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Elf: Hotdog - Elf on the shelf /NEW@TMD

Underwear: ARCHIVEFACTION_ INTERRUPT Briefs_White

Tattoos: Garden Of Ku - Tattoo "Shiva Dragon" by GoK

I come alive when you tease me

Office building.

Design by Geert Drexhage / DSBV, 1965.

Awhile back I noticed this old barn left alone and two cars in behind. When I went there yesterday, one car had been removed. Well I got one of them.

macro monday's theme: abstract

Asciano ( SI )

With an Osprey

A female Eastern Towhee takes a breath from its morning song to see what is making all the crunching sounds on the trails of Muscatatuck NWR, Indiana.

I guess we interrupted this beautiful fox from his hunting.

This wonderful little home was tucked away between these trees. It overlooked a small valley and must have been such an amazing location when it was built.

It's along some lonely dirt road somewhere in Nebraska. I can't get more specific. I took this photo and at least one more with a longer lens and another camera. But I like this one better. Context, you know?

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'Interruption'

Camera: Chamonix 45F-2

Lens: Steinheil Rapid Antiplanet 6,5; 27cm

Exposure: f/64; 4sec

Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9mins

Nebraska

July 2025

Not the dentist :-) The pattern on the glass is a print of sliced stones.

Faculty of Geotechnology, Delft University of Technology.

Architect: Jeanne Dekkers, Gosia Wolak (2007).

Delft, The Netherlands.

jeannedekkers.nl/en/geotechnology-delft/

“We’re Here!” is visiting

The Ministry of Silly Walks.

The Gray hairstreak butterfly (Strymon melinus) on a Rattlesnake master (Eryngium Yuccifolium) blossom is about to be invaded. I believe the incoming bee is a Leaf-cutter bee (Megachile varr.) The native Rattlesnake master plant seems to be attractive to many insects.

Toruń - Polska (Poland)

icymi, some thoughts on photographic identity over at the year without color.

Liebermann Villa

former summer residence of the German painter Max Liebermann

www.zeno.org/Kunstwerke/A/Liebermann,+Max

This week's theme of the Happy Caturday group is "Bath Time" and when I saw Cleo grooming herself on the lawn, I grabbed the camera to take a photo. Of course she stopped doing what she did everytime I pointed the camera at her. She was obviously telling me that a "bath time" photo of her royal highness was out of question but at least I managed a capture which shows her tongue. :) Happy Caturday !

Berlin, Germany, Hamburger Bahnhof. Window and wall detail

a Great Horned Owl pauses while preening and cleaning her feet and talons

The Central, the iconic coffin-shaped alehouse in Gateshead. UK.

Around as a bar since 1890 when it began operating as a hotel. The building itself dates from 1856 when it was built as a business premises for wine merchant Alderman Potts to a design by local architect M Thompson.

Near its nest in Kiamesha Lake, NY.

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From the series: Reading in Public Places. Santa Cruz, CA

Prairie Rattlesnake

It's only been a month, but I sure miss the E-M5.

The leash connects with your collar, just as you assume your position near me. A grin crosses my lip, delighted with your submission. Suddenly, a noise is heard, my alertness rises. The magic had been broken, and I am not in the mood to forgive.

This red-tailed hawk had a rabbit dinner but wasn't able to enjoy it—chased from one perch by a red-winged blackbird, it flew to a power pole, where it was scolded and harassed by a pair of blue jays, and then a male Bulllock's oriole joined the attack. Even after the hawk flew away with its rabbit, I could hear continued clamor from wherever the hawk had moved to!

When your plans are interrupted, look for a photo opportunity!