have a wonderful weekend everyone.

...trying to catch a bird on long distance with a macro :))

View of the St. Joseph, MI inner lighthouse from above the catwalk. The St. Joseph River on the left flows out into Lake Michigan.

Silvacane, Thoronet, Senanque, these austerely beautiful cistercian abbeys catch your breaths. You could not have imagined such simplicity and spiritual beauty built in stone. Silvacane lies on the left bank of the Durance river. It is the most recent of the three Cistercian abbeys in Provence and the only one that has not continued its monastic activity. The name comes from the Latin "silva cannorum" (forest of reeds). When the monks first settled here, they had to drain swamps before they could build the abbey (begin in 1174) and grow crops, hence the reference to reeds.

Vivid colors at the end of the day. Not such a neat composition but a cool light, i think. Have a great evening everybody and thanks for the 302,256 views!...:)

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The shadow of dim delight

I gave myself up for lost

in the depth of a glad humiliation

---in the shadow of a dim delight.

The repose of the sun-embroidered green gloom

slowly spread over my heart.

I forgot for what I had traveled,

and I surrendered my mind without struggle

to the maze of shadows and songs.

At last, when I woke from my slumber and opened my eyes,

I saw thee standing by me, flooding my sleep with thy smile.

How I had feared that the path was long and wearisome,

and the struggle to reach thee was hard!

GITANJALI

Offering songs by

Rabindranath Tagore

This one is for Hassan, who asked why I wasn't mirrored in those other shots...

... didn't find a title... thanks to spidy69ca I do have one now!

... made from nature!

mysterious and fashionable apparition seen on nightly stroll, Paris 6e.

An Anemona's life cycle

lit only by the flame being thrown inside ..... these balloons are absolutely amazing.....

....and I forgot my tripod...so this was hand held.

on a foggy day...

"She smiles, for though they have bound her, she cannot be a prisoner."

-Thomas Merton, Hagia Sophia, 1962

“I had a pious thought, but I am not going to write it down."

-Thomas Merton

Just decided to start a new series.....totally different to my macro photography...

Today I counted the windows of our house... there are 40 of them! So every once

in a while I will take a picture from one of the windows.....until completing the 40 views.

This is the catholic church of our town, St. Laurentius.

Não tenho ambições nem desejos

Ser poeta não é uma ambição minha.

É a minha maneira de estar sozinho.

O Guardador de Rebanhos

- fragmento-.

Alberto Caeiro/ Fernando Pessoa

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1. Ripe!, 2. old vines..., 3. Green & Red... the perfect contrast, 4. Last grapes, 5. Flames of autumn, 6. born in autumn, 7. Patterns & Colors in nature, 8. Two of a kind, 9. Autumnal carpet, 10. Christmas colors in autumn, 11. The vinyards from Oberdollendorf/Koenigswinter, 12. From green to red..., 13. Symmentry in nature... manmade

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Another one of my "snail models".

Yesterday morning: the most wonderful Eastermorningglow in the garden!

I will be outside again........we have the most wonderful weather here...

I'll be back tonight to visit & comment... Have a wonderful Day!

Originally I only wanted to take some portraits of the wonderful purple

wisteria flowers......when I discovered its leaves through my macrolens!

They are so soft 'n hairy!

後期重製，Repost

This tulip was from a bunch I bought as a treat for myself recently. One flower seemed to catch the light creating this inner glow. So I just had to do something about it.

'L' to view on black if you have time.

HOPE YOU ALL HAD A NICE WEEKEND.....THANKS FOR LOOKING.

MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO HAVE ASKED ABOUT PAT. HE IS FEELING A BIT BETTER TODAY.

WILL KEEP YOU INFORMED.

A long, horizontal black-and-white photograph showing faint, drifting traces of light floating in the darkness of a cemetery at night. Small luminous shapes appear scattered across the frame, as if suspended or vibrating in the air, creating a subtle rhythm of highlights emerging from deep black. The scene captures the fragile movement of light during a long exposure.

Photographed on a Mamiya C220 with an 80mm lens, aperture between f/5.6 and f/4, using multiple exposures of roughly 1 to 4 seconds each. Image made on October 30, 2025.