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Baling hay at...
Stillpoint Farm (and Milkhouse farm-brewery), in...
Mount Airy, Maryland, USA.
19 May 2012.
▶ Edit of an image originally uploaded in 2012.
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▶ Photo by Yours For Good Fermentables.com.
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▶ Camera: Canon PowerShot SX130 IS.
---> Focal length: 48 mm
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---> Shutter speed: 1/1000
---> ISO: 250
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Look down! On the forest floor, it's a "Little Sweet Betsy" trillium, blooming in late winter.
Decatur (Glennwood Estates), Georgia, USA.
9 March 2023.
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▶ "Trillium —also known as wake-robin, toadshade, tri-flower, birthroot, birthwort, or, sometimes, 'wood lily'— is a genus of about fifty flowering plant species in the Melanthiaceae family [also called the bunchflower family]. Trillium species are native to temperate regions of North America and Asia, with the greatest diversity of species found in the southern Appalachian Mountains of the southeastern United States."
— Wikipedia.
▶ "Trillium cuneatum —the little sweet betsy, also known as whip-poor-will flower, large toadshade, purple toadshade, and bloody butcher— is a species of flowering trillium, native to the southeastern United States.
Trillium cuneatum has three broad, mottled leaves surrounding a sessile [blossom without a stalk], banana-scented flower. The petals are erect and either maroon, bronze, green, or yellow in color, flowering from early March to late April. It is the largest of the eastern sessile-flowered trilliums."
— Wikipedia.
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▶ Notice the yellow pollen grains!
▶ See a trillium, pre-bloom, two weeks earlier: here.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
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— Olympus WCON-P-01 Wide Converter (11 mm focal length).
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Seeing double.
Atlanta (Kirkwood), Georgia, USA.
16 February 2020.
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🏆 Commendation:
On 28 December 2022, Flickr selected this image for inclusion in its daily Explore feature (51st of 500 chosen).
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Atlanta-based pianist Joe Alterman and his trio delivered a rollicking performance at the...
Atlanta (Inman Park), Georgia, USA.
26 April 2026.
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🎶 “Joe Alterman is an Atlanta-based jazz pianist, composer, and storyteller known for blending joyful swing, deep groove, and heartfelt narrative into every performance. A bandleader with an international touring career, Alterman has performed across the U.S. and Europe and released numerous acclaimed albums spanning solo piano, trio, and soul-inflected jazz. Deeply influenced by mentors such as Les McCann, Ramsey Lewis, and Ahmad Jamal, his music emphasizes melody, feel, and emotional connection over flash. In addition to performing, Alterman is a radio host on Atlanta’s NPR affiliate WABE and a sought-after cultural curator, weaving history, humor, and humanity into his concerts. Whether on stage or over the airwaves, his mission is simple: to remind listeners that jazz is joyful, accessible, and very much alive.”
📷 More photos of the trio: here.
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❖ “The Inman Park Festival & Tour of Homes takes place in Inman Park, one of Atlanta’s oldest and most scenic neighborhoods. First developed in the late 1800s, Inman Park features an abundance of historic homes and several scenic parks.
The Festival began in the early 1970s as a means to attract attention for revitalization efforts in the community. Now, it is a full weekend jam-packed with events: music, kids' activities, a Tour of Homes, a marvelous street parade, an artists’ market, not to mention some of the city’s best people-watching. It is organized annually by the Inman Park Neighborhood Association on the last full weekend in April.”
📷 More festival photos: here.
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▶ Photo — and Pic(k) of the Week — by: YFGF.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
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Warehouse dock during golden hour.
As seen from the Stone Mountain Trail —a 19-mile urban pedestrian trail in—
DeKalb County (Scottdale), Georgia, USA.
13 January 2025.
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▶ Photo —and Pic(k) of the Week— by: YFGF.
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A mallard hen (Anas platyrhynchos) was swimming in a bog, right in front of me, just below the camera's angle. She noticed me and, not pleased, let out a stream of loud, agitated quacks. Her six ducklings, alerted to danger, quickly scattered for safety. I couldn't help but apologize to them all as I exited...but not before capturing a photo!
