Category: pure delight

• April 26, 2020

  A photo a week challenge: Just for Fun

  

  This photography challenge comes from Nancy Merrill Photography. The challenge was something fun. My contribution is a photo of Hogwarts castle, from Harry Potter, which I took in 2019 at Universal Studios, Japan while I was pregnant last Spring. Japan was so much fun. I think Japan and South Korea were my two favourite countries…
• April 16, 2020

  A photo a week challenge: Peaceful Place

  

  The creative geniuses around WordPress are finding ways to keep the now-defunct weekly photo challenge alive. This challenge comes from Nancy Merrill Photography. The challenge was a place that brought you peace. My contribution is a photo I took in 2018 at Lake Tahoe, just a few miles up the road from the town of…
• February 15, 2016

  The REAL Issues Affecting REAL Space Princesses: Part 2

  So in today’s episode, The REAL Issues Affecting REAL Space Princesses Part 2, Princess Leia expresses her dissatisfaction with the fact that Akbar got her line: It’s a trap! Just a little something to brighten your Monday morning, it IS safe for work. 🙂
• February 8, 2016

  Weekly Photo Challenge: Time

  

  This is my first weekly photo challenge from here, the theme was time. I am still a bit new to all this photography stuff so feedback would be appreciated!
• October 1, 2015

  Astrophotography in the Scottish Highlands

  I thought I’d share some of my exciting lunar photography from last night’s nothing-special-moon (it’s the one that comes shortly after the full moon – it’s that not-quite-full moon that everybody doesn’t care about and which is never the subject of flowery poems or beautiful artwork).  If you’re after my quote for today, it’s at…
• September 13, 2015

  In Pictures: Urban Industrial Decay by the Sea in Aberdeen

  How long has it been since I last did a travel/pure delight article??  It feels like forever! While I was in Aberdeen I saw some awesome decaying industrial objects which reminded me of Natalia Goncharova and Futurism here’s some inspiration pictures: I’m sure people much more accomplished at Art have commented on these pictures to…
• August 8, 2015

  8 Pictures of Pretty Flowers

  So I thought the world needed more pictures of things, and decided to post these pictures of flowers to inspire and delight you all (and me, I like looking at pretty things too). Like with the pictures of clouds and sunsets, please link back to my site if you borrow these pictures as they’re copyright…
• July 22, 2015

  Twelve Inspiring Sunsets

  To follow up yesterday’s post, I thought I’d post some sunsets today.  I wanted to write about Newgrange but the hundred or so photos I’d taken have all mysteriously disappeared.  And I’m probably not going back any time in the near future as I have a LOT of other places on my 30 list (a…
• July 21, 2015

  10 Pictures of Pretty Clouds

  Today I wanted to share some pictures of clouds, all taken in York, UK, where I live.  I feel Invoke Delight has been a sombre place of late and I want to make sure it stays a place to inspire delight in the world around me, which was its original remit (inspire delight was already…