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Hello Everyone!
Yellow is considered to be an optimistic colour, so I chose a yellow tulip for today's post. Optimism is a wonderful feeling to have, any day of the week!
Edited with effects in Topaz Studio for Slider's Sunday. HSS! Happy Sliders Sunday!
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So many times we watch the sunset and say whew glad to see that day come to a close, instead we should be saying Wow what does this new day bring, is this a sign of the end of a day or the sign of a new beginning, Perspective.
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∎ Created with Stable Diffusion, further edited with Topaz Photo AI
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∎ The Rauhnächte are a centuries-old ritual from the Celtic and Germanic tradition that accompanies us to this day. Between December 24th and January 6th, it is important to use the "time outside of time" - for reflection, letting go and a fresh start.
∎ The Raunächte refer to the time between Christmas Eve and January 6th. There are numerous customs in many cultures for these 12 nights between the years. This is what lies behind the millennia-old rituals.
∎ Raunacht
Don’t Look Back
Boston
1978
USA #4 UK #43
‘Don't look back, ooh, a new day is breakin'
It's been too long since I felt this way
I don't mind, ooh, where I get taken
The road is callin', today is the day’
Passengers at Manchester Piccadilly with suitcases packed and ready for the railroad calling!
I read a joke in the comments for the video which made me laugh: ‘my cat’s called Boston, because he’s more than a feline’;-)
In the background is 68022 ‘Resolution’, a new day breakin’ with its forthcoming introduction to the South TransPennine route.
Seen here awaiting departure with 3B78 13:18 Manchester Piccadilly to Cleethorpes on 2nd May 2022.
Looking Close on Friday at a queen, the Queen of Clubs to be exact! Queen of Clubs is a positive card stating time for change or new beginnings.
Sometimes the ideas in my head don't work out as well as I'd hoped. I want to try this again with better lighting conditions.
Lessons learned - it's tricky to write in coffee beans, I guess this would be a situation for focus stacking and apparently coffee beans lose their sheen when you hold and manipulate them.
In the quiet hush of dawn,
Where the chill of winter begins to fade,
A bud stirs—tiny, green, and full of promise.
From the heart of a branch,
A sliver of life unfurls.
Soft, tender, and luminous,
The newborn leaf greets the sun.
Each cell pulses with potential,
Drawing strength from the roots below
And the sky above.
A whisper of chlorophyll begins its dance—
Turning light into life,
Air into breath,
Stillness into sway.
2020 has been a year like no other! Goodbye 2020, you won't be missed! We should ask ourselves "what did we learn new about ourselves, and about others during these trying times?" Wishing you all a better, brighter & healthier 2021 my friends!
This morning, my tradition of getting up to watch the new year sunrise took me to the Stenboudd shore meadows. This was the first time in 3 years that the sun was nowhere to be seen. Heavy clouds rolled in from the Baltic Sea in the East and I only got a few shots in. Right after this shot, I packed up the camera and was immediately greeted by a fierce hailstorm. It was quite the contrast to the beautiful pink sunrise of Jan 1st, 2020.
Wishing a Happy New Year to all friends & followers :)
Heck, what a at a wash out of a year 2020 was! Here's hoping we all have a better one once the lockdowns have lifted - the bucket list has now exceeded maximum capacity with the travel bans 😭😱
This is a quick edit from the hike back after the first shoot of the year. The camera was all packed away so it was a rush to snap before the rainbows disappeared. It's a vertical stitch (f/10, 24mm, 1/100th second at ISO 100 using manual exposure).
52 weeks: 2016 edition
week 1 theme: new beginnings
The first image from my first photowalk of the new year, and first visit to Kirstenbosch in 2016.
كل عام وانتم بخير
ادري مو وقت نيووو يييير وهالخرابيط وغزه بهالحاله
الله يفك اسرهم وينصرهم =(
،،
بس قاعده اتفرج على الصور الي عندي
ولقيت هذي الصوره ،،
بالنسبه لي هذي الصوره تبين هالسنه الجديده بالنسبه لي ::
سنه جديده
وبدايه جديده
روح جديده
حياه جديده
شخصيه جديده
نظره جديده
يعني
جـــديد x جـــديد
يارب هالسنه تكون حلووه عليكم
ويكون فيها بدايه جديده للكل
(F) (F)
F R E S H - S T A R T
📍 Amroth 🌊☀️
Another photo of those groynes at Amroth Beach - photographed during my stay in Tenby back in September.
These sea defences were so photogenic in the early morning mist. For this shot, I waited for the distant walkers to enter the frame for a bit of added interest and to hint at the scale of the otherwise empty beach.
In post processing, I emphasised the blue and orange colour contrast captured on camera - hopefully not too much though!
It was a fresh start to the morning. And in fact I'm moving departments at work on Monday - so this title is doubly apt!
Canon 6D MkII | 24-105mm lens at 24mm | ƒ/16 | 1/25 sec | ISO 800 | Tripod | Soft grad filter (I think!) | Lightroom & Photoshop | Taken at Amroth on 15-09-2021
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I am ready to start fresh and embrace the challenge of another 365 project. For my 365 images I try to make it about the light and I am going to continue to do so. Observing and honoring the light has helped me slow down and see the beauty in the world. Though I don't always make the image I want I am constantly trying to improve and progress. For those of you taking this 365 journey with me, it's one day at a time, enjoy the ride!
ODC - the best things (good light, fresh water, blank page)
So I'm up at dawn,
putting on my shoes.
I just wanna make
a clean escape.
I know I'm leaving,
but i don't know where to.
.
I think that might've been a mistake.
I'm full of them sometimes. But it's done.
Not that I can bring myself to regret it. Oh well. I have a wall to rebuild.
Sooo, I cut off and donated all my hair two days ago (pictures in the comments!) It was deliciously freeing. :]
I discovered this highway for the first time yesterday! I'm slowly building up a mental map of all the backroads within a 20 mile radius of town.
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... another one opens. And another one. And another one. And another one! Who knew there were so many doors
Week 1 of 52 Weeks: the 2021 Edition - "A Fresh Start"
Since the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, my wife and I have been going for more frequent and longer walks. This dead end on one of the "loops" we frequently walk has a small path to the side, leading to a whole new neighborhood and "fresh" set of roads to start the next leg of our longer walks.
I love New Year! Time for new beginnings and Fresh Starts! Perfect time to re-challenge myself to my 100x project.
100 "at my feet" shots. I started this in 2016 and did not get to 100. I love the collection though and think they look great collaged together. This year I will complete the collection!
ODC New Beginnings
WH: First picture of the year
52 Weeks of 2018 #1: Where I Stand
118 pictures in 2018 #1: here we go again
Life, like Cherry Blossom Spring, is fleeting—each moment a bloom that drifts away too soon. It’s a delicate balance of beauty and impermanence, reminding us that no experience lasts forever, but each one is worth embracing.
We chase dreams, build relationships, and carve paths, often forgetting that life isn’t just about the big moments, but the quiet ones too—the laughter between friends, the way sunlight filters through the trees, the comfort of a familiar song. Much like cherry blossoms, we are ever-changing, ever-growing, our past petals falling away to make room for what’s next.
The lesson is simple but profound: appreciate now. Love, create, take chances. Savor the fleeting joys, because they matter—not despite their impermanence, but because of it.
“The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
as perfect, as unspoiled,
as if you had never wasted or misapplied
a single moment in all your life.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.” —Arnold Bennett
“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
—T.S. Eliot