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Tiny little things

Posted in from the dark room, photography on April 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Sometimes it’s the smallest things which look so exquisitely perfect……

The art of Nature

Posted in from the dark room, photography on April 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »

This is typical of what will catch my eye. It’s a single fallen cherry blossom lying on other plants. The way the different leaves, petals and colours come together just looks like a work of art to me – a spontaneous, serendipitous, natural creation….

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What do you see?

Posted in from the dark room, photography on April 3, 2011| 3 Comments »

What did you notice first when you looked at this photo?
What part of the image did you find your eye drawn to initially?

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Shaped by the environment, but still unique

Posted in from the dark room, photography on March 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »

How often do you notice that something has strong echoes of something completely different? I’ve never seen fungus on a tree look like this. It looks like agate to me. Which got me thinking….this is a fungus looking like a stone…here’s another photo I took the same day of stone looking like water…

These are rocks in a waterfall, so you can imagine why they develop this particular form….but don’t they look SO like water?

Isn’t nature amazing?

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Black and white

Posted in from the dark room, photography on March 28, 2011| 3 Comments »

Having just posted about “arrogance and ignorance” I thought again about this photo I took yesterday. When I looked at it, at first, I thought it was in black and white. Which was strange, because I shot it in colour. But then the blueness of the stone at the 11 o’clock position in the picture caught my eye.
Seems that in the real world, even when things look black and white……they’re not!

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Morning sun

Posted in from the dark room, photography on March 25, 2011| 2 Comments »

So….as I walked along the road I saw this sight before me. I tell you……NEVER leave the house without a camera!

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Found beauty

Posted in from the dark room, photography on March 23, 2011| 1 Comment »

….stumbled across these stones in the garden today – aren’t the lichen patterns lovely? Natural art.

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Man with a strange gait

Posted in from the dark room, photography on March 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

OK, I meant strange gate……

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Fading out the background

Posted in from the dark room, photography on March 16, 2011| 1 Comment »

I probably see this tree every day. It’s just that I don’t remember ever seeing it. However, because of the fog this morning, the background which the tree usually disappears into, was faded to white and suddenly…..there’s a tree!

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