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Curved big branch of a cork oak at Mount Stewart garden in County Down, Northern Ireland, UK.

The fimbriated dahlia 'Orange Impact' unexpectedly replaced a white dahlia in one of my spring orders. The huge flowers provide a welcome jolt of color to our front garden, especially on a hot sunny day.

Have a great start to the new week! Take care and stay safe. Thanks for stopping by and for all of your support -- I deeply appreciate it.

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Duomo of Gorizia

What a wonderful and unexpected surprise! Because of the bounty of abundant (some might say relentless, lol) sunshine this summer, the autumn Anemones are already blooming in August. This beautiful Anemone deserved to be painted.

"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." ~ Alice Walker

"Art must take reality by surprise." ~ Francoise Sagan

A friendly chicken from a nearby farm called in to say hello.

Hi there,

I saw a clump of wild vetch and thought it would be grand to take a few macros. Well, to my surprise I found a few blister beetles enjoying this wildflower. I knew that bees adored vetch, but had no idea that beetles would also be attracted to it. I suspect this to be the same type of beetle as yesterday's post, but the images were taken in two very different locations.

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As I continue to process images from my recently concluded trip to Kenya, I thought I'd post this image from a special encounter on my last trip with a hippo on land one very early morning. The grain in the image reflects the very early hour this image was taken, but it was still a rare and special site.

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An unexpected visitor from the Coral Sea. 2 years after my vacation in Australia, I wanted to photograph some shells. I noticed this little crab. Unfortunately it did not survive the trip to Germany:(.

When you take your camera to close the ocean, the ocean fights back.

This group of Greater Flamingos were performing their mating dance and display for dominance in Camargue, France.

The two flamingos in the center of this photography get their necks entangled with each other.

They quickly worked it out and then the group continued to perform the dancing ritual.

There are nine different postures during the courtship display and from these postures, there are more than 100 possible transitions between the postures.

The dance is a beautiful group behavior to watch and listen to.

-Phoenicopterus roseus

After a mainly dry, sunny intervals type of a day, suddenly late afternoon it began to become very overcast and dark, resulting in this totally unexpected hail shower, short but sweet

Smile on Saturday: Levitation

Spent quite a bit of time on this.

Not so satisfied yet.

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Juvenile Bobcat

I was looking out a window on the east side of our house when I spotted this lovely barred owl in our big apple tree. I went out the west entrance and approached slowly. The owl stayed long enough for me to get some shots, then go back into the house and get my wife. We both enjoyed our visitor and hope to see it again (it flew away shortly, then came back after dark)

Rode eekhoorn [red squirrel]

This little friend was not shy and gave me the opportunity to take a picture, Thnx!

Location: Voorne-Putten, The Netherlands

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After a rainy, dark day around Aviemore it was a real bonus when a small gap in the clouds allowed the low sun to shine through at the end of the day. I was lucky to be in the vicinity of Loch Morlich so I rushed down to the beach to find it bathed in glorious, late light. The clouds over the Caingorms behind the trees really were this dark.

A walk thru a trail in the mountains of British Columbia we spotted a deer in it's own habitat.

I decided to post this as a less “faded” companion to my previous image, Shadow to my Light. This photo was taken in my neighborhood, on one of those winter days when the weather is cloudy and dreary all day and then the sky suddenly lightens along the horizon and the sun makes an appearance just in time to illuminate a beautiful afternoon sunset.

These unexpected sunsets, in a time of year marked by long nights and skies seemingly perpetually arrayed in endless shades of gray, always spark a sense of joy for me. And I can feel a lightness rising in my heart as I watch the sun determinedly burn its way through the clouds and thread the sky with ribbons of light and color in a triumphant celebration of victory over winter’s gloom.

"During the day, I don't believe in ghosts. At night, I'm a little more open-minded." –Unknown

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Domestic dogs... loved., pampered., fed., and kept safe

This of course is a wild dog., cold., unloved., persecuted and probably hungry

I love to see foxes but it always makes me feel a little sad

I was taking shots of egrets, heron, kingfishers and dragonflies, when this little spotted sandpiper landed on the branch where the green heron had been perching earlier. Nice to get a close look at this little one!

On their way to Africa, three white storks came and took a preening break on the side gable of the Brusilia Residence in Schaerbeek (Brussels, Belgium).

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I was at Jackson Bottom in one of the spots where I often see song birds, when this one perched atop a tree. Thanks, KW Nature Photos , for the ID of American Kestrel!

I was going for a walk with my camera near the ponds of Matthias Weiher in Trier and was expecting to capture water birds, but found this cute turtle instead! :)

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This shot of the fox was an unexpected encounter. I was looking for foxes together with a colleague of mine. However we did not see them. We decided to look for other subjects to photograph and saw some grasshoppers. While we were taking photos of these beautiful small insects, I suddenly saw something moving at my leftside. As I looked up, I saw a fox at only one meter away. I softly said to my colleague not to be scared and I turned my camera immediately towards the fox which was apparantly very curious of what we were doing squatting in the long grass. And I was just thrilled to have my 50mm lens ready when needed.

The fox may have also been wondering why he was not the subject to be photographed. Anyway, the fox appeared very sudden, but also disappeared like winking.

Screech owl wakes up as Downey woodpecker checks him out.

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