Picture-A-Week 2022 - Week 38

[pierces]

Pictures taken between Monday, September 19 and Sunday, September 25.

 

Depending on your hemisphere, Fall or Spring begins this week. Obviously, a seasonal photo-op! 

 

 

Rules: See above

That's it. This isn't a contest.

All photos taken this week are welcome (not just cruising).

Prizes will not be awarded. Discovering the joy of photography is the prize.

The idea is to get folks out using their cameras for more than vacations and toddler birthdays.

Post one. Post many. Up to you.

Have fun with your camera and share your fun with others!

[ski ww]

Here are some of the volunteers of the," Friends of the Coldwater Mill"  putting up a new Totem Pole.

 

[Docker123]

For the first time in 3 years I have been able to leave Melbourne. Flight across the country to visit my mother (92) in Perth.  One highlight is Kings Park overlooking the city, and it is the height of wildflower season

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 24, 2022 by Docker123

[ski ww]

Coldwater Fall Fair. The winning pull was 5325 lbs.

 

[pierces]

Maybe it was because I was obsessed with dinosaurs and later morphed into a Sci-Fi and superhero fan when I was growing up. For whatever reason, I never got into collecting Matchbox or Hot Wheels. I knew all the car models by sight and appreciated the ‘60s and ’70s muscle cars as much as anyone, but I had zero desire to collect tiny replicas of them. That doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate their products, especially one as delightful as the one pictured here that Granddaughter Hailee brought home from a job fair her school sponsored. In my opinion, a tiny scale model of JPL’s Perseverance Mars Rover leaves any plastic pen with a logo in the dust in the best booth swag race. Mars dust, of course.

 

Hot Wheels on a Cold Planet

 

 

 

 

Dave

[zackiedawg]

I spent the 19th at Animal Kingdom in Disney World...always a favorite park as anyone who sees my photos would know - anyplace I can photograph animals and birds, I'm happy!  It was hot and humid, but a nice day at the park.

 

Started out by driving over to the Animal Kingdom Lodge - love the theming and construction of this hotel:

 

Walking into the theme park, I still had the 18-135mm lens on and was taking scenic shots when I walked right into the exotic bird flight - two or three times a day they have these beautiful macaws come flying over and around the park, landing near the main overlook where they tell you about the birds, then they fly off again - they've got run of the park and often after the show they just fly to some random spot and hang out for a bit, so you can run into them anywhere.  Eventually they go back to their backstage area where they sleep and feed, but they're surprisingly allowed free flight around the 600+ acre park:

 

 

A giraffe reaching high for some food:

 

A female lion, resting but still vigilant:

 

Not the case for the male lion, napping soundly:

 

Wanna get close to the lowland gorilla?  Well, here he is in all his glory, staring right at the camera:

 

Meercat on lookout duty:

 

Back to the Animal Kingdom Lodge, it was still a little early for sunset, but the Sunset Room already had some neat light and shadow play going on for an HDR shot:

 

From the Animal Kingdom Lodge, I drove over to the Coronado Springs Resort for dinner reservations...this is the grand lobby of the new Gran Destino Tower:

 

The new tower connects to the old Coronado Springs resort's main building through what used to be the old check-in desk area for the resort (now relocated to the tower):

 

And just to wrap up...at the other end of this week's date range, I got back out briefly to the wetlands on Saturday the 24th before rains chased me home...got this shot of a female anhinga with her fish catch:

[boeckli]