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An abandoned shopping trolley found in the backstreets of Thebarton, making wavy shadow lines on the corrugated iron wall.
I have never seen anything like this. Just "an object" but it's also like a container. You can hold water in it and put some flowers. In that case I don't know how to arrange flowers nicely.
The Leeds/Liverpool canal at East Riddlesden near Keighley in West Yorkshire.
It looked like a split ! - one side of the canal had Autumnal colour and on the towpath side green !
An old barn near Chili, Illinois that had seen better years. It was dilapidated to the point that a farmer passing by warned me not to get too close or go inside of it
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of Helenium / Sonnenbraut with anemone 'spectators' in the back
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
for a happy Sunday!
A male Evening Grosbeak struck a dapper pose in the winter forest.
Nikon 300mm f4PF + 1.4X
(Taken on Nov. 2017, Parkland County, Alberta)
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A beautiful path does not need to invite people; the beauty itself is already an open invitation!
~ Mehmet Murat ildan
Another one from a very rainy day at Maplewood Flats, but the gorgeous colours overtook any gloominess from a grey, wet sky.
HFF!
The Plymouth Ice Festival is an annual event held in downtown Plymouth, Michigan, in January that features ice sculptures in the central town square. Despite very cold temperatures in the low double digits Fahrenheit for the 2017 edition, the turnout was strong with large crowds in attendance. This is a sculpture of a Ford Mustang on a steep incline, I believe.
9/22/20- Wishing you all a Happy Autumn.
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A small salt island is my base for this amazing blue hour view - this is a panorama of 10 images stitched together with Lightroom.
The Great Salt Lake - GPS is not the exact spot of the shot.
SANDY Carriage Handbag by Orsini available from ACCESS until October 8th then at Orsini Marketplace
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... at Biarritz!
Can they really jump over their own greedy shadows
of exclusively economic and political interests
to save this planet?
(Happy) Monday!
Young lion / Löwe (Panthera leo)
Moru Kopjes, Serengeti, Tanzania, Africa
while it was still dark we had gone to a simple bird hide to be there before the flocks of Meyer's parrots and African green pigeons arrive at the clay eating site at sunrise.
While we were waiting we heard some noise behind us and after a while we knew these were warthogs ( definitely safer than some other possibilities...)
The family of warthogs came closer and had picked up our scent but they had no clue where we were.
The huge male in this image was walking in front and stopped nearby to look in our direction.
You can clearly see both set of tusks of which the very sharp small ones are used for fighting other warthogs or for defense against predators. The larger ones are used for digging etc.
Kafue National Park, Zambia
phacochoerus africanus
common warthog
knobbelzwijn
phacochère
Warzenschwein
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Everything, everyone comes to an end some day.... My life has been fulfilled with travel, exploration, laughter and joy... and now I rest....
Recognition
This photo received an honorable mention - Grand Reserva Prize at the Tacoma Photo Contest 2020
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As seen in Rome.
This is the entrance to the Palazzo Firenze, now the home to the Dante Alighieri Society. The building dates to the second half of the 16th century and is built in the Renaissance style by the architect Bartolomeo Ammannati.
I once read in a guide-book to Rome that you should always look when you see an open door or gate in this city. And it is quite true. You can find some lovely gems that way.
#macromondays
#Stack
Isn't it an obvious choice to combine random objects for a theme like "Stack"? Please say "Yes, it is!" :) When I was looking for objects I could stack for the new MM theme, I noticed two smaller chestnuts on my desk which I'd collected in autumn right in front of my house (It's kind of a ritual for me to collect a few of the first fallen chestnuts in front of my house). In Berlin, many streets are lined with trees of only one kind. My house is a corner house, and the entrance is on "chestnut street", while most of our windows look out to "lime tree street", just in case you were interested ;)
So there I had these two chestnuts, two fairly round objects (asteroid-"round", or Mars-moon-"round", one could say), and I wondered whether they are stackable. Stackable without little helpers such as modeling clay, because I wasn't sure if we were allowed to use such "hidden tools" for the theme. To my surprise, they were stackable, "gluelessly" :) But I still needed a third or maybe a fourth object. This was the point where "glueless" turned into clueless, and I picked random objects that would both keep my stack within the 3-inch frame and which also would be glueslessly stackable on top of the two chestnuts. At first, I thought of using the small golden crown which you've seen before as an MM prop, but it kept coming off. So in the end the "winners" were the fairy light "cuff" that I've already used for the "Star" theme from August 2022, and two small carnation blossoms, because... why not?
My image is a single shot taken in shadow priority mode. Light sources were one LED light equipped with the semi-transparent yellow bottle cap for some warm light from the left, and another LED light directed against the gold-coloured cardboard which I've used as a backdrop. That cardboard was part of food packaging, and it has an uneven, slightly reflective surface which created some nice bokeh. Processed in DXO PL6, Lightroom (where I did some masking on the chestnut stack to bring out more details), and in Analog Efex, where I used one of the "Subtle" film types (Fundy 2) and a slight vignette to add a vintage, matte touch to the image. Again, this is on the bigger side, the height of the stack is slightly more than 6 cm / 2,36 inches, and I've cropped the image so that the width of the frame meets the three inches rule as well.
HMM, Everyone!