Gorgeous.

This ones even cooler than yesterdays upload. Yup, i saw that one too. #;o) Gorgeous colors, and again your quality amazes me. The quality of your photos i mean...although we all know youre a quality-guy yourself...bla bla. FYI (love it whenever Roger says that in American Dad, lol)...i always read your notes...just not always the information you usually include. Have a great weekend buddy. #:O)

The mother starts with a small masterpiece and works up!

Uluht'c! Uluht'c! There are some things mankind was not meant to know... Swell work, Kort!

Hey now! Don't get you shorts in a bunch! All I meant was I don't always have the time to read every word, so I skim, and depending on the info I may or may not "Dig-in". I always read the quotes, as they are very good, and quick. As to your text on "Invasions", and the thoughts on alien invasion in science fiction and our culture, let us not forget the 1952 "Flap" Where our Capital was "Invaded" by reall UFO's: Air traffic was light at Washington Airport one midnight last week, and the radar scope of the Civil Aeronautics Authority was almost clear. At 12:40 a.m. a group of bright blips showed. The operator estimated that they were about 15 miles southwest of Washington. Then the blips disappeared abruptly and reappeared a few seconds later over northeast Washington. The operator called his boss, Senior Controller Harry Barnes, 39, a graduate of the Buffalo Technical Institute who has worked for the CAA as an electronics expert since 1941. The operator told Barnes: "Here are some flying saucers for you." Barnes laughed at first, but the blips kept popping up all over the scope. They sometimes hovered, sometimes flew slowly and sometimes incredibly fast. Technicians checked the radar; it was in good working order. Over the White House. Barnes began to worry when he saw the blips apparently flying over the White House and other prohibited areas. He called the airport control tower. Sure enough, its radar showed the strange blips too. When the towermen measured the speed of a fast blip, they found that it had flown for eight miles at 7,200 m.p.h. Now the blips on Barnes's scope were moving towards Andrews Air Force Base about ten miles to the east. Barnes called the Andrews tower. Nothing strange showed on its radar, but both towermen and an enlisted man on the field saw a single, round, orange light drifting in the southern sky. That was enough for Barnes. He called the Air Defense Command and reported an unidentified object was over the Washington area. Then he told an airline pilot, C.S. Pierman of Capital Airlines, who was about to take off for Pittsburgh, to watch for mysterious objects. Pierman climbed to 6,000 ft. and headed northwest. Barnes & Co. saw a group of strange blips cluster around the blip made by Pierman's plane and Pierman spotted a white light "like a falling star." It sped away, and its blip disappeared from Barnes's scope. Air Force to the Rescue. Over from a Delaware base came a flight of radar-equipped F-94 jet fighters. Before they reached Washington, all the blips vanished. The jets saw nothing at all. But when the jets departed the blips reappeared, playing all over the scope. Barnes said: "like a bunch of kids." He called all airliners flying near Washington, asked their pilots to report any strange objects. One pilot saw a white light, moving fast. But during all this uproar, other radars near Washington (e.g. Quantico and Fort Meade) saw nothing unusual. All the rest of the week, a few strange blips appeared now & then. Then on Saturday night they broke out all over, criss-crossing the capital as they had the week before. This time, the radar at Andrews was seeing the things too. One blip hung over Bolling Field, across the Potomac from the airport, but observers at Bolling saw nothing in the sky. Some airline pilots saw mysterious lights; others saw nothing. The Saucer Flies Again. Down from Delaware roared another flight of night fighters. This time the blips did not vanish. They stayed on the ground scopes while the jets screamed among them. But only one pilot saw a light, another saw a doubtful blip on his scope. It vanished before he could shoot. What were the mysterious blips? The Air Force, unless it was trying to conceal some mysterious gadget of its own (e.g. a radar countermeasure), was as baffled as everyone else. As might be expected the phantom invasion touched off a whole new rash of flying-saucer stories. But if the men from Mars were really overhead, the oddest part of the whole story was the fact that among all the conflicting reports, no radar outside of a ten-mile radius in Washington reported seeing anything unusual at any time. Then there is the book Carl Jung wrote on the UFO phenom, where he interviewed hundreds of "Reliable" witnesses, i.e. Police officers, pilots and military. He came to this conclusion, either one of two things are happening...(1) Aliens are really visiting us..or...(2) Our culture is experiencing a mass halucination of culturally epic proportions, either one is worth note.

