Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: beauty in nature

A very pale sunset, which still looked beautiful in person, but difficult to capture. Taken at the end of the third day of a week's trip with friends, down to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. There were a number of forest fires burning in Yellowstone, resulting in a lot of haze and "blue" mountains.

This is one of my favourite kinds of mushroom to try and photograph - it was only about half an inch across, growing on a rotting log in Brown-Lowery Provincial Park on 4 August 2012. The cap is very thin and delicate and had a beautiful pattern and sparkle. I didn't see all that many fungi growing in the park and quite a few of them were not photogenic at all - I never go very far into the area, as I find it a very creepy place to be. However, I knew that at least one or two of my birder friends were going to be there that morning, so I knew that I wouldn't be there in bear and cougar territory completely on my own, ha.

I have longed to take a photo of a Snowdrop for years, but STILL haven't been able to take the kind of shot I want, LOL. If they grew in my garden, then I would pick one, but this one was growing at the Reader Rock Garden yesterday.