Orchis pourpre (Orchis purpurea)

Orchid, Denver Botanic Gardens

15 images, focus stacked

The light, the duck - somehow makes photography all worth while.

Dawn light on a young buck in the Oregon Cascade mountains.

Close up of Rose petals, taken at the Rose Garden, Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne.

Many thanks for your visit, comments, invites and faves...it is always appreciated..

Peaceful MBT

Montezuma Road, Tatamá National Park, Colombia

Species # 957

Mashpi - Amagusa Reserve

Ecuador

Velvet Shank - Flammulina velutipes, is one of the few fungi which grows in winter. It is distinctly velvety to the touch (hence the name). Found on dead Elm trees, likes deciduous woodland.

Although this fungi is edible, it could be easily confused with similar looking species, so please get an expert opinion before tasting any wild fungi. Get it wrong and there isn't a second chance! I like to admire it and then leave it for someone to admire, safer that way! :)

Red lily on the neighborhood. I've been very busy lately, I'll catch with you maybe tomorrow!

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Thanks for your visit and taking the time to comment so I can visit your photos, too... very much appreciated! Have a great day!

Velvet fronted nuthatch, Thailand

Mindo - Ecuador

little leaf coming out of a Kalanchoe Beharensis

Velvet Leaf plant

For Macro Mondays. Theme: Leaf

in the series ... fluent glass ...

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A gift for my Flickr friends!!

The flower has been notably featured in the graphic novel V for Vendetta, but in the movie version, is renamed to the fictitious "Scarlet Carson" which Ruth grows for her partner (Valerie) and V grows during his imprisonment in the Larkhill Resettlement Camp. They were portrayed in the film by red 'Grand Prix' roses.

Thank you for all your kind comments and faves.

A velvet red dahlia, seen and captured in "Britzer Garten“ in Berlin.

© This photo is the property of Helga Bruchmann. Please do not use my photos for sharing, printing or for any other purpose without my written permission. Thank you!

I wonder if there is a flower as loved and recognized by many like the rose. I love photographing flowers, but my favorite of course is the rose. A simply bud could be a beautiful display in the garden, vase or somebody's hand, and it is so unique that plant can stand very low temperatures before going dormant during the winter months.

Where to start when we talk about the rose? It is difficult since there is a huge variety, but I found a something very interesting that you might light to take a look:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose

Did you now that choosing a rose by color have a special meaning? So before you give somebody roses, do a little research ;)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg0OLeTRgFw

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Photography is one of my passions, and nature photography is my favorite.

I have been in Explore for more that a hundred times, and it is an awesome experience to have your photos showcased in such a special way.

I thank your for coming today, for leaving a comment, and make a favorite of yours this photo, (if that is the case) thanks again!

The best part of this forum is the contacts and friends that I have made over the years, that have the same passion for this art that is called photography!

Martha.

A male whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus) stands in a field of wildflowers at sunset along the Wiouwash State Recreation Trail northwest of Oshkosh, Wisconsin

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I 'm in clinic for weeks already... fell and broke some parts of my face,

healing fine though, but bored as in hell I feel mostly

first time succeeding in connecting the internet... gonna have to explore still much more... been off so long!

thanks a lot for liking my old shot... given water they grow still!!! Love the color and the velvet and of course the heart shaped leaves!!

and light bulbs too... loving everything about them... the typical 'house blend', yes, I love... ♥♥♥♥♥ !!!!!

the feeling of arriving, being or coming Home !!!

most important that connection it is, yes, also to me

the closeness in relation, just the same brand it is

even if looking down or depressed, both ways...

always living in/on hope !!!

I am posting 2 images today, this one here where I filled the frame with the fabric (for SoS) and one from autumn where I used the scarf in a still life. It is made out of velvet and sheer fabric with glittery silver embroidery. A colleague brought it from Turkey a few years ago.

I consider it very fancy, so much so that I hardy ever use it for fear of damaging it.

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Velvet fronted nuthatch, Thailand.

For licensing see:

www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo/velvet-fronted-nuthatc...

Happy Weekend for all my friends

mimikri Denise Velvet Blazer dress @ Cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitan

Melbourne, Victoria

Almost invisible, tiny white stars glimmer through the red velvet dusk at sunset time, along with silhouette foliage including coconut trees alongside a village river, in Cherating, Malaysia Peninsula.

pull up to the city

tell me I'm your lily

I'll be in that dress you like

body in vanilla

yeah, I know it thrills ya

I know what is on your mind

take you to a place where

you can see stars here

nothing but the radio on

baby let me love ya

I just wanna hold ya

we got nothing but the time

you're the honey whiskey

I'm getting kinda tipsy

you know all the things I like

lavender and velvet

yeah, you got me melting

you know what is on my mind

let my love run wild

let me, ♬♪ let me love you down ♬♪

*taken at Fleur de Sel - Fusion

Mashpi - Amagusa reserve

Ecuador

Deer in the Phoenix Park Dublin shedding it's antler velvet.

A bull elk showing off his velvet antlers.

Snake River, Oregon

Exquisitely patterned Wild Indigo Duskywing skipper quietly sipping nectar from a Red Clover floret.

Abundant and common.

Found on a recent trip to a garden centre, the blackest flower I have ever seen, a variety of petunia called Black Velvet that just had to be purchased for photographic purposes.

For Looking Close on Friday theme 'Raindrops or Dewdrops'.

The 1st word that popped into my thoughts: “Velvet.”

Mount Rainier, Washington -sunny & temperate at midday looking across a deep valley on the side of the tallest mountain in the Cascades.

Velvet Mountainside 7095