I was lucky to get occasional passing light

Crow, or raven?

Another lovely evening

More evidence, I hope, that trashing old non-keepers isn't such a great idea. Somehow, I found myself wandering amongst six year-old images, and stumbled across this one, which struck me right away as pretty cool. Hope you agree.

A good walk up a small hill

The old railway line to masham

Taken on March 26, 2017.

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A lucky sunset for once

Taken just 1 year ago

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What would you do

If you saw spaceships

Over glasgow?

Would you fear them?

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The Swale before it is the Swale

SEASON'S GREETINGS - ΚΑΛΕΣ ΓΙΟΡΤΕΣ

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Professional Photographer, retired.

Athens, Greece.

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My Summer Solstice sunset for this year. Nothing fancy as the sun went into cloud soon after

Apparently a good average for lambs this year

Early March but still Winter up here

By a touch of leverage

Plenty of colour in some places but not much in others

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Professional Photographer, retired.

Athens, Greece.

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It's bluebell time again

DEDICATED TO THE GREEK NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM : WE ARE PROUD OF YOU FOR YOUR EXCELLENT PARTICIPATION IN THE WORLD CUP 2014, BRAZIL.

ΑΦΙΕΡΩΜΕΝΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΘΝΙΚΗ ΟΜΑΔΑ ΠΟΔΟΣΦΑΙΡΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ : ΕΙΜΑΣΤΕ ΥΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΟΙ ΓΙΑ ΣΑΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΞΙΟΠΡΕΠΕΣΤΑΤΗ ΣΥΜΜΕΤΟΧΗ ΣΑΣ ΣΤΟ ΜΟΥΝΤΙΑΛ 2014 ΤΗΣ ΒΡΑΖΙΛΙΑΣ.

Thanassis Fournarakos

Θανασης Φουρναρακος

Professional Photographer, retired.

Athens, Greece

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You can't win every time

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Someone's weekend project?

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

If only every other day was like this - I'd soon run out of memory cards and film

Popped out tonight but the clouds were evaporating which made near-subjects of more importance with the sky playing a minimal role

Typical colorful minivet with red-and-black males and gray-and-yellow females. Male is very similar to Scarlet and Short-billed Minivets, but has a lumpy fork on the wing instead of a jagged ‘lightning bolt’ as in those two species. Female can be identified by a similarly simple wing patch and less extensive yellow on the head than Short-billed and Scarlet Minivets. Both sexes average longer-tailed than similar species. Usually found in pairs or small flocks in mid- to high-altitude forests. Gives a pleasant “dee-dee” and a rolling “pr’wee, pr’wee!”.

Corbett, Uttarakhand, India. January 2015.

www.inaturalist.org/observations/69633450

More wabi-sabi, hopefully illustrating the beauty of universal impermanence. This one comes from a twenty-four image focus stack combined in HeliconFocus and then processed in Photoshop, so it should reward rather close examination. Hope you enjoy it.

Another bit of grass from the back field. I like the way the pieces of this image are distributed around the frame, and the way the leaf winds through them.

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Athens, Greece.

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They are putting on extension growth and flowering - and even fruiting - a bit early

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Bailed Out

LIMNI - ΛΙΜΝΗ

The island of Evia lies along the Eastern coast of Central Greece, and is accessible to the mainland via two bridges, an old wooden bridge and a contemporary suspension bridge. There are also frequent ferries to several parts of the island. It is 175 km long and is the second largest island in Greece, and the third largest in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Thanassis Fournarakos

Θανασης Φουρναρακος

Professional Photographer, retired.

Athens, Greece

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The End is Nigh

A quiet little spot when I was there

December 1st daybreak in Athens.

Temperature: 4 degrees C.

Thanassis Fournarakos - Θανάσης Φουρναράκος

Professional Photographer, Athens, Greece

(retired in 2011, born in 1946).

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None of my images may be downloaded, copied, reproduced, manipulated or used on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit written permission. THANK YOU!

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