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Benjamin Britten:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw-sW83vF4o

Spring Symphony poems:

www.lieder.net/lieder/assemble_texts.html?SongCycleId=1148

Plas Power Woods

Love this time of year, bright greens and fresh foliage!

Samyang 14mm

Hover flies mating

"frog perspective"

Spring of 'Yeonin Mountain(Korea)'

Se hai il coraggio di guardare la luce, imita la primavera e vai avanti verso di essa.

If you have the courage to look at the light, mimics the spring and go forward towards it.

(Markku Envall)

The rainbow is a fabric bundle, which can be seen in the droplett.

For #MacroMondays and this week's theme #Spiral

Happy Macro Monday!

Thanks for all your faves and comments everyone!

I really appreciate them!

Hasel-Kätzchen in der Abendsonne

photos by neil.

vintage silk maxi skirt -

vintage silk mauve blouse - thrifted

heather gray pocket tee - american apparel

nude wedges - kork ease, via uo

blogged! bloomingleopold.blogspot.com/2012/03/spring-silk.html

EXPLORE

Taken on the first sunny day this spring and what a wonderful day it was. A couple of days later it was so windy, all the top heavy tulips fell, my wife was so distraught.

spring is everywhere...

Yes I know, I photographed my big fish tree before but with the awesome weather (and the beginning of Spring!) we had the last couple of days I just had to give a go at shooting it in infrared!

For once I feel like I managed to get the white balance right too and I never had to do so little pp work on an infrared shot, which is a real relief as they are normally tedious especially when colour is kept... slowly getting there I hope!

Welcome to spring and all the newness this season brings. It's warmth, colour and a breath of fresh air. It's little buds and birds chirping. All life crawls out of hibernation and our hearts open. Wish you all a very happy spring.

I think these are pear blossoms

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Taken in Edmond, OK

Easter Monday in Ironbridge, spring has at last arrived.

Bridge designed and built by Thomas Telford

Even though I always resent losing that hour, it's nice to finally leave work and it's still light.

Beautiful blue muscari, texture from 2LilOwls.

(better viewed at the larger size)

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taken at Fujigaoka park, Yokohama, Japan

Enchanted Spring

My obsession with moss draped vine maples hit a crescendo this past weekend while out shooting with Jeremy Cram, Scott Miller, Paul Bowman, and Brian “Happy Meal” Kibbons. We explored a hard to reach little corner of the Gorge and walked a cold creek for better part of three hours before I noticed this grove of vine maples. That’s when a bit of serendipity struck as the sun poked through mostly cloudy skies for a few brief minutes, allowing me to frame these vine maples around a huge sun star. I’ve shot the Gorge a lot over the past several years and I continue to enjoy creating images of creeks and falls. However, what has been really exciting me recently is shooting these more lush, intimate forest scenes. Hope you all enjoy this one!

Spring blossoms

Hasselt, Domain Kiewit

Wearing:

Poison Rouge Alondra dress

Moon Amore Swan Lake Bloom crown in rose (old gacha)

Taken at maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Whispering%20Windz/163/140/22

In Explore. Highest position: 7

I've shot this scene before, but it was such a gorgeous first day of March (St David's Day), I did it again. Hillside close to Cardiff.

A nine frame panorama.

Columbine from my garden last spring.

I just got Lightroom and am sorting and tagging all my 21,000+ photos. I can do it in batches so it's going pretty fast. I was so angry that the new Mac "Photos" app hides the actual files from me that I set out to find a work around. So far, so good with this though I do need to come up with a good work flow for importing and tagging. I was able to export all my photos from "Photos" and import them into Lightroom. It does not move the photos just creates a pointer to them.