birds – Ritva Sillanmäki Photography

Lens Artists Challenge #225: Wildlife Close to Home

Ann from Slow Shutter Speed A photographic journey hosts this weeks Lens Artists Challenge #225: Wildlife Close to Home. Wrote; Stop. Look. Listen. Doing those three things will help you discover the abundance of wildlife you have nearby. You have wildlife in your yard, nearby park, local pond or lake and just about anywhere around you.

My contribution this week are these images. Animal Photography is not my forte, I don’t have the patience or the equipment to get the best shots, but I occasionally get a shot.

Birds big and small that I have been able to capture. this type of photography is not my forte.

Capturing this Seal was just a happy break, I was at a right place at right time.

View from the rocks

Captures from Finland, Landscapes

Yesterday was a lovely and sunny day between gray days. I took myself out to take some photos. I drove to Porkkala, and park area near us. The nature an scenery there is so delightful that I go there several times yearly.

Swans

Photography

We visited Kopparnäs-Störsvik and we were treated to undeveloped coastline as far as the eye can see and rocky outcrops rising high above sea level. The area was perfect for enjoying the peace and quiet of the forest and seaside. Watching the swans – they were eating most of the time 🙂

CB&W – Birds

Black and White photos, Photography

Here are some birds from my archives CB&W – Birds

Piedras Blancas Light Station

Landscapes, Traveling US

The light house was closed, but we stopped to take a photos first from further away and then at the gate. I have a liking to light houses so they are always a photo opportunity to me, I don’t know if you’ve noticed that 🙂

Sunset at Goa

Landscapes, Travel

I have to say this is one of the most memorable sunset I’ve witnessed. Chapora River sunset in India.

New Edits- birds in the trees

Landscapes, Nature, Photography

Chapora river (15 of 39).jpg

New Edits – Sunset

Landscapes, Nature, Photography

Chapora river (31 of 39)

January 10

Nature, Photography

Wakodahatchee Wetland (43 of 154)

January 9

Nature, Photography, Travel

Wakodahatchee Wetland (14 of 154)

My specialty has never been photographing birds, but these birds were big enough for me to capture.

January 7

Nature, Photography, Travel

Color splash continues, here are some colorful and affectionate Rainbow Lorikeet’s

January 6

Nature, Photography, Travel

One more day of grayness at home, it is wonderful to look at the colorful parrots we saw on our last trip to Florida.

Nesting of the swan

Photography

As we walked around the island, we came across this swan nesting her eggs. We made sure we did not go too close as they might leave the nest if you go too near the nest.

The female swan nests alone. The male is guarding the nest or is eating somewhere further away. The female rarely leaves the eggs during this month’s nesting time. So it’s virtually not eating of for four weeks. Even when the female leaves for a small distance to get something from the edible from the bottom of the sea it covers its eggs so they do not cool too much.