A late evening stroll as the sun drops below the horizon.

...Life blossomed, in its myriad forms, the wonder of Creation and Life manifests through the mists of time.

Soft focus apple blossom.

A member of the Pea family. Favours rough open grassland.

An afternoon at Warwickshire Wildlife's reserve Brandon Marsh in late December 2019

Steveston BC, Canada

Soft focused ambience with some moody blues. Something a little different. Hope you like it.

Happy Weekend

~Christie

A Magnolia Stellata bloom

Feeling sick...

all i need right now

is a soft blanket

and heaps of the most important medicine:

tender love and care...

Are you your thoughts?

Or the thinker of the thought?

Or that to which thoughts appear?

Is there a difference, and who or what is *I* in this equation....?

Reflections.

And what is reflecting and where are you in that equation....?

These are not questions people normally ask, but they should be. Sometimes the things that seem the most obvious are the things that need the deepest scrutiny .

Yellow Rose

Optical Instruments - Smile on Saturday

The area of the garden which is left to its own devices is currently awash with daisies and lots of little blue flowers, one of which you see in the photo.

Blue Crocus

Looking close...on Friday.

Just a bit of fun!

"In the dog days of summer as muslin curls on its own heat

And crickets cry in the black walnut tree

The wind lifts up my life

And sets it some distance from where it was".

by MEENA ALEXANDER, The dog days of summer:

Fireside like glow

Dreamy focus

"...forget-me-not..."

(Did you spot the blue frog hiding under the tiny flower?)

ICM

Intentional Camera Movement

This is a re-edit of a picture taken while camping at Caddo Lake State Park, Texas, a couple of years ago.

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Soft focus

Abbey Fields - Kenilworth

Soft focus

The soft-focus effect was caused by the moisture of the briny sea wind on the lens of my camera.

Photo taken during my morning beach walk.

I use my filters rarely, but sometimes experimenting is fun. I got this effect with the gentle misty rain and a soft filter. A rare rainy August day in the Willamette Valley. The hay has been cut and baled and a lot of the land looks like this at present.

Photographed in B&W

not for long...

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~Wiesensinfonie ~

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♬ ♩ ♭ ♪ in S - Dur ♬ ♩ ♭ ♪

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wish you all a sunny summer weekend

Yes it's bluebell season and as I've still not managed to get to the woods, this one was captured in our garden a short while ago

I wasn't quite sure what the difference between the two species was, so I did a little research. It appears we have the invaders.

The native ones have a much longer, thin tube-like shape and as you can see, this is the invader. Still pretty in shape and colour but strangely proved to be rather difficult to get an image I was fairly happy with

A fairly soft focus again, gave me that dreamy feel I like with flower images