We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate "I's" into one worldview.

Harriet Lerner

Close your eyes and you will see.

Joseph Joubert

Beauty can be found everywhere ~ especially in gorgeous Prague ...

If I ever see a UFO this is how i think it would look like

Between the wall and the fence

Looking close on .... Friday

♫ Kings of Leon - Closer

Xerochrysum bracteatum, commonly known as the golden everlasting or strawflower, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to Australia.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerochrysum_bracteatum

syn:

They often go by the names

everlasting, immortelle, and strawflower.

Helichrysum bracteatum

Helichrysum lucidum

The name is derived from the Anicent Greek words ἥλιος (helios, sun) and χρῡσός (chrysos, gold).

Mitakon Speedmaster at F0.95, hand-held.

This cocky let me get close to him/her so I took the chance and captured this.

In onze tuin staat een afgezaagde amerikaanse eik. Elk jaar loopt ie toch weer uit met grote kleurrijke bladeren. Dit is een close-up van een van die bladeren.

In our garden stands a cut-down American oak. Every year, it sprouts new leaves with large, colorful foliage. This is a close-up of one of those leaves.

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The photo was taken with a 135 mm Carl Zeiss lens with adapter for Canon EOS

September 2021

direct contact with wild animals is always special, in the case of this female fancolín who a few days ago decided to approach me directly to ask for food, it is even more so now that I can be close to her 7 chicks.

It has been a very slow process and how could it be otherwise, natural and unilateral, the wild animal is the one that decides the degree of confidence in which it feels comfortable, safe, and who decides the times.

At the end of summer, a hungry polar bear, waiting for freeze-up, approaches on the shore of Hudson's Bay, Churchill, MN.

04/09/2022 www.allenfotowild.com

"One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through.

Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished."

~Paulo Coelho

See ya 2015. Please close the door on your way out.

~Let it go....

Zagreb, Croatia

Created for the Flickr group "Looking Close... on Friday." This weeks theme is "Owl."

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Man closes his garage door.

Tocantins,, MG.

Magnetic chess knights, on toaster, under the moonlight.

Created for the Flick'r group

Looking close... on Friday!

This weeks theme is magnets!

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A Grade II listed 17th or 18thC packhorse bridge over Haigh Clough near Marsden.

This is a close-up photo of ice in a shallow channel of the river.

Glowing glass at closing time in a Quebec City restaurant.

A memory from a visit to the city for a work conference 20 years ago! Captured with my first digital camera, the amazing little 4MP Canon A80.

in my neighbor's yard

Textures courtesy of: skeletalmess, darkwood67 and kim klassen

Someone is going to say "yikes" and I know it is coming :).

Some of my friends like to focus and freeze both aircraft during their close passes. I just like to focus on one, so the intensity of the moment can be shown. Maybe it is a personal preference.

The cd was left in the car and didn't survive that.

HaPpY CrAzY Tuesday

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the nankeen night heron (Nycticorax caledonicus), juvenile

The Monster Building, Hong Kong

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Don't cry now

You know it happens to the best of us

Goodbye now

And don't forget about the rest of us

I'm staying

You never know if they can use me here

I'm praying

I won't be looking when you disappear

And everybody's looking out

For close encounters of another kind

And it won't help me if I shout

But I'm getting pretty close this time

You're on my mind

Don't worry

I should have told you to beware of me

Don't hurry

Come back to see whatever's left of me

I've cried some

But I suppose I'm getting colder now

You've died some

But even you are getting older now

And everybody's looking out

For close encounters of another kind

And it won't help me if I shout

But I'm getting pretty close this time

You're on my mind, all of the time

Don't cry now

Don't cry now

Milford Sound

Canon EOS 5D Mark II Laowa 25mm f28-2,5x5x Macro Lens © 2023 Klaus Ficker. Photos are copyrighted. All rights reserved. Pictures can not be used without explicit permission by the creator.

.. Agave

A huge flock of snow geese took off from the field directly adjoining the trail and nearly flew into us. This is not a cropped photo, this is how close they were to us. What an experience! Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area, Kleinfeltersville, Pennsylvania.

Take Aim - Close Up

119 in 2019

#90 - Silky

Vicars' Close, in Wells, Somerset, England, is claimed to be the oldest purely residential street with original buildings surviving intact in Europe.J

Didn't notice the blood on the ears until I got the image onto my laptop. A close escape perhaps...

One of the shots of a pelican which I like, I already have a few similar ones!

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