Soestdijk became the property of the State of the Netherlands in 1971, though it was used by Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard as their official residence until both of their deaths in 200

It was the home for over six decades of the late Princess Juliana and her husband, the late Prince Bernhard until their deaths in 2004.

Huatulco, Mexico

anyone for a piña colada?

sand, shade, and sea - perfect combination

A flower laden with pollen is visited by a bee and is left with petals peppered with pollen!

Triptych = A painting that has three side-by-side parts. Winged Victory= Nike of Samothrace. A Carrara marble copy of a statue in the Louvre. These 3 views may be seen as 3 separate photos in the Weekend Warrior Album (French Connection challenge).

The three faces of Billie Jo, collage of three pictures, Weekly challenge. Hope you enjoy! Paul

"Billie Jo" In all her glory, what a card that one, just gives me a work out.

One Object, Three Shots

One Object, Three Shots

One Object, Three Shots

Please view full size to pick up the detail. This escarpment was created in the Carboniferous Period by tectonic movement, when two older continental plates collided. The effects of this upheaval are plainly visible at various points in the park, which is bisected by a steep gorge. It is a beautiful place and covers many acres. From my album "A Scenic Trip around Nova Scotia".

This shows more of the rock layers underlying the falls. I approached from a slightly different angle. Again, full size reveals more details of these ancient rocks.

I wanted to move from a wider perspective to a closer focus on the water itself. Full size allows you to see the gleaming escarpment behind the foaming torrent.

Nature scenes from our hike around one of the lakes at Fountain Lakes Park in St. Charles, Missouri, on September 10, 2007. P1010743

Taken at one of the lakes at Fountain Lakes in St. Charles, Missouri, on September 10, 2007. This praying mantis hides in the milkweed and waits for her prey to light on the wildflowers and catches them before they even know what has happened. P1160727

Look at the grip the Praying Mantis has on this bug! Help! Taken on September 10, 2007, at a lake in the Fountain Lakes Park in St. Charles, Missouri. P1160724

Are you going to pull my dinner out????

Can you do this????

One of a kind of shade structure at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles!

Sydney War Memorial

Sydney War Memorial

Sydney War Memorial

walking iris ready to open.

A walking iris almost fully open.

A walking iris bloom one minute after opening fully. Notice the "wet spikes" on petals.

La Chua Trail on the north rim of Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park in Gainesville, Florida.

New Zealand fern taken with the light reflecting off the fern leaf

Native fern taken from the underside

See how the light is setting off the point on the right side - Mammoth, CA - Aug. 2007

A closer view of the point, with reflections of the mountains behind it. - Mammoth, CA - Aug. 2007

Reflections of the point, in the morning light. - Mammoth, CA - Aug. 2007

The Barbara B. Mann Hall is located on the Edison College Campus in south Fort Myers. Performances range from symponies and concerts to stand up comedians such as Bill Cosby.

you can see the whole album at : http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/559940809HFprUU

you can see the whole album at : http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/559940809HFprUU

you can see the whole album at : http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/559940809HFprUU

Fish pond with waterfall in the backyard corner in my house in Indonesia. Have koi fish and tortoise there. The tortoise [can you see inside the pond?] often hide during the sunny day, and came out during the rainy day...

#1 An apple just picked

#3 A collage of #1 and #2

#2: Kathleen reaches for the apple.

This is a significant rock in front of the southwest coast of Martinique. Once this rock was a military base of the English. However, nowadays this island is French.

Feasting

Photo in front right above.

Standing in the middle and take a photo up to the sky

The Carving from 1/4 mile away

Carving from above. View from the lift. The shoulder of General Lee(center) is 42 feet into the stone.

The Carving from beneath

The Burj Al Arab makes a good background for any photograph.

Creative Challenge: One Subject, Three Shots

Creative Challenge: One Subject, Three Shots

Creative Challenge: One Subject, Three Shots

The waves comes ashore off Lake Huron. The sun reflects on the sand under the driftwood.

After many tries I finally was able to capture a wave breaking over the top of this log.

The waves break over the driftwood with the suns reflection still visible on the sand.

Farmers are burning stubble on the prairie just off the Transcanada highway west of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

I waited until the sun had disappeared behind the heavy smoke just before the sun set.

I zoomed in just as the sun was starting to descend into the picture again.

Elvis is alive and well - living across the street from us. He has such beautiful eyes.

"Look!! I have lower eyelashes. The reflection in my eye is my neighbor who brings me carrots. His crazy wife takes lots of photos of me....I think she likes me."

