Fantastic shot Lisa! I love the way you placed the center of the flower down in the corner there and fading away at the top left! The shot is "spot on"...well, I think so :) Magnificent colors too!!
Today's flower is very beautiful. Your summer will be over soon. Does it Good? I think it is good to see new students, because you can get young powers in your soul and mind. Have nice days!
This is a beautiful piece . . . nice note to salute the start of your school year, and the coming season. Looking forward to the fall weather transition. Good luck with "getting back into it" and not so much "me time." Teach your children well.
Today, I spent quite some time going through all the links. I must say I am very impressed with everyone's creativity. Glad you are holding Creativity Exchange. It's something I look forward to every week. :)
so good to "hear" your voice :)) and I felt in love with your photo! love it! love it! love it! what an amazing shot. the colors, the details. simply dreamy. hope you have a good go back to work dear. to me days are pretty much the same since I'm retired. but I'll be doing some ecourses soon. and I'm going to visit my sister in London next month. it's going to be a great Fall too. xoxo
I love what you did to that little blue flower. Looks great.
Yes, fall is approaching here too. You can feel it in the air and in the colors as you mention. It´s kind of dull. So in my entry today I go back to a dark forest in Costa Rica. :)
Beautiful composition and amazing blues - a fantastic macro! Summer has been really nice and I'm looking forward to a beautiful fall season. I hope our friends in the drought-stricken areas of the country get some relief soon.
This is such a cool macro, Lisa. The focus on the tiny center is lovely. Hope you have a great year at school! I'm not quite ready for fall -- but like you, I'll make the most of it when it officially arrives. :)
Good Morning Lisa, It's so nice to start out my week with your stunning image! Love how you've pushed the extremes of framing this piece in a very original manner and the color is so incredibly luscious! I hope you have a really great group of kids this year. We already have a few touches of fall color. How did that sneak up on us! This summer seemed to go faster than usual for our family. Hope your week is wonderful!
Lisa, This is an absolutely stunning image! The bluish-violet colors and the amazing details, the velvety texture that I can almost touch - all I can say is WOW! Best of luck in the start of a new school year.
I truly was just thinking about you heading back to school...before I opened this post with words! Is it selfish to say I miss your voices when it doesn't accompany your images? I hope not. I love the periwinkle blues in this shot...wow. I also like that before I scroll down to the center blossom that the leaves create a cool abstract effect. Good luck with the start of school. I remember those "best behavior" days, and hearing all the teachers remark "oh I think I've got a great bunch this year" before they crumbled to bitch and moan 2 weeks later in the faculty room. Also big virtual hugs to you as your boy heads off to college. My best's only son is off this year too. She's having a time with the letting go. That's what friends are for, right? I'll have to call her more oft for coffee-too bad you don't live closer. Shhhh on that autumn stuff. I'm trying to ignore it.
We always say it, but "where has summer gone?" You are leaving August Break with a stunning image, as usual. I will continue to be happy that I'm beginning my 10th year of retirement from teaching (Wow! Where have those years gone??); hopefully I can accomplish something wonderful this year, but right now I'm possibly looking at hip surgery before long. That will definitely cut into my photography, I imagine. Happy New School Year to you, Lisa! I know your students are fortunate to be in your classes.
Lisa, Another stunning macro photo--lovely shades of blue. Summer did "whiz" by as it seems to do every year. I hope you have a wonderful school year--it sounds like you are looking forward to "getting started". I'm not teaching this year so there is a touch of sadness, but then I think of all the freetime I will have to do "whatever", and the sadness dissipates quickly. I still get my fill of "kids" with grandchildren, teaching Sunday School,etc. I KNOW that you are a creative and energetic teacher that makes school interesting and fun for your students--how lucky they are. Mickie :)
So nice to see your words back! Good luck with the back to school, always an exciting time but also a bit sad to see the summer go. It just got here in Oregon! We're hoping it lasts for a little while longer. Thanks for providing the Creative Exchange, I love knowing that this link up is here, supporting the connection of my photography with my heart.
