Pick of the 'Slightly Erratic, Sort-of-Weeky e-Prezzie'

These are some of my own favourites, both pics and words, that have inspired delight in me and given me moments of deliciously welcome breathspace.

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White Sands

May 19, 2022

Just thought you may need this little piece of last century today: a soaptree yucca in the gypsum dunes of White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. (Scanned from a black and white slide taken in… ›

White Sands

The Bridge

May 19, 2022

Just think: what if we, as individuals and as part of humanity and our living world, are on a bridge supported by our own thoughts and words and deeds, independently and collectively...? ›

The Bridge

Twenty-twenty won

December 30, 2020

Although the designation "2020" is an incidental, slightly arbitrary, fictional construct we utilise for convenience along with other temporal designations, it can still be comforting to… ›

Twenty-twenty won

Something gentler in between

December 20, 2020

"And in the same moment that I finally allowed that feeling of sadness in, I slipped right through and out the other side: it came to me that I am still the same person behind all the things I did… ›

Something gentler in between

The Third Half

August 10, 2020

Here's another from my archive. This tree called out to me as I was swimming through a gorgeous kloof in the Garden Route. The light was such that it didn't make for an exceptional photograph, but… ›

The Third Half

Reflections of Winter Near and Far

August 03, 2020

Landscape in Miniture Across the IceI hope you enjoy this week's abstract prezzie — This out-take from four years ago caught my eye and my imagination turned it into an lake-ice landscape with… ›

Reflections of Winter Near and Far

Calm Isolation

April 12, 2020

It's like this:I've been living in some degree of almost-ever-present pain for however long. Years. It began over two decades ago, small enough and localised enough (in my fingers) and, for a period… ›

Calm Isolation

All in good time

February 28, 2020

Time being all pervasive yet made of non-existant stuff, I figured a leap year day to be an apt time to send this decade's first installment of the increasingly erratic, more sort-of monthly Pic of… ›

All in good time

Greenpop: Forests for Life

December 21, 2019

From environmental wellbeing to emotional nurturance, trees are one of the most simple, and effective, solutions to so many of the problems we face, hence planting them at a greater rate than they… ›

Greenpop: Forests for Life

2020 Calendar: breathsapce sea shores

October 08, 2019

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”Mother TeresaThis calendar is little piece of useful feel-good… ›

2020 Calendar: breathsapce sea shores

Greenpeace Competition Winner

July 05, 2019

Although I am a serial clearer-outer of my physical 'stuffs', I fortunately am a digital hoarder and keep all but the most duddy of my photographs. This is a really good thing because in a different… ›

Greenpeace Competition Winner

Cirrus clouds and summer fynbos

February 01, 2019

Happy February 1st!Since I've skipped through the usual early-January moosh, I'll wish you a happy new month, as well as a blessed rest-of-the-year!I decided to take my own advice and enjoyed a… ›

Cirrus clouds and summer fynbos

Exuberance Now

December 20, 2018

And so our Earth makes yet another elliptical twirl around the sun. (Or lime around the orange, depending on what suitably illustrative fruit one has on hand when asked by a scientifically-minded… ›

Exuberance Now

Sunrise

December 05, 2018

Sea views hold such compelling magic, and I am so grateful to be enjoying the luxury of the view from my mom's house, which spans half of False Bay. And I'm also delighted that I'm able to share some… ›

Sunrise

Sea Storm Blessing

November 28, 2018

I love how these days I hear people making more grateful comments than grumbles about a rainy day! And I love watching a storm approach over the sea, with that thin dark horizon line of raindrop… ›

Sea Storm Blessing

2019 Calendar

October 08, 2018

When we can view our hours as irreplaceable treasures, we will choose more thoughtfully how we use them.~Valerie ShayneThis 2019 limited edition calendar features clouds as a metaphor for balancing… ›

2019 Calendar

Forest Cameo (After the rain)

September 13, 2018

For two nights, and the days that surrounded them, it rained, constantly and continuously, nourishingly and soothingly... ahhh! There is such a deep breath-space blessing in our precious water! ›

Forest Cameo (After the rain)

How do you be?

August 09, 2018

Just one more step and you're in the light. It's right there for you to enjoy, just as soon as you make the choice to give yourself permission to allow yourself to receive your enjoyment.What you're… ›

How do you be?

Tree Being Me

July 19, 2018

Tree Being MeWhat it must be, to be a tree!Connecting through the bark: feeling my bodyin its trunk; my feet extending into the earth, twinedas roots; my arms extended through the forest canopyto… ›

Tree Being Me

Day-Before-Full Moonrise Sunrise

July 13, 2018

I love anticipating the progression of sunrises, as they transition from the first faint hints of dawn through what I've come to call First Glow: that dark yet deeply intense colouring, which dulls… ›

Day-Before-Full Moonrise Sunrise

Life Light and the 12th Anniversary of Pic of the Week!

June 21, 2018

I love that the anniversary of the Pic of the Week is around the June solstice; it has such an ending/beginning/renewal-of-cycle feel for me. Over the past twelve years this little idea of a weekly… ›

Life Light and the 12th Anniversary of Pic of the Week!

