A Great Blue Heron touching down at Crescent Beach, Surrey, B.C.

Paul Don Smith

Joyeux Noël !

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Une petite fille à l'aquarium Mare nostrum (Montpellier - France).

L'aquarium Mare Nostrum est un aquarium public de l'agglomération de Montpellier, situé dans le quartier Odysseum à Montpellier. Il est ouvert depuis le 15 décembre 2007. Le 12 avril 2011, une extension de 800 m2 a été inaugurée.

Mare Nostrum fait découvrir près de 400 espèces en provenance de tous les océans du monde. Pendant près de 2h30, le spectateur peut y découvrir les trésors de la Méditerranée, passer par Gibraltar pour défier les mers australes, aller à la rencontre des manchots, et se plonger dans les abysses. L'aquarium dispose aussi d'un théâtre avec une vision panoramique sur le bassin central Océan.

A little girl at the aquarium Mare Nostrum (Montpellier - France).

The southern seas in aquarium Mare nostrum (Montpellier - FRANCE). With its coral reef and multicolored fishes, the lagoon offers a real rainbow of the seas to the pleasure of the eyes!

Settle in the lagoon with identification cards and play to recognize fishes and other marine animals. Also, the view is amazing into the fishereye window !

"Am I still tough enough?

Feels like I'm wearing down.

Is my viciousness losing ground?

I see you left a mark

Up and down my skin

I don't know where I end

And where you begin"

(Discipline - NIN)

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Kazemeer's tattoo

"Indem ich mich vom Tod erhebe, töte ich den Tod, der mich tötet.

[...]

Wenn ich das Gift in meinem Kopfe trage, ist das Heilmittel in meinem Schwanz, den ich wütend beiße."

(Della tramutatione metallica - Giovanni Battista Nazari)

Translation:

"I revive myself from death, and kill the death that killed me. [...]

I carry poison in my head, but the remedy is in my tail, which I bite in my fury. "

(Excerpt from: Three Dreams on the Transmutation of Metals by Giovanni Battista Nazari)

the evening sun burns through the lip of a clean one at rincon...

Happy Perfect Purple Saturday!

Much much better on black

I've brought this in tonight as it's going to be so cold. I'm going to try to overwinter it but don't hold out too much hope. At least I've got a few photos from it!

Following critique I've lightened the surface of the pool and darkened the boulder...

One great opera for Claudia222 Jewell

So beautiful.

Photo: Jean

On my balcony. Impatiens walleriana aka Touch-Me-Not.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIEWS, COMMENTS, FAVES AND INVITES.

Mount Timpanogos starting is to show some fall colors. Utah County, Utah.

TOUCH BEAUTY

- [TOUCH BEAUTY - TOUCH BEAUTY - Skin and Shape Paola Milf

Here shown on eVOX Fleur and INITHIUM

Exclusive Orsy Event opening 9 July

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Todays theme is yellow! With a touch of green!!

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Diptych app

This leaf was seen floating on water (or maybe a starry sky!) at the Los Angeles County Arboretum. The contrast between the background and the pale colored leaf together with the "touch of pink" attracted me.

Church Street, Matlock

Come join us for a fun day out this coming Friday, a new addition to our Winter scene this year is a brand new Christmas tree that is empty ready for our guests to add their touch too it ( there will be ornaments rezzed on ground for you to move directly to the tree some are 0 lindens others cost something all cost helps our region thrive and keep going - ornaments will be returned to you before New Years day)

touch....

strobist info:50mm, f/5, 1/125, ISO 160, on camera flash -2, sb600 behind subject at head height, full power, triggered with hahnel remote

c l o s e r

what if your hand could tell stories?

There was something very appealing about the bark on this particular tree at Lucca's Villa Pfanner...it could my eye and my senses

Image taken along a lake and edited for color and mood

Southwest Boeing 737's, N715SW Shamu and N8652B Heart livery arriving and departing Phoenix Sky Harbor.

National Geographic photographer Jim Brandenburg grew up in SW Minnesota and worked with others to purchase area land to restore it to natural prairie land. I have given support to this wonderful group. More information can be found at: jimbrandenburg.com/bpf/about/ and www.facebook.com/touchtheskyprairie/ .

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Thanks for your comments on the mini "From Above" series. Now going back down to the streets. Have a good week ahead everyone!

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My 15th of March shot.

This time the opposite side of the bridge...