Showing posts with label Vincent van Gogh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vincent van Gogh. Show all posts

Friday, September 8, 2023

Whitetails Of A Summer Twilight ...

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”

          ~ Vincent van Gogh

             ~1853 ~ 1890

It’s always the sweetest sight of summer to see a white-tailed fawn, and to see two together is twice the joy!

I captured this shot of twin white-spotted fawns with their mama doe as a summer twilight falls across Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania on a beautiful late July evening.


 

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Yellow Stands For The Sun ...

“How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.”

   ~ Vincent van Gogh

     ~ 1853 ~ 1890

 

Van Gogh loved yellow, and the striking use of the color is seen in his paintings. Van Gogh’s paintings of sunflowers are among his most famous, painted in Arles, in the south of France, in 1888 and 1889.

 

The sunflower (or “soniashnyk”) is Ukraine’s national flower and has been grown on its central and eastern steppes since the middle of the 18th century. And today, in light of Russia’s horrific invasion of Ukraine, the sunflower is a symbol of “I Stand With Ukraine!”

A gorgeous sunflower stands tall and shines its beauty on a lovely mid-August afternoon on the grounds of Kreidersville Covered Bridge, Allen Township, on the outskirts of Northampton, Pennsylvania.

Kreidersville Covered Bridge was built in 1839 and is loved for its great history and tranquil setting by the Hokendauqua Creek. It is the only covered bridge left in Northampton County.

The pedestrian-only bridge that crosses the Hokendauqua Creek is the oldest covered bridge in the Lehigh Valley and one of the oldest in the state. The historic wooden Burr Truss Bridge has a 116-foot-long span and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.


 

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

The Whitetails ...


“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”

                   ~ Vincent van Gogh

                          ~1853-1890


It’s always the sweetest sight of summer to see a white-tailed fawn, and to see two together is twice the joy!



I captured this high contrast monochrome shot of brother and sister twin white-spotted fawns with their mama doe on a gorgeous early September evening in the waning summer as sunset loomed at the park.



One of the fawns I call Buttons, as I photographed him since he was a precious fawn, then a sweet button buck and then a beautiful yearling until he migrated away in January 2020. Along the way I tossed him many apples, which he loved eating. His twin sister is with him in this image, though she was always a bit more shy about posing for the camera.



It’s a true joy and blessing to me personally and as a photographer to have watched these sweet fawns grow.