I wish you a clear-sighted sunday, my dear friends.

"Shamwari" South Africa

Explore #466 Dec. 12, 2007 Lake Hartwell, Ga

As I looked out of my car window this afternoon...while waiting for my wife to finish work... there it was!

One single yellow flower growing wildly amongst the grass... This flower is about 2.5cm small...

Since I didn't have my camera with me... I had to pick it... and take it home so I could take photos of it...

It would've died in a matter of days... At least this way... I was able to preserve its beauty forever!

I hope you like it!

It's on EXPLORE Aug. 18.

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Pips was asleep on the shed roof, he half opened his eyes to look at me.

I also have a textured version of this shot but I liked it without texture too so I've posted both. For this version I cloned out some distracting elements and adjusted the light/color slightly.

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Swan Feather Art. (Feather texture in original size is fun.)

Let's never split

Position 70 on EXPLORE!!!

Bronze Medal Winner and The Challenge Factory Winner!

My son and I went for an autumn walk to look at the changing leaves. Gurnee IL. 2008 All rights reserved. Do not use for any reason without my permission.

"A weed is no more than a flower in disguise."

James Russell Lowell

You believe

In God, for your part?--that He who makes

Can make good things from ill things, best from worst,

As men plant tulips upon dunghills when

They wish them finest.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

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What the !!!....Went out today for some birding shoot at the same place...but instead found this cobra again !!!...Was it the same one or not?...God knows...I'd better watch my feet and to always look down before taking another step !!!...Phew !!!...=P

Nikon D700 + Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 AF-D + Kenko 2X Teleconversion Lens + Handheld

Sol Duc Falls - Olympic National Park, Washington

This is a waterfall I've been lusting for since I first heard about it (I really should stop looking at awesome maps for places like the Olympic National Park). The angles are incredible. The water thunders down and smashes against the narrow far wall, causing a glorious mist to blast up toward the path. There really isn't a bad way to look at the falls. It's fabulous from the bridge, the rocks, the path, the top...

If you look closely, you can see an ant-sized Zeb standing on the far side rock. His pinhole is hiding behind the water blast.

Thanks to my fellow hikers for accompanying me for a birthday waterfall trek. You can't really put candles on a waterfall, but that would definitely be my choice of cake.

Hand-held Digital Rebel, Hoya Moose Polarizer, 2/5-second exposure

I thought this would just jump out at you.

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All day on the trip to get wood for business ..Swan after swan caught my eye.....the fall colors and the pools of water were just right ....of course when one is with my husband after he passes the first car while driving ..one...meaning Me ..does not asks to stop ..So I waited till wood was loaded and we were on our way home..

..Right outside of the little town of Cantwell on the summit...there they were three beautiful swans with in walking distance ....seeing only a few people with cameras along the road ...off I go down the hill...across the tundra,over the muskeg,,,,,just get close enough to start taking pics WHEN UP POPS THIS GUY ...so much for photo off swans..I turned and left so as not to spoil his dreams ...by the way there were three guys with cameras like his all sitting down in the brush along the lake.......

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Sometimes fences and gates really are a menace to photographers!

You can see the baby Osprey waiting for mom to land !!

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. --Susan Sarandon

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This is part of my job when in South Africa, looking after these beauties and also trying to make them famous, so people might give them some help too, which they really need, great creatures! www.cheetahexperience.com

Explore 353 23-03-'08 !

If a budgie came along, he would say,

" who's a pretty boy then " !

High Jumper...Jumping spiders are generally diurnal, active hunters. Their well-developed internal hydraulic system extends their limbs by altering the pressure of body fluid (hemolymph) within them.

From Wikipedia

Nikon D90 + Tamron SP 90mm + Ringflash + Handheld.

And it seems to me you lived your life

Like a candle in the wind

Never knowing who to cling to

When the rain set in

And I would have liked to have known you

But I was just a kid

Your candle burned out long before

Your legend ever did

sunset at Derwent water from Keswick

Minha homenagem ao Dia do Índio - Cacique Pataxó - Foto extraída de meus arquivos.

Lei do Direito Autoral nº 9.610, de 19 de Fevereiro de 1998: proibe a reprodução ou divulgação com fins comerciais ou não, em qualquer meio de comunicação, inclusive na Internet, sem prévia consulta e aprovação do autor.

All of my photos are under full copyright. If you would like to use any of them, please, contact me.

How can you just walk away from me,

When all I can do is watch you leave,

Cause we shared the laughter and the pain,

And even shared the tears,

You're the only one who really knew me at all.

So take a look at me now,

perched on a flower