Tillandsia Argentea Thin is a very unique air plant from South America. It sports green-silvery, thin leaves which sprout from a round base. The air plant is in an abalone shell.

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― Chad Sugg

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White storks (Ciconia Ciconia)

Windrad_30

I'm working on presets for Aperture and this is one I came up with.

Airy - The owner of the house was surprised to see me lying on the ground taking the flowers in front of her house. Lucky I am not been told off for not asking for permission to take her flowers.

Source air balloons :

www.deviantart.com/fairiegoodmother/art/Precute-Hot-Air-B...

Today I Touched A Dragonfly by P Masterman

Today I touched a dragonfly

Whose wings were singed by sun

Stroked the lightning fast bolt of tail

Far off, I heard somebody sigh

Felt myself rise above the plains

To ride the wind like an ancient stream

He was made of golden sails

I thought I was inside some dream

He tilted his head from side to side

In his costume of airy chain-mail

I never thought the day would come

A dragonfly would pause

So I could touch his buoyant frame

And feel the breeze it draws.

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Berlin

#sliderssunday

The berlin cube cloudified and kaleidoscoped for Sliders Sunday. Composite made of two images taken there in mid July. The first image is a capture I took standing right next to the cube's facade and pointing the camera straight up. In Photoshop, I copied the layer with the original image, flipped the new layer horizontally, and cross-faded it with the first layer by using the blending mode "Overlay" at 75 % opacity. 100 % would have resulted in a punchier look on the right side, but I rather liked the softness and that it somehow looks as if the cube would slowly dissolve into or merge with the clouds. The next step was to replace the sky above the cube(s). For that I used a small part of the very first image I'd taken at the cube; I was just about to compose the image in the viewfinder when I noticed the bird, and decided to skip the composing part in favour of the bird ;-) (Birds, just like photographers, love the new berlin cube. There was a constant coming and going on the cube's roof, and it seems that, while not even all new tenants have moved in, yet, the cube's roof has already been occupied by the bird population that lives in the Hauptbahnhof area.) Next, I gently HDRified the finished composite in Aurora, then went into ON1 where I added some sunbeams to the upper sky part of the image, and added a soft glow for an extra airy look.

Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, have a nice and safe new week ahead!

Kleine Spiegel-Spielerei vom "berlin cube" für den Sliders Sunday. Dieses Bild ist zusammengesetzt aus zwei verschiedenen Fotos, die ich dort Mitte Juli gemacht habe. Für Foto Nr. 1 hatte ich fast an der Fassade des Cubes gelehnt und die Kamera direkt nach oben gerichtet. Dieses Foto habe ich in Photoshop auf einer kopierten Ebene einfach horizontal gespiegelt und mit dem darunter liegenden Originalbild bei 75 % Deckkraft ineinanderkopiert. Danach habe ich den Himmel über "den Cubes" ersetzt, und zwar mit einem kleinen Teil des allerersten Fotos, das ich dort gemacht hatte. Ich war gerade dabei gewesen, eine gute Position zu finden, um den Cube möglichst sauber ausgerichtet fotografieren zu können, bemerkte dann aber den Vogel und beschloss, das saubere Ausrichten zugunsten des Vogels auf das nächste Foto zu verschieben ;-) Überhaupt ist der neue Cube schon sehr beliebt bei den Vögeln, die rund um den Berliner Hauptbahnhof leben. Während längst noch nicht alle Mieter in den Cube eingezogen sind, hat die Vogel-Gang vom Hauptbahnhof bereits das gesamte Dach in Beschlag genommen ;-) Bearbeitungstechnisch habe ich das fertig zusammengesetzte Bild erst in Aurora sanft HDRisiert und dann, in ON1, dem oberen Teil ein paar Sonnenstrahlen und zum Abschluss dem gesamten Foto ein leichtes Leuchten verpasst, um den luftig-leichten Look zu betonen.

Ich wünsche Euch einen guten Start in die neue Woche, bleibt gesund, liebe Flickr-Freunde :-)

Crane's-bill geranium in the late evening.

In our garden.

Thank you for all the kind words, comments and faves - truly appreciated :^)

LVM Münster

a cloudy and rainy day. Trying to connect the different shapes, patterns and angles. The reflection of the skywalk are the connectors of the 2 buildings. Added some blue to highlight the airy atmosphere.

