A small red maple providing some color on a foggy morning.

Denver Botanic Gardens

I took this one a couple of weeks ago at Sussex Prairie Garden. I thought it was hot then. It's hotter now! I'm hoping it will cool down again soon, so I can get back to my indoor photography and remain (relatively) sane. :)

Australian Gardens (Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne) with the FFF+.

Grape hyacinth... One of the earliest and one of the prettiest flowers of spring. I never tire of these little flowers.

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Pocantico Hills, New York

A lone Aspen in Colorado.

A splash of color to start of the weekend! I really enjoy my Nikon 300mm F;/4 (especially with the 1,7 tc) it gives me a a new way of getting the shot I want and a new perspective at looking at things, as well as framing them. Not to mention the fact that 500mm (effectively if used with the 1,7tc) opens a new world of opportunities quite literally. Thanks for looking/favoring and commenting on my photographs and have a nice -photogenic- weekend.

even in a shower, the Cape Breton hills are stimulating.

A standout trio of sculptures by Aaron Curry at the DeCordova- individually they are Bluebat, Homewrecker, and Ugly Mess

DeCordova Sculpture Park

119 in 2019

#70 - Luminous/Fluorescent

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Taking photos during the day for a change of pace.

Pretty Valley, Falls Creek, Victoria AUS

Rising out from beneath the deep fog that had engulfed Pretty Valley where I'd been shooting earlier this particular morning lay this surprise.

I'd not been expecting to clear the fog at all, but scored & got really lucky - even more so that I managed to time it just right and had the sun crest over the hills to the left, bathing this shot in glorious warmth. Just enough fog lingered to give some interesting atmospheric effects and a feel of warm vs. cold too - got to love the high country!

Southampton University buildings

Shiprock was such an imposing sight that I still cannot get it out of my mind.

I submit this photo for your inspection.

This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4 f=50mm lens and Zenza Bronica 67mm SO56•2C(YA3) filter using Rollei RPX 25 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

Red roofed hut, Rye Harbour, East Sussex

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This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a glistening and ancient globular cluster named NGC 3201 — a gathering of hundreds of thousands of stars bound together by gravity. NGC 3201 was discovered in 1826 by the Scottish astronomer James Dunlop, who described it as a “pretty large, pretty bright” object that becomes “rather irregular” towards its center.

Globular clusters are found around all large galaxies, but their origin and role in galaxy formation remain tantalizingly unclear. Astronomers recently discovered a black hole lurking at the heart of NGC 3201 — its position was revealed by the strange movements of a star being quickly flung around a massive, invisible counterpart. This sparkling group of stars also has some strange properties that make it unique amongst the more than 150 globular clusters belonging to the Milky Way. NGC 3201 has an extremely fast velocity with respect to the Sun, and its orbit is retrograde, meaning that it moves speedily in the opposite direction to the galactic center.

The unusual behavior of this cluster suggests that it may have extragalactic origins but at some point was captured by the Milky Way’s gravity. However, the chemical makeup of this intriguing cluster tells a different story — the stars within NGC 3201 are chemically very similar to those of other galactic globular clusters, implying that they formed at a similar location and time to their neighbors.

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Sarajedini et al

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With autumn just around the corner, here is a shot from the archives or a white mum nestled in amongst a group of deep red ones.

Thanks for viewing and have a great weekend ahead :)

my garden, Toronto

This little tree's golden foliage has been quite a standout this fall, especially on a dreary day like today.

ODT - The Giving Tree

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Two standouts in the first crop of Sunflowers. Mid July. These were very tall. Some six feet or so. Shot with a polarizer late in the afternoon on a 100 degree + day. Have a Great Evening and thanks for the look.

This little fern has lost all its color and stands out in the general chaos of the forest floor.

Flowers along the Flower Walk in Hyde Park.

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Taken with Canon 200mm f2.8L II

Red in #Green #Leaves

This Coral colored 1964 Ford Thunderbird was a standout in my opinion. Was in excellent condition and the first time the owners had taken it to a car show/

Taken as bad weather moved in.

Colorado autumn

Torquay' Rocky Point on sunrise

light up in L

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Narcissus is a genus of predominantly spring flowering perennial plants of the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae. Various common names including daffodil, narcissus and jonquil are used to describe all or some members of the genus. The species are native to meadows and woods in southern Europe and North Africa with a centre of diversity in the Western Mediterranean, particularly the Iberian peninsula. They are predominantly spring perennial plants. They have conspicuous flowers with six petal-like tepals surmounted by a cup- or trumpet-shaped corona. The flowers are generally white or yellow or orange or pink, with either uniform or contrasting coloured tepals and corona. 11766