Ed Lehming Photography
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“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” ― Pablo Neruda As I came outside yesterday, I was filled with the sweet aroma...
“Spiders are anti-social, keep pests under control, and mostly mind their own business, but they somehow summon fear in humans who are far more dangerous, deceitful and have hurt more people....
“Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but sipping the nectar of the moment.” ― Amit Ray I noticed an interesting trend in my last few images, colours seem to have progressed...
“If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower...
“Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and...
“Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t soar free.” ― C.J. Milbrandt This image was a surprising treat for me. I...
“Well, best to remain vigilant. It’s when everything is calm that you need to be most alert.” ― Brandon Sanderson Above is an image of a pair of Canada Geese, standing...
“I can assure you that the life outside the front door is bright and full of life” ― Sunday Adelaja I could not resist publishing this bright little fellow today. It’s...
“I am so grateful to be here on this awesome planet with its diverse life – everything we need to not just survive but to thrive. I am excited to continually...
“Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.” ― Pablo Picasso Though this is my...
“We must believe that there are places where tranquility exists and nature is given back her power to speak…” ― Nanette L. Avery Seriously, I am trying to move away from...
“You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.” ― Kiera Cass This is, I believe, my final image for my Humpback Whale series. It’s been enjoyable and educational for me...
“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there...
“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.” ― Werner Herzog This massive Humpback Whale is the cow in the pair I...
“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.” ― Gloria Steinem The next in my series of whale photos is this Humpback calf, as it defies gravity,...
“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’...
“There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.” ― Terence McKenna The view from my back window yesterday afternoon, as the...
“Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.” ― Ian Frazier Just so that everyone does not get the impression that...
“Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone’s horizon sweeps someone else’s....
“December is full of the beauty of Light and love we can bring into our life.You can chose to be stressed or you can choose to let the small stuff go...
“…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” ― Mark Nepo This past Saturday was ‘bird day’...
“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.” ― Robert Lynd Our recent heavy snowfall has brought with it an abundance of birds seeking...
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.” ― Paulo Coelho...
“When you gaze out on a quiet, peaceful meadow, next to a still pond, under a motionless blue sky, you wonder how the noisy, busy cacophony of life could have arisen...
“I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography...
“Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.” ― Lana Del Rey This is a bit of a shift for me today. I went...
“Everything turns in circles and spirals with the cosmic heart until infinity. Everything has a vibration that spirals inward or outward — and everything turns together in the same direction at...
“If you are made for flight, intended for it, you had better find a pursuer, fast. Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.” ― Dan Chiasson As I stood by the...
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