City of Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
24 April 2025.
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▶ Rejection:
On 13 May 2025, the administrator for the Flickr group "Nature Shoot All the World/ No flowers Wild animal only" rejected this photo for NOT displaying wild animals. Following my appeal, they amended their decision and approved the image. Thank you.
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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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English ivy (Hedera helix) has invaded the ruins of what may have been a small concrete-block house.
DeKalb County (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
5 February 2021.
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▶ Photographer's note:
This image was selected for inclusion in Flickr's Explore on 10 February 2021... but, in January 2023, it was rejected by an administrator for the Flickr group "Abandoned." Oh, well. You can't win them all!
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After the rain,
The urban duo
Goes into the green.
City of Atlanta (Kirkwood), Georgia, USA.
28 June 2025.
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▶ Photo —and Pic(k) of the Week— by: YFGF.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
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Morning light anoints a dead tree, yet standing on marshy ground.
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
3 October 2023.
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A flock of flamingos = a "flamboyance" of flamingos. Indeed!
Atlanta (Grant Park), Georgia, USA.
20 November 2021.
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Not cereal grain but perennial grass.
Trailhead Community Park, of the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
27 August 2020.
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▶ "Inland Sea Oats
Ground cover for eroded shaded areas."
— park placard
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▶ Photographer's note:
Selected for inclusion in Flickr's Explore, on 28 August 2020.
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Pens down! In a 'sketch-off,' participants had only a short time to draw a portrait of the person sitting across from them.
Atlanta (Piedmont Park), Georgia, USA.
13 April 2025.
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▶ ▶ Photo —and Pic(k) of the Week— by: YFGF.
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— Meike MK 25mm f/1.8 (manual focus)
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The ~0.6-mile-long John Ringling Causeway spans Sarasota Bay between the City of Sarasota (to the east) and Bird Key (to the west).
Sarasota, Florida, USA.
6 October 2019.
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🏆 Commendation:
On 26 August 2026, Flickr selected this image for inclusion in its daily Explore feature (184th out of 500 chosen in a travel-themed takeover).
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▶ Photo — and Pic(k) of the Week — by Yours For Good Fermentables.com.
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Winter trees can sing even without their leaves...and joyfully in black-and-white.
Rockdale County (Stockbridge), Georgia, USA.
2 February 2024.
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▶ Photo and story by YFGF.
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The bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeianus) have begun bellowing. It's mating season, in among the water clover, of...
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
27 April 2021.
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▶ Photographer's note:
Flickr's editors chose this image for inclusion in Flickr's Explore, on 29 April 2021.
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Papilionoidea & calendula.
Pollinator & blossom.
Butterfly and marigold.
DeKalb County (Avondale Estates), Georgia, USA.
27 July 2020.
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▶ Photographer's note:
Several months ago, my Panny zoom lens took a 'bath' in a local creek. and water leaked into the housing. As the lens dried, the interior became water-spotted. Those water-spots don't make for tack sharp images but they do impart an ethereal, gauzy quality to the images the lens captures.
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Sitting by a red door,
Nestled in the crook of a fallen tree,
He serenades passersby,
From his tiny-gnomial garden.
Decatur (Sycamore Ridge), Georgia, USA.
24 April 2022.
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The chapel is quiet, minutes before the Trappist monks entered for prayers at noon.
Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit
Rockdale County (Conyers), Georgia, USA.
3 February 2024.
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▶ Photo and story by: YFGF.
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Like a latter-day ziggurat, the Promenade skyscraper rises 40-stories —691 feet— over...
Atlanta (Midtown), Georgia, USA.
26 May 2019.
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▶ Built in 1989, the Promenade is is the 7th-tallest building in Georgia. It is clad in reflective glass, featuring a stepped tapering spire and stainless steel fins that are illuminated at night.
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▶ Camera: Olympus Pen E-PL1.
