“The new dawn blooms as we free it
For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it
If only we’re brave enough to be it”
~Amanda Gorman
A Brave New Day
A Remarkable Morning
Full of Promise
A Light Shines
A Door Opens
A Great Day Ends
Soaring
It’s A Beautiful Day
Hope for Tomorrow
Read Amanda Gorman’s Inaugural Poem, The Hill We Climb, here.
A glorious post. Thank you.
These pictures are awesome..
Thanks very much, Mary. Some favorite photos to celebrate Amanda. Glad you enjoyed them. 🙂
Beautiful
Thanks so much, Chirekimerenzia. Appreciate your visit.
Your beautiful photos Jane together with Amanda Gorman’s inspiring words are simply perfect. Thank you.
I’m happy you enjoyed this. I was so inspired by Amanda to create my own poetry with images. Thank you so much, Andrew.
She moves me every time I hear her voice.
She even tackled the Super Bowl and won. 😉
She did indeed 😊
Beautiful pictures!!!
Thank you so much, Chris. Glad you enjoyed and I appreciate you following me. 🙂
Your very welcome Jane! Yea I’ve always been able to draw and paint but I have had trouble with photography with cameras
Well, I’ve always loved making photographs but have a lot of trouble with drawing and painting. 🙂
We all have different talents 😊
Great day great post excellent pictures good work
Thank you, GreatVincent! 🙂 Appreciate your visit.
Beautiful, stunning, jaw-dropping images all round, Jane. Marvelous work. Love how each of them are saturated with bold colours and shades. I also love how light prominently shines through as a defining feature of each image, symbolising some kind of hope for a brand new day. Brilliant all round and hope you are well 🙂
Hi Mabel, What a wonderful comment, thank you so much. Amanda really inspired me to write my own poetry in images. So glad you enjoyed this one. 🙂
Always enjoy each of your images. They always make me want to put more effort in my photography…but I love my writing too much lol. Take care 🙂
That’s so nice to read, Mabel. Your love of writing shines through in your work of which you should be proud. 🙂
So kind of you to say, Jane. Thank you 🙂
Thanks for sharing these amazing photos.
Thanks so much, AstroPhoto.😊
Beautiful
Thank you, Mrinalini.
Loved the pictures♥️♥️
Thanks so much, Mahimajalan. 😊
inspiring post: great sceneries
Thanks so much, Ihagh. Appreciate your visit. 🙂
you’re welcome, Jane… nice pictures 👍
Nice
Thank you so much. 🙂
Stunning photography. 🖤
Thanks so much, Amber. A day to celebrate. 😃
Indeed. 😘
One of my favorite blogs to have discovered recently!
She is such an inspiration and from such a young person too. Youth has so much to offer that often is overlooked by us older folks. I was unable to watch live but had NPR on so heard her words.
Dawn is such a hopeful time, offering the possibility of something special with each day. Our country is still mired in distrust and hypocrisy but every day we can hope for better and get a little closer.
Amanda continues to impress with her recitation last night at the Super Bowl. So very gifted.
Agree, Steve. That was wonderful!
A brilliant series by Amanda Gormans…. Thank you for sharing the details.
I’m happy you enjoyed Amanda’s work, Mubarak. Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
thanks to you for sharing with us your great support.. #amazing
Beautiful ❤️❤️
Thanks very much, Aditii. ❤️
love how you led us to the closing hope for tomorrow photo 🙂
Thanks so much, Yvette. I enjoyed making the image captions into its own story. Glad you enjoyed. 🙂
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Stunning, poetic images to go along with Amanda’s verse. They are all wonderful and ‘It’s A Beautiful Day’ stands out to me for the unique way it presents sunrise/sunset.
So nice to read, Denise. Thanks very much. Such a cause for celebration. 🙂
What a good scenario! 😍
Thanks very much, Angela. 🙂
Hope you can visit my blog
Can’t talk. GOBSMACKED by this stunning photo gallery! 🙂
Wow! Thanks, Frank. Now that’s a positive review. Much appreciated! 🙂
Absolutely stunning pictures 🤩😍
Thanks so much, Gibberish. Glad you enjoyed this celebration. 🙂
Things are looking up. Lovely photos, Jane!
They sure are, Belinda. Glad you enjoyed these! Thanks so much. 😊
Beautiful!
Thanks, MND! 😄
Love these pictures
Thanks so much, Ross. Appreciate your visit. 🙂
These are exhilaratingly dramatic. Wonderful!
Thanks very much, Margaret. Some favorite travel memories to celebrate the day. 🙂
Beautiful and remarkable photographs.
