“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”

— Victor Hugo

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I’m continuing the water theme of this week with this picture of a dam in Luzern, Switzerland.

“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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“I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.”

— Truffaut

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Wow, I barely made it! I have been redecorating my office for the past two weeks and just when I think I’m done and can post an image for one of my favourite days of the year my internet connection goes down… I’m posting this via an iPhone. I hope you all had a romantic day.

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”

— Plato

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London has had some wonderful winter weather over the last few weeks – the perfect time to head on out with my camera.

“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.”

— Dickens

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“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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I wish you all a wonderful 2013 filled with happiness, love and lots of photography!

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Have a great Christmas everyone, and a wonderful New Year.

Martina

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

— Charles Dickens

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A Gathering

As usual the people are the most interesting part of the landscape!

“Youth is the trustee of prosperity. “

— Benjamin Disreali

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Love-Padlocks on Millennium Bridge

One of my favourite modern phenomena are the Little “Love-Padlocks” that we observant types have noticed springing up on bridges and fences around the world  – Symbols of Love and affection, of the unspoken strength of a bond between two people… they make a pretty picture too.

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

— Aristotle

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