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This image is a compilation of 4 elements:

- The main image is the frog on the lily-pad(s)

- Added are the dragonfly on the reed, the fly and the snake

You decide the outcome of this predator/pray scenario in what is a typical day in the marsh.

winter... still

Tiny half inch spruce cones, lit up the forest with their rosy glow. Now the squirrels are taking them home for winter.

For "Slider's Sunday" - processed to the max.

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My grandson : the water falling on his head 😊

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From a shot in the central Hall of Narodna Galerija, Ljubljana

D'après une prise faite dans le Hall central de la Galerie Nationale, à Ljubljana.

Last Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016, Valentine's Day, lovers and couples celebrated together "the day of love". But what is important is that who loves each other has no specific day scheduled to love.

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Why not a surreal sunrise, a freakishly large moon... and an egret?... just playing with ideas.

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"Swirl" and "scattered tiles" digital image processing filters augment this picture of the concrete terraces in the center of Seattle's Freeway Park.

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My image is on the cover of book which is kinda cool.

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To illustrate the effect of the current ice storm passing (for the past 3 days) through Southern Ontario, Canada, I decided to put together a collage of 4 images taken in my garden.

Dalmatian Pelican,

used: Filter Forge, Photoshop

A tribute to "A song of Ice and Fire" (G.O.T.)

Un hommage au "Trône de fer"

I'd much rather see white spring blossoms than the white snow that's falling right now. Ah well, I won't have to wait but for another month or so. If you have an overabundance of patience, please send me some! )O::

These flowers were photographed last year and then lightly edited in Topaz Studio 2 with an impressionism filter for Sliders Sunday. HSS!

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Doc has our whole cabin decorated for Christmas, most of our shopping is done, and all that is left is the wrapping. We should be able to enjoy many peaceful days this holiday season.

(Image posted for Sliders Sunday "processed to the MAX!")

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Created for the "Circle Mania" Shock of the New Challenge #74: www.flickr.com/groups/1344849@N25/discuss/72157715080348362/

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This cabin sits along the shoreline of a tiny lake, not too many miles from our own cabin. If only it could talk and tell me how it came to be built so many decades ago, and by whom. I'm sure that every remote dwelling has a unique story.

I see snow machine tracks mingled with animal tracks in the snow surrounding the cabin. Snowshoe hares always take refuge under a cabin during the winter, and you can clearly see their paths. While inside - I am sure the squirrels and shrews have made cozy little nests for themselves.

We have a flock of 50 Lapland Longspurs beside our cabin, enjoying the seed that has fallen beneath our hanging feeders. They will rest and fatten up here, before heading to their birthing grounds farther north on the tundra.

The huge spring migration is taking place now, and the sky is filled with birds of all kinds. With warming temperatures and brilliant sunshine - Alaska is a paradise for bird loving photographers.

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Posted for Sliders Sunday--"Post Processed to the MAX!" HSS!

After having had a thick layer of frozen rain topped by a layer of snow, everything became beautifully frosted, but it was sure cold out there! HSS!

Lightly edited with an impressionism filter (Cezanne) in Topaz Studio 2.

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It's snowing right now, so I felt inspired to enhance the whiteness of the white allium. To that end, I applied a chalk pastel effect and vignette in Topaz Studio 2. Happy Sliders Sunday! HSS!

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The image of the building was taken on the grounds of "Dundurn Castle" in Hamilton, Canada.

The field and the tree are one image separated and re-defined for this composition.