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Pacific Sea Nettle Jellyfish - 3 smaller jellies with one longer jelly that occupies almost the full vertical height of the portrait photo. The jellies are a bring orange-red that contrasts dramatically with the blue water.
Wisteria hanging down in front of the fence with green foliage above (blurred due to shallow depth of field) and concrete wall below.
Ivy covered red brick wall around a black door. The ivy is concentrated around the door itself and doesn't fully cover the red brick so most of what you see in the photo is the red brick wall and the black door at the center. The street is cobbled and slanted tot he left with a brick path between the street and wall running across the photo.
The photo shows dense tomato vines with an array of cherry tomatoes growing on the vine in the center of the photo- the tomatoes at the top are bright red and their colors form a gradient going from red through orange, yellow and then green.
Poppies growing amongst the ruins in Pompeii: this photo shows hundreds of red poppy flowers amongst a sea of green stems and leaves filling all of the ground between the eroded and crumbling walls. The building walls at the top edge of the photo are in a good state (not eroded) and you can see trees growing above those walls.
Saint Patrick's Well from above with lots of green stuff growing on the walls! This view shows the vertical drop to the bottom of the well with the windows of the stairwell visible all the way down.
Arctic Tern hovering above the water at Siglufjórður (the water isn't visible, only the mountain in the distance can be seen at the bottom of the photo)
Red-bellied Woodpecker hanging onto thick trunk - shallow depth of field blurs background tree branches and foliage
Woodpecker sitting on thick branch with green foliage in background above it
Picnic table in foreground (takes up bottom half of portrait layout photo). In the mid-ground is the brown-gray gravel parking area and slope down towards the lake. At the edge of the lake are some pine trees on the right and a grassy area with a building or two on the left. The upper third of the photo shows an amazingly tranquil Lake Þingvallavatn - it looks like a mirror reflecting the rounded mountains on the horizon with a completely clear sky above.
Misty morning view at Nambiti Game Reserve with Windmill near the bottom of the view, rolling tree covered hills in the foreground and a big mountain in the distance occupying the top third of the photo
Isolated building on small island with glacier on mainland topped with snow. Sea water in foreground makes up a third of the photo.
Kirkjufell on Snæfellsnes peninsula reflected in still water in the foreground with a sunburst from the sunset caused by the sun peaking over the horizon. Late evening deep blue sky with wispy clouds above Kirkjufell fill the upper half of the photo.
An empty road snaking from the bottom-left of the photo up through the red brown sandy hills in the distance exiting between the hills two thirds of the way across the photo. In the foreground the hill is raised up by black sand and gravel that is most likely lava rock.
Azure waters off the island of Capri - this is the view looking down from the Gardens of Augustus. Around the periphery of the photo on the right and bottom are the rocks below the surrounding cliffs.
Tree silhouetted on left side of photo, sun rising above Colorado Plateau at Grand Canyon in center of photo, observation deck on the right with the crowd also enjoying the sunrise
Elephant traffic jam at Welgevonden game park
A wide, eye-level photograph captures the historic, open-air brick pavilion in New Orleans City Park during a rainy day, its tan brick archways and red terracotta tile roof creating a covered porch where visitors shelter. At the center of the roofline sits a prominent vintage neon sign shaped like a steaming blue coffee cup with the cursive words "Morning Call" written inside, mounted directly above a red banner reading "OPEN 24 HOURS" in bold white lettering. On the left side of the wet brick porch, a man wearing a turquoise sleeveless shirt and a sun hat stands beside a wheelchair packed with belongings, while other patrons sit at tables further back in the deep shadows of the archways. In the center, a worker in white attire moves past the building's glass entry doors, and green hanging plants dangle between the pillars. The entire lower third of the frame is filled with a dense, slightly blurred hedge of bright green ferns that partially obscures the base of the structure, while faint vertical rain streaks slice through the hazy, overcast air across the scene.
Seal stretched out warming in the sun on the dock at Kalk Bay with the bay and mountains in the distance and clouds with a bit of blue sky peaking through at the top of the photo
View outside Haute Cabrière in Franschhoek Valley - late afternoon light reflecting mountains in the distance in the pond in the foreground with buildings built in a Cape Dutch style on the right side of the photo.
Beach with white cliffs and tall palm trees above colorful slopes (green with red and orange flowers interspersed). Condominiums in the middle of the photo with rolling grass-covered hills with trees beyond.
A single large mushroom with a wide, rounded cap sitting low in the grass. The cap surface is tan to yellow‑brown, and the most striking feature is the intricate cracked pattern across the entire top - thin, irregular fissures forming a mosaic that radiates outward from the center. Some of the cracks expose lighter yellowish flesh underneath. The cap looks moist or glossy, suggesting recent rain or dew. It’s growing directly out of lawn grass, with no visible stem or underside in the frame.
