Restful: 16 Beautiful Creative Angel Photos

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Angel foot Photo by Denny Lyon @ flickr



From Denny: One of my favorite digital playgrounds is the Flickr database. Since Flickr instituted the Galleries feature where you can go and pull any photo and place up to 18 photos in that gallery, I've been having a lot of fun! There are over 5,000 favorites bookmarked over the years in my Flickr collection and this is a great way to focus it.

As I was pulling this post together I was struck by how many poems I've written in regard to angels: dreams, visions, observations in life, personal experiences you name it - so I included links to those writes.

You are welcome to use my personal angel photos here. Please include a link back to the flickr page with "Denny Lyon" as attribution instead of "image source" - thanks! You can also use these other photos here with the same kind of link and attribution. Creative Commons is a pretty sweet deal when you are an online writer and need some photos for your posts or online article! Thank you to all the other flickr photographers who have been generous enough to place some of their photos in the Creative Commons area.







One Angel Wing Photo by Denny Lyon




To read about how angels impact our lives - and how we impact them:

Angel Diaries: Samuel

Angels Left Behind: Orphans of the World

Angels Bridge

When The Angels Cry For Us

Flinging Dirt

The Long Road




Take a look at the other photo goodies I found on this subject of angels:





Detail of Angel Wings Photo by MR TGT @ flickr









Flying Angel Wings Photo by gingibar @ flickr









Unspoken Angel Prayer by GettysGirl @ flickr

From the photographer:

I believe angels carry our unspoken prayers heavenward. . .









Baby angel wings Photo by Pink Sherbet Photography as D. Sharon Pruitt @ flickr









Weary Angel Photo by GettysGirl @ flickr

From the photographer:

With all that is going on in the world . . . war, economic woes, pandemic threats, homelessness, poverty, abuse against animals and mankind . . . I can imagine that the angels watching over us are growing weary.







Angel Photo by JVT.eci.apps @ flickr

an angel is nobody in particular...

Thorns and stings
And those such things
Just make stronger
Our angel wings









Angel wings seen across the sky Photo by tanakawho @ flickr








5 Doves Angel Wings Photo by tanakawho @ flickr








Angel wings sculpture Photo by ctoverdrive @ flickr








Angel Wings closeup Photo by Katherine_Davis @ flickr







Angel Wings' Reflection Photo by Delphine @ flickr







Angel wings fluttering Photo by Space Cowboy @ flickr







Angel standing guard Photo by Andrew Michaels @ flickr







Angels leaving Photo by polandeze @ flickr




To read about how angels impact our lives - and how we impact them:

Angel Diaries: Samuel

Angels Left Behind: Orphans of the World

Angels Bridge

When The Angels Cry For Us

Flinging Dirt

The Long Road



This week at Beautiful Illustrated Quotations:

Step Out into the Unknown with Ease

Shoes in Church poem

48 Post Roundup: Dennys Blogs 7 Mar 2010

10 Make You Think Fantasy Photos

A Beautiful Poem For When We Dream


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14 Soothing Tranquil Water Photos

From Denny: Flickr has treated its members to a new feature, creating gallery collections, up to 18 choices per gallery, of any photo on the site. Since I have bookmarked thousands of favorites on flickr I had great fun organizing what I had and featuring them in new galleries. Enjoy - and stress down if it's been a long day for you...




Egret diving photo by Memotions @ flickr






Golden pond photo by James Jordan @ flickr






Blue surf photo by Appy29 (very busy away) @ flickr






String of pearls photo by James Jordan @ flickr






Vancouver, Canada water sunset photo by James Jordan @ flickr






Water, rocks and roots photo by James Jordan @ flickr






Autumn dawn photo by James Jordan @ flickr





Defiance Lake sunset photo by James Jordan @ flickr






Mirror image photo by James Jordan @ flickr






A fish out of water photo (clouds look like angelfish) by James Jordan @ flickr






Nelson Point sunset photo by James Jordan @ flickr







Firmaments photo by James Jordan @ flickr






Water, clouds and sky photo by James Jordan @ flickr






Moored for the night photo by James Jordan @ flickr


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Libations Friday! over at The Social Poets

From Denny: It's Libations Friday! over at The Social Poets! Featured is a new poem that is rich with wonderful art photos: Soul Journey. If you are a blogger or writer you can place these wonderful photos in your posts and articles as they are from flickr's Creative Commons.