This macro is stunning Lisa! I took some photos of this flower during my visit to the flower conservatory in Seattle. It's a type of hydrangea is it not? Whatever it is, it's that color that is my absolute favorite and I hope to have a garden full of this color someday! Sadly, no signs of fall here yet, it's supposed to be 110 on Wednesday. Hope you have a great start to your school year!
Lisa, Wednesday will be very exciting day for you. !67 students? That is a lot. I wish you very nice Wednesday. Yes, it will be bright and shiny faces. I envy you a little bit. Several years ago I began my teaching at the beginning of September in a high school and it was a little bit stressful and exciting for me. I was always waiting for this day.
This macro is amazing and beautiful art. Colors and composition are breathtaking. It is a dream, a beautiful dream.... My deep admiration and many compliments for this outstanding art work, Lisa.
I wish you all the best. I wish you that your teaching year will be full of new and interesting discoveries, inspiration and very creative.
Pure magic...the colors are amazing! Another new favorite (do I say that every time??) Have I mentioned, I LOVE YOUR WORK! :) Have a great day back at work!
oh I love your voice, I'm so happy it's back!!! I hope the rest/break was fruitful and relaxing for you. I have to say - this is color therapy just looking at today's photo. wowie zowie Lisa. happy Monday to you, and thanks for hosting TCE each week.
Welcome back. Always, always, always love your photos, but I've missed your words. :-) I wish you all the best with your new school year. The blue in today's selection is so relaxing. Great way to begin a Monday!
Yay! So glad August break is over early (for you). I missed your words! Hoping all goes well your first week back to work and that the students behave themselves.
Oh Lisa finally! I love reading what you have to share. Your words are as beautiful as your photographs that I missed it for three long weeks! That long!
Once again this is such a pretty shot.. I just love popping in here to see your photos.. I really can't believe school is starting already. I am not going back to work. but all my co-workers first day back was today.. It seems so weird not to be with them.. But Myles is so worth it..
Beautiful photo, Lisa. I have been starting to see the signs of fall approaching. Thank you for the word "muted". I knew there was a change in the greenery, but I just couldn't quite find the right word! :)
This is so Beautiful, Lisa, the colours are just amazing! Hope your students treat you well, and you still manage to get some "me" time. On buttons, I've had problems with several buttons the last couple of weeks.
Stunning photo!!! Have fun with your new students. Your classes sound quite large but I bet they are fun! I am looking forward to the fall foliage but not the seaons that follows that!!! ~Val
Absolutely beautiful shot! No signs of fall hear unless you consider temps have from down to about 100-102 instead of 107-110! Glad you had a great summer!
Gorgeous shot to use your words on! Love the framing. Good luck with your students, Lisa. It's good that most students want to be there, so that should help with attitude! Hope you have a great semester!
Your photography is just so amazingly beautiful... I would so love to mentor with you! :) I love being aboard CE, and a huge thank you for visiting my blog and for your wonderful comments. Have a great day.
Back to the routine... Your kids are so lucky. What grade or subject do you teach? I love the blues and violets of the flower - Mother Nature is amazing. I agree, my summer was great, didn't get to do "it all" but I am getting a bit more "me" time back. And I find THAT a bit bitter sweet... :)
Dear Lisa, I just love this close up of a hydrangea blossom - beautiful detail and I find them continually fascinating.
And thank you for sharing your thoughts on the changing of the season in your area. As always, your insights are beautifully stated. I'm so glad you had a lovely summer and wish you the best with your students. xo – g
Such a blue dream, Lisa! It definitely feels like fall here, too! I'm so not ready for that yet ;-) I hope you had a good start into work again and also hope you won't forget to put in a bit of "me" time despite the work, too!
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Wow, that is a gorgeous shot. What beautiful colour.
Fantastic shot Lisa! I love the way you placed the center of the flower down in the corner there and fading away at the top left! The shot is "spot on"...well, I think so :) Magnificent colors too!!
Hi Lisa, I hope work goes well for you! Thank you for sharing such an amazing photograph, I love it, the colours, dof and comp are beautifully done :)
Your great Lisa..... wonderful picture, my compliments for this nice work.
warm greetings and a nice day, joop
Today's flower is very beautiful. Your summer will be over soon. Does it Good? I think it is good to see new students, because you can get young powers in your soul and mind. Have nice days!
