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Lens-Artists Challenge: Quiet Hours
Posted on July 14, 2025
This week’s challenge is to post an image that captures the idea of ‘quiet hours’. Clearly, there are many interpretations: the ‘hours’ element can refer to a particular time of day, while ‘quiet’ could be just something conveying tranquility or serenity.
I’ve gone with the latter, with this photo having been taken in the late morning on an inlet of the River Creuse. Not a cloud in the sky, not a breath of wind, scarcely a ripple to distort those crystal-clear reflections. It was very quiet….
Lens-Artists Challenge: Serenity
Posted on May 13, 2025
Is there a greater epitome of the idea of ‘serenity’ than a graceful swan gliding smoothly across the water – even if everybody knows that below the surface its legs are going like the clappers?
This particular specimen was swanning around in the lake at Linlithgow, in central Scotland.
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 21 Serenity
Posted on May 23, 2020
“What does serenity mean to you?’ is the question posed for the 21st instalment of the 52 Week Smartphone Challenge.
I always find this view very tranquil and calming (not that I often need to calm down). It’s what I see when I look over the wall of our back garden. The two fields were bought with the house, so for a few brief minutes I am master of all I survey.
52WeekSmartphoneChallenge: 21 Serenity
Serenity
Posted on January 17, 2015
Calm, peaceful and untroubled? Oh yes.
This photograph was taken at the resort hotel on Sir Bani Yas in Abu Dhabi. We were just about the only guests there (it hadn’t been open for very long), which just added to the tranquility.
I particularly like the additional elements of serenity in the foreground: the infinity pool, what could almost be a Zen garden, the reflection and the curves.
Posted in response to WordPress’ Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity.
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