---> Lens: Canon 50mm ƒ/1.4 FD
---> Focal length: 50 mm
---> Aperture: ƒ/11
---> Shutter speed: 1/50
---> ISO: 200
---> Neutral density filter: 3 stops
---> Fotodiox adapter
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A native 'Rising Sun' eastern redbud tree blooms in late winter, in the Trailhead Community Park of the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
7 March 2024.
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▶ "Cercis canadensis —commonly known as the eastern redbud tree— is a large deciduous shrub or small tree in the legume family (Fabaceae), native to eastern North America from southern Michigan south to central Mexico, and as far west as New Mexico. The eastern redbud typically grows to 20 to 30 feet tall (6–9 m) with a 26 to 33-foot wide canopy (8–10 m ). It generally has a short, often twisted trunk and spreading branches
Rising Sun Redbud (Cercis canadensis ‘JN2’) is a smaller variety of the more common Eastern Redbud, only growing to about 8-12 feet in height (2.5-3.5 m). In early spring, the tree bursts into bloom before the leaves appear, with tiny, sweet pea-like flowers of lavender-pink hue. This spectacle is followed by the emergence of heart-shaped leaves, which start as a vibrant shade of apricot-orange. As the season progresses, the leaves transition through shades of yellow, gold, and finally, a rich, deep green."
— Wikipedia.
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▶ Photo and story by: YFGF.beer.
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"Fire up a colortini, sit back, relax, and watch the pictures, now, as they fly through the air."
A combination of full 'Flower' Moon, supermoon, 'Blood' Moon, and total lunar eclipse, all wrapped into one astronomical WOW, as seen over...
Decatur, Georgia, USA.
16 May 2022 (12:43 am EDT)
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▶ "A total lunar eclipse happens when the Moon travels through the Earth's umbra and blocks all direct sunlight from illuminating the Moon's surface. However, some sunlight still reaches the lunar surface indirectly, via the Earth's atmosphere, bathing the Moon in a reddish, yellow, or orange glow [thus colloquially called a 'Blood Moon"].
As the Sun's rays pass through the atmosphere, some colors in the light spectrum—those towards the violet spectrum—are filtered out by a phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering. This is the same mechanism that causes colorful sunrises and sunsets. Red wavelengths are least affected by this effect, so the light reaching the Moon's surface has a reddish hue, causing the fully eclipsed Moon to take on a red color."
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▶ "May’s Flower Moon name should be no surprise; flowers spring forth across North America in abundance this month. The full Moon names used by The Old Farmer’s Almanac come from a number of places, including Native American, Colonial American, and European sources. 'Flower Moon' has been attributed to Algonquin peoples. "
▶ "May’s full Moon is the first supermoon of the year. A supermoon is most commonly defined as any full Moon that occurs when the Moon is at at least 90% of perigee (the point in the Moon’s orbit where it is closest to Earth). In 2022, there will be four supermoons.
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▶ "Fire up a colortini...." This catchprase was television interviewer Tom Snyder's sign-on for his late night talk show, Tomorrow, that aired weeknights from 1973 through 1982.
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▶ Photographer's notes:
☞ As the moon became redder and more eclipsed, I found it harder to pull sharp focus on the relatively dark celestial object. And, with a 3.2-second exposure, the stars had begun to blur.
☞ Compare this shot to an earlier image of the moon that night, only partially eclipsed and still un-'bloodied': here.
☞ On 27 July 2022, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature.
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Brewery expansion.
Halethorpe, Maryland, USA.
22 May 2013.
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▶ Photographer's note.
This is what happens when you notice a photo in your portfolio that you took several years earlier...and now think you can improve upon with post-processing. So: straightened, cropped, and rendered in monochrome. See the original: here.
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▶ Camera: Olympus Pen E-PL1.
— Lens: Olympus M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II L
— Focal length: 32 mm
— Aperture: ƒ/7.1
— Shutter speed: 1/160
— ISO: 200
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A mural painted on an outside side wall of...
Decatur (downtown), Georgia, USA.
11 December 2022.
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▶ Photographer's note.
Often obscured by employee vehicles, the mural was in full view on this dank winter's morning.
