Good cheer, great hope and the best that the Christmas season has to offer for you and your family as you celebrate this time of togetherness. Merry Christmas!

Los Angeles. California.

THE PLATTERS

"Twilight Time"

so sweet Sadakos Frog :))

liquified background.

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I was looking out a front window one fall morning and saw this beautiful fall scene.

Created for Award Tree October 2022 Challenge #217 - Light and Shadow

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Created for Award Tree Challenge 218 - Autumn Textures

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This is my own photography.

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with added bonuses of an insect hiding under a pink petal and raindrops on the petals.

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Created for the TMI Challenge - In the style of...Dreamy Serenity

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For Award Tree Challenge 224 - Springy Spring

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Created for The Award Tree Challenge 223 - Red Yellow Blue - April 2023

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For Slider's Sunday.

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I used one of my forsythia photos to create this.

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Snoopy wanted to see what I was up to. Thought I might have some peanuts to share. Not today...just my camera.

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For Slider's Sunday.

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By Katy Perry

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Created for TMI Song Title Contest - May 2023

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Created for Kreative People Shades of Grey Contest - Dec 2021

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For Slider's Sunday.

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Photography is my own. Filters and craquelure texture are from Photoshop.

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My photo shape/Wombo images. This is a blend of three HDR images.

Prompts - Fall scenes, mountains, wilderness, and trees.

The kayaker is my own.

Moose - Yahoo images

Filters, frames, and burlap texture are from Photoshop.

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and you will prevail.

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EXPLORE Worthy - REMIX THIS PIX 33 (2022 Art)

For Mystic Challenge Give Peace a Chance - March/April 2022

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For Recreating Masters Challenge - Recreating Ukraine

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Thanks to Doug Zwick for the use of his source image:

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The sunflower is my own image. Filters and brick texture are from Photoshop.

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At Adams Falls (upper chute) at Ricketts Glen State Park PA

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Created for The Award Tree Summer Challenge 215 - Wet Work

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For Slider's Sunday.

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Created for Award Tree Challenge 224 - Springy Spring

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My own photo of crabapple blossoms and chickadee photo shape.

Filters, border, frame, and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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Explore Worthy, Challenge 122 -Summer Garden.

Created for the Magnificent Manipulated Masterpieces

143rd MMM My Favourite Way of Editing Challenge

Photography and floral shapes are my own. Filters and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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Photography is my own. Filters, frames, and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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A bunny was settled in among the sweet clover in our backyard. Right at the time I pressed the shutter button, the bunny was eating a clover blossom.

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Created for Mystic Challenge Group - Mystic Spring - April 2022

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The floral photography is my own.

Filters, frame, and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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Please note: The camera date and time for these spring photos is incorrect.

Textures with thanks to Lenabem Anna, script brushes Obsidian Dawn, corner by G&T designs. My photo of tulips.

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Created for The Award Tree #216 Challenge - Sunflowers

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Fall leaf (digital art) background is my own.

Butterfly painting and sunflowers - Public domain.com

Filters, frames, and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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Created for The Award Tree Mini Challenge - Juxtaposed Diptychs

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Both scenes are my own photography. Filters, frames and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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Created for Explore Worthy's June Contest - Summertime

Explore Worthy, Contest 127 - SUMMERTIME (2022 Art)

The peony is my own.

Ladybug is from Dreamstime.

Filters, canvas texture, and frame is from Photoshop.

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Created for DUC22#4 Challenge

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For Slider's Sunday

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Thanks to Gillian Everett for the use of her beautiful starter image - Apricot Rose

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The gray squirrel, with bg, and peonies are my own photography. The filters, and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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I was raking leaves this morning, and noticed this tiny group of lilacs in bloom. Is it really fall or is it spring?

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Created for The Award Tree #216 Challenge - Sunflowers

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The glass jar/flowers on the table without the sunflowers and heart is my own photography.

Handmade heart - Dreamstime.com

Sunflowers - Public domain

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"But who will watch my lilies,

When their blossoms open white?

By day the sun shall be sentry,

And the moon and the stars by night!"

- Bayard Taylor

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Created for Photoshop Contest Week #898 - Mountain Monster

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For Slider's Sunday.

Thanks to Christine for the use of her starter image.

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The Worthing England beach/seaside is my own.

Kittiwake on nest - Dreamstime.com

Seagull - Dreamstime.com

Sea Shells - Public domain

Pail/shovel - Public domain

Toy bulldozer - Public domain

Toy boat - Freeimages.com

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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, Northern California, USA.

