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i want to abandon my obligations
i want to go to the sirens
i want to be shipwrecked on a foggy ocean of rocky barren expanse
i want to loose it all to my beautiful, treacherous, austere lover
Just re-visiting the archives. Here's something from a few years ago.
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Thank you all so much for your encouraging reactions!!
Wishing you all a great day!!
I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
The little yellow flower of Doronicum orientale 'Leonardo' Compact, commonly known as Leopard's Bane with a 7-spot Ladybird - Coccinella septempunctata.
Have a great weekend everyone.
Copyright© 2012 Kim Hojnacki
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Peonies season is in full swing here in UK now, I can never resist photographing these gorgeous flowers. They are going to be stars of the show for me at this year Chelsea Flower Show which starts tomorrow. I am there on Wednesday with a few fellow flower photography addicts, will be great to catch up with others, let me know if you are there.
Friendships that last a lifetime are rare. A dear friend of mine (we'd been friends for almost 30 years--we raised our children together, sang in the choir together, led music for children's camps together) tragically was diagnosed with a fatal neurological illness.
The last few years, I went to her house several days a week to spend precious time with her, because I knew that one day that time would come to an end. She loved orchids, and grew them so well. Occasionally I would snap photos of them and show them to her to see her smile.
She was such an inspiration. She never blamed anyone for her illness, She always saw the good in people, even in her own situation.
This is one of the photos I took a year or so before we lost her. But even the last day, she was still smiling with her eyes.
This, dear friend, is to you...
An ode to @caballosblancos
Happy 'Roid Week, day 3!
Real talk: all of my Impossible Project photos inevitably come out slightly out of focus, or very unfocused like this one. Does this happen to anyone else? Is it because the film sheets are thicker than Polaroid film?
Thank you for all your visits, faves and kind comments!
Nikon D300
Nikkor 105mm VR
F 3.5
1/50
ISO 400
manual (de)focus :-)
This rose is for Lisa, aka zoom in tight, who is facing her challenges with grace, good humor, and a dedication to help others.
Please visit her friend Kim, for the latest update, in Lisa’s own words.
And from me, the following Apache blessing – it was on a journal that a friend sent to me four years ago, when I was going through my own chemo for ovarian cancer. It was a great source of comfort during my battle – I can’t imagine wanting more out of life:
May the sun bring you new energy by day,
May the moon softly restore you by night,
May the rain wash away your worries,
May the breeze blow new strength into your being,
May you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life.
Tiny blue flowers of Forget-Me-Not are arranged in rounded clusters along the stalk and displayed bright yellow centers.
Some suggested that the name Forget-Me-Not is because of the memorably bad taste of their leaves.
--- New York Botanical Garden
My little boy, speckled with freckles.
"Red hair and freckles and big blue eyes" Jim Reeves, from Billy Bayou (1958)
C'è qualcosa di me
Dentro me
Che non sai
Fino in fondo... ahum
C'è un giardino che mai
Forse mai
Troverai
Dove mi nascondo...ahum
Am still experimenting
The Looking Close on Friday group’s theme for 8/27 is to create a close up black and white picture in which nothing is in focus. And I was determined to use my cellphone’s camera - at this point the 6 month experiment is now in its 8th month!!
But the thing about cellphones is that they want to *fix* your focus. So we’re smarter than our smartphones, right? A couple of the experimental ones are with a very thin plastic bag covering the lens.
There are more than eight b&w pictures in my photostream from experimenting and i created an album. And i'm not about to give up yet! Thank goodness green animals is/will be an easier theme (SoS).
I love editorial but I really want to go back to that unfinished or tweaked conceptual and intuitive way of thinking and using photography as a different kind of communication
Spring wildflowers on the bank of the American River dried by the scorching summer sun. Late day sunlight bouncing off the water and through the complex aperture of my homemade lens.
shot with a homemade, continuously variable soft focus lens.
Something a bit on the different side for my photography. These grasses just looked so awesome in the fog that I couldn't resist.
I shot this image for photography workshop with topic of soft focus, so I used Nikon Soft Focus Filter to capture this very simple image, However, as I viewed and thought about this a lot, I wanted to imagine what this made me think. Fog, smoke, flowing river, etc. I finally settled upon imagine creativity flowing. What does this make you think? I invite you to pause to imagine, then share your own thoughts. If you do, thanks for your time to reflect and share with your Flickr Family.