Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sand and Dirt

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Beach – footprints – joy.  Also below Dunes – all from Oregon

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More sand at: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sand and Dirt

Cee’s Which Way Challenge: No. 11

 Driving through downtown Vancouver, all pictures are taken in few minutes time

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See More at Cee’s Which Way Challenge: No. 11

Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Shorelines

This one is great, I have hundreds of pictures of shorelines. Love to  share these,

I will add shores from various places…all just as beautiful.

These first ones are from Finland – the last one to showing what we moving towards slowly – winter.

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Cyprus has beautiful shorelines also – and that sea – the color …so so beautiful

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Sri Lanka had some lovely beaches  and the shorelines

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The white sand in Thailand…the sea.

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Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Shorelines also linked to

Travel Photo Mondays #16

Weekly Photo Challenge: Infinite

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This corridor seemed infinite.

These steps are going to the…

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more at: Weekly Photo Challenge: Infinite

Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Trees/ Fall Colours?

It was a beautiful October weekend here in Finland, the autumn colors  – so bright and beautiful.

Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Trees/ Fall Colours?

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Värikollaasi 148 – yellows

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 See other takes on these colors at: Värikollaasi 148

On the border of waking up

Hetki unen ja valveen rajalla. / the moment of waking up

moment before waking up what...i'm awake

 

more at Valokuvatorstai  298. haaste

Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Close Ups/Macros

Here are my close-ups , details from a ship

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Sadunomainen / Fairy- tale

I had to think about this one. Two of the pictures not Macros but  – something fairy-tale like is in them – or movie so I had to include them just for the topic

The main photo is as Macro as can be – it is a very close up of a lichen ( jäkälä) only thing I’ve done is enhanced the colors

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More fairy-tale like  pictures at:

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A WORD A WEEK CHALLENGE – Silhouette

I have thousands of pictures like most of us, but it was kind of hard to find silhouettes from  them. And if I was smart I would only post one, but as I did find few  – I am going to share more that a few ( I know its three) So I’ll have few titles – people, boats, trees

Trees  at the top, Ships and boats below

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Silhouettes with people in them

MORE   silhouettes at: A WORD A WEEK CHALLENGE – Silhouette

Travel Photo Mondays #15 – Seattle

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Linked to : Travel Photo Mondays #15

A WORD A WEEK CHALLENGE – Underneath

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Wedding pictures were taken underneath these beautiful trees.

more at:  A WORD A WEEK CHALLENGE – Underneath

Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Landscapes

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These photos are showcasing Finland – southern Finland to be precise – Kirkkonummi and Nastola. Lakes and woods, and sea!

That what is close to me, fields. Enjoy!

 more at: Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Landscapes

Weekly Photo Challenge: Good Morning!

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Blue – one of my favorite colors

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Cee’s Which Way Challenge: No. 10

Gastown

Here are few street views from Gastown in Vancouver  Canada taken last summer.

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more  roads at: Cee’s Which Way Challenge: No. 10

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Candid Shots

I love taking photos of people, here are few candid shoots from my travels.

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School girls in Sri Lanka(top) Woman shopping in Thailand below

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A Nun in Thailand

2-nun soldiers in Paris

Soldiers in Paris …and an old man in Cyprus

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Fisher in Sri Lanka and a couple enjoying sunset in the  same place – below

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An Artist in Finland

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Candid Shots

Corner – Kulma

as this is a macro challenge – I am slowly making my way  to it – as I automatically thought of street  corners, windows, everything in bigger scale…

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more corners at:

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Heceta Head Lighthouse – Oregon

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The Heceta Head Lighthouse and Light Keeper’s house are circa 1894. Both are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The lighthouse is a working lighthouse. From a height of 205 feet above the ocean, its “first order” Fresnel lens, casts it’s beams some 21 miles out to sea. It is the brightest light on the Oregon coast. It is said to be the most photographed lighthouse in the United States.

The Heceta Head Keeper’s House is perched on a cliff with a magnificent view of the Pacific Ocean and the beach below. Paths from the Keeper’s House lead both to the beach and to the lighthouse.

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more at:

Travel Photo Mondays #14 and  tina´s wordless wednesday # 94

Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Birds and Travel theme: Birds Birds

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these two on the top are taken in In a bird sanctuary. These below are taken in BC Canada.

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These were spotted in Kirkkonummi Finland

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the last picture is from San Diego Zoo

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More birds at:

Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Birds and

Travel theme: Birds

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autumn leaves ruska barrelss with photos

More of these colors at: Värikollaasi 146

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Saturated

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More  saturated art at: Weekly Photo Challenge: Saturated

MakroTex: Clean – Puhdas

Soap brush blankets

MaktoTex : Makrohaaste 114

Sunday Stills – Creepy Things

This was hard, I do not often photograph creepy things,

The first is a bird skull found at our summer-house, a bird somehow gotten into our roof and died trying to get out – creepy..

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A small mouse or some other rodent , well creepy?… aah!

But as a women I have to say I do not find them delightful 🙂 I nearly stepped on this when working in the field, cute here, but when in the house

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More at:

Shunday Stills, the next Challenge: Creepy Things