Winter has returned with ice and snow.
A couple of mornings ago, the sun was shining
And the icy drops on a rail were shining like golden pearls.
People going to catch the train wondered what on earth I was photographing
As I squatted there with my bottom up in the air.
A little while later, I took up my weird squatting position
To capture the newly-melted snow on the brave head of a crocus.
I passed a garden with a wooden fence that had holes in it.
Once again, I no doubt looked like a crazy woman as I peered
Through to see a friendly bunch of snowdrops on the other side.
Then I caught sight of a diamond shining next to some fluffy buds.
Finally, something I could photograph with grace!
(Oh, the things we do for our blogs…)
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Beautiful captures!
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Oh dear you made me laugh with your descriptions, the lengths photographers will go to for the perfect shot, my favourite has to be the snowdrops today.
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Ah Fiona, Bottoms up dear!
Jen @ Muddy Boot Dreams
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How you made me smile while I imagined you in those strange postures, all for the glory of those stunning photographs you share here with us. I was worth it. Thank you LadyFi
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loved the image of you with your bottom up in the air! (because I’ve struck that pose many times, too!)
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Zing Ama. I mean Amazing! hehe
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Very nice observation captured within lens. Thanks for sharing.
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Just amazing!
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Water drops are so much fun to photograph 🙂
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ha…nice peeking throught he fence…smiles….and def like the head of the crocus shot…great capture…these are beautiful…
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Terrific captures, Fiona, and worth all the “bottoms in the air” poses! Delightful, fun post/look at your part of our world today! Beautiful!
Sylvia
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Lovely pictures, all.
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Lovely photos regardless of the squats you had to do to capture them!!
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Who cares what people thought? 😀 They are worth it 😉
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I love the snow drops through the hole in the fence. Now I know how you exercise; you don’t need the gym.
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April weather….;) Soon the snow is gone….(Hopfully)!
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I love your shots of the melting ice. Lovely droplets you spotted and photographed underneath. I often think that people will think I’m crazy as I contort my body to get a specific perspective when shooting pictures.
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Lovely photograhps – and I behave just the same 😉
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You take the coolest photos!
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LOL! Well worth it! Who cares what other people think of us…. 🙂
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Great captures Fi, which lens did you use? I can picture you with your bum in the air photographing…thank you for going to all that work to bring us such lovely photos 🙂
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I had my zoom lens, but it has very good macro settings too if you adjust the aperture enough.
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so tender and lovely!
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Lovely shots, Fi. I think we’ll all assumed the position at one time or another.. and usually, as with your beauties, it’s worth it.
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Well — you got your exercises (stretches and squats) while you got these beautiful photographs, so how could there be anything wrong with that! Lovely. So I am hoping that these pictures mean that most of the early spring blossoms survived winter’s return.
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photography calisthenics! 🙂
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I literally gasped when I saw your photo of the buds… they are perfect. Happy Spring!
Just a bit earlier today I wrote to Dina from Jerusalem Hills, in reply to her Palm Sunday post, that in Russia Palm Sunday is called Willow Sunday, and usually instead of palms branches (not many of those in Russia 🙂 people use willow branches with newly opened buds… this always was a beginning of spring for me.
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With your stances – sounds proper professional – Love all your shots.
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You may have looked like a fool but your photos are no joke! : )
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You make the snow drops and the background so beautiful. I moved house, dug some of my snow drops and left the bulbs in a pot. I hope they had not died. I just love them.
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Hey, Fiona, you aren’t the only one doing it. We work hard for our photos!
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;)) You sure made me smile.. hehe.. Synes jeg ser deg snikende git og dit med kamera.. 😉 ja, vi bloggere er noe for oss selv, godt vi har hverandre. ikke sant?! 😉
Vakre bilder!
Happy Easter to you! 🙂
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Hei laydfi,
Kan du ikke bare ta og slette min kommnetar over her!!? Jeg skrev nemlig feil link! Jeg aner ikke hvor jeg “la hodet mitt”.. det var ihvertfall ikke med meg nå.. Jeg setter stor pris på om du kan fjerne den..
Her skriver jeg den samme kommentar (med riktig link):
; ) You sure made me smile.. hehe.. Synes jeg ser deg snikende git og dit med kamera.. ja, vi bloggere er noe for oss selv, godt vi har hverandre. ikke sant?! 😉
Vakre bilder!
Happy Easter to you! 🙂
April 2, 2012 at 23:06
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Thank you so much for your comments. They both appeared in the right place, so no problem.
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Funny AND talented, Lady Fi! (Not ever forgetting the gorgeous, Oscar, too!) 🙂
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Lady Fi,
Without your blog & Oscar, my life would be a bit less joyful. Xxxx
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Delightful images Fi. I especially like the hole in the fence view of snowdrops. Bravo for overcoming the concern about what others may think of your posturing ! Have a great week.
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They just don’t understand us photographers! These are great Fiona and I love the one through the fence hole!
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No matter what contorted position ya had to twist yourself into, the pictures are absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. I’m a little (lot, hugely) jealous here! Heeehehehe!
God bless ya sweetie and have yourself an excellent week!!!! :o)
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Beautiful photos with raindrops exquisite, I love the first one, delicious. Greetings.
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Well done! I had the oddest experience today when I was photographing something quite ordinary – beautiful FLOWERS (are mine crocuses too? croc…i?) – and a little boy who passed by with his mom said “Why is she taking pictures of stuff?”
Okay, now that I think about it – not such a bad question, but I find that when I take close-up photos of rusty lamp posts and such, people just pretend they’re not looking at me.
