Zinnias
Beautiful Zinnias
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Autumn Lillies
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Livingston Daisies
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Vltava River, Prague, taken from Charles Bridge.
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The most amazing colours and clouds
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Flybe flight over the irish Sea at Sunset
3 of my favourite things in one photo - Sunset - Silhouette - Sun Burst
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Caught this momentarily as the sun dipped below the mountains, It gave the most amazingly beautiful light for about 3 minutes.
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The Fountain in Nobles Park at Sunset
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Panorama of our capital at dusk. The goods ferry 'Ben My Chree' is prominent in the harbour, off-loading goods that stock our shops. (When the seas are too stormy we run out of dog food and toilet paper ! ...)
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What an amazing sunset last night over our beautiful bay !
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Inner Harbour by night. One of my favourite places to take photos, day or night.
The Parish of Maughold - pasturelands from Heaven
Wide open countryside, home to the happiest cows and sheep in the world.
Prairie dogs (genus Cynomys) are burrowing rodents native to the grasslands of North America. The five different species of prairie dogs are: black-tailed, white-tailed, Gunnison's, Utah and Mexican prairie dogs. They are a type of ground squirrel, found in the United States, Canada and Mexico. In M...
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The meerkat or suricate, Suricata suricatta, is a small mammal belonging to the mongoose family. Meerkats live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, in much of the Namib Desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola, and in South Africa. A group of meerkats is called a "mob", "...
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The sitatunga or marshbuck (Tragelaphus spekii) is a swamp-dwelling antelope found throughout Central Africa, centering on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon and parts of Southern Sudan as well as in Ghana, Botswana, Zambia, Gabon, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.
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The Inner Harbour at night time I love the colours and lens flares of lights, that are all possible at night time. 5 second exposure & f/22
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Douglas Bay by night - 5 second exposure while waiting for the supermoon to rise ...
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The Eurocopter AS355 Ecureuil 2 (Twin Squirrel) is a twin-engine light helicopter originally manufactured by Aérospatiale (now part of Eurocopter Group). This is one of 2 which serves as emergency medical evacuation during the TT Motorbike Races. The speeds reached in the races is so high howe...
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The Hawker Hunter is a subsonic British jet aircraft developed in the 1950s. The single-seat Hunter entered service as a manoeuvrable fighter aircraft, and later operated in fighter-bomber and reconnaissance roles in numerous conflicts. Two-seat variants remained in use for training and secondary ro...
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The ancient parish church of St Runius, Marown in Isle of Man. The original building was from approximately 1200 AD and was enlarged in 1754 AD. Three bishops are possibly buried here; Lonnan, Connaghan, and Runius. The old church was replaced around 1860, when a new church was opened. Old St Runius...
Around 447 AD, Irish missionaries known as "Culdees" began to populate the island and spread the message of Christianity. These monks built small shelters called "keeills" and worked on local farms for food, while they served as priests. This site dates back to the 5th century, b...