Wishing you all a peaceful Sunday, a happy Saint David’s Day to our friends in Wales and a wonderful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX60, Settings: f/5 – 1/400 s – ISO 100, f/6.5 – 1/320 s – ISO 200 and f/5.6 – 1/160 s – ISO 100.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #86: Change Your Perspective
Sunday Stills: Photographing Near and Far
little turnstone
every pebble in his world
turning, turning
© Xenia Tran
It was a real treat to see this turnstone in his winter plumage the other day. He foraged for food in the narrow spaces between stones whilst I waited patiently nearby, not wanting to disturb him.
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a wonderful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/6.5 – 1/250 s – ISO 200, f/6.3 – 1/250 s – ISO 200 and f/6.3 – 1/100 s – ISO 200.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #84: Narrow
Sunday Stills: Birds
Faskally Woods
Wishing you all a peaceful Sunday and a blessed week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/3.2 – 1/125 s – ISO 160, f/4.5 – 1/50 s – ISO 320 and f/2.8 – 1/60 s – ISO 200.
Jez Braithwaithe’s Water Water Everywhere #12
Sunday Stills: What Do the Shadows Have to Say
little sparrows
sweet songs and gossip spun
around the feeder
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8 – 1/320 s – ISO 100 and f/2.8 – 1/160 s – ISO 100.
Frank J Tassone’s Weekly Haikai Challenge #123: First Sparrows Twittering (hatsusuzumi)
Sunday Stills: Shades of Gray
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Rhyme
Loch Fleet Nature Reserve
two herons
waiting on tidal stones
one young, one old
a calm we understand
at the heart of it all
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a peaceful Sunday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/6.5 – 1/160 s – ISO 500, f/6.5 – 1/160 s – ISO 400 and f/4 – 1/250 s – ISO 200.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #72: Waiting
Sunday Stills: Calm
We’re enjoying an Indian Summer. Here and there some leaves are changing colour, a few float along the stream into the pond. The only cygnet that remains is showing his first white feathers. His parents have changed their plumage too. The sun travels lower through the sky, wrapping our world in warmest light.
one last wave
before the muddy roads
autumn equinox
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a beautiful Sunday and a happy September Equinox tomorrow.
With love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/5 – 1/30 s – ISO 200, f/4 – 1/250 s – ISO 160 and f/4 – 1/400 s – ISO 200.
Frank J Tassone’s Weekly Haikai Challenge #105: September Equinox
Paula’s Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word in September (Yr 4) – Avian
Sunday Stills: Signs of Autumn
Peacock Butterfly
ready to paint
september’s butterflies
in the garden
© Xenia Tran
We’re delighted that this haiku is featured in Haiku Dialogue: Poet’s Choice, artist studio, Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog, 18 September 2019. A very big thank you to Kathy Munro for putting this edition together.
With love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/4 – 1/400 s – ISO 100, f/4 – 1/500 s – ISO 100 and f/4 – 1/1250 s – ISO 100.
Sunday Stills: Favorite Sport or Hobby
Paula’s Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word in September (Yr 4) – Fluttering
Word of the Day Challenge: Love
Black Water River
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/4 – 1/1000 s – ISO 160, f/5.6 – 1/400 s – ISO 200 and f/5 – 1/1000 s – ISO 200.
Becca’s Sunday Trees
Sunday Stills: Layers
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
these memories
leaning across the pond
in the leaves
© Xenia Tran
We’re delighted that this haiku is featured in Haiku Dialogue – Willow and Intro to Poet’s Choice, Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog, 31 July 2019. A very big thank you to Kathy Munro for putting this edition together.
Wishing you all a wonderful Tuesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/2.8 – 1/40 s – ISO 200, f/4 – 1/60 s – ISO 200 and f/3.4 – 1/200 s – ISO 400.
Sunday Stills: The Essence of Zen
Word of the Day Challenge: Gesture
Tranature 
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