I just love the color of your image!!!
What a lovely heart of the flower :)Thanks for hosting. LG Tina
O dear Lisa, what do you create.
stunned the composition and colors!
CONGRATULATIONS!
So soft and radiant.
Good to have such memories of this summer to take you into the cooler months.
wow,soft and beautiful!
Love the softness of the flower.
Btw, congratulations! Your caption has been selected and posted today!
Gorgeous photo Lisa! Thanks for the code I was having a problem! Have a great school year!
What a beautiful and soft shot...
Beautiful soft macro. Enjoy your time back at school, hope you get some wonderful pupils.
This is a beautiful piece . . . nice note to salute the start of your school year, and the coming season. Looking forward to the fall weather transition. Good luck with "getting back into it" and not so much "me time."
Teach your children well.
Wonderful purple flower- macro. So beautiful !
Have a nice week, Lisa.
Kind regards
Synnöve
Gorgeous photo Lisa - great color, composition, and DoF.
Magical mood!
Have good days back to school.
Today, I spent quite some time going through all the links. I must say I am very impressed with everyone's creativity. Glad you are holding Creativity Exchange. It's something I look forward to every week. :)
so good to "hear" your voice :)) and I felt in love with your photo! love it! love it! love it! what an amazing shot. the colors, the details. simply dreamy. hope you have a good go back to work dear. to me days are pretty much the same since I'm retired. but I'll be doing some ecourses soon. and I'm going to visit my sister in London next month. it's going to be a great Fall too. xoxo
Oh! Lisa: this shot is simply .... amazing!!! Have a great school year and a beautiful week!
Hugs,
Claudia
hi Lisa, glad to see you talking again. :)
I love what you did to that little blue flower. Looks great.
Yes, fall is approaching here too. You can feel it in the air and in the colors as you mention. It´s kind of dull. So in my entry today I go back to a dark forest in Costa Rica. :)
I love the frame on the corner, delicious as always.
Gorgeous - love the colour and the composition. Enjoy your first few days back at work!
Gorgeous image, fabulous shade of blue! Hope work goes really well.You will be refreshed after your lovely summer!
lovely shade of blue, can't believe summer is nearly over, hope going back to work is ok.
Lisa this is absolutely gordeous and the colours - wow! A warming-the-heart-picture :)
Beautiful composition and amazing blues - a fantastic macro! Summer has been really nice and I'm looking forward to a beautiful fall season. I hope our friends in the drought-stricken areas of the country get some relief soon.
This is such a cool macro, Lisa. The focus on the tiny center is lovely. Hope you have a great year at school! I'm not quite ready for fall -- but like you, I'll make the most of it when it officially arrives. :)
lisa, that photo is amazing... just want to fall into it and stay there a while.
good luck with the new school year! good, full classes!
Good Morning Lisa, It's so nice to start out my week with your stunning image! Love how you've pushed the extremes of framing this piece in a very original manner and the color is so incredibly luscious!
I hope you have a really great group of kids this year.
We already have a few touches of fall color. How did that sneak up on us! This summer seemed to go faster than usual for our family.
Hope your week is wonderful!
Lisa, Amazing work! It reminds me of a Peacock. so beautiful....Shared my link...
Gorgeous image. Best of luck to you in your return to the world. Sounds like you are looking forward to it.
Lisa,
This is an absolutely stunning image! The bluish-violet colors and the amazing details, the velvety texture that I can almost touch - all I can say is WOW! Best of luck in the start of a new school year.
Wow Lisa its SUPER very beautiful flower and compo I love et verry much my Compliments
Have a nice day to you
Greetings Janny
Beautiful color, great shot.
I truly was just thinking about you heading back to school...before I opened this post with words! Is it selfish to say I miss your voices when it doesn't accompany your images? I hope not.
I love the periwinkle blues in this shot...wow. I also like that before I scroll down to the center blossom that the leaves create a cool abstract effect.
