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Sometimes you go out with a specific image in mind, sometimes it's nice to just stand around having a chat and occasionally pressing the shutter to capture the scene in front of you.
Whilst walking in the dales last weekend, the weather got me thinking. The clouds were very low and there was this wonderful eerie atmosphere, as the mist slowly undulating down Wharfedale.
This tree caught my eye, as the cloud base kept dipping down and stroking its highest branches. I’d been past this spot many times, but the mist had re-framed my perspective, helped me ‘see more’. The conditions had not only physically framed a new perspective but they had helped me emotionally connect with a familiar place in a different way.
The calm feelings I had, were paradoxically warm and optimistic considering the hostile conditions. But its only now that I select and edit this image that i truly recognise this. In reflection i did feel calm when there, but I didn’t explore the reasons, I didn’t question what it was that inspired them.
Yes I was inspired by the photographic conditions, but it was more than that. I truly felt like I should be there (sorry if I'm sounding like an old hippy). I wonder if the new perspective created by the unusual weather was the very reason I felt optimistic. It was indeed a break from the norm and the new perspective on familiar ground was refreshing. What made it special to me was that, I managed to find such positive optimistic feelings from what others would not.
This in itself is reward enough, but I wondered what other simple experiences that I took for granted could be explored and turned into simple pleasures.
Here is an (edited) list I began in the café on that day, that I fully intend to explore further. Some are more common than others and some I haven’t the bottle to share with you guys, fearing being taken away in a white coat (o:
Coming in from the cold,
The first five seconds of a new bath,
Clean sheets,
Smell of spring air,
A massive sneeze,
Waking up in the middle o the night, knowing that you have several hours left to sleep,
The smell of fresh coffee/bread,
A single bird song,
Sound of crashing waves,
Humbling feeling whilst looking at mountains,
Walking on a deserted beach at dawn / dusk,
Swimming with eyes closed,
Dry sand through fingers,
Sea spray on face,
Warm sun on face,
Catching a big wave,
The feeling of exhaustion from exercise,
The sound of the glugs from a wine bottle,
The smell of a log fire.
The low morning light was beautiful on the grass and weeds lining this gravel road north of Idaho Falls. I am becoming more and more convinced that there is beauty all around us. Finding that beauty is not so much traveling to it but opening our eyes and seeing the beauty in the common and simple things around us.
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The finished product! Have a great week everyone!
Here is the recipe:
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Lighting - daylight
After a very hard day of torture, managed to escape just in time to catch this scene.
Somehow got roped into looking after five children, including three 3 year olds! So the three mothers can have a nice day out shopping "threely".
Boy was I in for hard time! Soon as the mothers came back, I run out of the house, ignoring all the delicious treats they got me!
Have a great week ahead folks :-)
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Tout simplement
M’ asseoir et regarder
Tout simplement
Cette Beauté
Comme un ravissement
De mon Corps, et de mon esprit
Dans ce lieu si joli
Où seul me dérange
Le doux chant des oiseaux
Que surtout rien ne change
Car tout ici est si beau
Domi
Simply
M 'sit and watch
Simply
This Beauty
As rapture
Of my body and my mind
In this place so beautiful
Where only bothers me
The sweet singing of birds
What especially nothing changes
Because everything here is so beautiful
Domi
For the majority of us who live in the first world it is hard to imagine that many on this planet still live in very basic situations. This was taken in a Fulani village in Ivory Coast. The young woman seems pleased to see me!
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This building was the former Yorkshire Bank Headquarters in Merrion Way, Leeds. Most of the structure behind this once highly polished, now dusty, facade has now been demolished.
Demolition is continuing.
Designed by Abbey Hanson Rowe (AHR) Architects in 1984.
Photo taken on 28th August 2025.
ok, so i guess "feed me seymour" is a better title, huh?
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Mrs. Ford's love of gardening and horticulture was said to be second only to her devotion to her husband and family. Her tastes in gardening were simple, at least as far as design and color were concerned. She preferred old-fashioned plant varieties such as Bachelor Buttons, Petunias, Irises, Peonies, Tulips, Lillies, Heliotropes, Delphiniums, Forget-Me-Nots, English Primrose, Scilla and, of course, Roses planted in relatively informal patterns. Indoors, her fondness for gardening was expressed by a variety of small cut flowers in small glass vases that were displayed in each room. In addition, there were assortments of foliage plants, especially located in the Swimming Pool area.
Clara Ford spent many hours planning, touring, and pampering her treasured Blue, English, and Rose Gardens, always on the lookout for imperfections such as a misplaced marigold among a sea of aqua and sky-blue blossoms. Her efforts were recognized publicly when she served as a president of the Women's National Farm and Garden Association from 1927-34.
It has been a number of years since the majority of Fair Lane's elaborate gardens have been planted and pampered the way they must have been when Mrs. and Mr. Ford were in residence. Consider, if you will, that Mrs. Ford routinely employed 25 fulltime gardeners in 1926. However, while these gardeners helped to cultivate estate grounds, there were only five servants that maintained the entire residence.
It would be almost impossible for the Henry Ford Estate-Fair Lane, as a non-profit organization, to restore each garden area fully. However, restoration of certain areas to their early 1920's state is now proceeding. The garden scheme being implemented reflects the original plan of Jens Jensen.
#74/365 I always challenge myself to get good shots at average places...it forces you to be creative with composition. Without a specific subject or focal point the whole scene becomes the focus which leaves you with only composition (I'm starting to sound like im wise or something). This shot reminds me of the Pho Resturant shot, where I make the best out of an average looking place. I call this shot "Simple" to let the composition stand on it's own. No fancy words, no black bars and not much PP (some color tweaks). Hope you like it.
"never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. there is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.”
~ albert schweitzer, german medical missionary
This simple violet caught my eye blooming in front of this tree root. My neighbor spends hours pulling them up out of her lawn, lol, not me, I treasure them! Have a wonderful Tuesday everyone!
