Ed Lehming Photography
From Where I Stand...
“We sat together silently in the tropical warmth of the beach, gazing over the calm waters and watching the sun slip closer to the horizon, marking the end of another day...
“In the deep of winter, colour and sound fade to nothingness. The world becomes muted and silent as it slumbers beneath the snow” – Ed Lehming As a lover of light...
“The snow began, as a faint mist, floating in the air, gradually softening the distant trees” – Ed Lehming So it was, that March morning, a day that started out dull,...
“The difference between darkness and brightness is how you thrive on those moments and how you use such circumstances with goodwill in your spirit.” ― Angelica Hopes I find myself, on this...
“The waves lapped lazily on tropical shores, warm and gentle breezes caressed the palms. My very soul is refreshed by the peace of the day.” – Ed Lehming This image is...
“Beauty is subjective, yet there are times when even the simplest thing can bright joy to our lives.” – Ed Lehming One of the many reasons that I spend time outdoors...
“A rock may seem a sound foundation but deep, nourished, and interwoven roots will hold surprisingly fast over time” – Ed Lehming This tree growing around a large boulder at the...
“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...
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred...
“And what began as a dream, becomes reality, becomes memory…” – Ed Lehming So, concludes my Iceland Journal (this one at least),as it began, an image of vast stretches of wondrous,...
“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 The light in Iceland...
“The clouds roll in, but don’t persist, they bring a welcome contrast and make us more aware of how lovely the sunshine is.” – Ed Lehming I really can’t imagine Iceland...
“I take pleasure in solitude, many see me as distant but only few know it’s when I’m most alive.” ― Nikki Rowe On day eight of our Icelandic tour, we headed inland...
“It was dusk and the light had an ultra-violet quality to it, a final burst of pigmentation as night and day rushed at each other in a clash of colour prisms...
“From the deep places of the earth, pours forth a cool purity few can fathom” – Ed Lehming The mere sight of these falls brought freshness to my day. There is...
“The waters flowed over the rocks like dancers clad in ribbons of silk, some fluttering like gossamer curtains in a summer breeze.” – Ed Lehming I know that I have shared...
“I am reminded that the most fertile lands are often built by the fires of volcanoes.” ― Ed Lehming On the seventh day of our Iceland journey, my son and I travelled...
“The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed...
“It’s not about inviting great things into our lives. Rather, it’s about accepting the invitation of great things to step out of our lives.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough For those following my...
“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” ― Erol Ozan This, our sixth day of travel, did not leave us lost, as the quote may imply, but it did send...
“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains...
“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…...
“The greatest loss lies in our inability to accept loss.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough I have a strange fascination with abandoned buildings, always wondering how they became abandoned and the stories they...
“When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of...
“Nature was pure, and still is.” ― Anthony T. Hincks On day five of our ten-day Iceland trip, we drove through what felt like a rather long stretch of nothing much, as...
“I took my love, I took it down Climbed a mountain and I turned around And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills ‘Til the landslide brought me down”...
“Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace and a beauty that no artifice could...
“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” ― John Muir The name Austari – Skógarmannafjöll literally means East Skogar Mountains. I’m still trying to understand the multiple iterations of Icelandic...
“I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.” ― Brian Andreas Believe it or not, this is a colour photo. The...
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