To read Soul Journey and enjoy its wonderful art photos, go here.

Photo by alicepopkorn @ flickr

Art Photo-Rich Poem: People Trees

This was the poem I wrote last week for my Friday poem over at The Social Poets blog and I've been meaning to get it up over here. The folks over at StumbleUpon came in by the hordes for these wonderful photos, enjoy!

Drink in the richness of the wonderful photos from the photographers over at flickr in creative commons. (I find them beautiful and emotionally soothing.) You are free to use their photos if you also give attribution and a link back to their flickr page.

I've been thinking about what poem to write all week, and, as usual, started on another idea which just didn't gel well or in time. That's what's good about setting deadlines for yourself as you get that rush of adrenaline going to get out the words. :) Anyway, was researching some wonderful photos and kept finding awesome trees and one thing led to another as I knew my eternal mind was tapping my everyday mind on the shoulder and saying, "Hey! What about this?"

Photos often do give me inspiration for writing as so many ideas start flowing. Take a trip on over to flickr yourself to get inspired. You can always view my 5,000+ favorites I've found while researching for articles as I keep them bookmarked "just in case."

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People Trees



Some of us ruggedly root ourselves mountain high to savor the views



Some of us enjoy beauty’s lingering mirrored perfection



Some of us feel forlorn in life’s landscape, until we see we are a duet



Some of us like to stand tall with a crowd, all in a perfect row



Some of us like to party with different people, the more the merrier



Some of us like to stand out in a crowd, fiercely plumped proud



Some of us see our own rippling beauty, reflected in the mirrors of others



Some of us rush to greet the exploding morning at first blush



Some of us sway and bend with life’s swirling storms yet remain



Some of us rush zig zagging through life and still look wildly beautiful



Some of us safely hold dear a child’s swing and his playful heart



Some of us are strong, sheltering lightly in the shadows



Some of us rise up from the water and tenaciously breathe through our knees*



Some of us suffer, enduring kindly a bit of indignity from time to time



Some of us absorb the strongest truth, filtering softly inner light



Some of us like to stroll unknown passageways and secret gardens



Some of us play hard to get, secretly happy to see company coming



Some of us like to wear jewelry, all decked out at least once a year



And some of us



dream big



just by looking up – lost in thought for hours.


Denny Lyon
Copyright 20 August 2009
All Rights Reserved

* Copyright is for the text of the poem only, copyright for the photos belong to the photographers.

Have a great weekend, everyone! Thanks for visiting!


*Cyprus trees have what are called "knees" - those bumps you see sticking out of the water near the roots which are underwater in the swamps. These knees are how the cyprus tree breathes the air!

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Photo Credits

Mountain Mist treeline photo by Lida Rose @ flickr

Rugged lone tree high on a mountain photo By Chris Gin @ flickr

Cherry blossomed tree reflecting photo By rachel_thecat @ flickr

Cherry trees blanketed by snow photo By lrargerich @ flickr

Cherry blossomed trees all in a row photo By VJ flicks @ flickr

Bluebells partying in a stand of trees photo By left-hand @ flickr

Red tree photo By code poet @ flickr

Trees reflected in the river photo by Denis Collette @ flickr

Sunrise in Corfu, Greece photo by Katarina 2353 @ flickr

Bent tree Bonsai Moon photo by h.koppdelaney @ flickr

Rolling hills and tree photo by Katarina 2353 @ flickr

Trees give support to the child’s swing photo by lepiaf.geo @ flickr

Sheltering tree photo in the shadows by Zest-pk @ flickr

Cypress tree at sunrise in the water photo by Bill Swindamon @ flickr

Suffer a bit of indignity tree photo by Scarleth White @ flickr

Filtering Illuminating light tree photo by *clairity* @ flickr

Strolling with the trees photo by Bjǿrn Giesenbauer @ flickr

Tree of Peace photo by h.koppdelaney @ flickr

Christmas tree photo by laffty4k @ flickr

Redwood trees in California photo by aigeanta @ flickr

Strong tree’s canopy photo By -= Bruce Berrien =- @ flickr

Black and white tree canopy photo by anonymous