After seeing the photographer, he flew away!

The Keeper's Cottage from the Top of the Lighthouse... Getting out further than this was NOT allowed due to the strong winds!

Taken in Wilmette, IL on Feb. 20, 2008. Thanks to a Webshots user that had a similar layout which gave me the idea for this. A little before, during and after for this CC.

. . . by three lengths the WINNER is . . . WEATHERVANE! . . . ridden hard by (BerryMan) . . . from my new "Weathervanes and Finials" album.

My Grandmother ... scanned & "Photoshopped" by Marv (BerryMan)

Daytona Speedway 1989, 35 mm print ... scanned & "Photoshopped" by Marv (BerryMan)

It blooms in spring and through all the summer months.

Domesticated almonds appear in the Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BC) of the Near East, or possibly a little earlier. A well-known archaeological example of almond is the fruits found in Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt (c. 1325 BC), probably imported from the Levant.

From a light rain in november to a cold sunny day in december. I cropped each photo and joined them with a panorama maker.

This stream empties into the St. Criox River here at St. Stephen, N.B. I used a panorama maker after slicing two photos in half.

It's hard to believe that scrawny little thing can turn into that amazing, majestic bird.

January 24th, 2007

March 3rd, 2007

I am thankful to Nature that never dissapoints us. 'Cuando plante' rosales, coseche' siempre rosas...' (Amado Nervo)

Lions cabs are playing with the corpse of a buffalo, hunted half an hour ago by their mothers. Please visit my new "LIONS HAVING DINNER AT THE BUFFALO GRILL" album, the first one I have uploaded from my recent trip to Tanzania.

We came accross this sad story on the chinstrap penguin rockery in Antarctica. A mother penguin is trying to protect her dead chick from becoming food to the Sheathbill. This picture should be looked at at full size to see the details.

This little cygnet sits next to an unhatched egg. Waiting for a brother or sister.

Two photos merged together. One I shot in the autumn and one in the winter snow.

We climbed up Volcano Pacaya, Near Antigua Guatemala, and got as close as 10 meters to the flowing lava. When the lava gets in contact with the cool air, it cools down and becomes gray rocks. In the picture you can see the outer layer cooling off.

The Great Falls on the Passaic River in Paterson NJ - the falls in the summer and the frozen falls in the winter - two contrasting photos of the same thing in different seasons - then and now

The Great Falls on the Passaic River in Paterson NJ - one of my favorite places to go. Here is a picture of the frozen falls in winter, and then the falls in the spring.

My beautiful sister Tricia - in 1960, in 1969 and now.

Kashgar dentist: you'll feel happier after than before your visit

Finisterre, Spain. Fire didn't destroy everything...

Our family has been having annual reunions since before I was born. The black and white photo is my aunt, and Mom holding me as a baby at my first one. The colored photo is 50 years later, with me standing between my aunt and Mother and our ongoing event.

The only existing photo of my 8th grade graduation is a small torn, stained black and white snapshot. On the right I have restored, and tinted it to the original colors I wore.

Before ice after water

This is a photo of our Cardboard Palm. Normally it does not get cold enough here to do this kind of damage to a palm. The green leaf is what the palm normally looks like, the brown is after the freeze.

Flowers, green and ripe fruits in one branch. (Brazilian Cherry - Eugenia Eugenia Uniflora - Pitanga)

First the seed, then the pepper. I love how this lone seed at the bottom looks. It's kind of like the Little Engine That Could (I think I can, I think I can...grow into a big pepper!).

With photography the world comes alive.

She is the kind of pet people want more of.

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From our Lemon Tree in the garden

Found on a forest trail in autumn

Eggs in the nest and then fried on a pizza

All that is left of a Roman villa in Italica, Spain is the tile floor.

Before and after modern architecture

In Cordoba, Spain a Mosque had a Cathedral built inside of the Mosque several centuries ago.

My great niece Alex, as she appears today at age 8 (center) and as she appeared at various ages from 3 months to 7 1/2 years.

It is a joy to watch my rock garden grow each year. This combined photo shows the garden just before planting (April 4, 2008) and at its peak (September 15, 2008).

He was nine months old.

From junk to useful.

He was 9 months old.

this is PS work after Day time image was turn on to the night time fairytale

Totally destroyed and all inventory lost. This has been called a 'once-in-50-years flood'.

Jen, note the NEW shade canopies.

