It’s been very grey here –
So grey that the newspapers are saying
We’ve had fewer than 8 hours of sunshine so far this month.
In fact, it looks as if even the ducks are complaining about the lack of sun!
There are moments of beauty, though,
When the grey and the bird
Look like a silken painting.
For more bright skies, please visit: Skywatch.
Lady Fi 
You even make gray look beautiful! 🙂
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Your shades of gray are beautiful. Lovely images! Have a happy day!
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Great shots. It’s grey most of the time in Scotland too, just now. Kinda depressing.
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You make grey look so beautiful!
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I know you prefer colour to monochromatic tones, but you have produced a lovely homage to shades of gray, Lady Fi. Bless you!
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Even grey can be glorious, excellent photos Fi.
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Marvelous photos of the grey days. I like this shades and the silk painting.
Best regards, Synnöve
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The skies are wonderful, even though they are grey!! But 8 hours of sunshine in the month are not enough!!!
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Beautiful photos. I couldn’t do that many days without sun though, I would go mad.
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Amazing how a sky can display so many different characters and somehow more still in the reflection of of water. Nicely caught. 🙂
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At least the reflections in the lake double the light available…!
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Great photos, wonderful clouds, beautiful reflections, pure art!
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen gray look so beautiful.
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Intimidating atmosphere, cloudy day.
Images are clear and bright and beautiful.
Greeting Liplatus
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the silvers and hints of blues mixed in are really beautiful. i’m certain you’d like the warm glow of sunshine, though. (and your title should get you lots of traffic to this post!) 🙂
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Even your gray skies are beautiful, but I’m certain you do miss the sunshine!! Wonderful captures and I do love your title!! Have a great weekend!!
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But you’d never see such drama on a clear, sunny day, very nice.
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Hate that novel but what lovely views you’ve shared here. 🙂
Have a fabulous Thursday, G
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Haven’t read the novel and never will… but the title is catchy! 😉
Lady Fi wrote: > >
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Sounds strange! You capture beauty at any given condition 🙂
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Subtle, dramatic, beautiful.
And I hope that more sunshine comes your way to throw those clouds into high relief.
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absolutly wonderful – lucky ducks 🙂
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“There are moments of beauty, though,
When the grey and the bird
Look like a silken painting.”
That’s exactly what they look like, Fiona! Stunning captures! I’m one of those people who loves grey days like this 🙂
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Winter can be so dark. But you make even the gray days beautiful. 🙂
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Impressive that sky! the colors change, but it’s still beautiful
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Wow….that’s silver not grey!!
It’s been a gloomy here too the last couple of days….but we didn’t get silver skies 🙂
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the grey though makes for some interesting shadows and art…
it was grey when we ran the race for hunger this morning…
but i like pewter…smiles.
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Hi Friend, Just stopping by to say Happy Thanksgiving to you. Even in places where Thanksgiving is not celebrated (or celebrated on the 4th Thursday in November like ours is) —it can be a time for each of us to take time to thank God for our blessings and also not to forget the “Giving” in the word, ThanksGIVING. We all have lots of blessings —but many times, we ignore the giving part….Not just on Thanksgiving Day, but all of the time, please take time to contact family/friends just to say HI… And remember that a big SMILE can lift someone’s day…. Little things like that can really HELP..
I love your ‘grays’…. There’s just something about dull and dark days that are still gorgeous.
God Bless…
Happy Thanksgiving.
Hugs,
Betsy
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Oh this takes my breath away, thank you!
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making gray gorgeous…..those reflections are amazing!!! happy turkey day!!!!
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Stunning – the water is like polished silver.
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These photos are amazing, that beautiful sky reflecting 1000 and 1 types of grey. Just 8 hours in the whole month? It must be hard and sadie…
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Fantastic photos!I love it!
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Grey but so beautiful, great images.
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Yes, this is what was meant by the term 50 shades of grey! Beautiful photos! We’ve been very lucky in London so far (fingers crossed) but I believe we have a miserable winter ahead of us.
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For sure… paintings with lots of grey nuances from an outstanding fall season!! even the duck on the pond is bored and yelled at waters… “bring some light”… 🙂
Lovely captured moments!
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You captured the beauty of shades of gray so well. Gorgeous!
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Wow, eight hours of sunshine this month. I’m not sure that I could handle that. Your photos are fabulous!!!
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Your photos are always incredible. I hope you get more sunlight soon.
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Yep even gray is beautiful.
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You do justice to gray!
