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and definitely not this way!
Or follow the leader
up
or down.
Or farther up
or down again.
and up.
Every Which Way for Which Way!!! Feb 29, 2024
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Night and Day for Lens Artists Challenge
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But now, art in the sky promises rain.
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The first photo is one I took at sunset in La Manzanilla where for years I spent a month or two each year. The poem is made to reflect the path of moonlight or sunlight on water. This photo is going to be used for the back cover of my book soon to be published, “If I Were Water and You Were Air.”
Flights of Fancy
Favorite Photos of 2022 for Lens Artists Challenge: Help!!!!
If I had to look back through all the photos I’ve taken this year, it would take hours, so I’ve chosen to present four of my favorites from this month. Help me decide which one to cut, please. This prompt limits me to three. I’m decisioned out so I’m relying on you to help me pick the best three.
I love the painterly quality of this photo.
Towering
favorite views from the past month. For: https://www.toonsarah-travels.blog/lens-artists-challenge-picking-favourites/
Moonlight Reflection: Wordle 562
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Moonlight Reflection
The radiant moon invites me to meander to the pool.
To miss its cloud-scrimmed drama would reveal me as a fool.
Its flickering light reflected in the pool’s steaming glass,
I part its even surface asunder as I pass.
Clothed in liquid light, I walk a smooth straight line,
reflectively immersed in this world that is all mine.
I have no other idol except this ghost of moon.
I feel that I could taste it if I only had a spoon.
Its taste would be ambrosial upon my earthly tongue—
the first to taste a lunar menu formerly unsung.
I bundle up my prayers and toss them overhead,
leaving all my worries unthought of and unsaid.
The stone steps lead me up again from its steaming mass
and I shed off moonlight around me as I pass.
I take its memory with me as I return to bed,
the splendor of the moonlight forever in my head.
Today’s prompt words are: reflective radiant immersed meander idol line taste drama ghost flickering stone. The photos I took two weeks ago before leaving my house to travel to the states for my school reunion. A glorious scene. One of the shots is the moon and trees reflected in the surface of my pool that is fed by hot mineral springs that pass through the magma layer fed by the Colima Volcano, 80 miles away. I swim in it almost nightly.
For the Sunday Whirl Wordle 562
Night Sky Over Lake Chapala, Oct 28, 2021
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Night Sky over Chapala, After Midnight, June 26, 2021
After a huge thunderstorm, the rain stopped and I went out to take an after-midnight swim. Luckily, I’d taken my iPhone out to listen to a book as I did my water exercises, and used it to try to capture a photo of a rare firefly that clung to the branch of an Areca palm hanging out over the water. I couldn’t capture it, but luckily it did make me notice an incredible moon and cloud tableau over my neighbor’s house that is pictured in the gallery below. This is the scene: mist surrounding and rising up into the night-chilled air from the hot water of my geothermally heated pool, clouds swirling around the moon. Click on the individual photos below to enlarge them.
For Hammad’s Weekend Sky Prompt.
Mainly White: Sunday Stills Challenge
Cloud Studies
After an overcast period, the sun came out a bit and the sky suddenly became vibrant.
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Clouds
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