coral peony.

Un sol bleu de fleurs et vert de feuilles, le soleil du haut traversant, une sorte de foret enchantée ... Les arbres sont bienheureux dont un courbé en plein milieu mais la tête haute qui veut se diriger vers le ciel. Bonne journée à vous 📷💚

Bluebells carpet
Brightly colored flowers
Enchant the roots holding me
Curved trunk reaching toward the sky
The happiest one in the whole blessed land.

#Bluetue #ThickTrunkTuesday
#spring #trees #photography

Some beauty from my region… 😊
Pink granit coast, Bretagne.

On a clear day we can see three Cascade volcanoes from our place!
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Escadas de Alfama! I loved Alfama. I was there during sardine festival in June 2018. All night! 💙🙏💛

The short description is that you're looking at a river, surrounded by rocks and trees. The long description is that you're standing on some wet rocks and boulders at the edge of a rushing river, watching as it curves off into the distance. The water is turbulent from the rocks beneath and standing here you'd be definitely hearing the waterfall directly behind you as white noise magic. Surrounding you and the rocks are great mossy tree branches, arching over your head. They're a lush green and will be dripping water on you every now and then, but you won't mind. The rocks at the river's edge are green with moss and very wet and pleasingly soft to touch. The smell is a delightful fug of leaf mold, greenery, sharp, chilly fresh air and peace. Standing here, you know you want to stay a little longer. Maybe sit on the nearby bench and take all this in for a while. Maybe eat that lunch you packed as you hear the birds overhead calling to each other and let your mind relax.

A picture from our walk along the river at Te Puna o Riuwaka. It doesn't capture half the magic. (As always, more in the alt text)

bruiseSky, 2026

#photography #landscape #concept #horizon

Framed by the trunks and branches of a stand of fir trees, the snow-covered peak of Mt. Jefferson in Oregon appears in the far distance behind a low range of Cascade foothills, some seventy miles away from my place in Salem.

#MountainMonday

Mount Jefferson peak, peeking out above the Cascade foothills, about 70 miles east of Salem, Oregon.
#photography #mountain #mtJefferson #Oregon

Hallo.
Das erinnerte mich an eines von mir von vor langer Zeit. Andere Perspektive, dasselbe Gefühl.
Poland 1971. 💙🙏💛

Photo of tiny green leaves pushing up through the dead clutter on the forest floor. #photography #woods #forest

If you take my camera
I'll paint
If you take my paints
I'll draw
If you take my pencil
I'll scratch in the dirt
If you sweep the dirt away
I'll just use my words

(Greedy men trying to box humanity in with rules and robots will find they can't build a box strong enough.)

#ImageAndVerse #Stunday

Angkor Wat temple reflected in a pool in front of it as the sun rises. The temple has 1 taller pointed tower in the center and two smaller ones on each side. You can see too more smaller ones from the back side. The temple is in silhouette and the sky is pale blue with a bit of pink clouds just above the building. There's a sliver of moon on the right side and a palm tree on the far left side.

Happy #Stunday!

Angkor Wat sunrise from 2011

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOForOld #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersUnited #photography #ArtYear

Close up shot of one flower that appears to in the process of opening. It has a lime green involucre which holds the petals which look like an orange basting brush. Very fine, dense orange petals. Long, thin white stamens are almost as long as the petals, so they stick out quite a bit. The background is green bokeh of leaves, medium green and dark green.

#ColorADay #OrangeSun #Stunday

Stifftia chrysantha, commonly known as the Golden Pompom or Yellow Powder Puff tree.

#ECK #EastCoastKin #Bloomscrolling #MacroMonday

a giant curtain of white frothy water streams down from above in the distant background, setting an exquisite scene for a pair of photographers photographing the fantastic, ice and moss covered rock formations (tiny by comparison) in the foreshortened foreground

'Wall of Water' (2014) -- Skogafoss Waterfall, Ring Road, Southern Iceland

#BlueSkyArtShow #Edge ✨ #Stunday ✨ #MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨ #Scape ✨

#Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
#ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford

Fire escape stairs lit up at night - National Theatre, Southbank, London

#fireEscape #stairs #stairsOnSunday #nationalTheatre #stunday #classicMono

Thank you! Nature never stops amazing. 💙🙏💛

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Bands of detritus, decaying leaves and organic oil foam gather at a beaver dam in a gently flowing slough.

#Stunday

If you look closely enough, everything becomes an abstract. Bands of detritus, decaying leaves and organic oil foam gather at a beaver dam in a gently flowing slough. Minto Brown Island Park, Salem, OR.
#photography #art #ArtYear #nature #EastCoastKin

Thanks Alina! There was a light breeze and the patterns were gently dancing. Just beautiful. BTW, I forgot to mention in the ALT that I shot this through a screen door, which created an additional layer of weaving if you look closely. 💙🙏💛

Thank you Jean.
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Your words are all the millions I need 💙🙏💛

Akènes de pissenlit, légers et duveteux, prêts à s'envoler. Les graines, attachées à leurs tiges fines, forment des sphères aériennes et délicates. Le fond sombre et flou met en valeur la blancheur des akènes et la finesse des filaments

Envolée

❤️ Sartore’s project and work is awesome! My wife gave me this one. 💙🙏💛

bluebell stroll
through the forest...

#Jacinthesdesbois
#bluebells
#fleur #flower
#forêt #forest
#paysage #landscape

#stunday
#EastCoastKin

#selarte 📷

Photo by Kort Duce A weathered padlock hangs in quiet tension from a chain-wrapped fence post, its weight pulling the links into a subtle diagonal across the frame. In this vertical black-and-white photograph, the lock sits just left of center, its worn metal surface etched with fine scratches that catch the light. The chain drapes downward in a loose line, each link distinct and slightly twisted, suggesting both strength and age. A rough steel post divides the composition, rising straight through the frame while strands of barbed wire stretch horizontally, their sharp points contrasting with the smooth curves of the chain. The interplay of lines—vertical post, horizontal wire, and angled chain—creates a restrained geometric rhythm. The background fades into a soft blur, isolating the subject and lending a sense of stillness and quiet isolation. The monochrome tones emphasize texture and form, turning an ordinary fence detail into a study of tension, restraint, and time.

A weathered padlock hangs in quiet tension from a chain-wrapped fence post along St. Vrain Greenway in Longmont, Colorado.

#BNWmacro #ClassicMono #BNWmacro #Monochrome #BW #BlackandWhite #EastCoastKin #ECK #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #art

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Thank you feistycat
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Sunlight shines through bright green palm fronds. The shadows of another frond behind intersect the frond leaves creating an intricate woven pattern

#Stunday
Morning sunlight passes
Through palm fronds

A woven reality emerges
The intricate intersection
Of object and shadow

#photography #art #nature #light #palm #EastCoastKin

Das Stimmt!
Eine wunderschöne Komposition. Ein wunderschöner Gedanke.
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A colour photograph of a life sized, bronze statue of a person stepping off the edge of the old rampart walls into the Mediterranean Sea, in Antibes, France. LeDéfi (The Challenge) by artist Nicolas Lavarenne represents a “step into the unknown”.

A step into the unknown.

#BlueSkyArtShow #edge #LeGranDéfi #NicolasLavarenne #sculpture #Antibes #Photography #EastCoastKin

That it is! May the day please your eyes! 💙🙏💛