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Thanks for taking time to visit my new personal site here:

“A Story Teller" by Cheryl Chan Photography

check out more of Victoria Harbor shots here:

The Star & Victoria

More Found Still Life: By The Streets

More Street shots: Urban

Almost and After Dark: Dawn Dusk & Night

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In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth

When the land was swamp and caves were home

In an age when prize possession was fire

To search for landscapes men would roam...

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Metal artist Ricardo Breceda has amassed over 130 life sized metal sculptures and placed them along several roads in the Anza-Borrego Desert State park…

Special thanks to the plane that produced the jetstream...

Thanks for all your faves and comments everyone!

I really appreciate them!

I translated my website to English. Check it out!

www.wimvanbezouwphotography.nl

Facebook www.facebook.com/wimvanbezouwphotography/

Instagram www.instagram.com/wimvanbezouwphotography/

youtu.be/6-lvsS_RT2c

Outside of Washington DC's Union Station you can always see long lines of taxis waiting for fares. Back in my college days, I drove a taxi so I can understand how hard these cabbies work. They put in very long hours doing what can sometimes be a dangerous and thankless job. The next time you ride in a taxi, please tip your driver generously. They really deserve it!

EXPLORED on March 23, 2016 #359

Thanks for looking, everybody!

Dearly Departed Grandpa...

For all the times you kissed my forehead when I cried,

For all the choices you helped me to decide...

For the laughter and smiles you gave me,

For all the teasing and fear you instilled in me...

Like stories of werewolves, hide-behinds and snakes,

haunted houses and vampire stakes.

For all those nights spent wonderfully awake,

from all the candy that gave me a stomach ache...

For being my partner in crime...

Me and you against the world all the time.

You truly were a hero to me,

so thank you Grandpa for leaving a wonderful memory...

I'll cherish each one like they were gold...

From now, forever and when I am old...

© All Rights Reserved 2016 No publication without permission from author

I know that Isa is not very happy right now so I thought I'd edit and old photo I liked specially for her. :D

Isa, you're pictures are not bad at all, you keep improving! <3 I hope you don't go for a year, or shorter.... we don't want you to ever go *hug* <3

Ich liebe dich Isa, kisses from me and all my girls. :D

Submission for Zooby Contest

Full details here

Featuring Zooby Animesh Baby, Zooby Animesh newborn, Amitie -In the country Backdrop , Focus Poses -Cutest in the Pumkin Patch, Doux Hair

After all these years since these “Remembrance” Loco’s first ventured out in their commemorative liveries, their impact and poignancy has never diminished…

91111 “For the Fallen”

Retford Station 14th May 2023.

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#FlickrUnitedAward

#LocalLandmark for #FlickrFriday

Post Tower Bonn:

The Post Tower is the headquarters of the logistic company Deutsche Post DHL. It is a 162.5-metre, 41-storey office building in Bonn, Germany. It was designed by German-American architect Helmut Jahn and won the 2002 Silver Emporis Skyscraper Award.

It is the ninth tallest skyscraper in Germany, and the tallest in Germany outside of Frankfurt am Main.

For a short time, Amtrak’s California Zephyr saw 161 on rotation. This was Amtrak’s Phase I heritage unit and replaced the previous Phase I, 156, after it hit a truck and got severely damaged. Just like 156, 161 also has been retired as a few weeks ago it caught fire in Washington D.C. and was burnt to a crisp.

This is the path where I would walk with my friendly, nice and warm-hearted Norwegian friend Marie , if our towns Freistadt and Hakrehamn were any closer. I think we would have a great meeting full of joy and fun.

Marie is one of my first Flickr contacts and one of my best friends here. She made me happy with all her comments full of humour and kindness and especially with her wonderful testimonial for that I say "Thank you so much, Marie".

Here's a tasty treat

Protein for a fledgling wren

Something good to eat

Trego, WI as this former Milwaukee Road SW-1 earns its keep for master shortline operator Greg Vreeland.

For Sliders Sunday

A quick fun snapshot taken at the Botanical Garden this spring. I walked around, noticed some motion on the surface of one of the ponds there, and saw this small shoal of small fish flocking together in a heart shape. They were being fed at that moment, I guess.

