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I've always wanted to use this collector coin for an MM theme, and the "Superstition" theme gave me another opportunity. My dad used to give me special edition coins for collecting, usually 5 or 10 Deutsche Mark (DM) pieces that were (and still are, but now as Euro, of course) issued for special anniversaries or in honour of important personalities. This is one of the coins. I'm keeping it in my wallet as a good luck charm, and whenever I change the wallet, the coin comes along.

There is nothing superstitious about the theme of the coin itself: a 10 DM silver (werewolves, anyone?) coin, issued for the 150th anniversary of the now worldwide operating Kolpingwerk, a Catholic Charity founded by Adolph Kolping (Kolping was a German shoemaker and later a clergyman who had originally initiated it in the mid-1800s as a journeyman union to improve the working conditions of apprentices), but the mere fact that it's a good luck charm makes it an ideal candidate for "Superstition", and there is also a quite funny story connected to it.

Ages ago, when I visited a street party with friends, we went to a shop to buy some water bottles (ever since, I've long come to always bring a home-filled bottle along to spare me the hassle of buying on the go), and I didn't have any coins in my purse other than this 10 DM coin. I hesitated to use it, but then thought, "Come on, don't be superstitious, it's time to let go", so I paid for my bottle of water with it. And instantly regretted it, but again thought, "don't be silly, it's just a coin". Of course, I kept vigorously discussing it in my mind ("No, it's not just a coin, it's extra special"), and after we had been walking for a while, I decided to ask my friends to lend me some money, ran to the shop, felt even sillier than before, but what matters is: I got the coin back ;)

To emphasise the illusion of superstitions, I placed the coin on the "warped" mirror tile (fixated with modelling clay) and focused mainly on the distorted reflection. In the coin's design, there is also a triangle: a symbol that is not only perceived as holy but is also connected to the secret society of the Illuminati, about which myths and conspiracy theories persist to this day; so I tried to highlight it.

Size info: The coin's diameter is 3 cm/1,18 inches.

HMM, Everyone!

retrieving the traps. by .bryan hasler.

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Golden retrieving by Göran Adevik

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"Only duty. Amuses my people you see."

Anticipation to Retrieve by cowgirlrightup

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"I'll get it, mom!" Rooster lives for retrieving, anywhere, anytime, he'll go forever, I usually have to call it quits for his own good. When I first got him he wouldn't bring it back to me, now he does every single time.

I was trying out a used lens I bought for the first time. I do like the results.

Haleakalā by scilit

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Another photo retrieved from a damaged memory card and ruined camera. My trip to Hawaii was a few years back but I thought all photo memories were lost. This photo is of Haleakala, a dormant volcano on the island of Maui. This shot is taken on a path down into the depression, which is about 11.25 km (7 mi) across, 3.2 km (2 mi) wide, and nearly 800 m (2,600 ft) deep. I couldn't go further in, too cold, too windy, and too scary a climb down. You can see some of the sand and clay particles flying around the photo. You get to the summit by car traveling the Haleakalā Highway, a road of switchbacks and steep drop-offs. At some point you drive through the clouds and when you reach the top, most of the clouds are below you. It was an awesome experience.

In Explore, June 1,2021. Thank you for your visits and comments.

Sunset Frolic by SueZinVT

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Retrieving sticks and sunsets on Brewster Flats, Cape Cod.

Spotting Blommer at Street Level by Henry Dell

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UP 815 retrieves a single load of cocoa butter from the street level spur to Blommer Chocolate, one of the only factories still active in the downtown Chicago area. Blommer receives shipments of sugar in covered hoppers on the upper level (out of frame to the right) and the street level spur is used to load overflow cocoa butter into tank cars. Union Pacific keeps a set of tank cars in Grand Avenue yard or further up the spur that Blommer essentially uses as storage tanks for whatever cocoa butter they can't fit in the factory. Every once in a while, they will ship out a load by rail as well. In this case, the crew is swapping the load for an empty and simply holding the loaded car in Grand Avenue yard. When the customer has room in their building for the product, UP will spot them the load. Cars are spotted in the street right next to the old building seen behind the Metra overpass, but unfortunately Blommer moves the car out to here themselves as trucks normally occupy the track near the building. That makes it basically impossible to get a shot down by the building which is something I've been wanting to get for a long time. In any case, this operation used to be handled only a handful of times a year or less, but has been more frequent in the last year or so with moves happening probably a handful of times a month.

