<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Irresistibly Fish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://brettfish.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[brettfish]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://brettfish.wordpress.com/author/brettfish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Weekly Photo Challenge:&nbsp;(Kiss)]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>with the theme of &#8216;Kiss&#8217; there are certainly a lot of different interpretations i could have given to this week&#8217;s challenge, but the one that i have to share so obviously rises above all of those and that is a kiss between my wife Valerie [aka tbV &#8211; the beautiful Val] and myself on my wedding day&#8230; but as i searched for the picture i was wanting to use, namely this one which for me symbolises the start of a new journey of ongoing Love and affection:</p>
<p><a href="https://brettfish.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/weekly-photo-challenge-kiss/nostopkiss/" rel="attachment wp-att-3684"><img loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="3684" data-permalink="https://brettfish.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/weekly-photo-challenge-kiss/nostopkiss/" data-orig-file="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/nostopkiss.jpg" data-orig-size="2000,3000" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="nostopkiss" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/nostopkiss.jpg?w=200" data-large-file="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/nostopkiss.jpg?w=683" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3684" alt="nostopkiss" src="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/nostopkiss.jpg?w=640&#038;h=960" width="640" height="960" srcset="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/nostopkiss.jpg?w=640&amp;h=960 640w, https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/nostopkiss.jpg?w=1280&amp;h=1920 1280w, https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/nostopkiss.jpg?w=100&amp;h=150 100w, https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/nostopkiss.jpg?w=200&amp;h=300 200w, https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/nostopkiss.jpg?w=768&amp;h=1152 768w, https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/nostopkiss.jpg?w=683&amp;h=1024 683w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></a></p>
<p>i couldn&#8217;t help but choose to include this one as such a powerful image captured by a combination of sweet accident and the alertness of a talented photographer absolutely ready for anything that presented itself:</p>
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<p>this one for me speaks of the kind of fairy-tale imagining you figure must be going on in the mind of the silent observer with a sense of &#8216;that might be me some day&#8217; and so hope, Love and the greatest of expectation&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://brettfish.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/weekly-photo-challenge-unique"><strong>[For the previous Photo Challenge on the theme of &#8216;Unique&#8217; click here]</strong></a></p>
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