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Lovers
by Erin Kroll

The stillness of our warmth / two / together / our love is rooted deep
Surprised
by Mundy Hackett

Wild and curious red squirrel backlit. Taken in Baxter State Park, Maine, USA.
Main Beach
by Nicole Goggins

just mucking around with photoshop and came up with this – absolutely no idea how, but I think i like it… Main Beach at the Goldcoast…
Sunbeam
by Mundy Hackett

Sometimes all you need to feel relaxed is a good, warm sunbeam! / / Portfolio Areas / / Tigers / Wildlife / Macro / Landscape / Birds / Abstracts / Cats~wild and domestic
Icicles - Lady Northcotes Canyon
by Travis Easton

This photo achieved a highly commended status in the 2007 ANZANG: Nature and Landscape Photographer of the Year Award. Ironically the key factors in this photograph were all negative ones, bad weather, poor light, a pitiful ski season, and a less than ideal time to go. As a teacher I only have the opportunity to go ski touring in the school holidays which is either side of the best part of the ski season. Usually this means that I have to travel to the Main Range in NSW which is a fair hike from my home in Melbourne to get to any snow. I had spent the previous day skiing out from Thredbo to the ice covered Lake Albina and as this season had not been overly good the cover was quite patchy. The day I took this shot I had planned to ski up Australia’s second and eighth highest summits, Mt Townsend and Alice Rawson Peak but the weather had produced white out conditions on the heights so by default I ended up skiing below the cloud cover in Lady Northcote’s Canyon. Not too far from my camp I saw these icicles high up a cliff on the Gorge wall. Being alone and so far from assistance should anything go wrong I was in two minds as to whether I should attempt to get to them or not. On three occasions in the most difficult spots I reassessed this decision but the closer I got the better they looked so imprudence won out the day and fortunately nothing went wrong. I don’t know whether it was my presence or the icicles time had come, but after getting two frames off the whole structure collapsed, fortunately the shots came out well. The other element of serendipity was the poor light, in better conditions the icicles would have been dazzlingly bright mitigating any chance of capturing detail in their delicate structure. I have been back to this same spot on two occasions since then to try and recapture this scene with a tripod and better gear but the trips occurred in better conditions resulting in the entire slope having a good cover of snow and therefore no icicles. The fleeting nature of these sorts of scenes is one of the things I love about photography; you can literally eternalise unrepeatable scenes, be it icicles, a sunset or patterns in the sand, what a gift. Sold two framed 12”x18” of this a little beauty. For other shots from this area check out my Kosciuszko gallery. To check out other mountain photographs see my Mountains gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
Arboretum Ablaze
by bengel

This photo recently won 2nd place in the Westford Regional Art Show in the area of young adult photography! Thanks again to everyone for all the great comments!!
Contention Cove
by J Anderson

Cove in Maine / 9”x12” Oil on Canvas Original Sold This was mainly painted using a palette knife and heavily textured with impasto. Featured in the groups: Abstract Realism, Painters in Modern Times, and Impressionism Cafe
Marina Mirage
by drec

the bright sails of Marina Mirage on the Southport Broadwater with a storm rolling in from sea. View more of my storm images / / Storms
The Broadwater
by drec

Another from the same night as Marina Mirage, this was a good storm to watch and follow View more of my storm images / / Storms
Pappardelle Alla Casa Mia
by John Hooton

These are rather like broad tagliatelle and I prepared the dish like this… / Roast about 10 cherry tomatoes cut in half, in olive oil with 5 garlic cloves and a sprinkle of dried chili for twenty minutes. Halfway through the roasting, add some small whole mushrooms. I used oyster, buna-shimeji and shiro-shimeji varieties. Meanwhile bring some water to the boil, add salt and the pappardelle. After 5 minutes, add a handful of baby spinach leaves and cook for a further 6 minutes. / Serve the pasta with the roasted, tomatoes, garlic and mushrooms. / Total preparation and cooking time 25 minutes. Buon appetito! The lighting was overcast daylight (the best diffusser) through my kitchen window. N.B. This image is now for sale as laminated kitchen art! Technical Details: Camera: Nikon D200 / Lens: 12-24mm f4 / Focal Length: 20mm / ISO: 250 / Exposure: 1/125 sec at f /4 / Lighting: Daylight / Post Processing: Photoshop CS3 © 2008 John Hooton Photography
Time Stands Still
by Nicole Goggins
Bullfrog
by Marleia Main

