You are entitled to indulge yourself once in a while.
So go for it, and accept the guilt-free freedom of it.
Indulgence
Tag Archives: rose
Dazzle
Dazzle the world with your brilliance.
You are amazing.
Start believing in yourself.
Red
Long after the flowers fade, the love will endure.
It is eternal and will always be with you.
Resilience
You have the strength to get through this.
Believe in yourself.
You have the ability and drive, so go for it!
Celebration
Mourn those you have lost, but also celebrate their life.
Share the imprint they left on your soul.
Let others know of their light and love.
Delicate
Others may see you as strong, but you may not always feel that way.
Putting up barriers will stop people seeing the real you, but that also prevents them from helping where they can.
There is nothing wrong with frailty; it is not a weakness.
You don’t always have to put on a brave face.
Perspective
It is always good to look at things with different perspective.
You can find elements you hadn’t noticed before, and bring a new beauty to a that which you take for granted.
Put down your phone and look around you with a fresh pair of eyes.
Distractions
Blinker yourself to the distractions in your life.
Avoid bombarding the senses twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
Your brain needs down time and so do you.
Sit quietly, close your eyes and allow yourself to digest everything that has gone on.
Ride
Ride the great wave of life and see where it takes you.
Amazing adventures lie in store if you just take that one step out of your comfort zone.
Why say ‘no’, when ‘yes’ is so much more positive?
Mass Observation – Colour
Something a bit brighter for these crazy times.
Colour seemed to unleash a lot in those who have submitted this time around, so enjoy!
Name: Cooking-Post Nerd
Location: United Kingdom
Note: I managed to escape from my kitchen and made it out into the garden. Nature has moved on while humanity has paused, and the April sunshine has brought the plants and flowers out. I love lilac, and this starburst of a shot, with a really narrow depth of field, is my submission this month!
Name: Killing Time With A Camera … (https://steviegill.wordpress.com/)
Location: Queen Street East, Toronto
Note: A few weeks ago, someone started placing colourful plastic flowers on benches, lampposts, etc in our neighbourhood. I have no idea what the significance of this is, whether it’s related to spring, Easter, or perhaps as a symbol of hope during these trying times. Anyway, this fabulous plastic rose is attached to a community noticeboard that I pass on my way to the Valu-Mart (got to love North America!), and seeing it adds a little splash of colour and also a sense of mystery to my day!
Name: Postcard Cafe https://postcardcafe.wordpress.com
Location: Hunters Bar, Sheffield
Note: This long exposure shot was taken while shooting a night time ‘9 in 45’ (click the link if you wish to know more about 9 in 45). The location of this shot was determined not by me but by the rules of 9 in 45! A long exposure introduced the colour trails of passing cars and a quick edit in Photoshop isolated them and the grass verge from the rest of the shot. Both the presence and absence of colour in the one image. I like the minimal aspect of the composition and the colours between the gate posts on the left hand side, which look like someone has stretched some plastic sheeting across!
Name: Cap Does Craft
Location: Attercliffe, South Yorkshire
Note: This shot is of the Gripple factory in Attercliffe. They are a wonderful, forward thinking, innovative company and the design of their building reflects how they do things differently. This is a small section of one of their buildings. Without the colour and reflective elements to the windows this could just be a grey industrial building which might not be given a second glance. The colour is what lifts this image to something far more interesting.
Name: CKPonderingsToo
Location: Taunton, Somerset
Note: Again, while curating this post, I became very conscious that I had not really connected to what I was going to include. On my one-a-day I have still been taking photos, but nothing really leapt out at me. So, I have dug a bit deeper with this one, looking pre-lockdown, and my first visit to the (now) local town of Taunton. One one street corner, a hoarding hiding a patch of disused land, is this piece of street art. It leapt out at me as a potential photograph, and, with a slight tweak here and there, it soon matched this month’s theme.
Name: Doctor Ken, Gin Sop
Location: Somerset
Note: A sign of our times that caught my eye. Still, it’s a splash of colour in a seemingly endless grey…
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