Tag: photography

Another Thursday’s Five

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SLIVERED (slivers of wood)
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1 for 2: MUTED + TRAVERSED
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another 1 for 2: CONVERTED + OVINE
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but because it’s so nice: a real sheep

For Paula’s Thursday’s Special – Pick a word: ovine, converted, muted, traversed, and splivered.

More photos of all five words or less can be found here.

It’s the little things in (wild)life

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A common old garden snail (served on an autumn leave).

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A baby fire salamander chilling in its nursery pond.

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A pollen-feeding beetle not feeding on pollen.  Well, it is also known as a false-blister beetle.

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A common dung beetle wanting to sound more glamourous: Oh, look!  A scarab.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is running a series of challenges with the theme of nature.  This week it’s wildlife photography. More wild lives can be found here.

 

The blue bird of happiness

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This mural, created by Holger Kurt Jäger, adorns the outside wall of a children’s daycare centre. Inside the grounds the artist worked with the children, painting walls and using stencils:

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Another wall was decorated a few years earlier, unfortunately there are spaces for cars right in front.

Holger

Another mural on a Monday, seen in Düsseldorf, Germany, on the outside of a nursery. The artist is Holger Kurt Jäger.

For Monday Mural.  More murals can be seen here.

 

Contumelious

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Pigeons have no respect.  Not even for Otto von Bismarck. (I admit I looked the word up in the dictionary, it’s not part of my active vocab.)

For Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge.  More oddball photos can be found here.

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