4 Seasons : Spring
With this project: "Spring", Sylvie D from Canada and Dmitry Krasiuk from Ukraine, open the series of projects: "4 Seasons"! With us, 60 amazing co-authors from 23 countries have contributed a photo or image to reveal all their visions of spring as a phenomenon that changes our mood, our attitude to life, and therefore changes life itself!
Choosing the image for the cover of the project was difficult because all the photos and works are really great. In the end, we chose the work by zbig wolowiec, which really moves us. Well done Zbig!
We would like to thank all the authors for their sensational participation. This project exists thanks to all of you. Thanks to Masakazu Kurita, as well as Karen Stellmach, Emmanuel Geitz, Swati Kamalakar, Sol Vasilliorf and Carolina Borda for their poems. We chose Masakazu Kurita's poem "New Life" to introduce the project.
All the poems are part of the project.
For this project, we have grouped the names of the co-authors in reverse alphabetical order of the country names. From the United States of America to Australia.
The names of the participants are in the alphabetical order of their first names.
This project exists thanks to all of you. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Good viewing!
"New Life"
A newborn kitten’s first cry
The mother cat gently kisses,
To a small white life.
The birth of life is always,
A shinning miracle.
For humans, flowers, and even insects,
It’s a moment that fills us with glee.
The powers of life is indeed mysterious,
Some seeds ride the wind and fly away.
Some insects fight to the death,
To spin their cocoons, or hide away.
The mother cat gently kisses,
To a small white life,
In our human hearts,
There are many seeds of life.
The birth of life is always,
A shining miracle, inexplicable.
That, we should never forget in our hearts.
- Masakazu Kurita
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From United States of America ✧ Andy Royce
"White and Orange Daffodil"
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From United States of America ✧ Brian Autio
Blue bonnets
"My spring flower image. It is from the Texas Hill Country between Houston and Austin. This is a rural farm country roadside (you can see the barbed wire at top) - mainly blue bonnets and Texas paintbrush. They are unbelievable spring wildflower event."
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"Gigi with the tulip"
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From United States of America ✧ Charles Bell
"Yellow Coneflowers medium" May 29, 2023 07:46:40 A.M. Samsung Galaxy S9"
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"Spring Iris"
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From United States of America ✧ David Martin
"Spring Light, Spring Rain Over the Desert"
Photo of a spring rain storm.
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From United States of America ✧ Edith Crane
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From United States of America ✧ Lumin Osity
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Spring Flowers Tulips
Tulips shyly smiling, greet the spring
Tightly closed when at
First we meet
Tulips slowly opening, begin to sing
Gaining volume
Ever sweet
No longer shy, as days grow longer,
Raising their heads
They begin to flirt
Tulips dressed in many a color
Breezes swirling
Each floral skirt
Tulips, brazen painted hussies,
Part their bright lips trying to seduce
The busy buzzing bees
Far too bold for dainty tussies
Vibrant Tulip flowers produce
Visions certain to please
– Mary Havran
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From United States of America ✧ Wellington Lee
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From Ukraine ✧ Dmitry Krasiuk
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From Ukraine ✧ Igor Tokaruk
"Shining 5"
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"весна-spring"
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Spring in Yakivtsi. Oil on canvas, 80-100 cm.
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A CGI poppy in the meadow.
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From Turkey ✧ Ziya TATAR
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"Metzger-Pegau"
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From Spain ✧ Rossend Gri i Casas
"Sant Jordi"
Saint George's Day. Palace of the Government of Catalonia. XV - XVI century
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From Scotland ✧ Alec Stewart
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"The Lady Spring"
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"As I am mainly a portraitist I made a portrait of a woman in a garden surrounded by spring flowers. I don't know how it is elsewhere, but in my region old age is referred to as "in the autumn of life". With a bit of spite, I wanted to show that the "autumn of life" can also have a more joyful, spring-like, more optimistic, and vital form :)."
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From Netherlands ✧ Robert Peek
"Flower Power"
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"PRIMA VERA"
SPRING
THE SOLAR GODS POPULATED THE SOUL
OF YOUR IRIS,
GIVING BIRTH TO THE INFININTE
AROMAS OF LIVE.
FLOWER, SONG, BRIGHT INSECT IN THE MORNING,
I ABSORB YOUR NEWBORN CRYSTAL.
