Tongariro River, Turangi, NZ. Image: Su Leslie 2019. Click on image to enlarge.
sunrise
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
A shared moment of joy
Rangitoto sunrise. Seen from Milford Beach, Auckland, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2017. Edited with Snapseed.
Awake particularly early the other day, I went for a walk on Milford Beach. The skies were low and threatening, and I’d resigned myself to a undistinguished sunrise. In fact, I was headed back to the car when a fellow walker pointed out what I nearly missed — shafts of orange light bursting outward from the horizon.
My photo can never do justice to how beautiful that moment was. The beach was almost deserted, but for the few minutes nature offered her light show, a small group of us stood together and watched.
Then the elderly Chinese woman murmured “very special moment”, we all smiled, added our agreement and carried on our way.
Written for Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge at Lens and Pens by Sally
Six word Saturday: early morning drive to the airport
Seen en route to Auckland airport to collect the Big T after his UK trip. Su Leslie, 2017