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Beautiful! Snow drops seem to be wrapped in a cocoon of shining silk.
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What lovely moments you have captured. If I were to see a drop of moisture here in the desert, I would drop everything to memorialize the moment.
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The snowdrop one is my favorite – the fence hole makes a great frame. My problem is that when I get down, I have a harder and harder time getting back up!
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Lovely shots – the crocus is my favorite. We may get a foot of snow in the next 24 hours, we sometimes see snow even in June.
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lol! so true!! excellent collection!!
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Your pics are fantastic!
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We enjoyed a warm 8 days and then have had to tough it out when the cold returned as well. Thanks for finding the beauty no matter what the temps LadyFi.
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Well, I’m so glad you were willing to sacrifice a little dignity of posture for these stunners. They are beautiful. Thank you.
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Ah yes the things we do for the right picture. They may think we are odd for a moment or two, but we have our picture for as long as we want it.
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The crocus is beautiful although the snowdrops are also lovely! -Danette
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Wonderful shots. Love the variety.
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You really captured the gold shimmering in the ice droplets and the crocus and snowdrops are a veritable dream.
If we did not do our genuflecting in public, what would people have to wonder about? I often have someone come up to me with a vacant expression wondering what on earth I see that is worth photographing. We photographers are worth our weight in gold for sheer entertainment value!
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Lovely, lovely post!!
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the things we do to capture something beautiful that caught our eye.:p
these are exquisite shots, thank you.
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Oh what beautiful pictures…last night we hade some snow again ……
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Vilka underbara vårbilder, kombinared med härligt uppfriskande text. Vad gör man inte för att fånga en bra bild och det bevisar dina vackra och konstnärliga fotografier.
Önskar dig en skön helg i vårens tecken!
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All beautiful, but the snow drops won my heart.
The weather is weird here too. While doing some looong over due weeding this afternoon I noticed a jonquil in flower. Three or four months too early.
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Your pictures are gorgeous ! I don’t worry if people take me for a crazy old woman it rather makes me laugh when they look at me with an unviewable finger at the forehead !
Gattina
http://gattina-keyholepictures.blogspot.com/
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I’m sure we all do crazy things for photographs at one point in our lives! I almost fell off of a tree last week trying to capture the new blooms. hehe. The drops in your photos are gorgeous! Looks like spring is just around the corner 😀
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Lustrous droplets!
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Lovely images, Lady Fi! I wouldn’t worry about what people think. Thanks for sharing, have a great week!
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Such unusual and beautiful captures! It was certainly worth all the acrobatics you did to capture them! I wish I could exchange some of our relentless sun to your cold!
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The drops and caught by the light… so beautiful, Lady Fi!
Greetings from Holland,
Anna 🙂
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Lovely photos, and if it involved some contortions – well, we think it was worth it!
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25degC here and loving it!
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I’m glad you put yourself in such undignified positions to get these marvelous photographs for us.
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Happy Tuesday!
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Very funny! 🙂 And the shots are beautiful.
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Good Morning, Brrrrr—looks cold there. Love that last shot of your ‘diamond’… WOW!! And I love the drops on the crocus…. Great set of pictures…. No ice and snow here. It was almost 80 (F) here yesterday… Yipes.
Hugs,
Betsy
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beautiful droplet photos, very nice sharp an beautiful details..
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I love these captures, and love the light bouncing of the droplets.
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Did you just describe me? I did the same thing by peering through a fence to snap pictures of crocuses..We don’t have snowdrops around here, so your photo made my day..
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Your descriptions of what you did to capture your great photos reminded me of my contortions to get that ever elusive “perfect shot”…
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Fabulous shots. The last one through the hole is awesome. Love the way you are able to capture so beautifully the water droplets. I cannot do it to save my soul. Wonderful post. genie
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Very beautiful winterdrops! Waterdrops also stunning beautiful.
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More great photos again Fi. I specially liked the one of the snowdrops through the hole. Well done! – Dave
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I’m so sorry winter has returned but your photos are wonderful.
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That’s seems little adventure and creative white shooting these! lol Lovely images 🙂
http://jeevansworld.blogspot.in
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What a precious bud. It tells us happy days.
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such lovely spring images
each one
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yes the things we do to get shots for our beloved blogs! But your shots are all wonderful and it takes your readers to wonderful places with you. and I feel so inspired by your ideas and your photos…..my heart gets a little bit broken when I see your golden in the header, lost our golden.
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Such beautiful shots! I can say all the squatting and amused stares from the passers-by were well worth the efforts 🙂
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Haha, Amen to that! Ah, but who care how crazy you might appear, when you can capure such an awesome shot? We have the same weird phenomena over here, too – last week I was sunning it up in the garden, this week it is covered in snow (shrug). Strange times, indeed.
I couldn’t help but glimpse that precious shot of your Goldie in the snow – I had to do a double take, I thought at first I was looking at my Jake..
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lol! I think of that as a Photographer’s Workout. Lots of squats and stretches involved. Looks like you had a very good workout. 🙂
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That one drop has a world of sunshine in it. How beautiful.
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Oh I like the one through the fence! Well done! 🙂
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Somewhere there is a Blog out there of “Photos I take of that crazy lady in her nightie….you know, the one with the camera”! 🙂
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That crocus shot is just amazing. And my only crocus of this spring. Thank you!
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Lovely captures! My favourite is the crocus!
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Hugs****
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Superb images all, but I adore the snowdrops through the hole in the fence, inspired!
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