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"ما شاء الله"

IDRiVe BY oN BLaCKI

LuCK SoMeTiMeS iS JuST aRouND The CoRNeR

This scenery I found in Vietnam, at the steps of the famous pagoda in Hue.

A typical scene for Vietnam, what do you think?

Have all a lucky Sunday.

If I have luck, my internet connection is good, otherwise I have to fix it.

it is out and broken..............SO MISS ME..........see you soon

The future is ORaNGe, not always…………. 

Oh, look here for my new group. Go and UPLOAD

Play it loud……….

♪♪♫ L I S T e N ♪♪♫♪♪♫

Happy first candle burning Sunday, for those who are celebrating

another view of the rose.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWEwC_5lPs4

I think this is one of my favorite images from my Yosemite trip (believe me, narrowing down my photos was a difficult job). I know this view of Yosemite is one of the most over-photographed places on earth, but the difference in this image is that I saw it with my own eyes, took the time to get there at 5am and was able to watch this glorious morning unfold.

To my fellow photographers: get up early, go outside and take it all in. Leave your camera at home if you like, just concentrate on the majesty of this earth for an hour or two!

there are lots of 'PINK' possibilities you can use to make us smile... on Saturday! ;-)

LARGE is nice

Think I’ll go for a ride

Take the bike out of the shed

Make a fresh start

Get out of my head

When the head spins

There is no joy

...

(The Ride / Luka Bloom)

Didn't think this was too bad for a shot from my camera phone (pp done with Lr).

Part of me really did wish I'd brought my tripod with me but my Giottos is just too damn heavy and I really don't do enough walking to contemplate investing in a carbon fibre one.

sometimes all it takes is a Idea.

think i like you best

when you're dressed in black from head to toe

think i like you best

when you're just with me and no one else

"You know life

Sometimes you just gotta stop caring about like

What everybody else thinks and just live your life, you know

Look

If you ain't failed couple times

You ain't ready for this

I don't crumble under pressure

I go heavy with this

Driving straight to the hole, I don't need no assist

If all I got is one shot, You know I ain't gone miss

I never take a hater serious, I'm petty with this

Never been the type to fold, I don't straddle the fence

Yeah, I might lose it all, I'll get it right back quick

I'm like a walking casino, 'cause I'ma takе that risk

I ain't scared of nothing but the old version of mе

I'm fired up, boy I love the cold version of me

I love the way I took the pain and now it's working for me

I'm coming back for everything that was taken from me

Ay what you thought it was, I'm like the little engine that could

They love my drive, they just wanna know what's under the hood

I wish you would tryna stop me, you gone get what you deserve

I'll show you how to take it from the bottom to the first

I know they tryna say you can't do it anyway

(talk your piece)

Ain't got no money in the bank, do it anyway

(I'ma do it)

I know you failed a couple times, but that's alright

We don't care what people think, do it anyway

I know they tryna say you can't do it anyway

(talk your piece)

Ain't got no money in the bank, do it anyway

(I'ma do it)

I know you failed a couple times, but that's alright

We don't care what people think, do it anyway

I remember when they said I couldn't, so now they ask me how I do it

When you really know you got it, you ain't never gotta prove it

When you started from the bottom, you ain't never scared of losing

Everything, all on God, is the only way I do it

Scared of what?

Scared of who?

Boy, I been had the juice, with an extra side of sauce

Boy I been had rague

Baby I got so much flavor and the pain is the seasoning

I promise I'ma get it, it don't matter what the season

I do it any day, everyday

I'ma get it in every way

Know they try to say that I can't, but I still doing it anyway

I don't care what they gonna say

I don't care what they gonna think

When you out here chasing your dreams, you don't care if people sleep

I wake them up when I speak, it's just a matter of time

Getting everything for me, it's just a matter of mine

I got audacity and confidence, a deadly combination

Yeah, I hear them talking, I just call it admiration

I know they tryna say you can't do it anyway

(talk your piece)

Ain't got no money in the bank, do it anyway

(I'ma do it)

I know you failed a couple times, but that's alright

We don't care what people think, do it anyway

I know they tryna say you can't do it anyway

(talk your piece)

Ain't got no money in the bank, do it anyway

(I'ma do it)

I know you failed a couple times, but that's alright

We don't care what people think, do it anyway

Eeh, eeh do it anyway

Eeh, eeh do it anyway

Eeh, eeh do it anyway

Eeh, eeh do it anyway

Know they tryna say you can't do it anyway

You ain't got no money in the bank, do it anyway

I know you failed a couple times, but that's alright

We don't care what they said, do it anyway"

Lyrics Source:

genius.com/Erica-mason-do-it-anyway-lyrics

Video:

youtu.be/BqUTWq92hsU

I was using one of those car windshieled sun blockers to reflect a little more light onto the area of my hummingbird feeder when I caught this photo. The funny thing is that, on the relfector screen is a drawing of a Bald Eagle in almost this exact pose going in for a fish. I guess this little guy is thinking of bigger things.

Taken in New Jersey, USA

© Steve Byland 2008 all rights reserved

Unauthorized use or reproduction for any reason is prohibited

gannet

Self-portrait edited with AI.

Very pleased to see this one, a fairly early example? Departement 23 is Creuse, a little way north from where I saw it.

Colour is similar to the Majorette diecast version I have. I think that has a slightly damaged front bumper too.

Sydney

I think young owlets get bored when they're getting ready to fledge. They do get to spend a lot of time looking out at the world they can't quite reach.

- Buy prints of this photo on Smugmug

- Buy prints of my other photos on Smugmug

Macaw

From derena_d: "....He looks like he is having a secret chuckle over a private joke!"

