Pottering about a bit in our Snowy Garden this morning, my Sonyeye became intrigued by this Winter Brightness. Almost violently red Cotoneaster Berries are vying with Gravity - can't show you that - over the fortunes of an H2O-droplet. Amazing forces of Nature form such a droplet. Water molecules would rather band together than bond with other kinds such as air. This desire for proximity to each other causes their spherical shape - a bit technically: a sphere has the smallest possible surface area to volume ratio. What looks like an 'elastic membrane' around the droplet is in fact its surface tension, caused by that central molecular binding. This tension is quite something: it makes it possible for example for small insects to walk on water.

In the photo, our water droplet is not a sphere. It's pendant, pulled out of shape by the force of gravity. And fell into a snowy grave just as Sony did its thing.

OK so I'm being a bit lazy, a few people asked about the colour version when I posted the original black and white sometime ago , I was also too lazy to go out tonight and get some nice evening shots so heres the colour version given some HDR treatment whilst watching Lost (cant get into the new series, yeah Im sad I know :-). Quite different when in colour-hope you like it, hope to get out tomorrow night for more new pics

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A little bit of sunshine goes a long way, especially in these dark winter days.

Kenidjack Common, St Just.

……We are all feeling a bit battered at the moment as we all try to cope with a new way of living in these unprecedented times. This farm entrance has had a run-in with bigger machinery that seems to grow larger every year! Wishing you all the very best with your Lock-Down - Stay at HOME to stay safe and to NOT be a vehicle to the virus, Alan:-)

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Focus stack (50 images) Shot with single off-camera strobe (Godox AD200Pro/XPro II trigger), bare bulb, mounted on overhead boom, bounced off 32 inch white umbrella.

Shot for Macro Mondays - spiral

62 mm (l) x 10 mm (dia)

masonry drill bits differ from normal drill bits in that they have a hardened cutting tip (usually tungsten carbide) that is used to chip/grind hard materials such as masonry, brick or stone rather than cut through the material. The deeply fluted spiral shape that of the bit helps to remove dust and debris from the hole that is formed. Masonry bits are tippically used in hammer drills that use a combination of percussion and rotation to create a hole of the desired dimension

Sometimes described as a wooden Thrup'nny bit this coin was worth 1/80 of a pound and bears some resemblance to the present pound coin having 12 sides and golden colour. I chose this for the "Redux" theme on currency.

I've probably been in Thailand too long to think that the water of Emerald Lake would be anything other than freezing cold. Call me soft but even though it was a really hot day I only lasted a few seconds paddling in the lake

Fun time with some coins, lightbox, and color prism. Hope you enjoy this series as much as I liked playing around with the light and angles of the light.

A bit different with the processing on this one...mostly due to the extreme shadows and highlights. I decided to do something different and embrace the chaos. I quite like the result, but prefer a nice overcast day for woodland and water...Turkish clear blue sky and blazing summer sun are not exactly the ideal conditions. Take what you get

Another bit of a reflection of a blossom on the bank of the bayou accompanying one of my good buddies! I like the way the light lit up from the sun! Taken on Horsepen Bayou!

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Vietnam

Bubble blowing underglaze coated this wee pot. I'm excited to see the result!

In Mexico City's Bosque de Chapultepec.

Market Vendor in Hoi An Vietnam

Bit different crop of the fishing weir on the Shubenacadie river in Enfield, Nova Scotia.

For this to make any sense it would be helpful to have a quick look at my previous picture of the Fire Station coffee shop (and art centre).....

I have photographed the exterior of this building on three occasions now. It is a street photographers dream. Yesterday Kerry enquired in the comments, if I had had a coffee? Well I felt a little guilty that I hadn’t and thought I would rectify that today.

There is currently an exhibition of sculpture by Johannes Von Stumm on in the Fire Station. I took my mother (who is an artist in her own right) to have a look around. I bought our coffees and then surveyed the artwork.....I’m always attracted to the price tags first.....One tag read £42,000 and another read £51,000. Beautiful artwork but not really my cup of tea (or price bracket)......

The pictured bronze was sat by the bar and caught my eye. I went over and looked at it. It was a completely different style of work to the other sculptures. Much more up my street. I enquired of the barman if this was made by Mr Von Stumm as well? .....

He said No. One of the bar staff had made it!!!!!

Heck there are some very talented people around.....

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Bit of a climb to catch this in time to photograph the sun setting.

Leica Q2 Monochrom

Summilux 28mm/f1.7 Asph.

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Never too many drill bits...

Shot for Our Daily Challenge :“Left Over / Extra Bits”

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A bit of photoshop fun for Sliders Sunday.

Don't ask about the concept here because I'm not sure there is one LOL.

The base image was taken with an ND filter to get a long exposure which removed all of the traffic. The A380 is one of my stock one which I've used before. I tried to work with the proportions here where the wingspan is 80 meters.. Alas, the width of the M6 here is more like 45 metres (verge to verge) making the shadow's wing span approx 60 metres.. So, still a little short...

Anyway, thought it was (just about) worth sharing.. HSS.

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52 Weeks of 2019

Week 38: Get pushed

Category: Creative

The Brief:

The idea of the 'get pushed' theme is that each member of the group picks another member of the '52 weeks of 2019' group who he or she is going to challenge. Browse through the photo stream of that member and find an area of photography that is hardly present in his/her stream.Then give that member a short assignment in that area for him or her to work on next week (week 38).

Thanks to EricNearDetroit for pushing me to do an industrial abstract!

ODC - Repeating Pattern

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Sometimes we all just need a little bit of quiet time. Time to relax and just enjoy the simple things.

Bit of a misty night, however it hasn't translated very well on the shot.

Bit of a boring sky, but Tower Bridge nonetheless

Bit chilly to be nesting !!

... or Sheep's-bit Scabious (Jasione montana) in coastal cliff grassland at Lea Mount, Dawlish, Devon, England.

a bit abstracted :)

Tony Tucker-- The Old Man The Strat and The Swamp

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made with stable diffusion,topaz and photoshop.

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I don't do nudity as a rule, this was a bit of fun as always with Sergio

God knows we do the craziest things together - we will see a pose and before we know it we are finding comedy in it and that is exactly what we did in this pose.

We laugh until we cry and our humour is contagious when we are together, I have never known a man who I can laugh so much with in all my life!

Adore this man and it is not your typical romantic relationship like most in SL.

There is freedom with us, to be who we are and love one another just as we are - warts and all and to not take life so seriously.

We dance, we laugh, and we just enjoy our limited time with one another!

It cleared a very little bit while we were visiting the windmill.

A bag of old coins revealed some thrupenny bits.

This Anhinga actually stayed quiet as we passed, no trademark Angry Anhinga noises.

My favourite kind of "junk".

It's amazing what you find in a kitchen drawer, sometimes. :-)

It could be an Irish, a Northern or a Blue-tailed Damselfly - Any experts out there? I can tell you that it likes blueberries if that helps. Note:A blue mouth on a green head.