Tuesday, 29 March 2011

spring

the austerity of beginnings








the luxuriousness of beginnings







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26 comments:

  1. Anonymous29 March 2011 at 03:19

    'du fehlst mir' frühling.

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  2. m29 March 2011 at 07:59

    are these for real? it's too hard to believe, which is kind of depressing...

    a startling photo, that first one

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  3. Dianne29 March 2011 at 08:47

    oh I saw that today, and will take a shot tomorrow, a sprouting ornamental maple surrounded by a black gnarled bare mammoth oak.

    your images glow from within.
    Di

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  4. Stickup Artist29 March 2011 at 10:29

    Ha Ha! We are in sync with enthusiasm for the dawn of spring! That first image is so tender (it almost breaks my heart), the contrast between the flower and background is so dramatic and effective. The second looks more light-hearted with seemingly less of a struggle for becoming. Both dainty yet powerful.

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  5. Unknown29 March 2011 at 10:49

    ai o colecţie foarte interesantă de vizitatori, e impresia aceea de supranatural din pozele tale.
    prima e ca o răsuflare tăiată, contrastul infinit - tăria naturaleţii - condensarea unui sentiment nespus.

    ce înseamnă să ne despartă numai barieara lingvistică, la nivel arhetipal - imagistic - în esenţă suntem aceiaşi eliberare de energie, iubire, patos. şi contează mai deloc moştenirea civilizaţiei din care te tragi, influenţa societăţii... acolo omul e liber să atingă eterul şi să îl închidă în patru laturi frumoase.

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  6. mythopolis29 March 2011 at 13:30

    Its so wonderful after a long and dreary monochrome winter when the flowers first burst out onto the scene, as if to say...'We're here...We're here to save the day!"

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  7. Plum'29 March 2011 at 22:48

    La première, belle par sa simplicité.
    Comme un haïku.
    Bises

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  8. Prospero29 March 2011 at 23:55

    Winter deliquesces delightfully and her eyes, warm with bombycinous exhortation, aid the cause: she sees austerity where there is luxuriousness and luxuriousness where there is austerity - she harnesses the contradictions of an incipient spring.

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  9. James Owens30 March 2011 at 04:31

    i understand the luxuriousness, and i can float happily in this warm light and soft color and burst of renewal :-) ... but you must know i love this very japanese, delicate and perfect picture of austerity ...

    spring blossoms at last --
    the little tree takes a first, careful step,
    then dances!

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  10. tattytiara30 March 2011 at 05:09

    Those images are so striking, and play off each other with amazing energy. Wonderful, wonderful post.

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  11. Lynne with an e30 March 2011 at 06:19

    Both are filled with tenderness and promise, and perhaps the inherent advice to "bloom where you're planted."

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  12. ceraselami30 March 2011 at 16:15

    prima fotografie este chintesenta a cum simt eu aceasta primavara,am ramas inmarmurita,raportat chiar si la inmarmurire.este acea austeritate inflorind in alb,apoi straja sigura,neindoioasa a oricarei inmuguriri,apoi sentimentul cert ca nu iti trebuie nimic mai mult,ca vrei sa fii,ca in elegia toamnei,doar un copacel inflorind la fereastra cuiva,fiindca acum ai invatat totul(oh,oboseala umana).
    apoi ,in culori,acea timida ,abia ghicita irizatie de sangeriu,nu te poti opri sa nu te intrebi ce are ea sa devina.si vraja,aburul fin al acestui vis,trait atat de liber

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  13. Marion McCready30 March 2011 at 23:33

    oh that second picture is luxurious, the softness and the light and the coral pinks. the flowers in first one as a thumbnail pic on my blog looked like a splash of stars :)

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  14. Owen31 March 2011 at 05:01

    Even on the slopes of the volcano where all is cinder and molten lava turned to black rock, flowers will soon bloom...

    "In another time's forgotten space
    your eyes looked from your mother's face,
    wildflower seed on sand and stone
    may the four winds blow you safely home."

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  15. crederae31 March 2011 at 05:08

    chère magnifique excellente amie Roxana, que c'est magnifique cette photo.
    Yes the austerity of new beginnings almost an irreverent regard for the past because there is the destruction before the beginning- that is somewhat disregarded to rebuild,the luxuriousness of thoughts of a new beginning that looks away from the heaviness of the past destruction as Japan's rebuilding of the land and the heart in pink efflorescence I write these lines.

    thankyou for this beautiful masterpeice my beautiful friend.

    sending you cherry blossomed kisses.

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  16. Anonymous31 March 2011 at 08:59

    die Bilder sind beide nicht nur wunderschön, sondern auch sehr poetisch und berühren mich auf eine derart ungewöhnliche Weise, dass ich fast weinen muss (eigenartig nicht?!). Das erste Bild ist hoffnungsvoll und so grossartig in seinem Neubeginn! Das Weiss, die Reinheit der Seele oder des Geistes...
    Das zweite Bild strahlt unendlich viel Ruhe und ja, sie strahlt doch Liebe aus... wirklich, wirklich wunderschön!

    Liebe Umarmungen für Dich, liebste Roxana! (bald mehr, noch mehr von mir für Dich ... :-)!)

