Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly taking nectar from an invasive spiny Common Teasel flower head. Teasel spines inflict serious damage to the butterflies that visit. Note this delightful specimen has lost a the lower part of its wing, already.

Common Wasp | Vespula vulgaris | Vespidae

Samsung NX1 & Super-Takumar - 50mm f/1.4

10mm Macro Tube | 8 Elements | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

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Mean looking rocks at St.Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Saturday Self-Challenge-Leading Lines

We see these guys all the time. They make sure the power lines dont get tangled in the trees.

One from the front of this LTD guitar.

auf den Jurahöhen ......

KP Treat this 299

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Case Optum 300 CVX

New Holland FR600

MONTREAL 20250717-207-Nuit D'Afrique

City of Arts and Sciences - Valencia, Spain

Let's dispense with the dispenser !

so you know how a shredder shreds things, mostly paper, into little strips, right?

top part is actually my computer screen, bottom is junk on my computer desk, almost like the outside was shredded.

the bottom half of the picture is tweaked.

Done in .6...

Took me several hours :-D:-D...

Enjoy...

Traditional Tainan Morning Market, Taiwan

Leica M10

Leica Summilux 35/1.4

Mount Baker's Legendary Banked Slalom was this weekend and it was a blast!

for club challenge

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Yaxell Enso 7" (18cm) Bunka knife. ('Bunka' translates from Japanese to "culture", which is a cross between a Nakiri and Gyuto knife.)

Greetings to everyone!

This is my 2nd and last Ice Planet themed vehicle for Febrovery 2022. I'll post some more pictures soon. Hope you like it!

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Having the biggest saw in the Ice Planet world, Ice Shredder can easily deal with the most deep frozen barriers that will appear on its way.

Porsche 911 GT3 RS

A juvenile Coopers Hawk-rips apart the squirrel it caught DSC04466

Commercial tree branch shredder

West Coast's 'Shredders', Class 33 Nos 33029 & 33025 surge through the site of the long closed Barton-under-Needwood station, while heading Pathfinder Railtours 'Bicentennial & Peak District Explorer', 1Z20 0523 Eastleigh - Derby - Barrow Hill LIP on 2nd August 2025. West Coast Class 47 No. 47812 was positioned at the rear of the train. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved

For MacroMondays, Cutters

Masoala Rainforest @ Zoo Zurich

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Gran Turismo 6 - Edited

impressions @ lost place

former spring factory, demolished in 2016

more stuff like this in: 'The W.O.S.-Series'

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Michael Wiskus and the Lucas Oil Pitts doing the ribbon cutting thing.

Truck Thursday.

Tomorrow is going to be very windy, so I think the guy who owns this truck will have his work cut out (pun intended) for him soon.

over the weekend, i learned that this derelict C-47 gooney bird and several others in a tucson airplane boneyard were sent to the shredder for recycling. glad i had the chance to photograph them in march.

mamiya 6MF 50mm f/4 + kodak portra 400. lab: the icon, los angeles, ca. scan: epson V750. exif tags: filmtagger.

It was raining and the noise was oppressive. But it was interesting to watch the tree surgeons relentlessly feed this machine.

S&R #15 It's cold and dark there out in space.

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