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I have so many pictures of trails and roads that I almost fell like cheating in this one, so easy it was to find a few. The hardest part was to choose… I almost decided to not to decide and went out to take new pictures specifically for this post, but the rain made me… Read more
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We’re 7 in our photography classes. So our teacher assigned to each of us a color of the rainbow for our essays. I got red. Red???? Seriously???? I would have liked to have green, and go to a forest for nice pictures with the sun rays finding their way in through the tree branches full… Read more
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I watched the vulture looking at me hungrily as I lay on the ground bleeding and injured. Saturday night I was coming back from a friend’s party when my car decided to fail me. Well, I’m in Rio, and you don’t want to be alone on a dark street in the middle of the night… Read more
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Tomorrow is my birthday, but tomorrow there is no coming to the office, since it’s a Saturday. So today when I got at my office I found a little wrapped gift at my desk. It turns out is was a wooden owl, given to me by a friend who knows about my ‘thing’ with owls… Read more
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She was born in a flower pot at the city. She didn’t like it there much, though. Too much noise, too few flowers. So, off she flew, away from the city. But the city was in an arid area and all she found was a desert. Big red rocks, dangerous looking lizards, spiders, scorpions, snakes…. Not much water…… Read more
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Not knowing what to expect, he made his way into the dark of the forest. It started one morning when, while waiting to open the gates for the big celebration, his house was marked. Guests went away, afraid of being close to the red mark. He and his family were doomed. He knew it was… Read more
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It’s been forever since last time I participated in a travel time challenge, by Ailsa in Where’s My Backpack. This week I’m back though! And here are my letter-ish pictures… This post was written in response to the Travel Theme: Letters challenge. Read more
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Here are my little entries this week. I’ve also recently fell in love with the color splash effects, so trying to add a little splash of reds and oranges here, on a PC app (have been doing it in the phone, where it’s hard to get the precision I’d like…) Hope that’s ok for this… Read more
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It’s been 20 years now he has left his home country, Deutschland. That was when he married the love of his life and moved to the USA to build a family with his American bride. They have a happy family, with two amazing teenage boys, a fun dog, a nice house, good jobs. Then one day, he… Read more
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The baby was due in 2 weeks. Family and friends came together to celebrate its upcoming birth and organized a huge fun party for mom and dad-to-be. A co-ed, kid-friendly baby shower. Everyone was happy and, after a couple hours of chatting, fun, guessing and dreaming about baby’s future, it was time to open the… Read more
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The public was ecstasy and applauded him for about 30 minutes, waiting for him to come back and take a bow. He never got to hear the applause, though, as his last trick was to vanish from the stage, reappearing on a nice little boat off the coast of Indonesia. That’s what he wanted for his… Read more
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The enemy came fiercely in the middle of the night. People got up from their beds to fight for their land and their lives. She grabbed the kids and hid while he went on to the battle. The kids were afraid and crying. The battle was loud, with the rattling of metal hitting each other.… Read more
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Registering the bend matching the mountain top. Registering self with the marina as the background This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and While Photo Challenge: Camera. Read more
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Few knew about the castle hidden inside the island. Cleighton and Yakira were twin siblings, but very different. Their mom used to say that Yakira was her diamond, while Cleighton was just clay. That made the boy grow up with sadness on his heart. One day, his counselor mentions he’s very lucky. A diamond is pretty,… Read more
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It was the opening night of the great and spectacular illusionism show. The public was excited. But only Aluin knew it would actually be his closing night. So many years bringing magic and awe to people’s life, made him feel his own life was lacking some of that wonder. Knowing the tricks took the magic away and consumed… Read more
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Back of people Back of a tractor Back of a waterfall (this one may also be featured in the CCY challenge since, as I took the colors out, the flattening became even worse. I almost decided not to include it in here, but I still like the idea of seeing the back of the… Read more
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The day was supposed to be joyful. The big day party was about to begin and the boats were arriving full of guests. All seemed well and excitement was in the air. Then suddenly, as the gates were about to open so the festivities could start, a scream was heard coming from the house. There… Read more
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I could be here talking eternally about changes that happened in my life. How I moved to a different country, how my life changed when I had my first kid. Then how it changed when I had my second kid! All the changes in jobs, including the many that happen on my current one (a… Read more
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This is the last week for the September One-four challenge. The images I’ll be using this month were actually created back in July, when I learned about the challenge and went crazy about creating 2 sets of images, the one I used then, and the one I’ll be using this month. Having been so long since the… Read more
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