Buy my art at ImageKind.com.
Showing posts with label Netherlands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Netherlands. Show all posts

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Alone Again, Naturally

Thanks for sticking with me despite my infrequent posts. This one is a short one, but hopefully I'll be posting a little more frequently this year. I'm going to cheat a bit today and mix in some photos from previous posts along with a few new images, mostly because I haven't had much time for editing lately (photos from Egypt, India, and Italy to come soon though, hopefully!), but also because there's a theme that's been nagging at me for a little while now: solitude in nature.

There's something about solitude in nature that's always been very alluring to me. Perhaps it's because I tend to think of nature as bustling with life, busy, active, and solitude seems to contrast with that perception. Or, perhaps it's because it gives me a sense of quiet stillness, which can at times be difficult to get in a city (small as the city I live in may be). Of course, I recognize that there's something to be said for busy scenes as well, like this field of poppies on a sunny day near Stonehenge:

Salisbury, England



But I do think solitude in nature can be quite striking--sometimes peaceful, sometimes eerie, sometimes lonely, but always interesting.



Cambridge, England

Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Palmer, Alaska

The Netherlands

Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage, Alaska

Malham, England
Cambridge, England
Seward, Alaska


Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Tree-Hugging

I've been enjoying some beautiful evening walks in the sunshine recently, listening to the rustling of the leaves in the trees in the cool summer breeze, and I've had ample opportunity to appreciate the lush greenery. I love the way the trees change with the seasons, and they completely shape the mood of my walks.



Warsaw, Poland





Cambridge, England





Cambridge, England





Cambridge, England



Cambridge, England

This one looked to me like some kind of strange serpentine creature






Silver Falls, Oregon, US




Thunderbird Falls, AK, US




   
Malham, England






Volta Region, Ghana

This is the view from inside a tree--this kind of tree surrounds and draws nutrients from another tree, eventually killing the tree and resulting in this hollowed-out interior.





Cambridge, England






Cambridge, England







Utrecht, Netherlands






McHugh Creek Overlooking the Inlet, AK, US


So, what do you think? In the mood to go out and hug a tree yet?