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Encouraged by a patch of warm Winter sunlight a clump of double petalled snowdrops dance in the breeze as they push through the bed of Ivy covering the spinney floor.

Dance of The Flower Of Life by Mason van Kraayenburg

Created for 107th MMM Challenge

Source image with thanks to Amanda Slater

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Life in the public spotlight can be tiring - even for an African Wood Owl… This captive bred male called 'Casper' hatched on 1 June 2013 at the Small Breeds Farm Park and Owl Centre, Kington, Herefordshire.

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Encouraged by my guide Brydon Thomason of Shetland Nature I did a commando crawl across the terrain to get a closer view of this Bonxie - the Shetland Name for the Great Skua (Stercorariius Skua) - she was completely oblivious to our presence which was a few feet away - she was far more occupied with the flying Skuas who were flying in lower to get a better look at us!!!

A billboard in Times Square. Outfront Media,Inc. is a billboard advertisement and transit display company based in New York City.Their revenue,US$ 1.5B.(2018)

“All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them.”

― Nuno Roque

Holy 100! Haha...I mean, I knew it was doable but I'm surprised I cut it this close.

Thanks to all the friends that encouraged me, laughed at me, gave me advice on locations, which images to use, and especially Mako who noticed that I was slacking and reminded me I had only a few months left to finish!

SL Prompt Project 2022

Mural of Elvis Presley in Chatt.,Tn. Some of the words to "And I Love You So" are written on the wall. This wall is gone now,but I am glad that I took the photo. The mural was part of an art project that encouraged local artists to express themselves before the walls and building on the street were torn down to make room for a new office complex.

HWW!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLPYuLPMh9Y

We have red kites flying over our house most days, and this afternoon I decided to have a go at taking an image of one. I have aimed my camera at them before, but not had a recognisable result. Today I used continuous auto focusing and tracking using the hi speed facility, and after some post processing managed to capture one. I am now encouraged to try again.

A special thank you to the person who unhooked me from a leash and encouraged my mischief. Just one more leash to go. ❤️

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Two old ones today, Its been a bad week news wise and now my time on flickr will be limited

I encouraged this one off my rose blooms! I love there antennae think they look like little hands, feeling the way! Not everyone will think this gorgeous, but it gets my vote! HGGT

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For The Award Tree’s Challenge ~ In Search of Blues ~

and entered in

Explore Worthy, Challenge 108 - Summer Fantasy (2019 Art)

and

TMI’s June 2019 contest JUNE IS BUSTING OUT ALL OVER!

