Ed Lehming Photography
From Where I Stand...
“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.” ― Lauren DeStefano...
“Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.” – John Muir Here we are, the end of October nearly upon us, and I’m out hiking in a tee shirt and shorts. The...
This is another impromptu iPhone abstraction. A quick hike today put me in a forest just past it’s prime, yet spectacular in late afternoon light. I would have ventured longer, but...
“A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there’s anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what’s next. This...
After sharing my art with many wonderful visitors yesterday, I’m ready for day Two. This has been a great experience for me and something I intend to repeat next year.
“Each time I see a beautiful sunset or sunrise, I have to pinch myself because I can’t believe that I’m awake and not dreaming.” ― Anthony T. Hincks Every now and then,...
“Headwaters Hike in Mono” I spent a few hours this afternoon hiking the trails of the Durham Forest with my wife and daughter. It was a beautiful, warm, October afternoon and...
“If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If you’re a pretender com sit by my fire...
“Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan This image is another of High Falls, near Bancroft, Ontario. I really could...
I’m still taking a break, and this is part of it. Had to share this beautiful view from the edge of the lake on this frosty Sunday morning near Bancroft, Ontario....
Taking a few days off to regenerate and create a few more images
“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. “ – Amelia Barr Though fairly similar to my “Autumn Creeps In” image, this one is different enough to stand on its...
“Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. “ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The title for this image came to me immediately. It...
“At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell...
Nikon D800 Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Di Macro 1:1 (272ENII)@90mm 1/80 sec, f/4.5 ISO 100
“Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was not filled with conversation or thought bubbles or laughter...
“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 Here we are nearing the...
“Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul… but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.” ...
“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.” ― Lauren DeStefano...
“I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another book on the subject.” ― Edward Abbey In this image,...
“The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next – trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of course a tree would have taken...
“Nothing is static; things always change. The best you can do is change along with them and work with what you have.” ― Cate Tiernan I really struggled with the title on...
“Nature is a haunted house–but Art–is a house that tries to be haunted.” ― Emily Dickinson Every now and then the gently winding path leads along or within patches of dark pine...
“The tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods no one had ever heard of outside...
“Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to...
“The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness.” ― Anthony Doerr As I have completed my “Into Green Veil” Series, I am pausing to consider my next...
“All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming – a joy so thrilling that if it was...
“I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their...
“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see...
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