10 of the best: nature photographs.

@FBM,

Staðastaður on the Snaefellsnes Peninsula in Iceland.

http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/934/cache/iceland-roadside-scene_93479_990x742.jpg

Last sunset of 2015 at Jacobs Ladder beach in Sidmouth Devon, UK

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03539/potd-sunset_3539040k.jpg

@vonny,

Wonder how far the peeople had to walk or ride when tha church was buildt there in the middle of nowhere.
What a picture full of questons and speaking to your fantasy

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@vonny,

Lovely

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@saab,

The Milky Way above Mount Rainier, in Washington, USA

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03538/potd-milky-way_3538937k.jpg

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@vonny,

It looks like a painting for a fairytail...

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@saab,

I love starry skies - don't often see them nowadays, alas!

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@vonny,

A friend of mine visited me in our summercabin. She is interested in stars, so we had a good map and a wonderful sky.
The problem was - it was too dark outdoors to read the map and indoors to bright to see the stars when reading the map.
Ended up just enjoying the sky and giving a damn what stars it was.

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@saab,

All you needed was a flashlight.

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@cicerone imposter,

Of course we tried that too ....
Normally you have a map and a road ahead of you.
On a map with stars you find in bright light one star and then you look up on a pitsch dark sky and try to find this one star amongst thousands of others. It does not work
If you hold the map above your head you cannot see the stars.

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@saab,

Enjoyed your last sentence. Can't you use the north star or some building to pinpoint where you were looking? Go to a church where they have a steeple. Wink

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@cicerone imposter,

A chruchsteaple - a wonderful idea with one big problem.
Churches are locked at night and it does not look too good to break into a church and climb up the steaple. Probably police, ambulance and the guys in white would come and get us for trying to commit suiced.
Without the map we did not know where the North Star was. Then we found a star and it turned out it was an airplane and another one was a satelite. It was great fun and rather frustrating.
We had the ocean, the sky and a map we could not use.

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@saab,

I meant to use the steeple on the ground from the outside - by standing in relation to the stars you wish to see.

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@cicerone imposter,

The churches are either in the city - no use
or and
near streetlights and with spotlights
so in this case
they are of no use at all.
The south side of the house is pitchdark at night with just the ocean and the
northside with streetlamps and a forrest
There is only one single solution. Sit down and enjoy the sky and the nameless stars and listen to the waves.

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@saab,

Sounds like the best option. Wink

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@cicerone imposter,

The Milky Way arcs above an abandoned farm outside the former railroad town of Bartlett, Texas.

http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/895/cache/texas-night-sky-barn-milky-way_89541_990x742.jpg

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@vonny,

These are all very nice to me. I've never seen stars like that, being night blind. Given the variety of adversities people go through, that's relatively nothing to whine about, and I didn't know other people saw more until nearly in my thirties. But, I reiterate, am loving those photos, folks.

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@ossobuco,

With an imaginative mind like yours I daresay that you see more than most people - even if your vision is impaired!

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@vonny,

Thanks for the compliment. It's interesting to me that I'm less caring than most re our going to Mars and, for me, esoteric discussions about space. I can imagine, though, someone else with the same night blind deal, reacting in the opposite way. Good to talk with you, Von.

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@ossobuco,

Niagara Falls - a very close close-up view!

http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/935/cache/niagara-falls-drop_93546_990x742.jpg

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