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Weekly Photo Challenge: From Above

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The photo challenge for this week was to find a subject and instead of taking a picture from the usual angles, take it directly from above. This is my contribution (image cropped for blog layout), the top of my head. I literally held the camera as far as I could reach above my head and

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow

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Dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago, after living on earth for 165 million years, foreshadowing the growth of larger mammals and the rise of the human race. Within the first five million years of the Paleocene Epoch, large  mammals had appeared for the first time. Some of them were the earliest  members of modern groups, including

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh

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This is a freshly made Mojito and an extremely refreshing drink and with this heat wave we are ‘enjoying’ in Ontario one of these delicious drinks would go down very easily right now.  The humidity this week has been unbearable, for me any way. This drink was made in Cayo Coco, Cuba and the Cubans have this cocktail down to a fine

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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Golden Hour

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I took these photos last week as the setting sun was so big and beautiful, I sat outside and watched it until it disappeared out of sight. Imagine my joy when I found out what this week’s photo challenge was so I could share them with you. This week’s Photo Challenge from the Daily Post

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgic

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I took the photo shown above of The Time Machine museum in Bromyard, Kent as I couldn’t believe that they had Daleks in the window. They were just cardboard cutouts, but it still bought memories of my childhood flooding back. I was born and raised in England and I grew up watching a series called

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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says

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The photo challenge for this week was all about signs and what we think they are really saying. I was at a photography convention in Toronto on Saturday so I was surrounded by signs and one of them was saying something very specific to me. It was really saying: “WE KNOW YOU’RE A NIKON FAN, SO

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape

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For me escaping means taking myself out of reality for a while and slipping into the life of a rebellious, heroic and somewhat alluring character in an amazing book. Living life through the eyes of another while sipping on a glass of Rioja. If the book happens to be a steamy romance novel, then all

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