Own image - texture: DDG

~~~ Thank you all for viewing, kind comments, favs and awards - much appreciated! ~~~

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Perhaps the grow-light encourages sideways growth? And no, those tiny shoots are not falling; just growing in different directs. Very independent.

Still, since it is raining again, good to have things growing indoors. Shot in softbox with off-camera strobe triggering two lights on stands. Earlier view from 2-18 appears in first comment, back when the shoots had just begun their move to independence.

Thanks for looking and indulging my fun ;-)

Larger view: www.flickr.com/photos/jptimmons/49611198758/sizes/l/

Vivid Urban Scene! ~ Vivid Art ~

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A daily visitor to the grounds of Cristalino Lodge in the Amazon near Alta Floresta, Brazil.

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In her brightly lit photo studio, Elephant is taking photos of a new, but rather grumpy Dragon. She is encouraging him to relax and smile, but he is just about tolerating being photographed! He also wants it to be known that he is NOT a Dinosaur but a Dragon! Elephant, being an elephant, is very patient, and encouraging Dragon to relax, his photo will be wonderful and everyone will be pleased to see this very first photo of him.

Theme: "Objects Taking Pictures". These 'objects' can be: dolls, stuffed toys, figurines, statues, Lego figures, Playmobil figures... the choice is yours.

Thank you for taking the time to view my photo, and for the faves and comments you make, thank you!

Sometimes there is an obvious perspective, but it is important never to be satisfied with that :-)

Michael Kenna

HBW! HGGT!

Character Matters!

sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina

CHEF bethrosengard encourages us to be homebodies!

➤ Build your image around a common household object that is small enough to fit in a microwave (spoon, light bulb, vase, towel, salt shaker, TV remote, bar of soap, mug, flashlight, etc., etc., etc.).

➤ Let this object be the inspiration for the whole image, which must have either a comedic, dramatic, tragic or melodramatic overtone.

➤ Place your object in or on a background that’s unexpected. In other words, don’t depict a pillow on a chair in a living room. The background could be as diverse as a simple texture or an urban night scene.

➤ Use text somewhere in your image.

➤ NO ANIMALS.

Thanks to Unsplash for phone and background.

Snapseed, Juxtaposer, Picsart

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Picture taken at the new Bella's Lullaby

🎧 ♫ 🎼♫🎼 Listen ♫ 🎼♫🎼

"Where The Heart Is"

High above the tallest trees

Courage will come your way

It's the need that burns the trust that shines

When you climb out of the shade

Your high awakes the things you wanna be

Where the air is thin and sweeps you off your feet

Where the heart is

When the light's at your side

When the faith is ready

No more guidance

Take the leap of your life

As the ground is shaking

Shaking off your troubled soul

As silence seems to grow

It's the faith in sight, the doubt that fades

As the world dissolves below

Your high awakes the things you wanna be

Where the air is thin and sweeps you off your feet

Where the heart is

When the light's at your side

When the faith is ready

No more guidance

Take the leap of your life

As the ground is shaking

You are falling to the stars, you are falling

You are falling to the stars, you are falling

You are falling to the stars, you are falling

You are falling to the stars, you are falling

Where the heart is

When the light's at your side

When the faith is ready

No more guidance

Take the leap of your life

As the ground is shaking

💖 In advance I want to thank each one of you for your always kindness, support, beautiful awards, favs, and messages. Please know that I see and read them all, even if I do not reply back to them, I appreciate them all so much as well as each on of you for taking the time.

💖 You all mean a lot to me, Flickr would not be the same without you, I can not thank each one of you enough for your constant encouraging and uplifting support that you all give me. I am immensely grateful.

At the moment I am working on doing pictures and putting together an exhibition that I have been so honored to be invited to do later this month. So If I am absent more or less, it is because I am working that project.

Lori 💖

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St Andrew's Church, Toddington, is a Grade I listed building and is the third church to occupy this site in Gloucestershire. Prior to the 1870s, the church was dedicated to St Leonard.

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I would like to thank everyone who take the time to view and comment on my photographs it is greatly appreciated and encouraging

Paper.

I only looked at the theme for Macro Mondays this morning not really intending to do anything. But the theme is Pastel and that lends itself to all sorts of ideas.

Flowers first came to mind… and I love photographing those as you probably have realised. But then I guessed there’d be a lot of lovely ones in the group today so I tried to think of something different.

I narrowly saved you from a close-up of a peach flannel :)

This is a shot of three pieces of cream laid paper folded back on themselves. I’ve never done any of this type but I have liked a lot I have seen on Flickr. I love the gentle tone poems you get - all shape and soft colour gradients… bliss.

Anyway this is my first attempt at the genre. Half the work was done in the setup - sunlight, two lamps and a torch all played their part. But, as encouraged by the theme description, a considerable part of the performance was done in the processing, tweaking all sorts to get a soft-coloured high-key result without blowing the highlights. I used curves to get it looking right.

The whole image is cropped to less than three inches (the whole teardrop shape if you could see it was about that), so we are within the guidelines.

I enjoyed this more than I expected. It was fun. So I might try it again :)

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the tone poem. Happy Macro Mondays!

An encouraging fellow photographer in Quebec said the berries on my Japanese yew will look very nice in snow. Pessimistically I said they won't last through the strong winds and rain. But the temperature dropped precipitously last night and the rain turned to snow. I took this photo before the snow all melted away. These berries are on a different branch from the ones previously posted before the snowfall.

