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Just around the corner there is a field where flowers are grown for commercial sales.
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Just around the corner there is a field where flowers are grown for commercial sales.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #160 is ‘Your Inspiration’.
One of the biggest inspirations is nature and flowers. In times of Covid19 the back garden is a place to be.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #160 is ‘Your Inspiration’.
One of the biggest inspirations is nature and flowers. In times of Covid19 the back garden is a place to be.
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The theme for Lens-artists Weekly Photo Challenge #159 is ‘Postcards’.
A landscape of poppies and other flowers near High Halstow Medway in Kent.
In memory of Andrea White.
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In the garden, Summer is quite wet at the moment.
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The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #153 is ‘Wonderful World’.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’.
So here is the first pick: an old grass in sunlight.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#143 for this week is ‘colorful April’.
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The theme for this week Lens-artists challenge #155 is ‘on the water’.
Probably not exactly as John intended but here is some water: rain drops.
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A few weeks ago I posted a photo of this bridge ‘Blossom bridge’.
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This Spring the tulips in the front garden were a pleasure to enjoy for weeks. A last impression of these gorgeous and fierce flowers.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #149 is ‘cool colors, blue and green. And purple as third color 🙂
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The tulips gave us weeks of colorful joy this year, but in May a storm started to end their blooming period. The petals gone, the stems left behind. Derelict.
If you enjoy photography and want to play with words each month seeing if you can express the word in an image, visit Paula’s Lost in Translation blog. It is fun to do, but her photography is wonderful and inspiring as well. Well worth a visit and a follow.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #148 is ‘spots and dots’. The tulips lasted weeks this year, but unfortunately heavy wind made them wither fast.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #147 is ‘garden’. This is a little park in the neighbourhood.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #147 is ‘garden’. We have a small back garden. At the moment tulips provide color to the fresh green. And tulips come in lots of types and shapes.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #146 is ‘focusing on the details’.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #146 is ‘focusing on the details’. Tulip in the rain.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #146 is ‘focusing on the details’. Tulips in the rain.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #146 is ‘focusing on the details’. Tulips are there in lots of varieties. Do not ask me the name for this one, but I do love the colors and shapes of the petals.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #146 is ‘focusing on the details’. Tulips give a lot of detail when the light is behind them. Enjoying the front garden.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. Spring is there, always good to see an old friend return.
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The theme for his week Lens-artists challenge #145 is ‘getting to know you’. In Spring work on the garden starts, to prepare for Summer and warmer weather, outside dining and cooking, relaxing in the sun, reading a book. Flowers through a rainy window after the sun comes out again.
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Watching the tulips in the front garden grow, day by day. Rain and shine.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#144 for this week is ‘taking flight’. The flying objects in this photo are the clouds, chasing on the frisky Northern wind this morning. Covering the familiar display of rows of hyacinths in full bloom.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’. It is Spring and birds are building nests. This magpie hits our hanging baskets for building material.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’.
Daffodils in the rain.
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The Lens Artists Photo Challenge#142 for this week is ‘you pick it’.
So here is the first pick: an old grass in sunlight.
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The 140th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is ‘change of scenery’. During the pandemic my window to the world shrunk. But this year I do what I always do in Spring: shooting the flowers growing right outside the kitchen window. The good old Nikon D500 with long lens being in use again, waiting on the kitchen table each morning when I open the shutters. A micro or macro change of scenery, but nature nurtures not only its plants. Indeed you do not have to go far for a change of scenery.
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The 140th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is ‘change of scenery’. During the pandemic my window to the world shrunk. But this year I do what I always do in Spring: shooting the flowers growing right outside the kitchen window. The good old Nikon D500 with long lens being in use again, waiting on the kitchen table each morning when I open the shutters. A micro or macro change of scenery, but nature nurtures not only its plants. Indeed you do not have to go far for a change of scenery.
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The 139th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is about ‘natural light’.
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The 136th Weekly Lens Artists Challenge is about ‘things that start with the letter S’.
One of the first crocuses in the garden.
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