This is a place to post my photos, art, photomanipulations, haiku and whatever else I create. I’ll call it my “album of creativity.” I created this blog as an offshoot to my main blog named Ichigo Ichie, and I use the pseudonym “Fergiemoto.”
I like to take photos, mostly of nature. I also like to manipulate photos and see what kind of art I can create with them. Haiku is something I have not attempted before starting this blog, and I find it quite enjoyable. Exploring creativity is part of my healing process, and a refreshing and important outlet, but I wanted a separate place just for my creativity attempts, whatever comes to mind, and for whatever reason.
I welcome you to my blog and thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoy visiting and seeing my creativity progress.
Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he will sell it for, or what the critics will think of it, he won’t be able to pursue original avenues. Creative achievements depend on single-minded immersion. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Creativity Aroused 
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – FLOW – you’ve chosen a good concept for your blog!
Thank you! I just started learning about him and FLOW. Coincidentally, I am working on a short posting on FLOW for my other blog.
Thanks for visiting my blog and sharing your comments. It is great to get this type of feedback from other bloggers. Have a great day!
Lupus Adventurer
Hi Fergiemoto, thanks for dropping by my site. I appreciate it. Have a great evening! 🙂
I do like your place it is very calming and a real treat for my eyes.
Fergiemoto, I have been perusing your site. What wonderful work that you do. I am very impressed. Thank you also, for visiting my site.
Thank you so much for visiting my blog, liking what you saw, subscribing, and directing me to yours!
I love the quote by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi–so absolutely true and worth re-reading often and sharing.
I look forward to following your creativity and thoughts.
Beautiful creative explorations. Thank you for the inspiration!
Hi Fergiemoto, thanks for stopping by my blog.
Huffygirl
Hi Fergiemoto, it’s so nice of you to visit and follow my blog. Thanks a lot.
Hi Fergiemoto,
I have nominated you for a combined award of the Liebster Blog and Versatile Blogger award.
Please go here for more information: http://bardessdmdenton.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/awards-for-passing-on/
(There is one additional ‘rule’ for the Versatile Blogger Award–to share 7 random things about yourself…I chose not to do this)
Thanks for sharing your ‘album of creativity’!
I have nominated you for most versatile blogger and the Liebster blog award today. See http://bardessdmdenton.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/awards-for-passing-on/ for more information, as I see she has also nominated you. Love your stuff!
Ethel and I have nominated you for the Liebster blog award. Looks like we are not the first. You are a great blogger.
Hello! Lovely blog and oh my, you love haiku. Well, I don’t know if you noticed when you visited me today, but I am a haiku queen! Love it and write it like a second language, LOL. Thanks for stopping by my blog and “liking” my post. I really appreciate it. Margie
Hi there! Thank you for liking one of my blog posts (http://savorysundays.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/blueberry-breakfast-loaf/) – I really appreciate it! 🙂
Thanks for visiting my blog today! I have enjoyed looking around yours. I especially like the petroglyphs photo … I’ve always been fascinated by them.
Your other blog is very interesting, too!
Great stuff. Thanks for visit my blog. I am looking forward to enjoying your creative productions.
This is a wonderful blog… I am so glad to meet with your blog. Your artistic works and poetical touches a great journey for my soul. Thank you and Good Luck for your creative life. Blessing and Happiness, with my love, nia
I see that you’ve already won the awards, but I’ve passed on the liebster award onto you as well! Hope you’ll accept it 🙂
thank you for “liking” my blog post about the dried sunflower heads. I am looking forward to reading more of your blog and exploring the idea of creating digital etegami. My sister lived in Japan many years ago and I was lucky enough to visit her there and I love all things Japanese
Ethel and I have nominated you for a Versatile Blogger Award. You’ll have to go to fourwindowspress if you don’t know about it, and if you follow the instructions you’re a winner. We are mainly trying to let you know how much we honor you and your work, so you may or may not chose to accept the award. That’s up to you, but we certainly think you are worthy of more than this one gesture of thanks for you and your poetry.
I love the quote, its so true!!! This quote came just at the right time for me! I am so glad that I found your blog.
By the way, just so you know, I found your blog through slowmoto’s blog. So thank her for recommending you!
I nominated you for the Versatile Blogger award. Congratulations! http://slowmoto.me/awards/
I’ve just checked out your flickr stream (nkeiru), it’s beautiful and I just love your photos and your techniques, such talent!
Thanks for visiting my blog and liking my frost photo! Yours is a lovely site, and I feel that notice from you is a great honor. Thanks, again.
