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"Deep into that darkness peering,
long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting,
dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." - Edgar Allan Poe
"A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night." - J.M. Barrie
What I awoke to this morning after an unexpected overnight delivery. Not sure why I was surprised since it will be a good month before winter even thinks about loosening its grip. Maybe it's all those flower photos you all keep relentlessly posting. And while I may not have "skipped the light fandango" nor "turned cartwheels 'cross the floor" (and couldn't if I wanted to), it's been a mild winter and I certainly can't complain...especially since the sky is now clearing and temps are again headed up to well above normal.
First day of Autumn and we awoke to the sounds of much needed rain :))
Oops I see my new camera hasn't handled the leap year date too well...
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A Rainy Day is the Perfect Time for a Walk in the Woods
- Rachel Carson
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We awoke to a cloudy sky with drizzling rain on our first day in Yosemite. So rain-slickers and camera-covers were dug out of the overnight bag and off we went in pursuit of a close encounter with Mother Nature. We were not disappointed.
The short hike up to the lower Yosemite Falls got wetter and wetter until everyone in the area was soaking wet and smiling from ear to ear. It was a Good Day : )
(iPhone 13 Pro Max, 1/800 @ f/1.5, ISO 40, edited to taste)
Yesterday, I awoke to snow on trees still dressed in autumn color. Fortunately, a cloudy, breezy morning gave way to a beautiful sunny afternoon. This photo was made at the home of a friend.
Hello Everyone!
Recently, Winnipeg awoke to another lovely vision of hoar frost despite the foggy conditions. I spotted some rosehips with lots of frost on their stems. This was the first time I've used the macro for ice and wish I'd increased the DoF, but I hope you can see the little feathers of frost along the stems. Hoping Mother Nature cooperates so that I can try again on a day that isn't so cold that I freeze solid!
Thank you for looking and for leaving a comment. I do love hearing from you! Have a terrific day!
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I spent a few days last week exploring a beautiful part of the Scottish East coast. Many lovely fishing villages and fantastic shoreline geology to explore.
I awoke early one morning to look at this fascinating harbour breakwater. It felt like I should have been catching zzzzs instead of look at them. The sun eventually rose and lit up one side of the harbour wall whilst also painting the clouds for a few minutes.
This five minute exposure used a Haida 15 stop ND and a Lee 3 stop hard grad for the sky. Very little editing here, just some noise reduction was needed.
I really like how the high breakwater casts a long shadow, with warm tones and cold tones either side.
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“When she awoke, the world was on fire.”
― Scott Westerfeld, "Uglies"
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Happy Halloween! :)
the sign on the line said, "just take your time."
so i stood there asking" am I fine?"
the man in the door said, "not anymore!"
then i awoke and spoke, "certainly this is a joke!"
and the man yelled," Just stand there and take your shot."
so now I am standing in line and this time
I'm at the hospital not feeling fine,
so the shot made me sick
but they said,"sit down in line your going to be fine."
lines sure are fun there aint none......better
than this one. fun fun.
I awoke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered
Started humming a song from 1962
Ain't it funny how the night moves
When you just don't seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closing in
[ Bob Seger - Night Moves ]
Happy Sliders Sunday everybody!
And enjoy the autumn! ;-)
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
David Wagoner’s poem, “Lost”:
The final words echo in your ear as you continue along the hike known as Spring Awakes!
Awoke to some scary news happening across the US today so sending out some calming Lavender into the universe .... I think many of us need this right now. The beautiful dresses in the image are by Belle Epoque and can be....
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So before I go anywhere, I awoke to the great news that "Her Ladyship Awaits" made it into explore, apparently last Friday but I didn't become aware of it until yesterday. Nice surprise indeed!
This photo I took a few days ago and as I said before I need to get more confident in pushing the Aperture with higher ISO values. However, the light behind was a full reflection of sunlight from a factory window which the very top of this bush was in front of. As humans breath air cameras breath light and I have always enjoyed playing with that very nectar of imagery!
I hope everyone's weekend has gone well and so as always, thank you! :)
The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep,
And round the pebbly beaches far and wide
I heard the first wave of the rising tide
Rush onward with uninterrupted sweep;
A voice out of the silence of the deep,
A sound mysteriously multiplied
As of a cataract from the mountain's side,
Or roar of winds upon a wooded steep.
So comes to us at times, from the unknown
And inaccessible solitudes of being,
The rushing of the sea-tides of the soul;
And inspirations, that we deem our own,
Are some divine foreshadowing and foreseeing
Of things beyond our reason or control.
Longfellow's sonnet.
taken @ Baja Norte
The second day of my trip I awoke at 4:00am and headed up to airport mesa for the sunrise. It turned out to be cloudless and semi-boring. I stood with 10 or 12 other photographers hoping for some last minute color to appear in the distant clouds but it was in vain. We all grumbled about the circumstances and started packing up to head to the cars, we chatted as we walked and I turned to see hot air balloons drifting up over the valley to the west. Several of us picked up pace and race back to the cars to set off in pursuit. I chased them down highway 89a and after a couple of stops for shots I came across the Sedona Nature Preserved just off the highway accessed by a small dirt road. I pulled in and parked right in front of the locked gate and ran over to the waters edge just in time to snap this shot. As I shot a siren sounded behind me, it was the local sheriff trying to signal me "move it". It wouldn't be the last time that I was shooting to the sound of a siren on this trip. :)
The photo ninja strikes again. LOL, Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
More about that on a later post.
