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Fly 2 hrs 45 mins from Kuala Lumpur to Tawau in Sabah ( former British North Borneo ) and then 1 hr by road to the town of Semporna . Make the latter your base of operations . From here , boat rides ranging from one to two hours will bring you to this place and to the other islands .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semporna
On " Explore " # 287 June 23 rd , 2011
2nd Place Viva La Vida Group themed contest ' Panoramic Photo' July 2011
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Gold Medalist , Color Photo Award Contest , ' Our World Series Open theme ' , round 12 , July 2011
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Winner , Chariots of Artists Group , Explore Gallery # 8 , Oct 2011
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2nd Place , Beautiful Capture of Week 39 . Oct 2011
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1st Place , Music to my Eyes Group themed contest " Salty " Oct 2011
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2nd Place , Southeast Asia "Boats" Contest Mar 2021
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A very tiny baby Anole peeks out from under the leaves just as it stops raining.



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Potager du Roy - Versailles

La grue couronnée grise est originaire d'Afrique. Elle vit dans les prairies situées à proximité des points d’eau. Elle mesure environ 90 cm et pèse de 3 à 4 kgs. Elle vit de 40 à 50 ans.
La grue couronnée grise est omnivore d’ailleurs et est un "excellent pesticide" lors des invasions de criquets.

ESPÈCE MENACÉE : par le commerce illégal, par la dégradation, les changements et la perte de l’habitat.

Entre Boa Vista et Fogo
Cap Vert

Fleurons de tournesol (Helianthus annuus)

Les fleurs centrales (fleurons) du tournesol sont disposées en spirales selon les règles de la phyllotaxie. Certaines spirales tournent dans le sens des aiguilles d'une montre et d'autres dans le inverse. Les nombres de fleurons de chaque type de spirale (sens horaire ou antihoraire) sont constants. Leur nombre correspond aux nombres successifs de la suite de Fibonacci (1175 - 1250) mathématicien qui étudia la copulation des lapins. La suite de Fibonacci est suite de nombres telle que chaque nombre est la somme des deux précédents : 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181, 6765, 10946,...). Ainsi, le nombre de spirales en sens horaires et antihoraire peuvent être respectivement 21 et 34 par exemple.

Potager du roi - Versailles

waiting for the train on a freezing platform
on black

Made Explore 10/22/09 #204...Back into Explore at #43 as of today 10/31/09 according to BigHugeLabs...Thanks to everyone, this has become my most interesting picture viewed thus far. Not the most viewed, that belongs to my Thriller dancing one. ;-)

GOLD Medalist - Round 24 - BLUE / PURPLE - Perpetual Contest - 2009
Color Photo Award - PREMIER.

Nominee - 2009 Photo of the Year
Color Photo Award - PREMIER.

Not sure how long this took to get approved / denied from Pentax Photo Gallery; but it was the longest of all my photos that made it. At least four weeks, maybe six.

Taken around 3:30 in the morning July 5th. 4 second exposure. Selected the Space Needle and applied solarize feature in light curves adjustments. I like the mother of pearl look it gave to the needle, although it changed the location of the highlights.

I would have liked to see more lights in the windows of the buildings for the photo but I figure several things account for the low number. 1. The day after a national holiday. 2. 3:30 in the morning ( probably would be more at say 9 or 10pm.) 3. Trying to save electricity. 4. Downturn of the economy ( less office workers; less lights ). I figure the Sunday following the 4th of July is probably why there are so few lights though.

A blue and red sofa used in a stage production getting placed into a yellow moving van. The solid colors made me think of taking a picture and since it was being moved it made me think of "moving pictures". In tribute to the album by RUSH
Seen in Fremont, Seattle. Washington. I put the black into the bottom in photoshop because the background was distracting.