A creative artistic version of a squirrel posing-resting on a pine tree limb.

Edited with a small white matte frame and texture added.

Hibiscus flower in the backyard garden ...

Edited with a large white matte frame.

A female Cardinal and her friends enjoying a wee snack ...

Edited in a small white matte frame ...

Love the female cardinal's little head-tilt ...

Snowdrop | Galanthus nivalis | Amaryllidaceae

Samsung NX1 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2020.

My garden

Lensbaby Sweet 80 + macro converters

The bird through lot of branches.

Speckled Wood | Pararge aegeria | Nymphalidae

Samsung NX1 & Kiron 105mm f/2.8 Macro

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2018.

HFF!

This is one of our favorite trails to walk in the spring to see the woodland wildflowers. It can be fun in the fall too. Many of the trees here have lost their leaves, but the oaks are still putting on a golden show.

Schuhschnabel im Weltvogelpark Walsrode

A very cold, windy start to my not so little buddy's day.

Enjoying his morning treat on our new backyard deck.

Explore : #431 on Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Darkness fast approaches ...

Two poppy buds framed with a large white matte frame.

Samsung NX300 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2 Lens | 10mm Macro Tube | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2016.

1am

Bleeding Hearts

Hand-thrown pottery vase opening measures less than 3cm across. A friend in Alaska has a talent for pottery. The lower part of the base has hues of lovely blues.

Fiddled with this a bit. Sorry, Amanda.

WISH YOU ALL A GREAT WEDNESDAY

(seen inside the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, House of Photography - background abstract by Poul Gernes :-)

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© 2010 Helmuth Boeger - All rights reserved.

... it is raining here again so I need a splash of sunshine colors... happy Friday!!! On explore @123 June 13/09

Tight crop from an extreme telephoto shot at a Frontier League baseball game in Avon, Ohio. Pitcher is lit by the setting sun.

For Looking close... on Friday: "Feathers (black an white)"

If instead of a gem, or even a flower,

we should cast the gift of a loving thought

into the heart of a friend, that would be

giving as the angels give.

(George MacDonald)

Smile on Saturday! :-) - Meet Cute

(photo by Freya, edit by me)

Thanks for views, faves and comments!

Actually they make no such lens as l have described. But l sometimes do the unorthodox, like using my f1.8 Sony 85mm optical lens in conjuntion with the camera's built-in digital zoom lens. If you take your time and can see sharp details, such as fingernails, skin pores, etc., hold real still and pray a lot, you can occasionally get decent results. It really makes those selective focus shots pop. Not bad for street photography if you want to reach out without being noticed. Not so great for sports, other than sideline color.

Well, the title works IF it is barley; I don't know how to tell barley from wheat! I took this at one of the `fields of gold' near St Cyrus nature reserve.

(Thank you to Anne Cotton for confirming it is barley ;D)

Charcoal black taxi-cab rushing at top speed for his next fare-pic up.

Edited into an artistic creative version.

Insiped by the cover of the 1972 vinyl album Zero Time by Tonto's Expanding Headband. Delusions of grandeur, reallly, but we can all dream.

Brown Mottlegill | Panaeolina foenisecii | Bolbitiaceae

Samsung NX1 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2

10mm Macro Tube | f/2.8 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2019.

Have a good week :)

Thanks for taking time to fave, comment and look at my work. I really appreciate.

With the sun setting through the new shoots of the red-twig dogwood, I felt more hopeful.

Thanks for looking.

From my files

Lensbaby Sweet 50

No culinary skills. Just playing with kitchen tools. My spouse is the chef. I'm the cleanup crew of one, and a lazy one at that.

7DWF Wednesdays: Macro or close-up and Macro Mondays' Found in the Kitchen theme.

Thanks for looking!

For Macro Mondays: "Numbers"

Once again we have "the big stare down"

"I'll give you one more chance to put the treats out or I'm outta here" ... Who wins this time? ... Got the shot and went inside for the treats.

Back to the Alliums :)))

Thanks for all the lovely comments and faves on my images. They are very much appreciated :)))

This photo is copyrighted. It is not allowed to download them or use them on any websites, blogs etc. etc. without asking me.

A black-brown-greyish squirrel enjoying treats on our new backyard deck.

Edited with a large white matte frame.

"Looking close... on Friday!" : "the colour orange"