Photography or a single image I feel often captures those treasured moments in ones life, there is nothing quite like looking back and reflecting good or bad. But I also find that just like the act of writing our collective pictures can also be a art-form. The beauty and meaning of a photo can be expressed and shared in many ways including not even using a single word but instead just seeing what it makes you feel.

While I do enjoy photography I used to share those "everyday" type images that captures just those typical day to day activities, the feedback was mostly positive and so I continued sharing these "Ulog type" photos on Steemit.

Almost every picture as a story to tell right? Or at least that is what I was often been told by some of my followers when I first started sharing photos on here, and I would have to agree with them.

Today 17/12/2024 I share this capture.

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Images By: @simonjay

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I went to sleep past the usual late hour last night, this happened because of taking a full look around the Christmas event. Falling asleep was not a problem, it was just about warm enough. The weather this morning changed to being dark, mostly cloudy and miserable looking, it was cold temperature wise from the get go. The heating as been on more often and for longer meaning I'm just seeing money burning itself away. I only woke-up to my scheduled alarm, this is what I want and I hope to stop doing this waking up 1 or 2 hours prior which as been happening on and off. I have been resting a lot past the alarm lately, this is likely because of the cold, a seasonal issue I guess. This morning was not a struggle to get out of bed, but only because I decided I will rest all I want, I'm doing this for around 2 weeks on days where it's possible and this is now day 9. However I feel the 9 days as served it's purpose and will likely stop from here and start trying to get up a little earlier. I didn't want to start because it was cold out of bed but mostly because I wanted to give myself all the rest I needed to see if this will help me. With a late start I was glad I didn't have work to be in for today which means that this was a good opportunity to get on with some chores and other things. There was no meeting with friends today because they were feeling poorly and I wanted to get other things done, like drying and doing more laundry. It was a good opportunity to sort some of those emails out that I previously mentioned. I will usually do a month's worth so it's more bearable but somehow and I'm glad that I done 2 months worth. I realised I should of tried to get some more Steem yesterday, but I had a backlog of things I wanted to get done so instead I was going to try today. I was giving up hope of being able to get any, because like always sellers seem to have little respect for your time. But in the end I was able to complete the transaction I still went online to meet with friends, late of course because of the seller. Like I expected half showed up, progress could of been a lot better but I misjudged my friend but they proved me wrong later by bringing their "A game". I want to try and get one of those small work-outs done but had no chance of that if I wanted to get the most rest possible. After I went for dinner, I didn't check-in with my father as it was already too late, and lastly I started to prepare to settle in for the night. I really hope that Steem moves away from "the middle" either go up further or go back down, because where it is now it makes things difficult on making a range of decisions. The TRX wallets on Steemit.com have been removed by the Steemit Developers a long with any funds. This was part of the condenser project to fix all the wrong display numbers from rewards. But I think removing the TRX wallet is downscaling the usefulness of the SteemitWallet and the Steem token as a whole. You can recover any funds by creating a new tron account with TronLink and then adding the Steem generated TRX account to that newly created account. Regardless I still think we should of kept the TRX wallet functional. If you agree on keeping the TRXwallet you can write to them here asking for it's return TRXWallet. Hope you have a good day or night and I will see you on the next Steemit post.

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Today's Picture

As for the picture today I share some flower photography, a quick disclaimer I understand that this type of photography on Steemit has a bit of a bad reputation. This is because it was often used by spammers to make like 8 posts each day.
Hopefully as you can see from my blog I'm nowhere near making 8 or more posts per day on the topic of flower imagery.

This was captured on a summers day after I just finished work, I had already been home, got changed and then left again to meet with a friend at my closest green spot. There are some small hills in this area and this particular photo was captured around the top.
Up here there are various bushes and flowers, I have already been sharing a few of my finds on this elevation and I'm particularly stuck on the name of all the purple flowers that I have shared on previous posts.

Thankfully in this capture we are not focusing on any particular flower instead this photo captures a lot of grass and various weeds that remain growing close to the ground.

I believe there is still likely 2 or 3 of what some would class as flowers. Well somewhere up here my friend rests in wait for me to arrive, this will be where the ground as more grass growing than weeds.

In the distance we can see the top of only some of the taller buildings, a long with the highest reaching tress which in black and white I find more difficult to see. But like this we can likely see the main details a little more clearly.

We might take a closer look on another post because some people have told me they can see street lamps in this photo, but from my understanding this is not true. What they are seeing instead is the end of a grain like flower situated just slightly further down.

Unfortunately since we are not focussing on any particular flower here there will be no upvote for guessing it's name, however the purple flowers from the previous post still remains a mystery.
But with this comes a opportunity for you, if you know anything about flowers, and if you recognise this flower just below and know it's name let me know in the comments section and possibly win 🏆 a upvote from me.

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Other Captures

Flower Photography B&W, Twin Rose Close-up

Flower Photography B&W Hairy Cone Purple Unk Flower Close-up

Flower Photography B&W Common Ragwort SleepersSide

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