Dennys Photo Gallery: Awesome Quiet Landscapes by Adrians Art

From Denny:  This week, while on one of my spectacular "visual vacations," I discovered this awesome photographer over at flickr.  This photographer, Adrian Campfield, is based in the United Kingdom and has an incredible emotional connection to Nature's beauty.  The early sunrise and sunset landscape photography is breathtaking, exuding a wonderful sense of peace and tranquility.

The commentary under the photos are all from the photographer.  Be sure to visit this photographer's flickr pages by just clicking on the photograph!

Since he is a professional photographer you are in luck if you wish to purchase prints of any of these beauties, just click on over here:  Adrian's Art.  He is also a pastel, pencil and watercolor artist and includes examples of his work on the site.  This is an awesome body of work taken from 2007 - 2011.  (All Rights Reserved by this photographer with embed codes available for bloggers.)

Whitstable Sunrise 

Taken at 5 am on Whitstable beach on the north Kent coastline a few summers ago! A long exposure of a few minutes!

Dennys Art Sanctuary: Art: Zen Butterfly

Artist at work photo by Akbar Simonse @ flickr, All Rights Reserved with embed code available

Dennys Art Sanctuary: Art: Zen Butterfly: "From Denny: Check out this colorful artist over at flickr, All Rights Reserved with embed code available, lacefairy1. This is one well dressed butterfly, ready to hit the red carpet come Oscar night! :)"

Photo Of The Day: Awesome London

From Denny: While looking through flickr I happened upon this gem of a city photo. This photographer, currently residing in Canada, has a wonderful attitude perspective and a sense of joy in his photography.




Knightsbridge London, England, GB photo by ZedZaP @ flickr


Check out his photo version of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, GB:






Check out another of his photos at Dennys Art Sanctuary: Funny Art Photo Of The Day: Museum Watching

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How to Combine Photos with Your Poetry: Cool Eye Theme Photos!

From Denny: These are some of the very cool photos I used in my recent poem, Eyeing Think Time over at The Social Poets this week!



Photo by pareeerica @ flickr



Photo by dreamglow @ flickr



Photo by Felipe Morin @ flickr - this one is so very Salvator Dali! :)

To see the other spectacular eye theme photos I chose, and see how to combine with poetry, go here.

Art Photo-Rich Poem: People Trees

This was the poem I wrote last week for my Friday poem over at The Social Poets blog and I've been meaning to get it up over here. The folks over at StumbleUpon came in by the hordes for these wonderful photos, enjoy!

Drink in the richness of the wonderful photos from the photographers over at flickr in creative commons. (I find them beautiful and emotionally soothing.) You are free to use their photos if you also give attribution and a link back to their flickr page.

I've been thinking about what poem to write all week, and, as usual, started on another idea which just didn't gel well or in time. That's what's good about setting deadlines for yourself as you get that rush of adrenaline going to get out the words. :) Anyway, was researching some wonderful photos and kept finding awesome trees and one thing led to another as I knew my eternal mind was tapping my everyday mind on the shoulder and saying, "Hey! What about this?"

Photos often do give me inspiration for writing as so many ideas start flowing. Take a trip on over to flickr yourself to get inspired. You can always view my 5,000+ favorites I've found while researching for articles as I keep them bookmarked "just in case."

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People Trees



Some of us ruggedly root ourselves mountain high to savor the views



Some of us enjoy beauty’s lingering mirrored perfection



Some of us feel forlorn in life’s landscape, until we see we are a duet



Some of us like to stand tall with a crowd, all in a perfect row



Some of us like to party with different people, the more the merrier



Some of us like to stand out in a crowd, fiercely plumped proud



Some of us see our own rippling beauty, reflected in the mirrors of others



Some of us rush to greet the exploding morning at first blush



Some of us sway and bend with life’s swirling storms yet remain



Some of us rush zig zagging through life and still look wildly beautiful



Some of us safely hold dear a child’s swing and his playful heart



Some of us are strong, sheltering lightly in the shadows



Some of us rise up from the water and tenaciously breathe through our knees*



Some of us suffer, enduring kindly a bit of indignity from time to time



Some of us absorb the strongest truth, filtering softly inner light



Some of us like to stroll unknown passageways and secret gardens



Some of us play hard to get, secretly happy to see company coming



Some of us like to wear jewelry, all decked out at least once a year



And some of us



dream big



just by looking up – lost in thought for hours.


Denny Lyon
Copyright 20 August 2009
All Rights Reserved

* Copyright is for the text of the poem only, copyright for the photos belong to the photographers.

Have a great weekend, everyone! Thanks for visiting!


*Cyprus trees have what are called "knees" - those bumps you see sticking out of the water near the roots which are underwater in the swamps. These knees are how the cyprus tree breathes the air!

