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Another female Monarch clinging to some Buttonbush at Oneal Lake at Hatchie WMA in Tennessee.

une fleur en macro

boutons de fleurs

une rose pour l anniversaire de BEATRICE BL , 72 printemps je crois?

grosses bises

trois nénuphars

The Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) is a passerine bird in the sparrow family with a rich chestnut crown and nape, and a black patch on each pure white cheek.

from Wikipedia

Nikon D700 + Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 AF-D + Kenko 2X Teleconversion Lens + Handheld

This lily is called kanokoyuri in Japanese, which literally means fawn-lily.

Gazania híbrida, gazania splendens. Planta perenne de la familia de las Asteráceas

une fleur

The neoclassical portico in front of the Cathedral church of Novara, with a fugue of a sequence of arches and of huge columns of local gray granit. Taken at night.

I had been fighting with my 3x teleconverter all morning, trying to get a well focused photo with my 300mm lens.

So I decided to ditch the teleconverter and make the wildlife come to me.

Sigma 70-300mm

ISO 100

1/320 sec

F/5.6

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Bernese Oberland; Swiss Alps

patrouille de voltige Marocaine si vous agrandissez la photo vous remarquerez

que les avions sont attachés entre eux

une fleur

Punta Ballena, Uruguay.

Large?

sembra uscire dalla foto, vero?

hand held and in natural light of a hover fly on a Bahia grass seed stalk

I like the way the color of the fly's eye and the stamens almost match.

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un pavot

Photo was taken on March 15, 2007 in Wailea, Maui, Hawaii

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Iphiclides podalirius

Looking over loch quioch, highlands, scotland

Foto captada nas Águas Santas - município de Tiradentes (MG)>

olio.90 x 50.

Africa?...no , Marceddì in Sardegna!

Better not look over the edge

Please View On Black

If anyone desires a wish to come true they must

capture a butterfly and whisper that wish to it.

Since they make no sound, they can't tell the wish

to anyone but the Great Spirit.

So by making the wish and releasing the butterfly

it will be taken to the heavens and be granted.

Native American Legend

Queen Butterfly (Danaus Gilippus) on Milkweed (butterfly weed - Asclepias spp.)

I can`t exactly remember what was she doing ...

Tiger Head in Macro

My muse wanted me to stop and capture these beauties ... I'm glad I did!

The Marbled White. Position chosen to obtain backlighting, rim-lighting and a dark background to enhance colour, contrast and translucence in wings and to pick out body outline. Nikon D300; Aperture priority; ƒ6.3; 1/200 sec. Taken: 01/07/08; 08:26:45

View On Plain Uncluttered White View On Black

today(29/02/09) on the weekend Bondi beach, Sydney

This is dramatic landscape in more than geographical and 'light' sense. Up there on the cliff's edges was fought one of the most ferocious battles of the history of Hawai'i: Kaleka'anae, the Battle of the Leaping Mullet (May 1795). King Kamehameha I the Great, the great unifier of Hawai'i, had driven the army of his opponent on O'ahu, King Kalanikupule, right to these steeps of the Ko'olau Range. Rather than give themselves up, they jumped to their deaths...

Nothing today reminds of this. The setting below these cliffs is that of the majestic Ho'omaluhia Botanical Gardens with its lakes and forests. A wonderful day might be spent there.

Amid the concrete surroundings of the Airport, waiting for my Seoul-bound flight, I reminisce.

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Conquistador de Plasencia