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Taken on a very dark and rainy evening. Desaturated and Photomatix HDR Software applied to try to recreate the mood. The intent was to get near B&W, but with just a little color remaining.
For my dearest friend Ellen (who is always there, a great friend and photographer and like me loves roses) wishing her a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY and many happy days I sent the first rose that bloomed in my veranda this Spring - after the rain a ray of sun came to give us all hope and joy to this new season - also in your life, my friend - may it be full of light and joy(as you give us in your unique pictures). May Joy and Light follow you always and thank you for your friendship. Be happy and enjoy!
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.”
― Leo Buscaglia
Pls listen to Strauss: www.goear.com/listen/df2dd50/voices-of-spring-waltz-johan..
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Don't use my pictures on websites without prior authorization! They are protected by Copyright All rights reserved◄PLS DO NOT USE THIS PHOTO FOR PROMOTIONALS,BLOQS, ETC .. thank you.
I am sorry but I am a mostly OFF - so I cannot comment on all of you but will catch up as soon as I can,I am so behind and busy -
Scooter has a secret! she has been around the past few days, acting a bit differently - maybe spring is in the air!
Mount Fuji on a clear day,
Mount Fuji (Fujisan) is with 3776 meters Japan's highest mountain. It is not surprising that the nearly perfectly shaped volcano has been worshipped as a sacred mountain and experienced big popularity among artists and common people.
Mount Fuji is a dormant volcano, which most recently erupted in 1708. It stands on the border between Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefectures and can be seen from Tokyo and Yokohama on clear days
Time Well Spent
See tiny fingers and tiny toes,
Bright baby eyes, cute baby nose;
Hear baby gurgles and baby sighs,
As Mom and Dad sing lullabies.
Life is changed, but that's okay;
It's fun to spend glad hours each day,
Taking time for all the good
That comes along with parenthood.
By Joanna Fuchs
Nikon D700 + Tamron AF 28-75mm f/2.8 + SB600 + SB900 + umbrellas + Reflector + Photoshop CS4 + Handheld
This is the bridge on the Ugly House bend just outside Capel Curig , Snowdonia ...just caught the sun hitting it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAchKt2xjsw&feature=related
So...so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here...
-- Pink Floyd
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another
(Henry Van Dyke)
Location : Crans-Montana, Switzerland
Le temps efface tout comme effacent les vagues
Les travaux des enfants sur le sable aplani
Nous oublierons ces mots si précis et si vagues
Derrière qui chacun nous sentions l'infini.
Le temps efface tout il n'éteint pas les yeux
Qu'ils soient d'opale ou d'étoile ou d'eau claire
Beaux comme dans le ciel ou chez un lapidaire
Ils brûleront pour nous d'un feu triste ou joyeux.
Les uns joyaux volés de leur écrin vivant
Jetteront dans mon coeur leurs durs reflets de pierre
Comme au jour où sertis, scellés dans la paupière
Ils luisaient d'un éclat précieux et décevant.
D'autres doux feux ravis encor par Prométhée
Étincelle d'amour qui brillait dans leurs yeux
Pour notre cher tourment nous l'avons emportée
Clartés trop pures ou bijoux trop précieux.
Constellez à jamais le ciel de ma mémoire
Inextinguibles yeux de celles que j'aimai
Rêvez comme des morts, luisez comme des gloires
Mon coeur sera brillant comme une nuit de Mai.
L'oubli comme une brume efface les visages
Les gestes adorés au divin autrefois,
Par qui nous fûmes fous, par qui nous fûmes sages
Charmes d'égarement et symboles de foi.
Le temps efface tout l'intimité des soirs
Mes deux mains dans son cou vierge comme la neige
Ses regards caressants mes nerfs comme un arpège
Le printemps secouant sur nous ses encensoirs.
D'autres, les yeux pourtant d'une joyeuse femme,
Ainsi que des chagrins étaient vastes et noirs
Épouvante des nuits et mystère des soirs
Entre ces cils charmants tenait toute son âme
Et son coeur était vain comme un regard joyeux.
D'autres comme la mer si changeante et si douce
Nous égaraient vers l'âme enfouie en ses yeux
Comme en ces soirs marins où l'inconnu nous pousse.
Mer des yeux sur tes eaux claires nous naviguâmes
Le désir gonflait nos voiles si rapiécées
Nous partions oublieux des tempêtes passées
Sur les regards à la découverte des âmes.
Tant de regards divers, les âmes si pareilles
Vieux prisonniers des yeux nous sommes bien déçus
Nous aurions dû rester à dormir sous la treille
Mais vous seriez parti même eussiez-vous tout su
Pour avoir dans le coeur ces yeux pleins de promesses
Comme une mer le soir rêveuse de soleil
Vous avez accompli d'inutiles prouesses
Pour atteindre au pays de rêve qui, vermeil,
Se lamentait d'extase au-delà des eaux vraies
Sous l'arche sainte d'un nuage cru prophète
Mais il est doux d'avoir pour un rêve ces plaies
Et votre souvenir brille comme une fête.
Recueil : Poème
Marcel Proust - Je contemple souvent le ciel de ma mémoire
Bronze Medal winner and The Challenge Factory winner!
I hope you like this. It took me 2 hrs to do in photoshop. Lots of edges on this bike. I wanted it to look like it was standing up instead of a flat photo.
on explorer jan 1st 2008
that´s why i post this first photo of the year 2008 of you..beautiful horse that i met last summer..
after discovering my love for photography..i have a different view on everything..
i look at nature in a different way..now i appreciate all the things i can capture that i didn´t even pay attention to before..
once..i would have passed this beautiful horse..even slept through the ride..but because i have woken up to this wonder of photography and digital cameras..
i have this precious photo..it will always be a reminder of the beauty around me..beauty that i often pass without another look..
thank you mr. horse for making a difference in my life..
i will never know you and propably not ever find you again..but you did make my life more interesting..just by being there..
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
-- Blaise Pascal
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Bronze medal winner and The Challenge Factory Winner!
Osprey Lake, Gurnee IL. A river otter was so kind to make a nice splash for me to take this picture All rights reserved. Do not use for any reason without my permission.
Local old timers are buried in this small country cemetery........ Hillside Road in rural Foest Grove,Or.
The Leopard Lacewing is a species of heliconiine butterfly found from India to southern China (southern Yunnan), and Indochina. Its range has expanded in the last few decades, and its arrival in the southern part of the Malay Peninsula, including Singapore, is relatively recent.
from Wikipedia
Nikon D700 + Tamron SP 90mm + Ringflash + Handheld.
This old bridge looks to have been a packhorse bridge - it is closed to cars. It spans the river Bowmont in Northumberland - downstream of where it flows down from Yetholm and the Cheviot Hills
You just call out my name,
And you know whereever I am
Ill come running, oh yeah baby
To see you again.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall,
All you have to do is call
And Ill be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Youve got a friend.