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I’ve been away all week in the beautiful Peak District, got a few photos to go through but couldn’t resist posting a quick one of this little loveheart in a leaf to cheer us all up on a dark night! The Autumn colours up in that part of the country were a lot more evident than here in the East, so beautiful.....

Once again this was a case of me pointing my camera upwards at a tree for ages and nearly falling into a ditch, while passers by thought I was photographing some kind of rare bird! No, it’s just a leaf….but a very cool leaf!

Starting to wish I’d taken tomorrow off work too but it’s back to the grindstone in the morning, but not before an evening of catching up with Corrie and Detectorists (please tell me someone else watches Detectorists? It’s the best thing on TV!) Wishing everyone a great week ahead :)

I'm back!!!! by Rin Squall

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I was discharged!<3

長期入院から戻ってきたよ～ただいま💗

I'm going crazy without you by Li'z Tee

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Everyday I love YOU

It's hard to say I'm sorry

It's hard to make the things I did undone

A lesson I've learned too well for sure

So dont Hang up the phone now I'm trying to figure out just what to do

I'm going crazy without you

You're all I ever wanted

I borghi più belli d' Italia - Pacentro ( Abruzzo ) by Fabio Foni

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* by janine

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i loved my friend. he went away from me. there’s nothing more to say. the poem ends, soft as it began - i loved my friend.

langston hughes

I see Death by Xavier J. Peg

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Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera right. Reflector camera left. Triggered by Cybersync.

I Walk Alone by Chris Colquitt

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I'm seeing fewer Savannah Sparrows and Warblers in the reserve now.

I see you by Robby van Moor

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I see you

I Love Fall by Kathy

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While raking leaves one fall, I found a maple leaf with a heart shaped opening on it. There was some Virginia creeper growing on our wall and the leaves had turned red. That gave me the idea to hold the maple leaf over near the red leaf to fill in the heart shaped opening. I love fall!

I made this... by Gil V

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Tomatensauce, selbstgemacht...Tomato sauce, homemade

I´m walking by Werner Krause

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in the fall

I'm Blue by J.R. McMellen

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I can only see out of one eye.

I'm waiting... by Ali ARAL

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I have to earn...

I need Sun. by Rob Demel.

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I've had enough miserable weather now...and being locked away yet again for weeks thanks to this damn Chinese disease.

I, Robot by Silke

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#MacroMondays

#Pareidolia

Tom knew he was destined for greater things. He was fed up with his kitchen job, day in, day out scraping the ceramic hob whenever the stupid humans in the house had been unattentive (again) and something had boiled over. Something he knew would never happen to him. Didn't they know he was an intelligent, sentient being? In his dreams, he was a fully-fledged robot with superpowers, and a famous, Michelin star-decorated Chef. His robotic swiftness and razor-sharp mind would revolutionise how the world cooked and ate. But here he was, inside a kitchen drawer, waiting for the next "Great Boil-over". As he was about to work himself into a rage of indignity (while his drawer mates sighed, eyes rolling: "Oh no, not another tantrum, Tom, come on!"), he heard the distant voice of one of the humans, and then the drawer opened. "There you are! Great! Come on, I need your help with a photo assignment, it will be fun!" "Finally she recognises my true talents", Tom huffed more to himself. "Well, it's not as if you were doing the scraping job alone, right? Because behind every ceramic hob scraper is a human hand that leads it. Isn't it?", the human said. "No need to be so over-dramatic...", Tom grumbled. But inside, Tom was smiling.

I didn't expect this to be so straightforward. Usually, pareidolia just "happens" but it's difficult when I'm deliberately looking for it. So I rummaged through the kitchen shelves and drawers with little hope of finding something I hadn't already used for a pareidolia-themed photo before, such as the old phone (its underside resembled E.T. but it has long been discarded) or the toaster's crumb tray (that had a surprisingly happy smile). But then I found "him", the unfortunate ceramic hob scraper that (or rather: who) has an even nastier job than the crumb tray and the cutest surprised face. On its flipside, there is the "GS" logo (GS = "Geprüfte Sicherheit", "Tested Safety", a voluntary certification mark for technical equipment), the production number, and the manufacturer's logo which I first misread as "TOM" (wrong glasses) but says "TCM". So "Tom" it was.

To make Tom look more interesting than possible with just the bland steel tone and the hint of rust on the pretty well-used blade aka his "hair", I used my makeshift colour filters to jazz him up a little and enhance the robot look.

A first single test shot already looked nice but since an image like this works best with all-over sharpness, I did in-camera stacking (15 Raw files combined in Helicon Focus, method B, R 8, S4). Size info: Tom is 4,5 cm/1,77 inches at his widest.

HMM, Everyone!

I {♥} San Francisco by pixelmama

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Hope everyone is ready for Thanksgiving. Baking desserts today and I have my daughter with me ... finally!

Happy "Day Before Thanksgiving!"

Estepona by Jean-luc Subervie

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I Love by Dave Knight

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Growing my own

Crazy Tuesday.

I AM ABOVE! by Mazikeen Bravin