Five long-stemmed mushrooms extending from the forest floor with a old decaying branch surrounding the base of the mushrooms (most likely the mushrooms are actually growing on the branch but the base is hidden by the darkness). The branch is in the lower third of the photo and the mushrooms extend up from the lower third to the upper third (spanning roughly half of the height of the portrait layout photo). The mushrooms have parachute-like caps and are a light cream color with brown at the center and only the tops of the caps after visible. The view of the mushrooms is horizontal- from the forest floor. The forest floor visible behind the mushrooms is blurred due to the use of shallow depth of field.
Looking straight down the side of a rotting tree trunk to the ground close up reveals small yellow flames appearing out of cracks in the wood- small stagshorn fungus (macro shot reveals this tiny detail that would be missed by 99.99% of passers by)
Macro shot of an Oriental Beetle straddling a cherry tree leaf
The view looking back down the length of Langístigur at Þingvellir from the viewpoint above at the end of the trail. The pathway runs through the photo from the bottom to the top third. The sides of the narrow lava-rim formed by the fault can be seen all the way through the photo. The distant mountain ridge can be seen faintly.
Grey Heron standing on the fence at Fontana dell'Oceano in Florence. The fence forms an arc starting in the bottom-right side of the photo and reaches the middle of the photo before arcing back to the right side about and exiting about 1/5 of the way from the top-right corner. There's a hedge running all the way across the top 20% of the photo.
The winding meltwater-carved pathway downstream from the Katla ice cave in the Kötlujökull glacier - this viewpoint looks all the way downstream and has a group of tourists waiting their turn to enter the cave (you have to wait far away from the cave entrance while another group is in the cave). In the distance the Hafursey mountain peak is visible.
Photo taken from the road (in foreground) and curved up to the left exiting to the left mid-way up the photo. Densely packed evergreen trees line the sides of the road. A camper van and two other cars are on the road. In the distance majestic mountains covered in snow with rock surface visible make up about a third of the photo near the top with bright clouds in blue sky above them.
Boat navigating along the green Colorado river at Horseshoe Bend - the river forms a curve from top-left to bottom-left in this photo shot from the overlook above
Twisted road to Baccoleno Agriturismo lined with cypress trees and pink flowers in foreground
Curved structure of Palazzo Ducale walkway in Venice - view all the way down the passageway showing columns lined up on left and right with people occupying walkway at base of photo
Green Anole (lizard) on a drain pipe on the exterior of a house
Old rusty hull of boat with BA 64 on the starboard side - boat is facing towards the camera turned slightly to port side resting on a patch of grass on the beach - sky is light grey to darken the scene slightly
Turquoise waters of Arnastapi in Iceland with a whitened sea stack colored by the "output" from abundant sea birds. Green grassy hill slope in the foreground with many yellow flowers on it. Mountains visible on the far side of the bay with storm clouds above to the left and white clouds building above the mountains with a touch of blue sky visible.
Path leading to black lava pearl beach (Djúpalónssandur) - green grass alongside the path in foreground with jagged rocks in the middle ground and a hill with sparse vegetation lit up in the distance with blue sky above.
Underside of CPU showing gold pins
Base of dandelion showing spikes on the seeds themselves
Thorny stem with a dagger fly on it
Purple prickly pear fruit with thorny green cactus stem against a red-brown blurred backdrop
Thorny acacia tree in foreground (in focus) with Rhino in top right corner of photo blurred due to shallow depth of field.
Orange-gold water from sunrise reflection at dawn with bird silhouetted in foreground and waves and golden sky in the background
The village of Varenna with trees all around and mountains to the north- a
Busy street on the side of the Grand Canal viewed from Ponte di Rialto with water taxi pulling up to dock. The upper half of the frame is filled by the beige and red-brown buildings along the canal.
Seagull flying above a busy St. Mark's square in Venice with the basilica prominently in the bottom third of this portrait photo
Young lady in bell bottom jeans walking in front of the crowd with a view of Duomo di Milano beyond
A fisherman at Ingólfsgarður lighthouse with Tindstaðahnúkur across the bay from Reykjavik
Three turkeys in full display with a dark sky backdrop and a bare white barked tree in contrast
Early morning light with crepuscular rays extending down from the top-left part of the image to the backlit cherry blossom in the center of the image - the background is blurred due to shallow depth of field
The flowers of a mountain doghobble look like little urns - in this photo you can see a long chain of them hanging down the middle of the photo with shallow depth of field blurring the surrounding plants
Three shell like fungi fans growing on a tree branch
This fan-shaped jelly fungus growing among the mulch looks like little yellow flames
Fern unfurling with brown forest floor backdrop
Pink spring blossoms contrast against the drab colors of awakening tree and a white sky above
Puppy chewing linked ring toy (blue, yellow and red rings interlinked)
Three yellow shrimp‑shaped bracts amongst a sea of green leaves against a dark backdrop to add contrast
Observer at Mouse's Tank Road in Valley of Fire in Nevada
Strokkur eruption observed by tourists
Tourists posing beneath Skógafoss- the waterfall towering above them
Sunset fire in the sky forms the backdrop of the long grass at the beach