Whippet Wisdom – a Highland Journey
A journey through the seasons with two adopted whippets, a poet and a camera
under the roof
of leaves and dappled light
a forest welcome
bearing blessings for all to share
this sacred world we walk in
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a blessed Tuesday!
With love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8 – 1/160 s – ISO 100 and f/2.8 – 1/200 s – ISO 100.
Word of the Day Challenge: Welcome
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Roofs
Cairngorms National Park
It’s lovely to be walking among the soothing smells of pine trees again and enjoy the bliss of forest bathing.
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/3.5 – 1/200 s – ISO 100, f/3.5 – 1/320 s – ISO 100 and f/3.5 – 1/250 s – ISO 100.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Trees
Word of the Day Challenge: Wellbeing
Knockan Crag Nature Reserve
A passing shower brings welcome freshness, more greenness to the grass. Water cascades from the top into a thousand tiny pools. We hear the ‘plop’ of frogs leaping. Careful where we place our feet, we continue the climb. Eivor and Pearl grind to a halt, star-struck. We know what they’ve seen. They ask whether we can see it too. We blink and tell them we believe them.
stag on the hill
greeting us in peace
a kindred spirit
© Xenia Tran
If you look very closely, you can see the stag peering over the rim of the crag in the top right-hand corner of the second photograph.
Wishing you all a wonderful Tuesday,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/2.8 – 1/400 s – ISO 160 and f/4 – 1/800 s – ISO 200.
Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week Challenge: Unexpected
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Animals
dVerse Poets Poetics: Hot Time in ye Ole Pub Tonight!
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/3.2 – 1/2000 s – ISO 100 and f/2.8 – 1/2000 s – ISO 100.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Water
Wishing you all a very happy Wednesday,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/3.2 – 1/200 s – ISO 100 and f/3.2 – 1/640 s – ISO 100.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Two Items or the Number Two
Word of the Day Challenge: Nourish
A gentle follow-up to yesterday’s Blue Ocean.
With love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8 – 1/2000 s – ISO 100 and f/6.3 – 1/1600 s – ISO 100.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: One Item or the Number 1
We left you with smiles before our editing break and are happy to be back here with more smiles after a fruitful week of work.
We are also deeply honoured, humbled and delighted to learn that our photograph and haiku Winter Mist featured on NHK World Japan’s Haiku Masters in Tokyo – Part 1, broadcast on 4th March 2019 from Tokyo.
We are very grateful to presenters Kit Pancoast Nagamura, Kazuko Nishimura and Dan Mitsu for their thoughtful and entertaining interpretation of this photo haiku.
The entire episode, featuring a number of photo haiku and haiku by other international haiku poets, is available to view on the NHK World Japan website and lasts approximately 28 minutes.
Wishing you all a magical Wednesday,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/3.2 – 1/640 s – ISO 160 and f/3.2 – 1/500 s – ISO 160.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Smiles
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Exchange
Word of the Day Challenge: Surprise