I will have a mayor surgery in a week (September 12), so this is my last post for now.

When I feel better after my surgery, I will post another image. Thanks for your friendship, kind comments and favorites.

Tendré una cirugía mayor en una semana, así que esta es mi última publicación por ahora.

Cuando me sienta mejor despues de la operacion, pondré otra imagen. Gracias por su amistad, amables comentarios y favoritos.

Macro Mondays "Nine"

Many thanks to all those who view, comment and or fave my photos....It is greatly appreciated ......Chandana ❤️

"The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration."

- Claude Monet

"Choose only one master – Nature."

- Rembrandt

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One among many others. This particular one borrowed from the Palazzo dei Priori in Città di Castello. Umbria, Italy.

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Created for Photoshop Contest Week 865 - Beach Corner

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Thanks to Skagitrenee for the use of her starter image.

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All the other photography and photo shapes are my own. They are from Brighton and Worthing England. Starfish is my own photo. Filters and sandstone texture are from Photoshop.

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They need that more than ever now!

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For Mystic Challenge Give Peace a Chance - March/April 2022

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For Recreating Masters Challenge - Recreating Ukraine

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The sunflowers and blue background are my own photography. The filters, frames and canvas texture are from Photoshop. Peace symbols are from a Yahoo search.

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Created for Artistic Manipulation MixMaster Challenge #47

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CHEF brillianthues wants us to imagine a colorful, warm weather scene!

➤ The background of your image must be a visibly abstract pattern. Examples HERE. (A subtle texture will not do.)

➤ The image must include ONE circle, sphere OR orb.

➤ Also ONE bird OR butterfly.

➤ And flowers – as many as you wish.

➤ NO MUTED COLORS.

For Slider's Sunday.

Photography and the butterfly, flowers, and (oil)sphere shapes are my own. Filters are from Photoshop.

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I spotted this young rabbit in the yard as it was starting to hop away.

For Slider's Sunday.

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Bunny, grass, background/dandelion photo shapes are my own.

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with views of the wetlands and Arundel Castle.

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Recreating William Turner (1775-1851) Challenge August/Sept 2021

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Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist.

Turner that became known as 'the painter of light', is known for his expressive colorisations, imaginative landscapes and dramatic, often turbulent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolors, and 30,000 works on paper.

Original photo is my own. Filters are from Photoshop.

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One fall, six visitors surprised each other when they gathered together at the lake.

For Award Tree's Challenge #206 - Water Treatment

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EXPLORE Worthy, Shades of Autumn challenge (2021)

All photography is my own, including the canoe and the six wildlife photo shapes. The filters are from Photoshop.

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It's always interesting to see a variety of trees with their different shades of bark. This lone oak stood out among the rest.

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View On Black

"All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement."

- Ovid

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A natural arrangement filled with dried flowers, leaves, pods and plants is perfect for this time of year.

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If you smile

Through your fear and sorrow

Smile,

And maybe tomorrow

You'll see the sun come shining through,

For you...

Light up your face with gladness

Hide, every trace of sadness

Although a tear

may be ever so near

That's the time, You must keep on trying

Smile, what's the use of crying

You'll find that life is still worth while

If you just smile.

"It makes no difference abroad,

The seasons fit the same,

The mornings blossom into noons,

And split their pods of flame."

- p. 120. Nature.

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I am not running out of bird photos but I am running out of time and I need to complete some projects before year-end. So I will not be as active on Flickr over the next little while. I will continue to watch from time to time for those great images you post but I may not be in a position to comment as actively as usual... Thank you so much for the overwhelming interest and support in my photography..... I look forward to your future wonderful postings.

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A monk used a chak-pur filled with sand to start creating this mandala. The main colors were orange, yellow, green, light blue, tan with black outlines. A group of monks were at a local university a few years ago. It was interesting to watch the mandala get bigger and more colorful each day.

Created for Mystic Challenge Group - Kaleidoscope/Mandala June-July 2021

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For Slider's Sunday.

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created for: Photoshop Contest week 873

Original photo by: Jaci XIV

Created for The Award Tree Challenge 212 - Shades of Red and Blue - February 2022

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Created for Vivid Art - Vivid Nature Challenge - February 2022

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For Slider's Sunday.

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The gardens of red tullips, and blue jay oob are my own. Filters, frames, and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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I can just smell these beautiful lilacs and they do smell heavenly.

The lilacs and background texture are my own photography.

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"In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables; and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul."

- Charles Dudley Warner

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“November at its best – with a sort of delightful menace in the air.”

- Anne Bosworth Greene

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