And yes, I did get an over/under shot here, but I actually prefer it without a train overhead because you can actually see the classic Blommer building, which, in my opinion, makes this a more interesting industrial scene.

Chicago, IL

Norway, Hardangervidda 2014 by Yannick Butenschön

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Retrieved from old footage. Take somewhere in Hardangervidda National Park

Chasing and retrieving by belgm3

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Rock Creek

Retrieving bicycle parts by Paul Close

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DSC7379 Jay.. by Jeff Lack Wildlife&Nature

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Jay - Garrulus Glandarius

Although they are the most colourful members of the crow family, jays are actually quite difficult to see. They are shy woodland birds, rarely moving far from cover. The screaming call usually lets you know a jay is nearby and it is usually given when a bird is on the move, so watch for a bird flying between the trees with its distinctive flash of white on the rump. Jays are famous for their acorn feeding habits and in the autumn you may see them burying acorns for retrieving later in the winter.

The word jay has an archaic meaning in American slang meaning a person who chatters impertinently.

The term jaywalking was coined in 1915 to label persons crossing a busy street carelessly and becoming a traffic hazard. The term began to imply recklessness or impertinent behavior as the convention became established.

In January 2014, Canadian author Robert Joseph Greene embarked on a lobbying campaign among ornithologists in Europe and North America to get Merriam-Websters Dictionary to have a "Jabber of Jays" as an official term under bird groups.

Population:

UK breeding:

170,000 territories

Challenge 43: Movement / Sidelit by Marian Jenkins

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Retrieved from facebook as it was lost. Trumpeter Swan flying into setting sun.

concentration by Andrea Smith

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retrieving is a serious game

Retrieving older photos by pprd

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Hindu Holi Festival in Madrid, Fiesta Hindú Holi en Madrid by J.K.K.

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Retrieving some old shots... year 2017,

Recuperando algunas tomas antiguas... año 2017

Retrieving Breakfast by Gabriel F.W. Koch

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Delicately climbing and repairing.

Paddling .. by Yvonne Pay

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.. to retrieve the ball at All About Dogs, Norfolk Showground.

Retrieved For A Bounty by OlBear Threebeards

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The jig is up, the news is out

They finally found me

The renegade who had it made

Retrieved for a bounty

Nevermore to go astray

This'll be the end today

Of the wanted man

Renegade - Styx

Retrieving a ball from the ditch by tedesco57

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Waiting in the wings by monte stinnett

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Chick retrieving freshly caught pigeon and then the fun begins. The 2 siblings will want some of that yummy pigeon and will chase the victor until someone wins the prize. Would have liked a better angle, but it is what it is.

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Retrieving by Jane Cumming

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My friend's Lab, Tag, enjoying what Labs love to do.

Retrieve by Frederick Roll

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Different treatment to an old image!

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" I got it ! " by Jan BT

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Retrieves a stick.

Steven Saves The Day by Kyle Korienek

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24 hours earlier, I went out looking for the HESR 767 job that runs to Owosso occasionally. While I did not find that train, I did encounter a GLC empty grain train that was headed for Oakley. I kept that in the back of my mind that it would run the following evening. The next day I was busy at my parent's house, which is only about half a mile from the line that runs to Oakley, and after watching the power run up to retrieve the train, I waited to see when they left. A few hours later here they come, and in the dark I thought I saw a nose headlight, which means 1 of 2 things: GLC 329 in ugly paint, or a GP35. Leave it to McKay to get it in my head that a 35 might be on it, and my pursuit to catch up began, with my discovery of the 392 leading. Pulling hard up the stout grade into Cohoctah, the high priority CSX grain train roars into town behind 4 GLC motors with the right one leading. HWFGM gets plenty of credit whether he realizes it or not.

osprey heading home with the catch by Steve Acheff

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unfortunately about 15 seconds later two crows attacked him and he dropped the fish. didn't see if he even bothered to retrieve it.

