By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Sun.
Suspended lion face
Spilling at the centre
Of an unfurnished sky
How still you stand,
And how unaided
Single stalkless flower
You pour unrecompensed.The eye sees you
Simplified by distance
Into an origin,
Your petalled head of flames
Continuously exploding.
Heat is the echo of your
Gold.Coined there among
Lonely horizontals
You exist openly.
Our needs hourly
Climb and return like angels.
Unclosing like a hand,
You give for ever.
Philip Larkin, Solar
(Cape Cod Bay, July 2011; more photos are here)
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My second interpretation of “Sun” is here.
Other nice “Sun” posts:
- Mike Hardisty Photography
- A year in the Life
- A Meditative Journey with Saldage
- Britten
- captureford
- The Urge to Wander
- A Word in Your Ear #1
- A Word in Your Ear #2
- Ponky
- Wingrish
- The Wanderlust Gene
- Ruth E Hendricks Photography
- Jeff Sinon Photography
- The Great Escape
- Creativity Aroused
Vladimir Brezina (RIP) 
Johna Till Johnson
Wind Against Current 
Wonderfully serene shots.
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Great pics!
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The last photo is my favorite. Very nice.
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Love them!
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I see that you and I had much the same thought about “Sun” :-)
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Thank you for the pingback. Nice photographs
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Thanks, everybody—I am very happy that you like them!
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i really like these – unusual, quirky, beautiful
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Thanks, Jo!
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Lovely shots and thx for pingback :)
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Thanks, Britten!
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They are all so beautiful Vladimir, especially love the colours! Thanks for the pingback!
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Thanks, Madhu, and welcome to our blog! I really like your Egyptian Sun post this week…
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Gorgeous photos, and I love that poem!
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Thanks, Ailsa! It’s not his best poem, but I like it too, and it seemed very appropriate for this post…
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A wonderful little series, and a nice touch with the poem.
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Thanks, Robin! Your “Sun” series is really nice too!
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peaceful and lovely
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And warm and lazy in the late afternoon…
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well written. nice photos
http://amarnaik.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/weekly-photo-challenge-sun/
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Thanks, Amar! And I like yours, especially your first one ;-)
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Thanks for the pingback and your photos are nicely paired with the poem.
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Glad you liked them, Ruth.
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Beautiful and peaceful! Thank you very much for the link.
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It was… and you are welcome—your photos are always worth linking to! :-)
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Cape Cod is calling me … it has been calling me for years!! Beautiful
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Cape Cod does that… :-)
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