Reykjavik Cathedral Flowers Our action shot was taken

Our action shot was taken

We struggled to keep our tripods upright and had to shelter our tripods and cameras using our bodies as wind breaks

The Leiden Botanists began to hybridize the Turkish Tulip into an amazing range of colors in the early 1600s

and finally lined the nest with grass and reeds

Swan couples prefer to build their nests close by to where they nested last year if their previous years hatching was successful

Reykjavik Cathedral Flowers Our action shot was takenReykjavik Cathedral or the Hallgrimskirka, as it is called in Iceland, took 42 years to build, from 1945 to 1986. The architect, Guojon Samuelson, said that the columns on the side of the main tower are meant to represent Icelandic volcanic basalt rock that was instantly petrified after its molten lava met the frigid Atlantic Ocean. Our picture was taken with a Canon R5 mounted with an RF 15 to 35 mm lens, at f 11 and 1 50 sec. Later, Alice Pownall