Good luck with the start of school. I remember those "best behavior" days, and hearing all the teachers remark "oh I think I've got a great bunch this year" before they crumbled to bitch and moan 2 weeks later in the faculty room.
Also big virtual hugs to you as your boy heads off to college. My best's only son is off this year too. She's having a time with the letting go. That's what friends are for, right? I'll have to call her more oft for coffee-too bad you don't live closer.
Shhhh on that autumn stuff. I'm trying to ignore it.
Hope your transition to fall is easy, Lisa. Yourphoto is beautiful -- the color and POV are very special!
We always say it, but "where has summer gone?" You are leaving August Break with a stunning image, as usual. I will continue to be happy that I'm beginning my 10th year of retirement from teaching (Wow! Where have those years gone??); hopefully I can accomplish something wonderful this year, but right now I'm possibly looking at hip surgery before long. That will definitely cut into my photography, I imagine. Happy New School Year to you, Lisa! I know your students are fortunate to be in your classes.
Lisa - this is so dreamy and gorgeous!!!
Wonderful details in this beautiful shot, the colours are stunning!!!
Have a good return to work. :)
Lisa, Another stunning macro photo--lovely shades of blue. Summer did "whiz" by as it seems to do every year. I hope you have a wonderful school year--it sounds like you are looking forward to "getting started". I'm not teaching this year so there is a touch of sadness, but then I think of all the freetime I will have to do "whatever", and the sadness dissipates quickly. I still get my fill of "kids" with grandchildren, teaching Sunday School,etc. I KNOW that you are a creative and energetic teacher that makes school interesting and fun for your students--how lucky they are. Mickie :)
So nice to see your words back! Good luck with the back to school, always an exciting time but also a bit sad to see the summer go. It just got here in Oregon! We're hoping it lasts for a little while longer. Thanks for providing the Creative Exchange, I love knowing that this link up is here, supporting the connection of my photography with my heart.
This macro is stunning Lisa! I took some photos of this flower during my visit to the flower conservatory in Seattle. It's a type of hydrangea is it not? Whatever it is, it's that color that is my absolute favorite and I hope to have a garden full of this color someday! Sadly, no signs of fall here yet, it's supposed to be 110 on Wednesday.
Hope you have a great start to your school year!
Lisa, Wednesday will be very exciting day for you. !67 students? That is a lot. I wish you very nice Wednesday. Yes, it will be bright and shiny faces. I envy you a little bit. Several years ago I began my teaching at the beginning of September in a high school and it was a little bit stressful and exciting for me. I was always waiting for this day.
This macro is amazing and beautiful art. Colors and composition are breathtaking. It is a dream, a beautiful dream.... My deep admiration and many compliments for this outstanding art work, Lisa.
I wish you all the best. I wish you that your teaching year will be full of new and interesting discoveries, inspiration and very creative.
Pure magic...the colors are amazing! Another new favorite (do I say that every time??) Have I mentioned, I LOVE YOUR WORK! :) Have a great day back at work!
oh I love your voice, I'm so happy it's back!!! I hope the rest/break was fruitful and relaxing for you. I have to say - this is color therapy just looking at today's photo. wowie zowie Lisa. happy Monday to you, and thanks for hosting TCE each week.
Welcome back. Always, always, always love your photos, but I've missed your words. :-) I wish you all the best with your new school year. The blue in today's selection is so relaxing. Great way to begin a Monday!
Have a good first week!
wow - what a gorgeous shot!
Yay! So glad August break is over early (for you). I missed your words! Hoping all goes well your first week back to work and that the students behave themselves.
Love the photo. The periwinkle tones are amazing.
simply beautifully captured shot...fantastic!
Stunning colors!
Have a great back to school!
Beautiful macro Lisa! The blue is so intense!
You can feel Summer fading here too. I'm sad to see it ending but at the same time I'm looking forward to Autumn - my favourite season! :)
Best wishes for your first week back at school!
Oh Lisa finally!
I love reading what you have to share. Your words are as beautiful as your photographs that I missed it for three long weeks! That long!
Glad you're back!
Wonderful flower!
Beautiful photo! The summer is gone but autumn is also great! Have a nice week to you.
