photos without snow this time:

Lichen sp.


Calliphoridae sp.


Fuscopannaria pacifica is promising




Nice.

The "Trouble with Lichen"