Lois Elling

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I love to explore and take photographs along the way. Nature themes are my favorites.

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Lois Elling@cataclog· 24d

Rock formations lit by the morning sun. Red Rock Canyon State Park, California.

An image of a layered and eroded cliff. There are horizontal bands of dark orange and vertical depressions/cracks. In the center is a section that looks as if it broke off and leaned to the right side.

Lois Elling@cataclog· 25d

Tiny elecampane wildflower bud (Inula helenium) in macro, Crested Butte, Colorado.

Lois Elling@cataclog· 26d

Great blue heron stretched out at Lake Chabot, Anthony Chabot Regional Park, Alameda County, California. A few minutes after I took this he caught something in the grass.

An image of a large great blue heron bird walking through short grass with its neck extended straight up.

Lois Elling@cataclog· 27d

Back area of the first floor Grand Lobby at the Paramount Theatre, Oakland, California.

A horizontal image taken looking though an indoor passway, which frames a carpeted art deco style area. There are two double doors with glass panes and decorations, a sofa, a settee, some tables with lit lamps, and artwork on the wall. The overall color is dark orange.

Lois Elling@cataclog· 28d

Aerial view of the Mississippi River between Louisiana and Mississippi at sunrise.

Lois Elling@cataclog· 29d

Sailboats and gulls over the Monterey Bay in the morning. Monterey, California.

An image of many sailboats resting on the water with a large flock of seagulls flying low over the water in front of the boats. There is some light reflection on the water and muted colored clouds in the sky.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jul 13

Ladybug on the edge of a leaf.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jul 12

Summer scene at Lake Chabot with coast live oaks and marsh grasses. Lake Chabot is in Anthony Chabot Regional Park in Alameda County, California.

An image of several large tree limbs branching up and to the right from the left side. In the background part of a lake and green and yellow marsh grasses can be seen. There are bushes of green and yellow in the lower right.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jul 11

The Jefferson General Store sign with old truck—a fun store to visit with many vintage goods in Jefferson, Texas.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jul 10

Mistletoe berries in Joshua Tree National Park, California.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jul 9

The Windows Road to several windows and arches at Arches National Park, Utah.

A desert scene with a two-land road leading in from the lower left and curving around to the middle left. In the background there are many orange rock formations, some with windows. The sky is blue with several puffy white clouds.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jul 5

View of Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, and the Berkeley Pier from Grizzly Peak Boulevard, Berkeley, California.

A wide scene taken near sunset with orange to golden colors. 2/3 of the image (lower) is water with broken up parts of a long pier reaching from the lower right to the upper left, an island on the left, and a suspension bridge in the center. Land shows at both ends of the bridge and the sky in the background of the upper third is banded yellow and orange. A small faint island can be see in the distance above the right side of the bridge with a dark spot in the orange sky which is a distant helicopter.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jul 4

Looking up from below the 7x7 light installation with rainbow colors by Illuminate at Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco, California. The grid at the top is where the light beams hit the fog.

An image taken at night of many colorful light beams reaching up to the upper right. They created bright dots of light on the underside of the fog.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jul 3

Shaggy mushrooms on decaying wood at Del Valle Regional Park, California.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jul 2

Woodland forget-me-not flowers and leaves at Tilden Regional Park, near Berkeley, California.

A cluster of 3 or 4 small blue flowers with yellow and white centers on a group of green leaves much bigger than they are.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jul 1

Green oak leaves in Eastern Tennessee. (I think this may be a swamp white oak.)

A square image that is filled with glowing green oak leaves and a few spiny dark branches.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jun 29

Shooting star wildflowers at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, California.

A cluster of 3 lavender flowers with black tips pointing down and more buds in the center. The background is a mottled green.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jun 27

Point Reyes Lighthouse on Point Reyes National Seashore, California at twilight.

An image looking down at a cluster of small buildings with red roofs. To the left is a short circular tower with a lighthouse and to the right is a larger 1-story building with a large entrance at the end and two other smaller buildings. There is a stairway leading down a rocky cliff towards the buildings. The buildings stand on a rocky outcropping and the blue ocean fills the background.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jun 25

Old oak tree and swing early morning in western Tennessee.

An image of the trunk of a large oak tree, with several branches full of leaves and hanging down towards the right. There is green grass around the tree and a swing with a hard seat hanging down from a large limb. In the background are other smaller trees and an open plowed field.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jun 24

Purple hairstreak butterfly on buckwheat flowers in Joshua Tree National Park, California.

A square image of a butterfly on clusters of white flowers. The butterfly's wings are closed and they appear mostly brown with spots of iridescent blue and red. The butterfly is facing to the right of the image. There are more white and pink blossom clusters in the background with green.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jun 22

Red mushroom, probably fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) in Eastern Tennessee.

A single mushroom with a bright red cap surrounded by green from grasses.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jun 20

Great blue heron in flight over the San Francisco Bay off Portview Park, Oakland, California.

A vertical shot of mostly blue water with soft ripples and a large bird—a great blue heron—flying over the water toward the left side of the frame. There's a bit of the bird's reflection in the water, although it's very distorted.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jun 19

Curving Redtail Trail at Anthony Chabot Regional Park, California.

A small dirt path strewn with fallen leaves curves through a tunnel of green and yellow bushes and trees.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jun 7

View of the waterfall or fountain light sculpture over the main doors and lobby of the historic Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California. The theater is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jun 5

Triptych of 3 tulip poplar trees in the Grove of the States at Baldock Rest Area off Interstate 5, Oregon. This is the state tree of Tennessee, Indiana, and Kentucky.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jun 4

Lockheed C-130 Hercules "Fat Albert" - the Blue Angels' support plane over the Golden Gate Bridge in 2006.

A vertical image of a large prop-jet plane painted in blue and white banking to the left over the top of a tower of the Golden Gate Bridge. There is just blue sky behind both.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jun 3

Mushrooms growing between logs at Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park, California. I haven't been able to identify them unless they are sulphur tufts. Taken last November.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jun 2

Lower Yellowstone Falls at Yellowstone National Park.

A river running through a steep canyon with the large waterfall at the back and top of the frame. There are few trees on the rocky cliffs but many trees behind the waterfall.

Lois Elling@cataclog· Jun 1

Dust storm lit by the setting sun with clouds above and the rocky shore below. A few people are on the left and show the scale. Negit Island is the on the right and lit by the sun. Mono Lake, California.

An image of mostly grey stormy-looking clouds with a dark rock and water ground below. The sun has lit up the center area of a dust storm rising from the ground.

Lois Elling@cataclog· May 31

The lovely North Falls at Silver Falls State Park, Oregon.