Category Archives: Nature

Photo of the Week – Judean Desert

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Solitude in the Judean desert – for visitors today as for monks and prophets. This image reminds me of Genesis chapter 1 where God made the firmament that He called heaven on the second day and then God said “… let the dry land appear and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth… and God saw that it was good.”

Wadi Qelt

The technical details – the photo was taken with a Nikon DSLR camera (ISO 800, 27mm, F11 at 1/500 sec).

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Photo of the Week – Ibex

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When hiking in the Ein Gedi nature reserve keep your eyes open for hyrax, Tristram grackle and ibex. As I was coming out of the reserve a group of some forty ibex went by. Their color blends into the cliff side but I caught this one as it climbed over the hill.

Ibex

The technical details – the photo was taken with a Nikon DSLR camera (ISO 400, 200mm, F11 at 1/500 sec).

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Photo of the Week – Heron at Kinneret

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I’ve been guiding in the north, around the Sea of Galilee and caught this heron on the lake in the morning.

Morning HeronThe technical details – the photo was taken with a Nikon DSLR camera (ISO 1000, 200mm, F13 at 1/1000 sec).

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Photo of the Week – View from Herodium

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I guided a group today on my Herod the Great Tour visiting Herodium and then the monumental Herod exhibit at the Israel museum. This photo is one I took from the top of the man-made mountain at Herodium looking east towards Jordan. It’s quite amazing that on a clear day you can see as far as the Dead Sea and the mountains of Moab.

View from Herodium

The technical details – the photo was taken with a Nikon DSLR camera on November 2 (ISO 200, 70mm, F10 at 1/400 sec).

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Photo of the Week – Dancing Clouds

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This photo was taken at the end of the first day of hiking the Israel trail from Eilat. It is one of those less common landscapes because it was shot vertically to get more sky in the image.

Dancing clouds Eilat

The technical details – the photo was taken with a Lumix point and shoot camera on February 28th at 6:47pm (ISO 250, 6.9mm, F3.7 at 1/30 sec).

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Photo of the Week – Poleg beach

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Israel has a Mediterranean coastline of 187 kilometres from Rosh HaNikra, the border with Lebanon in the north to Gaza in the south,  with some very nice beaches. Israeli photographer, David Rubinger, says that when you want to take a photo the best camera is the one you have with you. This photo is from the cliffs behind Wingate just south of Netanya, taken with my iPhone.

Beach Wingate

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