Love Valley, lovely place to chill.

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the man on top of the building is actually a sculpture by artist anthony gormley. "event horizon"

Red winged blackbird? redwinged blackbird? red wing blackbird? red-winged black bird? re...aw what the heck, Agelaius phoeniceus

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA

The park, Hastings.

Kevin contemplates the distance while waiting for the signal (behind him) permitting his loco to leave platform 1 and run up to the 'totem pole' before coming back down on to its next train.

The 'Standard 2' was my engine in the afternoon: a local train to Rothley and back, and then six coaches to Leicester and back - which I fired and my mate drove. A thoroughly enjoyable turn.

Loughborough station, Great Central Railway's autumn gala.

One place you might hope to find solitude and the mental room for contemplation is at a museum or art gallery.....places that seem to demand a different kind of behavior than in a restaurant or a mall or other bustling public space. People stand quietly, speechless, as they study paintings by French artist James Tissot at The Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco.

Because I love my Dad and it's his birthday today - Happy 87th Dad!

Cattle Egret. Taken at Malaysia's Largest Bird park

Pacific Grove, CA

Contemplating

An "innocent" fox comtemplating how to eat this huge cake without anyone knowing it be her...

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Houston. 2010

Kenai peninsula, AK, Aug'13

Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien

Baraka, the Silverback Gorilla at The National Zoo, Washington, DC

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NikonF2

50mm 1.4

Arista Ultra 200

hand-processed Ilford LC-29

scanned Canon 9000Fii

Salinas Grandes In the Salta and Jujuy provinces in northwest Argentina

A front row seat for one of Nature's wonders - Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

{ L } Lightbox view is best

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'Chess' shooting session, colour version.

Bit of a pun that, as Appomattox is his name. Apple looking a little uncomfortable wearing a present from Papaw and Mawma! For those who don't know, Appomattox is the place where Lee surrendered to Grant, thus ending the American Civil War.

UPDATE: This photo just popped into Explore on August 20th, 2009. Highest position: 144. And I was just thinking of deleting it, too!

I used the wonderful CoffeeShop Eye Bright for this effect.

Also used aFlorabella texure: tea-stained overlay, I think.

Apparently there are 199 steps up to Whitby abbey, I started counting, then got bored and took them 2 at a time.

Svalbard

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How can such tiny minds even begin to fathom the vastness of space that surrounds them? Well this tiny spider doesn't seem to have any problem so perhaps there's hope for the rest of us. ;-)

Spider approximately 3mm long.

I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

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