sundaystills – Tranature

Haiku: Enchanted Forest

Faskally Wood

autumn festival
the full moon
a special guest

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/5.6 – 1/100 s – ISO 250, f/5 – 1/60 s – ISO 160 and f/5 – 1/60 s – ISO 200.

Frank J Tassone’s Weekly Haikai Challenge #107: Fall Foliage

Sunday Stills: All Lined Up

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Circles, Curves and Arches

Haiku: Summer Cygnets

nurturing
stillness of summer
a swan’s love

a three week old cygnet pulling up an underwater plant with his beak

gentle breeze
pulling up pond weed
the cygnet grows

two three week old cygnets beside their mother, water splashing between them

two cygnets
between them the water
flies away

a three week old cygnet with water droplets on her beak and crown and downy feathers

At the woodland pond, there are only three cygnets left.

They’ve grown a lot since we last saw them and are now pulling the smaller pond weeds up by themselves.

Sitting on the bank and watching them for a while, it was lovely to see them already develop their own, unique personalities.

Wishing you all a peaceful Sunday,

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Settings: f/4 – 1/400 s – ISO 100, f/4 – 1/320 s – ISO 100, f/4, 1/640 s – ISO 160 and f/5.6 – 1/640 s – ISO 200.

Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #51: Unique

Word of the Day Challenge: Nurture

Sunday Stills: Stillness of Summer

Wordless Wednesday: Exploring a New World

a lamb following his mother across the beach towards the rocks and cliffs

a lamb climbing the rocks behind his mother

a lamb climbing the rocks behind his mother and looking over his right shoulder back to the ocean

This sequence follows on from our earlier post I’ll Show You the Sea.

Wishing you all a very happy Wednesday,

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/4 – 1/800 s – ISO 100, f/4 – 1/1000 s – ISO 160 and f/4 – 1/250 s – ISO 100.

Wordless Wednesday

Sunday Stills: Veering off the Path

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Two Items or the Number Two

Haiku: Spirit of Love

a pair of greylag geese bonding on the water

greylag geese
writing their love
in sky, on water

a pair of greylag geese bonding in shallow water beside reeds

With love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/6.3 – 1/250 s – ISO 200 and f/5.6 – 1/200 s – ISO 200.

Sunday Stills: Spirit

Dutch Goes the Photo Tuesday Photo Challenge: Connections

Your Daily Word Prompt: Renew

Haiku: Two-Tone Daffodil

macro shot of a two-tone daffodil bud partially opening

golden hearts
born again each spring
these flowers

macro shot of a two-tone daffodil flower head

Wishing you all a blessed Monday and a wonderful new week,

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/3.2 – 1/400 s – ISO 160 and f/3.2 – 1/400 s – ISO 100.

Sunday Stills: Spring

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Wordless Wednesday: Green Wonder

green budding leaves with a heart-shaped raindrop

macro shot of green budding leaves with a heart-shaped raindrop resting on one leaf

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.

Wordless Wednesday

Sunday Stills: Show Us Something Green

Dutch Goes the Photo Tuesday Photo Challenge: Wonder

Haiku: Bouncing Light

a black headed gull preening himself beside two female mallards on a snow covered river bank

preening gull
the light that bounces
in the snow

close up shot of snow on dead branches with starlight in a melting drop

With love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/6.5 – 1/2000 s – ISO 400 and f/6.5 – 1/1600 s – ISO 400.

Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week Challenge: Depth of Field

Sunday Stills: Unexpectedly Frozen

Wordless Wednesday: Winter’s Reflection

Dornoch Firth

a barn and farmhouse beside birch and pine trees reflected in the water

View towards the East along the Dornoch Firth in Winter

With love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/4, 1/200 s, ISO 160, f/4.5, 1/60 s, ISO 200 and f/4, 1/500 s, ISO 400.

Wordless Wednesday

Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #27: My Travels

Sunday Stills: Reflect

Haiku: Feeding Time

close up of three wigeon feeding on seaweed at low tide

gentle surf
chimes at ebb tide
dinner’s here

a female wigeon feeding on seaweed in the low surf

Wishing you all a very happy Monday and a wonderful new week!

With love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX HS, Settings: f/6.5, 1/320s, ISO 100 and f/6.5, 1/320 s, ISO 125.

Carpe Diem’s Autumn Retreat 2018: Love Eternally

Terri’s Sunday Stills: It’s Time

Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Chime

Tanka: Lazy Days

two swans and four of their seven cygnets in the harbour

learning
the colours of water
fanning their wings
soon these cygnets will fly
discover new horizons

two swans and four of their seven cygnets in the harbour

Later this week the cygnets will be three months old. Three of them are out of shot, all seven of them are doing really well. They have started to fan and flap their wings.

With love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/5.6, 1/250 s, ISO 200.

This is my 30th contribution of Carpe Diem’s Summer Retreat 2018 with the theme ‘Finding the Way’, where we were invited to contribute one haiku, tanka or haibun per day for thirty days. I contributed fifteen poems at Whippet Wisdom and fifteen poems here at Tranature. To see all thirty contributions together you can click here.

To see the contributions from everyone who took part please see the Carpe Diem link below.

Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2018: Finding the Way

Terri’s Sunday Stills: Lazy Days of Summer