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When you are up against a wall,
put down roots like a tree,
until clarity comes from deeper sources
to see over that wall and grow.
(Carl Jung)
Challenge on flickr - Scene/Sepia
7 Days with Flickr - Thursday: black&white or sepia
(photo by Freya)
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How does it feel? Summer is finally on and it already burns, I can tell you that. Yesterday was my first outing to shoot the “Race to Mackinac”. Due to circumstances I never attempted to capture this event and I really had a ton of fun. Got to meet some new friends and spend some more time with old ones. Time really flies when you are surrounded with like minded people. What do you think?
A mixed flock of waders flying past New Brighton Lighthouse struggle to make any headway against the gale force winds.
As written previously some strange encounters and experiences only hit the full impact mark with some delay.
On a recent event I was viciously struck, once again, by the fact how people are trying so hard to stand out from the crowd.
Clutching for recognition haunted and conforming to some distant paradigm.
In an almost perverted way of begging for attention, they act just merely all the same…
Waiting for a miracle to get noticed, dwelling around (could be a side effect of too many mojo-cocktails though) with eyes closed to their own originality.
Peculiar fact: they want to stand out and simultaneously being simply slightly different from the crowd terrifies them …
Exhausted by too much conversation, by all those attempts to come up with jokey and lively epigrams as the hours and the evening evolve, they seem to fill less and less the room, a kind of emptiness silently surrounding them. Awaiting some miracle solution or advice on how to navigate the crowd.
Wouldn’t it be more simple, every now and then, just to merciless avoid the crowd and just stand tall, against the wind …
Lage tree against cloudy sky at a trail near Duffins marsh in Discovery bay , cropped Photograph , Martins photograph , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , May 8. 2021
Beautiful red brown coloured dead tree trunk
cropped Photograph
Nikon DF
Nikon
DF
Scrunched up roots
Garter snake
Large mushroom
Horsetails
Fiddleheads
Duffins creek
Discovery bay
cropped photograph
closeup photograph
Martin’s photographs
Ajax
Ontario
Canada
May 2021
Favourites
IPhone XR
Mushroom
Large Mushroom
wildflowers
Trout lilies
Trilliums
Solomon’s seal and
white Deadnetles
Duffins trail
River
Dogwood
Favourites
White Trilliums
Unique shaped tree
Duffins marsh
Nikon DF
Nikon
DF
A series I shot on the day of the first early season snow. Although it may appear that I blended a color image and a b&w image together these are actually all straight shots. The snow coming down against the backdrop of the dark lake created the contrast with the only real color in the image, the chairs.
my flickr stream ;-))
In a mood of B&W
But surely I wish you a colorful new day, my sweet friends! :-)
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. I just loved the light here and her posture which, to me, emphasised the balmy 5 degrees Celsius (excluding the wind chill). Stay warm and enjoy your weekend my Flickr friends!
he caught me off guard... didn't get off a great shot... wanted to have his wings show but I didn't have the ISO set high enough... regardless... it's kind of a cool shot with him looking at me upside down .... er... me looking at him upside down... or something like that...
This pretty Geranium was one of those plants that you have in your garden that survives against the odds and then delivers more than expected.
Nature teaches us many lessons. Here, a tree that is aging and starting to decay still continues to grow and develop.
Against a nice backdrop of layered cloud, ScotRail 43003 thunders North through Carnoustie in charge of the 1A59 Glasgow to Aberdeen service.
A human being is dwarfed by the granite tors forming on the saddle of Mt Oberon.
Norman Beach, Victoria.
Evening Grosbeak(m)
It appears there is a massive irruption going on , and the largest movement of this species in 20 years. I had 17 in my yard today and there are reports of 100's appearing at feeders all across Ontario.
It takes a STRONG fish to swim against the current.
Only the dead ones go with the flow.
(John Crowe)
Life is a Rainbow - violet
PSP**** Prise SurPrise!! - contrast
7 Days with Flickr - Wednesday: macro or close up
Weekly Theme Challenge - three of something
(photo by Freya)
So against all hope, I went to String Lake to shoot dawn. After a bit, a couple shows up and the guy asks, "Do you mind if she goes into the lake?" Now it is 29 degrees, according to the car, and she's going to wade out into the lake? I'm 100% okay with it. She has the blanket and is maybe 5' 5" and blonde and glasses. Yeah, I want to see this. She puts on waders and in she goes. I couldn't resist a few shots. It turns out her husband is an artist and she is a stand-in for what will be a Native American woman. I'm pretty sure that I've never met a Native American who would stand in 29 degree water, but be that as it may, it ought to be an interesting painting.
“Beautiful Eastern Redbuds on this tree against the cloudy blue sky at the shore of Lake Ontario on the waterfront trail in Squires beach , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , May 13. 2024”
“”Eastern Redbud”
“stand of Cottonwood trees”
“the waterfront trail of Lake Ontario”
“Squires beach“
“Martin’s photographs”
Ajax
Ontario
Canada
“Cottonwood trees on the waterfront trail in Squires beach , Ajax “
Favourites
Catkins
“Catkins on a Cottonwood tree”
“Beautiful stand of Cottonwood trees in Squires beach at the waterfront trail in Ajax”
“Beautiful stand of Cottonwood trees”
“Cottonwood trees”
“Interesting , creepy , shaded , wet and swampy area with trees with moss”
“mud and a lot more moss”
“Swampy area”
Moss
Creepy
Mud
Shaded
“Wet and swampy”
“Green and white Trilliums”
Trilliums
woods
“Fallen tree”
“Duffins creek”
“Discovery Bay”
“Duffins Creek”
“Trilliums in the woods”
“Duffins Trail”
Spring
“Discovery Bay near Duffins Creek”
“Martin’s photographs”
“Helen’s photographs”
forest
Trees
Wildflowers
“Trout Lilies”
“Fallen tree”
“Duffins Mash”
“Duffins trail”
“Trail near Duffins Marsh”
Autumn
“Red trilliums”
“Red trilliums in the woods”
“Beautiful blue sky”
“great clouds”
“Beautiful blue sky with great clouds”
“Squires beach”
Blossoms
“Beautiful springt tree blossoms”
“the clouds and blue sky”
“Rotary Park”
“Beautiful springt tree blossoms against the clouds and blue sky”
“Painted turtle”
vines
“Closeup photograph”
“Purple Fodder Vetch”
“Queen Anne’s Lace”
“Rotary park”
“Lake Ontario”
“Discovery Bay”
“Cropped photographs”
“IPhone XR”
“May 2024”
bokeh
This grizzly cub, the size of a cocker spaniel, became separated from its mother last summer. It spent one month alone, in a very hostile environment, trying to survive. Cubs usually nurse for two years, so it was remarkable this 6 month old cub was living only on roots & berries. Against the odds, mother & cub reunited after weeks apart. The cub would not have survived winter alone, so I was so happy when they reconnected.
This little one will be emerging from its den soon. In the wild there's seldom happy endings for the weak & vulnerable. I'm happy this time was different. I'm hopeful that I will see this cub, known as Pepper, again this spring. <3