Oly e510 / The American Bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) is an aquatic frog, a member of the family Ranidae, or “true frogs”, native to much of North America. This is a frog of larger, permanent water bodies, swamps, ponds, lakes, where it is usually found along the water’s edge. On rainy nights, bullfrogs along with many other amphibians, go overland and may be seen in numbers on country roads. / American bullfrogs live longer in warm weather. They have been widely introduced across North America. The original, naturally determined range did not include far western regions where it is found today. (Wiki) /
Tree Frog
by Marleia Main

East Greenbush – N.Y. / August 2008 / Olympus E510 The use of the common names “frog” and “toad” has no taxonomic justification. From a taxonomic perspective, all members of the order Anura are frogs, but only members of the family Bufonidae are considered “true toads”. The use of the term “frog” in common names usually refers to species that are aquatic or semi-aquatic with smooth and/or moist skins, and the term “toad” generally refers to species that tend to be terrestrial with dry, warty skin. An exception is the fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina): while its skin is slightly warty, it prefers a watery habitat. / The habitat of frogs extends almost worldwide, but they do not occur in Antarctica and are not present on many oceanic islands. The greatest diversity of frogs occurs in the tropical areas of the world, where water is readily available, suiting frogs’ requirements due to their skin. Some frogs inhabit arid areas such as deserts, where water may not be easily accessible, and rely on specific adaptations to survive. The Australian genus Cyclorana and the American genus Pternohyla will bury themselves underground, create a water-impervious cocoon and hibernate during dry periods. Once it rains, they emerge, find a temporary pond and breed. Egg and tadpole development is very fast in comparison to most other frogs so that breeding is complete before the pond dries up. Some frog species are adapted to a cold environment; for instance the wood frog, whose habitat extends north of the Arctic Circle, buries itself in the ground during winter when much of its body freezes. / Wiki / /
Leafcutter Bee "Break Time"
by Marleia Main

East Greenbush, NY USA / Olympus E510 / The Megachilidae are a cosmopolitan family of (mostly) solitary bees whose pollen-carrying structure (called a scopa) is restricted to the ventral surface of the abdomen (rather than mostly or exclusively on the hind legs as in other bee families). Megachilid genera are most commonly known as mason bees and leafcutter bees, reflecting the materials they build their nest cells from (soil or leaves, respectively); a few collect plant or animal hairs and fibers, and are called carder bees. All species feed on nectar and pollen, but a few are cleptoparasites (informally called “cuckoo bees”), feeding on pollen collected by other megachilid bees. Parasitic species do not possess a scopa. The brightly colored scopa leads to a colloquial name used occasionally in North America – “Jelly-belly bees.” Megachilid bees are among the world’s most efficient pollinators because of their energetic swimming-like motion in the reproductive structures of flowers, which moves pollen, as needed for pollination. Ironically, one of the reasons they are efficient pollinators is their frequency of visits to plants, but this is because they are extremely inefficient at gathering pollen; compared to all other bee families, megachilids require on average nearly ten times as many trips to flowers to gather sufficient resources to provision a single brood cell. / North America has many native megachilid species, but Alfalfa leafcutter bees (Megachile rotundata) are an imported species used for pollination. The most significant native species is Osmia lignaria (the “Orchard Mason Bee” or “Blue Orchard Bee”), which is sold commercially for use in orchard crop pollination, and which can be attracted to nest in wooden blocks with holes drilled in them (which are also sold commercially for this purpose). (wiki) /
Bull Frog
by Marleia Main

Windham, N.Y. / The American Bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) is an aquatic frog, a member of the family Ranidae, or “true frogs”, native to much of North America. This is a frog of larger, permanent water bodies, swamps, ponds, lakes, where it is usually found along the water’s edge. On rainy nights, bullfrogs along with many other amphibians, go overland and may be seen in numbers on country roads. American bullfrogs live longer in warm weather. They have been widely introduced across North America. The original, naturally determined range did not include far western regions where it is found today. (Wiki) Olympus e510 / / /
Curiosity
by Graham Taylor

