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Shipping by...

Views from my window.

The French Dutch **flag is clearly visible on this navy vessel - visiting their pals up at Faslane, no doubt.

Taken with the 'Nik' on auto and extended lens (quoting the numbers gets a bit boring, at least for this shipping post...)

**POST-PUB EDIT; my thanks to Bill for spotting the rookie mistake - and not knowing the angle of the stripes!!!  

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Monday's Critters

Forest Forager.

Taken with the 'Nik' on auto and lens stretched 5x optical.

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SUNdays

The Wash, 8pm-ish, mid-summer.  Taken with the 'Nik' on sunset mode and stopped down a couple of notches on the exposure.

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Saturday Symmetry

From central Inverary looking back towards the 1914-18 war memorial and main road bridge.





















Taken with the 'Nik' on standard everything.

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"The tears of the world are a constant quality.  For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else, another stops.  The same is true of laughter."
(Samuel Beckett)

Rain and roses.  Taken with the 'Nik' on macro and post-process vignette.

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Over at Thursday Challenge, the prompt for this week's sharing is GARDENS.

Have gone to the archives for this week's offerings.  Above you see how art is merged with nature in Sydney's Botanic Gardens.  Couldn't resist a bit of nostalgia from my own (now-ex) Sydney garden...

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in respect to photographing birds.

This Marsh Harrier had his eye firmly fixed.  A long way off, it was a challenge to get anything remotely decent, photographically. 

Taken on the Norfolk Coast, with the 'Nik' on sports mode and lens extended the full 26x optical.

Have you got any bird posts to share?  I have decided to cease from the linky, given minimal participation in that - however I would still love for you to connect so feel free to hyperlink your relevant posts in the comments box.  

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Shipping by...

Views are not always from my window...sometimes from the shore.

Taken with the 'Nik' on auto exposure, lens stretched 20x optical zoom.