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Thank you all my friends! 

Because of YOU and YOUR kind comments and compliments over all these 4 years, YOU made it possible that I'm still here today. Your comments mean always a lot to me!

Let's celebrate: where is the champagne? :))

~Susanne

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I was feautured today on the front page of FAA - Fine Art America

Go to Fine Art America's front page and hoover your mouse over the pictures there.... My photograph is the golden colored old shrimp boat in the lower right corner with the name "Living in the past".

I feel very honored and happy for this recognition of my work in photography.

Go and have a look to that site:  

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click in the picture to see it big and if you like it - buy it! You'll make my day for sure :))

Thank you ALL for the wonderful comments and compliments to my recent posts. 

I do very much appreciate them.

Susanne

Hide and Seek with a Ghost Crab

It was not easy to get a ghost crab in front to my camera, these little creatures were way to fast and tricky. This fellow came back up and disappeared quickly as soon as it saw me - we had a sort of  hide and seek situation together.

Ghost crabs,
also called sand crabs, are crabs of the genus Ocypode, common shore crabs in many countries. Characteristics of the genus include one claw being larger than the other, but this difference is not as marked as in male fiddler crabs.
These crabs are called ghosts because they are translucent, and because of their ability to disappear from sight almost instantly, scuttling at speeds up to 10 miles per hour, while making sharp directional changes. These creatures have two black eyes, with very good 360° vision.
The ghost crab tunnels down four feet into the ground at a 45° angle, creating 1–2 inches (25–51 mm) wide holes, which speckle the beach. At dusk, these crabs will sprint to the ocean in order to obtain oxygen from the water which washes over their gills, and in the beginning of the summer, females will release their eggs into the ocean.
In the south eastern United States, Ocypode quadrata is frequently seen scurrying along beaches between sunset and dawn.
The common ghost crab or smooth-handed ghost crab (Ocypode cordimana) is found on the northern Australian coast from the Kimberley region of Western Australia to New South Wales, being particularly common in New South Wales. It is also found in the Indo-Pacific region.

Hi my friends,

Thank you for all the wonderful comments in the last few days. Here on my blog or over there on my Facebook, it doesn't matter, I have enjoyed every single one very much.

I have some "homework" to do today and that includes also all that household stuff like laundry and cleaning... what I really don't like to much... Well, it has to be done, let's start with now, get over it :)

I wish you a wonderful and perfect day!

And, YES - Add some colors to your life!

Susanne

The American Flamingo

A group of Flamingos by the entrance of the Zoo in Melbourne FL

Flamingo portrait

American Flamingo

The American Flamingo breeds in the Galapagos Islands, coastal Colombia and Venezuela and nearby islands, the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, and in the northern Caribbean in the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Cuba and Turks and Caicos. Most sightings in southern Florida are usually considered to be escapees, although at least one bird banded as a chick in the Yucatán Peninsula has been sighted in Everglades National Park, and others may be genuine wanderers from Cuba.

Its preferred habitats are similar to that of its relatives: saline lagoons, mudflats, and shallow brackish coastal or inland lakes. Like all flamingos, it lays a single chalky white egg on a mud mound, between May and August; incubation until hatching takes from 28 to 32 days; both parents brood the young for a period of up to 6 years when they reach sexual maturity. Their life expectancy of 40 years is one of the longest in birds.

The American Flamingo is 120–140 cm in length; males weigh 2.8 kg and females 2.2 kg. Most of its plumage is pink, giving rise to its earlier name of Rosy Flamingo and differentiating adults from the much paler Greater Flamingo. The wing coverts are red, and the primary and secondary flight feathers are black. It is the only flamingo which naturally inhabits North America.

The bill is pink and white with a restricted black tip, and the legs are entirely pink. The call is a goose-like honking.

The American Flamingo is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.



Hi my friends,


I promised you yesterday some bird photos... here they are.... and there will be some more coming :) I hope you like them. I captured them by my recent visit to the Zoo in Melbourne, FL.

Thanks for all the comments yesterday to my new avatar :) don't take it too serious... I've decided not to look in the mirror anymore in the morning...*smile*... to keep my illusion to be still "young and beautiful"...LOL...


Have a wonderful day!
Susanne

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A new self portrait...

Hi, how do you feel today????

Hi my friends,

that's how I look and feel sometimes early in the morning, looking in the mirror....LOL.... :)

I was yesterday in the Zoo shooting some animals, with my camera of course!

I always loved these funny looking animal faces, like this one of the Emu above. He looks like he is smiling and for the most I like the hair style - or the no hair style at all. I'll show you more pictures in the next few days with other animals I have photographed - before I bore you to much with my ZEN photography.

Thanks for stopping by, thanks for liking them anyway and thanks for all the wonderful compliments!

See you again - on the same spot, at the same time, right? ;)

Susanne

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ZEN Photography II

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.  

~John Burroughs~

Hi my friends,

I think I have found a new challenge for me with these ZEN quotes and the passion to match the pictures, looking for the right subjects with the quotes in my mind. It is so much truth behind these words! 

I love it, it's so much fun to capture new exciting things!

Thank you for all the comments and compliments to my last sunset(s) - I'm so glad you like it.

Have a wonderful Tuesday afternoon or evening or maybe is there already Wednesday?

Susanne

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I grow plants for many reasons

Flower pots in the backyard

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
David Hobson

Hi my friends,

Time is running fast! It's already Wednesday or Mittwoch in German language. Let's celebrate "Mittwoch" and I want to say thank you for all the kind comments I got for my chairs photo yesterday with the song of Bryan Adams.

I appreciate every single comment!

Happy to see you visiting again.

Susanne

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