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Delicate Beauty

21 Saturday Mar 2015

Posted by Karen in Just because....

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art, butterfly, macro, nature, photoaday, Photography, poem

From Cocoon forth a Butterfly by Emily Dickinson

From Cocoon forth a Butterfly

As Lady from her Door

Emerged—a Summer Afternoon—

Repairing Everywhere—

Without Design—that I could trace

Except to stray abroad

On Miscellaneous Enterprise

The Clovers—understood—

Her pretty Parasol be seen

Contracting in a Field

Where Men made Hay—

Then struggling hard

With an opposing Cloud—

Where Parties—Phantom as Herself—

To Nowhere—seemed to go

In purposeless Circumference—

As ’twere a Tropic Show—

And notwithstanding Bee—that worked—

And Flower—that zealous blew—

This Audience of Idleness

Disdained them, from the Sky—

Till Sundown crept—a steady Tide—

And Men that made the Hay—

And Afternoon—and Butterfly—

Extinguished—in the Sea—

Ladybird, Ladybird!

15 Sunday Mar 2015

Posted by Karen in Learning

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art, daily, fine art, insect, macro, photoaday, Photography, poem, Poetry, reflection

Uphill struggle

Ladybird! Ladybird!

by Emily Jane Bronte

Ladybird! Ladybird! Fly away home,
Night is approaching, and sunset is come:
Felt, but unseen, the damp dewdrops fall.
This is the close of a still summer day;
Ladybird! Ladybird! haste! fly away!

Dreaming of warmer days

12 Thursday Mar 2015

Posted by Karen in courses, Practice

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art, fine art, landscape, photigraphy101, photo101, Photography, poem, Poetry, Postaday

“Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

– George Eastman

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The perfect ending

Today on Photography 101 the topic is “warmth and quality of light”, we were asked to use the sun as our source of light.

To me the warm colours of the setting sun fit this prompt perfectly. Coincidently I am doing a year long project of different sources of light, posting every Friday, so this theme made me smile. For the last four weeks I looked at was shadows and I had so much fun, for the next few weeks I am concentrating on backlighting (just hoping that we have some more nice sunny days so that I can shoot outside for these).

War memorial at sunset

War memorial at sunset

Sunset

They say a sunset is an artist’s pallet,
Of colors so intense and full of pigment,
A photographer’s dream.

Tonight they are the colors of autumn,
Of reds, yellows, green.
The shadows that fall,
Bring the night to life.

First the crickets dance all night.
Then the hoot owls,
Call hidden from sight.

The mares call to their foals,
a play in the fields,
“Time to bed down my little ones.”

The cattle are lowing for food
Their one thought, before they rest themselves
In slumber to the sounds of the night.

The birds call to each other,
Telling them of free food,
High above the house of cats.

The barking of dogs as they round
Up their charges safe in for the night.

The children run laughing,
Being chased one more time.
Before the parents drop them
Exhausted on their beds made of clouds.

The colors are now the deepest of colors,
A painter’s pallet forever changing.

As the moon softly sings us the lullaby,
“To sleep my children, to sleep.”

by Jessica Bood

It’s a Wonderful Wonderful World

11 Wednesday Mar 2015

Posted by Karen in courses, Practice

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art, blogging101, fine art, learning, macro, photo101, Photography, poem, Postaday

The Photo101 theme for today is the “Natural World”, which is one of my favourite subjects to shoot, as I find it so relaxing and it takes me away from the hustle and bustle of my daily life.

From the moon at night……

Fly me to the moon

to mountains and views beyond……..

Above the couds

Above the couds

from calm and quiet lakes……..

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Lake of tranquility

to the busy rivers full of activity………

Racing along the Thames

I never forget the smaller things though, from the leaves on the trees

Its all in the detail

to the bees on the flowers as it is the small details that really makes us stop and look. I am often surprised at what can be seen when I just take five to ten minutes wondering round my garden. In the spring to summer months it is a hive of activity just waiting to be photographed!

Nectar collector

I Love A Lonely Winding Road

I love a lonely winding road
That takes me where I cannot see
Until each softly rounded hill
Reveals its landscaped mystery.
Where nature’s stage creates the plot,
What ever the scene may be.

I love the crocus call in spring,
The first to wake from winter’s sleep.
Translucent bits of ivory joy,
So patient under snow banks deep,
‘Til they can lift each star like face
And proudly nature’s rhythm keep.

I love the fiery autumn hues,
Too harsh to bear in gentle spring
But welcomed by the strident wind
That makes the mighty pine tree sing,
Freeing the crimson leaves that dance
Like bright birds, high on wing.

I love the wonders of this world,
The secrets nature guards so well
From those who have no time to spend,
Who will not lift the ocean’s shell
And listen to the murmured tale
That each one has to tell.

by Alora M Knight

Blogging 101 is all about comments so off I go to check out some new blogs and start networking on here to get to know my neighbours 😊

As an aside, I am not sure what I did when posting this but I pressed schedule to post this in half an hour (today 11th March) and it posted it as if I had done it yesterday……I double checked the date and time just now and all ok, so not sure what happened, has anyone else experienced anything similar?

Weekly Photo Challenge: Reward

04 Wednesday Mar 2015

Posted by Karen in Learning, Weekly Photo Challenge

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art, bird, fine art, garden, ornothology, Photography, poem, Postaday, robin

When a little robin red breast constantly visits you or crosses your path; a loved one in heaven is trying to say “hello! I’m with you!” x

Waiting

After an afternoon gardening my reward at the end was these two little robins staying near allowing me to take photos.

Garden Companion

The Robin

When up aloft
I fly and fly,
I see in pools
The shining sky,
And a happy bird
Am I, am I!

When I descend
Towards their brink
I stand, and look,
And stoop, and drink,
And bathe my wings,
And chink and prink.

When winter frost
Makes earth as steel
I search and search
But find no meal,
And most unhappy
Then I feel.

But when it lasts,
And snows still fall,
I get to feel
No grief at all,
For I turn to a cold stiff
Feathery ball!

by Thomas Hardy

Taken in response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Reward”, what does reward mean to you?

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