Namibia's Skeleton Coast, is a notorious stretch of water and greatly feared by mariners,it has a wonderful name and a terrible reputation.The unpredictable currents and sandbanks combine with impenetrable dense fogs that roll in off the sea,to make this a graveyard for ships and whales alike,whilst the unforgiving desert hinterland makes this one of the worst places in the world to be marooned. Stuck hard and fast in the sand for a hundred years at Conception Bay,some considerable distance from the wild oceans that first stranded it there, was what remained of the corroded hulk of the freighter "Eduard Bohlen". The ships' crew lost thier way in the infamous dense fog so characteristic of this area,like so many mariners before them.Their final voyage ended tragically here as it ran aground in 1909.This used to be the original shoreline,but over the years the sand has migrated nearly half a kilometre westward out to sea, trapping it in the desert to rust slowly away into the sands. This image for me personifies the loneliness and fragility of the human spirit in this unforgiving harsh environment.I can only image the growing feelings of desperation the survivors of the shipwreck must have experienced when they crawled up onto the beach thinking they had found salvation from a watery grave,only to cruely discover on climbing the nearest sand dune,an endless empty expanse of desert,with not much realistic hope of shelter from the blistering sun or finding fresh water.This coast of skeletons is full of bleached bones and very aptly named!

Morning Glories are one of my favorite flowers to photograph. This view taken off our deck shows the before, during and after view of a typical flower.

"Before"--buds. "After" the buds open into blossoms waiting to be pollinated

Near Lake Minnewanka, east of Banff Townsite.

To see more go to My Temari Album at http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/464694839UjONkX?vhost=home-and-garden

Logs are sawed and become lumber.

Taken in Glacier National Park, Montana

Strawberries in all stages of growth.

Blossoms, faded blossoms, seeds and an empty seed pod of a thistle plant. Please view it full size for all details!

Knight sculpture before and after the onset of winter.

swimming with babies and then diving for something to feed them!

photographed with two different cameras Canon 350D (8M pix.)and Sony F707 (5Mpix)

Abby came into the butterfly tent and immediately tried to get one to sit on her finger

Apple-tree with flowers and after with fruits

Sculpture frame and finished sculpture.High: 2.70 metres. Time to work: my husband had 270 hres and myself 53 for paint.

Sculpture frame and finished sculpture High 1 metre. Time to work: 98 hours

Our tomcat,Tigrutz at 3 weeks old and 1 and half year old.

Spiny-leaved Sow Thistle (Sonchus asper)

Buds and Blossoms

Buds and Blossoms

The Franklin Rock and Mineral Museum in Franklin NJ has an awesome dark room where there is a 33 foot long fluorescent display. Rocks found in the quarry are displayed in regular light. Then they turn on off the lights and turn on the special fluorescent lights and you see gorgeous colors. It is amazing that rocks that look grey or beige can under the UV light look spectacular. This is a colorful collage of before and after. Franklin is a Borough in New Jersey, USA. Franklin is known as the "Fluorescent Mineral Capital of the World," and is located over a rich ore body containing more than 150 minerals, many of them fluorescent and 25 of which are found no where else on earth.

This gorgeous juvenile broad winged hawk was at the school playground near my home. I got my first photo of the hawk on the roof of the school, then on the playground equipment looking right at me, then flying away with his dinner. Beginning, middle and end of a great encounter.

On the 4th of July 2008, my mom and sister and I went to Ringwood Manor. They raised the flag and shot the muskets to salute the birthday of our country. This collage shows the READY, FIRE and final present before the crowd.

Nymph(before) and imago(after).

before-and-after

a great before and after shot of this orchid cactus with the before bud and the after flower.

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First Chick Hatches in early morning

Before and after picture of dove my dog and I rescued in the summer of 2007.

The color before - green, and after - magenta

That spectacular waterfall is a part of the Niagara Falls and is called Horseshoe Falls.

The temperature before - 20 C, and after - 22 C

On an early spring morn I caught a walking iris bloom opening. Twenty minutes separate the shots.

Newly hatched hawk on May 12 and then again on May 31. See my hawk album for story.

Nice red Wine

Juicy

From bud to blossom

Before the raw concrete and after the finished concrete ready for the garden.

Beautiful hoarfrost covered the trees one cold morning, melting back to water as the day warmed.

Frost on pine needles turning into drops of water as the sun warms the trees.

'before' and 'after' running a 26.2 mile marathon

Before there was just this one concrete mold and after there was a garden with finished concrete VW garden bugs.

This button quail is less then 24 hours old. You will notice it is the size of a quarter. The slightly larger white eggs are for Bobwhite quails that hatched shortly there after.

From 18 months old to 62 years old. Many changes, but much the same. One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. ‘Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which tells us the way to go. Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate, As we voyage along through life: ‘Tis the set of a soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox

First the bud, then the flower, both are beautiful.

