“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.”
~ Coretta Scott King
Just Two
Morning Reflection
Wave Action
“What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.”
~Ellen Burstyn
Trail Runners
Big Sur Solitude
Bodega Escape
“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.”
~Margaret J. Wheatley
Walking the Woodline
Californian
Social Distancing
Goodnight, San Francisco
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
~Ansel Adams
With hopes that you stay healthy and well.
The one with full of wide waves and the other with woodline amazing shot.. The quotes are so apt for present pandemic.
Thank you, Alexithymia. So glad you enjoyed them. Be safe.
Well Jane not much one can add to all the comments you receive other than always look for the light within, nice work!
Thanks so much, Marc. That is very true, indeed! 🙂
Thanks for sharing blogger bob. 🙂
I love that second shot with the reflection!
Thanks, Rob. That’s a great spot especially when it’s so calm. Glad you like it. 🙂
These are glorious, Jane. Brings me happiness just looking at them.
Hi Lisa, Thank you! That’s my hope these days that art brings some solace. I’m happy you enjoyed them. Best wishes to you and your family for safe and healthy days. 💕
A lovely collection of images and thoughtfulness. I wIsh that everyone could have access to such space and beauty in these challenging and anxiety-ridden times. Wishing the best to you and yours.
Hi Carol, Thank you for your kind words. Scary times. Stay healthy and safe and continue to enjoy nature as your refuge. All the best from SF.
Oh thank you so much Jane. Nature can help us find resilience and provide a space of refuge in the face of the overwhelming scale of this pandemic. Trying to learn to take one day at a time and hoping for human kindness to prevail throughout the ongoing crisis. Thank you for your kindness.
Thanks for inspiring us with these beautiful images during these challenging times Jane. Please stay well and healthy yourself. With warmest good wishes as always.
Thank you, Andrew. As you’ve said very well, art and nature will help us get through. Wishing you and yours good health and safe days.
Thanks Jane and to you and yours.
Beautiful photos, Jane.
Hope you and the family are doing okay in keeping distant. These are strange days to say the least. We’ve been on the gray and dreary side the past few days. Yesterday, we had a break with sunny, kind of warm day. Today, it’s back to gray and dreary with fog. Keep well.
Thank you, David. We are managing well. Totally isolated but still able to get out for exercise as long as we keep our distance from others. Strange days. Please be safe and stay well.
Jane I just loved this! Beautiful photos and they gave me a sense of calm. Much appreciated!! I hope you don’t mind – I liked it so much I stole the Coretta Scott King quote for a post at work :)) Hope you guys are doing well and staying safe. Are you and Bob holing up on your own or camping out with the kids/grandkids? Lots of love to you all. Xoxoxo love, Bobby
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Hi Bobby, I’m so glad you enjoyed the post. Thanks so much. I’m pleased you loved that quote–so perfect for now. We have been isolating in SF for a couple weeks now and it is highly recommended that grandparents stay away from young children, so there’s that. No contact. Thankful for FaceTime! Love to you all. Be safe and stay healthy! xoxoxo
Lots of time for photo editing indeed. We are the lucky ones with some elbow room… making social distancing so much easier as well as pleasant.
You and yours stay healthy, too.
Thank you, Gunta. Scary times. Stay healthy and well. Enjoy your wide open spaces! 😉
Fabulous words and images, Jane!! I love how you’ve visualized social distancing. It’s also an important message right now. We are wise to follow that advice from our medical experts. I hope millions of people are following it. I always appreciate your visual inspiration, Jane!
Thank you for your kind words, Patti. We are hunkered down and isolating. Stay healthy. 😊
nice shots, I love the n. 4!
take care,
Thanks so much, Walker. 😊
Sooo lovely!
Thank you so much, Saania. 😊
My pleasure!
A lovely collection. Be well.
Thanks, Adam. And to you and yours, be safe and well. 💙
A wonderful collection of images with a good point too. Stay safe and well:)
Thank you so much, MM. Wishing you and yours good health. 🙂
A very interesting approach on this post Jane, social distancing indeed :-). Enjoyed the way you incorporated the people into your landscapes. Especially liked the geometry of the woodline image.
Thanks, T. The theme came to me while we escaped to Bodega this week to get out of the city. Still a few people to get some tiny humans on the landscape.
Love your fitting theme here … wonderful compositions and captures!
Hi Denise, This new reality is unnerving! Happy that we could escape to more uninhabited places. Thank you and stay well. 💙
Beautyful pictures👍
Thanks very much, as always, Detlef. 🙂
Stay safe, Jane ☮
Thanks very much, Graham. Best wishes to you, too. 💙
hi jane, once again great pictures of California that I particularly like the 1st, 4th, 7th and 9th.
greetings robert
Thank you so much, Robert. Makes me happy that you enjoyed them. 🙂
I knew I could depend on you for some timely comments on the current situation. I think you know I’ve always been very fond of your photos that show one or two people in a vast landscape, and it’s true this time, too. In addition to focusing on the person in the landscape, this series reflects the atmosphere of your region beautifully, from city to hills to shoreline. But the blinds – that made me smile! Stay well, Jane. 🙂
Thank you so much, Lynn. This post occurred to me when we escaped the city to these small coastal towns this week. Much comfort in these uninhabited places. More tiny humans on the landscape…
Thinking of you with hopes you are safe and well! 🙂
That was a smart thing to do…I wish everyone had the freedom to escae – I know you do, too. We feel pretty lucky being up here in a quiet corner of the world. Funny, I saw clients at the nursing home that was the epicenter of Seattle’s outbreak, and lived right around the corner from it. Sheesh! So glad I’m retired and moved away from suburban Seattle. Stay safe, Jane, and take care.
