This cute creature was specially crochet for our grand-child's first birthday in March, it will be travelling to Sao Paolo soon to arrive in good time.

From my garden

Helios

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From my garden

happy caturday from goose! 😸

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Proverbs 27:3 “Rocks are heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.”

“Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over there.’ I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful.”

—John Green (Looking for Alaska)

TD: f/2, 1/320 sec, ISO 100, @50 mm

This beautiful double bloom daffodil is stunning and I always look forward to Spring when the bulbs bloom again.

piumaggio

“I want to go soon and live away by the pond, where I shall hear only the wind whispering among the reeds. It will be a success if I shall have left myself behind. But my friends ask what I will do when I get there. Will it not be employment enough to watch the progress of the seasons? (Journal, 1:299)”

Henry David Thoreau.....From his journal

Please view LARGE.

Pentax k-5 ＋ Pentax 67soft 120mm F3.5

Un peu plus haut, un peu plus loin

Je veux aller encore plus loin

Laisse mon bras, mais tiens ma main

A little bit higher, a little bit further

I want to go a bit further

let go of my arm, but hold on to my hand

Ginette Reno

Apricots

Freshly gathered raspberries photographed from above.

From my files

Helios 44-2 + Extension tubes

For Crazy Tuesday

soft focus with a texture added

Soft-focus

Bonne année 2021 !

Happy New Year!

Je vous souhaite une année douce et lumineuse ...

I wish you a sweet and luminous year ...

Thank you very much for your comments and for your faves.

(Please do not use without my written permission.)

Pentacon 50mm f1.8 + Extension tubes

Psalm 90:9 “For all our days pass away in Your wrath;

We have finished our years like a whispered sigh.”

Lensbaby OMNI

For Crazy Tuesday: "High Key"

Lensbaby Velvet 56

For Macro Mondays: "Leading Lines"

Brief glimpse of colour sandwiched between the sea and clouds at sunrise Tuesday at Torquay. I hadn't been to the beach for a photo session recently and was a bit out of practice to be honest.

The ISO is fairly high on this one to get a reasonable shutter speed at 200mm and I forgot to focus on the surfer with the focus at the bottom third of the frame. Even so, I liked the soft effect in this and wanted to share it as something different.

From my files

"First a howling blizzard woke us,

Then the rain came down to soak us,

And now before the eye can focus -

Crocus."

~ Lilja Rogers

Lensbaby Vevet 56

Banners in the sky

Canada's 150th Anniversary ( 1867 -2017 )

Confederation

I shot this scene using a soft filter. The blossoms were not fully open yet. I might go back in a few days, weather permitting.

Not sure what flower this is (or will be). I liked how the leaves looked in soft focus.

Pflanzen, speziell Blumen haben einen immer wieder neu wirkenden Zauber. Zumindest mental sensible Menschen lassen sich gerne in diesen Bann ziehen.

Let yourself fall under the spell of the wizard :-)