……An hour earlier it would have been a very different picture - and I’d have got VERY wet!! I stood here for ages and imagined the light streaming into this magnificent window back in the day!! Taken on my phone in Apple RAW and edited in Lightroom. HSS, Alan:-)…….

For the interested I’m growing my Shutterstock catalogue regularly here, now sold 108 images :- www.shutterstock.com/g/Alan+Foster?rid=223484589&utm_...

©Alan Foster.

©Alan Foster. All rights reserved. Do not use without permission.……

Detail of a Japanese Maple tree spotted in a Tyler, Texas, garden.

The airy glass-and-steel design roof at King's Cross Station Western Concourse

London, UK

Le toit aéré en verre et en acier du hall ouest de la gare de King's Cross

Central Alberta.

"Columbine (Aquilegia spp.) blooms are said to resemble jester's caps, and their effectiveness at attracting hummingbirds will certainly put bird watchers in a merry mood. This herbaceous perennial is an airy plant with attractive clover-like foliage. The blooms come in many colors, and most have spurs: long, narrow strips streaming horizontally from the back of each flower. This plant is generally planted in early spring. Established plants typically bloom for about four weeks starting in mid-spring.

Columbines are short-lived perennial plants, but if you let the flower heads go to seed rather than deadheading them, they will readily self-sow and might soon form a colony of plants when growing conditions are optimal. They have a moderate growth rate, and seeds germinate in about 20 to 30 days. Columbine plants are toxic to humans."

thespruce.com

Grado (GO)

You might need a bit of filler around the window, but the view is gorgeous. HWW!

Nice that this is the place at the very center of the city

Park Strelka, Yaroslavl, Russia

MINA - Carmen - @ Uber

Lovely updo by MINA go fetch this lovely hair,

Kaithleens Airy Frill @ Pocket Gacha

You really gotta check out this gacha all pieces are made so perfectly fitted,

fitted for Maitreya, Belezza and Slink.

You ll have to get a hud to play the gacha's available at Pocket Gacha mainstore.

GachaKey is on my blog:

bewitcheddifference.blogspot.nl/2017/12/airy.html?zx=1525...

Love Be x

This is taken when the winter was still at full strength. It was midday, sun was barely visible through the haze. Air was filled with ice crystals and cold mist. The whole field was covered with mystic light. Everything was covered with snow frost.

I know, you all are probably in the spring with your thoughts and really tired of winter, ice and cold. But I still have some winter images to share! Nature around here is now showing first signs of spring. When that longed emerging season is finally here (we still have some snow!) I will be able to enjoy and photograph it.

Just breathe...

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Ben Resipol stands like Mount Fuji reflected in Lake Motosu. A heron, wings outstretched stands as if an artfully painted crane on a Japanese sampan. No, this is Loch Shiel again, where you can stand in the silence and dream about being anywhere your mind takes you. I think this is the prettiest loch in Scotland

Tempe Center for the Arts – Tempe, AZ

...when spiders are artists.

What isn't apparent from this photo is that it was cold and windy, with sudden gusts. These two are no relation to me, though it was hard to watch this, as I'm prone to acrophobia. I'm glad I don't watch my sons do stuff like this (often, only occasionally). The rock is obviously not terribly stable, with cracks indicating future failure and erosional action.

Don't take risks friends, stay at home as much as possible in these trying times.

Tabby house on Jekyll Island

HSS

© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved

Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.

Colour re-edit of a shot from August 2017. One of those instances where I let my love of black and white photography take precedence on an image that deserves to be in full glorious colour. Enjoy!

A mixture of water and dish washing fluid was used to create this effect.

Afterwards the said mixture was used at Teatime washing up..... We had squeaky clean dishes and I had ultra soft hands.

Rivers Edge - Carpenters Woods - Mt Airy, Philadelphia, PA - USA (Sony a7 Mark II - Voigtlander 110mm F2.5 APO Macro + Atomos Shinobi External Monitor + Handheld, Exported from RAW to JPEG via Lightroom Unedited No Crop)

" The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;

And as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a name. "

- William Shakespeare

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