nice lips, but the teeth......

lovely lips, but shame about the teeth...........

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slow reptiles ahead....!

I nearly ran this fella over in the road....he was in no hurry to go anywhere......

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luscious............

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Pass the olives please.

This olive tree is around 200 years old..........the knots in it are superb.

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hello petal.....

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The Big Push

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Morning Web......

taken around 5.30 in the morning......a heavy dew had settled all around, and this web caught it too........

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Hydraulic Ram

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Ghosts...!!!

I actually cannot explain this shot! It was taken NYE...I was stood perfectly still, as you can see from the people in it, but these apparitions appeared in the frame, and I do not know where from......My friend here is looking puzzled too..........

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Early Morning Dew

There is something magical about early morning dew, the way the sun plays on it, making it look like thousands of tiny crystals.....this is a macro of a small plant I shot this morning early, the dew looks just like those crystals.....

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tomatoes

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Grasshopper.

Found this fellow on a trellis outside my apartment a couple of weeks ago.

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Storlite

A chrome storlite in a clothing store in town...........

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don't you just love christmas.

This young lady was promoting cameras in a store near my home, and I couldn't resist a shot of her......um.....wares..... ;-)

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Water Colors

Water has an amazing effect on colors..........these were below the surf at a beach here where I live...

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Sandstone and Seaweed

At low tide, in a bay near my home, I found this..........

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Playing for buttons........

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Cala

The favourite of my wife......we grow these in our garden

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Bird of Paradise

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Forget Me Knot!!

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a magic place......

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bridge..............

there is a crack right the way through this natural bridge..and people still walk over it!

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Bird of Paradise

Grown in my own garden, and shot against a black back drop.

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Up....up....and away!!

A glider on take off.........

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