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About to enjoy a cocktail on Repeal Day, in the alley, at...
Independent Distilling Company
Decatur (East Decatur Station), Georgia, USA.
5 December 2020.
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▶ On this date, 5 December, in 1933, Utah ratified the 21st Amendment (by becoming the last state necessary to reach a Constitutional majority), thus ending America's ignoble 18-year experiment with the Prohibition of alcohol.
— YFGF.
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An eastern box turtle on the trail (literally).
Three Creeks Trail in...
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
21 May 2024.
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▶ "Terrapene carolina carolina — commonly known as eastern box turtle— is a reptile native to the eastern United States. It is a subspecies within a group of hinge-shelled turtles normally called box turtles. While in the pond turtle family, Emydidae, and not a tortoise, the box turtle is largely terrestrial.
Eastern box turtles have a high, domelike carapace [upper body shell] which is normally brownish or black and accompanied by a yellowish or orangish radiating pattern of lines, spots, or blotches. Skin coloration, like that of the shell, is variable but is usually brown or black with some yellow, orange, red, or white spots or streaks. This coloration closely mimics that of the winter leaf of the tulip poplar tree.
Box turtles are slow crawlers, extremely long-lived, slow to mature, and have relatively few offspring per year. These characteristics, along with a propensity to get hit by cars and agricultural machinery, make all box turtle species particularly susceptible to anthropogenic, or human-induced, mortality. In 2011, citing 'a widespread persistent and ongoing gradual decline of Terrapene carolina that probably exceeds 32% over three generations,' the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) downgraded its conservation status from near threatened to vulnerable."
— Wikipedia.
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Close-up blossom: one in a riot of orange jewelweed wildflowers blooming on a woodland trail.
DeKalb County (North Druid Hills), Georgia, USA.
21 August 2025.
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❀ Botanical note:
"Impatiens capensis — commonly known as jewelweed, orange jewelweed, and touch-me-not — is an annual plant in the Balsaminaceae family, native to North America, growing in moist soil including forests, streambanks, and bogs.
Jewelweed is a herbaceous plant that grows 3 to 5 feet tall (0.9–1.5 m), branching extensively. The leaves are ovate, with shallow, rounded teeth on the margins. The plant blooms from late spring to early fall. The flowers are orange (sometimes yellow), ¾ to 1¼ inches long (2 to 3 cm), with a three-lobed corolla [collection of all petals in a flower, sometimes in the form of a tube.]
The seed pods have five valves which coil back rapidly to eject the seeds in a process called explosive dehiscence, triggered by a light touch, hence the name 'touch-me-not.' Dew or rain beads on the leaves forming sparkling droplets that give rise to the common name of 'jewelweed.' "
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
— Wikipedia.
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🌏 Geographic note:
Seen on the (appropriately!) orange-blazed Privet & Champion Tree Loop: one in a "labyrinth of soft-surfaced trails" in and around a 120-acre suburban Piedmont forest located in three Atlanta, Georgia, metropolitan-area county parks: Mason Mill Park, Melton Park, and Medlock Park.
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🏆 Commendation:
On 23 August 2025, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature (420th out of 500 chosen).
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▶ Photo — and Pic(k) of the Week — by: YFGF.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
— Lens: Olympus M.40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R.
— Focal length: 40 mm
— Aperture: ƒ/8.0
— Shutter speed: ½ second (tripod)
— ISO: 200
— Macro extension tube: 16 mm.
— Focus bracket (7 images): Elements Plus.
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"These white flags represent the more than 15,000 Georgians who have already lost their lives to COVID-19. Every person we have lost was loved and needed."
First Christian Church of Decatur
Decatur (Adair Park), Georgia, USA.
28 February 2021.
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▶ White Flags of Covid-19: Georgia's Devastation
"This memorial installation illustrates the devastating human and economic cost of the pandemic —and the urgency for local and federal elected officials to act now to meet the real need in our state.
Please join us to honor those who have died. And take action to urge elected officials to take bold action today. No one should have to plant a single flag more."
— American Friends Service Committee.