Hunt seek retrieve by Connie Adams

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Thanks to everyone that views and comments on my images - very much appreciated.

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Millie Retrieving? by chocolatelabrador

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A Lab, a Girl, and a Duck Blind v2 by Jo Outdoors

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A best pal and her brother-in-law's Lab (Ivy), patiently waiting for the last of the group to finish setting up. Nearing sunrise with plenty of coffee-filled thermoses on hand.

Near Aberdeen, South Dakota - 2015

[Unedited photo captured with very old cellphone]

retrieve by happyhowiephotography

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FujiFilm X-S1

Still There, Still Broken by Anne Marie Clarke

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I first saw this "Fragmentary colossal marble head of a youth" at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art in 2016, when it was part of the show of works on loan from the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The larger-than-life bust, possibly of Alexander the Great, is now in a prominent, permanent position on the first floor of the Met, right off the main lobby. My camera settings were accidentally way off, and I retrieved this photo only by extreme use of sliders to lighten it, which explains the graininess.

Greek, Hellenistic period, 2nd Century B.C. (?)

Discovered at Pergamon, at upper terrace of

gymnasium, 1879.

"The function and importance of this extraordinary head have only recently been understood. The youth, with long curling locks and a brooding expression, was originally part of a draped bust set in a marble roundel almost four feet in diameter. It is probably among the earliest known sculptures of this type (imagines clipaerae) in marble and over life-size in scale. It would have been one of a number that adorned the walls of a particularly grand space in the gymnasium. He may represent a young god or possibly Alexander the Great. Even in its damaged state, the head exemplifies the combination of sensitivity and presence that are characteristic of the finest Pergamene sculpture."

Part of a visiting exhibition from the Pergamon Museum (Berlin) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC -- July 4, 2016

Fishing by vincenzooli

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Retrieving a fallen treehouse roof, using my homemade log splitter for a boom.

Summer Spectrum by PelicanPete

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SUNRISE ~ in my backyard ~ August Morning 8/8/19

Summer Pastels ~ Peaceful Wetland ~ River Magic

Backyard Beauty ~ South Florida ~ Broward County

Florida's SE Coast ~ Coral Springs, Florida U.S.A.

*[Light It Up! ~ Red Umbrella ~ Spread-Out Spectrum ~ Morning Glory]

*[Woke up bleary-eyed and got the coffee brewing... When I went out to my driveway to retrieve my

newspaper, (yes, I still get the newspaper...one of the few people left on my block), I peered over

my neighbor's roof to see that lone little cloud-bank (above) all lit up! It was in the perfect position to

receive that up-light from the sunrise over the ocean 12-miles-away. I hustled in to grab my camera...

got a few nice keepers... and I enjoyed my coffee and newspaper about fifteen-minutes-later! LOL]

August 2019 South-Florida Home Sunrise Series

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Retrieving by Juan Mejia

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Playing fetch in the yard with Sweetie

Retrieving happiness by Joel Pond

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I came across this black Lab who was retrieving large sticks his owner threw into the lake. The bigger, the better.

Plowing the Brush by Henry Dell

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Having retrieved the last empty from the closing Rousselot gelatin plant, Pan Am local BO-1 plows through the bushes one last time on the Danvers branch on the way back to Salem and ultimately Boston, thus closing a chapter of over 170 years of railroading. Peabody, MA

Retrieving the baloon by Maxime Athier

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With a hot air baloon, you land where you can, often in a field. You have to avoid houses and power lines. You want to avoid some fields and cows (not to frighten them). I took this photo when we flew low to catch some specific winds. I like the framing with the cars in the back, coming to the landed baloons to pack them.

Sony A7 iii // Sony FE 24-105mm f/4 G OSS

Merlin April Fogged Film001-3 by monosnaps

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Film Fogged but an effort to retrieve an image from it.

Chasing and retrieving by belgm3

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Rock Creek

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