Talk about your LUCKY SHOTS!!!

Was trying to get a shot of the Nuthatch at the feeder when he suddenly flew away. Didn't realize what I had until I uploaded to Flickr :-)

French postcard by E.P.I., Pornichet, no. SN4. Photo: Fotogram Stone. Caption: Pense a moi! (Think of me!)

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At the New York Public Library

I think he lives down the street. He's a regular. Probably just returning from a night on the town.

Meals on Wheels route, South Dallas

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I think this is a black swallowtail, feeding on the butterfly bush in my yard.

Duxbury, Massachusetts

He's calculating the exact angle and velocity of the ball that will be launched any second now....that way!

3/4 back view. A little more insight into the construction.

I think that this is a banded king shoemaker butterfly, but I'm not 100% sure. If you look carefully you can see another little white winged insect on the butterfly - towards the top.

Street mode festival 2012. A great weekend with old and new friends..

Props to NOX1.ONARE.IONAS.APSET.RINO.INVA.LUNE.INO.MIRO.LIVE2.ZEK.SER&SIMONI,YKZ,INSANE and all the others I might forgot..

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New one for Google's 'Think Quarterly' publication - the 'Rebrief Project' sees classic ad campaigns re-imagined for the digital world

It took nearly two years but I think Sarah and I have finally figured out the rules to Mexican Train. Well at least close enough so we can play a game.

Mr Nomad is away (again), summer seems to be hiding away (again), and I'm feeling a bit flat and uninspired at the moment so I'm going to cook a simple curry and curl up on the sofa with my gorgeous daughter to watch a film (fingers crossed that she doesn't choose "The Smurfs", lol).

Tomorrow afternoon I'll be taking part in a charity event to raise money for Cancer Research, both as a participant and photographer - hence the pink shoes :-). The event, Spin For Life, has been organised from scratch by my indomitable, inspirational and utterly gorgeous neighbour and spinning instructor (when I make it to classes), Sharly.

The event will be taking place simultaneously at various locations around the world, with 370 (and climbing even now) participants - see here for more details www.justgiving.com/teams/spin4life. All pretty impressive considering 3 months ago it was just a thought expressed out loud at the end of spinning class, IMHO!

Everyone participating is doing so in memory of a loved one whom they lost to cancer - and in recognition of those who have survived and are currently fighting cancer. In my case, my wonderful cousin David, a man with a real zest for life, passed away on 4th February 2013, aged just 48, after a year long battle against this indiscriminate disease, leaving a David-sized space in the lives of all who knew him, from colleagues to cousins, but none more so than his beautiful wife and 3 young sons, as well as his mother and siblings. I suspect that there are going to be tears and laughter at tomorrow's event!

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Olympus 75mm f1.8

In the subway, Tokyo

SECOND VERSION.....

The last of the butterflies...Was designed for a small challenge - topic; square composition....

...So tried to think 'outside the square'..

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Pose

" My Spell on you" by Something New Props & Poses

at the Halloween Asylum ( Mainstore)

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Outfit

Super Spooks Gacha by Popper Jack

for Bebe, Bebe Youth and TD

a Little Extra Goodie is in this Gacha

come and find it on the 20th at Thimble Event

Cat in Caldron

Broomercats Gacha by Baby Sunshine

wonderful Cats for your taste at the GachaLand

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Think Frank Frazetta would approve?

I am not happy with this. I had big hopes for this as a tilt-shift miniature, but I don't think it looks that much more miniature than the original ultrawide shot in the comments. I might try it again with a slightly longer lens?

I got this idea when I looked at the demolition/building site outside my office window yesterday, but I only had an 85mm lens and couldn't get anything in. So I took my 14mm today and shot a few shots. I have to say I love that lens. Being manual, it makes you work, but it is very sharp and gives just excellent image quality.

It has been weird seeing a row of terraced houses, like the ones in the distance, being demolished to make way for a new research institute. The digger drivers are very skillful and I have spent a few spare moments watching them smashing up walls and breaking up concrete foundation blocks, usually when our building shudders particularly violently!

Evidently a lot of building work is going on in London! Look at all the cranes. In the distance you may just be able to make out canary wharf and the gherkin buildings, but they are mostly lost in the haze (and added blur).

