Silent Sunday
sunrise
Silent Sunday
Too early even for the fishermen
Tongariro River, Turangi, NZ. Image: Su Leslie 2019. Click on image to enlarge.
Right in front of me
Morning walk; Hobsonville Point, Auckland, NZ. Image: Su Leslie 2019
“I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.“ — Brene Brown
Posted to the Ragtag Daily Prompt | gratitude
“It’s a new dawn … (and I’m feeling good)”
In an effort to improve mobility in my arthritic knee, I’m seeing a physiotherapist who has given me a new exercise programme. Since the best place to add something to my day is the beginning, I’m getting up earlier.
Beautiful morning skies are an added bonus.
The post title comes from the song “Feeling Good” by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, made famous by the fabulous Nina Simone.
Sometimes the journey is the best part
Ruapehu dawn. Road-trip with the boy-child. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
“The journey not the arrival matters”
– T.S. Eliot
Eliot’s words are particularly true when the journey is made in good company. This shot was taken last year when the boy-child and I were on a road-trip to visit family in Whanganui. A-typically for a teenager (but typical of the photographer that he is), he insisted on an extremely early start so that we could experience sunrise on the Desert Road.
Posted to Debbie’s weekly quotation-inspired challenge, at Travel with Intent.
Sunrise, sunset: quiet moments of reflection
Today both sunrise and sunset delivered moments of gorgeous light to my garden. Shame the hours in between were so grey.
Shared to Debbie’s Six Word Saturday at Travel with Intent.
Wordless Wednesday
Six Word Saturday: and I walked by water’s edge
DP Photo Challenge: rise/set
Sunrise at Orakei Basin, Auckland, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2016
Photographers love the ‘golden hour’ whether it’s in the morning or evening.
I’m a morning person, so I’d expected to have more sunrise shots in my archive. Surprisingly, that’s not the case.
What I did find though, is that my morning shots tend to have fewer traces of humanity in them — whether people themselves, or our planet-covering artifacts.
Housing development, Hobsonville Point, Auckland, NZ. Image; Su Leslie, 2018
Construction fencing silhouetted against the setting sun. Hobsonville Point, Auckland, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2018
