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memes, personal, photography

My Friends Meme


My Friends Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme is to use the first names of 12 friends and see what we get.

So I chose: Gabriella, Sue, Stephen, Rob, Tom, Christine, Malin, Ziggy, Prue, Les, John and Katy.

1. Don’t Go Yet, 2. Sue W., 3. tempest three, 4. Very sticky flip-flops that don’t flop!, 5. Naked Bill But Still Beautiful, 6. In A Dream With You, 7. encadrée, 8. Angelic Fruitcake, 9. Parisian Stories 5 – The Brawl 15, 10. NYC – MoMA: Pablo Picasso’s Head of a Sleeping Woman (Study for Nude with Drapery), 11. INTO THE SUN. PAINTING BY JOHN P. BUTLER, 12. Katy Kitchen

As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.

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memes, personal, photography

All About Animals Meme

This week’s Flickr meme is all about our favourite animals.

First here’s my usual slightly off the wall take; interpret liberally:
1. favourite mammal: pussy
2. favourite primate: nubile
3. favourite fish: mermaid
4. favourite marsupial: giant hopping mouse
5. favourite insect: wasp
6. favourite bird: parrot
7. favourite reptile: my physics teacher (excellent teacher and nice guy, but he did look a bit like a juvenile tortoise!)
8. favourite amphibian: (pissed) newt
9. favourite dinosaur: dragon
10. favourite invertebrate: (raw) prawn
11. favourite animal name: Emperor Haile-Selassie (a rare pedigree wire-haired Abyssinian tripe hound)
12. if you could be an animal, what would you be? nymphomaniac


1. Lady Lula’s Bright Eyed Stare, 2. Natsumi, 3. Sirenity, 4. Wallaby
5. New wasp nest in shed., 6. Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo, 7. Tortoise Yoga, 8. Palmate Newt
9. Chinese Dragon, 10. Prawns, 11. HM Supreme Emperor Haile Selassie I, 12. PZ HalloweeN Ball
And here, for those who realy want it, is a more serious version:
1. favourite mammal: cat
2. favourite primate: lemur
3. favourite fish: koi
4. favourite marsupial: thylacene
5. favourite insect: wasp
6. favourite bird: parrot
7. favourite reptile: lizard
8. favourite amphibian: newt
9. favourite dinosaur: ichthyosaur
10. favourite invertebrate: lobster
11. favourite animal name: Zen (for a cat)
12. if you could be an animal, what would you be? cat


1. Lady Lula’s Bright Eyed Stare, 2. Ring-Tailed Lemur, 3. We call the big white guy Jaws, 4. Thylacene
5. New wasp nest in shed., 6. Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo, 7. Lady, Please!!, 8. Palmate Newt
9. Ichthyosaur, 10. Lobster, 11. Sleeping Cat, 12. IMG03898

As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.

Mosaics created with fd’s Flickr Toys

natural history, photography, topographical

Green Woodpecker


Green Woodpecker, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This Green Woodpecker was visiting my west London suburban garden earlier today. I certainly don’t see them regularly, maybe just 2 or 3 times a year, and they are always a delight especially when they stay for a few minutes to feed, as this one did.

It’s not a brilliant photo as I was trying to hand-hold my biggest telephoto lens, in poor winter afternoon light, while leaning out of the window.

memes, people, personal, photography

Story of My Life Meme


Story of My Life Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme is to design the book of your life, giving each of the chapters a title. And what could be more appropriate for my birthday!?

1. Title (front cover): Zen Navigation
2. Introduction: Evening, All
3. Chapter 1: Family History. Tragically I was an only twin
4. Chapter 2: School Days. Rocking-horse brains
5. Chapter 3: Idle Students. Information is the flotsam left by the tide of entropy
6. Chapter 4: Research. Faultless inaccuracy
7. Chapter 5: The World of Work. Bean counters and biro command
8. Chapter 6: Everlasting Love. If you don’t concern yourself with your wife’s cat, you will lose something irretrievable between you
9. Chapter 7: Anthony Powell Society. Keeping the ball running
10. Chapter 8: Retirement. Large print audio books
11. Epilogue: Some things were never meant to make sense
12. Back Cover: Utterly forgettable

As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.

1. Boating, 2. Police officer G20, 3. twins (only not really), 4. WW12: Rocking Horse Head, 5. Urban Relics, 6. Ammonite Parkinsonia dorsetensi , 7. Look We’ve Got Pens, 8. Shasta | Gone Home | 3/9/00-3/28/08, 9. Macro marbles, 10. “Nature Combined with Nurture Makes People Mature!” 🙂, 11. Quite a Yarn, 12. Backlit Red

Created with fd’s Flickr Toys

memes, photography, pleasures

Animal Lovers' Meme


Animal Lovers’ Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week the Flickr meme is for animal lovers. We were asked to choose our favourite (or in some cases scariest) animals:

1. favourite animal of all time: cats (all of them)
2. favourite pet: cat (I’m convinced they’re magic and know where the 7th dimension is)
3. favourite zoo animal: meerkat (pure comedy)
4. favourite farm animal: geese
5. favourite animal from where you live: brown hare (they’re even more magic than cats)
6. favourite creepy crawly: hymenoptera (bees & wasps)
7. scariest animal: (wo)man [fx: big grin]
8. scariest creepy crawly: maggots (they really turn my stomach)
9. most fascinating animal: cephalopoda (octopus & squid)
10. favourite endangered species: tiger (just so majestic and so powerful)
11. favourite carnivore: all big cats but especially leopard an jaguar
12. favourite herbivore: parrots

As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.

1. Sleeping time, 2. Ginger pussy cat wants another drink please bar keep, 3. Meerkat Lip-pursing, 4. Amsterdam Goose, 5. Brown Hare – mg_6330, 6. Ready to land, 7. I love being nude, 8. Fat 8 Maggots, 9. Untitled, 10. Hungry Tiger, 11. Leopard – Panthera pardus, 12. Hyacinth Macaw Cracking Brazil Nut

Created with fd’s Flickr Toys