I had forgotten that the camera's aspect ratio was still set to 1:1 (there's a dial for the different aspect ratios on the fixed lens), so here 1:1 was more of an accident than actually intended (as was f14). Usually I won't use the preset 1:1 aspect ratio because the Lumix's 12.8 megapixels will be reduced to 10 megapixels then (it's got something to do with the LX100's "multi format sensor", apparently), but unlike with my OM-D, where I only ever use 4:3, and crop the image later in LR, if desired, I often switch between 4:3 and 16:9 on the Lumix.

Processed in LR and Luminar. The water had been very muddy and dull, so I thought that this needed some colour to jazz it up a little. I don't recall each step, as this is an image I've been working on from time to time. But as a finishing touch I used a slightly tweaked Luminar preset, one of Wim Arys' "Atomic Colours", Bismuth, if I remember correctly. Added a sky texture in ON1, too.

A Happy Sliders Sunday to you all!

and for the people of Paris. What unthinkable acts of terrorism there. So very sad, so very sorry.

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Just an anchor in the harbor of Toscolano Maderno (Lago die Garda, Italy). Just for the bokeh of course :)

Explored 09/01/2015 - it´s true....always the one gets explored from which you thinking of least (sorry for my english) :) Thank you all for commenting and favoriting my pics.

And the title...Angkor wat...yes? :)

For the Crazy Tuesday topic "Sound".

A life without music is unthinkable 😊

Probably considered old-fashioned in today's "streaming music" world - I like my music on CDs and MP3 players. No WiFi - no problem! No power, no problem. Speakers both mains and battery powered are available here. A week with no power, WiFi or mobile phone signal last winter taught me to plan for maximum resilience! So everything from Jazz to opera is to hand ... hopefully I'm always wired for sound!

Playing on the Apple Touch, Bill Evans and Chet Baker "Alone Together"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4kG5Nb8pQo

Crazy Tuesday: Here

Everyday Things : Here

this icon pack is for my Bí í í í í

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used to be in love with someone and gave up

but they intentionally hurt me over and over again ...

For the first time, I'll start a new life again in a new city, but not alone... Daniel come with me. So happy to live a new start with him... Lat days in Quebec....

Not ones I'd normally see, as they're in a shop that's been refurbished.

Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites.

Edit for Pebbles <3 www.flickr.com/photos/toesintothesand

I hope you enjoy

Thanks to irisb477's beautiful texture

www.flickr.com/photos/emeraldrose/3009331611/

All rights reserved by Tanjica Perovic

Available for licensing on Getty images

Take a look at my redbubble and society6 shops for great and original gifts, apparel, cases, bags and home decor.

The weekend before the last I was really mad at myself for being too lazy to get out in the cold in the morning, and by the time I was motivated, I didn’t have much time. Nevertheless, I thought I could take a short walk with my camera at lunchtime, so I was going to drive to a specific place in my hometown from which I knew that it had potential for some nice images. However, there was quite a layer of snow on the road and so I couldn’t drive up the hill, mostly because I had to slow down to get around the only tight turn. I really regret not getting out sooner because then I could have walked up there, but that’s the way it was. So I spent the following week hoping for some snow the next weekend.

Fortunately, it snowed the next Friday and this time I was sure to get out, no matter what the weather conditions are. The next morning, we woke up, put on several layers to protect ourselves from the cold and started our hike up the local mountain. Since not a single person had hiked up there that morning, we had to fight our way through a calf-high layer of snow resulting in a hike that took us more than two hours instead of the 45 minutes it takes us to get up there in summer. Of course we stopped a few time to take some images, but mostly with our smartphones as the snow was beautiful, but I found the scenes were lacking some mist that reduces the chaos and typically drastically simplifies such forest scenery.

Once we reached the top, we were very happy that the hut was open and we could warm up and get something to drink and eat. After a fairly substantial lunch, we decided to start our descent, but before I really wanted to walk up the last few steps to the summit cross, especially since a bit of mist was rolling in. I knew that I had once taken a quite nice image at this spot, but I noticed that my girlfriend wasn’t really in the mood to wait long for me since it was really cold and windy out there. So I hurried up, took out my camera and snapped a few handheld shots, and I was really glad I did when I looked at them on the laptop. Even though it was not exactly what I had imagined, I really like how this image turned out. I hope you like it too!