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▶ The exhibit
"was inspired by artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenburg and created by the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action."
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▶ Placards displayed at memorial
☞ 15,000 Georgians have died from COVID-19 [as of February 2021].
☞ 60% of public school students in Georgia faced food insecurity before the pandemic.
☞ 3.9 million Georgians experienced loss of a job or reduced hours last year.
☞ Many Georgians face eviction and mortgage or rent failure due to pandemic-related economic deprivation.
☞ 1.7 million public school children [in Georgia] have had their futures disrupted.
☞ In Georgia prisons: 5,011 COVID-19 cases; 92 deaths (including incarcerated people and prison staff).
☞ No Georgian should die because they don't have access to health care.
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▶ UPDATES
☞ UPDATE (9 February 2023):
Since its onset in early 2021, 40,653 Georgians have died of COVID-19, 1,119,717 nationwide.
☞ UPDATE (25 March 2022):
36,706 Georgians are believed to have perished from the disease.
— Atlanta Journal-Constitution
☞ UPDATE (April 2022):
In the two weeks following the installation of the display (in mid-February 2021), the death toll in Georgia rose from 15,000 to 17,376. Nationwide, 514,660 are dead; globally, more than 2.54 million.
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👎 Rejection:
☞ The administrator of the Flickr group, Georgia USA —a group specifically for and about people and places in Georgia— deemed this photo inappropriate and rejected it.
🏆 That being said, Flickr's editors, on 2 March 2021, selected it for inclusion in Flickr's Explore.
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Wetlands of Burnt Fork Creek were dappled by afternoon winter sun.
DeKalb County (North Druid Hills), Georgia, USA.
20 January 2025
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▶ Photographer's note:
On 21 January 2025, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature (169th out of 500 selected).
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The Shelton with Sunspots, N.Y. (1926)
oil on canvas
— Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887-1986)
on loan from The Art Institute of Chicago.
Georgia O’Keeffe: “My New Yorks” exhibition at...
City of Atlanta (Midtown), Georgia, USA.
9 February 2025.
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▶ About the painting
“One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.”
“This blazing canvas, which captures a fleeting juxtaposition of the natural and the human-built environments, was inspired by O’Keeffe’s perception of nature’s power even in an urban setting. She later recalled, 'I went out one morning to look at [the Shelton Hotel] and there was the optical illusion of a bite out of one side of the tower made by the sun, with sunspots against the building and against the sky.' The painting boldly exemplifies O’Keeffe’s response to the novel structure of the skyscraper, a subject almost exclusively represented by male artists.”
— museum plaque
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▶ About the exhibition:
(October 25, 2024 – February 16, 2025)
'I had never lived up so high before and was so excited that I began talking about trying to paint New York,' recalled Georgia O’Keeffe late in life. In 1924 the artist and her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, moved into the Shelton Hotel, then the world’s tallest residential skyscraper. The hotel’s stunning views inspired O’Keeffe to explore midtown Manhattan’s soaring geometries: she experimented across media and scale and with various subjects, forms, and perspectives during an energetic five-year period beginning in 1925. Through these works, which she called 'my New Yorks,' she investigated the dynamic potential of the cityscape, often depicting it in dialogue with nature to represent her personal perceptions of the built environment.
This exhibition is the first to critically examine O’Keeffe’s paintings, drawings, and pastels of urban landscapes while situating them in the diverse context of her other compositions of the 1920s and early 1930s. The exhibition establishes these works not as outliers or as anomalous to her practice but rather as entirely integral to her modernist investigation in the 1920s—abstractions and still lifes made at Lake George in upstate New York and beyond and works made in the Southwest beginning in 1929. O’Keeffe’s 'New Yorks' are essential to understanding how she became the artist we know today.”
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👎 Rejection.
On 3 June 2025, the administrator for the Flickr group "Three's company / A trois, c'est mieux !" rejected this photo for NOT displaying "three people (human beings) together". Es-tu dans la lune?
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Red poppies (Papaver rhoeas), blooming wild in an urban meadow.
City of Clarkston, Georgia, USA.
