The graceful curves of Chicago’s Lake Point Tower rise into the low clouds in the overcast sky over Lake Michigan.

The sun’s rays pierce the morning clouds to illuminate the Gulf of Mexico.

Des vaches dans un pique-nique ...

Unbeachtete Schönheiten - Leberblümchen

Dallas’ 72-story, 921-foot-tall Bank of America Plaza reaches for the North Texas sky.

Cuba - La Habana

Vorübergehend außer Betrieb

Madeira - On the road

The last light of the day illuminates the Dallas skyline.

Funchal - Madeira

Ingredients:

Olympus E-M10MarkII

Olympus M.60/2.8 Macro

I forgot this beauty in my HDD. Sorry for this ;-)

Manual setup and focus, available morning light, handheld. Hope, you enjoy!

L'Aquàrium - Barcelona

Still shocked about the Nice horror...

Freedom someday

Somehow life goes on

but when it's said and done

it's such a bitter pill

when you think the battle's won

you hear the distant guns

of all those fighting still

the battle's in our heads

one we alway lose

whichever side we choose

we can paint the planet red

or black and blue instead

but we are one world.

Stift Melk - Österreich

Melk Abbey - Austria

Macro mondays theme: Conrtaption

Ingredients:

Olympus E-M 10 Mark II

Olympus M.60mm F2.8 Macro

Manual setup and focus, available light, hanheld. Hope, you enjoy!

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Chicago’s busy Michigan Avenue spans the Chicago River on the DuSable Bridge, opened in 1920.

In jedem Menschen ist Sonne - man muß sie nur zum Leuchten bringen.

~ Sokrates

Föhr - Germany

Detail of sculptor Romulo Rozo’s 1956 “Monumento a la Patria” (Monument to the Homeland), which depicts the history of Mexico, in Mérida, Yucatán.

Cuba 2015

The morning sun shines through the clouds somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico.

... to what Mother Nature's telling you

The most photographed cypress serpentine in Tuscany.

Die meistfotografierte Zypressenserpentine der Toskana.

Als einem Idealbild der Religion der Toleranz, des Friedens und der Liebe auf der einen Seite, ist es nur allzuleicht ein Zerrbild der Religion der Intoleranz, der Gewalt und des Hasses auf der anderen Seite entgegenzuhalten, bei dem nur einige aus der Reihe zu tanzen brauchen.

As an ideal image of the religion of tolerance, peace and love on the one hand, it is all too easy to contrast this with a caricature of the religion of intolerance, violence and hatred, in which only few need to step out of line.

Sinan Gönül (*1973)

San Francisco’s Seal Rocks rise from the Pacific Ocean surf just off the shore of Lands End as the sun begins to set on the western edge of the city.

The 190-foot-tall Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption rises into the San Francisco sky.

Mein Lieblingsgetränk an warmen Abenden - gleich nach einem eiskalten Weißbier.

My favorite drink on a hot summer night - right after icy cold weiss (or wheat) beer.

Boats docked in a harbor in Key West, Florida.

"Just leaves" for Macro Mondays.

Rose leaves and bokeh of rose leaves :-)