    Renée

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  17. jeff31 March 2011 at 09:22

    On dit de moi que je sui allongé à ras du sol pour faire des photos... Mais toi Roxana, tu grimpes aux arbres ?...:)
    Bises printannières ( smack ! )

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  18. clo31 March 2011 at 19:59

    J'aime la première,pour sa simplicité dénudée,son austérité émouvante,pure..
    j'aime la seconde pour cette promesse d'abondance,de luxuriance,cette douceur tendre et floutée,ces couleurs qui font chavirer mon coeur..
    la nature est ainsi,parfois austere ou foisonnante...c'est au gré de ces innombrables "caprices"..nous ne la dompteront jamais..et a ce jour je trouve cela presque réconfortant...l'humain n'est pas le seul maître a bord...
    mais je m’égare...
    Seul compte a cet instant ce doux présent que tu nous offres..
    j'aime beaucoup ce message ..c'est, je ne vais pas être très originale , c'est tout simplement beau...
    et ça touche mon coeur d'une grâce indéfinissable...
    je t'embrasse belle Amie...

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  19. jeff2 April 2011 at 10:24

    Il en va ainsi de la vie ! Il pousse des fleurs là où c'est parfois le plus austère... comme dans les coeurs de certains...

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  20. Ffflaneur2 April 2011 at 13:11

    "austerity of beginnings" : so apt a title for so soothingly sober a spring photo ... Even those with spring phobia should approve

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  21. Vladimir C.4 April 2011 at 00:25

    Beautiful and not even my type... speechless

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  22. Roxana4 April 2011 at 00:55

    anon, german lessons recently? :-)





    m, somehow i knew you would like the first one. yes, for real, the second one even from my kitchen window :-)







    Dianne, thank you for being here, i want to see that shot! (we don't have maples here :-(





    Stickup :-)
    heart-breaking, isn't it, the frail magnolia... i also shot it on video, it looks even frailer, with those transparent petals shivering in the wind. or is the photo more powerful to this respect? hmmm...

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  23. Roxana4 April 2011 at 01:12

    ce frumos ai spus, Flipi... da, iata inca un motiv pentru dragostea noastra de imagini, ne duc direct catre inima celuilalt, fara cuvant...





    yes, Dan, that's exactly it!!! :-)





    K'line, haiku, et cela venant de la specialiste des haiku les plus delicats, quel honneur! :-)





    Prospero, contradictions, always, how else (one of the main aspects of the Bridge, if one was to make a list :-)





    of course i know this, James! but oh, how wonderful the dance as well, to lose yourself in it :-)





    tattytiara, thank you for coming by and for your generous comment!

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  24. Roxana4 April 2011 at 01:21

    dear Lynne, this promise, feeling of promise, was so important to me when taking the pics... i will come soon to visit, been rather lazy (or busy!) these days...





    da, Cerasela, intr-un fel acea fotografie a fost facuta pentru tine, cu gandul la acea scrisoare a inceputului auster de primavara :-)





    Marion, how lovely, both your descriptions!!!





    Owen, your volcano/blossom analogy is so fitting these days, and how much we need this promise, this hope, how much...





    Madeleine, wonderful and so deep and unexpected the parallel to Japan, i hadn't thought of that but yes, maybe you are right, this symbolism of destruction and beginning must have been lingering in my unconscious these days... thank you for yet another lovely and thoughtful interpretation!
    warm spring thoughts for you as well :-)





    ach, Renée, weinen, das habe ich ueberhaupt nicht erwartet, aber darf ich sagen, dass ich diese Reaktion doch verstehen kann? ja, als ich diese weisse Blume dort gesehen habe, so zerbrechlich im starken Wind, so stark aber auch, demuetig irgendwie, und so rein... dann wurde ich auch von aehnlichen Gefuehlen ueberwaeltigt, diese seelischen Regungen, die du so schoen beschreibst. ich hatte aber keine Worte, nur dieses Bild damals...
    mein waermstes Laecheln fuer dich, und eine lange lange Umarmung :-)

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  25. Roxana4 April 2011 at 01:28

    Jeff, hahaha - non, c'est ce que je vois de la fenetre de ma cuisine :-)
    je t'embrasse, tes visites sont plus rares maintenant mais elles sont toujours des evenements, comme d'hab :-)



    ah Clo, tu n'as pas besoin d'etre 'tres originale', chere amie, ta facon de comprendre, non, de respirer mes images, d'y plonger toute entiere, cela me suffit, et je ne sais pas comment je pourrais t'en remercier... oui, "l'humain n'est pas le seul maître a bord", parfois nous l'oublions, ou peut-etre trop souvent, mais des fleurs sont toujours la pour nous le rappeler...
    je t'embrasse de tout coeur!





    ffflaneur, haha - i know of your spring phobia, dear friend, yet i see you confessed to a different feeling in your last post :-)
    (i will be there soon, soon)





    Vladimir, i know, i would have never imagined you would comment here :-) yet you say you like them, such honour!!!
    (tot astept un raspuns! :-)

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  26. Lydia4 April 2011 at 23:51

    I love the comparison between austerity and luxuriousness and believe that only you would have made it in this way. The first shot is my favorite. I love white blossoms! In our yard we have white blossoms on our golden plum tree and white camelia flowers. I am anxious for the white azaleas and one white rose bush to bloom later. There are colored blooms in the yard, too, but I think the white ones are special.

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