Arriving into Ecuador and Cotopaxi awoke with a huff a puff to celebrate a new day.
This photo was taken on the day after arriving in Quito as I walked to the end of a country lane where we stayed over night before heading out to Cuenca.
So beautiful, so powerful, so majestic yet so dangerous. I never felt threatened but I was in awe...
This poor guy was clinging to his tree as if he awoke there and could not account for how he got there. Peace Valley Park, Bucks County, PA.
I awoke and saw the mist, and with a whoop leapt out of bed.
After I picked myself up out of the heap on the floor and put my back together again, I made for the woods, and found some nice thin mist.
Larger On Black
View from the deck yesterday...awoke to the same today. Ground still too warm for it to stick. Not unusual at all to have October snow, but I become less enthused about it with each passing year.
Sunrise outside my tent as I awoke for the day in Yosemite National Park at Bass Lake. Being alone, it was for my eyes only.
View On Black " Notturno" by Ronald Menti
"All'alba ci risvegliò la neve. Lassù aveva cucito un velo bianco intorno alla Madonna delle Lobbie. Così ascoltammo in silenzio la Lessinia."
To the dawn he awoke the snow. Up there he had sewn a white veil about to the Madonna of the Homburg Hats. We listened so to the Lessinia in silence
[You Are My Sunshine]
- (Cover) Music Travel Love
The other night dear, as I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you in my arms
But when I awoke, dear, I was mistaken
So I hung my head and I cried
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You'll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away
I'll always love you and make you happy
If you will only say the same
But if you leave me and love another
You'll regret it all some day
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You'll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away
You told me once, dear, you really loved me
And no one else could come between
But now you've left me and love another
You have shattered all of my dreams
You are my sunshine, my…
We awoke to a little snow last Friday. I made a quick visit to some of the local spots before work and I was rewarded with a few nice images. I arrived at the Sheebeen at 8.02am and the Guinness truck was just pulling out after another delivery of the creamy stuff :-) I didn't get time to compose this as I literrally hopped out of the car and started snapping. Needless to say all thats left are the photos as the heavy rain over he weekend washed the little snow away.
Well what a morning. I awoke to dense fog and took myself for a local exercise trot around Hillock Wood. UK is in lockdown again, not that you would notice with the amount of traffic on the road. Anyway, was a wonderful photographic walk with plenty of misty scenes and sun rays abound! More to come!
to the late day sun after a dark grey day.
Cary Larrabee texture included: www.flickr.com/photos/c_larrabee/12230962475/
Warner Lake, North Hadley, MA
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I awoke and looked out at the clear sky during the blue hour. i looked up the tide times and saw sunrise was co-inciding with low tide, just enough time to get down to the beach and watch the sun come up over the horizon. I arrived just in time and managed to catch a passing gull too. A perfect start to the day.
The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door...and he looked inside…..
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend
I awoke this morning to a rather heavy fog and, happily, open water on the lake with only a few icy patches remaining. It is always amazing how quickly this transition happens. As I stood watching, a small group of the beautiful hooded mergansers landed right in front of me, the males immediately beginning the head bobbing mating ritual to the seemingly unimpressed females. My loons should arrive very soon. In the background, Canadian geese were calling from the marshes and the familiar cacophony of the amorous crows signaled that, indeed, spring had arrived...at least for the fauna. It will still be a while before the flora feels the warmth necessary to emerge and make its presence known.
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As an aside, I want to thank those contacts who took issue with my "fool" characterization yesterday...many replacing it with the far more comforting descriptive of "old" or some derivation thereof. I really appreciate it. So while there may be some question as to being the fool, it appears there is none as to being old. Terrific. Very encouraging. I reckon I have lived long enough to confirm the proverb that, indeed, "there is no fool like an old fool." But we would also do well to recall Harold MacMillan's words very effectively covering the subject: "It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool." British logic at its best...
Endlich sommer :D
The strawberry moon rose over the Spree. Almost unnoticed, he rose to the top. While Berlin's nightlife awoke. To all of you a wonderful night.
Der Erdbeermond ging über der Spree auf. Fast unbemerkt stieg er nach oben. Während Berlins Nachtleben erwachte. Euch allen eine wundervolle Nacht.
(40/366) We awoke to a sprinkling of snow. This was the view out of my bedroom window at 9am (best viewed Large or zoom). The wonky Alder tree by the stream does my symmetry OCD no good at all I can tell you. HTMT & HTT!
A lenticular cloud forms at 282 feet below sea level as the sun rises over Badwater Basin down in Death Valley.