"Sometimes my mane hangs over my eyes. Don't you just love my pretty eyelashes?"

Left: Take off Right: Landing Bottom: Fly past

Part of the isolated Southern Ocean coast of Western Australia

Three days in the life of a PEACE rose. Full screen viewing will make a HUGE difference!

This mill has seen its fair share of locations. Originally it was built in the village of Boxtel in 1685. In 1857 it was moved to Nistelrode. In 1870 the mayor of Geffen bought the mill and it was moved to the Weverstraat in his village. In 1875 it was moved again, this time to the Molenstraat (also in Geffen). In 1976 the mill was completely restored and moved to its current location.

Mill De Vlijt in Geffen.

I added this shot for the Webshots Creative Challange "Three shots, one object"

Ok, I may have broken every rule with the number of entries or other limitations in this challenge. I'm from Texas and my brain by geography may still not understand what I'm suppose to do. If this collage or any of the others needs to be thrown out, please know that I'm more than fine with that. I really enjoy the opportunity to show and to look and support each other with our love of photography during these challenges. That's why I enter, which makes the experience already winning! I hope this entry will somehow speak to you. To stand on these grounds was for me humbling and moving. All the best -Brent

One object, 3 views

One object, 3 views

One object, 3 views

One object, three shots

One object, three shots

One object, three shots

This is my gorgeous cat, Jose' featured in the creative challenge , 3 shots one subject.

This is an entry I put in the creative challenge, 3 shots 1 subject. It's of a beautiful big old Oak tree on my property. When it's covered in leaves it's just magnificent and great shade for the horses. We also love to lay under it on a summer day and look up into all it's limbs.

Picture from outside the house. Spider webs are a new endeavor.

detail of the web

Pictures from inside the house

Creative Challenge: One Object, Three Shots

Once upon a time, in a windy, cold and fiery night in NYC, a starving artist came upon an alligator. He wondered if it was his baby alligator that he had flushed down the toilette by mistake long time ago. He came to embrace him but the alligator tried to eat him. The poor artist was heart-broken however his ego too big to take such an insult. So he had to do what it was best for both of them. He feed the alligator 1.99 burgers. It was not too long after such devious feeding that the poor animal died from bad indigestion. The starving artist was not starving anymore for he had alligator meat for days, weeks and months to come. While he enjoyed his alligator feast, he came with an amazing vision of mutual glorification. Lets put you atop the best place in NYC. So they know that you are not just a legend. So he carefully clean the skin. Then he stuffed it with the trashy journals of the city. Once finished, he carried the alligator for hours in a city that nothing moves them. Not one person noticed the alligator...but the alligator from atop his kingdom looks down to the sleepy people that roams the streets and yawns with boredom

New Yorkers? Just kidding!

September 2007

September 2007 He is just 11 weeks old.

11 September 2007 ~ A Summer Pilgrimage ~ Sunset on Chena Lakes ~ Alaska ~ "To kneel before some saintly shrine, To breathe the health of airs divine, Or bathe where sacred rivers flow, The cowled and turbaned pilgrims go. I too, a palmer, take, as they With staff and scallop-shell, my way To feel, from burdening cares and ills, The strong uplifting of the hills. The years are many since, at first, For dreamed-of wonders all athirst, I saw on Winnipesaukee fall The shadow of the mountain wall. Ah! Where are they who sailed with me The beautiful island-studded sea? And am I he whose keen surprise Flashed out from such unclouded eyes? Still, when the sun of summer burns, My longing for the hills returns; And northward, leaving at my back The warm vale of the Merrimac, I go to meet the winds of morn, Blown down the hill-gaps, mountain-born, Breathe scent of pines, and satisfy The hunger of a lowland eye. Again I see the day decline Along a ridged horizon line; Touching the hill-tops, as a nun Her beaded rosary, sinks the sun. One lake lies golden, which shall soon Be silver in the rising moon; And one, the crimson of the skies And mountain purple multiplies. With the untroubled quiet blends The distance-softened voice of friends; The girl’s light laugh no discord brings To the low song the pine-tree sings; And, not unwelcome, comes the hail Of boyhood from his nearing sail. The human presence breaks no spell, And sunset still is miracle! Calm as the hour, methinks I feel A sense of worship o’er me steal; Not that of satyr-charming Pan, No cult of Nature shaming man, Not Beauty’s self, but that which lives And shines through all the veils it weaves,— Soul of the mountain, lake, and wood, Their witness to the Eternal Good! And if, by fond illusion, here The earth to heaven seems drawing near, And yon outlying range invites To other and serener heights, Scarce hid behind its topmost swell, The shining Mounts Delectable A dream may hint of truth no less Than the sharp light of wakefulness. As through her vale of incense smoke. Of old the spell-rapt priestess spoke, More than her heathen oracle, May not this trance of sunset tell That Nature’s forms of loveliness Their heavenly archetypes confess, Fashioned like Israel’s ark alone From patterns in the Mount made known? A holier beauty overbroods These fair and faint similitudes; Yet not unblest is he who sees Shadows of God’s realities, And knows beyond this masquerade Of shape and colour, light and shade, And dawn and set, and wax and wane, Eternal verities remain. O gems of sapphire, granite set! O hills that charmed horizons fret I know how fair your morns can break, In rosy light on isle and lake; How over wooded slopes can run The noonday play of cloud and sun, And evening droop her oriflamme Of gold and red in still Asquam. The summer moons may round again, And careless feet these hills profane; These sunsets waste on vacant eyes The lavish splendour of the skies; Fashion and folly, misplaced here, Sigh for their natural atmosphere, And travelled pride the outlook scorn Of lesser heights than Matterhorn. But let me dream that hill and sky Of unseen beauty prophesy; And in these tinted lakes behold The trailing of the raiment fold Of that which, still eluding gaze, Allures to upward-tending ways, Whose footprints make, wherever found, Our common earth a holy ground." Poetry by John Greenleaf Whittier 1883

