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Beautiful Natal-Lilies, Clivia Hybrid, shot in the Warm Temperate Habitat at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York City. This plant is in the Amaryllis Family, and is from South Africa.
You can visit the Garden at www.bbg.org.
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PS This is not a flipped reflection.
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Enjoy your Sunday. Always great to see you!
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In contrast to the calm, low tide images in my last post www.flickr.com/photos/artsylens/8232190620/ , high tide offers awe-inspiring scenes of wild waves building up as the tide rolls into Cox Bay in Tofino, on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
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The series below presents several aspects of this stormy day: surfers enjoying the big waves, a patrol boat, a couple in yellow rain slickers on the rocks to watch the stormy weather, rocky headlands, lighthouse and, the crest of the waves whipped into plumes of spray and mist by the increasing wind velocity.
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Have a fabulous weekend and thanks for stopping by.
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I liked the tension set up in this image betweenh these moving figures and the static red stop sign in the foreground. The red and orange autumn leaves stuck to the wet street and sidewalk all help to convey the changing season.
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Have a lovely day and thanks for dropping by.
River Walk, Detroit River, Detroit, Michigan USA
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I'm not much of a tea drinker myself but some of our guests are. Love this glass teapot with the glass infusion insert which is perfect for loose leaf tea.
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Have a wonderful new week! Thanks for dropping by.
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Nature can often be seen and / or interpreted as a modern work of art.
Captured this series of autumn leaves on a hedge at dusk as we left a delightful ballet class for Grade 3 girls.
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Enjoy your Friday and thanks for the visit.
Pictures from 1990 when my daughter Katarina and me were to Miami Beach for a week.
One day we had a trip with m/s SeaEscape to the small island Bimini on Bahamas.
All photos from here taken with my old Minolta 7000.
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After seeing the Equestrian and Acrobatic Performance (in Edmonton) of, "Cavalia: A Magical Encounter Between Human and Horse", in which I thought I recognized a Jaff Horse, I decided to delve once again into my recent Iran Archives and post this new series of a Kurdish herder training his Jaff horse.
PS They are all candid shots and the "training" ones (mostly cropped here) are from a long way away :-)
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You can see the first series in my Iran 2012 Set: www.flickr.com/photos/artsylens/sets/72157629946409296/
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Jaff Horses
Descendents from the small wild horse which inh[a]bited persia during the freeze epic, then migrated to the warmer part of the South, to west Iran, and to Zagros mountains and the Province of Kirmanshah.When climate changed, some returned North, while others remained in the South, bre[e]ding new and different types of new characteristics. An outstanding breed moved to the warm Caspian areas, of which the existing one in this area is of that descen[t]. The Jaff horses belong to this breed, and then developed its own characteristics. Examining The Jaff horse we can observe the following features: Graceful neck, slim and fine arched; A mane and tail of uniquely fine and silky hair; nostrils which are large and low, set in a small muzzle; short and slightly concave back; a high set tail, large prominent almond shaped eyes. Limbs that are characteristically slender; a natural floating action; great endurance.This breed is the shortest of the European type and bigger than the Arab breed. It can be said that The Jaff horse embodies the beauty of the Arab horse, and the endurance of the European horse. Original colours : Almond, gray, and yellowish[-brown].
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Have a wonderful Sunday and thanks for visiting.
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Fascinating to watch the night give way to a new day full of sunshine and then to see the arrival of cruise ships from Alaska.
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Have a great day and thanks for visiting.
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West Coast evening moods as captured from the North Shore.
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Have a wonderful Tuesday. So nice to see you again!
Hypo Transformation: A digital alteration from my photograph to create a unique image that retains some of the original photograph's properties.
Front Page, The Ruby Awards, December 16, 2012: www.flickr.com/groups/rubyawards/
Young Vincent is thinking of new activities, whatever it is, but it has to be fun !! :-)
