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Love and solitude are the one ground of true maturity and freedom. Solitude that is just solitude and nothing else (i.e. excludes everything else but solitude) is worthless. True solitude embraces everything, for it is the fullness of love that rejects nothing and no one, is open to All in All

-Merton’s journal, April 14, 1966

Coronella austriaca

 

Taken in Western Rodopi, Bulgaria.

More photos can be seen at alexperryphotography.blogspot.com

Canoeing Banff National Parkway

Maryland's South River meeting the Chesapeake Bay.

Captive - taken at the excellent Celtic Reptile and Amphibian facility on one of their photography days

Talisker Point at Talisker Bay on the Isle Of Skye. This is not a million miles from the Talisker Distillery that makes fine whisky.

Just for the record the title refers to the transition from water to sky and vice versa and not the current state of the Brexit process!!! This gem was first shown to me 6 years ago by a friend. In the summertime this is a very popular spot and behind me there is a really nice beach bar but right now is very calm and peaceful. On this visit and right after I set my tripod I tried to cross to the left of the scene to put my camera bag down. In the process I slipped on the rock and while trying to save the gear (who wouldn’t 😂😂) I obtained a couple of bruises and cuts. That was not enough to stop me as I really liked the ambience and the soft tones. One would think that this is the end of the story but no...after sun went down and I packed away I decided to wash my hand in the sea to clean it; as I was approaching the water I see my phone (in slow motion) falling from my pocket into the water. I can tell two things: 1. I am surprised that my phone still works and 2. It’s not pleasant going in the water in January!

Thank you for looking and sorry for the essay but I thought it was quite funny (retrospectively obviously!)

 

Despite everything I had a very calming tune in mind: youtu.be/pkitw9LUB88

 

Technical info:

Nikon D810

Nikkor 16-35 @ 16 mm

ISO 64

F16

25s

Lee 0.6 GNDH

Lee Little Stopper

 

Thank you for taking the time to look at my image

Elk in Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park

taken two years ago during our ocean crossing from hawaii to SF (somewhere near the middle, a thousand miles from land in any direction) -- reworked recently & so am finally posting...

 

it turned out lighter in tone/mood than this one, taken only minutes apart but probably pointing in slightly different directions, hence getting a slightly different relationship of light to ocean...

National Park Krka, Croatia

Coronella austriaca - Colubro liscio, Smooth Snake

 

Colline Metallifere NP, Tuscany, Italy

Canon AE1

Canon FD 50mm f/1.8

Smooth and Dreamy ISO 25 35mm

 

Columbus Ohio

View Large on Black

 

I actually remembered to post a bokeh shot today for HBW (Happy Bokeh Wednesday), yay! HBW all! ;-)))

For the Macro Mondays theme: Just White Paper

  

A calm day for 937, which is just an empty coal train today. The Midland Line hopper on its way to Hillside workshops for repairs.

 

Train 937, 31 March 2021, DXB 5022 + DC 4012, Merton-SIMT-NZ

Two point landing by one of the local,pelicans at Wynnum, Brisbane.

This is a three-second exposure of a small waterfall in a creek in Capitol Reef National Park.

It is such a treat to watch these otters hunting in the waterways in the middle of the city, Singapore.

The smooth reflective surface of the Maroondah reservoir was broken a short time later with some light rain. But this was a beautiful view with the deep clouds and mist. Victoria

I decided to shoot this one with a long exposure to try to beautify the raging torrents of water that were passing beside me.

La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes, 2.300 meters above sea level.

 

Crotophaga ani (Smooth-billed Ani / Garrapatero)

 

The Smooth-billed Ani is a widespread resident of scrub and forest clearings from the Caribbean and Costa Rica south to Uruguay and northern Argentina; it also occurs in south Florida, although the population there has declined significantly there in recent years. Smooth-billed Anis live in small flocks and eat a variety of insects, small vertebrates and fruit.

 

Neotropical Birds Online: neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...

Plum Creek, Olmsted Falls

One of our calm days at the park....

Long Exposure from Rumeli Feneri.Rumeli Feneri is the starting point of the Marmara borsphorus.

 

Canon Eos 6d

Canon 16-35mm f/2.8L II IS USM

HOYA 82mm 10 Stop ND Filter

 

Get plenty of Light!

  

I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.

 

Andre Kertesz

  

After a rainy day the storm clouds started breaking up just before sunset. I gotta love it when that happens...

Color Study

I can not decide which one.........

the tone?

Redrock Falls: Glacier Nation Park

Coronella austriaca

 

Taken in Western Rodopi, Bulgaria.

More photos can be seen at alexperryphotography.blogspot.com

Photo taken at Rosendals Trädgård, a garden open to the public situated on Djurgården, west of Rosendal Palace, in the central part of Stockholm, Sweden.

 

Symphyotrichum laeve (Smooth blue aster)

 

Symphyotrichum laeve (formerly Aster laevis) is a flowering plant native to Canada and the United States.

 

The flower heads are arranged in clusters (panicles). Each flower head has 13 to 23 ray florets with pale to dark blue or purple petals (laminae), and 19 to 33 disc florets that start out yellow and eventually turn purplish-red. The whole flowerhead measures 13 to 25 millimeters (1⁄2 to 1 in) across.

  

Sunset on an exceptionally calm day....

Great blue heron on Jordan Lake, North Carolina, USA

Straight from the Camera

Ok Guys m not good at long exposures, please feel free to criticize :-)

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