The graceful curves of Chicago’s Lake Point Tower rise into the low clouds in the overcast sky over Lake Michigan.

It's been in the news: "This is the first big partial eclipse to happen in the UK since 1999, and the next one isn't until August 2026, so this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity." - So all gear set up and waiting - hoping for a glimpse of that "once-in-a-generation" event...

BUT the weather didn't play by the rules where I live: Muddy skiess all morning... No sun to be seen, let alone the moon trying to cover it up...

Still, with all the gear in place, when the clouds went I decided to do a shot of the sun (background image - HDR'ed) and "post-processed" my moon in with Photoshop afterwards.

Ha: If you cannot rely on UK clear skies, create your own eclipse! ;-)

Made for mental sanity & Sliders Sunday: HSS!

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Metrostation Wilhelminaplein

** I took this shot tight against the base of Whitby's Harbour wall. I thought the way the wall curved out towards the sea was quite interesting . However you may not agree

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Caen area, Normandy, France

what a very nice bunch you all are. i owe ya.

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Great Egret

From Cornell -

It’s true that great egrets have all-white plumage, but they do flash a few colors, especially during breeding season. Besides their white bodies, they have black legs and orangish-yellow bills. During breeding season, they develop a bright green patch on their faces between their eyes and their bills, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Coll Dels Reis, Sa Calobra, Mallorca, Mediterranean Sea, Spain

Mallorca-308

Curved edge of CD

The university Museum and Art Gallery

The University of Hong Kong

Frascati, Roma

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Macro Mondays - Curves

Happy Macro Monday everyone :)

This is ... take 3 Christmas baubles, and play, whilst trying to keep calm, when they don't behave :)))

An unused photo I took for the MacroMondays theme “curves”.

My new website

Isn't this cool:

I was chosen for the SPF (São Paulo International Photography Festival - at the MIS Museum of Image and Sound) thanks to this little piece of image, that has over 500 comments and 300 Favs.

Thanks allot for all the gentle comments!

Olha só que chique:

Fui escolhido para o SPF (Festival Internacional de Fotografia de São Paulo) de 10 a 13 no MIS (Museu da Imagem e do Som) e graças a esta imagem de mais de 500 comentários e 300 Favoritos.

Muito obrigado a todos vocês pela força e comentários tão gentis.

blackpool sept 2016

The Murray River, with border ice growing from the shorelines, leaving a smooth open channel flowing down the middle of the river.

I thought, 'Curve' and then the Great Curve came to mind. If you have a few minutes, check this out.... I challenge you to sit still.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqTyfMDnK-k

Thank you for your visits, favs and comments !

Los Angeles

The Walt Disney Concert Hall designed by Frank Gehry

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Deutscher Dom

Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin

"Zunächst entsteht Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts tatsächlich eine Kirche. Im Stil des Barock errichtet Carl von Gontard unter Friedrich II. zwei prächtige Kuppelbauten auf den beiden Kirchen, welche nur repräsentative Schmuckwerke sind.

(...) 1943 durch einen Brand zerstört, steht zunächst lange nur die Ruine des Deutschen Domes. Erst zwischen 1982 und 1996 wird das Gebäude in Etappen wieder aufgebaut.

Heute beherbergt der Deutsche Dom die Ausstellung des deutsche Bundestages Wege – Irrwege – Umwege. Interaktiv und spielerisch zeigt die Ausstellung auf fünf Etagen die wechselhafte Geschichte des parlamentarischen Systems von der Märzrevolution 1848 bis heute." visitBerlin.de

Architekten: Giovanni Simonetti, Martin Grünberg, Carl von Gontard, Georg Christian Unger, Büro von der Hude & Hennicke, Jürgen Pleuser

curves inside a shell for Macro Mondays

“Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white… to highlight that contrast.” – Leonard Nimoy

You can see my Scotland, Edinburgh album

www.flickr.com/photos/theorphoto/albums/72157686163945031

At the Museum.

a part of a glass plate

For #MacroMondays and this week's theme #Curves

Happy Macro Monday!

Thanks for all your faves and comments everyone!

I really appreciate them!

Malvaviscus x 'Pam Puryear'

Just a curve

modern office buildings

Medienhafen

Düsseldorf

For Macro Mondays - curves

From the flower show

A curved road crosses my path

Wind whispers go back

Your voice tells me to go on.

One curve after the other , Basava Express , clears for the final destination.

Dedicating this picture to my good freinds Pawan Koppa , Shishir Jairam who are also railfans and took pains to take me Makalidurga

Curve

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SMC PENTAX-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL WR

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A Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) perched on the dead wooden core of a cactus in the Saguaro National Park near Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.

12 December, 2017.

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Arnhem, Centraal Station

The new design of the railway station was created by UNStudio.

Surprise, Arizona