Category Archives: Photos

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #015

Posted on January 1, 2025 by crispina kemp

Every Wednesday I’ll post FOUR photos (if you want to get a head start you’ll find them marked in that week’s Sunday Picture Post and Tuesday Treats). Lots of choice! And here there are: You respond with something CREATIVE. Perhaps … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Treat: Details Seen Along The River

Posted on December 31, 2024 by crispina kemp

Some additional photos from our sunrise walk on 20th December 2024. Enjoy It was encouraging for our town’s economy to see so many ships in port This is a shot I couldn’t resist. Spotlight on the mallow I am fascinated … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: To The Harbour’s Mouth

Posted on December 29, 2024 by crispina kemp

20th December 2024 is the closest we can schedule a solstice walk. But will we catch the sunrise, when most days have been grey and overcast? We can hope.  Please join us Despite the sun is still beyond the sea’s … Continue reading →

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Caught In The Pink

Posted on December 28, 2024 by crispina kemp

This Little Egret looks to be blushing, caught bathing just as the sun bursts free of a low bank of clouds and although it’s the ‘golden hour’ the sun’s rays paints everything pink and red. Despite the blush, I’m claiming … Continue reading →

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CCC014: Home

Posted on December 26, 2024 by crispina kemp

So happy was I After all these years to be going home Yet I wasn’t sure I’d taken the right turning Nothing familiar in my surroundings And the farther I walked The more I baulked Certain now I’d lost my way … Continue reading →

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #014

Posted on December 25, 2024 by crispina kemp

Every Wednesday I’ll post FOUR photos (if you want to get a head start you’ll find them marked in that week’s Sunday Picture Post, Tuesday Treats, and Friday Fungi, too). Lots of choice! And here there are: You respond with … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Treats: In the Red Dawn

Posted on December 24, 2024 by crispina kemp

Above: Burdock burrs tinged pink. Below: reeds in silhouette against an expectant sky Teasel, pale and pink in this eerie light Above: A pair of godwits Below: A little egret, it’s white feathers now turned salmon pink! Above: Reeds caught … Continue reading →

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Beyond Enhancement

Posted on December 23, 2024 by crispina kemp

Christmas week seems as good a time as any to flash my flashy pics. This is the second batch of photos edited beyond simple light and dark contrast enhancement. Enjoy Wishing all my followers, past, present, and future, a peaceful … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: In The Crimson Dawn

Posted on December 22, 2024 by crispina kemp

4th December 2024, and with the fungi season all but over, and recent storms having torn the colour from the trees, and no new flowers yet, we turn to a different source of food for our lens – a walk … Continue reading →

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Daughter of Dawn

Posted on December 21, 2024 by crispina kemp

Dame of the Solstice, rise from your coffin Fill me with light though cold winter begins Daughter of Dawn, your bright light inspires me Though you scowl in the winter, you smile in the spring Mistress of Day, you light … Continue reading →

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