Agnes: Alright guys, I think this may have gone too far.

Bruno: What do you mean gone too far? You're sitting right beside me.

Agnes: I mean this book. I'm not entirely comfortable with attention from people beyond my core group.

Bruno: That may be the craziest thing that you've ever said. Attention from random strangers is great. They all love me.

Eva: I think the book looks great. It captures my true spirit - intelligent, beautiful and humble.

Bruno: I take excellence to that.

Eva: Don't you mean "exception to that"?

Bruno: Nope. Definitely excellence to that. I'm excellent at intelligence.

Eva: Sometimes I don't think you hear yourself.

Bruno: Sometimes I hear too much of you. And hey - who's that handsome dog sitting on that hill in the placemat?

Agnes: Dude, it's you!

Bruno: I knew that. Because he's handsome and I'm excellent at intelligence.

Eva: And also, it's a page proof from the book - not a placemat.

Bruno: I disagree. It's a placemat because anything that you put food on is a placemat. So I'm just going to sit here and stare until someone puts a big pile of cookies down on it.

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This is an exciting time. For about the past year and a half I have been working on a book of dogversattions. It is now so close to done that it is starting to feel real.

There will be two versions of the book. On the table are page proofs of an interior page, the cover (partly hidden) and a 'test print' of the premium version which is landscape format and on glossy paper. This will be the version that I am getting a print run on with 1,000 copies being shipped to me later this week. I have arrangements to sell this through a couple of local book stores and the University of Saskatchewan. A portion of the UofS sales will be donated to the vet college companion fund to pay for treatments of animals in need.

Because of printing and general distribution costs of this version would be too high, we are also putting together a smaller square format non-glossy version that will be available through on-line sellers such as Amazon and be available to be stocked in physical book stores around the world.

More information will be on my website in the next couple of weeks. www.DogversationsBook.com

And by the way - Bruno was mostly right about the placemat. There was a motivational cheerio on the book that I cloned out in post-processing.

I think I've found my new favorite animal to photograph.... every night this week I have been taking walks down to the pond with my camera and waited for the deer to come walking out of the woods to eat. This photo was taken last night. Saw a total of six deer, three of whom were bucks. This is the smallest of the three bucks. I know the photo is a little plain but I figured I upload it anyway. (Went down to the pond today too and saw a total of five deer but they were too low in the ferns to photograph)

Some think the ability to balance things on my head is a special power......

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Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera right. AB800 with Softlighter II camera left. Triggered by Cybersync.

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Patrick Baker - Don't Think Twice It's All Right

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~ DDL Consuelo Bag

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"So, so you think you can tell

Heaven from hell

Blue skies from pain

Can you tell a green field

From a cold steel rail?

A smile from a veil?

Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade

Your heroes for ghosts?

Hot ashes for trees?

Hot air for a cool breeze?

Cold comfort for change?

And did you exchange

A walk on part in the war

For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here

We're just two lost souls

Swimming in a fish bowl

Year after year

Running over the same old ground

And how we found

The same old fears

Wish you were here"

Pink Floyd

Hope all of my flickr friends are well and enjoy their weekend ! :-))

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I think this is the last photo of St. Michael's Mount for now.

We stayed in Marazion for a week, so we saw lots of different expression of this.

St. Michael's Mount

Cornwall, ENGLAND

Hasselblad 500CM

80mm

EKTAR

www.tomoharuota.com

October is breast cancer awareness month ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Breast_Cancer_Awareness_Month

Happy Friday

Hold me close just one more night / Wind will carry the rain that falls on me / Wish for me the words that I can't find / I'm crippled by the world that leaves me be / And faith blinded haunting me (Micah P. Hinson)

© Micah P. Hinson, Berlin, 2025, Florian Fritsch

Street art and passerby in The Northern Quarter, Manchester.

I think I can stop saying "I'm not a morning person" as I seem to be on a bit of an early morning tear as of late. The bonus is that where these falls are just an hour from the time change so the sunrise was late at 8:20 so it wasn't a big stretch to make the sunrise :))

I can’t think of many birds that make me think more of southeastern Arizona than the Bridled Titmouse. They are such cool little birds and I always manage to run into a few when I visit the area. This one grabbed my attention while searching for the Elegant Trogon and I couldn’t help but to stop and take a few photos. How can you say no to this cute little face?

www.texastargetbirds.com

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Baeolophus wollweberi

I think my little friend has ticks (sad face). It looks like two above it's eye and one in it's ear. I am not brave enough to try to handle the squirrel to try to remove them for him. Hopefully they won't make him ill.

I hope you know how much I appreciate your visit here to my page and any comments that you may leave. I may not get back to you right away or, get to see your images as quickly as I can but rest assured I will try to as soon as possible..

WWI recruiting poster. The artist Harry Lawrence Oakley, 1882-1960 (signed bottom right) was a British silhouette artist. He designed posters for the British army while he was a captain with the 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment in WWI.

This poster appears in a photo that was taken in Waterford City on 5 January 1915. Wonder how many passers-by paused to consider joining up...

Size: 76 x 50 cm

Date: 1915

Printed by: Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd., The Electric Press, Leeds and London

NLI Ref.: EPH F99 (A1 size)

Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland

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Seen in a regional cemetary, Sydney, Australia

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"SO YOU THINK YOUR DAYS NOT GOING WELL" I CANT DO A THING WITH MY HAIR, AND UP TO MY ANKLES IN MUD!.. ..............

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Little egret with a tail wind!

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Thank you for your visit, love reading your kind comments, ....Stay safe....Tomx.