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"Looking close... on Friday!"

A butterfly Vanessa Cardui on an osteospermum flower from my garden

Steller‘s Jay

The Lakes sept 2020

Altstadt-Nord,

Cologne, Germany

I wasn’t planning to capture a blurry photo, but accidentally the camera shaken and this photo came out.

Despite the ghostliness, I still find some beauty within this night scene so I decided to share with you.

Der Niederrhein ist reich an Wiesenlandschaften, die durch Kopfweiden, Weidengebüsche und Pappelreihen das charakteristische Landschaftsbild prägen.

Grasses and reflections in a lake in Jasper National Park, Alberta.

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Hi all !!

My vampire... it's been a long time since I created a photo for him... It's not a blog post. I just wanted do this picture for fun !! I hope you like it !! ♥

Story : "My paradox, my beauty, my ugliness... Never trust appearances..."

Thanks for watching and your support !! ♡

The music : 🎵.

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... at the Water Lily Pond

esenja, bolonka zwetna, female, eight ears old

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Beautiful lady in the Lotus pond

Another sunrise shot from Beachmere....positioning sun behind one of the trees ....highlighting their intricate beauty

Thank you for visits, comments and favs!

Vielen Dank für Eure Kommentare und Sternchen!

A bee on a beautiful osteospermum flower from my garden

"Sometimes it's very simple things that are very beautiful" ~Francois Nars

Macro Mondays: Defining Beauty

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“There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself, comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.”

― Steve Maraboli,

Explored January 7, 2023

While flipping through my archive in search of a cheerful photo to ring in the weekend, I stumbled upon this mallard beauty queen. When I saw her at Planten un Blomen, a lovely park in central Hamburg, posing so nicely on a rock at a small pond, I knew I had to take her photo. Isn't she pretty? I could swear that she was smiling at me :)

Wishing you a wonderful weekend, dear Flickr friends :)

This Octopus we found in the Basel zoopark.

Processed with Affinity Photo, Aurora HDR, Google Nik Collection, Perfect Effects 9.51 for Mac

Beautiful smile

I love how this colors look at different times of the day.

Little robin on a fence, a beauty like all robins are!

“Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates.”

― Kate Angell

I think so. This is a member of a free-ranging herd of several hundred Bison on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake that share grazing there with mule deer, pronghorn antelope and bighorn sheep. Twelve American bison were introduced on the island in the late 19th century, when the species was nearly extinct. They flourished in the near ideal habitat of dry grass prairie, devoid of apex predators (excepting man) and were maintained and hunted by private ranchers. In 1981 the State of Utah completed purchase of the island to create a state park. It is one of the few publicly managed herds of American bison, and one of the largest.

Beauty Centar Sabrina, Mostar, Bosna i Herzegovina

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(Sony rx10 M2 - carl zeiss® Vario-Sonnar® T* F2.8) with a 24-200m lens.HDR on

Birch polypore mushrooms of various ages reflect the soft light of a sunset in a Northern Michigan forest.

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“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”

Rabindranath Tagore

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the violet-eared waxbill (uraeginthus granatinus -male-)

is a wonderful little bird.it belong to the waxbill family and it's mainly a seed eater.

these birds live in shrub dense thickets as the acacia you can see here.

usually found in pairs,the male is unmisteakable

"so beauty"

north Etosha national park, Namibia

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“There is no exquisite beauty…

without some strangeness in the proportion.”

Quote ― Edgar Allan Poe

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When I saw the report that the Leucistic Bald Eagle made an appearance in the morning I knew I had to take my chances at this super rare raptor. I left at 4a.m. and drove two hours South. I had to wait for the sun to rise, but found him immediately crunching bones from a fish he was holding down on the mudflats. Shortly after he perched just above us next to the walking trail. Still no light but extremely close. He was very calm as he did not flinch when a jogger came by. He flew to this Eucalyptus several times and perched calmly for several minutes. The light was starting to filter through the leaves in the background as this majestic beauty posed for us. It was a very awe inspiring experience I will never forget. We had a solid two hours to photograph him that morning. He eventually flew off into the distance and we were admiring and reflecting on this one of a kind beauty.

Photography by Matthew & Ariel Irving

This pic was taken in the beautiful town of Hallstatt, Austria. And this beautiful cat followed me up the steep steps for a perfect background photograph. 📷😻The cable car line sort of distracts but it's SUPER rare to get an animal to sit for Such a wonderful winter background setting...

What do you do with a bouquet of flowers?

Credits tomorrow