Needed a bit of work to create the effect in Lightroom, but I quite like the result.

Rain squalls south of Curl Curl, one of Sydney's Northern Beaches. We are currently in a La Nina weather event, bring high humifidity and lots of rain to Australia's East Coast.

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5. Explored! 12th July 2014 (#87)

A little closeup of one of my curls tonight. Happy Monday everyone.

Week 28

There was a little girl

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There was a little girl,

Who had a little curl,

Right in the middle of her forehead.

When she was good,

She was very good indeed,

But when she was bad she was horrid.

Pretty surf with a soft sky this morning at the beach

Often times I do way to many versions of a single image. I can cause family members to worry about the state of my mental heath.

So I have a few favorite variations that I tuck away in a folder to post a few weeks later. Well, sometimes it actually turns out to months or even years later.

This is the color version of the curled winter petal.

Captured with iPhone and Olloclip Macro Lens edited on the iPad in Snapseed.

The black and white version can be viewed here if you wish to compare: www.flickr.com/photos/firerybroome/17008847445/in/datepos...

Araçari de Beauharnais / Curl-crested Aracari.

Taken in wildwood trust, kent

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I love the way the grass is left after the tide and the winds go out and stop.

Taken with a Canon 60mm USM Macro lens. Type L for a better view.

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Wonderful Tulip Petals

Curl Curl Pool on daylight with a large swell still pounding and very bleak until a nice glow came through.

Curl-crested Aracari

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My stomach is not turning or in knots...it's curled up with glee. You make me smile, you turn my head.. each time you breathe my name. My directions change to meet yours so willingly. You are a part of me. You make me look from the heart, turn my mind inside out, show me love without a doubt. Curl up with me, forever, forever please. ~ Just me~

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Fri. the 30th Morning walkabout to PSU and South Park blocks.

Model: Carmen Rueda

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"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

Plato

Pacific sword fern (Polystichum munitum)

East Bay, 2009

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A fern leaf still curled up. I was looking for a different fern species, but this one was quite nice as well... it reminded me a bit if an engraved wooden spoon.

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Lake Cowal, NSW

Two tiny Westringia flowers overlooking Curl Curl beach (Sydney).

Leaves are common enough that I'm sure everyone has seen them at some point. If not, congratulations, you've just seen a leaf. Anyhow, this leaf had a particular curl to it that I found interesting. A photo soon followed.

I love how a fern curls up or unfolds.

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