Posted in the series, World Wide Wednesday around the world in photographs
Photography, Poetry, Travel
“No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson
Feathered Friends
Our feathered friends
The windy air bend
Flying to the world’s end
For their leisure time to spend
Poetry & Photography
An homage to the Swan, the national bird of Finland
“The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood” Heinrich Heine
Swans
Majestic and regal
Equal to an eagle
A bird of the royals
Worthy of the nobles
Beauties in flight
Whitest of knights
From the blue skies
Watch the dive
The black swan
Swimming at dawn
Her dark shadow
Contrast to snow
Photography: Week 28: Wrap up Photo101 Rehab
Check out the excellent photography from week 28 in The Clinic /Photo101 Rehab
Also featured are my three postings:
Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
“Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
The Raven EDGAR ALLAN POE
Birds
Face to face
Eye to eye
This was one race
Which could go awry
Standing there
Assessing me
Its glare
Devouring me
Without any warning
Flying across the air
Giving me the scare
Looking with scorning
No escape
Its mouth agape
It tilted its head
Quoth the bird “Polly wants a cracker”
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“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished” Lao Tzu
A Day in Nature
Sitting on a swing
Not worrying about a thing
Enjoying the simple life
Without a stinger or a strife
The air almost like silk
Time slowly passing by
Not one trouble in sight
Observing, watching, looking
What is nearby cooking
The hedgehog sipping it’s milk
The squirrel with it’s tail high
A bird gliding in mid flight
The flowers in the wind crooking
The clouds hanging softly in the sky
Exhaling, letting out a sigh
The last rays of sun on the skin
What a perfect fin
For a July summer’s day
The grass in a gentle sway
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Photo 101: Day Fourteen: Scale & Observation
Observe your scene before pressing the shutter, considering how all the elements in the frame interact with one another. Make an object appear larger through a ground-level POV.
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Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
Fly by
Sitting pretty
Where is Waldo?
Night light
Mini Me
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Stand by mode
Checking the perimeter
Final checks
Preparing for take off
Flaps at maximum
Looking good!
Flight mode
Destination: The great unknown
Rantings Of A Third Kind 