PHOTO by Darwis Alwan. Tall, slender trees rise through a dense mist in a quiet forest. Their trunks are dark and speckled, twisting gently as they stretch toward a pale sky veiled in fog. At ground level, vibrant green grasses and broad-leaved plants create a lush underlayer, damp with moisture. The scene feels suspended in stillness, as if time has slowed to a hush beneath the canopy of silent trees.

In the forest, time is irrelevant. Life is measured in cycles, not seconds.

Bonjour, tu es magnifique, Nice.

Ogres get bad press. This ogre is nice. Monk meets him as he is walking deep in the mountains. Ogre is lonely. He just wants to talk. Monk listens.

'Monk meets the ogre of the mountain’

Ink on Canvas Board

12” x 12”

Framed

Good morning from Minnesota!...

365 Challenge No. 1 - 2026 publish daily old unpublished pics
Day 71 - Moored fishing fleet in the morning mist, Aleenta, Pranburi, Thailand 2018
#fotosbyfaj #faj365challenge2026 #photography #blueskykin #calm #still #thailand #pranburi #aleentahuahin #fog
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A sunset moment at the iconic Seljalandsfoss waterfall in Iceland 🇮🇸 #SaturdayVibes

Sunlit woodland bank covered in bright green moss (a bryophyte). Fox-tail Feather-moss (Thamnobryum alopecurum) forms lush draping growth over a sloping bank at the base of a tree, the shoots rising and branching like tiny green trees or soft fox-tail plumes. Nearby a Hart’s-tongue fern (Asplenium scolopendrium) grows with long strap-shaped fronds. Winter sunlight filters through bare woodland branches in the background.

The woods were so beautiful today...

Calla lily, in black and white

Calla Lily
#photography #floral ##blackandwhite #calla 📷

Abstract painting with bright swirls of orange and red. With some ochre/brown. In white background. Creating ribbons of light and depth.

one of those when you don’t think, you just move/are moved
🤍🕊️
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#ArtistsOnBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #AbstractArt #AbstractExpressionism #Painter #Art #Artist #WomensArtBlueSky #AbstractArtist #BlueSkyArt  #OregonArtist #Oregon

Ink Radio signing off for now.

Keep the volume where it helps,
and your feet on the ground.

Remember: sound is how we find each other in the dark.
Keep choosing songs that steady you, ones that remind you who you are.
That’s not escape.
That’s survival.

I’ll be back.
You keep the music going.

​A vertical-oriented landscape photograph of a dense forest during the early morning or late afternoon. The scene is captured from a low angle, with blurred mossy rocks and dark tree trunks in the immediate foreground, creating a sense of depth. In the midground, numerous slender deciduous trees with dark bark stand close together. Visible rays of sunlight (god rays) stream diagonally through the hazy or misty air from the upper left, illuminating patches of the forest floor. The ground is covered in a thick layer of reddish-brown fallen leaves. The background is softly out of focus, filled with a pale, golden light that filters through the canopy, enhancing the atmospheric and ethereal mood of the woodland.

Awakening.

#forest #nature #photography #wander #Teutoburgerwald
#forestfriday

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Two swans on a calm river in early morning light.

A serene scene as two swans came to check me out.
#birdoftheday
#serenity

A large cloud hovering over the Thompson River in the Interior of British Columbia. The sky is blue and there are snow capped mountains in the distance. There’s a mirror image on the water beside the sandy beach.

Cloudy days make the sunshine sweeter.

#Scape #BlueSkyArtShow #sky #clouds

An Upper Peninsula of Michigan pine plantation for #ForestFriday!

Half Frozen 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
#Macro #Nature #photography

in the deepening cusp a light like lantern glows and mirrors fierce in pale air and water surrounding islands harboring birds and deeply nestled creatures and hope

we are floating lanterns

Anticrepuscular Phasers

Here's a shot of something I've never captured before. Anticrepuscular rays from a full moon. The light slipped between two huge lenticular clouds, created a stunning and most unusual sight.

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#Landscape #FullMoon #Lenticular #Rays #Phasers #EastCoastKin #Stunday #Night

A very still & gentle #sunrise in #Ballarat this morning, a golden dawn spilling across Lake Wendouree.
Not such a bad way to kick off a day. Right?

#photography #iphoneography #landscape

འདི་ལ་བསལ་བྱ་ཅི་ཡང་མེད། །གཞག་པར་བྱ་བ་ཅུང་ཟད་མེད།།
ཡང་དག་ཉིད་ལ་ཡང་དག་ལྟ། །ཡང་དག་མཐོང་ན་རྣམ་པར་གྲོལ།།

“There is nothing whatsoever to remove,
Not the slightest thing to establish.
Look truly at the true nature itself—
Seeing truly, one is completely liberated.”

Via Sonam Tsewang

orange coloured stamens (?) surrounded by blue petals

I am going for a trifecta here: #BlueSkyMonday #MacroMonday and #MinimalMonday

Red maple leaves glow on a cloudy day in the autumn woods

Red Maple

#ColoraDay
#RedWed
#colouraday
#EastCoastKin
#PhotographersofBluesky

Autumn leaves 🍁🍂🧡
#MondayMotivation
#Autumn #Nature
#Photography
#ThePhotoHour

A tree with two trunks, seen from the side in a woods full of trees with green and yellow leaves.

The two trunks of this tree remind me of dancers.

Last light, glowing through the rain tonight

Visiting Hours at the Plant Infirmary.

#everydaygrace #patience #plantcare #photography #treefrog #meditation #slowdowndurm #rest

Cypress trees reflected in still water at dawn, framed by overhanging branches in the foreground and surrounded by a soft, cream-colored sky. Fog rests on the water in the distance.

Foggy morning breakdown

#photography #NaturePhotography #landscape