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Silent Sunday: North West Highlands Geopark

Knockan Crag Nature Reserve

view over the nature reserve from the Rock Room at Knockan Crag

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.

Silent Sunday

Sunday Stills: National Parks

Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #60: Framing the Shot

Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Excursion

Silent Sunday: Loch Droma

Loch Droma north shore with trees, hills and mountains in the background

Loch Droma with a small island with trees

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.

Silent Sunday

Becca’s Sunday Trees

Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #56: Seascapes and/or Lakeshore

Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Reflection

Silent Sunday: Coigach Dreams

Stac Pollaidh

the Coigach landscape under a blue sky with cotton wool clouds

Wishing you all a blessed Sunday from Coigach,

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/5.6 – 1/1000 s – ISO 250, f/5.6 – 1/500 s – ISO 100 and f/5 – 1/1000 s – ISO 160.

Silent Sunday

Dutch Goes the Photo Tuesday Photo Challenge: Hill

Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #55: Dreamy

Haiku: Warm Notes

young leaves in the foreground, lit up by the sun

warm notes
of the shakuhachi
deep forest

male mallard duck bathing in a pond

listening
to the shakuhachi
splashing duck

snow capped mountain peaks across Loch Morlich

here to stay
on mountain peaks
another season

Kristjaan at Carpe Diem invites us to revise two haiku by Soen Nakagawa (1907-1984). The first one inspired two haiku. A shakuhachi is a flute that was originally introduced in Japan from China during the 6th century and is often used in meditation.

We wish you all a very happy Monday and a wonderful new week!

With love, Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #30: Revise that Haiku – Soen Nakagawa’s Mountain Peak

Carpe Diem Spring Retreat 2018: The Light of the World

Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Lines