Our Cat Milo…Investigating the “Dolls” whilst i was trying to set the Dolls for a Photograph / About Milo…Firstly, despite the misleading name, he is a SHE who was actually handed to us by the Vet following the death of our “Street” Cat Buttons. She is approaching 3 years old…as for breed, a few people tell me she looks like a Maine Coon…personally, I am not sure so for the sake of Challenges, i will call her a Maine Coon. / Back to her Sex…She was passed to us as a HE but during a visit to the Vets, we were told He is actually a She…Confused? / I certainly was but the name stayed. / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / 28-OCT-2009…6th PLACE IN FEATURED PHOTOS NO.1 CHALLENGE IN PLAYFUL PHOTOGENIC ANIMALS GROUP / / -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / 27-OCT-2009 3rd PLACE IN YOUR FAVOURITE CHALLENGE IN DOMESTIC AND PEDIGREE CATS GROUP / / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / 26-OCT-2009 WINNER OF NOVEMBER AVATAR CHALLENGE IN DOMESTIC AND PEDIGREE CATS GROUP / / -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / 19-OCT-2009 RUNNER-UP IN INQUISITIVE CATS OR KITTENS CHALLENGE…DOMESTIC AND PEDIGREE CATS GROUP / / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / 27-SEP-2009 SALE OF GREETINGS CARD / -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / 22-SEP-2009 RUNNER-UP IN “YOUR FAV PIC OF ALL TIME OF YOUR PET” CHALLENGE…PLAYFUL PHOTOGENIC PET GROUP / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / 10-SEP-2009 RUNNER-UP IN “5 OR MORE FEATURES, CATS AND DOGS ONLY” CHALLENGE…PAWS N CLAWS GROUP / / .-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / 05-AUG-2009 CHALLENGE WINNER!!! IN PAWS N CLAWS GROUP….4 OR MORE FEATURES, CATS AND DOGS ONLY / / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / CHALLENGE-COVER IMAGE…”4 OR MORE FEATURES, DOGS & CATS ONLY”...PAWS N CLAWS…21-JULY-2009 / -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / RUNNER-UP IN “CAN I PLAY HERE CHALLENGE”...DOMESTIC AND PEDIGREE CATS GROUP…23-JUNE-2009* / / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / 9th PLACE IN 2 OR MORE FEATURES CATS AND DOGS ONLY…PAWS N CLAWS GROUP…13-JUNE-2009 / / -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / 3rd PLACE IN JUNE AVATAR CHALLENGE…DOMESTIC AND PEDIGREE CATS / / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / FEATURED PHOTO IN PLAYFUL PHOTOGENIC PETS GROUP…29-MAY-2009 / / -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / MEMBERS CHOICE FEATURED PHOTO IN PAWS N CLAWS GROUP…27-MAY-2009 / / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / RUNNER-UP IN “CATS ONLY – MAIN FOCUS CATS” CHALLENGE…ALL PETS GREAT AND SMALL GROUP 24-MAY-2009 / -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / 3rd PLACE IN “FUNNY KITTY CHALLENGE” AND FEATURED PHOTO…FOR THE LOVE OF CATS GROUP 23-MAY-2009 / / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / 10th PLACE IN MAY AVATAR WEEK THREE CHALLENGE / 10-MAY-2009 / RUNNER-UP 16-MAY-2009 / A CAT IS A CAT AND THAT IS THAT CHALLENGE / / -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / 6th Place 13-MAY-2009 / / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / / / -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / / -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- /
I mainly like life to be peaceful with a few loud noises thrown in to remind me to be grateful for the quiet I have...
by Natalia Campbell

~StoryPeople.
White Adirondacks
by Lois Bryan

Featured in Nikon D40 (x) June 14, 2009. / Featured in _The Feature Fraternity February 19, 2009. / Featured in 100% February 13, 2009. / Featured in Bits and Pieces January 17, 2009. / Featured in Live, Love, Dream November 19, 2008. BEST VIEWED FULL SIZE! My most sincere thanks to Vonne (RavenSoul) for her fabulous ideas!! They were just what I needed to finish this one off!!!! BIG fun!!! White Adirondacks is a compilation of images … the foreground is an image I took on the Maine Coast this summer, the clouds are from my backyard … tinkered with a bit, of course!! Both images taken with the Nikon D40x with the 18-135mm lens. also available in shades of blues and greens: /
PortlandHead Lighthouse
by nancie

HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL / WINTER IN MAINE / PORTLAND MAINE JAN 2009 / Dynamic Photo HDR / taken in Maine / Camera used Panasonic DMC-FZ30 !! / This photo was picked ( and still is being picked )In a lot of Groups as the Featured Image.
Almost Quatre Main :)
by Ellen

The quotation is from the quotation-page (anon.) / I have already used it with another photo. One day they will learn to play together :)
Noosa Essence
by Adam Gormley

Noosa Main Beach, this is what Noosa is all about :) 3 Frame sunset HDR, one of the frames had this pelican flying overhead, all three had the still surfer. Pelican pasted back over the ghosted figure the HDR created. Noosa Main Beach, Noosa Heads, Queensland. Canon 50D, 10mm, 16:9 crop.
Main Street - Wilcannia
by Mel Brackstone

This was shot in 2006, Canon 20D, 16-35mm at 35mm, f/9, 1/250”, ISO 200, 9:39am, same day as The Last to Leave Seascapes / New Zealand / Frogs / Lensbaby / Infrared / Industrial / Spam / Panorama / Landscapes / Real Estate Series / People
Red Sky At Morning - Nubble Lighthouse
by Lois Bryan

