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Wall, Sky, Minimal

Alfred ME. Old window, Alfred Courthouse

Small garden shed in open field, Arundel Maine

Newly fallen autumn leaves on damp asphalt path

Processed With Darkroom

CC Most Versatile - the Color White

Delicate white flowers with bits of red sprinkled with raindrops.

Kennebunkport, ME Warm plaid shirt. Maine clothes.

Macro Mondays: Fill the frame

52 in 20205 One Colour

Supplies in the artist's studio

5/26/2020 Coffee cup lid

Nikon D610 Sigma Macro 105.0 mm f/2.8

For 27 years, I worked at a university and never was a clock watcher. But I can well remember my job for four years in college, where I was wishing for the clock hands to speed up!

ODC: fill-the-frame

Macro Mon. June 1 - Fill the Frame

Crazy Tues. June 2 - Sweets/Candy

Kennebunk ME Late day light on bales in freshly mowed field

7DWF, Crazy Tuesday: #FillTheFrame

And dust ;-) Detail of an old Opel Kapitän, taken at the German Museum of Technology in Berlin. This model is either a P 2,5 or a P 2,6 (sorry, as usual I forgot to photograph - or even look - at the description) and was built between 1958 and 1963. It looked very shiny and polished at the museum, nonetheless I wasn't surprised to see so many scratches and lints when I viewed it on the monitor. Well, dust is everywhere, isn't it ;-)

Detail eines Opel Kapitäns, es müsste wohl ein P 2,5 oder 2,6 sein, diese Modelle wurden von 1958 bis 1963 gebaut. Im Museum (Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin-Kreuzberg) sah er hochglanzpoliert aus, aber Staub ist nun mal überall, so auch hier auf der Motorhaube ;-), und mit den Jahren kommen auch feine Kratzer hinzu.

CC Week 5: Fill the frame with vibrant color

This is my first time to try this. Fun! I'll have to try a colorfully varied pattern of a Hawaiian shirt for the backdrop next time instead of a yellow backdrop.

Giant Poppy from the underside.

My partner has recently started to drink coffee. I thought I should capture the moment.

I bought this colourful "jelly roll" recently and not sure what I'll make with it ~ yet! HMM

Half wall/half reflection

CC Rainbow - Blue square

CC Most Versatile - Pattern

I've shot and posted this water feature before but this is the first time I've seen it without the waterfall going. : )

I am filling the frame for the Macro Monday theme with hot peppers. I grow them in my garden each year and add them to almost every dish I prepare. I love the heat these tiny peppers bring. In the summer when tomatoes are ripe I make tacos or burritos and add these fiery little devils and the first couple bites can almost make me lose my voice but I adjust to the heat and am soon ready for más!

Moisés Ville, provincia de Santa Fe, Argentina.

Old jewish colony town.

Historia de Moisés Ville

Fue colonizada en 1889 por un grupo de judíos rusos que escapaban de los pogroms y de las persecuciones.​ Fueron 136 familias (815 personas) que llegaron a Argentina desde Kamianets-Podilskyi en el vapor de bandera alemana S.S. Wesser en agosto de 1889 bajo el liderazgo del Rabino Aaron Halevi Goldman, guía espiritual y comunitario del núcleo inmigratorio. No existe acta de fundación.

Moisés Ville se convirtió en una localidad canónica de los gauchos judíos que trabajaron la tierra en Argentina a fines del siglo XIX y principios del XX.

Las ansias de ascenso social causaron un decremento poblacional porque los jóvenes se fueron a las grandes urbes (como Rosario y Buenos Aires) en búsqueda de educación superior y oportunidades.

Biddeford ME. Old mill buildings, some restored, some original.

For Flickr group "Weekly Theme Challenge", topic: "Fill the frame"

Arundel ME. Worn treads on the back stairs

Portland ME. Outside local restaurant decorated for the season

Kennebunk, ME Parked Yamaha

Portion of a straw fedora.

Desoldering wick, maginified over 2000x at the full 3000x1500 pixel image size posted here. The actual product is about 1/8" (3mm) wide.

Rosin flux, the greyish material scattered throughout, helps the solder flow onto the copper braid when heated with a soldering iron.

Our Daily Challenge: so Many Angles

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An alstroemeria, filling the frame.

36 - Fill the frame, for 121 photos in 2021

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7DWF: Crazy Tuesday Theme: Drops.

The Flickr Lounge-Fill The Frame

Took this photo late in the afternoon. The moon was very bright.

From my son and family

346/366 pictures in 2020

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[7DOS] - Fill the Frame - B&W Wednesday

[ABCédaire] - Gros nuages

Trinidad Cuba. Casa on a hillside. Unsure the reason for the advert.

2023 Weekly Alphabet Challenge, fill the frame.

On Tuesday I went on a leaf-hunting quest to the New York Botanical Garden, hoping to capture something special for that week's Crazy Tuesday theme. I took many photos of leaves, and then rushed home to pore through the many photos I had taken and quickly upload my favorite before the deadline of 22:00 BST. British Summer Time! Unfortunately, I miscalculated by an hour, and was locked out. So now I have all this photographic foliage. Let there be leaves! -- New York Botanical Garden, the Bronx, NYC -- August 29, 2023

Fill the frame

Macro Mondays

Trinidad Cuba. Casa near town, considering choices?

"Macro Mondays" "Fill The Frame"

Sanford ME. Window on an old farmhouse. Love the decay, but has been sold and work has begun. Nice someone will restore this beautiful home.