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Showing posts with label slow photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slow photography. Show all posts

Friday, January 1, 2016

Good morning 2016...


A sparkly frosty morning to bring in the New Year...Georgia has already been flitting about...
When the land is covered in a dusting of ice and the winter sun hovers along the treeline, 
it's me and the camera out to marvel at the cold hand of Jack Frost...
The term 'Wabi Sabi' in Japanese has no real translation but basically means 
perfection in imperfection, irregular beauty, things in their simplest, most austere and natural state...
The art of everyday life...
And on this first day of a New Year I am welcomed by all and any small thing out here in the cold...
I stare in awe...  
   
 ...at  the creative transformation these tiny things have undergone through a cold clear night... 
Many lie dormant ...
Asleep in frozen grace...
Our lives...are but a little while,
so let them run as sweetly as you can,
and give no thought to grief from day to day.
For time is not concerned to keep our hopes,
but hurries on it's business,
and is gone.
                                      ~Euripedes~
What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass
and loses itself in the sunset.
~Crowfoot~
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
~Eleanora Duse~
Hello...welcome to a new day!

Sunday, June 7, 2015

Slow photo movement...

When I first started this blog it was mainly a place to house my never ending photos
that I take and to document the adventures of my daily life.
So this morning as I strolled around in the garden, camera in tow, it was
as if every plant wanted it's portrait taken. Some more than once.
It was a gentle reminder to me to 'slow photo'.
Take the time to use my real camera and not just my iphone and Instagram.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still loving the 'quickie' bits of FB and Instagram
but sometimes you just have to get down on your knees, get them dirty and 
find your balance to do some slow photography.
So here, I take you for a little wander through the early morning flower beds...
first stop...sleepy bumbles in the foxgloves...
I love how when closed, the flowers have this simple grin and then, as if to sing they open wide 
the icelandic poppies with their paper thin petals, softly dressed in a coat of dew...
 honey bees tip toeing, balancing on the ruffled edge...
 the inside of a poppy flower is a wonderous thing with its fluttering stamen...
 just waiting for the tickling of tiny bee feet...
 ...and those buds! 
The lavender will be fantastic this year...
The one peony I have has never disappointed...

 her name is 'Bowl of Beauty' 
 ...her dress is of soft silky pink with a creamy, delicate petticoat... 
 ...and her perfume is that to rival any in Paris!
...water plays on the surface of the plume poppy leaves...
 the perennial geranium...
 ...the forget-me-nots...
...and the wooly thyme...
...reminding me to take the time.