**TerraDreamer:**Steve, I can hardly believe this guy is STILL on the Wharf! I first saw him in the late 80s when I took a friend down to The City for a typical tour of The Wharf. We were on the other side of the street and watched him scare people for the longest time...rolled in the street with laughter, clutching each other like fools, and delighting in the fun. He used to carry much bigger and bushier branches so it was harder to see him behind the foliage. Many people nearly had a heart attack on the spot when he jumped out at them. This is a real treat to see your photo! PJ

Oh my gosh, Tom! Your stick is magnificent! Simple and yet bold. A statement that screams loudly into the face of society. This will be remembered as the image that changed the thinking of the intellectual realm - like Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment did for the written word! The grain of the wood caresses the senses as it rests inconspicuously against the blaring white perlite background. A truly stellar shot that will live on long after its time! (LOL)

Ahh, the stick!  And first a change to a different color for my chosen font..

Yes, sometimes even the one doing the creation does not undersand the full subconscious revelations of creativity.  MrsLubner, you are a wonderful critic of the high sort of criticism.     Tom.

Ok, on the beach bunch... I like the expressions but not a big fan of seefood...LOL

So happy always to see natrual expressions in faces of kids...

I have chosen my font color, the gray at the right of second row up. This allows me to see the text once color is indicated, helps with copy and paste and is readable to me.   

Anyway awjay, only the perlite? Would need some Japanese brooming but could work, still, it is no stick. Enough stic for me for now.  I laugh outloud and that makes the cats jump.

I ain't got no place to put this one, and it does say "Anything"....Shot this in my daughters bathroom....I doh know...just like the look of it, but what do I know?

Aloha~

See-food...LOL!  Great to see you back, Kai.  :^)

I'm liking that last beach shot here...The water looks sooooo beautifully white and clean. Great pov!

And thanx again, BJ...I love hearing your thoughts in this forum. I think you view things very differently here and I find it  most refreshing.  :^)

Edit: LOL! Just saw Dave's post. LOL at you taking a pic of this. But you nailed it, backlight and all...:^)

*my new green toupee...

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LOL, awjay, looks to me like a natural flower pot. and I would love to have some like that.

i used a bigger stick

Funny....I haven't received any ebots for these responses...

Anyway, that sky looks incredible, Kort, and I'm lovin that second IR one you posted.

LOL at Awjay's 'bigger' stick... :^D

*now im begining to fill up ...;)

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I do love the kids' shots...a nice slice of real life of the better sort.  awjay, the toupee will be natrual, perhaps enough for a poster guy shot for Greenpeace.  And, those who laugh at big sticks are my kinds of people. 

Does anyone remember Sinclair gas(petrol)?

i remember the Sinclair C5

*Who said 'on yer bike'?

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Awsome vintage captures there Jay, bungie cord and all. ;']

im told its an old bungie cord ....;)

Anyway, thought I'd just join in here as it's been some months since I last hopped aboard this train!!

Chrissy xx

Nice Chrissy! I like the light on the feathers there.

We could do with some of that Pratts filtered petrol round here - do they sell it on the M25 ?

at the price it was back then preferably ?

My last e-bot was the 16th Marlene. The kids are quite cute Kai, read that aloud thre times fast! Kort I like the Truffula Tree, Dr. Suess would too. The AM cloud shot has three clearly visible moons, what planet were you standing on? It was an amazing shot! I love the new toupee Jay, Mother Nature recycles so beautifully. The shots of the petrol station and bikes brought back memories. Didn't the Sinclair name have a dino with it? I love the lighting on the feathers Chrissy, sorry the vacation was a wash. Dave I love the shot of the window, it reminds us of all the things young girls do to cover their natural beauty and be like everyone else. BJ

back to the sea.........
 on the wing......

An amazing shot of the freedom that eludes our physical bodies on this plane, Jay. The diamonds scattered carelessly across the surface amaze. BJ

Humm..did the vulture in flight pick up someones tire pressure gauge? : )

I think it's a jess, a strap used to tie it down when it's at rest. It was taken at a controlled park I think.

*skyline.....

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Fireworks from the annual fireworks show at the carnival over here in Vlissingen.

beautiful my friend

Jay I love what you did to this! Great shot of the fireworks, Like a giant palm. BJ

All but one made it!, Wow, she must be a very good mother!  Cute shot too.

branch formations appeal to me too.... i love it when the leaves have all fallen,you can get some impressive patterns... i like this a lot

On the way home from a vacation my wife spotted this bunch and we had to pull in an take a look.   I do not do garage sales..she does but is quite discrete in what she gets.

Prices are generally low and are expected to be that way.  

Touted as the "world's longest garage sale", a country highway from the state of Alabama, into parts of Georgia, across Tennessee and into Kentucky is lined for close to 400 miles or more with folks selling their "junk".  The event is in August each year, with the road full of folks from all over the U.S.A. and beyond...call these folks "garage sale" or "yard sale" enthusiasts. You can find it on the net under "world's longest garage(or yard) sale".  I will not be there!  Some of my kinfolk might.  This shot is not from that event..just a small one that somehow makes the van we drive pull in and park.  I don't understand it...but again.

We have a similar thing here in the UK - the 'car boot' sale. People load up their cars/vans/trailers with as much junk as possible and get together and pitch up in a field somewhere (usually muddy but this is not compulsary) and try to sell it.

This is a pretty big thing now with some sites attracting thousands. Personally, I can't see the point but I have friend at work who goes round them every weekend and comes back with loads of stuff he doesn't want/doesn' t work etc. But he thinks he's got a bargain, lol.

Astro66, your pictures are wonderful. They remind me of the kids book, Make Way For Ducklings. Bill the way the image splits is quite cool, I assume it happens with greater intensity ! movement? I love the canopy, Kort, room under there for a hammock? Wonderful shot of all those masts lined up against the sky Jay.
Tom, in the past, people have found at these things: a hand drawn piece on a napkin by Stan Lee, an opal hidden inside a chunk of rock worth @ $40,000, a Picasso was found in someone's attic and dumped at one of these, " I heard sometime's artists reuse canvas", and the last week in August two years ago my nephew Jerry found a desk covered in "stuff" in a chicken barn, which turned out to be a desk from the original senate building! It's not the stuff you thought was worth something it's the find of a lifetime that spurs us on. It's like the last great treasure hunt.Indiana Jones without the dangers! LOL! BJ