Light-spreading

June 15, 2018

Well, this has turned out to be a rather dark week for many. So, cocking a snook at Eskom's "load-shedding (which is probably the least of the issues), let's be light-spreading in what little ways we… ›

Light-spreading

Memories Of Rain

June 04, 2018

Keeping with the theme of rain, I'd like to share my friend Reini Adelbert's album Memories of Rain, with you. As much as I'm used to my photographs being used commercially, there are some projects… ›

Memories Of Rain

Pluie

June 01, 2018

Have you became more of a pluviophile* and ceraunophile** since this drought began, as well as a heliophile***? Here's to lots more deeply pentrating rain drops where they're needed, and bright… ›

Pluie

Waterblommetjie Onder

March 20, 2018

I had such a remarkable experience last week, at the start of the third day of attempting to perform a quick half hour computer/internet task. (You know, the kind which would only take a few minutes,… ›

Waterblommetjie Onder

Languid as Lightning

March 06, 2018

The week before last we were treated to the most phenomenal lightning storm I've ever experienced. (And coming from the Highveld, I've enjoyed rather a lot of them!) The two most striking things… ›

Languid as Lightning

Storm Swell Breaking

February 22, 2018

We've been treated to a few rolling thunder storms here recently, and the ocean swell has been sized to match. My friend David and I enjoyed watching the waves break over this sea stack the other day… ›

Storm Swell Breaking

St Valentines Clouds

February 15, 2018

Although I forgot yesterday that it was St Valentine's day, clearly the clouds hadn't—judging by the magnificent and rather romantic variety show they put on in the evening!May all love surround you… ›

St Valentines Clouds

I prefer...

February 07, 2018

Possibilities by Wislawa Szymborska I prefer movies. I prefer cats. I prefer the oaks along the Warta. I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky. I prefer myself liking people to myself loving mankind. I… ›

I prefer...

Bos-mist

January 24, 2018

Last Thursday afternoon a calm mist drifted in, cocooning us for a few days in a quiet whitened embrace and bringing with it 'she-rain': those softly soaking raindrops that gently slip down leaves,… ›

Bos-mist

Leaves, like stars, in the reflections of our dreams...

January 09, 2018

Leaves, like stars, in the reflections of our dreams...

New Year Fullsomeness

January 09, 2018

Perigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun system......or more commonly known as a super blue blood moon, which involves no moonblood, nor any more blue than usual, and appears just as super as the setting… ›

New Year Fullsomeness

A free amount of dreams

January 09, 2018

"What if people posted a free amount of dreams?" This was my waking-dream-thought early the other morning. As these things do at times like those, it made perfect sense and seemed so profound that I… ›

A free amount of dreams

Summer Solstice

December 20, 2017

New Years Eve is still some days away, however the Summer Solstice has always been the point in my personal year where the nadir and apex meet. I may be a bit biased, but still, to me it feels like… ›

Summer Solstice

"I will not should on myself today."

December 12, 2017

While the forest abounds with delightful micro photogenic cameos, I've found it really quite challenging to convey the wider essence of the forest.However, while taking myself for a walk yesterday, a… ›

"I will not should on myself today."

2018 Calendar - 10th Anniversary Edition

October 12, 2017

The Pic of the Week calendar is a personally designed, limited edition calendar featuring the favourite photographs from Andrea Nixon's 'slightly erratic, sort-of-weekly e-pressie', which celebrates… ›

2018 Calendar - 10th Anniversary Edition

Gallery Synergy Exhibition: A Better World

September 22, 2017

I have been invited to take part in a group exhibition on the theme "Creating a better world" On reflection, I realised that the following is one of the ways I contribute to making the world a more… ›

Gallery Synergy Exhibition: A Better World

A Sense of Rain

August 01, 2017

Walking in my thoughts under a gently overcast sky, I glanced briefly at the dam and then back down at my feet. Rather than seeing the view, I was seeing my thoughts — which just at that moment… ›

A Sense of Rain

Earth Shadow, Pink Lining

April 20, 2017

Sometimes it's not a silver lining, but a soft pink one, that's needed. Sometimes my subtle senses somehow carry my mind outside of accepted reality, where it can marvel, with no small measure of… ›

Earth Shadow, Pink Lining

Waterlight

February 17, 2017

I am so utterly grateful for the sea that’s right here, a block away from my house, the water temperature varying delightful degrees between refreshing and invigorating, and I have submerged myself… ›

Waterlight

Wet Air...

January 27, 2017

...and may it reach the ground. ›

Wet Air...

Gift of a Day

January 19, 2017

The view over False Bay from St James Peak, towards Hangklip on the left and Simon's Town on the right. ›

Gift of a Day

What a Wonderful World

January 01, 2017

As I wrote the following words for my sister, my cousinsisters and family, I realised that apart from the frequent "thank you's" I instinctively and unselfconsciously breathe in my days to no-one in… ›

What a Wonderful World

Breath

December 28, 2016

In his wonderful essay on the underlying meaning of the word 'rest' David Whyte suggests that the second state of rest is "the sense of slowly coming home, the physical journey into the body’s un… ›

Breath

Midsummer sunrise gift

December 23, 2016

Whoop whoop whoop! After watching the sky-show for a couple of days, the clouds are finally relinquishing a fair portion of their load over us here in Muizenberg. Happy stuff! Wishing you a… ›

Midsummer sunrise gift

Waiting For The Tide To Turn

December 01, 2016

Phew-weee! First day of the last month of 2016. (As it happens, December is my favourite month featuring the best day of the year: the twenty-first, summer solstice in the South and in the North… ›

Waiting For The Tide To Turn

2017 Pic of the Week calendar

November 15, 2016

The 2017 Pic of the Week calendar is a limited edition calendar showcasing our beautiful local landscape, printed on lekker, local, high-quality smooth matte enviro-friendly paper on a high-end… ›

2017 Pic of the Week calendar

Desert Flight

August 12, 2016

A slighty abstract pic this week from my archive, taken at Sossusvlei a number of years ago... ›

Desert Flight

Softly at Sunrise

August 02, 2016

A beautiful start to the day! May yours be just as beautiful! ›

Softly at Sunrise

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