Happy Holidays to everybody!
 

:santa: Wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Healthy, Wealthy and Happy New Year!

Happy holidays to you too, Claudemir! Enjoy your wonderful weather (I'm assuming it's warm there, hahah) Pretty chilly here in North Carolina!

Denise

And to you as well Claudemir ...

And to all my friends in south Texas that got their first white Christmas ever recorded.

In Tilden and Victoria, Texas, about 75 miles south of my home town of San Antonio, they got 10-12 inches of snow. They even got 1-2 inches in Brownsville at the southern tip of Texas. Brownsville is almost as far south as Miami.

I doubt it got as far south as Brazil. Claudemir, what's the weather like in Brazil in late December.

Mike - can you believe this weather?! It's been under 20 degrees for days - Here is what we were riding last week and forgot to cover it. I bet it wont start now.

Greeting 2005!
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What can you find from the number 2005?

Thanks everybody,

Well, I

A smallcard to all:
 

Thanks Claudemir, for the thoughts and thread.

I'll add by best wishes to everyone for a Healthy, Safe, Productive, Prosperous, and Happy New Year in 2005!

Garth

The last sunset of 2004.

Siesta Key, FL USA.

So beautiful, Mike. Thanks for posting these.

Just lyrical Mike! The Vivaldi currently playing on the net radio is perfect with this imagery.

It would be cool to get the first sunrise of 2005 too. I hope some tries this. I guess ideally one must be situated on the Atlantic side of FL for this.

Garth

I too am fond of Vavaldi.

I am more reliable on the sunset than the sunrise. I don't have anything against sunrises, I just don't think you have to be awake to enjoy them.

Having missed the wake up call for the sunrise I thought I'd follow the last sunset of '04 with the first of '05.

WOW Mike, that's breathtaking!

As I dined on a $1.99 shrimp sandwich at IKEA, looking out through the plate glass window with the sun setting over greater suburbia, my first thought was "Will Mike capture this moment for us all?". I admit I was up rather late this morning too. Judging by those outstanding pictures of yours, could 2005 be even a better year than 2004?

Thanks for this visual treat,

Garth

Man, I know who to go to when I next need a dramatic cloud reference!

Those images are straight out of the camera, I did no color enhancement. As you stand on the beach looking out at these scenes the colors will change dramatically in just a matter of seconds. In the last throws of light you can get four different looks in the course of one minute. This place can really come with the sunsets.

Yesterday evening (last year), as I was photographing the little girl with the birds, a pair of dolphins cruised past not forty feet off shore. They would surface every hundred feet or so as they paralleled the shore line. I missed them each time they came up. The imagery around here is so rich I think I'm going to have to try my hand at painting some of these scenes.

I should stop now.

Mike,

Do you have a large version of the first image. I'd like to use it as desktop wallpaper from time to time if you don't mind.

Ahhhh, I miss Florida!

Cynthia,

My pleasure.

Georgeous Mike! We just got home (a few weeks ago) from Sanibel Island. These bring back memories!

Hi all,

Impressions of the last day of 2004, in Denmark:

Snow covered the landscape, rime in the evening as the sun set.

On my way back home from work (thatching) I happened to drive behind a car that was hit by a pheasant. I took the pheasant with me home and used it for a photo session for a later still life, and after that the pheasant itself ended up in the freezer.

Happy New Year.

Allan

Awesome pictures Allan! I like how the road just flows from the clouds, and what a great still life setup. Thanks for sharing.

Garth

Allan,

I hope you got some nice hot soup when you got home. I can only imagine what thatching a roof would be like in that kind of weather. Nice images.

Mike and Garth,

Thatching is not so bad after all. This autumn was unusually mild. Must be the "Global warming" or something. But of cause nothing to compare with Florida. Maybe something like around Garth

[QUOTE=Allan Rahbek]Mike and Garth,

Thatching is not so bad after all. This autumn was unusually mild. Must be the "Global warming" or something. But of cause nothing to compare with Florida. Maybe something like around Garth

Garth,
we had around 7 degrees C. to day, now, in the middle of the night, we have 1 d C.

I don