There's something to be said for being an early riser - just the ducks and you - out on some very thin looking ice.

Pray for Paris, pray for the world, pray for HUMANITY...

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My mother always loved her garden and her flowers and plants. She had a green thumb.

This poppy is growing in our garden ...and I am waiting for the flowers to open in all their beauty.

MOTHER is the topic for Saturday, May 11, 2019 group our daily challenge

There is no foot too small that it

cannot leave an imprint in this world.

Looking close... on Friday! - Shoe Sole

(photo by Freya, edit by me)

Thanks for views, faves and comments!

for #MacroMondays and #Spiral

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mpg-2017

Alane in Punta del Este P&B

click for details.

Interlude on Wordpress

Interlude on Tumblr

this dress is everything ; u ;

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A homework assignment for a photo/writing class that I'm currently taking. We had to create an image to compliment (not illustrate) a poem written by someone else. I made this photo to go with the following poem:

Perpetual Spring by Amy Gerstler

Gardens are also good places

to sulk. You pass beds of

spiky voodoo lilies

and trip over the roots

of a sweet gum tree,

in search of medieval

plants whose leaves,

when they drop off

turn into birds

if they fall on land,

and into colored carp if they

plop into water.

Suddenly the archetypal

human desire for peace

wells up in you. The lion

and the lamb cuddling up.

The snake and the snail, kissing,

Even the prick of the thistle,

Queen of weeds, revives

your secret belief

in perpetual spring,

your faith that for every hurt

there's a leaf to cure it.

Dolmen (Megalitic Era). Alentejo, Portugal

Thanks for texture. I hope you don't mind. It's for you.

For those who appreciate Satie's music:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H99QJYeqC_E

Simon and Garfunkle "The Sound of silence":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUy9ePyo6Q

I read music!

For Sale at Amerhidl (Skoura oasis) ! (needs some work)

The oasis of Skoura's claim to fame is its long line of kasbahs along two seasonal rivers. Its appearance may be deceptive to many, being so long, it may recall images of a forest more than a huge oasis. Still it is even larger, most of the oasis runs north from the road.

The most impressive among the many attractive kasbahs is the Amerhidl, dating back to the 17th century. Its design and grand size made it fit to illustrate the back of the Moroccan 50 dirham note.

ad victoriam - For victory

Hey everyone, here’s a vignette that’s been sitting on my desk for months and I finally found the motivation to finish it. It’s nothing too interesting but I had fun making the figures.

I had to travel to Sudbury for work this week, while there I visited a memorial for the lives lost to overdose/opioid abuse. I was struck by the pictures included on the crosses. Some of these people were so young.

Don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without explicit permission.

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Hi guys...

Thank for your kindness over the last few months..

sadly Annie died last night...

she passed away peacfully with us by her side..

She made the brave decision not to try to fight the cancer

were of course heatbroken at her passing but happy that she wont have to suffer anymore...

She was a remarkable lady who took me into her family and treated me as if i were one of her own ...

Annie our beautiful kind hearted Mother, Grandmother and Greatgrandmother..

God bless her and god bless you all for your prayers and kind wishes...

Ive sat here for hours trying to think of words to say,but they just wont come..

Other than my life was better for knowing her and being part of her family

who never cease to amaze me with thier down to earth love,closeness ,honesty

and ability to find laughter even in the worst times..

I was going to say ill miss her but i wont because she will always be in my heart...

my love and thanks to your kind messages and mail...

much much love andrew xo

For May 12th“Me/CFS and Fibromyalgia

International Awareness Day“.

Auswahlfoto:

Für“Smile on Saturday“ am 07.05.2022.

Thema:“ Blue for you“- ME 2022“

Thanks for views,faves and comments:-)

The best knee socks I own.

mood

coming back to cosplay for a sec

Not sure I'd want to risk them, but at least they've got some sort of rail.

Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites.

For my video; youtu.be/OUjrQ3So2TU?si=5RuDN7m3DdwEzmzy

VCCC Easter Gathering.,

March 31, 2024,

Trev Deeley's, parking lot,

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada