photo challenges

weekly photo challenge: beneath your feet

the rivers have

an ancient darkness…

cuckoo           

             ~Issa*

poudrerivercanyon

Cache La Poudre River’s rocks…inspired by Cheri’s photo challenge: Beneath Your Feet

*cited:

http://www.haikuguy.com

weekly photo challenge: inspiration

just being alive

I

and the poppy

~Issa*

poppy

poppy

Christie’s photo challenge: Inspiration is an invitation to ponder, “what is it that moves me?”

Nature inspires me to contemplate the meaning and purpose of life through her

  • beauty,
  • complexity – simplicity continuum
  • consistency
  • characteristics of vulnerability intermixed with aggression (did you know poppies have thorns?)
  • transience
  • interdependency
  • natural laws
  • photogenic features
  • haiku inspiration

prints available

*cited:
http://www.haikuguy.com

 

sl-week 4: weird hollidays

If I was on holiday…it would be a walking tour of Japan and one of the places on my list to visit is the Arashiyama Bamboo Grove in Kyoto. But, alas, I’m not on holiday…but one of the bike/walking pathways near my home offered a (somewhat) miniature bamboo grove….sorta weird, but beautiful.

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inspired by Sylvain Landry (who reports in on holliday)

weekly photo challenge: symbol

baseball…a slow game symbolizing long summer days is defined by journalist Roger Angell as an ageless sport in which “time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within each player moves at exactly the same pace and rhythm as their predecessors.”*

batter at the ready

batter at the ready

Inspired by Jen’s photo challenge: Symbol

*cited:

“Where have you gone William Bendix?: Baseball as a Symbol of American Values in World War II”

http://www.jstor.org/

black & white sunday: local watering hole

 

The source of water for the residents of Fort Collins, CO comes from large areas of land that drain snowmelt and rainfall waters to the Upper Cache la Poudre River, Big Thompson River, and Horsetooth Reservoir. 

While walking around Horsetooth during this past winter, I was drawn to the composition of these elements of the shoreline… rocks, ice, water, and sky.  

Horsetooth Reservoir

Horsetooth Reservoir

Offered in response to Irene Water’s challenge as a guest at  Paula’s Lost in Translation