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There's a big friendly statue of a big friendly boar, cast in big friendly bronze, on the main pedestrian street in Munich.
Munich, Germany.
PR-campaign for the police helping foreigners in Jing An District, Shanghai China. Huge police mascottes and foreigner with Arctic Monkeys shirt.
A curious and friendly little squirrel watches as we expore the old village at Carcross (Caribou Crossing) in southern Yukon.
Some details from the Pennsylvania Renaissance Fair. This tree looks so happy! I am not sure why, since it looks like he has been chopped into pieces already..
Published in the Georgia Straight, Feb 11. Police officer walks near fence surrounding the Athletes Village on the east end of False Creek, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
A side door of one of the apartment buildings I often walk by. Sometimes I've seen people here in all the chairs and more standing around. Apparently quite a friendly, sociable group of renters.
This is probably my last PowerShot A590IS flickr picture, because late this afternoon I returned the defective camera for a full refund. The day after purchase its zoom lens started lurching uncontrollably and the playback of stored pictures often refused to work at all. The A590IS has many features I like, and a few that annoy me, most of all glare that often obscured the display (I sure have been spoiled by my the digital viewfinders in my two Olympus digital cameras). The construction on the one I happened to get felt light and shoddy, waiting for a bump or simply a little more use for the next feature to stop working. I'm sorry to give up its portability, but it didn't feel like a camera I could depend on (like my Olympus SP-550UZ, so far).
By the way, you can easily see the barrel distortion along the top edge of this A590IS shot. My SP-550UZ also has some barrel distortion, it seems hard to avoid in wide angle lenses, even those for SLRs. This A590IS picture was shot at its most wide angle, which is about the equivalent of only a 35mm lens (slightly wide angle) for a old 35mm film camera.
Friendly Beaches was named after an early meeting between British sailors and the Great Oyster Bay Aboriginal groups. The spirit of camaraderie did not last long, however...and a trading argument between local people and sailors was soon settled with musket-shot.
A sequence of photos of two polar bears at Yorkshire Wildlife Park having fun in the water in July 2021 when it was hot.
Despite the heinous reputation of its rulers, Turkmenistan's citizens are remarkably friendly. Few foreigners visit the country, so I suspect that Turkmens go out of their way to show kindness and generosity to strangers.
Three of our ladies were asked for a photograph. Clay couldn't resist 'bombing' it :-) Palm Sunday eve celebrations Aksum.
We were feeding him monkey nuts and he sat right by my feet and even ate from my hand - Camera phone upload powered by ShoZu
Wild Cockatoos
Seen on the upper reaches of Toongabbie Creek, near Sophia Doyle reserve, Baulkham Hills (Suburban, Sydney Austraila)
Canon 40D with Canon 100-400 IS lens, hand held.
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Sue and I used to go to Friendly's all the time when we were young, but neither of us had been to one in decades. So we finally brought the kids to one, and were pleased to discover that it's still pretty good.