Posts Tagged ‘nature’
the black bird
Posted in Branches, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, bird, Branches, Inspiration, landscape, nature, Photography, trees on March 15, 2014| 6 Comments »
more petals have fallen …
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, beauty, botanicals, colors, flowers, Inspiration, nature, petals, Photography, tulips on March 13, 2014| 3 Comments »
and so I hold them up to the light …
and let them spill upon the table.
Quite beautiful but I am glad that some petals remain upon the stem.
hot off the press: branches
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, art, beauty, books, Branches, Inspiration, landscape, nature, New England, Photography, trees on March 12, 2014| 3 Comments »
When I wrote the photo essay Branching Thoughts at the end of last year for Creativity-Portal.com I made some promises that I actually wasn’t sure I was going to keep, about being disciplined and stop putting off until tomorrow what I could conceivably do today. I love trees. I’ve always written about trees and once I picked up a camera I began photographing them, especially the branches. I’ve finally put together a big book of branches, a 108-page collection of images taken across Massachusetts. It is available as a soft cover book or PDF for $8.95. Click on any of the images below to check it out.
Branches Cover by Cynthia Staples
there are some pinkish petals in the house
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, colors, flowers, Inspiration, nature, Photography, pink, pink tulips, tulips on March 12, 2014| 4 Comments »
Picked up a small bouquet of pink tulips on sale at the grocery store.
They are slowly opening up.
like a candle burning bright
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, flowers, imagination, Inspiration, nature, perspective, Photography, tulips on March 11, 2014| 4 Comments »
During the photo shoot for the white series, a petal became dislodged. And what an unexpected treat.
a series in white
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, botanicals, colors, flowers, Inspiration, nature, photograhy, tulips on March 11, 2014| 6 Comments »
an interior light
Posted in Inspiration, tagged beauty, botanicals, floral photography, flowers, Inspiration, nature, Photography, tulips on March 9, 2014| 3 Comments »
peering into a vase of tulips
Posted in Inspiration, tagged abstract, colors, flowers, Inspiration, nature, Photography, tulips, white tulips on March 6, 2014| 4 Comments »
A splurge at the grocery store. I probably needed butter more but somehow I could not walk away from that bouquet of white tulips.
still growing …
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, Nature Notes, tagged food, fungus, Inspiration, mushroom, nature, oyster mushroom, Photography on February 28, 2014| 2 Comments »
new posters available
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged being present, flowers, Inspiration, James Baldwin, nature, petals, Photography, posters, sensuality, snow on February 26, 2014| Leave a Comment »
New posters available in my zazzle shop. Just a few African violet petals, some shadows resting on snow and a rainbow cupped within a shell. As I originally studied these images, I thought them sensuous and I was reminded of something James Baldwin wrote in The Fire Next Time, “To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.” I sometimes worry that I am procrastinating as I watch sunlight settle upon a leaf … but then I just shake myself and become thankful that I could be present in the moment. 😉
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