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Blue and gold... by veephilion

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Blue and gold...

Always sad to pack Christmas away....I love the decorations and look at them often in the weeks we have them around.

It's not happening quite yet.... that's for sure .... but, I wanted to get a few more photos and, lots more 'looking' in before the weekend..... at which time I suppose it is getting around to the day .... ...... *pout"..........

This is one of the origami ornies that I love so much and like to make a few new ones each Christmas ... I have a huge bead stash and get to use a few of those each year....

On Thursday, a crafting buddy is coming by to spend some hours and we're hoping to get a new reindeer made.... soon I'll have a herd of them.... alright!! Two is not nearly enough.....

Christmas in Queen Street Mall Brisbane. by Lance CASTLE

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Christmas in Queen Street Mall Brisbane.

The Teddies by Mariasme

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The Teddies

just me and the bears.... by veephilion

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just me and the bears....

BERNIE: "Can you see us all .... .way over here behind all the shiny stuff Mom.... ?"

ME: "Don't worry Bernie, you are well lit by the tree lights..." .....

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a healthy and happy New Year...

Happy Holidays! by charhedman

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Happy Holidays!

We were walking at Ambleside Beach the beginning of December and I saw these lovely red and green bushes. They reminded me of Christmas.
This will be my last post till after Christmas so I wanted to wish all of you a wonderful holiday season. I'm not going away, but just busy getting ready for Christmas.
I've been on Flickr for ten years this month, and it's been amazing getting to know so many awesome people on here, and meeting many of you in person. Happy Holidays!

Shot with Oreston 50mm f1.8.

Tasty Christmas Colours by bigbrowneyez

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Tasty Christmas Colours

All these gorgeous pastries were decked out in pretty Christmas colours, making them even more delicious than usual.

Building. Brisbane Arcade, Queen Street Mall dressed up for Christmas. by Lance CASTLE

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Building. Brisbane Arcade, Queen Street Mall dressed up for Christmas.

Brisbane Arcade, Queen Street Mall dressed up for Christmas. by Lance CASTLE

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Brisbane Arcade, Queen Street Mall dressed up for Christmas.

The Christmas colours and a Kookaburra. by Lance CASTLE

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The Christmas colours and a Kookaburra.

Kookaburras are almost exclusively carnivorous, eating mice, snakes, insects, small reptiles, and the young of other birds. Unlike many other kingfishers, they rarely eat fish, although they have been known to take goldfish from garden ponds. In zoos, they are usually fed food suitable for birds of prey.

Noyers-sur-Serein: flowery side lane by green voyage

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Noyers-sur-Serein: flowery side lane

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone!

(Apologies -- an early-winter hard freeze has thwarted my plans to take a current, local photo for the season ...)

A small flower bed and container plants along a wall in a nook just off the Petite rue, in the village of Noyers-sur-Serein (the Yonne département, Bourgogne / Burgundy, in eastern France), on a clear midday in mid-October (2016). They include different hydrangeas, pelargoniums, lobelia, and a trellised grape vine.

The structure in the center may be a disused well. In the window, a reflection of part of an ivy-covered building can be seen.

Noyers-sur-Serein, officially named Noyers, lies in the scenic valley of the river Serein and is designated as one of Les plus beaux villages de France (The Most Beautiful Villages of France). Its walled historic centre still follows a medieval pattern, with walls, towers, and gates, a longer main street, and small, sometimes winding side lanes, as well as multiple places (squares). Within it, there are numerous buildings, many half-timbered (à colombage) and others of stone; 78 of them are classified as Monuments historiques, and many date back to the 14th-16th centuries. Some of the wooden beams feature carvings in Renaissance style.

(Information partly from the official village website, last consulted 15 November 2020.)

Please note: When we visited Noyers-sur-Serein, Yonne was still described as being in the region of Bourgogne. Officially, since January 2016, it was in the newly merged administrative region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

[Noyers-sur-Serein side lane flowers window 2016 oct 16 f; DSCF0631]

Blood Lily 002 by DMT@YLOR

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Blood Lily 002

Photo taken in my garden. A bit of red and green for Christmas. Looks great full screen.

Santa Spoon by Jo Zimny Photos

Santa Spoon

The Flickr Lounge-Red & Green

My sister and her partner made these for me. Paul carved the spoon and my sister, Marlene painted the Santa on the spoon.

Table Dressing by Jo Zimny Photos

Table Dressing

The Flickr Lounge-Red & Green

This is the lovely Christmas centrepiece my daughter and granddaughter got me for the dining room table. I added some little lights to give it some pizazz.

Shelf Elf by Jo Zimny Photos

Shelf Elf

The Flickr Lounge-Red & Green

I've had this little guy for years, I got him at Barnes & Noble in Albuquerque, NM.

