for a happy Sunday!

with a Pink Cranesbill / Storchschnabel (Geranium x oxonianum)

in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend

The dry-stone walls near Litton, Derbyshire always look pretty through the year in sunlight. On this day there was a lovely silvery golden sheen upon the snow.

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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

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Low lake

Late summer

Radiant light

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Note to self: Waiting for Laura Jean to upgrade her iPhone. This leather chair looked like it had potential for either a photo or sitting or both.

Best on Black as big as you can.. :-))

Irish Sea

Lightbox, please?

Thank you.

This week's theme for Mosaic Montage Monday was Metallic Sheen. One is new and one I found in my treasure trove of archives...

HMMM!

The sun's sheen fights through a departing storm front to brighten up New Buffalo Beach on this night, July 8, 2021.

Common Starlings are looking great just now. This is a male with the pale blue base to the bill, females have pink bill bases.

A Green Heron basking in the sun.

'Leave your comments below with what you think this duckling is saying'

Thank you so much to all of you guys... for your incredible comments! You helped me to find a great title for this photo. Very adorkable suggestions 😄

And a special thanks to Jim (www.flickr.com/photos/84120972@N06/) your idea was hilarious! I'm taking it.

And to Juli Sonne (www.flickr.com/photos/julisonne/) for the song suggestion:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCW7Aw8ugOI - Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (Official Music Video)

I was going with 'RAMONES - Rockaway Beach'.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy7DO0Pnt0k

(And a shout out to Scooby Doo for introducing The Ramones band to a lot of kids)

Turns out we discover that the duck in the photograph is a female one. So we decided to name her Sheena. That’s so much more funny than the one we had in mind.

God bless you all!!!

I didn't mean this photo to be particularly morbid but it reminded me of a scene from the temple of the May Faced God in the TV series Game of Thrones. If you've watched the series you'l recognise the title as being a recurrent phrase and one that was used to open the doors of the temple.

The face is actually found outside the village church at Sheen in the Peak District. There are a number of gargoyle heads that are lined up, looking at the sky, on an outside wall of the church - although the church was rebuild in the 16th and 19th centuries the gargoyles are remains of the original church built in 1185 so they are very special medieval artefacts.

I've always been fascinated by them and decided it was time to have a go some photos - There was some very strong sunlight casting deep shadows when I was there for this shot which limited what I could get but this one very much benefited from that wonderful light illuminating the top of the face.

Some nice light at sunset for a change on this day.

Sunrise Skies ~ The Wasatch Range ~ Salt Lake City, Utah

Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 200, f/7.1, 18mm, 1/320s

I loved the sheen produced by the poster I'm leaning into here.

A Euston-bound Avanti West Coast service pulls into platform 1, Stafford (as I have seen so many 86s and 87s do in years past.)

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Explore #406

Still going through the archives. Took this at the tail end of the Summer in 2018. Need to go back and re-shoot it as the buildings under construction should be finished now.

Misty conditions this morning.

Nikon FM

Nikkor 50mm 1.8

Ilford FP4+ @ 125

Home developed in Caffenol C-H

12 minutes @ 20 degrees C

Epson V 850 scanned

This is a close-up photo of the contour sheen on a driftwood tree trunk at Port Maitland Beach.

Yosemite National Park, November, 2020. And this is a color picture, look at that faint blue sheen!

Ballywalter morning stroll. Nikon D7200.

Runner Duck from the East Indies. Runners are a very special breed of domestic duck. When they were imported into Europe they attracted attention because of their tall, upright bodies and their incredible reputation for egg-laying. They had been found in the East Indies, from where they get their present name, but were referred to as 'Penguin Ducks' by Dutch explorers and some of the early importers.

The Indian Runner, like most breeds of domestic duck, is a development of the wild mallard. Its evolution was probably determined more by human influence than natural selection over the hundreds of years they have been in the islands of Indonesia. They are set apart from other domestic ducks not only by the geography but in their shape, bone structure and blood proteins.

Seen at Woodchurch Rare Breeds Centre in Kent UK.