Once again this is such a pretty shot.. I just love popping in here to see your photos.. I really can't believe school is starting already. I am not going back to work. but all my co-workers first day back was today.. It seems so weird not to be with them.. But Myles is so worth it..
Hugs, Linda
Wonderful picture...wonderful flower...
LG: Karin
Good luck as you go back to work.
Good luck on the new school year! This is a gorgeous shot - I'm going to try hard to jump in on this week's exchange.
Beautiful photo, Lisa. I have been starting to see the signs of fall approaching. Thank you for the word "muted". I knew there was a change in the greenery, but I just couldn't quite find the right word! :)
Wishing you a wonderful week back to work!
Breathtaking!
best wishes as you head back to work!! i hope we will still see lot's of you here!!
your pix is STUNNING....a perfect blend of purple (my fav) and blue!!! so soft and warm, how do you do it?!
ps....i hope you teach photography, as you should be sharing you talent with others!!!
Stunning photo - the detail in that blue is just lovely. You are very inspirational - makes me want to go out with the macro lens!
Lisa, the colors and composition on this is outstanding. Really well done.
what an incredible shade of blue!
Again, Lisa, a beautiful macro and a beautiful color. Being a teacher is great, giving of yourself but also the vacation time....
I love the color of the petals and the gentle focus. Wonderfully done! :) Hope your first week of classes go great! And the rest of the year. :)
So beautiful!!!
Beautiful colors!
I love the colors! So beautiful and pure.
All the best with the new term at school. Sounds like fun fun fun :)
This is so Beautiful, Lisa, the colours are just amazing! Hope your students treat you well, and you still manage to get some "me" time.
On buttons, I've had problems with several buttons the last couple of weeks.
beautiful shot lisa! good luck settling back into class with your students.
Stunning photo!!! Have fun with your new students. Your classes sound quite large but I bet they are fun! I am looking forward to the fall foliage but not the seaons that follows that!!! ~Val
That is one perfect macro shot. The color is so soothing and then you get this little pop of wonderful in the corner. Love it!
Absolutely beautiful shot! No signs of fall hear unless you consider temps have from down to about 100-102 instead of 107-110! Glad you had a great summer!
Lisa..I haven't words..absolutely stunning..always!
Hugs Monica
Wonderful
Picture
Thank you for sharing
Lovely and nice colour
Gorgeous shot to use your words on! Love the framing.
Good luck with your students, Lisa. It's good that most students want to be there, so that should help with attitude! Hope you have a great semester!
I love this photo, Lisa, such a beautiful colour. Hope you've enjoyed getting back into your working routine.
Your photography is just so amazingly beautiful... I would so love to mentor with you! :) I love being aboard CE, and a huge thank you for visiting my blog and for your wonderful comments. Have a great day.
Back to the routine... Your kids are so lucky. What grade or subject do you teach? I love the blues and violets of the flower - Mother Nature is amazing. I agree, my summer was great, didn't get to do "it all" but I am getting a bit more "me" time back. And I find THAT a bit bitter sweet... :)
The colors here are amazing! I'm getting to know my new lens tonight. Glad to know you loved yours!
I wish you good luck , Lisa- and thank you for hosting!
My best regards from Romania!
Wow! How beautiful
Stunning macro, love the composition.
Lovley macro!
Dear Lisa, I just love this close up of a hydrangea blossom - beautiful detail and I find them continually fascinating.
And thank you for sharing your thoughts on the changing of the season in your area. As always, your insights are beautifully stated. I'm so glad you had a lovely summer and wish you the best with your students. xo – g
What gorgeous color and softness. You captured it beautifully! I wish you well back at work.
Enjoy your new students and year
I've been crazy busy so not posting or reading as much
Hopefully life will be back to normal in a few
Lisa, this image is absolutely fantastic!
Beautiful, amazing flower photo! Good luck heading back to work.
Just love the colors in these. But mostly how the focus is in the corner. Really made this shot different.
Such a blue dream, Lisa!
It definitely feels like fall here, too! I'm so not ready for that yet ;-) I hope you had a good start into work again and also hope you won't forget to put in a bit of "me" time despite the work, too!
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