Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #172: A Day of my Week
Silent Sunday: Quiet Spaces
Tag: waterfall
Silent Sunday: Shapes in Flowing Water
When I slow down the shutter speed the most amazing shapes show themselves in the water.
The second image was taken in landscape mode and looked even more magical when I rotated it to portrait.
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Discovery
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #171: Weird and Wonderful
Wordless Wednesday: Natural Healing
Sending Highland Healing to where it is needed and wishing you all a peaceful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/2.8 – 1/1250 s – ISO 100, f/1.8 – 1/1250 s – ISO 160 and f/5 – 1/1250 s – ISO 1100.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #148: Spots and Dots
Wordless Wednesday: Magic Awakening
Cairngorms National Park
Haiku: Mountain Stream
always near
the spirits of loved ones
heaven’s river
© Xenia Tran
We’re delighted that this haiku is featured in Haiku Dialogue: Poet’s Choice, cemetery, Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog, 25 September 2019. A very big thank you to Kathy Munro for putting this edition together.
We’re taking a short blogging break to make the most of the fine weather and will be back next Wednesday.
Wishing you all a wonderful week,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/3.5 – 1/2000 s – ISO 160 and f/2.8 – 1/2000 s – ISO 160.
Dutch Goes the Photo Tuesday Photo Challenge: Stone
Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week Challenge: Stacked
Wordless Wednesday: Plodda Falls
Glen Affric
A spontaneous walk to the edge of the viewing platform overhanging the waterfall in the first two images gives you the view in the image above.
With love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/4 – 1/30 s – ISO 200, f/2.8 – 1/125 s – ISO 160 and f/2.8 – 1/60 s – ISO 125.
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Splash
Gerry’s Weekly Word Prompt: Spontaneity
Lai Nouveau: River Affric
history lives near
in waters this clear
old songs
when ravens nest here
pine martens and deer
belong
fresh bluebells appear
this time every year
wild salmon who steer
the gorges this sheer
are strong
in silence we hear
our hearts leap and cheer
along
in waters this clear
history lives near
© Xenia Tran
Grace at dVerse Poets invites us to write a Lai or a Lai Nouveau and I have opted for the Lai Nouveau at my first attempt.
A Lai is a French poetry form consisting of a five-syllable couplet followed by a two-syllable line. The number of lines in each stanza is fixed at nine and the couplets must rhyme with each other, as must the two-syllable lines. The number of stanzas is not fixed and each stanza has its own rhyme pattern. The stanza’s rhyme pattern is: a a b a a b a a b.
A Lai Nouveau is considered to be slightly more challenging than the Lai. It has an eight-line stanza and is similar in idea to the Villanelle. In the Lai Nouveau the first two lines are the refrain and are used as the last lines of the subsequent verses with the last verse including the refrain lines in reverse order. The stanza rhyme patterns are: A1 A2 b a a b a a and a a b a a b A2 A1.
You can read my second contribution Seashore Anew on our sister blog Whippet Wisdom.
The Lai and Lai Nouveau prompt stays open for another three weeks.
With love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr
Settings: f/4 – 1/200 s – ISO 160, f/6.5 – 1/160 s – ISO 200 and f/5.6 – 1/500 s – ISO 200.
dVerse Poets Poetry Form: Lai and Lai Nouveau
Your Daily Word Prompt: Negotiation
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