This tree looks like it wants to give someone a hug. #ThickTrunkThursday #trees #eucalypts #photography
Derrick
@timber-n-tectonics.bsky.social
Academic geoscientist based in Australia, enjoys nature photography, science, and woodworking. Photos are my own unless reposts.
Banksia flower slowly opening. Generally they open bottom to top, but this one has an interesting region along one side that is not emerging. Looks like a fur coat. #photography #botany #gardening #flowers
View from Sandy Bay, Tasmania yesterday evening. Wonderfully pastel sky. #ocean #sky #lichen #rocks #landscape #photography
A pair of l silver #gulls on the Sandy Bay shoreline, #Tasmania #BirdOfTheDay #FabulousWaders #birds #photography
Reflections of #sailboats masts in Blackwood Marina, #Hobart, #Tasmania. #photography #ocean #reflections
This is the oldest photo of a bird that I have, from Feb 2002. A cactus wren from Tucson, around the Desert Museum Arizona #BirdOfTheDay #Firsts #birds #photographs
The Adelaide Hills in the distance, view from the Adelaide airport. The city can be seen on the left of the image. While the hills aren’t big, they are young, about 5-10 million years, and growing. They’ll probably never be huge, but the could make it a few km high. #geology #photography #hills
A New Holland honeyeater visiting our aloes. #photography #urbanwildlife #birds #gardens #succulents
Shadow canvas on agave leaves. Shadows of last years pincushion flower stalks on this early winter morning. #shadows #photography #succulents
Stands above others Adelaide Hills just after sunset yesterday. #ThreeWordGenre #landscape #photography
Soursobs may be a weed, but they are a decently pretty one that attracts bees. #photography #macro #bees
Utah Hwy 261 cutting through the red rocks of the Colorado Plateau. Headed home after teaching at a field camp a number of years ago. #Utah #ColoradoPlateau #highways #desert #geology #landscape #photography
Are heterogeities in water concentration the reason clouds can be isolated? Or is it that they nucleate in different places and grow much like crystals precipitating out of a solution? #iWonder #clouds #science #photography
Sulfur-crested cockatoo in the same spot as the galahs yesterday. Much better lighting today. #birds #parrots #photography