Three stages were captured here. There are trees with green leaves, difinately the before; one beautiful red leafed tree and several trees with no leaves, the real after.

Eyas with grub in beak. Mom (dad?) feeds young, a few days out of shell on May 7.

A nice glass of orange juice, made from fresh oranges, is so good for you! Photo taken 1-29-09.

I crocheted these dollies and they are good to use as coasters. Photo taken 1-29-09.

Bracket fungi, or shelf fungi, Artist conk (Ganoderma applanatum) on an old oak tree in my yard. It normally attacks dead tree trunks but can also be found growing on living trees which have been "wounded". The shelf fungi are a major wood rotting group. Once a tree is infected, the fungus cannot be killed. Named by Bev (periwinkle115).

classic display of before (the bud) and after the flower

Ballard Wildlife Management Area, KY

Same waterfall before and after a two day rain

Ready to cook and Ready to eat

Antique car with modern car and home in the background

Ville Larinto of Finland took third place in the large hill jump at a World Cup event at Whistler Olympic Park, BC on January 25th, 2009 with this awesome jump. He actually had to abort the jump as he was going to outjump the landing area! His distance was 149 metres (500 feet).

Doe and Fawns, Mammoth Cave National Park, Cave City, Kentucky, USA

You CAN take it with you!

The Chicken OR the PUMPKIN??

Our low-water bridge (the 120th one) before and after flood.

our backyard (about 70 yards behind our house)..the cliff side (where I am standing) is at least 1500 feet tall-and the other side of the river edge is even with the water level during drought so I can't imagine how much water that is going back into the trees

homemade bread before and after.

This delivery truck is on the driveway behind the barn, the keys were still in the ignition, What happened here?

When I'm right No one remembers, when I'm wrong No one forgets!

Crisis, you know

I took this pic some years ago in our garden,last year we didn't have any fruits.

Mt St. Helens before and after the eruption.Here in the Pacific NW we have some magnificent snow capped mountains. Before in a faded black and white undated image from Moms album stands the beautiful sleeping Mt St. Helens in the state of WA. The mountain rose 9,677 tall, and stood peacefully keeping guard over Spirit Lake below for 123 years. Then on morning of May 18, 1980 Mt St. Helens came to life erupting violently blowing away the upper part of the mountain, and leaving it at only 8,363 feet. After is in colored photo I took from the freeway in SW Washington dated December 2007. No longer does Mt St Helens reach for the sky, but as snow still blankets the mountain in winter it has a softening effect on the destruction created by the eruption's force.

Good for him, much more 'after' than 'before'

tried this by layering 2 photos. The bird coming in for a landing and after, on the branch.

like sticks you see

but the trees don't mind

soon all will be empty

A green rosebud mirrors its more colorful counterpart, hoping to "grow up" to be just like it.

The center of the flower has not finished developing the little "florets" that can be seen in the ring near the petals. It will fill in from the outer edges to the center eventually. So, I suppose this one could be called, "Before, After, and During"!

creative-challenge-beforeandafter

This challenge is most interesting for me.

I know that most people do not like snake, but this one is very nice and it is mine. Here is a photo of before and after, have a good look.

James Dean's transition from the person to the alpaca reincarnate.

Before and after is again very interesting to work with.

The Balcony. There is a lot of "living history" in Almonte.

These pictures were taken approximately 30 years apart - glad to see maturity has finally arrived!?

Between a rock and a hard place.... the ocean, the wave, the spray, the icicles....

After crashing onto the beach, a wave washes back to the ocean before the next wave continues the cycle......

Same guy - two jumps - average joining job.

before and after blooming....

The original photo before, followed by the new photo, after adding the wave effect in Photoshop.

Guy in front has not had his coffee guy in back already had coffee.(check this one out full size)

Lil picture is from October 2003; Zahir was a young 26 yrs old. The main picture is Zahir at 31, taken October 10, 2008, 2 days before he passed away. And, yes, that is the same halter in both pictures; he never switched.

My vigorous day lily blooms year after year very faithfully. (ps1870-267k)

Calendula Officinalis - Ringelblume(p0119)

Flower changed into kaleidoscope.

Pattern in book and finished cross-stitch.

Experimenting with settings on camera.

Timber for export. BEFORE - pine forest. AFTER - logs at the wharf ready for export.

Pitango ready to eat when they are dark red, this is kind of unique to find tham all together in diffirent colors and stages of life on the same baranch. But definitely nice colors change demonstration

Some gold I have panned next to a finished gold ring. The ring is what is called Black Hills Gold.

