Shot Alive

Flickr is a place for storing your photos and allows each member to keep track of their favourites by other people. These are some of my many favourites, and you can click on them to see them larger:

We think of the cold as not so pleasant, but there can be great beauty in it too. "Frozen" by bashaspix and "Church" by falln_angel.

Living things come in so many forms and yet we can still find thin gs about them to identify with and appreciate. "Poaka or Pied Stilt" or Himantopus leucocephalus. Seen in the geothermal hot waters of the Frying Pan Flat, Wai-O-Tapu, Rotorua. The birds do not seem concerned about the temperatures, and indeed nest on an island in the middle of the flat. Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as most favorited. "Banded mongoose" by gerhard3 taken at Vienna zoo.

Spectacular scenery, "Yosemite 10-04-05" and "So Many Tarns" by mickrange.

Having been to India when this festival is on, I can only say that I am grateful that they do not include foreigners as targets when they throw the dye at each other. So much more fun to just watch them - "Well Holied" - Holi is the festival of colours. It is maybe the biggest festival at least in the north of India. "At hand's reach" by le_jhe - Jour de fête @ Grand Palais. There are a few things I like on this one. First, the hand and the light. Then, I tried to recreate verticality with the acrobats legs angle (as the real vertical is defined by the diagonal). I also like the man standing just behind the scene, which I found intriguing.

Sheep on the island of Helgoland, April 2006. "Let sleeping bears lie" by captain_oblivious. I guess that's a comfortable rock

I read somewhere that you should not lick your computer screen. It was fortunately just before seeing this. ;-) "Pink chocolate covered strawberries, by jlynnwalter. Made for my friend's baby shower. I can't get over how pretty they are. "Sand Sculpture -Junkyard Dog....." This Junkyard Dog was really enjoying his piece of the yard........ Taken in Boston, Mass. while we were visiting there in the Summer of 2006. - This Sculpture were really great-lots of detail! Got to the beach just before sunset-just before they judged the sculpture's. Captured these in Boston, Mass. this past summer on vacation.

The bird seems to be enjoying the view along with us. Untitled, by Shitao. "Aspen Trees at Lake Tahoe" by moosehead.

I used to play go, and was NZ champion and representative in the World Amateur Go Champonships 3 times. So it was a delight to find some Go photographs on flickr. "Go (Wei Qi) Board, by vineyardcafe". "Immortals in the Mist" by sundarban. Thick fog enveloped the Tian Tan Buddha and the statues of the immortals around him.

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