Author: Yinglan
Hi, I'm Yinglan, I'm a hobby storyteller, gardener, and a photographer. I'm a finance person by trade and a plant and nature lover in my off-hours. I love taking pictures of the wonderful landscapes around me and of the things in my garden. Welcome to my world!
CMMC: November Close Up
Sunday Poser #104 – Re-Sharing Old Posts
What do you see # 158 – The Brick Wall
Truthful Tuesday 11-01-2022 on a Wednesday – The Relativity of Time
Di from Pensitivity is subbing for Melanie while she’s on temporary blogging hiatus. This week’s Truthful Tuesday has me thinking.
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Hello November!
Share Your World – Week of October 31, 2022
#SundayStills: Nature is Sure #Mysterious
I agree with Terri, nature is mysterious. It can turn such thing as a tree into a fossil if it lived long enough.
Looking at the topic this week, which is mysterious, I thought about my visit to the Petrified Forest State Park in 2021. Note that this is the state park in Utah, not the national park in Arizona. Petrified Forest State Park is much smaller but it’s still an awesome place to visit.
We paid our entrance fee, parked the car, and spent a few hours exploring the park on foot, which is kind of mandatory given the petrified forest is located along a single trail.
It’s sure a mystery how these trees managed to survive this long as all around them, civilization thrived. I’d bet these trees have seen things, encountered plenty of natural events, and probably once lived with dinosaurs. It’s just amazing to think of all the things that have happened to these trees to have it survive to today. Nature is sure a wonderful mystery.
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #223: Flights of Fancy
This week, John from Journey with Johnbo is hosting Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #223 and he threw out a topic with three words I don’t think I’ve heard in quite a while – Flights of Fancy.
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#WeekendCoffeeShare – Making Important Life Decisions
Good morning! Come on in! Sit down, have a hot drink and let’s catch up on more of this week’s going-on. I jotted some thoughts and updated on my physical health yesterday, feel free to go read that post first.
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Friday Thoughts – An Update on Health
I don’t know why but I feel like I don’t write enough about my physical health.
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Friday Fictioneers: The Getaway Plan
What do you see # 157 – Magic Words
CMMC: October Alphabet – Two R in the Word
Truthful Tuesday 10-25-2022 on a Wednesday – An oldie in the Modern World
Di from Pensitivity is subbing for Melanie while she’s on temporary blogging hiatus. This week’s Truthful Tuesday has me thinking.
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Sunday Poser #103 – Home Enjoyment
Share Your World – Week of October 24, 2022
#SundayStills: Photographing through Window #Glass
I do not like photographing anything – especially landscapes – through any kind of window or glass. It not only distorts the color temperature – makes the scene look cold when it’s supposed to be warm, add green when there shouldn’t be green, and don’t get me started about cloud colors – it’s a nightmare when it comes to editing these photos in Lightroom.
Sometimes though, I can’t say I have a choice like unless I suddenly sprout a pair of wings, there’s no way I could photograph in the open air more than a hundred stories above ground. I took these with my phone, by the way, in RAW before uploading them to Lightroom and stitching them to make a large panorama. If I remember, each of these images are made up of 9 to 11 images stitched together. The smaller focal lengths of the phone’s camera really helps sometimes.
I thought these came out great except for the bit of reflection, which as hard as I tried, I couldn’t get rid of them.
As much as I don’t like it, sometimes, it is the way to go and I got a few favorites that were taken through the window while the car was moving or through a plain old window.
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #222: Mountains are Calling
Amy from the blog – The World is a Book… – is hosting this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #222 and she has chosen a topic I am all too familiar with – Mountains are calling and boy, are they calling!
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#WeekendCoffeeShare – The Highs and Lows of the Week
Good morning! Come on in! It’s a good day to have some hot drinks and relax.
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