Taken in early May. This is Double Arch at Arches National Park at sunset.

Great Kills Harbor. Gateway National Recreation Area

@ Lake Mattamuskeet

Double top - The twin peaks of High Crag and High Stile seen in early light on a superbly still spring morning reflected in the mirror perfect water of Buttermere.

Lake District, Cumbria

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Macro Mondays

Theme: Celebration

Size: Less than 3x3 inches

The subject is the Chinese character meaning double happiness and the head of an imperial dragon on the side of a small porcelain tea cup. The other side of the tea cup has the same character and a phoenix.

The dragon symbolises the groom/ male and the phoenix the bridegroom/ female.

This small tea cup belong to a set used for the ' traditional tea ceremony' during our wedding celebration. The same set was also called to service during our childrens' wedding.

There are 2 light sources. An overhead incandescent table lamp at 12 o'clock and a LED torchlight at 5 o'clock trained on the eyes of the dragon.

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Many thanks for your visit, comments and faves...it is always appreciated...

HMM

Double-crested Cormorants at the Susquehanna River in Spring 2019

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Osprey ~ (Pandion haliaetus)

Buy-One-Get-One-Free! An ambitious (and lucky) Osprey comes up with two fish after a dive. I believe these are freshwater Mullet, but please feel free to correct me! When the Osprey first came up, I was not sure what I was looking at. It was one of those 'back of the camera' surprises.

Thanks for visiting!

Phalacrocorax Auritus

Philadelphia Navy Yard, PA

"Explored" on April 28, 2009. #21

La BB 26231 avec la BB 26230 en véhicule, étaient en tête du 47630 Vallorbe - Gevrey-Triage. Le train passe à Genlis avec environ 25 minutes d'avance sur son horaire, au milieu des champs de colza en fleurs.

Always impressive to see there in Arches National Park is the pretty Double Arch. Here under cloudy conditions.

Twin cuties sussing me out in their croft

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Found this a few days ago on my garden gate.Hope I have the id right

Thank you all who fave and comment on my photo'/video's,much appreciated.And thank you all for looking.

Morning mirrored on the Susquehanna River in Maryland.

Deep Dream Generator

JixiPix Pastello

HSS!

Thank you all for your faves, awards, invites and kind comments. All are so very appreciated!

The double-banded plover, known as the banded dotterel or pohowera in New Zealand. They breed in New Zealand's subantarctic Auckland Islands, and generally migrate in winter to Australia.

Not a great shot as I had to zoom in a very long way to photograph them, but I was very excited to see them.

Thanks for your visits, kind comments and faves, very much appreciated.

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Ladybower reservoir in a reflective mood.

View On Black

Double-crested Cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) are perched in the late afternoon sun at the Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center in Port Aransas, Texas. The photo was taken 6 years before the Birding Center was heavily damaged by Huricane Harvey. Repair plans are underway.

For more information regarding the Birding Center:

www.cityofportaransas.org/Leonabelle_Turnbull_Birding_Cen...

The Double-crested Cormorant is the most numerous and widespread North American cormorant. It's also the only one that occurs in large numbers inland as well as on the coast. Growing in numbers throughout its range, this cormorant is increasingly being blamed for declines in sport fisheries and for devastating fish farms.

www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Double-crested_Cormorant/id/ac

Jam Jerrup, Victoria

Soaking in the early morning sun.

Beaumaris Lake, Edmonton

The double-crested cormorant is a member of the cormorant family of water birds. It is found near rivers and lakes and in coastal areas and is widely distributed across North America, from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska down to Florida and Mexico. Measuring 70–90 cm (28–35 in) in length, it is entirely black except for a bare patch of orange-yellow facial skin and some extra plumage that it exhibits in the breeding season when it grows a double crest in which black feathers are mingled with white.

Five subspecies are recognized. It mainly eats fish and hunts by swimming and diving. Its feathers, like all cormorants, are not waterproof, and it must dry them out after spending time in the water. Once threatened by the use of DDT, the numbers of this bird have increased markedly in recent years. (Wikipedia)

This Image was captured at Mareeba, North Queensland

widnes sept 2014

Mammoth amounts of noise reduction as the iso was so high due to the fading light. Hence not the greatest detail by any standards. But to get to spend some time in the company of this gorgeous girl was a rare treat ☺️❤️

Smile On Saturday 20.10.2018 "(K)not so bad"

Focus stack

Sculpture by Shayne Dark, Toronto

Phalacrocorax Auritus

Philadelphia Navy Yard, PA

Two little Scottish Blackface lambs from a couple of years back

Flourishing roadside weed patch gets a little colour from a couple of stray double-flowered daisies. Gold Coast hinterland.

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Double-banded Courser, Mountain Zebra National Park, South Africa

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Double stairs in the City Hall of Paris, France.

This the same cormorant posted yesterday but taken earlier in the sequence. The young Ring-billed Gull that was resting on the nearby rock was not impressed when the Cormorant came in to dry its wings.

Double Take

...leider stand mir nur mein Handy zur Verfügung um die Regenbögen einzufangen... :)