Whippet Wisdom – a Highland Journey
A journey through the seasons with two adopted whippets, a poet and a camera
Faskally Woods
Wishing you all a magical Wednesday,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/2.8 – 1/30 s – ISO 200 and f/2.8 – 1/60 s – ISO 100.
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Magic
Cairngorms National Park
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8 – 1/60 s – ISO 200 and f/2.8 – 1/80 s – ISO 100.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Winter Scenes
Word of the Day Challenge: Turning
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/4 – 1/800 s – ISO 100 and f/4 – 1/1250 s – ISO 100.
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Enchanted
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday from the shelter of the glen.
With love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8 – 1/125 s – ISO 100, f/3.2 – 1/125 s – ISO 100 and f/2.8 – 1/80 s – ISO 100.
Ledmore Woods
giving thanks
when rain clouds drift away
gold and blue
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a very happy Monday and a wonderful new week!
With love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/3.4 – 1/1000 s – ISO 320 and f/4 – 1/640 s – ISO 125.
Frank J Tassone’s Weekly Haikai Challenge #114: Thanksgiving
Sunday Stills: Your Favorite Photo
Your Daily Word Prompt: Ameliorate
mist rolls in
this hour of gold and blue
across the water
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a very happy Monday and a wonderful new week,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/4 – 1/200 s – ISO 200 and f/5 – 1/60 s – ISO 200.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #67: Layered
Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Challenge #276 : Smoke & Water
Cairngorms National Park
Warm greetings from the Cairngorms National Park! We are taking a short blogging break to make the most of this fine weather and will be back next Wednesday.
Wishing you all a wonderful week,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8 – 1/1600 s – ISO 100, f/2.8 – 1/2000 s – ISO 100 and f/4 – 1/800 s – ISO 100.
Sunday Stills: Signs of Autumn
Loch Morlich
stones in water
from emptiness to wholeness
these mountains
around them and within them
the wisdom of this life
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a beautiful Tuesday,
with love from Eivor xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8 – 1/1600 s – ISO 160, f/4 – 1/1250 s – ISO 160 and f/4.5 – 1/1600 s – ISO 100.
We are delighted that the above tanka and the third image were combined into a taiga in honour of the Tanka Society of America’s 20th Anniversary Celebration for a special feature during April 2020. Christine L Villa created a beautiful video in May 2020 that brings all the featured taiga together in one place:
Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #103 – Quest for a New Masterpiece – start of Autumn
Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Challenge #272: Empty & Whole
Dutch Goes the Photo Tuesday Photo Challenge: Stone
so subtle
september equinox
shifting clouds
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a very happy September Equinox and a wonderful week ahead,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/3.2 – 1/2000 s – ISO 100, f/3.2 – 1/2000 – ISO 160 and f/4 – 1/1600 s – ISO 100.
Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #103: Quest for a New Masterpiece – Start of Autumn
Frank J Tassone’s Weekly Haikai Challenge #105: September Equinox
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Subtle
The path winds its way between sedge grass, the first blooms of heather. A scent of all things new that Summer brings, fills the air. We pause by a few lines borrowed from a famous poem by Norman MacCaig, engraved in granite. The large question mark enables us to ask his questions once more. Who owns this landscape? Who owns our beautiful planet? In our view too, it can only be master-less. For the short time that we’re here, we immerse ourselves in its beauty. We do our best to care for what we find, leaving nothing but our footprints, and our gratitude behind.
august moon
the words of our ancestors
still feel true
© Xenia Tran
The segment engraved in the stone is taken from A Man in Assynt, a long poem Norman MacCaig (1910-1996) wrote in 1967 to accompany a BBC documentary.
Wishing you all a very happy Monday and a wonderful new week,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/2.8 – 1/500 s – ISO 100, f/4 – 1/640 s – ISO 100 and f/4 – 1/1000 s – ISO 200.
Frank J Tassone’s Weekly Haikai Challenge #99: Sturgeon Moon
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #58: Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue
