My hometown in North Vietnam, lands bearing the characteristics of the humid tropics, with fresh plants can be caught everywhere. A moist climate with tropical plants is the ideal refuge for animals such as snails. It's a sunny day with a slight drizzle, the little snail out of their hideout and crawl all over the place. It slowly crawled away on a branch with unique shapes, looks like it's riding on a world's slowest roller coaster.
Also known as the 'Mother Hill' or 'Shivering Mountain' due to the frequent landslips which have resulted in a multitude of 'mini-hills' beneath it.
To the right you can also find the industrial smoke produced by Hope cement works. Some consider it to be an eye sore to the landscape but I think the chimney's smoke added an element of interest to this photo.
Late evening walk back home from Tan Hill high on the North Wessex Downs, Wiltshire, England. This was the scene yesterday evening shot from the White Horse Trail looking down on the Vale of Pewsey. It has been really quite cold the last few days but the ridge of high pressure has given us wonderful late evening light. You can still see areas of frost on the ground behind hedges etc, from early morning.<br />
I do have Zeiss lenses but they are too heavy on a 2 hour hike, certainly at my age.<br />