Kelly House at the Chickamauga Civil War Battle Field located in Northwest Georgia

Before and after of the same raft with two captures merged. See the next picture in this album for an in between closeup. From the foot in the air and up is a separate picture. In the rear is the raft when it entered the waterfall with 6 people in it. As it leaves, the front guy is gone and the 2nd (who is in the middle in the rear capture) is in mid air joining the other guy. The fourth is hiding behind the big mouth. I captured the raft as it progressed and then I merged them together in photo shop for this before and after image. View it full size and look at the faces of shock and terror. This was taken on the Nantahala River in North Carolina at the only level 3 and 4 water. Normally a 1 and 2 level ride.

The Sepia part of the picture shows the past; my daughter at the end of her pregnancy - the colored part shows the colorful present; Ori, my grandson.

Two flowers on the same stalk; one from last year the other from now. A little spider wove a connection between present and past.

A line of prickly pears just after the bloom. You can see the form of the fruit but it is still green and inside filled with cotton-like sponge. The fourth pear from the left is a ripe fruit from the last year! . . but sure no one can reach it up there and pick it!

...from start to finish, compliments of my wonderful nieces & nephew

due to drought conditions the watering of gardens is restricted, but we have also just had a couple of days with over 45'C heat.

Actually, this is one of the few plants that is coping with the heat!

Sometimes the present repeats the past

After more than two feet of snow in January this old homestead could not withstand the weight and collapsed.

Actual size of bud was 1/4". Full bloom ,which took almost two weeks to reach full bloom, lasted only 2 days.

Our China Rose in the balcony has both the flower and the buds on it, before it was bud then it opened as flower.

The changes on the maple tree in front of our apartment are amazing. In spring it is all green,full of hope and energy and it stands still with bare branches in the fall.

The first drawing on the flats to the finished scenery. This was for the front tabs for East Linton Drama Group's 2009 production of the pantomime "The Snow Queen"

Apples to juice.

There is a black squirrel on a branch 2 ft. above. A moment later .... The chase is on. Composition

The hall is empty, the hall is full.

Natalie is imagining how wings would look on her back...

From -30 to +30 in 18 hours!

The Monarchs in Texas hill country were plentiful and beautiful this year...I thought it was odd though to have the caterpillar on the same flower as the butterfly at the same time...

Our daughter, Tarrah, and grandson Connor, who was born 8 weeks premature. He spent the first 5 weeks of his life in the neonatal intensive care ward at the Ottawa Hospital in Ottawa, Ont. Canada. They work miracles there daily!

Murdochs Giftshop, shredded shell in the background. Pilings of the infamous Balinese Room (gambling hall Fred Astaire and many famous people once frequented) and a newly built hooters washed into the sea. Although not too many people may be crying for loosing Hooters, the Balinese Room was quite a historical treasure and Murdoch's also a Landmark which will be missed...Still intact in the background the Historical Hotel Galvez in it's old glory with minor damage

To show the difference between before and after, I set a small bowl of rice and veggies into the bigger bowl which contains the cooked rice and veggies. I cooked this for the challenge "Before and After". (ps6341-513k 438m)

The cauliflower closer to you has been cooked, the one behind, is raw. (ps6375-323k 475m)

Here we see three baby Robins, and one Robin's egg.

Poor Clancy came to us after he'd been lost, abandoned, abused, starved and neglected. He was covered in fleas, and had broken teeth and a swollen mouth from trying to chew his way free, or the vet said, he may have been trying to eat rocks. He was almost too weak to stand and could only eat a spoonful of canned food at a time because his tummy was so small from starvation. He was just skin and bones. After a $400.00 trip to the vet, two flea baths and some TLC, he's turned into a beautiful dog, who's very sweet and loving. We are both glad we found each other.

A Day In The Life Of A Flower.

FIERCE FIRES AT REDHEAD NSW AUSTRALIA NOTE THE GRASS TREES IN THE AFTERMATH..THEY NEED FIRES TO RE-GENERATE

The shark tower DURING a storm , and, the Rainbow AFTER the storm

Nobbys Beach NEWCASTLE NSW Australia. THE CALM BEACH BEFORE THE STORM AND THE PASHA BULKER WASHED UP DURING THE STORM

It doesn't take Kaliana long to turn new jar of baby food into this picture when Kali feeds herself. She'll be 1 year old on Feb. 16th.

Parque Eduardo VII - Lisboa

on Mt Evans

Slash and burn is an ancient method of cultivation. It is used only sparingly. - Perinteinen pellavapaita on näkyvä ja turvallinen vaate kaskenpoltossa

I missed the challenge because I was looking for a more recent pic of the pond all filled up. Can't photograph it now as it is under 2 ft of snow