I’m so glad you enjoyed them, Francina. Thanks very much. 🙂
I love your photographic style Jane!
Thanks so much, Wayne. That means a lot. 🙂
What an amazingly wonderful collection of images you show us here Jane.
Love them all!! The light and colors in the first one is fantastic and so are the Remarkable Morning. The photo “A Door Opens” makes me wonder where you have been or where you are. That image is so powerful. All your photos here are unique, each one in its own way.
Thank you so much, Anita. It’s fun to revisit photos from my travels, especially feeling pent up and isolated. Our trip to Patagonia was a thrill and where I shot the first at Torres Del Paine and A Door Opens at one of the incredible glaciers there. Remarkable Morning is in Australia at the rocks called the Remarkables 🙂 Happy you enjoyed this celebration!
What I think is WOW. Amazing shots, and each one certainly exhibits your level of skill when it comes to using a camera. 👏🏻
Thanks so much, Judy. Happy you like them! I’m glad my passion shines through. ❤️
Wow, beautiful view. I wish I could come there one time.
Thank you, Mai. 🙂
Everything related to nature is good which is nature.
I agree, Amit. Thank you so much. 😊
You are most welcome Jane.😊
A beautiful collection of images for a whole beautiful new era. So happy for you and all my American friends, and for the world. The adults are back in charge. Oh and Amanda Gorman is a STAR!
Alison xox
Thank you, Alison. I appreciate your kind thoughts – the future seems a bit brighter and Amanda is a bright star in it! Hope you and Don are doing well. xoxo
These photos are absolutely gorgeous – and I teared up when she read that poem!
Hi MB, Thank you! I cried the whole day and especially during Amanda’s reading. 😍🌟
Your images are wonderful, Jane. Inspiring. They match perfectly with the optimism of Amanda’s poem. There’s a wonderful TedTalk of Amanda talking about why she writes. She is an inspiration!
Hi Patti, She truly is an inspiration. I appreciate you letting me know about the TedTalk…will definitely look up. Thanks so much for stopping by and I’m happy you enjoyed this celebration. 🙂
These are beautiful I have a photography account on this put nobody looks at my stuff
Thanks, Charlie. Glad you enjoyed. Maybe it’s because your site says “opening soon”?
Hi thank you I didn’t now it said that how to change
Fantastic photos! They are all superb!
Thanks so much, Stuart. I appreciate your visit!
awsome pictures . The last makes me think of a French painter of the end of the XIX century/ behinning 20th
Love ❤
Michel
Thank you, Michel. And what a wonderful interpretation of the last image. Wow. 🙂
Superb photographs.
Thanks so much, Veena. I’m happy you enjoyed them. 🙂
THESE. ARE. SPECTACULAR! Thanks so much for posting plus Gorman’s words?! Extra impact. Wasn’t she amazing? So much so I ordered her book. I was so impressed by her and her ability to inspire hope. These pictures you posted match the beauty of her message and the promise of a new day coming. Even when I can’t travel your pictures take me there and give me the feelings. Thanks.
Hello Guat, Your comments always bring a smile- thanks so much. Agree, Amanda was glorious– glad you ordered her book — I must look it up. Glad you enjoyed these images and the celebration of a new day. 🙂
I sure did. Your work is totally worthy of the comments plus a high-five :)keep snapping shots as the art of photography is great in your hands.
Nice pics!
Thanks very much, Few-Cents. 🙂
Loved the pictures. “A light shines” and “It’s a beautiful day” are my favorites though.
Thanks so much, Harmit and Piyush. Much appreciated! 🙂
It was a beautiful moment on a day that filled a lot of hearts with gratitude, relief, and – dare I say it? – some hope, finally. I love that youth was represented so powerfully on that day. We need more of that! Thanks for bringing the inauguration and its good feelings back, Jane – the news cycle is so short these days that it’s already beginning to feel like it happened some time ago. I’m not surprised that you had no trouble choosing positive images from your travels and from close to home – they reflect your basic nature, I think. “It’s a Beautiful Day” really appeals to me because it has a quality of bridging opposites – there are the rain and the darkness, but there is the sun and so much beauty, too. Life is like that.
Well said, Lynn. I think many of us are feeling lighter and more hopeful especially witnessing the brilliance of Amanda’s poignant recitation.
I’m so pleased at your interpretation of Beautiful Day…it’s exactly what I was thinking when I included it in this photo essay. I think you get me. 🙂 Thank you for your steadfast support. It means a lot. 🌟🤗
And thank you for yours. 🙂 (That’s cool that you were thinking along those lines about that photo).
Reminding me that the world is a beautiful place. Thank you, for making a difference to my morning.