Jingle Bells by Jo Zimny Photos

Jingle Bells

The Flickr Lounge-Red & Green

One of my favourite ornaments!

The Heart of Christmas... by KissThePixel

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The Heart of Christmas...

Some more Fern, a few Pine Cones and a Christmas Bauble.

Let your imagination play...

Have a lovely Saturday...

Debbie ~ KissThePixel 2021

Chocolate Cherry Cookies by veephilion

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Chocolate Cherry Cookies

This is not a photo from this year as you can see by the date .... but, I have made them each year since I first found the recipe.... they are still yummy!
Just got a batch made this week... and, immediately boxed and put them in the freezer..so we don't eat them all. I like to give some to neighbours the week before Christmas....
This year I also want to make some tiny Tortiére turnovers and some Cranberry Apple Chutney in little jars to give as gifts too...so I better get some of it started!!
Why does December fly past so quickly??

Twinkle, Twinkle... by Silke Klimesch

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Twinkle, Twinkle...

...little pixel :)

Explored November 30, 2021

Actually this was meant for the first Sunday of Advent – yesterday –, but I didn't get around to upload it (and neither to take my MM shot), so this is an unusual Monday contribution, not a macro, but actually a Monday slider. It's also another photo from Hot Pixel Universe, a universe only the LX100 can make visible. You may wonder about the starry sky above the Deutsche Dom (New Church), because stars are usually difficult to see in a brightly illuminated city because of light pollution. Unless you shoot with an LX100, of course ;)

If I remember correctly, long exposure noise reduction had been activated in the camera when I took this photo at the 2018 Festival of Lights. I don't know if that caused the hot pixels, or if the LX100's sensor gets particularly warm during long exposures. The hot pixels are only visible against a totally black sky, not against a blue hour sky, for instance, and especially enhancing the clarity in LR brings them out clearly.

The hot pixels aren't really a big issue, because it's easy to remove them in post. But here I actually liked them, because I think that they add such a festive look to this beautifully illuminated scene, so I decided to leave them in the image. Or rather: I added them back to the photo from an older, already processed version of this shot, because when I re-processed this image just the other day in DXO PhotoLab 5, the amazing DeepPRIME denoising technology detected the hot pixels and removed them. I hope you like Hot Pixel Universe :)

Wishing you a happy time of Advent, dear Flickr friends. Take care and stay safe!

Eigentlich wollte ich dieses Foto gestern zum 1. Advent hochladen, bin aber leider nicht dazu gekommen. Ihr fragt Euch jetzt wahrscheinlich, woher das Sternenmeer kommt, mitten in der Stadt, die zum Festival of Lights sogar noch heller beleuchtet ist als sonst. Nun, es handelt sich hierbei um ein ganz besonderes Universum, das Hot-Pixel-Universum, das nur die LX100 sichtbar machen kann ;)

Wenn ich mich recht erinnere, war damals die Langzeitrauschunterdrückung in der Kamera aktiviert. Ob mir das nun die vielen "Sterne" beschert hat oder der Sensor der LX100 bei Langzeitbelichtungen außergewöhnlich warm wird, kann ich nicht sagen. Ich weiß nur, dass ich sie auch bei einigen anderen Nachtfotos vom Festival of Lights hatte, aber immer nur bei bereits völlig schwarzem Himmel, nie z.B. zur Blauen Stunde, und erst das Verstärken der Klarheit in LR hebt die kleinen Pünktchen so richtig hervor.

Das Entfernen wäre auch keine große Sache, tatsächlich erkennt mittlerweile die Entrauschungstechnologie DeepPRIME in DXO PhotLab 5 diesen Bildfehler so zuverlässig, dass mir das Programm jetzt, als ich das Foto noch einmal neu bearbeitet habe, die Pixel fast sämtlichst entfernt hat. Da sie mir hier aber so gut gefallen haben, weil sie dem Foto so ein weihnachtliches, festliches Strahlen verleihen, habe ich mir die Sternlein aus einer bereits 2018 bearbeiteten Version des Fotos einfach zurückgeholt :) Ich hoffe, Euch gefällt meine kleine "Deutscher Dom unter Sternenmeer"-Spielerei :)

Ich wünsche Euch eine trotz allem schöne Adventszeit. Passt gut auf Euch auf!

Frolic in the Frost. Kinclaven, Scotland by Stephen Bridger Photography

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Frolic in the Frost. Kinclaven, Scotland

A vibrant forest woodland of golden light and colourful bracken with a winter frost at Kinclaven, Perthshire, Scotland.

Italian Flag. Florence, Italy by Stephen Bridger Photography

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Italian Flag. Florence, Italy

Three chairs line up on the sidewalk to make up the colours of the Italian flag in Florence, Italy.