winter moon
her frost flowers
crystallise
ancestral blessings
from this year to the next
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a blessed, happy and healthy New Year!
With love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/5.6 – 1/200 s – ISO 100, f/5.6 – 1/80 s – ISO 160 and f/5.6 – 1/125 s – ISO 320.
Carpe Diem #1842: End of Year
Frank J Tassone’s Weekly Haikai Challenge #171: New Year’s Day
Tanka Thursday: Year
We wish you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/4 – 1/200 s – ISO 160 and f/2.8 – 1/160 s – ISO 100.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #126: Alphabet Challenge – Letter A
Word of the Day Challenge: Legendary
Ledmore Woods
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #117: A Photo Walk
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Moving
We are taking a short blogging break to make the most of the fine autumn weather and will be back next Wednesday.
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/4 – 1/160 s – ISO 200, f/4 – 1/125 s – ISO 100 and f/5.6 – 1/250 s – ISO 160.
Jez Braithwaite’s Fan Of … #79
Cee’s Flower of the Day
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and may you all stay safe and well,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/4.5 – 1/1250 s – ISO 100, f/4 – 1/800 s – ISO 100 and f/4 – 1/1000 s – ISO 100.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #93: Morning
Discover Prompt #18: New
Loch Morlich
Thank you again for all your good wishes before we went on our break!
It was lovely to spend some time in the Cairngorms and see the ice melting on the lochs.
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/6.5 – 1/1000 s – ISO 200, f/5.6 – 1/2000 s – ISO 200 and f/8 – 1/1250 s – ISO 200.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #86: Reflections
Jez Braithwaite’s Water Water Everywhere #18
Dutch Goes the Photo Tuesday Photo Challenge: Scale
The above images feature the final sunset over the Moray Firth in 2019 seen from Nairn beach. The last image in this sequence was first published in the Nairnshire Telegraph on Tuesday 7th January 2020 to accompany an article by the editor titled Farewell to an Old Year – and Welcome to the New. A very big thank you to Iain Bain for putting this edition together.
Wishing you a peaceful Sunday and a wonderful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8 – 1/60 s – ISO 400, f/2.8 – 1/80 s – ISO 800 and f/2.8 – 1/50 s – ISO 400.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #80: Leading Lines
sunrise
gliding into
the river
© Xenia Tran
We’re delighted that this haiku is featured in Haiku Dialogue: Poet’s Choice, brevity, Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog, 7 August 2019. A very big thank you to Craig Kittner for putting this edition together.
Wishing you all a very happy Sunday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/4 – 1/1250 s – ISO 160, f/8 – 1/2000 s – ISO 100 and f/8 – 1/2500 s – ISO 100.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #69: Seeing Double
Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week Challenge: Open Topic
Word of the Day Challenge: Rhapsody
Knockan Crag Nature Reserve
To help celebrate the anniversary of the National Park Service we’re returning to the scenery from our Summer Break, seen through the open windows of the Rock Room Visitor Centre at Knockan Crag Nature Reserve in North West Highlands Geopark.
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/4 – 1/250 s – ISO 160, f/4 – 1/800 s – ISO 160 and f/4 – 1/640 s – ISO 100.
Sunday Stills: National Parks
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #60: Framing the Shot
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Excursion
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/4 – 1/1600 s – ISO 160 and f/5.6 – 1/400 s – ISO 100.
Becca’s Sunday Trees
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #56: Seascapes and/or Lakeshore
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Reflection
