Autumn Photos, 2015

My new phone has a 20 MP camera so I've photographed Autumn with it!

4th August, 2015

Beautiful sights today.

Sunset from a Bedroom Window VI

Lovers' Meadow

One Summer I shall hide with a lover (as yet unknown) in that meadow, drinking champagne and eating cheese & crackers, strawberries and other yummies. No one will be able to see us. We will escape the world for a while.

Pretty in Purple

Sunset from a Bedroom Window V

2nd June, 2015

Buttercup Field

The buttercups across the field

Made sunshine rifts of splendor.

   D. M. Mulock - A Silly Song.

The Poppies Survived

A farmer had dug trenches around his fields, digging up where the poppies grew. I thought they would all have been killed off but nature prevailed!

Google Auto Awesome

All my photos taken on my phone are automatically backed up to Google Photos. From there it is easy to put them on here, after editing if necessary. When I do edit them first, I take quite some care to ensure it is making the picture reflect what I saw and / or felt.

However, Google, in its wisdom, has developed an "Auto Awesome" feature that takes random photos saved to your cloud and makes them "awesome" ummm... I don't think so...

How can this "Auto Awesome" photo:

be considered awesome compared to the orginal:

Or this "Auto Awesome":

Compared to the original:

And if I wanted to use effects so that this:

became this:

then I would. Please Google, stop Auto Awesoming my photos. What you do to them is NOT awesome. It is very annoying!

Does it irritate anyone else as much as me?!

Butterfly Close Ups

I really wanted a picture of it's wings spread - mottled white with bright orange tips. Beautiful.

Wild Garlic

You can tell Spring is in full swing when the wild garlic appears!

Wild Garlic making a Spring Day look like Winter

Mind you it was taken on 7th May, 2015. It will be winter for many people for five long years.

Wild Garlic 9th May, 2015

No filter used on either photograph.

Practically Perfect

This moment, right here, was practically perfect in every way:

Practically Perfect 28/04/15

Wild Bluebells

Bluebells

Ne'er have I seen such beauty

Field of bluebells ‘neath golden sun

Interspersed with tree-trunk pillars

Lovely forest, woodland spun.

Bluebells

Exquisite and breathtaking beauty

Unsullied by the hands of man

Simply there for the heart's enjoyment

According to nature's best-laid plan.

Bluebells

Splendid and arresting beauty

Awesome scene of sheer delight

Bold images of wild bluebells

Touched by rays of golden sunlight.

Poem by Walterrean Salley

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wild-bluebells/

And frosts are slain and flowers begotten..

"And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins."

Algernon Charles Swinburne  (1837–1909)
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)

Read more: Poetry for Spring http://www.infoplease.com/spot/springquotes1.html#ixzz3YF4seyEv

11th April, 2015

  White Blossom 21st April, 2015

Pink Blossom 24th April, 2015

My favourite is the White Blossom. It looks to me as though it is falling from the sky onto the tree.

A Parched Summer's Day in the Middle of Spring...

On Wednesday 15th April, 2015 the temperature here reached about 25°, which is high in England's Summer let alone Spring! With little rain this month, the ground was dry and parched:

A heart made from two horseshoes...

(This horseshoe photo was actually taken a few days later but matched the theme, so I sneaked it in!)

A Wooden Heart

Elvis Presley sang that he didn't have a wooden heart.. Perhaps he could have had this one... 

A Boy and his Shadow

A perfect story to go with the last picture is http://www.stuartstories.com/stories/boyandshadow.html. Enjoy!