Thanks very much, Baileystreet. That’s really nice to read. 🙂
Love that first photo, very striking. Amanda’s poem, she was talking about “to make a difference, you need to be a difference.” Most people, however, think to make a difference, it needs to be lofty. It doesn’t. It may be as simple as keeping the smallest of promises to someone you know or don’t know.
Stay well, stay extra safe. 🙂
Hi David, That is so true, what an excellent point. It’s the small acts of kindness that I think will bring the most healing. Glad you enjoyed this celebration of Amanda and new beginnings.
Keep on being safe and healthy. 🙂
Great content✨🌟
Thank you, Innervoice. :)🌟
I’m so glad I discovered your blog, Jane. These are truly gorgeous! You really do have a gift. Thanks for sharing it.
How nice to read, Kristine. Glad these brought a bright spot to your day. Thank you so much! 😊
Spectacular pics! I can feel different mood swings with them. Thank you, for sharing!😊🎉
Thanks very much, Rajesh. Happy you like them. 😃
Your Welcome, Jane!😊🎉🎉
This picture is so soothing and brilliantly captured.nice work
Do check my blog
Thank you, Ray.
Welcome jane
Do check my first blog
We shall see!!
Yes we shall, Marc. Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
Ah.. such a wonderful poem from Amanda that is perfectly goes along with the wonderful pictures in this post!
Thank you, YC. Amanda is to be celebrated! 🙂
A remarkable series for Amanda Gorman’s poem. Thank you so much for this post, Jane!
Glad you enjoyed this celebration of Amanda, Amy. Thanks very much. 💕
Wow, more fabulous images! The first is, I think, the Torres del Paine? They never looked like that when we were there, stunning though they were! And I love your raindrops shot, and the bamboo and glacier too. Such positive messages too 😀
Thank you, Sarah. Yes, that’s Torres Del Paine and required a very early wake up call. 🙂 So glad you enjoyed the images and the messages. Much appreciated. 🙂
That shot is worth the early start, however early it was!
Thanks, Sarah. Patagonia was a thrill. 🙂
A great day it is indeed, especially when I start it by looking at your fascinating images, Jane.
How nice to read, Peter. Thank you so much. 🙂
Very beautiful photos 🙂
Thanks very much, MKW. Appreciate your visit. 🙂
Bamboo picture was so stunning
Thank you, Maria. That was a great day in Kyoto at this spectacular place. Glad you enjoyed. 🙂
wow these are spectacular! the sunset colours are brilliant thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much, Andy! 🌟
Phenomenal images, Jane!! So many of us are choosing the LIGHT and living in love!! I am greatly encouraged to witness so many, now more then ever, choosing the Light of God versus the dark of the world. Thank you for contributing to the light. Bless you!! xo
Thank you so much, AmyRose. Amazing how the days feel lighter and more hopeful. Glad you enjoyed this post. ❤️
It’s all in perception.
Love every bit of this beautiful post.
Thanks again. Let’s talk soon. ❤️
What a fabulous, powerful post, Jane. Well done.
Thank you, Janie. An inspiring week! 🙂
Addiing my voice!
Thank you very much, Paula! 🙂
wonderful bamboo forest. I’d love to visit one of those.
think “It’s A Beautiful Day” might be my favourite.
happy Sunday, Jane
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Thanks, Graham. I’d love to go back to Kyoto someday. Beautiful Day was a happy capture. Hope all is well and wishing you a great day. 🙂
Great photos as we are used to from you Jane 🙂
Thank you so much, Rudi. I’m happy you enjoyed them. 🙂
Beautiful images, Jane, but LOL! most poems are not for me, just can’t seem to get into them. But I do hope, more than I can say really, that the US starts moving forward into the light once more – good luck to you all! 🙂
Thank you, Adrian. We can finally see the light and have some hope for the future. If you haven’t seen the video, I would highly recommend clicking on the link to watch Amanda’s recitation. Her gestures and rhythm are captivating and inspiring. 🙂
These are so beautiful. I kept scrolling back and forth..😍
What a nice compliment, Shira. Thanks so much and I’m happy you enjoyed these images. 🙂
I’ve just come across your posts and fallen in love! Your photography is stunning and such a great contrast – truly inspirational – and I’m itching to have a go at painting some of them – simply as the inspiration they are to a newcomer to watercolour painting – Blessings Lois
How nice to read, Lois. Thanks so much. I’m happy they provide inspiration…I’m fascinated by watercolors but haven’t had much success with them yet. Good luck and I really appreciate you following my work.
Your beautiful images breath hope and optimism like the impressive poem of this talented young woman that moved the world!
