Tag Archives: Landscape Photograpy
The Daily Post Photo Challenge – Curve – June 23, 2016
A silos complex near Champagne, Illinois.
After a week in the United States we went up to Champagne, Illinois. I wanted to see the area I was born and my family had business in that city so off we went. Along the way we were greeted by miles and miles of farm-land. The above silos complex was only one of several that I saw – and was able to snap from a moving car!
A storm brewing over a farm near Nashville, Illinois.
I often found myself in a car riding through the vast country-side of “Little Egypt”, a vast area between two rivers in Southern Illinois. If you like I feel a little perplexed by the appellation thinking that the land between two rivers was Mesopotamia, so Little Babylon might be more appropriate, you would probably get the same reply from the people of the region as I did … a laconic: “Little Egypt” and that’s all she wrote.
I thought I’d pop these off for this week’s Photo Challenge hosted by Daily Prompts … dedicated to “Curves”. Just click the red link to find more photos dedicated to curves!
Wordless Wednesday – April 13, 2016
Monochrome Monday – (Haiga and Tanka) – April 11, 2016
tanka
moonlight dreaming
as crickets sing for lovers
hidden gazebo
on this balmy spring morning
creating illusions
© G.s.k. ‘16
Yesterday I went for a walk with the city of Arco … one of our stop overs was at the Arch-Duke of Austria’s historical botanical garden (for which I did a Sunday walk in 2013). This morning one of the photos reminded me of moonlight … so with a little magic of imagination and an app … my haiga was done. My next post will be this week’s Monday Haiga Event … hope to see your there!
Carpe Diem #950 dreams – this month Carpe Diem Haiku Kai will be prompting for a daily haiga for those who enjoy this type of work, a great opportunity!
Tuesday’s Photos – Wild Flowers in Woodlands – April 5, 2016
Dancing daisies are delightful but puffy dandelions are delicious down on the Sarca River near Dro! Happy viewing!
(A few years back, I created for a now defunct poetry blog site a prompt page called – Pixelventures … I’ve been thinking of maybe resuscitating Pixelventures photo prompts sometime in the future … if there’s someone interested in participating .. so, if you’re interested, tell me so in the comments. Ciao for now, Bastet)
Monochrome Monday – April 4, 2016
Yesterday I took a bike trip to visit with a friend at her family’s “agritour” in Dro, not far from Arco. Unfortunately I got distracted and took only a couple of photographs, which is really a shame because there are many things to snap, including a delightful ginger cat named Heidi … but I plan to return soon!
Wordless Wednesday – March 30, 2016
One Month of Haiga – Haiga 27 – February 27, 2016
Hello World!
I’m so sorry that I’m a bit late today but I’ve been having connection problems again …
Today has been one of those dull rainy days that just sort of dampen your spirit – I’m sure we all know them. On a proper grey day a photograph can come out with a certain sort of dark mysterious character that can be quite inspiring. The pitter-patter of rain falling on the roof on other rainy days can be kind of soothing, but a dull grey wet day without character just kind of seeps into you. So my theme today is:
a moody day
The photo I’m using is of a small plot of land just out back of my house in Bolognano. In Italy, in small villages like the one I live in are a mix between multi-storied old houses (the basement used to be where one kept their animals and still have a stone manger – the top floor was where silk worms used to be raised and so was full of mulberry leaves and stems – The middle floors is where the family lived) and vineyards. The photograph itself is partially blurred by raindrops that fell on the lens.
To participate with your completed haiga just tag your post Bastet’s One Month of Haiga and link directly to this post, then link your haiga post in the Mr. Linky app:
Have a great evening and I hope to see you earlier tomorrow! Bastet
One Month of Haiga – Haiga 26 – February 26, 2016
Hello!
We’ve all seen it … the moon peeping through the clouds or boldly looking on the world during the day. It’s popular belief that the moon is never seen when the sun is up, so we all make up lovely poems and fantasy stories about the this romantic impossibility.
One of my favourite films (with Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer) is “Ladyhawke“. Here a cruel and somewhat corrupt Bishop of Aquila (his name means eagle and is also the name of a city in Italy) desires Lady Isabeau d’Anjou for his own but realizing that she’s in love with the Captain of the Guards Navarre uses dark magic to transform them into a hawk (she during the day) and a wolf (he during the night) so that even though always together, they are eternally apart … unless there is “a day without a night and a night without a day” or when the moon and the sun shine in the sky together. Not even taking into consideration that actually the moon and sun do show up from time to time together, the writer tells us that what will save them from their fate is appearing before the Bishop during a total eclipse. Sigh … isn’t that so romantic!
However in our everyday life, no such magic exists and we don’t need a total eclipse for the moon and sun to be out together … so there she was in January peeping over Mount Baldo in Malcesine and I captured her in a few photographs (though in my haiku I’m treating it as a late February moon 😉 ). Today’s theme then is:
a daytime moon
And here is my haiga:
afternoon visit
peeping behind veils
late winter moon
© G.s.k. ‘16
To participate with your completed haiga just tag your post Bastet’s One Month of Haiga and link directly to this post, then link your haiga post in the Mr. Linky app:
Have a great day, ciao! Bastet
One Month of Haiga – February 23, 2016
Hello!
Well my personal challenge is rapidly growing to its conclusion, there will only be six more haiga to create and then we pass onward to March, the month that hosts the spring equinox! I was trying to take photos in the growing dark and I took two of the moon-rise. This is of course the last moon of winter, I suddenly realized and so wrote a haiga about that. Today’s theme is:
last wintry events
As I said, I chose the last full moon of this season, but, you might want to write about something else, like the last snow storm. Here is my haiga for today:
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Have a great day – ciao! Bastet
Through the Eye of Bastet 