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
Stac Pollaidh
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.
Dutch Goes the Photo Tuesday Photo Challenge: Hill
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #55: Dreamy
warm notes
of the shakuhachi
deep forest
© Xenia Tran
listening
to the shakuhachi
splashing duck
© Xenia Tran
here to stay
on mountain peaks
another season
© Xenia Tran
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