The pond was commissioned by local landowner Edward Armitage of Farnley Hall.

Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the return of thousands of soldiers swelled the ranks of the nation’s unemployed. Leeds landowners, like the Armitages, were encouraged to find employment for the veterans, and it was during this time that Farnley fish pond was dug.

The pond was declared a Local Nature Reserve in 2004.

Farnley, Leeds, West Yorkshire. England

This single Woodland Grayling was seen at Amalfi, while trekking along the Amalfi coast in Italy.

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I would like to thank everyone who take the time to view and comment on my photographs it is greatly appreciated and encouraging

I would like to thank everyone who take the time to view and comment on my photographs it is greatly appreciated and encouraging

Following the Civil War, R-MC students raised $13,000 to construct a campus in Ashland, Virginia, after their facilities in Boydton were rendered unusable. Washington-Franklin Hall, or "Wash-Frank" Hall, was the first building constructed on the Ashland campus in 1872.

Incidentally, Wash-Frank was also the first brick building in Ashland and it houses many historical treasures, including a rosewood Steinway piano, one of only four in the world. The building is included on the National Register of Historic Places and, appropriately, it is home to R-MC's history department.

Named after two long-standing student organizations, the Washington Literary Society and the Franklin Debate Society, Wash-Frank Hall is the host site for the college's annual Washington-Franklin Collegiate Challenge Debates, a parliamentary-style debate in which audience participation is strongly encouraged.

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This Green Heron made a sudden appearance, and I managed it catch it as it rose to land in a high branch close to where I was standing. (Wakodahatchee Wetlands) Greenies, as I like to call them, have a lot of personality. They have a wide range of vocalizations, often chase each other around, like to fish from a branch above the surface of the water, and have that slinky-like neck that can scrunch down or stretch way out, and can raise the feathers on their head like a crown. As juveniles, they are ridiculously cute, with the emphasis on ridiculous. I hope to get some of those this nesting season.

As some of you know, I keep a list of Sony shooters and share information that may be useful to them. I also send descriptions like this one to another list of people who have asked me to share my work with them in that fashion. I’m happy to add anyone who wishes to either list.

My thanks to Steve Elkins from Bedfords Camera and Video who has given me the code “BIRDSMC”, which you can use for a 5% discount for anything you purchase from Bedfords. Bedfords gives wonderful and personal customer service and if you don’t already have a relationship with a photo retailer, I encourage you to introduce yourself to Steve. He can be reached at the email shown above or at 479-381-2592.

Wishing everyone a wonderful 2025 and hope to see you out there.

Mike

(Butorides virescens) (Sony a1M2, 200-600 lens @ 474mm, 1/4000 second, f/6.3, ISO 6400)

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During dry season Karachi fishermen go to the main beach of the city with very long net try to catch fish.It is quite dangerous many sting rays live in the sand and are not visible due to the muddy water. Some time they fish only plastic but some time the results is encouraging.

A Common Ginger White butterfly in Ankasa Forest, Ghana, West Africa.

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~ Colour Motion! ~ The Award Tree ~

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These pictures of my Coco are dedicated to Carmen (ccandy17)...because she encouraged to wake up my Coco and take some pictures of her! I have missed Coco and really enjoyed my photo-shoot with her today! Coco and I send you hugs, Carmen!

I am always encouraging my grandchildren's art. My grandmother encouraged my sister Peggy and our cousin Charles and as a result Peggy came to Canada on an art scholarship! We never know the ripple effects of our actions.

Artwork by my 3 1/2 year old grandson. Apparently he was pleased with his handiwork.

Shock of the New Challenge # 67.0

~ SOTN ~ GLOW and GLEAM ~

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From being a backwater fishing village at the turn of the 20th Century, with mostly bamboo hut dwellings known as “kampong houses,” Singapore now has some of the most modern and unique architecture anywhere in the world. The city state’s commercial success has provided it with the wealth to not only preserve many historical buildings, but also develop some very iconic modern structures, such as the floating Apple Store, the Marina Bay Sands Hotel, and the ArtScience Museum, set among lofty skyscrapers.

The contemporary buildings have been developed with a view to enhance Singapore’s reputation as the Garden City, and maximize the tropical vegetation coverage, whether it is on pedestrian bridges or rooftop gardens. This effort dilutes the concrete jungle feel that most urban centers have, and encourages people to walk rather than jump into a car for every little trip.

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encourage him/her to go fishing....this is a pic of a man at peace. (sorry didn't mean to leave women out...some like to fish...not me but some do) I'm also of the belief that it's best if men bring home the 'bacon' so to speak!

New skin appliers for your body have appeared at Glam Affair along with an amazing array of new head appliers in celebration of the sim re-opening. The new sim is just beautiful and I encourage everyone to stop by. The Season Story opens tomorrow for it's summer round and so far the things I've seen have been splendidly summery! Coupled......

Read the rest and grab the event and designer info on Threads & Tuneage

Taken on Sylpha

Love SL photography and looking for like minded artists or places to shoot? Come visit the Ippos Collective: 4 Picturesque SIMS to visit and/or settle. Come for the magic....stay for the friends. <3

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thx 4 faves comments invites so encouraging...press L

Three grown-up Mallard ducklings resting and quacking on a submerged tree trunk, just above the water.