Nature – Tranature

Wordless Wednesday: Watching the Pond

a black-headed gull balancing on a weathered post beside a pond

With love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/6.3, 1/320 s, ISO 640 and f/6.3, 1/320 s, ISO 1000.

Wordless Wednesday

Dutch Goes the Photo Tuesday Photo Challenge: Challenge

Silent Sunday: Relaxing Afternoon

a pen and two of her cygnets sleeping on a small island

a pen and two of her cygnets resting on a small island in the pond

a cob preening in the background with brown grass in the foreground

With love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/5.6, 1/250 s, ISO 800, f/6.3, 1/250 s, ISO 800 and f/6.5, 1-320 s, ISO 1250.

Silent Sunday

Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Dream

Tanka: Into the World

on hatching day – three cygnets with their pen

being close to dad – a cygnet swimming with his cob

newly hatched
brimming with a lust for life
a cygnet
swimming beside his father
spring’s first hello

solo preening – a cygnet preens his feathers in the river

a fully grown cygnet stepping onto a sandbar at low tide

at home
in the water, on land
a cygnet grows
strong wings, white feathers
autumn’s first farewell

a cygnet spreads his wings on the sandbar, his mother is preening behind him

The most spirited and independent of the seven cygnets has flown the nest and we wish him well on his new journey.

With love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Settings: f/4.5, 1/1000 s, ISO 160; f/5.6, 1/800 s, ISO 100; f/5.6, 1/250 s, ISO 320; f/5.6, 1/400 s, ISO 100; f/5.6, 1/250 s, ISO 125 and f/6.3, 1/160 s, ISO 400.

Carpe Diem #1556: Fleeting Autumn (yuki aki)

Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week Challenge: Things with Wings

Wordless Wednesday: Holding the Light

close up of ice crystals on evergreens and wilting leaves

macro shot of evergreen covered in ice crystals

macro shot of ice crytals around the edges of the tip of a green leaf

With love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/4.5, 1/80 s, ISO 250 and f/4.5, 1/125 s, ISO 250 with DMW LC55 Lens.

Wordless Wednesday

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Cold

Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Brilliance

Silent Sunday: Mallard Magic

a mallard duck bathing, head first in the river

close up of bathing duck resurfacing from the water

With love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8, 1/640 s, ISO 100.

Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #21: Splash!

Silent Sunday

Wordless Wednesday: Memories

a seal snoozing on a sandbar with a big smile on her face

a male seal barking next to a snoozing sleeping seal on a sandbar, a heron stands across the water

three grey and white common seals snoozing on a sandbar

With love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/6.5, 1/320 s, ISO 200, f/6.3, 1/320 s, ISO 200 and f/6.3, 1/320 s, ISO 160.

Dutch Goes the Photo Tuesday Photo Challenge: Memories

Wordless Wednesday

Haiku: Into Dusk

sunset over Moray Firth looking West on an outgoing tide

quiet dusk
her violets and gold
in full bloom

sunset over Moray Firth looking West on an outgoing tide

With love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/5, 1/80 s, ISO 125 and f/5, 1/100 s, ISO 100.

Carpe Diem’s Autumn Retreat 2018: Love Eternally

Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #19: Magical Light