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“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually.”- Claude Monet
Dappled light and sunshine give Tamdhu Station an extra dimension.
The obsolete Knockando railway station (the line was removed after closing in 1968) was renamed as Tamdhu by the distillery in 1977 when they converted the station building into the distillery visitor centre. Although the distillery is a little way of the trail it is worth a detour to visit the location, or take a walk along this glorious stretch of the Speyside Way that now follows the railway path.
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What are your favourite / funniest predictive text swaps?
Every time I write 'hope' it changes to 'hippie' (naturally!)
- Hippie for more perfect days in the woods, building canopies & making fire, just like we did last summer..
- Hippie for relaxation & creativity..
- Hippie for great health..
I didn't really make it clear in my last post, but I am now completely free from breast cancer. I had caught it super early and surgery was the cure for me just a month after diagnosis. I decided to mix holistic treatment, (yoga, mindfulness & the use of essential oils) with conventional adjuvent treatment in the form of advised chemotherapy & radiotherapy to minimise my chances of a reoccurance.
Sometimes it's hard to know if you're making the right decision, especially if you're generally pulled towards a more natural approach to healing, but cancer is harsh and I'm young, and killing it with fire (so to speak!) felt the right thing to do.
It's a very personal choice and one which you, after analysing your own personal survival statistics shouldn't be coaxed into by others.
Here is another self -portrait with assisted focus by my lovely man, Simon as the smoke was pretty strong.
This is the first shot, of a small series taken in the woods.
No flash ........... natural dappled light!
Another peaceful inviting path in the Historic Gardens in Annapolis Royal. Nova Scotia. It was a hot sunny day and I had about 4 hours to wander through the gardens while my husband was off at a neaby airport driving a slalom course with his car buddies...it was so nice not having to hurry, but it was so sunny that the shadows were very harsh at times..I sure wish I lived closer to check it out in various weathers.
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I had to rise at the crack of eight o’clock today which frayed even more my tenuous grasp on reality. I floated through my morning, existing as in a parallel universe until finally a well meaning friend said ‘go climb a tree.’
In the tree I existed with ease. After I had to come down from the tree I carried on as in a parallel universe. Looking back, the only time I was in focus today was in the tree.
The Boss was standing in the kitchen on the other side of the screen door from me and I had a flashback to an image I had seen about a half century ago of a young lady behind a screen window. The sun had covered the wall with bright patches of dappled light, some of which caught her and her red shirt. The overall effect was reminiscent of the look in paintings form a century ago. - JW
Date Taken: 2023-08-27
Date PP: 2023-08-29
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Taken using hand-held Nikon D800 fitted with an AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm VR 1:4.0 lense set to 82mm, ISO450 (Auto ISO), Daylight WB, Matrix metering, Shutter Priority Mode, f/4.0, 1/250 sec with an EV-1.33 exposure bias to keep the highlights from blowing out. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to be 9000px high, apply Tone Mapping at default levels and then apply Dynamic Range Compression to help manage the brightness difference between the red shirt and the face areas, use the Graduated Neutral Density/GND tool to darken the bottom right corner again to try and tame that overly bright red shirt area, slightly increase Contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, slightly boost Vibrance, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the Curves tool op a copy of the layer to significantly darken the brighter red areas areas and then use the Hue-Saturation-Brightness tool to significantly desaturate the red shirt, add a black/transparent layer mask to show the layer below and then use a large soft edged brush with white pant to reveal the now significantly tamed red bright areas, slightly boost overall contrast, sharpen slightly, save, scale image to 6000px high, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 px high for posting online, sharpen, save.
Steps up from East Entry, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
Architect: Louis Kahn
Completed: 1972
Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. ~ Eckhart Tolle
At a clearing next to an area of woodland a fox cub came out and posed perfectly as the sun of late afternoon cast dappled light through the canopy.
Common Bullfinch / pyrrhula pyrrhula. Derbyshire. 20/06/18.
'STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF LOVE'.
As a diversion from orchid images ... (of which there are many waiting in the wings!), I thought I would share this understated beauty who I chanced across yesterday evening. She was perched in dappled light and looking up quizzically at her mate as if to say, 'Where to now?'
As monogamous birds, the male and female are never too far from each other except during the incubation period.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
I caught a few good shots of this young mom and her baby. I am drawn to this particular image because of the dappled light and shadow and the vibrant colours.
I also like the symettry of frame...almost bifurcated.
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Tomorrow is the start of another new month and here Friday is upon us once again where is the time going to !!!!! ..... a very HFF to you all and I hope that the weekend is a peaceful one that is full of sunshine - the forecast is good predicting plenty of dry weather :) :) :)
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” ~ C.S. Lewis
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I think it's easy to forget how far you've come.
Pick a moment in time and compare with where you are now. You may not be especially happy or you may even be ill at present, but you will have grown so much from previous years, learning new lessons, growing more conscious, possibly without realising.
Your independence is a credit to you - you are a treasure which is rare & difficult to pin down or possess. Keep evolving!
Here is a self-portrait wearing my favourite colours in a pile of leaves in the sun..
Wearing a retro bikini by Palmers, kimono by All About Audrey - www.allaboutaudrey.co.uk
Location is The Hacienda, London
Growing in an old tree stump, this family of small mushrooms were easy to miss, unless you were on the lookout like I was. Getting low is crucial when taking fungi photos.
A rustic bridge across a small stream leading into Ballaugh Glen. Coming for a walk? Its only short!
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