13 April 2026.
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▶ Photo — and Pic(k) of the Week — by: YFGF.
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Amidst a yellow riot of autumnal, native Porter's sunflowers, a wizened tree stands alone on the craggy summit of...
DeKalb County (Stonecrest ), Georgia, USA.
29 September 2023.
▶ More photos: here.
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▶ Photographer's notes:
☞ On 12 October 2023, after I submitted this image (and this one) to North Georgia Mountains, the group's administrator summarily removed me from the group.
☞ At about the same time, the administrator for the Flickr group
*All around the world - Landschaften, Landscapes, Paysages* rejected this photo as NOT depicting a landscape.
WTF??? You can't make this 'stuff' up!
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Mountain Lake, seen from southeastern slope of...
DeKalb County (Stonecrest), Georgia, USA.
19 October 2024.
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▶ The prosaically-named lake is a reservoir created during 20th-century quarrying of granite and migmatite (both of which can be seen in the foreground).
▶ More photos of Arabia Mountain: here.
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Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale
— Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Chico, California / Mills River, North Carolina, USA.
---> Released in mid-October 2020 for the winter season.
▶ Tasted, poured from a bottle:
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
24 December 2020.
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▶ Me:
---> Bright citrusy and piney hops chased by a sweet biscuity middle. White peppery finish. Two months after bottling (16 October 2020), the hop aroma might be a bit diminished but not the hop presence nor the malt backbone. Indeed a holiday celebration.
▶ From the label:
---> Fresh hop IPA.
6.8% alcohol-by-volume.
" We first brewed Celebration IPA in the winter of 1981. Each year, we use only the first fresh hops of the growing season to create this complex and robust ale. Layered pine and citrus hop aromas balance delicately against rich malt sweetness to shape this bold, wintertime classic."
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At rest: street tableau as festival abounds.
City of Decatur (Decatur Square), Georgia, USA.
4 May 2025.
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▶ "The Decatur Arts Festival brings the community together through a multi-day offering of live music, dance, comedy, theatrical performances, children's book festival, exhibitions, and an expansive and diverse artists’ market." More photos: here.
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Priorities!
Atlanta (Inman Park), Georgia, USA.
23 April 2022.
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Reeds on the banks of Postal Pond, in...
City of Decatur (Winnona Park,), Georgia, USA.
14 October 2020.
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Brewery beer patio 'mise en place': spectacles, beer, & phone.
Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
16 August 2020.
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▶ Photographer's note:
Unposed; this was as I saw it. The owner of all three items had stepped away for a minute.
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Owner/distiller Michael Anderson pauses (as if in prayer!), during a spirits tasting and tour, at...
Independent Distilling Company
Decatur (East Decatur Station), Georgia, USA.
26 March 2021.
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▶ The small distillery was celebrating its 7th anniversary.
▶ Another image: here.
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Ferst Fountain
ceramic: 1985, 1990
— Christine Sibley (1948-1999).
Atlanta (Midtown), Georgia, USA.
8 November 2020.
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▶ "A ceramic mural by Atlanta artist Christine Sibley adorns the Ferst Fountain. Water naiads are represented in bas relief peering out from behind the waterfall. This fountain, donated in honor of Helen Montag Ferst, was built of gunite in 1985. Local artist Christine Sibley obtained financing and added a ceramic facade. In 1990, she completed the edges and the tops of the walls. In 2012, the facade received much-needed repair."
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▶ Photographer's note:
On 15 November 2020, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's Explore feature.
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Españolas (2010)
painted concrete
St. Augustine Sculpture Garden
St. Augustine Beach (Lake Anhinga), Florida, USA.
12 September 2025 (7:29 am EDT).
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📷 Photographer's note:
I first made the acquaintance of these charming ladies on a visit to St. Augustine in 2018 and took their portraits. One could easily envision female colonists of the 1700s, 'Las Españolas,' leisurely strolling on Sundays, their parasols in hand, evoking the imagery captured by the sculptor.
