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Beauty {Five Minute Friday}

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Highlights of Sunlight // Eyes to See

I recently upgraded my camera, which has reminded me of the way and reasons that I first started photographing. As a kid, I walked in the woods and photographed whatever struck me as interesting. What I was really doing was looking for beauty in the ordinariness of a simple walk. 

Cross Country Trail // Eyes to See

I’ve written of the focus of camera-in-hand many times — the way it gives me eyes to see and forces to take in my surroundings with deliberateness, with a dogged determination to find something worthy of exposure. 

And I must say that I never walk away with an empty memory card. 

Tree Trucks in Snow // Eyes to See

It seems that if we want to find beauty, it’s there. We simply must go out and look, making the time to actually see it.

The details on a red stick against the bright white of sunlit snow and the blue shadowed snow. 


Sunlight highlighting a snow-stooped branch.

Snow Stooped Branch // Eyes to See

The bend of a stream…

Stream Bend // Eyes to See

…and the flow of a waterfall.

Waterfall in Snow // Eyes to See

The way the snow falls when a breeze hits. 

Snow Fall on Branch // Eyes to See

And the way nature is filled with it’s own dogged determination – a vine twirling around a branch, leaves clinging on through the winter.

Vine Around Tree // Eyes to See

Winter Leaves // Eyes to See

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, than we have the power to behold it whenever and wherever we are. We only must look.

Snow on Pine Branch // Eyes to See

8 Comments

  1. juliedibblewrites February 23, 2018

    Hi Denise, what a beautiful post. I enjoyed your photos. I can relate to seeking beauty, instead of waiting for it. I didn’t link up today, but I blogged an interview with a kindergarten teacher📚

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  2. Cindy February 24, 2018

    Beautiful Denise! I’m always amazed and thrilled when I discover beauty in the little things around me! Your photos enhance your words and I enjoyed them both very much! Cindy Wilkins

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  3. kelly @kellyblackwell February 24, 2018

    I love your photos Denise! My husband loves to take pictures and he is always finding something beautiful out in our world. Thanks for sharing your take. I love searching out the beauty especially nowadays.

    Visiting from FMF #61
    God bless you!

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  4. Bethany March 1, 2018

    Beautiful, my friend. For both the mind and eyes. xx

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