Winter - jetzt auch bei uns in Norddeutschland !!

Und das ist erst der Anfang ⛄️⛄️

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. "The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again."~And with them...the flowers!~

-Sarah Ban Breathnach

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closer than expected for such a shy species and it was in this spot just long enough for one shot.

dendrocopos major

grote bonte specht

pic épeiche

Buntspecht

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Expecting cold rainy weather for the coming weekend, maybe even some snow. So here's some sunshine to go. :-)

I LOVE April!

I went to Lake Artemesia in College Park, Maryland and wasn't expecting anything, but was richly rewarded to see several Wood Duck females and their broods. Here is a close up of one of the ducklings as they foraged among the Lilly pads on the lake. Such a cute little thing!

Taken 6 June 2016.

Herring Gull at Girvan Harbour, yesterday.

I had the feeling that she expected to be fed...And she was being shadowed by her yearling , so must still be feeding the youngster. After a few minutes of strutting around, yapping, she eventually let out the iconic gull “rammy”. I was sorry I didn’t have any dead fish on me. 😄

Girvan Harbour

SW Scotland

“Shout,

Shout,

Let it all out;

These are the things I can do without,

Come on!

I’m talking to you,

Come on.’

“Shout” - Tears For Fears, 1985

(WiFi has been mostly off for the past four/five days. Two very assertive phone calls, yesterday, seem to have helped, a little. Trying to catch up with all of your wonderful photos...)

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I thought it was so funny to see this place in Santorini with the table on the outside of the building so high up....a cool optical illusion! Last Caturday was dinner for one and this Caturday is dinner for two!

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“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

Newlywed couples in Moscow are expected to kiss on a bridge on their wedding day. As part of this tradition, the couple must attach a padlock with their names and vows written on it, to a metal tree on the bridge, and throw the key in the river to symbolize faithfulness and enduring love.

This was in shaded- dark place with cluttered background. I did not expect catch light in eye, but got it!

...done by our think machine ;-)

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Looks like great expectations ahead for this pair...

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"Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up

where no seed has been. I have great faith in a seed.

Convince me that you have a see there.

and I am prepared to expect wonders.'

~Henry David Thoreau

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Who would have expected to find her here, silently admiring the sunset from my Baja cabin? I tiptoed quietly, doing my best not to scare her away yet again. The soft click of the Leica shutter was barely audible. She did smile, I swear!

Quelle belle surprise.... Je ne me serais jamais attendu à la trouver là, admirant le coucher de soleil depuis ma cabane à Baja. En me glissant doucement devant elle, je faisais de mon mieux pour ne pas l'effrayer une fois encore. Le délicat déclic du Leica fut imperceptible, à l'image de son petit sourire....

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"Noi che lo cerchiamo ovunque, l'amore dico, e lui sempre lì sospeso da qualche parte, fra l'attesa di qualcosa che sarà e il ricordo di qualcosa che è stato."

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For Looking Close... on Friday!'s #whiteandred theme

(Wow; I really wasn't expecting it to be so difficult to get a proper red... But although the background I used was undeniably red, the colour of this image seemed to keep changing from shades of orange to shades of pink or purple. But I think I got there in the end 😀)

I had not expected to see such a young one in the month of December

Red Squirrel

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scoiattolo comune

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Some sun beams find the way through the overcast sky at Koh Samui, Thailand! Maybe a tropical storm will be coming soon. The Thai fishermen have moored their boats at the shallow low tide shore.

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I expect there may be many images of snail shells for this theme, so decided to give my snails a rest this week and photograph my cycad house plant that has just put up a few new leaves - all the tiny 'leaflets' have coiled ends when they first appear that will straighten as the leaf grows. On this particular leaf, one of the little leaflets has grown a bit ahead of the others and shown off the lovely details of its coiled end.

For Macro Mondays theme 'Spiral'.

The image was done as a 5-shot focus stack at f3.5, focusing on the tight coil which was 1cm across.

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Went out and took photos as the sun dipped behind the clouds in the western sky. As you can see it gave off impressive sunrays this evening. An hour after this photo was taken we were expected to get a severe thunderstorm.

Teil der Widerstandsbank zur Messbereichseinstellung eines alten Vielfachmessgerätes (Siemens & Halske, Herstellungsjahr unbekannt, vermutlich um 1950-1960)

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My first venture onto the hills this morning to photograph moorland birds, and I came away with this shot of a Jenny Wren. I'd actually gone to see Stonechats and Wheatears as I'd noticed them on a few walks around the area. I was just going to get an idea of perches and take some pictures for future reference. However, I didn't expect this little fellow to jump on the rusty wire right next to me. I quickly swung my camera round and managed to get a quick capture before it dived back into a nook in the drystone wall.

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This afternoon's sky. We are expecting high winds and rain this evening. As the clouds moved in a brief moment of sun was seen.

Las equináceas son plantas muy populares, utilizadas desde años para uso tanto ornamental como curativo. En los últimos años han sido las plantas medicinales que mayores expectativas han originado en el campo de la medicina natural y de fitoterapia.

I never expected to have to look for this medal and photograph it. This is my best award so it had to be this one and not any other coin or certificate. I didn't find it easy to make it work. AT ALL ! Everything I did looked pretty boring. But I think in black and white it looks better than in colour although the ribbon is a lovely royal blue and the edge of the medal midnight blue. I have the correct box with the smaller medal and the lapel pin but found that even harder to combine. Probably would have been too big for MM anyway.

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Death Crab was so much stronger than I expected.

His special move, "Bleach bubbles," caused some of my reinforced cyber costume to show through and my sword to melt.

When I thought, "I'm done for!😣", The voice echoed.

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Back after Easter holiday in Vizcaya.... First serious outing since February - so expect an overload :)

Saludos a los Canonikos!

Yup it’s decaying flowers time again, what else would you expected this time of year from me? It’s been pretty cold here in S Wales, but not as cold as Scotland and northern parts of the UK. Just thankful to be able to grab some time with the camera today and catch some interest in the garden. Thanks, for stopping

Pan Am Railway BO-1 emerges from the tunnel underneath Salem, MA with several empties from Rousselot in tow. The days of freight rolling through Salem are numbered as Rousselot's plant in Peabody is expected to shutdown by the end of the year, with railcar deliveries discontinuing sometime this summer.

I expected the Bee eater to be pretty hard to capture. Usually, the more beautiful a bird is, the harder to capture is. That's what I believed until the Bee eaters proved me wrong.