Beautiful flowers in the garden macro photography

Flowery Garden

NEW IMAGES ADDED 240211 - Last week I picked up my camera for the first time and experimented with macro photography. I found joy in taking pictures once more... a joy that I love to share with you

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Wendover Woods England Britain UK

Revel in the Freedom

The sunlight is shining through the branches, the sprouting leaves still leaving enough space for the sun to reach my face. I close my eyes and breathe. "You are free", my inner voice tells me, "free at all times to say no". I know. I love this place. With my whole heart. And I am ready. "Yes", I whisper back. I know that I have the courage to leave this all behind. To end a life and, like the phoenix, rise up into a new life. The era of the hermit is ending. The era of the traveller is starting…

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iron works mining limestone Clydach Gorge Wales

Golden Fire

Blazing fires are heating up the furnices. Miners covered in sweat, with blackened faces from the ashes and coke, keep shovelling new coke into the fire. With 1600 degrees the miners empty their barrows with iron and limestone into the furnices. Their senses are numbed. They can't think, can't feel. They keep going.

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