Through a twist of fate, I managed to get this weekend off, so I spent some time down in the valley of death. We, Bill&I, awoke at 4:15am Saturday morning to start the search for the fabled “Mud Cracks” at the north end of Badwater Basin. Bill had discovered that they were located somewhere near a large flash flood area west of the highway. We followed the many flood grooves down into the basin to this flat area which consists of a silt based clay. As we scoured around the area with flashlights looking for something interesting to put in the foreground several other cars arrived on the highway and many other photographers started making the long walk out onto the playa. Then the first hints of light started to finally illuminate the landscape, and we found we where already around several other people scattered here and there homesteading on their favorite spot. I noticed a guy shooting this small piece of volcanic rock sticking up out of the tiles, I liked what I saw so I mustered up the courage and started to park next to the guy. When I looked through the viewfinder I didn't like the fact that it wasn’t accentuating the mud cracks as I had envisioned, so I moved back and to the left and saw this long crack leading right to the small stone, so I set up really low and used it as a leading line. As I was adjusting my final composition some lady behind me said “Ok boys, it’s color time” Almost as if she were mother Nature herself, the clouds started to light up with color, as if with a dimmer switch. I stood there amazed then went to work shooting and as I did so, couldn’t help think about that ladies amazing timing.
I want to thank William McIntosh for his contribution in obtaining this capture. His obsessive determination and unbridled tenacity is, and will always be, a huge inspiration to me. He is a true landscape photographer in every since of the word. :)
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After a night of photographing the Milky Way in this incredibly dark place, I awoke to this view. Even though I had seen this view the evening before, it looked so different and so much clearer and fresher in the morning. It was breathtaking.
After the great fall, I awoke to see the white rabbit over looking me behind the flowers wearing a necklace. He turned and hopped away, I got up and followed. I never dreamed that the path the rabbit would take me on had so many curves and holes. One day I truly hope to fine my way back!
"The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep,
And round the pebbly beaches far and wide
I heard the first wave of the rising tide
Rush onward with uninterrupted sweep;
A voice out of the silence of the deep,
A sound mysteriously multiplied
As of a cataract from the mountain's side,
Or roar of winds upon a wooded steep.
So comes to us at times, from the unknown
And inaccessible solitudes of being,
The rushing of the sea-tides of the soul;
And inspirations, that we deem our own,
Are some divine foreshadowing and foreseeing
Of things beyond our reason or control. "
~Wadsworth Longfellow
Whistler Mountain and Cutthroat Peak, North Cascades, Washington
After a week of very hot and humid weather, I awoke in the early morning hours yesterday to a sound I had not heard in quite awhile - rain! And though the clouds later cleared off and the sun came out for awhile this morning, the air now suddenly has the unmistakable feeling of autumn. Gone is the languid softness of summer, replaced with the crisp edges that speak of the impending change of seasons. The days are noticeably shorter now too, the endless evenings of summer rapidly fading into the recesses of memory.
And as the calendar seems caught between two seasons, I feel that too. A longing to hang on just a little longer to the warmth and easy joys of summer, yet anticipating the fresh energy that autumn often brings. This photo is from one of my favorite memories of last autumn, taken on my hiking trip to the North Cascades.
Autumn Memories
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©Sarah Shepherd, 2022
[Note: The music in the link above is a piece that I composed, so please excuse the non-professional presentation of it. It took me a bit to work out a way to share it in a Flickr post. And there are still some technical issues I need to figure out, such as why in the YouTube version it's hard to hear the melody line over the chords.
Anyway, sometimes, I write with music instead of words. Usually instrumental music, although recently I actually wrote a song for the first time, writing the lyrics and then composing a melody for it. And since Flickr has sort of become a place for me to share some of my creative endeavors beyond just photography, I thought I would share the autumn-inspired piano piece I wrote this weekend :-)
Further Note: That is not me playing the piano. I don't have a way to record live from the piano, so after I wrote the music by hand at the piano, I put the score into a music notation program which generates an audio file that I can export. Thus the tone and sound quality are about what one might expect from a computer trying to sound like a piano 😂]
This morning we awoke to a carpet of snow, a not too frequent event in this part of the country. A beautiful contrast to the clear blue sky.
Our grandson awoke at 6:00 am this morning while camping at the Kettle River Campground. He was full of beans in a campground that was 99 percent asleep so we started exploring. This was our reward.
And I see my little ghost
Wonderin' if it's really her that's lying there
I lean to touch her, and I whisper
But not brave enough to kiss her
When I held her, I was really holding air
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I awoke from my van in the company of sheep, their herders, dogs and horse, and, to my delight, lots of wild horses. Wild horses are feral, but to me, truly wild. They live on their own, have a distinct social order and a wildness about them that is quite attractive. Stallions gather mares and fight for dominance to keep their "family" together. Within a herd the alpha must maintain his position. As a result, stallion interactions such as the one pictured here are not uncommon. When different groups come together or when bachelors in a herd are establishing their rank there is going to be some action. To see a stallion gallop out to challenge a rival, or one chasing another and to see the ground they can cover hair flying,
dust rising and aggression imminent, is a thrill.
I awoke early to find an eerie red glow from the bedroom window and saw this amazing sunrise. I dragged on a few clothes and dashed outside to find what was one of the most intense red skies I have seen. It covered every part from east to west, and north to south. Wonderful to see.....and worth getting out of bed for earlier than my usual time!
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!