The ducks don't mind the cold on Lake Taupo, NZ. I like the cold and gloomy colours here, this is straight from the jpeg out of the camera.

Trying spontaneously to get free campsite in Joshua Tree NP at Thanksgiving Weekend is not really a good idea. So I had to stay an uncomfortable night in my car somewhere in a quiet backstreet in 29Palms, hmmm.

So, I got up very early, drove all the way up to the National Park, where I could enjoy an incredibly bright and colorful sunrise in absolute tranquility and gorgeous solitude.

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By the way, some technical details:

NIKON D80 + NIKKOR 70-300 mm at 150 mm,

F/25, 1/500 seconds, ISO-100

1 single exposure, no HDR

max. size: 3789 x 2537

Fine-tuning with NIKON Capture NX2

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This gnarled old tree caught my attention at sunset.

InnerMongolia, Bashang, China 內蒙古 壩上

造幣局桜の通り抜け

Osaka Mint Bureau garden arguably has the best collection of sakura in Japan - Its only open to the public one week a year.

I was lucky to be there to see and photograph the amazing verities of flowering cherries.

Weather was "bad", but it did not spoil the scenery.

Also it was unusual less crowd because actually we came there just a day before an official opening day.

Number of varieties: 132 kinds

Number of trees: 350

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Fall foliage on trees around Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Taken just off of Crawley Farm Road near Universite de Moncton.

Shot in mid-October 2015. Nikon D7100 and Nikkor 18-300mm.

P.U.M.-iranje

Groblje u Blatu, na Mljetu ///

small village cemetery in Blato, on island Mljet

46/52 Theme: Poem

"A poison tree" by William Black.

I was angry with my friend;

I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

I was angry with my foe:

I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I waterd it in fears,

Night & morning with my tears:

And I sunned it with smiles,

And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night.

Till it bore an apple bright.

And my foe beheld it shine,

And he knew that it was mine.

And into my garden stole,

When the night had veild the pole;

In the morning glad I see;

My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

This poem that I love, I took it from one of my favorite TV series "The Originals" I leave here a recited part of it "

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Is this an IR-Vis photo? Accheived by stacking two circular polarizers (different makes) on top of one another. Looks like IR-Vis film. The red channel seems to show an IR-like response with light vegitation and dark skys and water. The blue channel has the most information. It maybie that hte IR has been pushed into the red channel and the rest of the visibile range into the blue and green, but I have no idea if this is hte case or if it is how it works.

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Henry Doorly Zoo, Omaha

Fixing the power lines - some of the hoopla that goes along with a fallen tree. The power company and the city both did a quick and efficient clean up job.

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A healthy large cumquat tree with plenty of fruit, in a someone's front garden.

I made cumquat jam a couple of times and love it with ice-cream and crushed almonds.

Lochindorb comes from the Gaelic meaning "Loch of Trouble".

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The history of the Crochet Tree

It's about 10 years that I live far away from my home, my culture. After some years I realised to start to forget my language. For fighting this horrible fact I'm reading more in hungarian. This winter I've found some unknown poems from one of the most famous hungarian poets, Sándor Petőfi and immediately felt in love! He used several times rainbow and spiderweb motifs in his works. Who ever seen my flickr knows well that I'm "obsessed" with both of them! @;) After some times when I returned home I went to my city's theater with my Mom. The name of this theater is Petőfi Színház. Yet another time him, I've tought! The recitation was shocking (in the right way): A Midsummer Night's Dream's adaptation from William Shakespeare. At the end I felt like a forest creature in a fairytale! As we were exit I've seen a tree in front of the theater. It was strange, nude, "devious"... And I finally understood what do I have to do: Dress up the Petőfi Színház's tree with Sándor Petőfi inspired rainbow crochet spiderwebs for give him a fairytale look!

During the crocheting progress I've found myself wondering... How to answer to children when they are asking me: how is it possible that a tree is rainbow coloured? So I wrote a little fairytale for them, just for fun. I'm a crocheter NOT a writer! Be indulgent! %) :

Once Rainbow said:

"I've already seen the whole world, I appear for some minutes here and immediately I have to run to another place... I'm tired, I would like to go on holiday!"

