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“Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.”
Alice Koller

Heart beats fast
Colors and promises
How to be brave
How can I love when I'm afraid to fall
But watching you stand alone
All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow
One step closer

This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
A simple prop to occupy my time
This one goes out to the one I love

Fire

With accounts for closing
I will follow my course
A Desire to Burn
The eternal that I seek
Only one more
Once again
Only one more
And I only know why

From a recent walkabout the neighborhood, this pine bough glows with late afternoon low sun. Strange to go through March with almost no snow here in Denver.

You landed in my life
Like a new and brighter light
That made all my past seem in shadow

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Petoskey stone is a rock and a fossil, often pebble-shaped, that is composed of a fossilized rugose coral, Hexagonaria percarinata. ... Petoskey stones are found in the Gravel Point Formation of the Traverse Group. They are fragments of a coral reef that was originally deposited during the Devonian

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I'd swim across lake Michigan
I'd sell my shoes
I'd give my body to be back again
In the rest of the room
To be alone with you

The marker light at the end of Whitby pier

Out and about in New Mexico, Again!

Shot this while out roaming around NM one night.....

I submitted a photo of this same bird (a tern) on the same piece of wood yesterday. Of course, I don't really know if it's the same bird, but considering he is the only tern in the area, it seems like he sits here waiting to catch fish. I was surprised to see him again, and once more, I was able to get very close without him flying away.

Eleanor Rigby died in the church
And was buried along with her name
Nobody came
Father McKenzie wiping the dirt
From his hands as he walks from the grave
No one was saved

To pronounce this correctly, it is GUY-EEN-AH, Spanish. I think is means Chicken...

Broiled, deboned trout and fried rice as part of a Chinese restaurant lunch near the Great Wall outside Beijing, China. On another photography page, a fellow shooter paid me the greatest complement stating, "Now, I am hungry!" I think that is the idea with food and other product shots.

Money, get back
I'm all right, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, it's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit
I'm in the high-fidelity first class travelling set
And I think I need a lear jet

Three blooms on one stem. Thought I had better capture it while it lasts.

Taken on a lovely Sunday outing to RBG in Hamilton Ontario. Thanks Shirley

SOOC
hipstamatic app for iPhone.
Arjan film
Jimmy lens.

“But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

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You're holding on to every little thing so tightly
Till there's nothing left for you anyway.

I liked how the milk had not quite blended.

This mixed bowl of wax and stone, artificial fruits has been in my wife's family for decades. Some pieces are South American and others European and were collected during my father-in-laws Army tours to Brazil and Portugal.

This Rough Legged Hawk and crow were battling over territory..

Looking into Crooners Martini Bar on board #CoralPrincess. Being a morning riser was able to get many shots before others became active.

This was one of those shots that just sort of happened. I was waiting for the sunset and saw "the man on the lonely rock" and took a few snaps.
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This one of the tombstones near my parent's grave its such a sad thing to see but for me I think it has a lot of emotions to it.. Hope you like it..

Blue Oaks from a Foothill Woodland area of California's Fresno County.

Find a pinecone,
pick it up,
roll it in glue and glitter
for a little Christmas luck

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Taken late Autumn in the Garden. I got down nice and low for this one at sunrise in late Autumn..I also got quite wet.

Figured id put up one of my shots from his show a few months back in Manchester NH..RIP Scott

Even though I'm not "entering" the yellow challenge, here's a bit of yellow anyway :)

As I wait for the sun to rise, I can feel how cold it was around 11 C .. We never get this weather in the City that is why I always love going up in the mountains to feel that cool weather.. :)

#novembercoverchallenge

Thought at this hour, it was time for dessert. Snickerdoodles, anyone?

this is one of many photos that I have played with.

A honeybee collects pollen in late fall, the light reflecting off the tiny petals adding a lavender tint. Split-toned in LR6.

Lonely, but not alone
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I was out walking this week with my husband and my son, at the trail we go to to show Orson the cows (which he loves) and on the way back from seeing the cows Orson and I were playing and I had turned my camera off but was wearing it, and chatting with my son about leaves and rocks and the snail shell Todd had just found for him. I looked up and saw Todd had bent down a small maple tree (they are like rubber) and before I could even think he had let it go and when the tree snapped up all the leaves stayed behind and hung in the air for a split second. It was amazing to see and would have been an incredible shot. Needless to say I missed it. But to humor me after I chided him for doing something awesome and not warning me first he saw there was one leaf left and pulled the tree down again so I could catch the single leaf before it fell. He looked as we walked for another tree small enough to bend, but it was a once in a lifetime shot and I missed it. But the image is sharp in my mind and Orson giggled and giggled.
Missed the shot, but had a moment.

Lensbaby 2.0 f2.8

While touring the snow damage of 2014 in York Pa. I spotted this cold and lonely bench .

Alone in a meeting with the Bird King,
Offering balloons to his sparkling splendid

Taken in Tombstone. Edited for an old time look.

shells that were abandoned by a child collecting them in their bucket

Little Red Riding Hood

.... I want so badly to like this, but I dont. Perhaps in black and white...

Pollen dusted and abandoned,
Vacated, populated only by the breeze
This pollen will long outlast me.

When all the children run home for supper,
the hoop is left to dangle,
soaking in the light that's missed,
by the maple leaves a tangle,
soon, so soon, the leaves all gone,
the court the hoop looks down upon
will be crunchy underfoot

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The Lone Oak.

ISO 640
65mm
F6.3
1/25 sec

This is the setting for one of the exposures I combined to create this image.

Morris Island Boneyard~South Carolina

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Some toys get left behind,
Abandoned to the rains,
Or the pockets of watchful mothers,
And idle passersby.

Samsung Avant Camera phone
1/154, F2.6, ISO 50

Samsung Avant Camera phone
1/154, F2.6, ISO 50

Cropped image.

Moving on to something new, truck was left to ponder life.

Falls Park on the Reedy~ Greenville, South Carolina

In a old prison in Portugal

Boddin Point, Montrose, Angus, Scotland.
An old Salmon fishing station which has been unused and left to the elements since the Seventies.
Who was Sandra ? She and the Boat are two ladies lost to time but, i'm sure both were loved in their day.

Make:Canon
Model:Canon EOS 40D
ISO Speed:ISO-100
Shutter Speed:1/250 sec
Aperture:f/9.0
Exposure Bias:-1/1 EV
Max Aperture:f/4.0
Metering Mode:Pattern
Flash:Flash On, Flash Fired
Focal Length:17 mm
ColorSpace:sRGB
Lens:EF17-40mm f/4L USM

The convergence of nature and production...this is the world, as created by man.
Nikon D7100 Lensbaby Sweet35 f/5.6 1/1600 ISO 100

LBV56

We take our wasps seriously around here

hmmm... one of these things is not like the others