I wasn't overly pleased with my effort, so I returned seven years later, in 2025, to try again. The park looked a bit worn, in need of care, and the sculpture's plaque was missing. Nevertheless, 'en alborada,' the ladies appeared particularly resplendent. Felicitaciones!
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📍 About the artist
"I grew up in Caracas, Venezuela, during the sixties. Now in Jacksonville, Florida, USA, I am a multidisciplinary artist, painter, muralist, and sculptress, a college-level art instructor, and a recipient of 'Artist in Residence' grants.
I have participated several times in Jacksonville's Cultural Council Art in Public Programs, developing murals, banners, and large art panels. I have designed and executed large mosaic murals for the Florida Museum of Natural History. I recently completed [in 2009] three monumental sculptures for the St. Augustine Sculpture Garden in St. Augustine Beach, Florida."
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📍 Historical note:
St. Augustine is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the continental United States, established by Spanish explorers in 1565. The St. Augustine Sculpture Garden is situated just beyond the city's southeastern border, in St. Augustine Beach, a small beach resort town of mid-20th-century vintage.
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In mid-summer, bedewed porcelain berries, growing wild and invasive, ripen with the blue hue of robins' eggs.
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
1 August 2021.
▶ Unripened, closeup: here.
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▶ "Ampelopsis glandulosa var. brevipedunculata —with common names porcelain berry, Amur peppervine, wild grape, and creeper— is a deciduous, woody, perennial vine climbing trees and shrubs via tendrils to a height of 15-20 feet (4-6 m). It is naturally found in northeast China, Korea, Siberia, and Japan, but was introduced in 1870 to the United States where it has become invasive along the East Coast.
Fruits are circular berries about 1/3 inch in diameter (8 mm), in many colors on the same plant, including green, blue, purple, pink, or yellow. The vines are found in disturbed areas such as roadsides, old fields, and floodplains where sunlight is abundant."
— Wikipedia.
▶ Photographer's note
I had thought these to be benign muscadine grapes. An astute viewer disabused me of my error. Still lovely, though.
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River oats in dappled morning light.
Cecilia Creek along the East Decatur Greenway
DeKalb County (Forrest Hills), Georgia, USA.
27 July 2025.
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❀ Botanical note:
"Chasmanthium latifolium — commonly known as river oats, inland sea oats, and wood oats — is a clump-forming, upright grass in the grass family (Poaceae), native to the central and eastern United States, growing in wooded areas and riparian zones.
River oats reach a height between 2 to 5 feet (⅔ - 1½ m) and a width of 1 to 2 feet (⅓ - ⅔ m). Their distinctive flat nodding seed heads resemble oats, emerging green in spring, turning tan in summer, and then purplish in fall. The bamboo-like leaves often turn yellow-gold in fall."
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
— Wikipedia.
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📷 Photographer's note:
On 6 August 2025, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature (132nd out of 500 chosen). There's another of my river oats images that's been featured in 'Explore,' but that was five years ago, in 2020.
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Dense thickets of tiny arrowleaf tearthumb wildflowers, blooming along the banks of...
Postal Pond in Decatur Legacy Park
City of Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
28 September 2024.
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▶ Photographer's note:
This is a closeup. These tiny blossoms — at most ½-centimeter in diameter— appear much larger in the image than they did in 'real' life.
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A Jorō near-miss! It was a foggy morning, so I almost didn't notice an expansive web and its spinster on the trail ahead. I was just able to duck at the last moment.
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
12 November 2022.
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▶"Trichonephila clavata —also known as the Jorō spider (ジョロウグモ)— is a member of the Trichonephila genus. The spider can be found throughout Japan (except Hokkaidō), Korea, Taiwan, and China. The spider is also an introduced species in North America —first spotted, in 2013, in northeast Georgia and northwest / upstate South Carolina. It is believed that the species will become naturalized over much of the eastern seaboard of the United States due to its relative resistance to cold.
