Blogger Highlight-Peerless Cynic

Thank you for all the great feedback on the Blogger Highlight series. I’ve enjoyed meeting each blogger and sharing their site with you. This week, we highlight the blog of Peerless Cynic. I have followed Charlie for some time now and thoroughly enjoy his posts. I’m not usually one for poetry but his is short, makes total sense, is seamless, and not to mention the photos he adds photos that are a perfect fit.

Peerless Cynic

Where derision meets concision.

From the serious to the satirical, modest musings on topics ranging from politics to culture to nature, with a side dish of photography. Or, an ill-defined adventure destined for great pings. In any case, how can we avoid being cynical?

My name is Charlie and I hail from Nova Scotia, Canada. I’m a semi-retired IT consultant who has traveled throughout the U.S. and Canada and also a nature photography, a hobby I started PeerlessCynic mostly as a way to express political commentary and satire, always with a good dose of humor. While I still write about those topics the blog itself increasingly became mostly about nature. Over time my love of nature photography expanded to include little vignettes or stories about the pictures themselves, a kind of attempt, for better or worse, to capture that peaceful sensibility of the woods.

My hobbies include playing guitar, reading and hiking. I am most definitely a hobby writer rather than a published writer, but I do enjoy it and hope from time-to-time others do as well.

All my photos are from my travels around Nova Scotia, the many lakes and hidden gems. I have so many favorites and each one has its own story. But a few stand out for sure. One photo under the title of ‘Faraway Woods’ is special, as that trip was one of the last I took with my father before he passed. As I took the shot, he was nearby enjoying that beautiful vista. Fishing and being in the woods were his favorite things, and I guess some of that rubbed off on me.

Another is under the title ‘Woven in the Sun’, a lovely sunset on a lake near the Musquodoboit valley in Nova Scotia. Of all the lakes I’ve visited this one stands out as the finest one for sunsets, a very inspiring place indeed.

And probably one of the most visited spots for me is a well travelled place called Triplet Lake, one in a series of lakes not too far outside Halifax, which inspired the poem ‘By the Lake’, a piece that in a way sums up my love of the woods.

I asked Charlie a couple of questions that you will find interesting.

M. How and when did you get into writing poetry?

C. I’ve always had a special affinity to nature even when I was very young, in fact as far back as I can remember. When I began the nature photography, I just suddenly had all these ideas in my mind that I had to get down on paper, which began probably around 2013. I was imaging the forest and the rivers and so on in conversation with each other, the connectivity of the natural world. So I suddenly created an interesting outlet for myself with the poetry to try and express those connections, as well as the harmony of nature. The results are mixed as you can see, but I do enjoy the challenge of creating these little stories, of recreating that feeling of peace that I’ve always had while in nature.

M. Your photography skills are breathtaking, when did you pick up photography?

C. I’ve always had a fascination with expression mainly through writing but also nature photography, a hobby I developed rather late in life.

Here is a recent post I truly enjoyed.

The Autumn Light

The words of the poem and the photo are symbiotic, I love how the beautiful colors unfold around me.

Stop by Charlie’s blog, say hello, pull up a chair, and stay a while. You’ll be so glad you did.

Melinda

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4 thoughts on “Blogger Highlight-Peerless Cynic”

lovely to meet Charlie and his beautiful photography! Send him my way and I’ll happily follow! 💓

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Thank you so much for highlighting my little corner of the web! I really appreciate all the hard work you put in to doing this, as well as your kind words about my musings. I like your description of symbiotic, which is what I try to accomplish, some symmetry between the images and the words… And a thank you to anyone who has taken the time to check out my photography and so on, much appreciated. Again, thanks and have a great week!

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