Shutterspeed

 Sorry about the datestamp; I thought I'd shot six or seven of these guys, but this was the only one when I uploaded the memory stick.  Oh well.

Mostly these fellows are trying to do the fancier tricks and not quite succeeding but not also fracturing their skulls (maybe they teach falling in martial arts on the side).

Also I should have blurred his face.

Which is to say, I finally remembered to take the camera with me on my walk.  I seem to have gone in the wrong direction for purple.

Way back when the earth was just cooling and I was in high school, there were a lot of clocks out in public:  Freestanding clocks on sidewalks, clocks as part of building façades, digital display clocks at banks.  Timepieces all over the place.  Not so many now, which is unfortunate when one has forgotten one's phone.

Anyway, they don't make them like this anymore.



There's probably a story somewhere.

 Because I kept forgetting to do this one.

 For the Text challenge; it's a stained glass window.

 I am a sucker for water sculpture.

So in spite of the fact that I knew the prompt was "animals" and had just used the first picture as an element in an apa cover a week ago, it didn't occur to me to use this shot as part of this aperture until about an hour ago.

I am assured that these are pelicans.  (In fact, the first shot I think was put up earlier.)