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Macro Mondays Leaves only Leaves

 

A few weeks back I picked up two or three leaves from the capital pear trees in our driveway and decided to see what sort of shots I could get using a black cloth as background, a bit of desklamp lighting manipulation and a tweak or two of photo post-processing editing. This is a different shot from one I posted of the same leaf a few weeks ago.

Happiness is

where we are look with the eyes of our heart ..

in every wild flower

in every butterfly

in every blooming tree

in every flying bird

in the beauty of Nature

in the sky that inspires us to dream

in every smile

in every act of kindness

in everyone we love

everything that touches our senses ...

in everything and ... in us the universal power!

 

Have a beautiful day my dear Flickr -friends and followers.

Heartfelt thanks for you visits, stars and beautiful comments!

Kalimera!

last time I was in Toronto...

Early-purple orchids (Orchis mascula) are coming back to the reserve though they are growing in abundance on the other side of a dry wall fence. I saw only one last year (www.flickr.com/photos/sergeysmirnov/52073708840/). Visiting the Reserve today I spotted quit a few growing along a steep muddy path. This pair caught my attention. Brown's Folly Nature Reserve, Avon Wildlife Trust, Bathford, Somerset, England, UK

 

 

A Green heron keenly eyeballing it's next mouthful.

Taken at Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

As always, thank you for your views, faves and comments. They are much appreciated!

f7.1 1/320 ISO200 483mm

 

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This fox grew up next door. Its daily path became predictable.We were hidden in the garage to get a closeup and she heard us breathing, stopped, and looked over. Then we snapped this shot. This turned out to be about the last time she appeared in daylight, hunting in nighttime now nightly.

McLean, Virginia

 

I was a pic taking fool today.

Enjoy!

 

The Song

After so many days of dense fog, cold wind and then again fog and then again fog... With no sun, no snow... I just had to post something bright and sunny.

A macro shot of a male Calliope Hummingbird.

One from last year with Andy Harris. haven't posted one for awhile and thought my photostream could do with some colour.

I'm uploading my favorite photos originally seen on Your Shot: "On my way back from taking photos of the Arkansas River just after sunrise, saw this beautiful hibiscus peeking through the chain link fence. Still had water drops leftover from raining during the night."

As you can see from this shot, we humans aren't the only ones to be targeted by the little blood suckers.

Gougane Barra, West Cork, Ireland.

This is a photo of patterns in the ice that formed in shallow channels beside the river.

Mitten in den Rapfsfeldern stehen vereinzelt Bäume.

Hier ein "closeup" mit dem Tele....

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