reflected by a frozen surface lakeside

Into the Light - Day 94 - Year 2022

Monthly Theme #4 / 2022

Three pictures taken on the same evening around 10 mins apart. They give an almost 360 panorama although they weren't taken on exactly the same spot. This one was the last as I turned to go back home.

Flickr Lounge weekly theme - evening light

A dark November evening departure from Bewdley heading for Kidderminster with GWR Manor class loco No7802 'Bradley Manor' providing the motive power.

- coming up to sunset one evening, I noticed the light and gathering clouds

Thursday monochrome (Donnerstagsmonochrom)

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photo+processing

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Night Lights (B/W)

Liberty National Bank

Lawton, OK

...out of my window this evening

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Evening sky

Overland Park, KS

Scarista Mhor Beach in Harris, Outer Hebrides towards sunset

Hinsby Beach, Tasmania.

Today I'm combining my floral greeting with a memory and a view.

This photo was taken last summer on the Kaiserkrone (Imperial Crown) in Saxon Switzerland. The view, when it manages to get past the blooming heather and the trees, is directed towards the Lilienstein, near which the sun will soon set.

As beautiful as I find the Kaiserkrone, especially when the heather is in bloom, I've found it difficult to create harmonious compositions here. Somehow, the photos always seemed far too chaotic, which is also true of this one. That's why I haven't shown these pictures to anyone until now.

But I think this evening atmosphere definitely deserves to be seen. So I'll just have to live with a little chaos now. And I'm learning that something is valuable, even, or perhaps especially, because it isn't perfect.

I'll leave that last sentence for all of us and wish you a happy week.

Heute verknüpfe ich mal meinen Blumengruß mit einer Erinnerung und einer Aussicht.

Dieses Foto entstand im Sommer letzten Jahres auf der Kaiserkrone in der Sächsischen Schweiz. Der Blick, wenn er es denn mal an der blühenden Erika und den Bäumen vorbei geschafft hat, geht in Richtung des Liliensteins, in dessen Nähe in Kürze die Sonne untergehen wird.

So schön wie ich die Kaiserkrone auch empfinde, vor allem, wenn die Heide blüht, so schwer ist es mir gefallen hier harmonische Bildkompositionen zu kreieren. Irgenwie waren mir die Fotos immer viel zu chaotisch, was übrigens auch auf dieses hier zu trifft. Darum habe ich diese Bilder auch bis heute noch niemandem gezeigt.

Doch ich finde, dass diese abendliche Atmospäre es durchaus verdient gesehen zu werden. Da muss ich mit ein wenig Chaos jetzt eben leben. Und ich darf lernen, dass etwas wertvoll ist, auch, oder vielleicht gerade weil, es nicht perfekt ist.

Den letzten Satzt lass ich für uns alle jetzt mal so stehen und wünsche Euch eine fröhliche Woche.

View from the Perlan hill over the Reykjavik domestic airport

...auf dem Bauernhof

B.R. Standard 43106 on a late Evening approach to Bewdley tunnel , 50 asa.

Glanpark Klagenfurt

Curitiba skyline in the setting sun. Parque Barigüi, Curitiba, Brazil

Steam locomotive Hv3 995 with old wooden passenger cars, passes former Saviaho station in Sotkamo.

I took this late last Thursday evening, after a scorching day. Mind you, even though it was evening, the temperatures did not relent very much. The moon stood out as it was shining despite it there being a lot of light, perhaps from the last rays of the dying sun which had just gone down from my point of view.

Beautifully glowing yellows in the winter woods.

It's been cold here in Northumberland, so the bluebells are late this year.

Zampullín cuellinegro (Podiceps nigricollis)

Black-necked Grebe

.... by Amalfi coast, Italy.

Dewberry Trail, Ottawa