St Lukes Stone Chapel #1

St Lukes Stone Chapel #3

St Lukes Stone Chapel #2

This is my dear little dog Tara or Teedee as we call her....Sadly we have to put her to sleep and lay her to rest today 17th September 2007 after 13 years as she has cancer and is having breathing problems as it is in her lungs and abdomen.She has also lost a very lot of weight and not eating well. Teedee is kelpie cross and has been my dear little friend all that time. She was actually a stray dog and I got her when she was 3 - 4 months old. She will be very sadly missed. RIP Little Teedee. We all love you!x x x x x

1 Subject 3 shots

Our green-headed frog, one of 5 frogs we had this summer in our little pond

contest: 3 shots of one object

contest:3 shots of one object

contest: 3 shots of one object

Instead of different views of one object I thought it will be nice to do same object and same view, but in different moments in time - so here it is - sort of evolution of our project in Bulgaria.

Such a beautiful day for a ride. Perfect fall temperature and a soft, gentle breeze.

Gotta love photo editing software! Pulls out all the "ick" and brings in all the "ahhh".

Northern California

Trees of Mystery, Northern California

Northern California

...in our front yard.

creative-challenge-one-three

In Roseville, California near Interstate 80.

questo prato è mio!

acc! come volano bassi!

how she ended up on the chlorine floater in the middle of the pool. What she did know, as a ceramic pig, falling off would not be good...

Penelope vaguely remembered the night before, dim lights, a lot of booze, incriminating photography...

a kind photographer (Penelope had no idea the photographer was also the one who got her into this mess) rescued her from the pool and returned her safely to her home of coins. Did Penelope learn to stay away from strong beverages? Only time will tell...

This flag is flying high at Holmes Regional Medical Hospital in Melbourne, FL

Located at Holmes Regional Medical Hospital, Melbourne, FL

This flag is flying high at Holmes Regional Medical Hospital in Melbourne, FL

RMNP, CO

My daughter at Deerfield Beach, FL

My daughter at Deerfield Beach, FL

My daughter at Deerfield Beach, FL

Sunset at Clear Lake in Riding Mountain National Park

Night shot with reflection in water

Close up night shot...see Jefferson?

Shot from a distance...

Grey geese at the lake.

Designed by Andre Waterkeyn,Belgian Engineer,for the 1958 International Exhibition.It represents an Iron Molecule magnified 165 Billion times.

9 Spheres,each sphere is 18 meters,(59 feet) diameter,Atomium is 102 meters high.(335 feet)

Close-up 3 spheres.

Bracketing +/- 2eV - 3 shots JPG(f/22, ISO 400), Photomatix and Noise Ninja

HDRI (Bracketing +/-2eV - 3 shots RAW)

Tickle Two - 10 mo. old - A day at the Westport WA beach - July 2005

Tickle Two - 10 mo. old - A day at the Westport WA beach - July 2005

Tickle Two - 10 mo. old - A day at the Westport WA beach - July 2005

A beautiful sunrise in Texas with the geese swimming in Gibbons Lake near Paris TX at the Gimball Goose Refuge.

Jump baby Jump.....

Pauls Marlin close-up

One last jump before breaking off..