snowdrops

Spring flowers in black and white…
 

 

whiteout

This crazy weather! Mother Nature chose this morning to remind us with a heavy snow shower that she will be the one to decide whether it’s winter or spring.

(I converted this image to black and white with Nik’s Silver Efex.)

 

 

Brooks Point

A blustery morning at the point.

 

 

mushrooms

Mushrooms amaze me in the way they seemingly spring up overnight, and fade to nothing just as quickly.

localized mist

This low-lying field is often shrouded in morning mist, while the surrounding landscape is perfectly clear.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Local

summer’s gone

Cabins are shut up for the season, the lake now empty of swimmers and canoes. Distant laughter and barbecue aromas no longer drift across the water. The dragonflies have disappeared too, and taken the summer with them, leaving behind cool nights, misty mornings, and a new generation sleeping just beneath the surface.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgia

Notre Dame, Paris

Taken last year on our trip to France.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Look Up

cropped images in the WordPress Reader

Dear photography/art bloggers: Have you noticed that the WordPress Reader is now displaying only a cropped version of your carefully composed photo/artwork? Worse yet, the crop is of the top third of the image, which in many cases eliminates the main subject of your photo. I’m concerned that this poorly thought out change will have a detrimental effect on viewership for all bloggers who rely on imagery to drive traffic to their sites. If you care, please make your voice heard in the forum on this thread.

Edit: It appears the WordPress Reader cropping problem is not affecting everyone. I hope someone from WordPress responds to the forum thread to clarify this issue.

Edit 2: It seems the problem is happening in my Safari browser (Mac) but not in Firefox. I haven’t tested Chrome because I don’t have that. For now as a workaround I’ll use Firefox for my WordPress viewing.

Edit 3: I updated my Mac OS to the latest version of Yosemite (10.10.5), restarted Safari and loaded up WordPress. The images in the reader are now displaying in full, hooray! So if you’re on a Mac and are having the cropping problem, it is worth trying to update your OS to the latest version (a good idea in any case).

we’re all in this together (4 images)

We are all connected, to each other as humans, to the ecosystem we share with other species, and to the planet we call home.

All these photos were taken on a trip to Paris (the city of love!) last year.

Weekly Photo Challenge: One Love

fish bones

I’ve given up waiting for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge to be posted, so here’s another back-yard fern photo, processed in black and white.

Edit: It appears the Weekly Photo Challenge has now appeared, and the theme is “harmony”. I’ll keep this photo as my challenge entry, because the flow of curves and shapes throughout the image is harmonious to my eye.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Harmony