Ed Lehming Photography
From Where I Stand...
“Golden light beams forth from the hillsides behind the tall pines, competing with the sunshine at my side; a competition for my attention.” – Ed Lehming This is a scene very...
“Movement. The forest is not a static thing. It’s alive and beckons me into it.” – Ed Lehming An experiment in movement that I played with recently. I’ve been doing vertical...
“Autumn, the final brilliant show of the trees I have know all summer. Shine brightly, fill my senses, for I will miss you in the chill of winter and remember your...
“The colours of Autumn turn the world into a wonderland of colour, sound, and scent. There are times when I feel that I have left reality and entered the land of...
“There is wonder in simplicity. Sometimes a mundane scene can offer more than first meets the eye.” – Ed Lehming Today I chose an image from last weekend’s hike along the...
“It’s the unusual, the ‘out of place’ that gets our attention and prompts us to ask questions.” – Ed Lehming While driving through Prince Edward County, a large peninsula in south-eastern...
“Summer walks along the creek, the sun playing among the drifting clouds, and life, in full force all around me.” – Ed Lehming Today I spent a day just being; taking...
“Spaces high and low, previously wide open and empty, are now filled with deep green leaves, as the forest breathes in the warming air.” – Ed Lehming It seemed to happen...
“What season is it?, I ask. The cooler parts of the forest are still a bit subdued compared to others, with just a blush of colour, a snapshot in the forest’s...
“It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices...
“As the seasons changed, winter slowly released its hold on the land, receding in patches and revealing the first signs of spring, like a curtain being slowly drawn.” – Ed Lehming...
“The ghosts of winter cling stubbornly to thin branches, fluttering as bright reminders of days gone by.” – Ed Lehming As the days warm, the ghostly and diaphanous leaves of the...
“When you can take pleasure in the simple beauty life offers, then you are truly blessed.” – Ed Lehming Often, even the most mundane things draw my attention. Though I have...
“As winter releases its grip, memories of warmer are revealed” – Ed Lehming I’ve spent a lot of time recently walking around my town. Primarily due to convenience and partly because...
“Among the detritus of winter lay the signs of resignation and defeat” – Ed Lehming Oh, I am so done with this winter. March is hanging on, raw and ragged, teasing...
“The most amazing thing about the winter is that even a frozen world may be perceived as a heaven!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan Here we are in March and the temperatures are...
“Beneath the rust and grime which dulls the shine of our weathered hearts, joy patiently waits to be rediscovered” ― John Mark Green For my photography, image titles often come quite...
“Hark, now hear the sailors cry, Smell the sea, and feel the sky, Let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.” – Van Morrison During the days I spend sitting...
“It’s the unexpected beauty in the most commonplace that often surprises us” – Ed Lehming This has been the nature of winter in my region. The days warm and cool rapidly,...
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” ― Jim Bishop I know, I’m a bit behind. This image was made on December 20th of last year. This...
“Like most boundaries, they have two aspects. What is inside it and what is outside, it all depends upon which side you are on” – Ed Lehming I’m still in retrospect...
“Heiðarfall” – North Iceland “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson On a day...
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity…...
“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the...
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” ― L. M. Montgomery As I prepare for my 2018 Studio Tour, it gives me time to reflect on present...
“Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore,...
“There was no sudden, striking, and emotional transition. Like the warming of a room or the coming of daylight. When you first notice them they have already been going on for...
“I went into geology because I like being outdoors, and because everybody in geology seemed, well, they all seemed like free spirits or renegades or something. You know, climbing mountains and...
“Everything dreams. The play of form, of being, is the dreaming of substance. Rocks have their dreams, and the earth changes….” ― Ursula K. Le Guin Image two of this series of...
“It was during my enchanted days of travel that the idea came to me, which, through the years, has come into my thoughts again and again and always happily—the idea that...
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