Judith Kissling

Gold Dust
Rays of light through falling snow at Stockhill Wood in the Mendips, yesterday morning. It was a winter wonderland up there

Photo of four books shortlisted for the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award. The books are Rural Hours by Harriet Baker, Fast by the Horns by Moses McKenzie, The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston and Strange Relations by Ralf Webb

The shortlist for the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award was announced today @thetimes.com
Congratulations to Harriet Baker, Moses McKenzie, @scottprestonauthor.bsky.social and Ralf Webb www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Sternwinde mit langen, gebogenen Blütenstielen, an denen Einzelblüten in unten weiß bis hin zu leuchtend orange oben wechseln. Fotografiert ist die Pflanze gehen den blauen, bewölkten Himmel.

Random Blümchen gegen den Winterblues 🌱

Taking a picture.
No composition, no nothing, just preserving the moment. That's what most of my stuff actually is about.
#photography #fotografie #nature #landscape #stormhour #thephotohour

A photo of a wild three-coloured European hamster in a frontal view - standing on its rear legs. The some trees and other vegetation in the background is lit by evening light. The point of view is very low - so the grass around the hamster is blurred and the viewer is on eye-level with the hamster - and it's looking right into the viewer's eyes.

I think it's still my favourite wild hamster photo 😊 - hope it can bring some good vibes.
Wild European Hamster [Cricetus cricetus] - sadly critically endangered.

© Henrik Spranz #Austria

f/3.5, 1/320s, 400mm, ISO-1250
#mammal #mammals #wildlifephotography #wildlife
#hamster #canon #urbanwildlife

Enjoy the silence

In den Zimmern der
Erinnerung, mit
Schubladen schwer,

darin Briefe und
Bilder, Düfte
und Meer.

Und du fühlst,
jeder Augenblick
lebt weiter fort,

nichts verblasst
jemals, kein Kuss
und kein Wort.

Dirk Schulte

Potato art

Hinter den filigranen Stängeln (und teilweise kleinen weinroten Blüten) des großen Wiesenknopfes stehen drei Sonnenhüte 'green twister' mit limettengrünen Blütenblättern, die zur Mitte hin rosa werden. Das Blütenauge ist rot und stachelig. Die größte der Blüten ist bereits fast verblüht und hat komplett rosa Blütenblätter

Random Blümchen gegen den Winterblues 🌱

3 Blüten zum 3. Advent

Have you been here? The view serves as a reminder of what we are working to protect.

Exciting novel 📖 📚

You can see the sparkling water of a large lake. Waves roll onto the beach. On the right side of the picture is a slipway for boats. The sky is blue with clouds

Challenge photo a Day 2024
December 4
Sparkle
#fmspad
#photography
#landscape #LakeConstance
#Bodensee #stormhour #ThePhotohour

Well as it's #WeekWforWhite ...
It has to be a White #RoseWednesday ... for the
#AlphabetChallenge

If only to be…
The world you see…

Sunrise from Glastonbury Tor this morning. Lovely colours both before and after sunrise today. Pathway to paradise.

Hare found herself lost in the enchantment of her favourite things; meadow gold, crispy seeds, gentle barley fields. She often found time just to sit and to be. After all, nothing was more important than being, and nothing more enchanting than being with your favourite things. Painting of a hare surrounded by dried seeds and grasses

Just a little background, if you don’t know my work… ‘When Beasts Spoke’ is a collection of illustrated thoughts from the animal’s perspective. Contemplations on anything from mindfulness, self-love, or gratitude, to observations on the little things and the joys of nature. And I paint the animals ☺️

There are moments when you try to give your best smile. 😀
Splendid Fairywren Male #birds #photography #australia #wildlife

The license to dream

Two English Bluebells

Mon 29th April 2024 1:15pm. The most English minute of my life

In our English woodland taking a photo of English Bluebells, a Spitfire flew low overhead, almost drowning out the E-Type Jaguar driving passed, Vaughan Williams on the radio, whilst eating my sausage roll 🫡

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside. “Julie Andrews” / Love that quote because this is really how I see her, Western Spinebill Female. #birds #photography #australia #wildlife #WildOZ

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.
“Julie Andrews” / Love that quote because this is really how I see her, Western Spinebill Female. #birds #photography #australia #wildlife #WildOZ

Out from the cold shadows #Winter

If I were a bird

Shell game 🥳
Who is taking part?

Bei uns auch, viel Stau und Autos die vom Weg abkamen

Grid mesh

Julian Zabalbeascoa and Scott Preston: On Finding the Right Voice, Writing Violence, and Their Debut Novels ‘What We Tried to Bury Grows Here’ and ‘The Borrowed Hills’ — Write or Die Magazine Julian Zabalbeascoa reached out to me while he was staying in Northern Ireland as we had both written novels that grappled, in different measures, with nationhood, violence, and sheep. Although Julian...

The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston is one of my two favorite novels of the year. Every sentence a work of art. So what a joy and honor to be able to speak with him about it and my debut novel What We Tried to Bury Grows Here for Write or Die Magazine.
writeordiemag.com/author-inter...

Who want's to go Underneath ...
#WeekUforUnder
#AlphabetChallenge
#WaterfallWednesday

So golden on the branches, so dark in the reflection. Beautiful autumn Johnny