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			<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/203545699@N08/">Snapsbytodd2</a> posted a photo:</p>
	
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<p>A man stands in the shade of an ancient stone archway in the Sassi di Matera, Italy. The weathered masonry and sun-drenched cobblestones highlight the historic atmosphere of this UNESCO World Heritage site.</p>
			<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/arianec/">Vancouverscape.com</a> posted a photo:</p>
	
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arianec/55093517822/" title="Plaza San Antonio Hotel &amp; Spa-6"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55093517822_26c1bd61a8_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Plaza San Antonio Hotel &amp; Spa-6" /></a></p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arianec/55094398961/" title="Plaza San Antonio Hotel &amp; Spa-14"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55094398961_10a70143a0_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Plaza San Antonio Hotel &amp; Spa-14" /></a></p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arianec/55094398991/" title="Plaza San Antonio Hotel &amp; Spa-8"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55094398991_8a9cca57c0_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Plaza San Antonio Hotel &amp; Spa-8" /></a></p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arianec/55094667559/" title="Plaza San Antonio Hotel &amp; Spa-16"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55094667559_3b63224ab2_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Plaza San Antonio Hotel &amp; Spa-16" /></a></p>

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			<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/banzainetsurfer/">banzainetsurfer</a> posted a photo:</p>
	
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<p>Koishikawa Korakuen Inner Garden 小石川後楽園 内庭<br />
Bunkyo City, Tokyo, Japan</p>
			<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/arianec/">Vancouverscape.com</a> posted a photo:</p>
	
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arianec/55094595078/" title="Statler Hotel Dallas-5"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55094595078_699b00a91e_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Statler Hotel Dallas-5" /></a></p>

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			<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/arianec/">Vancouverscape.com</a> posted a photo:</p>
	
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arianec/55093508382/" title="Statler Hotel Dallas-12"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55093508382_33a7a4cf43_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Statler Hotel Dallas-12" /></a></p>

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			<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/arianec/">Vancouverscape.com</a> posted a photo:</p>
	
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arianec/55094657904/" title="Statler Hotel Dallas"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55094657904_f8a3817c1a_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Statler Hotel Dallas" /></a></p>

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			<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/arianec/">Vancouverscape.com</a> posted a photo:</p>
	
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arianec/55093508432/" title="Statler Hotel Dallas-6"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55093508432_18ff2c2656_m.jpg" width="240" height="174" alt="Statler Hotel Dallas-6" /></a></p>

<p>Photo credit: © 2026 Ariane Colenbrander/Vancouverscape.com</p>
			<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/eriktorner/">eriktorner</a> posted a photo:</p>
	
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/eriktorner/55094713950/" title="Snæfellsnesvegur heading West - Iceland 2021"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55094713950_6157e36914_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Snæfellsnesvegur heading West - Iceland 2021" /></a></p>


			<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/eriktorner/">eriktorner</a> posted a photo:</p>
	
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/eriktorner/55093471577/" title="Snæfellsjökull - the massive and mysterious volcano and glacier dominating Snæfellsnes peninsula - West Iceland 2021"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55093471577_41f949ffeb_m.jpg" width="240" height="145" alt="Snæfellsjökull - the massive and mysterious volcano and glacier dominating Snæfellsnes peninsula - West Iceland 2021" /></a></p>


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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/eriktorner/55094348276/" title="Snæfellsnesvegur heading West - Iceland 2021"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55094348276_7c5a0442df_m.jpg" width="240" height="107" alt="Snæfellsnesvegur heading West - Iceland 2021" /></a></p>


			<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/126574513@N04/">Dom Haughton</a> posted a photo:</p>
	
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/126574513@N04/55094552998/" title="An Afternoon in the Unplanned"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55094552998_712478ce2f_m.jpg" width="240" height="155" alt="An Afternoon in the Unplanned" /></a></p>

