Tag: Mysterious

Mysterious. That’s what Patti wants us to discover in this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge.

I’m starting off with what I find to be one of Nature’s most mysterious offerings – here in the UK anyway. The murmuration. When hundreds upon hundreds of starlings take to the skies at dusk, weaving and turning and painting the sky in ever changing patterns. Until, quite suddenly – they stop. Until the next sundown, when this astonishing performance takes place all over again.

Landscapes can often present a mysterious face. Sunsets and sunrises can do that. As my featured photo shows. And fog. As here:

And trees. Winter trees, with their blackened branches and awkward angles, elbowing us into the mystic woodland.

What about a stag, looming enigmatically out of the shadows?

Let’s go into town. A cobbled street, the shadow of a lamp standard ….

And now to lower the tone. A toothless hag … an otherwordly face discovered in parkland in a pile of logs.

I’ll finish with my favourite mystery memory. Mists rising from our local river at dawn on May morning.

Welcome back, Patti. After an unwelcome forced absence. You’re sharing the post today with Becky and her NovemberShadows: two, to be exact.