The adult female's body size is 2/3 to 1 inch (17–25 mm), while the male's is 1/4 to 2/5 inches (7–10 mm). The adult female individual has stripes of yellow and dark blue, with red toward the rear of the abdomen. The web of females may reach several meters in length. In sunlight, the yellow threads appear to be a rich gold color. In autumn, the smaller males may be seen in the webs for copulating. After mating, the female spins an egg sack on a tree, laying 400 to 1,500 eggs in one sack. Her lifecycle ends by late autumn or early winter with the death of the spider. The next generation emerges in spring.
Although the spider is not aggressive, it will bite to protect itself. The bite is considered painful, but not life-threatening."
— Wikipedia.
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▶ Photographer's note.
Thank you to Flickr-er Stanze for identifying the lovely lady. (See the comments section below.)
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Sunlight-dappled pine trees in winter morning.
Hawthorne Nature Trail
DeKalb County (Northlake), Georgia, USA.
12 January 2025
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We rescued Charlie in 2019. Even then, he had some gray in his muzzle. When we guessed he was about five years old, he didn't protest.
After many adventures and many years of unconditional companionship, Charlie has died. I will sorely miss my hiking/photography comrade and friend.
10 July 2026.
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🏆 Commendation:
On 16 July 2026, Flickr's editors selected Charlie's farewell for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature (90th out of 500 chosen).
▶ Charlie has been selected for Explore twice before.
☞ Here he was in 2019, a month after he came to live with us.
☞ And, here, in 2021, he was not so pleased on St. Patrick's Day.
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📷 Photographer's notes:
☞ Charlie posed for the above photo in October 2021, at seven years old, investigating Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve, one of his favorite local parks.
☞ In hindsight, I realize the low shutter speed caused some motion blur. I could have (should have?) adjusted the exposure time, aperture, and ISO for a sharper image. Ultimately, however, I cherish the photo as it is.
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Wetlands of Cecilia Creek (aka East Fork Middle Branch Shoal Creek), in...
Seminary Wood
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
14 March 2021.
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A native trumpet creeper vine, blooming wild in mid-summer wetlands.
DeKalb County (North Druid Hills), Georgia, USA.
21 July 2026.
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🏆 Commendation:
On 30 July 2026, Flickr selected this image for inclusion in its Explore feature, as part of a The Color Orange-themed takeover (137th out of 500 chosen).
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❀ Botanical notes:
“Campsis radicans — commonly known as cow-itch, cow vine, devil's shoestring, foxglove vine, hellvine, hummingbird vine, trumpet creeper, trumpet vine — is a dense, vigorous, woody, deciduous, perennial vine in the trumpetvine family (Bignoniacea) that attaches itself to structures and climbs by aerial rootlets. It is native to the central and eastern United States, inhabiting woodlands and riverbanks (and growing on roadside telephone poles).
The trumpet creeper has clusters (terminal cymes) of orange to reddish-orange trumpet-shaped flowers, 3 inches long (8 cm), with a yellowish throat and 5 shallow lobes bending backward. They appear throughout the summer (June to September), and are very attractive to hummingbirds.”
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
— Wikipedia.
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🌏 Photographed blooming in wetlands of Burnt Fork Creek, as seen from a vantage along an elevated boardwalk on the South Peachtree Creek Trail.
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▶ Photo — and Pic(k) of the Week — by: YFGF.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
— Lens: Olympus M.40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R.
— Settings: 45 mm | 1/125 sec | ƒ/5.6 | ISO 400.
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Tiny onslaught of spring! Yellow cinquefoil wildflowers...
...blooming near the headwaters (i.e., a municipal storm drain) of Cecilia Creek, on the...
City of Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA
31 March 2026.
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🏆 Commendation:
On 29 April 2026, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature (226th out of 500 chosen).
❀ Photographer's note:
This is a close-up. The 1-cm cinquefoils appear larger in the image than they did in 'real' life.
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▶ Photo — and Pic(k) of the Week — by: YFGF.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
— Lens: Canon 100mm ƒ/2.8 FD (manual focus).
— Fotodiox adapter.
— Settings: 100 mm | 1/125 sec | ƒ/2.8 | ISO 400.
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
▶ Image licensed via Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Reproduction permitted, but with these provisos:
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