Anyway, enough waffling, now to sleep! Long weekend this weekend because of some crazy religious festival. Roll on 5-ish tomorrow!

I waited to see if he'd ride it, but I was out of luck.

Ausstellung in Rottenburg

View On Black

ISO 500

aka 1000 mm Tele-Photo

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MM In The Arms Of The Angel - Sarah McLachlan

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SX60 HS IS Canon Powershot Limits

Exhibition

Real Photos

MM

"Marilyn Monroe - 90. Anniversary. A Life in Pictures."

Große Fotoschau zu Marilyn Monroes 90. Geburtsjahr tourt durch Deutschland.

... die Aufnahmen weltbekannter Fotografen wie Eve Arnold, George Barris, Bernard of Hollywood, Elliott Erwitt und Arnold Newman zeigt.

Am 9. April wäre Norma Jeane Mortenson, besser bekannt als Marilyn Monroe, 90 Jahre alt geworden. Sie starb am 5. August 1962 in Los Angeles.

What do you think happens when you take a normal MB popemobile, remove the hood, throw out its engine, dashboard, all the guts.. even all the seats except for the pope seat... And then put in there 2 V6 engines from some kind of truck. Let me tell you - you get Popemobile dragster - or, as I like to call it - Pogster. BTW - the new dashboard is right in front of the pope chair and dragracer is sitting in it. This MOC was dedicated to LUGNuts 57th monthly challenge - From Mild to Wild!

To those who didn't check the "Plain Jane" version - here it is:

www.flickr.com/photos/the_rolic/7172384617/in/photostream/

Sony a77 + Sigma 105mm f2.8 macro

I was watching the kids jump from a bridge this afternoon. Once she thought about it more than 10 seconds I knew she wouldn't jump...

She was a very pretty young girl how they talked her into it I don't know. She was smarter that he was. The jump may have taken her suit off her so she did the right thing.

hey guys. i think i should make the tagging thing again. so here we go.

1.i Love my wonderful tomcat rafiki which i have for 9 years now.

2.ohmygod this tagging thing is really hard :D

3.the last days i sat on my couch and watched the weekenders and spongebob, im a little child, i know :]

4.my summer holidays are super amaaziing.even if i dont do anything.

5.i love to eat and sleep.my only activity this summer :D

6.i want to read all the harry potter books again and again this summer but i still dont know if i should read them in english or in german but this is actually totally needless cause i know all of them inside out,i really do :]

7.it feels like everybody i know was born in the summer.i have to make like 6 presents for the next few weeks.it does not sound like lots of to you but for me its horrible,im totally uncreative when i have to find b-day presents :)

8.my birthdays also in the summer,on the 20.8. one day after my brothers.and i dont want to be sixteen,but i want to have a party with all my friends and my family..im weird,i think.

9.its 11.3 pm right now.

10.yaay i wrote almost ten facts.which arent really interesting but i wrote some.im proud :D

but now im too tired to make anything else.good night.

:D

Don`t ask!

Think this is the male. He was carrying his gift dilligently and when the other saw him she tossed hers away and lured him into the bushes...lol

I think this must have been summer as no-heat 47370 heads a westbound passenger service away from Bristol Temple Meads in the early 1980s.

I don't like how it cropped.

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'I wish I was special

But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.

What the hell am I doing here?

I don't belong here.

I don't care if it hurts

I wanna have control

I wanna a perfect body

I wanna a perfect soul.'

Radiohead

From the ornamental plants around the home of my brother and sister-in-law, in Tennessee. I'm not sure if this is a trillium or not. The flowers were about 2 inches/6 cm across, and were apparently not completely opened yet. I like the variegated leaves, too. The material lying on the plant was catkins (flowers) from some tree.

Larger sizes available.

Any help in identification would be appreciated. Thanks. It's apparently Trillium chloropetalum, or maybe Trillium cuneatum. It seems to be a trillium, in any case.

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I think I may have blown this out a little too much, but my 6yo liked it, and seeing as it's her picture... She has eczema under her lip at the moment (cold wind) and is quite self-conscious of it so I was lucky to get her photo.

Not much around to photograph at the moment. Busy day tomorrow (Friday) but hopefully off on a roadtrip on Saturday, so hoping for fresh inspiration then.