Flowering African Feather Grass, Pennisetum macrourum backlit at dawn. flanges

Flowering African Feather Grass, Pennisetum macrourum backlit at dawn. flangesFlowering African Feather Grass, Pennisetum macrourum backlit at dawn. Zoological Board of Victoria, Victoria, Australia.

Light snow covers a charred stand of forest and a small alpine pool

Bullatail Creek

A couple stroll through autumn leaves on a foggy dawn

near Falls Creek

but they are excellent swimmers with a flying technique underwater

A fungi fly is attracted to the gills of a giant Amanita mushroom

or spot-tailed

A southern elephant seal plays with a foam buoy and rope

Detail of a ruined wall of the Guarani baroque ruins of San Ignacio

stirrup and blanket looped over a cattle yard fence

A southern elephant seal's eyes and face emerging from the shadows

Detail of tree bark in a woodland setting