Eight hours of sun all month? I think I’d be booking a ticket to Spain if I were you! 😉
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Just got back from Italy, so will wait for the winter sun!
Lady Fi wrote: > >
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I love the second shot better than the first. I cant say why. But i love the reflections on the water. Beautiful!
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Beautiful photos, Fi. We haven’t had much sun here this month, either.
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Clever use of a familiar title. Is that the UK, you are talking about? Imagine only 8 hours of sunshine… in a Month… yoh! 😦
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I’m talking about Stockholm, Sweden!
Lady Fi wrote: > >
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The color grey resembles silver, and beautiful.
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Beautiful “dramatic” pictures!
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You can make even grey skies look beautiful. I hope you get more sunshine.
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Yes, as silken cloth in varying tones of beautiful grey!
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oh que c’est si beau,j’ai essayé en version RAW et c’est vrai que ça change en JPEG….
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Hi! The grey scene is very beautiful. The reflection of a bird on the lake is very cool. Thanks for sharing.
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Beautiful…even the dull grey looks awesome with your photographs
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These are wonderful shades of grey.
Are sky was completely closed with grey clouds, so we saw only one colour of grey …
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Beautiful…moody…astounding.
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A ‘silken painting’! Now I wouldn’t mind the grey.
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You’ve certainly shown here that grey can be gorgeous too!
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Would you mind telling me what knd of camera you use? These are just magnificent!…:)JP
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very grey but oh soooooooo beautiful! happy weekend
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Mirror, mirror on the lake …
The weather was perfect for the photos 🙂
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A gorgeous series. Each is a fine picture.
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So dramatic! Awesome series.
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Your photos always are gorgeous, but these ones are absolutely phantastic!
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Fantastic and glorious shade of gray! Incredibly beautiful photos!
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Fabulous photos! We’ve had so much Lake Effect Snow, with ensuing clouds. It’s been lovely!
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You capture those moody skies so perfectly!
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Awesome images.
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all of these are gorgeous as your photos always are .. but the first was is exquisite and looks like a water color . divine!
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Oh, I don’t like the lack of sunshine. The duck shot is really cute.
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Lady Fi
watch this lake in different seasons.
There is always phenomenal. You’re a fantastic photographer.
Greetings from Polish.
Lucia
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It’s not just that your photos are great. Even your post titles are great, too. Thanks.
Greetings from London.
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It may be gray but you’ve captured beautiful, dramatic scenes nonetheless 🙂 Have a wonderful weekend. xx
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Grey days here too, but we have ice on the lakes and snow. Hope you get some sunshine too! 🙂
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I like it all1
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There might not be sun but there is always mesmerizing light in your photos.
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It was then very gray with you but these pictures of the gray sky are beautiful to see.
Beautiful bright and beautiful were reflections in the water. So I want 50 shades of gray often see lol ……
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magnificent Fi… wow!!!
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Wonderful images…….there’s much beauty in grey days and more variety and subtlety than a camera can record. I love the light quality where you are.
Happy weekend!
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Now,
this is 50 Shades of Grey!!! WOWWWWWWWWWW. xx
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Even your grey has more colours than most!
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An amazing sky! The colors and the reflections are gorgeous!
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What lovely, silvery tones.
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Your gray is much more beautiful than our gray! But I’m hoping you get some sunshine soon!
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Great tonalities of these inspiring place (For people of great cities, traffic, smog, concrete, structures, etc., admiring your environment is like a window to paradise). I try to imaging the images in B&W for adding more drama! Happy Sunday!
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spectacular!
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That is quite a skill to make a grey day look stunning… and you have us all around the world, longing for a grey day like yours!!
Wren x
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These pictures seem to make grey look ok! Very nice.
Cheers – Stewart M – Melbourne
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Wow, grey looks stunning. Brilliant captures..
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Those skies are fantastic. Those clouds, dark clouds are beautiful.
· hugs
· LMA · & · CR ·
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Wonderful title for this beautiful series of images!
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No one can make 50 shades of grey look better than you can. Wow!
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Yours are gifted eyes
and I appreciate the way
you find the beauty
in the grey:)
-Jennifer
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The rains do bring such beautiful skies. When the dry season sets in here in Florida the skies are absolutely monotonous, and the tone is blue.
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Love the reflections that you captured, really creates amazing images.
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Amazing captures of the grey skies!Have a great week ahead!
Shantana
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Just goes to show grey doesn’t have to be boring or dull
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Grey too has beautiful shades. 🙂
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Beautiful series and skies, stunning grey tones and photos
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So lovely!
Lindy
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