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You can achieve it.

If you can dream it,

You can become it."

-William Arthur Ward

Explored - May 31, 2009

A shot of my pot of "rat's tails" cactus which is coming out of its winter slumber and there's lots of jostling for space going on. It reminds me of all those years when I was travelling to work on the London Underground in rush hour! 😊

aphid on a Rugosa Rose

Macro Mondays, themed crack, no human parts,

This photo show a very small part of the surface of a leather vaulting buck. The vaulting buck was exposed to the weather, on a balcony and not very well cared for, when I bought it.

Therefore, especially at the edges, the leather has many cracks, and partly broken out of the upper port of the leather. Cracks of different sizes, length, shape and form depending of the usage and the exposure to sun and rain.

As for the size, the longest parts shown are shorter than 60 mmm, to many pictures and no ruler

I haven't posted a bee shot for a few days, so here it is lol. I took this in my FIL's garden when we called in on the way home from Forster, so it is technically part of my little holiday. #349 on Explore 27th February, 2008.

ant on anemone flower

150mm - 1/125- f10 - Iso 200 - No Crop - Flash off - Diritto esclusivo di riproduzione ©

DEDICATA A LORESPO CON UN GRANDE IN BOCCA AL LUPO !!!!!

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ladybug larva

The very pesky teeny weeny white snails are returning to the garden and I caught this one attaching itself to a flowering chive in the herb bed

Zinnia

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Spinybacked Orbweaver Spider (Shot Ventrally)

(cropped to center)

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hoverfly on a white rose

yellow ladybug on echinacea

Parco del Ticino

... that's how life feels like these days ; )

But at least I was able to squirrel away some minutes to take an image for Macro Mondays - theme: tiny

These cubic beads are only 5 mm wide (width of this image: about 2.5 cm)

taken with the manual 60mm Laowa ultra macro lens @ f8

Happy Macro Mondays, everyone !

I will be catching up tonight :)

katydid nymphs on a yellow primrose

bee mimic hoverfly on rudbeckia

hoverfly on an orange lily stamen

While outside in the backyard picking the Chilli Petine peppers off out bush, before the birds eat them all. I noticed the small white chilli petine flower. With my camera at the ready, this image was born. I love the way this awesome capture came out. It is truely amazing how something so simple and small can be so beautiful Some folk's like to pick them when are still green, but I like them when are red.

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Thanks for all your support on my work in Photography. Gaston (aka Gasssman).!!!!!!

View in large or original size for wonderful details of this Beautiful image.!!!!!!

a young sunflower.... from the archives again.. ^_^

We're off to a weekend shoot again.. just dropping this bud to wish you all a great weekend!!!

With its prey. Quite a capable predator if you are smaller than a jumping spider.

hoverfly on a cosmos flower

malachite beetle on a plant leaf

Red garlic, cut in half, there are small cloves, big cloves, cut cloves and closed cloves, a wide selection with a lucky cut.

Actually we went to the local fresh marked, and bough different sorts of onions and similar products all are onion vegetables, and made some pictures.

And today, don’t waste food, onion tart.

Scheiblberg / Senftenberg

It looks like Iris has been nibbled a little top left. She looked resplendent two days later

I am impressed , handheld, no tripod

Nature's shower head------photographed at the Calgary Zoo

on Explore!

A very closeup photo of part of a sunflower from the garden. We always plant a row of them in the Spring and after a slow start this year they eventually came out in full bloom and standing (very) tall :-)

green bee on yellow flower

Meta menardi

Comestible de buena calidad

katydid nymph on a begonia flower

Black lace weaver

A stack of 10 handheld shots, stacked in Zerene