Wordless Wednesday: White-Tailed Bumblebee

close up of a bumblebee hovering near flowering currant
close up of a bumblebee feeding on flowering currant

Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday and a peaceful rest of the week,

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Wordless Wednesday

Cee’s Flower of the Day

CFFC: Found in Nature

CMMC: April Close Up or Macro

Tanka Sequence: Light in the Shadows

white crocus buds and leaves appearing through snow

grey walls
a grey polished floor
reflecting
our movements
the jangling keys

doors
opened and locked
by strangers
behind us a free world
turns grey and disappears

female prisoners
scan my face, my eyes
while being open
it is hard not to look
at what I can see

how blue
the light around the mother
who hurt
her child’s abuser
tears running down her cheeks

we talk and listen
to each prisoner’s song
first in rows
then in a circle
a pink light glows

© Xenia Tran

Ribbons, Winter 2023: Volume 19, Number 1

lilac white crocus buds appearing through snow
flowering currant lit up by the afternoon soon

More than twenty years ago, I ran a series of workshops in a women’s prison that linked the chakra system and its colours to meditation practice. The first session in this series inspired the above sequence.

Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday and a peaceful rest of the week,

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #241: Spring

Weekly Prompts Midweek Challenge: Wait

Silent Sunday: Flowering Currant

Ribes Sanguineum

close up of a flowering currant with a few buds still closed
macro shot of flowering currant blooms with dew drops

Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week,

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Silent Sunday

Cee’s Flower of the Day

CMMC: Spring or Autumn Season

Wordless Wednesday: A Touch of Pink

Flowering Currant (Ribes Sanguineum)

macro shot of a pale pink flowering currant starting to bloom
macro shot of pale pink flowering currant in the evening sun

Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Settings: f/3.5 – 1/250 s – ISO 100, f/3.5 – 1/1250 s – ISO 100 and f/3.5 – 1/1000 s – ISO 100.

Wordless Wednesday

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Wordless Wednesday: Filled with Hope

Flowering Currant

lensball shot of flowering blackcurrant
close up shot of pink flowering blackcurrant

Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Settings: f/5 – 1/250 s – ISO 200, f/5 – 1/800 s – ISO 200 and f/4 – 1/400 s – ISO 100.

Wordless Wednesday

Dutch Goes the Photo Tuesday Photo Challenge: Hope

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Silent Sunday: The Gift of Love

macro shot of white icicle flowering currant, partially blossoming
macro shot of white icicle flowering currant, partially blossoming
macro shot of white icicle flowering currant, partially blossoming

With love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/3.5 – 1/320 s – ISO 100 and f/3.5 – 1/250 s – ISO 100.

Silent Sunday

Cee’s Flower of the Day