Tethering Rings
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Morning at Aberdyfi pier. The boats tethered, waiting for their chance to sail, while the gulls wheel around looking just as graceful as they always do.
Put me in mind of this song ... I'm pretty sure you know it ! I couldn't find a good 'live' version of this song, showing the magnificent Freddie Mercury 'doing his stuff' on stage (he was always so magnetic) so this is the official video when it was first released.
THANK YOU to my Partner in all our groups, Tony (Guy@Fawkes) for obliterating a great big mast inadvertently caught on my photo which I hadn't even realised was there until I began to process this !! See his photostream here:
~ Processed in PicMonkey with one texture of my own applied ~
Thank YOU, all my great Flickr friends, for every fave, comment and all your support over the years... you are all really appreciated. Thank you for everything.
Now be good and stay and I'll be back soon.
A Royal Mail high capacity trolley awaits the return of the postie.
Another shot from Meols Beach last weekend. Slightly more colour in the sky and a different crop compared to the previous long exposure from this spot.
Low tide on the beach a perfect opportunity to try and take some photos of the boats at sunrise(5am). We got there about an hour before sunrise and eventually we had a bit of colour.
Meols Beach
Meols is a small village situated between Hoylake and Moreton. In this quaint little village there is a Pub, a small parade of quirky shops, and lusturous park with a bowling green.
Meols also has a promenade which lines the beautiful beach. The beach stretches all the way on to nearing Hoylake and Moreton.
Meols is steeped in Viking history, and there is said to be a Viking Ship buried under the Railway Inn car park.
Wings over wings as the sun sets in Elora Ontario. I was taking shots of this unique art piece as the sun set when a flock of geese decided to fly down the river at just the right moment.
I have wanted to do something different for a while, then one gets lost in what can only be described as "Photographers Block", akin to "Writers Block" same thing yet different tool of creativity. I even deleted a photo I put up yesterday as I hated it, simply because experimental change is sometimes difficult, in the enigmatic paradigm of remaining as was, yet contradicted by the yearn for change, albeit lost for choice yet unable to see the forest for the trees! If you catch my convoluted drift?!
I think the criteria of assumed "change" is tethered to the idea of realising that ,change, in one's self cannot therefore be abridged to the same/similar ideas of others, it is a struggle then to remain original. I am still trying to conquer it whilst trying to not to lose my perspective to the idea of absolutes!
So this photo I took along the A100 with the Westhafen Canal running parallel, in which there are three or four barges moored along the walkway, I had been meaning to get to them since the weather has since started to slowly improve. They are basically big floating elongated buckets of either nothing or asphalt, earth and what have you. But they are interesting for the very old mechanical presence, compositional offerings and overall differing of imagery from nature and anything else that has been done to death so far. The clouds were thin and wonderfully striated offering a bokeh contradiction of composition's directional flow. It was tricky getting the angle as I wanted to get the motorway out of the focus completely.
That's all my waffle for today, I hope everyone's' week has gotten off well and so as always, thank you! :)
"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”
- Abraham Lincoln
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL--prfnuJ8
A GIFT OF A THISTLE – JAMES HORNER
I've weathered every storm
that has been sent my way
I've tethered every ounce of being
to keep the wolves at bay
they want my blood
I smell their fear
they snarl and nash
teeth ear to ear
but I stand tall amid it all
they cannot make me fall
It's strange the things that happen to me
It makes no sense at all
but in the world of hungry wolves
they help me grow; not make me small
the yellow hearts of narcissi
glow green somehow with envy
staring at the water's edge
they shiver; shake and tremble
but I am calm; at peace; in prayer
seek from within and not without
those innocent of any sins
are quiet and have no need to shout
it's in the stillness we can hear
that still small voice of calm
and those who cry and pity themselves
only do themselves more harm
forgiveness in the eyes of God
encompasses all his flock
even the darkest sheep of all
and those who follow and those who mock
a heart that's full of love and kindness
does not seek to hurt another
practice with each breath you take
the simple act of mindfulness.
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I see a lot of spiders webs when walking my dog through the woods early in the morning, like the spiders are connecting every plant with another.
Classic one third shot, rope leading you into the image, many of these to be had on this vast sandy beach
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