wow... I believe Digimon's comment is the longest comment I have ever seen. lol And some people who DONT read what you write are silly, keep writing, everyone else appriciates it :-) Great shot, too.

Digimonnnnnn!!! the king of comment!!! Excellent capture my friend and excellent quality colour and contraste and lighting!!! BRAVO... Good weekend and kiss )

Digimon, well said and I'm with you all the way! Beautiful photo, TwoPynts, and it does bring Invasion of the Body Snatchers to mind.

Alien invasion was first thought when I spoted this amazing shot. Excellent!

wow WOW wow ! man ! you're AMAZING so excellent shots ! I would like to add you to fav ! but I'll do it after holidays;-) in other case my mail box isn't too big LOL ! EXCELLENT and GONGRAT FOR Digimon's -wow x n

Wow, great photo. Excellent shot.

Beautiful capture and colors!!! Bravo :)

WOAH AT DIGIMONz bbBOOK LOL! omg wow are those REAL THOUSE TENICALS OR ARE THEY ARt? curious need to know!!...AWESOME !! ..mann this is awesome I want to go there and see those aliens ...lol!... V!

Digimon's essay is one I have read about before and as many of us I read as much as I can depending on time but now that the site is much, much, much quicker I will have the time. I like reading what is said to most of the images, I have never been a long writer myself and usually a couple of sentences is all I can put down. I like ther interpretation you have give to your images and will continue to enjoy them. I like this image and the differents things it represents, have a great day:):):)..v

Excellent image! Love the colors and the way the elements work together to create the whole. I also very much prefer when the artist leaves a note about the work as it creates an added dimension that would not otherwise exist. Keep on Invading!!!

I try to read most of what you post, especially about flowers/insects. due to the slow speed of the galleries I have had to cut back on reading to view all my friends work. what are the tennacles -art?

You brought to mind one old favorite of mine "The day the earth stood still" thanks... I say, keep up what you love to do otherwise...?????? You know, some people can't even read, let alone write, so cater to those who appreciate!!!! count me in!!!!!! SUPERB IMAGE!!!!!!!!!!!! V

cool looking photo..:-)

LOL... Dive! Dive! Interesting shot. Aloha

Well, didn't we open a can of worms !!! ... "Lashia" needs to know that name calling is out of order here, as Eric said, we read as much as we can, but if every artist wrote an epistle like that, then we would never have time to do our own art, when one has only limited time... Now back to your image, I would really love to see the pond sculpture in FULL !!! well done Cheers

Looks like I missed the party on this one... Your image definitely has all the qualities of great photography, however, the whole tentacle thing makes me sick! LOL... no offense! Just reminds me of something from long ago I can't put my fingers on. As for reading your writing, I felt my own recent commentary probably took away from the image - are people posting on the image or the writing? +++

My lord.What the heck did Eric write?That's the longest comment I've ever seen!LOL!Even longer than one of Hopalong's...(which I never understand,lol)...For the rcord,I always read your stuff.Like you said,it's included for a reason...but I do occasionally skim the wikipedia stuff.I may find dragonfly's interesting,but how many eggs they lay per year...well,I think I can skim that part,lol.Anyway,another gorgeous shot,Kortalouche.I love this whole 'invasion' theme.And I love the analogies at the end of your notes...Live long and prosper,my friend.LOL.-M :^)

Wow! I love your photography! Is it digital?