quiet moments in nature
With love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/3.5 – 1/100 s – ISO 200.
Sunday Stills: Show Us Something Green
Dutch Goes the Photo Tuesday Photo Challenge: Wonder
water falls
between growing leaves
the pure land
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you a very happy Monday and a wonderful new week,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/3.5 – 1/80 s – ISO 200 and f/3.5 – 1/125 s – ISO 200.
Carpe Diem #1622: Kumano Kodo … CD Imagination
Paula’s Thursday’s Special: Pick A Word In March Y4 (inversion, circuitous)
daffodils
wet with wind and rain
how they dazzle
© Xenia Tran
With love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/3.5 – 1/80 s – ISO 160, f/3.5 – 1/125 s – ISO 100 and f/3.5 – 1/160 s – ISO 100.
Dutch Goes the Photo Tuesday Photo Challenge: Round
light rain
around the buddha’s feet
a sea of diamonds
© Xenia Tran
With love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/3.5 1/100 s – ISO 100, f/3.5 – 1/80 s – ISO 200 and f/3.5 – 1/50 s – ISO 200.
Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week Challenge: Meme-worthy Photos
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Iridescence
You can see more close-up shots of crocus flowers in our recent post Violet Flame.
Wishing you all a beautiful day!
With love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/3.2 – 1/320 s – ISO 100, f/3.2 – 1/100 s – ISO 200 and f/3.2 – 1/200 s – ISO 160.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #34: Close-Up
Cee’s Flower of the Day: Crocus
As 2018 draws to a close we look back in gratitude for all the magic we found in nature.
We followed a pair of swans as they raised their first brood together, watched herring gulls dive for fish, were greeted by friendly mallards on our walks by the river. We saw squirrels and seals. We met oystercatchers, curlew, redshank, goosander, turnstones, wigeon and pigeons, sometimes as curious about us as we were about them.
We enjoyed the magic of macro, looking closely at blossoms, flowers, at ripening fruit. Raindrops captured the light and a reflection of our world. Ice crystals shimmered on the edge of an evergreen.
We saw clouds wandering across a pond, the first leaves of Spring, a mountain inside a stone by the river. The snow fields were slow to leave the higher ground, even when the water lilies were blooming. Our Autumn was glorious and the mist over the Kyle on Solstice day guided us into Winter.
A very big thank you to all our followers and fellow bloggers for their kind comments and support since we started this blog.
We really appreciate those fellow bloggers who host challenges too. A special thank you to Cee Neuner for hosting her Flower of the Day, Frank Jansen for his wonderful prompts at Dutch Goes the Photo, Patti, Amy, Tina and Ann-Christine for hosting the Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge, the team at the Rag Tag Daily Prompt for their Daily Writing and Photo Prompts, the team at dVerse for their poetry prompts, Frank J Tassone for his Weekly Haikai Challenge and last and certainly not least, Kristjaan Panneman at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai for hosting the haiku prompts and retreats that we have supported throughout the year.
Thank you again for all the love. We wish you and your loved ones a blessed and very happy New Year.
With love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
The annual review on our sister blog Whippet Wisdom can be found here.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #26: Photographic Review of 2018
still they flower
shades of blue with purple veins
a gentle gaze
© Xenia Tran
We wish you all a peaceful weekend.
With love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/4.5, 1/100 s, ISO 125 and f/4.5, 1/80 s, ISO 125 with DMW LC55 Lens.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #11: Small is Beautiful
