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She saw me with my camera and started hamming it up drinking a bottle of Bio Yoghurt (or similar) as if it was a vodka (or similar) with that cheeky smile.

As u suggest, past and present mischief is there I am sure.

A beautiful lady half smiles with blue eyes that indicate healthy mischief. Her head is tilted and she is wearing a colourful scarf around her head. The style of photo is a candid street potrait.

"If years were to be measured by the twinkle in the eye some people's destiny is to be forever young."

One of the kindest things you can do for another person is let them be themselves.

Some snappers amongst my small band of followers.

Known of him for some time, and he is well known, but his podcasts have only recently grabbed me. Sean Tucker. Quiet, considered, good blend of ethos and technical.

Good calls

A silhouetted bird of prey soars against dead space in a minimalistic image.

Gliding

Thanks.

Yes, I like it too. Very simple and just peaceful to look at. To my eye at least.

"I don't mean any harm. But neither did Hitler."

Very nice.I really like the colours in this. The yellow band sets the whole yhing off to my eye.

Looks like our Fens, where was it taken?

Two strands of silhouetted grasses stand against a soft focus background winter sunset (sun not in picture) which goes from deep orange to light orange to eventually light blues in the top third or so. The scene is deliberately simple and peaceful.

I've posted silhouetted grasses near mine countless times. It's easy, simple and pleasant to my eye.

I like the background colours and blur on this one.

To my small circle, funny old world out there at the moment. Trust you have at least survived January but hopefully thrived.

All nice but I really like this.

I had visions of him liberating the oppressed frozen Brussels sprouts.

"Vegetables dedicated to the EU?

Nuke 'em Generals."

(Brussels - EU - geddit?)

To each their own tastes. :-)

Iceland, the country, looks beautiful. Never been. An outdoor/landscape photographer's dream. :-)

Iceland the store is a UK, mostly budget, mostly frozen, food outlet.

I am not in your shoes, obs, but I get your approach to what must seem a "hostile environment" much of the tim le :-)

Thank u for acknowledging my predictable & weak UK Supermarket joke regarding a US president. A country where that supermarket doesn't exist.

Forever obtuse! :-)

From me minimal posts, and no political posts is the way I've evolved. But I am breaking purdah to say...

I am disappointed Trump is not going to invade Iceland.

Suspected tumbleweed in response.

A simple mono photo, taken unedited with a phone from the back of a screen on a dslr, of twisted branches which reach out like dark fingers across the screen against a uniform white cloudy sky. This photo makes the branches look soft. Phone shake. The real image on back of camera is all in focus.

A Fenland sunset with mostly dead branches in the foreground in silhouette.

The small group who pay attention to my posts may recognise these branches. I've posted pics many times. Normally at sunset as you can c on the right.

The lhs shot on the back of the camera is something I prefer. But I am sharing to illustrate there are always new ways of looking at things.

Fiennes + Iron Maiden in The Bone Temple is complete cinema gold.

An unedited photograph on the back of a dslr which contains a Fenland Sunset. The scene looks like layed hills. It isn't. The foreground is dark farmland in black and the layer above is a band of dark rain cloud on the horizon. To the initial glance both these layers look like low lying hills. Above this, a blue sky is broken by a gentler band of cloud which contains mostly reds with hints of oranges and a dash of yellow.

Hills in the Fens?

The tectonic plates have not moved.

It's the angle the sunset and the layers of dark field, dark cloud and sunset kissed clouds.

Black and White diagonal head shot of a hooded figure in a street photographed on the back of a camera. The face on the camera has character and is the white and greys - it dominates the right hand side of the camera screen as you look at it. The subject appears to be slightly smiling, with an unposed natural look and wise looking eyes. The left hand side of the image as you look at it is dark to blacks and blurred which gives the image contrast.

Snapping a stranger

I reflected and thought the tone of this thread had turned reflective and sensible.

So I thought I'd better clarify.

ALL. AUSTRALIANS. ARE. STILL. BASTARDS.

Till next time. :-)

I never was "just" online but some things needed to change. :-)

The whole series was unmemorable really. We should have won the first test and threw it away. Could have led to a close exciting series. We just folded.

Till next time :-)

:-) The last test proved conclusively best side won.

But we will be better in 2 years time. Honest. Lol.

(On offline I'm just "trying" to minimise screentime and do stuff. Trust all is well down under.)

All fine thanks Sara.

Hope all is well with you too.

:-)

Happy New Year to u too. :-)

Super photo

A camera stands on a tripod with the sun setting behind. The back of the camera shows a sunset. Which looks "ok". Nothing is even close to perfect. But that is ok.

Not all the gear.

Aside from my eye, close to no idea.

A simple sunset with branches silhouetted as foreground interest and the backgroung blurred on the back of an old dslr camera on the first day of 2026.

A nice start in many ways to 2026

Happy New Year to you too

Yes, relatively, all fine