LightSinger .com
A biology and photography website 

by Alan M. Spevak, M.A., Ph.D. 

Other websites by Alan M. Spevak:
www.lightsinger.net - nature photos
 www.lightsinger.org -  photographs, poetry, etc.

http://lightsinger.zenfolio.com - more nature photos, with option to purchase

Les Feuilles d'automne

 revised 9/20/26

Fine Art Nature Photographs- full page photos>click on photo title below:

Photo:  Harbor Sunset
Photo:  Lake Sunset
Blustery Beach
Waves at Pier
Dune Grass
Sunset Waves
Wind-swept Beach
 

Common Merganser, female                                     ©2019 Alan M. Spevak

          New Feature: click here> Nature Notes

         this week: the amazing peregrine falcon (photo by cwatson)

-     last week :  the incredible "thinking"spider (photo by dhobern)

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 On the Shore
by Michael Chanteur

The light wasn’t right. How many times I said that.
It was easy then. You just walked around
and found an image.
God was there, though you didn’t know

You just kept walking, looking,
for that play of light
That would soothe the inner self.
How easy it was back then
To find inner peace.

There it was, in the ordinary,
in the stones and pebbles,
in the driftwood and sand.
Etched so deeply in my mind and soul,
for all its commonness.
The Infinite, hidden as usual, in the
most ordinary moments of life.

                                                                                                                                                    Le paradis,c'est simplement d'etre soi-meme parfait - R. Bach, Johnathon Livingston Seagull

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" -from The New Collosus by Emma Lazarus 1883  "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."-  Declaration of Independence  July 4, 1776 “The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respected stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions;  whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges…” George Washington Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares, a sculpture by Evgeniy Vuchetich in the United Nations Art Collection And He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. - Isaiah 2:4                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Sea Fever           by John Masefield   I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,  I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.  I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way, where the wind's like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over. And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a gray mist on the sea's face, and a gray dawn breaking. Contact Information - Please send questions or comments to aspevak@lightsinger.com