Appreciate Beauty of Nature

This is a post inspired by @phortun and his weekly contest where he invites people to appreciate the beauty of nature and share photos of it here on Hive. The ask is to use a photo no more than a week old and to say a little bit about the photo and when and where it was captured. Here is the original post if you want to have a look.

https://hive.blog/hive-127788/@phortun/appreciate-beauty-of-nature-with-phortun-round-120

I really like this idea for a contest and look forward to seeing stunning shots of nature from far flung corners of the world, some places I have been, some I may visit some day and some I will never see. For the latter, these shots on Hive taken from a fellow hiver in the last week takes me there in a virtual type of way, which is really cool.

My Entry for this week

I am pretty lucky in so far as I am often surrounded by nature here in Galway. I live just outside Galway city in the countryside in a place called Connemara which is a haven of flora and fauna throughout the year, but particularly in Spring and Summer when the surrounding hinterland is peppered with all manner of greenery and life.

Here are a few photos I captured while saving some turf out on the bog. We have the beginnings of a double rainbow in the background and a pot of gold lurking somewhere in that far away forest.

There is something about rainbows that I love, the mix of colours together, all of the constituent colours of white broken up by scattering of the light wave and the fact that a rainbow is only apparent under certain conditions. Did you know that the sun has to be at 42 degrees or less to horizon for a rainbow to be seen. Ever seen a rainbow at midday? Didn't think so..

I also love light in general, I like the symbolism around light and the history. Here in Ireland there are special passage tombs which were built and designed for light to pass through them at certain times of the year, usually the longest or shortest day of the year, like Newgrange for example.

Then there is the fact that the world wide web that you are using to read this post is made possible by a world wide web land based and under water sub sea cables which carry all of your data and the data of everyone else in your country to every other country and continent in the world via light waves. All of your data is turned into light along with everyone elses data and then there is an optical technique known as Dense Wavelength Divison Multiplexing (DWDM) which can basically break a light wave up into 88 constituent wavelengths each of which can carry a huge amount of data, 1.6TeraBits to be exact per channel, so that's 140.8 TerraBits of capacity, yep that's a lot of capacity! Ok, I am going to stop nerding ye out now, and might do a separate post all about Optical Engineering which may be of interest to some here on Hive, but maybe not everyone who is here for photos of nature!

Have you got some sweet photos of nature from the past week? Why not share them and potentially get a full power upvote from @phortun. Even if you don't grab your camera or camera phone and go for a walk, as matter where you are on this floating planet, nature is right beside you, whether you are an urban or rural dweller.

These photos are all my own captured on my Samsung Smartphone

Thanks as always for stopping by everyone.

Peace Out