Thank you so much, Noortje. Well said about Amanda! 🌟❤️
Stunning pictures!
Thanks so much, Delicate. Appreciate your visit and for following along. 😊
OMG, Jane such breath taking images. Along with Amanda Gorman’s poem.
Glad you enjoyed, Cornelia. Amanda’s reading was a stunning moment in a great day. Thank you. 😊
Great shots 👌
Thanks very much, Rosida. 😊
My most pleasure🙏
Amanda Gorman’s words and performance were remarkable, and just right for the day. What a relief, and I think you’ve captured that in these images…
Thanks, Jane!
Thanks, Adam. Happy you enjoyed my celebration of Amanda. 🌟
Not only a wonderful collection, but so fitting to Gorman’s words – who in my opinion, was the highlight of Wednesday’s big event.
Hi Frank, Amanda was a highlight, indeed, punctuating a day filled with unity and hope. Thanks so much.
Beautiful photos to go with a spectacular poem (and poet!).
Thanks, Lex. Amanda is one to be celebrated. Pleased you like the images with a bit of her verse. 🙂
Jane, these are all beautiful, but that first one is especially stunning.
janet
Thanks, Janet. The first was a magical morning in Patagonia. So glad you enjoyed these. 🙂
Great images Jane 🙂 Amanda sure was impressive this past Wednesday.
Thanks so much, Joe. Amanda sure was and a highlight of the day. I saw her interviewed on Anderson Cooper and he was so taken by her he was pretty much speechless. He finally managed to say, “you’re awesome!” 😁
Breathtaking pictures, Jane. Thanks for sharing, they brighten up my day! 🙂
Thank you, Fiction Cities. Happy these brightened your day…my goal is accomplished. 🙂
Utterly sublime. Is that first one Whitney summit?
Thank you, Gunta. So glad you enjoyed these. The first shot is sunrise at the Towers in Torres Del Paine National Park in Patagonia.
A testament to a live well lived. Kudos!
Thanks so much, Bob. 🙂 Always great to hear from you.
Gorgeous photos, Jane, to go with our brave new world. Hallelujah! 🙂
Finally, Eliza! Thank you so much…the light is much easier to see now. 🙂
As I am scrolling down my mouth keeps on uttering “whoa”
Thanks so much, Jackie. That’s very nice to read. 😮😊
Lots of implications in your beautiful photo.
Thanks very much, Lulu. Indeed there are. 🙂
Wasn’t she incredible! I am so full of new hope. And, of course, your photos are also incredible, as always! The light in all was beautiful, but my favorite has to be the first one.
Hi Susan, Amanda was glorious and I agree, feeling lighter and hopeful. Glad you enjoyed the images to celebrate the light. Thank you so much. 🙂
I like them all, but the most is “It’s A Beautiful Day”. It’s unusual but impressive shot!
Thank you, Stephen, and I’m happy you noted that image in particular. I was quite thrilled to see it and manage to realize what I saw. Much appreciated. 🙂
Love these
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Thanks, Sue. Hope you all are doing well. 😊
Beautiful examples of the light.
Thanks, Sharon. Suddenly the light was easier to see. Glad you enjoyed this celebration. 🌟
Wonderful photos! 😊
Thanks very much, Digital Wonders. 😊
WOW! 5 stars!!! Thank you, Jane!
Just stellar! These shots are all beautiful! I am filled with hope, kindness, acceptance and humility! If only!!
Thanks very much, Kathy. I share your feelings and have hope for a brighter year ahead. 🌟
Thanks so much, Fabio! 🌟
Beautiful uplifting shots, perfect for your theme. It was looking like a dystopian Brave New World there for a while, happy to see a brave new day instead!
So true, Robert. I share your happiness. Glad you enjoyed this celebration of a page turning in history. Thank you very much.
Remarkable photos, Jane. Especially the first two. What a world! 🙂 🙂
Thanks, Jo. Those two bring back wonderful travel memories. Well, they all do right now! Happy you enjoyed this celebration.
Beautiful! Love this…
Thanks very much, Ann. Great to hear from you. 🙂
I watched her perform this live and thought it was an incredible poem for the ages! Still can’t believe she’s only 22, from Oakland my past hometown and she has a speech impediment. Goes to show what you can do if you your mind to it! Also loved the photos!
Hi Michael, I did, too, and was enthralled by Amanda’s powerful words and gestures. Glad you enjoyed this celebration of her and of a new chapter. Thanks very much.
Beautiful pictures! Thank you for sharing!
Hi Travis, So glad you enjoyed– thanks very much. 🙂