Solitude

Here are a collection of photos I have taken over the last couple of years that for me conjure up the idea of solitude in response to Hugh’s Weekly Photo Challenge.
Hugh’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Week 20 – Solitude

Alone with my thoughts

I ponder life’s great mysteries

Where did I put my mobile?

So wonderfully picturesque! Beautiful Cancale emerges surprisingly on the Brittanny coast

On a rocky outcrop in the ocean this wonderful sea eagle sits atop its amazing nest of driftwood.

On a crisp morning in spring we turned back and say this wonderful view which I snapped with joy.

This little sailing craft travels towards the setting sun.

The boatman waits patiently for the return journey

I gazed through the window of the Louvre as the sun set.

Le Penseur (The Thinker in the garden of the Musee Rodin, Paris. How can his internal organs function effectively all crushed up like that?

They call Australia “The Lucky Country”. It is moments like this that make be believe it.

Strolling back to the Louvre through the Tuilleries

Two fishermen write their own story in the water.

This little family sat unawares of the perils before them

These native Western Australian wildflowers are called “Everlastings” because their paper like petals can stay pretty even when they are dried.

Lone figures and their shadows as the sun goes down

This statue atop the Musée d’Orsay gazes across the sea of Parisian males whose beards give daily hope to the hirsuite.

St Malo in the distance while the tide rushes in to trap the unwary traveler lingering at Chateaubriand’s tomb. https://amaviedecoeurentier.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/rebel-without-a-causeway/

Some little swallows perched on the rafters in Cambodia. Do not be fooled by their cuteness!

A plane flies above the Gothic spires of the British House of Parliament

“Freo” as West Aussies foldly refer to Fremantle has the most beautiful beaches. A late finish to work today and I was luckily driving home when I saw this sunset, the fisherman and the cargo ships on the horizon. Thank you camera phone!

The sun just rising on the horizon, the moon and a single star hovering above the makeshift tent we built on the desert island.

This butterfly rested on the plant in the Exmouth Gorges, its tattered wings nearing their end and yet it still flew off into the sunshine. https://amaviedecoeurentier.wordpress.com/2015/05/24/thought-for-the-day-fly/

Dusk, and this perfect sunset and glassy sea turned this little boathouse and bridge into a wonderful rhapsody in blue!

A yacht on the horizon and a last swim before sunset.

This lone figure strolls along the beach in Fremantle, Western Australia at dusk just as I was photographing the sunset.

his little chap obliging sat for a photo on a recent trip to the local swamp.