The Highlight Towers are twin office towers located in the the Parkstadt Schwabing area of Munich. With a height of 126m resp. 113m they belong to the tallest buildings in Munich.

The towers are connected by two glass/steel bridges, a double bridge at the 9th/10th floor and a single bridge at the 20th floor. Design by Murphy/Jahn (Chicago, USA).

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of a Hydrangea macrophylla *Tricolor' / Buntlaubige Bauernhortensie 'Tricolor' in the shady hydrangea corner of our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend

A few varieties of hybrid poppies have found their way into a field of Common Poppies.

There was a problem with Flickr Mobile App and this image and others kept appearing under someone else's name and the only way I could solve the issue was to remove it and post it again. I have reported it to the person involved who is a Admin of a well respected group and to the flickr team. I await their reply!

An amazing butterfly.

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** Its rather sad to be posting the final shot from a trip but this is the last one from the road trip we took in 2016 . We drove from Santa Fe to New Orleans via parts of Texas . Certainly saw quite a range of different landscapes and cultures .

One of the highlights was spending time at Jefferson Island in Louisiana . Roseate Spoonbills are certainly the oddest birds I have ever seen and it was a good opportunity to see large group of them close up . I am in debt to two flickr contacts Cajun Snapper and Larry Daugherty who gave me hints and directions to a small pool on Jefferson Island.

Well that’s the end of travel shots from 2016 so will be posting stuff from 2017 soon. Its a good job I am so far behind given that this year does not look like it will be adding a great deal to my travel collection

THANKS FOR YOUR VISITING BUT CAN I ASK YOU NOT TO FAVE AN IMAGE WITHOUT ALSO MAKING A COMMENT. MANY THANKS KEITH. ANYONE MAKING MULTIPLE FAVES WITHOUT COMMENTS WILL SIMPLY BE BLOCKED

Rose Hollow, Tallahassee, FL

Olympus E-M1 Mark II

Wildwood Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Thanks for looking!

I still have not been able to get out lately ( at least when conditions are good) . Baseball season will be over soon and I should have more time for photography. I took this shot late last winter. Hope you all have a great weekend!

Minocqua, Wisconsin.

Sublime details

Kara no Kyoukai - Ryougi Shiki - 1/7 (Good Smile Company)

Peonies at the UC Botanical Garden. Right on schedule for Mother’s Day!

Peonies are important in Chinese herbal medicine. These are blooming in the university's Chinese Medicinal section.

botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/collections/chinese-medicina...

A lovely sunrise this morning but unable to rush out due to cracked ribs after a heavy fall on the ice onto my back last Monday which has all but laid me up.

British Columbia Winter

Canada

Late afternoon at Hambersham is always a dramatic spot especially in Fall as late afternoon sun highlights the trees and exhaust of a southbound coal train trying to climb Duff Mountain.

Kingsburg, Ca.

macro mondays - pencils pens erasers paperclips

Shooting with the Fuji X I can imitate the Nikon photo very closely but chose to do what Fuji X does best: be creative. I started with an in camera processed JPEG image, Softened the highlights & shadows. then ran it through photoshop for a different look: this is the result

While Fuji will never replace Nikon, [but would like Nikon to be more like Fuji X]. It is a viable camera that is easy & fun to use and takes quality photos.

I shot this about an hour earlier than the original, so the light is a bit stronger, and had to compensate by under exposing by about 1 to 2 stops to bring highlights into about zone 6 /7. Then bring up the shadows & blacks in Lightroom.

I have given serious thought to trading in my Nikon gear for a Fuji XT4. WE will see.

Highlight Towers - Munich

Little Owl - Athene noctua

I have been photographing this local Little Owl on and off for a couple of years and an early morning visit to its favourite oak tree in June provided the opportunity for my best shots yet of the adult and, for the first time at this site, a fledgling.

Zeiss 50/1.4 Planar

Botallack, Cornwall

My last upload of 2022 and another image from the Cornwall tour with Mark, Geoff and Shelly. 2022 has been mainly a series of many low points with very few highlights for me, but Cornwall was definitely the pinnacle and an opportunity to get away and do something for myself with good friends.

I’ve not posted a lot this year, in fact it’s been my second lowest output (a measly 57) since I joined Flickr way back in 2015. So, I’ll bypass all the fake New Year’s celebrations this weekend and dive head first into 2023 next week. As the song says… things can only get better!

See you all in 2023 and many thanks for all the support and comments throughout the year.

Ophrys holoserica, Symposium Lindabrunn, Niederösterreich, Austria. I try to come here every year as this meadow is one of the orchid highlights of the year.

There is no sin in being on the pathway; the spiritualists are wrong. But there is a sin in loving our road instead of our home; the materialists are wrong. There is no sin in being on the road, in being corporeal, in being finite, in being homo viator, in having responsibility for things outside, below, and now; there is only sin in settling for the lesser, and not letting it awaken an appetite for the greater.

-LITURGICAL MYSTICISM, DAVID W. FAGERBERG

This year's highlight of photo experiences goes to this Prothonotary Warbler.

Thank you all for the continuing compliments and likes.

Elbow Falls Kananaskis

Das Highlight im Baustellenverkehr zwischen Schliersee und Bayrischzell war mit Sicherheit die 221 106, welche sich in einem optisch astreinen Zustand befand. Bei Hammer war die altrote Lok hier mit einem Schotterzug zur nächsten Schotterstelle unterwegs.