Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/3.5 – 1/800 s – ISO 100, f/3.5 – 1/2000 s – ISO 160 and f/3.5 – 1/640 s – ISO 100.
Cee’s Flower of the Day
Sue’s Weekly Prompt: Weekend Challenge – Flower Power
Word of the Day Challenge: Garden
Create a sanctuary within yourself where you can go anytime you want to
(Shakti Gawain)
Your sanctuary is your ideal place of relaxation, tranquillity and safety and you can create it exactly as you want it (Shakti Gawain)
Welcome to the Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge, where Patti, Tina, Amy and Ann-Christine kindly invited me to guest-host this week.
Here in the Scottish Highlands we spent more than a hundred days in lockdown where both our home and our community became our sanctuary during the Covid-19 crisis.
We are blessed that we live in a loving home and in a caring community. We have been reaching out to those who are less fortunate, those for whom home is not the safest place to be.
These people have been offered sanctuary with another loving family, with extended family members, neighbours, teachers or in solitude.
Sanctuary can be found and created in a garden, a park, a field of wild flowers and by the sea …
… watching wildlife, listening to birdsong …
… along the forest trails and in the mountains.
This week we invite you to share what Sanctuary means to you, where you find it or how you create your place of calm and healing. In your post, please make sure you include a link to this challenge and use the Lens-Artists tag so we can find your post in the WP Reader.
Last week, you shared your wonderful images of Winter for Ann-Christine’s challenge. Many thanks Ann-Christine for hosting last week’s challenge and to all of you who contributed your amazing images of this beautiful season of snow and contemplation.
Have you seen these?
What’s up next week? Stay tuned on 8 August when Amy will be hosting LAPC #109.
Wishing you all a wonderful and creative week ahead and I look forward to your submissions!
With love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #108: Sanctuary
Word of the Day Challenge: Introducing
shaded meadow
a range of flowers
surrounds our nest
the lockdown gives us time
to see each other clearly
© Xenia Tran
Meadowsweet and Thistle was first published in Ribbons, Spring/Summer 2020: Volume 16, Number 2. A very big thank you to Christine L Villa and the team at Ribbons for featuring my poem and putting this beautiful edition together.
Wishing you all a blessed Wednesday and a wonderful rest of the week,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/5 – 1/200 s – ISO 125, f/5.6 – 1/320 s – ISO 200 and f/6.5 – 1/250 s – ISO 100.
Frank J Tassone’s Weekly Haikai Challenge #148: Summer Meadow
Your Daily Word Prompt: Connote
Word of the Day Challenge: Grace
dVerse Poets: Open Link Night #270
A further selection of recent publications in online and print journals can be found here:
The clean air during the lockdown is helping the fruits in our garden grow better than ever.
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday and may you stay safe and well,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Lumix Panasonic FZ200, Settings: f/3.5 – 1/2000 s – ISO 100 and f/3.5 – 1/1250 s – ISO 100.
Cee’s Flower of the Day
Word of the Day Challenge: Golden
Redshank
Wishing you all a peaceful 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 and f/6.5 – 1/200 s – ISO 200.
Sue’s Weekly Prompt Photo Challenge: Aesthetically Appealing
Word of the Day Challenge: Lovely
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/4 – 1/160 s – ISO 100, f/4 – 1/250 s – ISO 100 and f/4 – 1/200 s – ISO 100.
Sunshine’s Macro Monday #24
Word of the Day Challenge: Complete
Wishing you all a blessed New Year!
With love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/8 – 1/1600 s – ISO 100, f/8 – 1/1000 s – ISO 200 and f/5 – 1/1000 s – ISO 200.
Jez Braithwaite’s Water Water Everywhere #8
Word of the Day Challenge: Renewal
The Festive lights along the coast are often understated. There is something honest and refreshing seeing them unlit against a blue sky. In this small fishing village, a handful of squares with cables and light bulbs are tied to the main street’s lampposts. One has a leaping dolphin, another a sailing boat. There’s an anchor and a ship’s wheel too. The locals joined hands to pay for it all.
all year round
a spirit of community
Christmas lights
© Xenia Tran
We are taking a short blogging break until 29th December and wish all of you who celebrate a very Happy Christmas!
Seasons greetings with love
from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/5.6 – 1/500 s – ISO 200, f/5 – 1/1000 s – ISO 160 and f/5.6 – 1/1000 s – ISO 160.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #76: On Display
Frank J Tassone’s Weekly Haikai Challenge #118: Christmas
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Seven Days Before Christmas (2): Light
Word of the Day Challenge: Guidance
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
