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Winter Chaos

Martina Egli — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:36:01 +0000

This concludes my mini winter series- time for spring! Thanks for viewing.

” It is still colour, it is not yet light.”
— Pierre Bonnard

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Winter Trees

Martina Egli — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 05:41:11 +0000

“The woods were in their winter sleep,
Rocked in that repose divine
On the wind-swept Apennine;
And dreaming, some of Autumn past,
And some of Spring approaching fast,
And some of April buds and showers,
And some of songs in July bowers,
And all of love; and so this tree.”
— To a Lady, With a Guitar by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Winter Landscape

Martina Egli — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:16:46 +0000

“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
— Japanese proverb

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Mad Dogs and Englishmen…

Martina Egli — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:44:32 +0000

Or should it be “Mad sheep and Swiss photographers?”

When I took this picture it was -10 degrees and there was no one else around, only me and the sheep… and as far as I’m aware, the sheep didn’t have a choice

“If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

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Winter Ghosts

Martina Egli — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:32:01 +0000

“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.”
— Elizabeth Bowen

When I took this photo a few weeks ago this is what the landscape in Switzerland looked like - However bandwidth issues prevented me from posting for a while… and now spring is in the air!

If you’ll indulge me, I invite you to reminisce and enjoy my winter landscape series

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Sentinels

Martina Egli — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:25:38 +0000

“And hear at times a sentinel
Who moves about from place to place,
And whispers to the worlds of space,
In the deep night, that all is well.”
— In Memoriam by Lord Alfred Tennyson

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Frost

Martina Egli — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:35:18 +0000

I hope you all had a nice holiday season, and a great New-Year!

“Wisdom comes with winters.”
— Oscar Wilde 1854-1900

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Clear Skies

Martina Egli — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:27:21 +0000

“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.”
— Duke Ellington

As promised here is a clearer image of Ben Lomond as seen from Rowardennan. This is the last image from the Trossachs series… for a while anyway

When I took this one last year, the wind was buffeting my camera so hard, it was almost impossible to get a decent capture. The hood on my 70-200 was acting like a sort of sail and the camera almost went for a dip in the Loch. A few days earlier I’d taken a tumble down a hillside on the trail at Queen Elizabeth Forest Park!* (Bruised ego but the camera was ok!) It can be a challenging and rewarding environment for a photographer- more than worth the effort.

(*Imagine that scene from Romancing the Stone, and the muddy hillside… only less dramatic! )

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The Lady Of The Lake

Martina Egli — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 05:31:35 +0000

“Huntsman, rest! thy chase is done;

While our slumbrous spells assail ye,

Dream not, with the rising sun,

Bugles here shall sound reveille.

Sleep! the deer is in his den;

Sleep! thy hounds are by thee lying;

Sleep! nor dream in yonder glen

How thy gallant steed lay dying.

Huntsman, rest! thy chase is done,

Think not of the rising sun,

For at dawning to assail ye,

Here no bugles sound reveille.”
— The Lady of the Lake; Soldier, Rest! Thy Warfare O'er: by Sir Walter Scott

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The Lodge On The Loch

Martina Egli — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:35:12 +0000

“The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.”
— Zeno

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