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Floating Dragon

April 16, 2015 by Dale 6 Comments

Floating Dragon

My heart is a dragon afloat An open mouth of violet Tender lips on a pool of glass Heaven in an azure mirror A tongue of gold spins The love of my soul Silken threads protect Project long quills as teeth Submitted to life’s current Pressed against satin scales I am a wild snap dragon…

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Filed Under: Flora, Nature, Poetry, Shoots, Water, Weekly Photo Challenge, Writes Tagged With: afloat, dragon, flower, fragile, Love, Photo, Reflection, snap dragon, violet, Water, Weekly Photo Challenge, wild

The Blur of Spring

April 8, 2015 by Dale 5 Comments

Spring Blur

Depending on where you live, you may well be suffering through the same seasonal blur as we are in Ottawa this year. Our winter this year has been unusually long and cold. Indeed there is still ice on our Rideau Canal (a UNESCO World Heritage Site — not because it has ice into the second…

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Filed Under: Flora, Nature, Shoots, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: blur, colour, green, Light, Photo, spring, Weekly Photo Challenge

Wall of Light and Colour …

March 17, 2015 by Dale 5 Comments

Brettos Bar

Walls can be constructed of almost anything and in their construction they are a way and an end. Between two neighbours, they are a boundary. Set low, they create pathways. Built high, strewn with razor wire, they are borders between ideology. Built beneath, they project edifices into the sky and remind us of our power….

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Filed Under: Architecture, Shoots, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: Athens, Bottles, Brettos Bar, colour, Greece, Light, Plaka, wall

Monarch’s Reward

March 2, 2015 by Dale 7 Comments

Few if any other creatures have to work as hard as they do for their reward than the ephemeral monarch whose journey will take it from toe to tip of this continent in search of milkweed. While milkweed is the monarch’s reward for its thousands of kilometer long flights, milkweed is also disappearing as part…

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Filed Under: Flora, Insect, Nature, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: butterfly, flower, Hike, migration, milkweed, monarch, Photograph, reward, Weekly Photo Challenge

Symmetry’s Scimitar

February 16, 2015 by Dale 4 Comments

Symmetry's Scimitar (landscape)

While I truly love the symmetry of this picture with the crescent moon hanging between the trees as if strung along an invisible clothesline, the image below is actually my favourite in this series because even though slightly off symmetrical, the addition of the path brings mystery to this otherwise pastoral composition. All text and…

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Filed Under: Flora, Sky, Sunset, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: crescent, Forest, moon, path, Photograph, scimitar, sunset, symmetry, Weekly Photo Challenge

Scale: The Theory of Everything

February 7, 2015 by Dale 2 Comments

Scaled - theory of everything

In perspective there is relativity — and in relativity, anything is possible. Time can stop and time can fly; space can explode into infinity and space can contract to nothingness. And in that perspective, there is scale, where giant canopies can grow from mushrooms and a forest can become a bed of ferns. All text…

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Filed Under: Flora, Nature, Shoots, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: Forest, Lusk Falls, mushroom, perspective, Photograph, relativity, scale, seedling, summer, theory of everything, Weekly Photo Challenge

Depth of Fall

January 31, 2015 by Dale 7 Comments

The play of depth of field in balance with one of the deepest depressions in North America seemed an ‘obvious’ choice for this particular challenge. While it is the width of the lens and the photo that is really at work, the effect is an incredible depth of field that just draws me in further…

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Filed Under: B&W, Sky, Travel, Water, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: black and white, depth of field, Niagara Falls, Photograph, Weekly Photo Challenge, wide angle

Fastest and most Expressive Tongue in the West … the East … and Central

January 29, 2015 by Dale 4 Comments

Ben's Dog Tongue

When Ben passed away in October, I was left going through thousands and thousands of photos of him and, in the process, one of the very telling parts of his personality was expressed again and again … and that was the constance of his tongue. It found it’s way into both hearts … and almost…

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Filed Under: Ben, Ben, Dogs, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: Ben, dog, dog kiss, expression, expressive, happy, Photograph, remembrance, tongue, Weekly Photo Challenge

Serenity’s Memory

January 19, 2015 by Dale 4 Comments

Serenity Asleep

For longest time, serenity was my space filled by just a presence; serenity was the presence that filled my space; it was space filled by the presence of serenity. Serenity is now a memory of that space filled. Memories of serenity fill my space. My space is now memories of serenity…. We were each other’s serenity….

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Filed Under: B&W, Ben, Ben, Dogs, Ramblings, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: Ben, black and white, comfort, dog, Love, memory, Photograph, serenity, sleeping, Weekly Photo Challenge

Winter’s Capital

January 12, 2015 by Dale Leave a Comment

Frozen Parliament Hill 1

Yes, at the risk of furthering certain stereotypes of Canada and our nation’s capital, it seemed only fitting to end this series by publishing images of our Parliament under the cloak of last week’s ice storm. While some may prefer these in colour, I think, again, the black and white treatment suits the embattled limestone…

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