I SEARCHED ONE NIGHT FOR YOUR FACE IN MY OWN MIRROR
AND I SAW THAT HE HAD WOKEN UP AGAIN.
THAT’S WHY MY SPRING IS THE SAME ENERGY
THAT BEATS IN EVERY LIVING BEING.
THE GOLDEN REFLECTIONS IN THE WATER OF THE HOURS
THEY ARE THE REVELATION
OF OUR HOME,
OUR ROOT.
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From Japan ✧ Masakazu Kurita
"New Life"
Katakuri (Japanese name: カタクリ, scientific name: Erythronium japonicum): This photo was taken on April 22, 2023, at the wildflower garden (Midorigaoka Park) in Obihiro, Hokkaido.
Katakuri is one of the plants known as "spring fairies" (spring ephemerals). Katakuri appears above ground in early spring for less than two months of the year. In summer, its leaves wither, and it spends most of the year in a dormant state in the soil until the following spring.
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From Japan ✧ Yoko Ootsuka
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From Japan ✧ Yoko Shibata
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From Italy ✧ Giuseppe Brusa
"This image is representative of spring, for two reasons, if you don't mind. We have a mother who feeds the baby, the new life, generally for us, always takes place in spring, and cherries, a typically spring fruit, I have this cherry tree, which, as every year in April, attracts hundreds of blackbirds and starlings, pure spectacle to see how many there are."
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From Italy ✧ Paola Bottoni
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"L'attesa"
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From India ✧ Swati Kamalakar
Winter is back
And Spring has come
Colours are splashed
With shiny bright Sun
Birds are chirping and
Bees are buzzing
Leaves are budding..
Cheering up everyone
O’.. let’s dance and sing
As Spring has sprung
Spring Has Sprung
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"Spring"
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"Hello Spring"
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From Germany ✧ Chrysanth von Steinbuechel-Rheinwall
"For me, spring is first and foremost the wonderful freshness, purity and innocence of the GREEN, that can be found in nature in all shades. Out of numerous nice and colorful images of beautiful flowers and spring moods which I took, SPRING for me is best represented with this rather abstract green image."
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From Germany ✧ lightwhisperer (dirk luehder)
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From Germany ✧ Joachim Weitz
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From Germany ✧ Michael Ackzien
"Birches in their habitat in spring."
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From Germany ✧ Renata Srebro
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From Germany ✧ Stefan F. Wirth
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From Germany ✧ Sven Hähle
"It shows Adonis vernalis, known as Spring Pheasant's Eye. That is a rather rare plant. In contrast to most other European Adonis species, the bright yellow petals only appear in springtime. There are some isolated populations in the Czech Republic where I've taken the photo near the town of Louny. The beetle is called Tropinota hirta, it is an endangered species in Europe."
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From Germany ✧ Torsten Krüger
"Blumen"
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"Spring is back"
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From Czech Republic ✧ Mahla EghbaliNejad
" My spring walk in Dublin."
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From China ✧ yan hongfei
"This is an early morning in spring in Beijing. I walked in the hutong to enjoy the scenery. These blooming magnolias attracted me. At the same time, a Sanitation worker who had been working long ago cleaned the ground to make the city more tidy."
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From Canada ✧ Guy Levesque
"Mouches - flies"
This is my first photo of spring, the gnats wanted to get out of the rabbit house.
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My chaotic spring.
This is my gaze today - beauty will always be present in what is natural, without the intervention of this chaotic humanity.
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"I still have doubts if it meets the format you want. I opted for poetry referring to a song that I really like (It might as well be spring), especially when it is sung by Sinatra."
"I'm as busy as a spider spinning daydreams
I'm as giddy as a baby on a swing
I haven't seen a crocus or a rosebud
Or a robin or a bluebird on the wing
But I feel so gay in a melancholy way
That it might as well be Spring."
- Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II
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From Australia ✧ Carolina Borda
"Seasons change, winter fades, darkness turns to light
Flowers bloom, yellow, green, insects full of life.
Sun bright, petals white, reflecting in the sky
Time stands still to catch a glimpse, of a beautiful butterfly."
- Alan & Carolina Borda
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From Australia ✧ Yolanda Caporn
"Ballarat Botanical Gardens in Spring”
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