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sleeping poppy

Fujifilm X-T4: f/4 1/50 s 74.2 mm 400 ISO

Posted on June 22, 2025 by brenda Posted in art, color photograph, photography Tagged fujifilm, fujifilm film simulation, poppy 2 Comments

cffc: a single flower

A poppy submitted in response to Cee’s cffc challenge: a single flower

Posted on August 20, 2024 by brenda Posted in art, color photograph, photography Tagged CFFC, flower, nature, poppy 1 Comment

a visitor

The whole world is you,
yet you keep thinking
there is something else.
~Hsueh Feng

Posted on July 30, 2023July 31, 2023 by brenda Posted in art, photography, poetry Tagged haiku, Hsüeh-feng, monochrome, nature, poppy

sunday morning with rilke

“And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact there is something in you that wants to break out of it.”

~Trans: M. D. Heater Norton (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet)

Posted on July 30, 2023 by brenda Posted in color photograph, photography, spirituality Tagged color photography, nature, poppy, Rainer Maria Rilke 7 Comments

friday with hakuni

To a melody of prayer

disappears the moon–

my place of rest. ~Hakuni*

*cited: Y Hoffmann, Japanese Death Poems

One of a series of poppy images Cee’s fotd

Posted on July 28, 2023 by brenda Posted in art, color photograph, photography, poetry Tagged color photography, fotd, haiku, hakuni, nature, poppy 4 Comments
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monochrome poppy

Posted on July 22, 2023 by brenda Posted in photography Tagged high key, minimalism, monocchrome, nature, poppy 6 Comments

poppy buds

fixing red ink
on the clean copy…
a poppy
~Issa*

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

Posted on July 16, 2023 by brenda Posted in art, photography, poetry Tagged color photography, issa, nature, poppy 7 Comments

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Nikon D750 f/5.6 1/20s 85mm 100 ISO…edited: Capture One

Posted on June 24, 2021 by brenda Posted in photography, Uncategorized Tagged monochrome, Nikon, poppy

rain drops

Nikon D750 f/5.6 1/400 52mm
Posted on September 5, 2019 by brenda Posted in art, photography Tagged color photography, Nikon, poppy, rain drops 6 Comments

poppy & i

just being alive

I

and the poppy

~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)

poppyweb

Posted on June 7, 2018 by brenda Posted in art, photography, poetry, Uncategorized Tagged color photography, haiky, issa, nature, poppy

spring snow

an early spring –

sent back into seclusion

by morning snow

~Socho (S Carter, Haiku before Haiku)

snowsocho

Posted on May 18, 2017 by brenda Posted in photography, poetry, Uncategorized Tagged color photography, haiku, plants, poppy, snow, spring

serene

For a heart serene

there is no scattering

of blossoms.

~Satomura Joha (S Carter, Haiku before Haiku)

heartjoha

Posted on May 17, 2017May 17, 2017 by brenda Posted in photography, poetry, Uncategorized Tagged color photography, haiku, nature, poppy, serene, spring 4 Comments

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