Thank goodness it was well after you moved! You too, Lynn. Lots of time for photo editing. 😉
🙂 For sure!
Beautiful photos, Jane. And it was sort of like…Where’s Waldo?.
Hi Sharon, Yes! Exactly. I love to find tiny humans on the landscape and challenge you to find them, too. Thanks so much and hope you are doing well. 💙
Without any doubt, this is a great job, Jane. If I am a miser. I couldn’t tell you greatly. But I am not a miser.
Thanks very much, Elina. Glad you are not a miser. Be well. 🙂
Great px of a great place in which to social distance.
Thank you, Bruce. Agree, these wide open spaces on the coast bring some comfort. Take care!
A wonderful series of great imagery, Jane! I really like how you have captured the human form in many of these to great effect.
Thanks so much, Pete. I love to look for tiny humans on the landscape. Glad you enjoyed them. 🙂
Beautiful California images, Jane. ‘Far from the madding crowd’… 😉
Thanks, Eliza. We escaped to some small coastal towns which indeed are far from the madding crowds. Be well. 🙂
A brilliant and inspiring post, Jane. Thank you
Thank you, Amanda. Scary times. Be well. 💙
A wonderful collection, Jane, and a great theme! Morning reflection is fantastic!
Thank you, Ellen. Posting what we are living and feeling. Glad you enjoyed this one. Stay well!
Trying times, for sure, Jane, and not so easy to make sense of. Thanks, you as well 🙂
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These are very good “social distance”. Very nice set!
Thanks so much, YC. Stay healthy! 😊
Sobering and with such insight. Really well done, Jane!!!!!
Thanks so much, Steph. Miss you. 💜
Marvellous photographs,and some good quotes. Stay well, Jane
Thank you, Sue. A scary time but one where community can be felt. And good health to you and yours.
Many thanks, Jane
Beautiful photographs and appropriate quotes. I share your sentiment.
Thank you, Michael. It’s a mix of distancing yet important reaching out. Stay well. 💙
With the exception of one friend photographer many years ago, social distancing has always been my photographic practice as well as the relief and refreshment that nature provides the human spirit. Your images capture that. You and yours stay well also, Jane.
Well said, Steve. As photographers and observers, we do practice it to a large extent. It was good to get out of the city and refresh ourselves in these small (and empty) coastal towns. Thank you very much. Stay healthy. 💙
Lovely set of pictures, Jane – particularly like Morning Reflection, and the scale which the lone person gives to Wave Action. 🙂
So glad you enjoyed those in particular, Adrian. Thanks very much. 🙂
Beautiful series of photos, Jane.
Thank you very much, Rabirius. Hope all is well with you.
Thank you for sharing, Aphotic Depths.
What a lovely set, Jane. I, for, one am looking forward to my morning walks during this time of almost self-quarantine. It was fun to search for the almost invisible figures.
Thanks so much, Susan. We are getting out as much as possible. Glad you enjoyed the tiny figures on the landscape. Be well. 💙
Absolutely beautiful selection, Jane!
And at least we outdoorsy types can boast of practicing “social distancing” before it became a buzz-word… 😀
Thank you, Dries. You are so right! Enjoy your beautiful world there and stay well.
And you, Jane, thank you!
Beautiful photos and a powerful reminder of the beauty of our world that survives all crises.
Thank you, Miriam. Well said- Mother Nature survives somehow. 💚
Great photos Jane and a brilliant/poignant idea for a post. Take care and stay virus free.
Thank you, Mark. What a scary time. Wishing you and yours good health, too.
Well it’s a very strange time Jane that’s for sure. Trying hard not to worry, but that’s difficult when everything you view, read or listen to these days that is news related is about Covid-19….and some of that is increasingly hysterical and hyped. Let’s hope that things calm down and get back to normal asap….although I fear that will be a few months off yet. 😷
In SF, we are taking isolation and social distancing very seriously. Everyone needs to get on board to flatten the rising curve of infection, especially young people. Yes, we are in for a long health crisis given the disorganization at the start.
Jane, your fantastic images make me wanting to get in my car and travel up the coast.
Thank you, Cornelia. Happy you enjoyed them. Your car may be the safest place to be! Stay well.
Such a lovely selection Jane. I particularly like the Walking the Woodline!
Thanks so much, Jude. Wood Line is by a wonderful artist, Andy Goldsworthy, who makes outdoor art out of natural materials. Such a tranquil space.
I recall a post about this place that you did before.
Yes! Good memory, Jude.
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During the current crisis, landscape photographers and nature photographers have an advantage in being outdoors and normally far from other people.
So true, Steve. Stay healthy!
Very true 🧚🏻♀️