Second Place in the “Your Best Lighthouse” challenge in Light Up My Life October 5, 2009. / Featured in Light Up My Life September 24, 2009. / Winner of the “Lighthouses” challenge in the History group August 13, 2009. / Featured in All Original Fusion August 11, 2009. / Featured in Unwanted, Abandoned and Saved Through Preservation August 8, 2009. / Featured in Nautical August 6, 2009. There’s an old proverb that I remember hearing from my Dad … “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight … red sky at morning, sailor take warning.” Since the lighthouse image was taken in the morning … and the cloud image was taken at night … have I confused the universe??? This image is a compilation of two shots. The lighthouse was taken at York, Maine, on September 4, 2008 with the Nikon D40x and the 70-300mm vr Nikon lens. Shutter 1/2000, aperture f5.6. The sky was shot in Montgomery County, Maryland with the Nikon D40x and the 18-135mm Nikon lens, shutter 1/80 aperture f/4.5. They were combined in Photoshop. Nubble Lighthouse – Maine, USA / “The “Nubble” is a small, rocky island a short distance off the eastern point of Cape Neddick, about two miles north of the entrance to the York River and York Harbor. In 1602, explorer Bartholomew Gosnold met with local Indians on the island and dubbed it “Savage Rock.” A view from Long Sands Beach in York / The placement of a lighthouse on the Nubble had been recommended by many local mariners since 1807. An 1837 proposal was rejected on the grounds that there were already enough lights in the vicinity. Even after the wreck of the bark Isidore in 1842, north of the Nubble near Bald Head Cliff, it still took nearly four more decades before the lighthouse was established. The Isidore, according to legend, still reappears as a ghost ship with a phantom crew. Congress appropriated $15,000 for the building of a lighthouse on the Nubble in 1876. The 41-foot cast-iron tower, lined with brick, was first illuminated on July 1, 1879. At first, the lighthouse was painted reddish-brown, showing a fixed red light through a fourth order Fresnel lens. The lighthouse still exhibits a red light, but the tower has been painted white since 1902. The distinctive red oil house was built in 1902, and the walkway connecting the lighthouse to the keeper’s house was added in 1911. The station originally had a fog bell operated by automatic striking machinery. The skeleton frame bell tower was replaced in 1911 by a white pyramidal tower, itself torn down in 1961. For a time, the Nubble’s 3,000 pound fog bell could be heard by the keepers at Boon Island six miles away. The bell was later replaced by a diaphragm horn.” Thanks for the above information to Cape Neddick ‘Nubble’ Light
On a main vein search...........
by Tracey Mac

Bleed 2 Feed And so you wanna live forever don’tcha? / I feel your pressure drop / And when I’m workin’ the right side of your leg baby / You never want me to stop / What can I do to get over on you? / I’m on a main vein search / And I think I’m gettin’ closer baby / I gotcha shakin’ like a bad girl in church / Shake it – shake it I bleed 2 feed / Why don’tcha make it to me / Have mercy have mercy have mercy on me / I bleed 2 feed / I bleed 2 feed / Why don’tcha make it to me / Have mercy have mercy have mercy on me / Love sets you free You come and go with the vapors don’tcha / But still I give you my trust / And now the neighbors read it in the papers / Cause you like it rough / And you can’t keep no secrets in a small town / are these fuckers gonna mind / And now them hounds are runnin’ round and round / Round and round on a fou-fou hunt / Round and round on a fou-fou hunt / They gonna getcha getcha getcha / Get the scent of the true-true blood I bleed 2 feed / Why don’tcha make it to me / Have mercy have mercy have mercy on me / I bleed 2 feed / I bleed 2 feed / Why don’tcha make it to me / Have mercy have mercy have mercy on me / Love sets you free Yeah all this pushin’ and pullin y’all / Its ‘bout to come to a killin’ now / Why has it always gotta be this way with us? / Yeah before we make the love / We gotta draw a little blood So you want to live forever, don’t ya / I feel your pressure drop / And when I’m workin’ the right side of your neck baby / You never want me to stop What can I do to get over on you / I’m on a main vein search / And I think I’m getting closer baby / I gotcha shaking like bad girl in church / shake it shake it shake it shake it I bleed to feed / Why don’t you make it to me / Have mercy, have mercy, have mercy on me / I bleed to feed / I bleed to feed / I bleed to feed / Why don’t you make it to me / Have mercy, have mercy, have mercy on me / I bleed to feed / I need to bleed to feed CC Adcock & The Lafayette Marquis