In April it was raining with sunshine several times, so Rainbow visited Veszprém and felt in love with the city. There were colorful flowers everywhere and people were kind. From the sky it seemed like a beautiful, quiet little city. As Rainbow was looking around she've seen a lonely tree in a park rounded by red tulips. People were walking hand in hand under him, children were playing near to the tree and Rainbow could hear also the music from the theater next to the park. She was envy for the moveless peace of that tree, for the closeness of people... And she tought:

"I want to stand like that tree! I want to be a part of people's life for awhile! This should be the perfect holiday for me!"

So Rainbow said goodbye to the sky and came down to hug tightly the tree!

(Don't worry, Rainbow's sisters and brothers are still trevelling all over the world and Rainbow will return to work too after the relaxing holiday!)

My other obsession is spirituality.

For those who are not interested about these things:

STOP READING!

Every work of mine are based on numerology and colour therapy.

This tree contains 13 colours (which means 39 colour combinations). 13 because of the 13 chakras. I've found a site times before and I'm happier since I've seen that all the Oversoul Chakras are rainbow colored! @;)

Here is the link for it:

www.holographicsound.com/chakra-colors.html

I started to install it on May 3rd 2011, with new moon in taurus.

3 months for crochet, 3 days for installing 247 spiderweb circles. Number 3 and 13 returns everywhere in this project!

The colours are following from red to violet like chakras and they are installed like the snake (Kundalini) is going up to the tree.

That's all folks! @;)

Photo credit: Shalom Adams

Two shots of the same trees. taken by Box Tengor on Ilford FP4+. This box camera is really amazing!

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Almost time for the pasta harvest!

This sailboat just looked so idyllic, I had to get a picture.

so i'm walking home after getting some nice bright sunny day photos & i decide to walk through Parc Herbert Outerbridge, between Benny & West Hill, in NDG. i never go home this way & wouldn't have seen this tree otherwise.

at first I didn't want to photograph it, since it was so sad. i've never seen a tree vandalised this badly in my neighborhood! what's going on? who did it? why? boredom & anger born out of poverty, racism and oppression...with no positive way to express that? that's what i think.

i see so many 'pretty' photos on Flickr & wonder why i bother with stuff like this. who else is going to notice this tree that may now die? who else even thinks about why the vandal/s may have done it? even when i phone the police tomorrow to report it, they will likely feel anger inside, if that, with little concern about underlying issues. i just want them to keep an eye on our trees this summer. i will.

as i left the park, i noticed another tree had a few slices taken out of it too. whoever did it, got bored & left.

Eucalyptus blakelyi - Athllon Drive, near St Anthonys Catholic Primary School in Wanniassa ACT. This tree grows at an angle to the ground and has a long trunk for this species.

I liked the moon rising above this old Tree

Lone Tree in One Tree Hill Paddock, Glasshouse Mountains, Maleny, Queensland...

and arching trees. Someday, I want some photos of me, underneath arching trees like this. Me, writing, under arching trees like this.

One rainy evening this past July I arrived home from work and took my trash cans to the curb for pickup. on my return to the house I noticed this fellow trying to remain unseen at the edge of my driveway. He was a very large frog , much larger than any tree frog I had ever seen,(I am guessing he was some sort of tree frog) so I was very excited to get a few photos of him. I quickly went in the house and grabbed my camera and returned. On my return he was still rite were I had last seen him and we had a nice little photo session.

Taken in the Angelina National Forrest off of HWY 63 West in 16:9 Aspect Ratio using the Sony 18-70mm Lens after about 3 inches of rain today. You can see the foliage starting to change.

Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)

Aperture: f/4.5

Focal Length: 18 mm

ISO Speed: 200

Tolsteegsingel (toch?) vlakbij de Maliebrug, kijkend richting het zuiden/Sonnenborgh.

my father and his father

circa 1940

(photo not taken by me!)