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Photo Credits

Mountain Mist treeline photo by Lida Rose @ flickr

Rugged lone tree high on a mountain photo By Chris Gin @ flickr

Cherry blossomed tree reflecting photo By rachel_thecat @ flickr

Cherry trees blanketed by snow photo By lrargerich @ flickr

Cherry blossomed trees all in a row photo By VJ flicks @ flickr

Bluebells partying in a stand of trees photo By left-hand @ flickr

Red tree photo By code poet @ flickr

Trees reflected in the river photo by Denis Collette @ flickr

Sunrise in Corfu, Greece photo by Katarina 2353 @ flickr

Bent tree Bonsai Moon photo by h.koppdelaney @ flickr

Rolling hills and tree photo by Katarina 2353 @ flickr

Trees give support to the child’s swing photo by lepiaf.geo @ flickr

Sheltering tree photo in the shadows by Zest-pk @ flickr

Cypress tree at sunrise in the water photo by Bill Swindamon @ flickr

Suffer a bit of indignity tree photo by Scarleth White @ flickr

Filtering Illuminating light tree photo by *clairity* @ flickr

Strolling with the trees photo by Bjǿrn Giesenbauer @ flickr

Tree of Peace photo by h.koppdelaney @ flickr

Christmas tree photo by laffty4k @ flickr

Redwood trees in California photo by aigeanta @ flickr

Strong tree’s canopy photo By -= Bruce Berrien =- @ flickr

Black and white tree canopy photo by anonymous

"Famous Sounding Words Make Your Head Feel Light." - Spoon

Photo by Dustin Diaz @ flickr - to look at his other flash work just click on his name to go to his flickr page

People: Summer is dancing!

summer is dancing, originally uploaded by alicepopkorn - busy.

From Denny: Decided to do a search on "summer" over a flickr and here are some delightful photos found, enjoy!

Space: Whirlpool Galaxy

hubble-m51-whole, originally uploaded by kostaki.

Thank you for the use of your beautiful photo in an online article at HubPages!

Here's the link to the article:
What Do You Like to Write? Talk to We!

Also, placed on The Social Poets blog, Libations Friday! 22 May 2009

Thanks again!

People: Frozen In Ice

Frozen In Ice, originally uploaded by alan(ator).

Thanks for the use of your photo in an online article at HubPages!

Here's the link to the article:
What Do You Like to Write? Talk to We!

Also placed on The Social Poets blog under Libations Friday! 22 May 2009

Very cool photo, a real mind bender!

Nature: Romance in the Garden

Photo by Athena's Pix @ flickr

Thanks for the use of your photo in an online article at HubPages! Here's the link to the article:

Bitter Romance in the Garden

Thank you for use of your photo in online article!

Photo by GettysGirl @ flickr


Thanks for the use of your photo in the online article:

Word Smithing: Those Funny Sayings We Hear Every Day by Denny Lyon

4 Science Articles You Might Enjoy

From Denny: Since I have too many interests I've parked them on other blogs in addition to this one. Apparently, most people start a blog, lose interest, abandon the first one to start another blog. Not me. I just keep expanding to ADD more blogs! (totally crazy, I suppose - but hey! I'm happy...)

Anyway, articles about how the brain works, astronomy, psychology, some math and physics on basic levels is what I park over at the blog The Soul Calendar. It keeps climbing in the traffic rankings quite nicely and I happily write about whatever catches my interest for the week! Life is good!

I'm still poking around the web for children's resources for parents and science projects readers might find interesting. If you know of any sites or projects, speak up and shoot me an email at warriorspearl@gmail.com, much appreciated!

Here are a few posts you might find an interesting read:

Is My Brain Making Me Buy Things I Don't Need?

Double Amputees Shed Light on Brain's Flexibility

Robolegs Help People Walk

Hurricane-Killing, Space-Based Power Plants


NASA Photo by Image Editor @ flickr

Animals: Funny Giraffe imitator

Giraffe imitator, originally uploaded by Walraven.

Creative Commons with attribution.

More April Fools Day Funnies

For more April Fools Day hoaxes from the math and science geek crowd, hike yourself on over to one of my other blogs: The Soul Calendar - go here.

On that blog I place a lot of articles about the mind, how the brain works, some astronomy (killer eclipse photos) and anything else mildly geeky I enjoy when I read magazines like Discover. Enjoy!

Photo by Tambako the Jaguar @ flickr.

THANK YOU! (and "me" photo)

Great Grandparents: Colba Lyon and Phoebe Jayne of
Martha, Lawrence, Kentucky, their wedding day in 1869.



Denny Lyon in 1980's indoor home portrait, Atlanta, Georgia

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THANK YOU to everyone subscribing via feeds, email and coming from all over the web to view these great photos from friends on flickr and more!

What started out as a blog to say thank you to flickr photographers who placed their photos in creative commons for use by online writers like me has become something bigger.

This blog is also a home for genealogy photos I've restored over the years. After years of searching, it's pretty cool when you finally run into someone who has a photo of your great-great grandparents that your family line used to own but somehow changed hands over the generations. What's beautiful is how much a computer can restore old photos to near pristine to look like the photo shoot was just yesterday!

Funny Friday the 13th!

Photo by nao-cha @ flickr of dog Cocoa

From friends over at Twitter:

"Very funny page for Friday the 13th, both versions - peterdrew@keithbaxter It's Friday the 13th! Beware...
http://snipr.com/dp10t DUDE!! not nice scaring me like that :=)"

From Denny: Just click on the title as the address is linked. Enjoy!