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UPDATE:
Thanks everyone for kindly voting this 500th entry into the spotlight!
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Today is not only World Animal Day, it's also the 500th entry of my photographic Blip show.

For this occasion I thought it would be nice to combine something with animals and the number 500, and I recalled that I had seen just the thing that would do the trick.

This old promotion Fiat 500 (Cinquecento in Italian) from Circus Herman Renz that I had spotted on the road some months ago and the nice things of a circus is that they have a website stating where they perform every day ;-)

If you now compare this photo with yesterday's shot you can spot all the ingredients of preparation already in that shot.

The car but in a slightly higher angle, the numbers awaiting against the wall to be fetched by the chrome shop, the curtains painted on the containers and even a poster of the tiger!

It wasn't an easy montage, but it was a great exercise to create, even the 3D chrome numbers that are basically just a normal type in photoshop ;-)

Large is so much nicer! Just press the 'L' key or magnifying glass!

PS. I also featured a Delft Blue Fiat 500 on my actual - but 'unofficial' - 365 blip on may 1st 2013, so felt nice to continue the act ;-))

PS2. Don't forget to be extra nice for animals today!

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World Animal Day is celebrated each year on October the 4th. It started in Florence, Italy in 1931 at a convention of ecologists. On this day, animal life in all its forms is celebrated, and special events are planned in locations all over the globe.