Ed Lehming Photography
From Where I Stand...
“Joy is not in things; it is in us.” ― Richard Wagner A bit of fun this morning. I decided to ‘play’ with an image I made yesterday, by running it through...
“Going green doesn’t start with doing green acts — it starts with a shift in consciousness. ― Ian Somerhalder This image invokes two thoughts for me: First, I’m loving the fact that...
“There is always danger for those who are afraid.” ― George Bernard Shaw I could not resist the quote. I am told over and over, “Be careful on the trails, they are...
Winter hung in there, like an invalid refusing to die. Day after grey day the ice stayed hard; the world remained unfriendly and cold.” ― Neil Gaiman Contrary to the quote that...
“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.” ...
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity” ― John Muir I realized, as I was...
“I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the...
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ― Marcel Proust It’s pretty amazing the things we see when travelling. I’m not talking about...
“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.” ― Sarah Kay After a sustained hiatus, I’m...
“I love the scent of winter. I love the scent of winter enough to suffer the cold for it.” ― Tiffany Reisz It’s been a while since I posted, it’s also been...
“You think winter will never end, and then, when you don’t expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.” ― Wendell Berry Warm, merely describes the...
“For so long I have lived on the edge of an invisible world. Sometimes I feel like the scattered debris left over after the personality has fallen out of the sky.” ...
“Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially true. All smells are sucked clean from the air, leaving only a harsh,...
“We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Though the forest image above is far from terrifying, at least for me, it can be...
“It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals...
“The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.” ― T.S. Eliot This will likely be my final image from the ‘Night of the False Dawn”, as I have chosen to call it,...
“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.” ― Virginia Woolf I thought I would do something a bit different and revisit a time and place I talked about yesterday, but from...
“Beauty is seeing a flower bloom in a garden or in nature. Artificial is seeing that same flower try and grow in a vase of water.” ― Anthony T. Hincks The only...
“When everything looks unusual around you, your eyes and your mind mostly need anything usual! Unfamiliar disturbs us; familiar comforts us! But for the wise man, unusual is more precious than...
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” ― Leonard Cohen Truly, a crack in the clouds, and that’s how the light gets in. Despite the snow-covered ground...
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says,...
“December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory…” ― John Geddes Seriously, I could stop my post here with this all too appropriate quote. As I...
“A day’s brightness is determined by the light in our hearts.” ― A.D. Posey This ‘solitaire’ is not the same as the one I posted few days ago. Yesterday, after a morning...
“Because you don’t notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.” ― Libba Bray...
“The beauty of any first time is that it leads to a thousand others…” ― Pico Iyer This was the end of November, the first significant snowfall, enough to dust the ground...
“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in...
“The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it’s here is up to us. Journey wisely.” ― Alexandra Elle This is my final image...
“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.” ― Leonora Carrington Indeed, only the light...
“In the hills giant oaks Fall upon their knees You can touch parts You have no right to” ― Kay Ryan There is simply no other way to describe this intergrown cluster...
“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence...
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