This barn has a hint of the open fields in the US (perhaps that's just me)... love slightly elevated view, positioning the barn in the landscape - black and white conversion works well.

Hommage à Piotr Debinski www.flickr.com/photos/maanavi/

[... with the shadow of a swallow ...]

Skeletal remains of the Stromlo obsevatory destroyed in the 2003 Canberra bushfires.

Seen at Little Wonder World, Hamburg, Germany.

Photographed three years ago in the fall, this Bald eagle posed nicely for me.

I can't remember if the open beak here was a yawn or one of their plaintive and distinctive cries. Either way, I was pleased that I was able to capture it just at the right moment.

The thick layer of red autumn leaves made for a striking backdrop!

Enjoy...

The Asiatic lilies have started to open.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Magnolia (Magnolia liliiflora)

For my 100 Flowers Project - 2024

I have been watching this Magnolia tree in bud for the last week or so. I noticed yesterday one bloom had opened.

Painting, acrylic on canvas 16 x 20 inches

Inspired by the paintings of Mr. Edward Hopper, “Open till late” is a painting within a series that I started in the name of “Edward Hopper Project”. My intention is to study how this great American Painter captured the melancholic aesthetics derived from some common urban scenes of loneliness and isolation that we may encounter everywhere any day of the week if we care to look for them. To me, these scenes painted by Mr Hopper are, for want of a better phrase, “achingly beautiful”. Incidenntally, during the painting of this, the famous Simon & Garfunkel song "The sound of silence" keeps coming into my head.

I hope this painting delivers a similar narrative to viewers.

View driving Hwy 95 south to Parker, Arizona.

Siberian open spaces

Details

Cheeky Pea Bondi Bar @ N21

Trees Little Branch Weeping Willow 

Building and Open Sign {iD} VerstecK 

It's Friday and the stage is yours 😎

Would this be your worst nightmare or

would you be ready for your first stand-up set...

maybe a joke, or poetry, or a favorite song for summer ?

“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”

― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

Polperro, England

Still some snow on the hills.

Dieses Bild habe ich heute in der Kaserne Krampnitz gemacht. Ein beeindruckendes Gelände. Hier lohnt es sich echt mal hinzufahren und ein paar Foto zu machen.

Lalmatia, Dhaka

Hay bales nearly as far as the eye can see in a field near Prior Lake, Minnesota.

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Open your eyes to beautiful and new possibilities in 2024! Another shot from our wonderful and first ever encounter with this Eastern Screech Owl. Happy New Year once again!!

DuPage County, IL

I gave some meat to Mr Magpie, and he in turn gave it to one of his fledglings, before he flew away, leaving me to take care of his family.

USB plugs in opened zipper bag..

For theme "Open" , "MacroMondays" group.

Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, Ca.

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Neu Isenburg near Frankfurt / Germany

A lovely little glass jar, beautiful blue, with the light shinning through it.

Mouth open for this weeks Macro Mondays group theme 'Lids' (18-Nov-2019).

One extension tube used. Well within the groups size limit.

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Picture taken in the mountains around the "Barragem de Odelouca", Algarve, Portugal

Brescia.

around Hull, Yorkshire

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Nikon D800E

100.0-300.0 mm f/4.0