desert – Dutch goes the Photo!

Thursday Teaser

A taste of more to come!

As I’m spending this week in the amazingly beautiful Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada, I thought it might be interesting to share a teaser of the images that I will be working on when I return home…

This shot is from early in the morning, as first light comes in and the sun is still hidden by the buttes behind us. This image is pretty raw and still needs work, but it gives you an idea of the beauty that we get to see here.

Three Line Tales – End of the Line

Not a revelation…

Many thanks to Sonya for Week One Hundred and Twenty-Seven of Three Line Tales, part of her awesome blog Only 100 Words!

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Isolating countries,
Leaders’ political gain.
Doomsday clock’s last ticks?

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Thank you to Sonya of Only 100 Words for coming up with Three Line Tales.

You’ll find full guidelines on her TLT page, but here’s the tl;dr:

Write three lines inspired by the photo prompt (& give them a title if possible).
Link back to this post.
Tag your post with 3LineTales (so everyone can find you in the Reader).
Read and comment on other TLT participants’ lines.
NEW: If you want your post to be included in the round-up, you have until Sunday evening to publish it.
Have fun.

Happy three-lining!

Three Line Tales – Week 14

Light and dark

Welcome to Week Fourteen of Three Line Tales.

three line tales, week 14 — *TLT 14 photo by Fabio Rose – click here for full res pic*

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Shadowy concepts,
Brilliant intuitive thoughts.
Bicameral mind.

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Thank you to Sonya of Only 100 Words for coming up with Three Line Tales.

The TLT rules are simple:

Take a look at the photo prompt and write three lines to go with it.
Your lines can be poetry, micro-fiction, micro non-fiction or just a really long caption – everything goes as long as it’s three lines long.
A link back to this post would be nice (it’ll make me feel obliged to swing by yours to read your three lines, and some of your readers might want to join in, too – the more, the merrier, right?).
Tag your post with 3LineTales – it’ll make it easier for others to find it in the Reader.
Read other participants’ lines.

Please check Sonya’s post Three Line Tales Detailed Instructions for the full explanation.

Hope you enjoyed this

A Day at the Beach

Frozen desert (not dessert)

As Winter is beginning to reliquish its grip on New England, a look back at a beach visit from last year.

20150131-Landscape_57A0865 — *Desert Oasis*

In 2015, the end of January was particularly cold and snow-filled, which made the last day of the month a perfect time to go visit the beach. There were many wonderful snow images, but this one stood a bit apart for me.

While wandering around the beach, I noticed that there were some areas where the receding water had left some rather interesting formations in the sand. Striations in the sand combined with the semi-solid salt water from the cold, created this wonderful view from a low angle (I laid down to get this angle). To my eye, this felt like looking over a sand dune toward the edge of a desert oasis, an interesting juxtaposition to the extreme cold of the day!

Hope you enjoy it as well!