Weekly Photo Challenge: Reward
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A resplendent sunset … the reward for making it through another day.
Thanks for visiting …
Dorothy
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©Dorothy Chiotti … Aimwell CreativeWorks 2015
Tag Archives: seascape
Maui Sunset
Weekly Photo Challenge: Rule of Thirds
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It’s snowing and -11C (-17C wind chill) after a week of -30C. Practically balmy out there, I suppose. Still, the winter chill is so embedded in our damp southern Ontario climate right now it goes straight through you.
With Bear in convalescence and me his chief nurse I don’t really have the luxury of going anywhere warm for an extended period of time. So I’ll resign myself to basking in the captured glow of the setting Maui sun and the warm memories that brings.
Spring is only four weeks away.
Thanks for visiting …
Dorothy
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©Dorothy Chiotti … Aimwell CreativeWorks 2015
Best Friends Forever
Daily Prompt: BFFs
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True and enduring friendship is a rare and beautiful thing.
If you have it, cherish it.
Thanks for visiting …
Dorothy 🙂
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©Dorothy Chiotti, Aimwell CreativeWorks 2014
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International Juxtaposition
Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition
My second submission to this challenge, these images were captured on my travels.
The Modernist Barcelona “Eyeball” Building juxtaposed against a more classical structure.
A spray of colourful flowers is juxtaposed against the sobering backdrop of the monument of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima.
Looking up at Sydney Tower and its juxtaposing neighbours ~ from Pitt Street.
A floating staircase in the Sagrada Familia spirals toward heaven.
Firth of Clyde, Scotland
Click here to see “The Boys” featured in my first submission.
Enjoy!
Dorothy 🙂
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©Dorothy Chiotti, Aimwell CreativeWorks 2014
Shout Outs
Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon(s)
I love looking to the horizon. I love to broaden my horizon.
Herewith my response to this week’s photo challenge.
Fire on the horizon, Georgian Bay, Ontario
Eastern horizon at Hiroshima, Japan
Storm on the horizon, near Rowley, Alberta
Mount Fuji, Hakone, Japan
Lost on the horizon, near Drumheller, Alberta
Thanks for visiting …
Dorothy 🙂
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©Dorothy Chiotti, Aimwell CreativeWorks 2013
Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea … Moments at Port Olimpic, Barcelona, Spain
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The Sea.
The body aqua.
Tranquil and menacing in one breath.
Being in the moment,
By the water,
The lesson of the ages.
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This week’s photo challenge asks us for impressions of the sea.
My image selection is from time spent early last year by the Mediterranean Sea at Port Olympic in Barcelona.
Enjoy!
Thanks for visiting …
Dorothy 🙂
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©Dorothy Chiotti, Aimwell CreativeWorks 2013
Weekly Photo Challenge: The Golden Hour …
My response to this week’s photo challenge which asks us to interpret “The Golden Hour.”
I love the golden hour. Herewith a gallery of images to reflect my admiration and imagination.
Click on the images to get a brief commentary.
Taken on Maui last November. There’s nothing quite like a Hawaiian sunset.
Cemetery at Glendalough
One morning I happened to be up early enough one to capture the sun’s rays in our front hallway. The golden sheen on Abbey the rough collie captured my imagination, so I did some experimenting.
This image was captured before a tsunami warning was issued after an earthquake hit the Queen Charlotte Islands last October. What I remember vividly was the number of “challenged” people standing at the end of the pier waiting for the tsunami to hit. I guess they thought they’d out run it.
Taken in Barcelona near Port Olimpic, February 2012. I simply love the dancing shadows on the sidewalk.
I’ll admit to being a bit intimidated by the idea of visiting Hiroshima in 2010. This beautiful sunrise our first morning there put me at ease.
Waterford
Sunrise at Waikiki is kind of magical. So many people up early to experience it.
Thanks for visiting …
Dorothy 🙂
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting … Moments
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Sam and Bear on a tear …
A fleeting sunset at Brodick, Isle of Arran
Point-to-Point near Lismore, Ireland
Seagulls and tourists enjoy a moment under Horseshoe Falls, Niagara, Canada
Fleeting fire in the sky, Northumberland Co., Ontario
This week’s photo challenge invites us to consider the notion of fleeting.
As it turns out I’ve selected six images ~ two equestrian; two sunsets; two at Niagara Falls, representing moments where I stood still and observed the fleeting exchanges around me.
Love those moments …
Enjoy!
Dorothy 🙂
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A Wonderful Surprise … Inch Beach, Co. Dingle, Ireland
My Irish ancestors must be hovering, for as we lead up to St. Patrick’s Day my mind is full of the beautiful images, and my heart of the warm feelings, I collected when we were last in the Emerald Isle.
The copy for this post is taken from an old one which, I noticed as I went through the archives, was missing its image. So, I’m reposting with new images.
Happy three days before St. Patrick’s Day!
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Inch is an odd name for a sandy beach that stretches for three miles.
I remember when I first saw it … I could hardly believe my eyes.
We’d been wending our way through the narrow, curvy, undulating roads of the Dingle Peninsula, our destination Killarney. The dramatic hills were shrouded in mist and intermittent showers dampened our course. Yet, around every corner, it seemed, popped a panoramic surprise .
Inch Beach* was one such surprise.
We stopped, of course, and as there was a lull in the rain I suggested we take a stroll.
Tourists were few and far between so finding a swath of beach to call our own for a few minutes was easy. But for the wind’s bluster, the roar of the surging tide and the occasional caw of a seagull, all was peaceful. We walked the expansive beach until we met the tide and walked back again to the car, arriving just in time to beat the rain.
It’s another treasured memory of our trip to Ireland, mostly because it was such a wonderful surprise.
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* Inch Beach was the beach location for the film “Ryan’s Daughter.”
Kaanapali Gold … Kaanapali Beach, Maui
I gaze through our bowed kitchen window and into the back garden. A thick layer of snow which, as you may recall I was longing for, coats the frozen ground and smothers the big, sleeping boulder that in the summer is my tranquil bubble rock.
My feet, bare upon the cool ceramic floor, sense the frigid outdoor temps, and in my ears ring the atonal chords of dancing chimes as they gingerly perform their pas de deux at icy, Winter’s hand.
And then a singular thought comes to mind:
“What the heck was I thinking?”
How I long for the bright sunshine and warm breezes of Hawaii!
Alas, for now I shall content myself with the memory of a golden sunset one delightful November evening as observed from the shore of Kaanapali.
Aloha!
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Dorothy 🙂
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Eyes to Heart 