<p>“I’m going to turn up this road here!”  It was a random decision on a random day that followed the rains, immediately made more complicated by the appearance of a car at the narrow entrance to the road in question.  But I’d already signalled my intention to both this motorist and the one close behind me.  A one hundred and thirty-five degree first gear turn onto a road that rose steeply and immediately past a handful of smallholdings where everyone seemed to be asleep, before an equally dramatic and winding descent into the silent valley.  Ahead of us lay a perfect semi wilderness, full of olive groves that rose and fell along the soft curves of the land.  Hard to believe that we’d driven just a few miles from the noisy tourist coast to arrive at this blissful rural sanctuary.  I drove the car slowly along the unmarked asphalt, not knowing quite where we were going or when we might stop.  I like journeys like this, when there are no real plans and the unexpected decides for you.  <br />
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We’d only driven half a mile or less from the bottom of the hairpins when we saw the first of them trotting over a patch of open ground to our right.  A stag led two hinds and a young fawn towards the road.  As we slowed, they gazed back at us incuriously.  I looked for somewhere to pull up, quickly finding a scrape of ground in front of a pile of hardcore.  Hopefully the owner didn’t have any projects to attend to for the next couple of hours.  I really should have changed into the walking shoes that I was keeping in the back of the car.  The ones I was wearing were for general holiday lounging about kind of use, and really weren’t designed for rugged terrain like this.  But there wasn’t much time.  From here it was a very short walk back to where we’d seen them.  The adults were already gone, but for a few moments the fawn stood nearby, watching as I aimed the camera, congratulating myself on having stored a custom setting for such moments.  A few seconds later, the fawn followed the elders down a small slope and disappeared from sight.  Now and again, a solitary car would pass, the occupants craning their necks through open windows in search of what we’d just seen.<br />
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By now we’d heard the unearthly grunting sounds that punctuated the silence at regular intervals.  What on earth was it?  Was there a wild boar lurking in the undergrowth somewhere?  Should we be worried?  Could it be the stag with the handsome crown of antlers we spotted at the head of his herd by the road?  Eventually we spotted him, deep in the grove, snorting away to himself.  By this stage the grunts were multiplied, spreading across the valley.  One close at hand, above us in a thicket to the right, others further away to the south, east and north.  More stags were nearby.  We kept our distance; gave him the space that such a noble creature deserved and watched in silence.  Now we knew what the plan was for the rest of the day.  Where we were going was right here.<br />
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We’d only learned about the Fallow Deer when picking up the hire car near the airport.  A poster on the wall at the rental office warned us to drive carefully after sunset because the deer sometimes stray onto the roads at night.  It’s so easy to think of these holiday islands as just that.  Sanitised for tourists, with waterparks, high rise hotels and shopping centres selling junk.  Of course they’re always much more than that if you start digging under the veneer.  But coming onto a minor road and seeing them strutting about, bold as brass in broad daylight?  We hadn’t expected that.  Everywhere we looked, the soft brown earth was filled with their hoof prints.     <br />
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I could have shown you the easy shot.  The one when the fawn stood no more than forty yards away, staring into the lens in clear bright light.  A friend of mine said he thought that was the best shot of the small collection I shared online.  Maybe he was right, but in my reply I told him that it was also by far the easiest one.  The others, taken in darker surroundings, were much more challenging, and because of that they were the ones that brought the greater reward as far as I was concerned.  Especially this one, when another group of Fallow Deer grazed beneath the olives on an area of raised ground.  For a moment two of them stared in the direction of the man in the inappropriate mud spattered shoes at the edge of the glade as he wound the lens out as far as it would go.  And then they lost interest and returned their attention to the ground.</p>
			<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/eriktorner/">eriktorner</a> posted a photo:</p>
	
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/eriktorner/55094556773/" title="Fáskrúðarbakkakirkja - church by Snæfellsnesvegur heading West - Iceland 2021"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55094556773_a2706317bd_m.jpg" width="240" height="142" alt="Fáskrúðarbakkakirkja - church by Snæfellsnesvegur heading West - Iceland 2021" /></a></p>


			<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/eriktorner/">eriktorner</a> posted a photo:</p>
	
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/eriktorner/55093470577/" title="Snæfellsnesvegur heading West - Iceland 2021"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55093470577_c1932ed828_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Snæfellsnesvegur heading West - Iceland 2021" /></a></p>


			<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/eriktorner/">eriktorner</a> posted a photo:</p>
	
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/eriktorner/55094717730/" title="Snæfellsnes peninsula - West Iceland 2021"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55094717730_6f9878d607_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Snæfellsnes peninsula - West Iceland 2021" /></a></p>


			<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/eriktorner/">eriktorner</a> posted a photo:</p>
	
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/eriktorner/55094354081/" title="Snæfellsnes peninsula - West Iceland 2021"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55094354081_a52dd645d4_m.jpg" width="240" height="140" alt="Snæfellsnes peninsula - West Iceland 2021" /></a></p>


			<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/eriktorner/">eriktorner</a> posted a photo:</p>
	
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/eriktorner/55094719350/" title="Snæfellsnesvegur heading West - Iceland 2021"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55094719350_e3e6169770_m.jpg" width="240" height="141" alt="Snæfellsnesvegur heading West - Iceland 2021" /></a></p>
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