Hello, thanks for visiting and liking my blog. Loving your birds – so crisp and whimsical!
Just starting to actually think of myself as “creative”, and am loving finding inspirational sites like yours. Thanks!
good stuff
I feel at home here – I can’t wait to see your creative journey step by step!
M.L.
Hello Fergiemoto – what a beautifully intriguing site you have!
I saw that you stopped-by my blog and “liked” a few of my posts. Thank you for letting me know you were there!
I shall be following you now.
Scott
Just wanted to let you know that I enjoy following your blog and have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award. Please don’t feel obligated to play along, but if you decide you’d like to, check out my post… http://nicoleftacnikphotography.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/the-versatile-blogger-award-nomination/.
Thank you so much for visiting my blog!
http://photographyofnia.com/2012/01/10/8872/
Thank you dear Fergie, you are one of my nominated names for Versatile Blogger Award… with my love, nia
Thanks for visiting my “punny” photoblog and leaving a like.
Hello you like a post on my blog and so I wandered over here to see your blog and have been so entertained for the last hour, the photos of the birds feeding, pondering, not to mention all the other photos and your Haiku, they are lovely too! Thank you so much for sharing!
I love your photos and Haiku. I’m following you and look forward to returning often to see and read much more. ~ Julie 🙂
Great pictures and your haiku’s are beautiful.Thanks for the likes on my blog!
Thanks for stopping by and seeing what I’m doing. It’s new, only 3 weeks old, so a work in progress. I look forward to spending some time checking out yours.
Hi….like your blog. Some great images. I have added a link to yor blog on mine.
Thank you so much!
Thank you for stopping by and liking a couple of my posts. I really appreciate how you express yourself with your photos..I tend to hold back but with what Mihaly states really speaks to me..I will work on not being concerned about what others may or not think. (:
Thanks for stopping by my blog and liking my photo!
I am glad I have discovered your blog, through your comment on the little Japanese film I posted on mine. I love the paintings and photographs and look forward to enjoying more. My only regret is that I wish I had more time to update my own blog…
Thanks for stopping by the blog today and writing a comment, too. I appreciate your feedback. Any chance you would consider hosting Flat Ruthie/Cardboard Ruth for an adventure and email the photos back for a guest post and link to your blog? http://cardboardmetravels.com See the “about tab” if a possibility.
Thanks so much. Ruth in Pittsburgh
I’ve nominated you for the Kreativ Blogger Award. Join in if you like, but there is no obligation to participate.
Best wishes,
Kim
I like your photography, simple, peaceful images …
I have nominated you for The Genuine Blogger Award, details on my latest post!
Christine xx
I am passing on to you the ABC Awesome Blog content award. Please see my post for the details: http://swansongsandprose.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/abc-award-awesome-blog-content/
Pamx
Thank you for stopping by my blog and liking my posts. It feels really nice to be noticed by a talented blogger. Your images are amazing and your haikus are lovely. I guess what Csikszentmihalyi says about a painter holds true for writers as well.
Hi, thanks for liking my post! I’m off to explore your blog now – I like what I’ve read so far … that quote – so true!
Keep on creating!
Best Wishes
*M*
Thank you for ‘liking’ my post! I am looking forward to exploring your blog 🙂
Good luck with your blog. I’ve already Liked the two photos I’ve already seen: Hope and Simple. Nice shooting in both cases.
And thank you for stopping by and Liking my “A-Z Archive: G Challenge (Girders)” at https://fstopfantasy.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/a-z-archive-g-challenge-girders/
Photography is one of my loves, too. Keep up the good work.
Hello! Your blog has got to be one of my favorites 🙂 It’s so cute and the pictures are lovely! I look forward in reading your posts!
-Adri
In the “better late than never” category, please accept my congratulations on your remarkable entry in Dark Globe’s photo contest. Judging was a very difficult job. Your award is so well-deserved and I’m delighted that your work and talent was enjoyed by many, many people.
Lorna
Your photos & haiku are lovely. You certainly do nature justice in pictures and words…
Hi! I have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award..Please visit my post for details! 🙂
Thanks for stopping by my blog! I am enjoying yours as well! Beautiful work and very inspiring!
Thanks for dropping a line on my blog and your space looks great. Looking forward to seeing your photos!
Hi,
We’ve nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award (see http://windagainstcurrent.com/2012/03/21/versatile-blogger-award-take-two/).
No obligation to follow the silly rules—do with it what you will!
Thanks for liking my post “Love Never Fails”! I’m glad it brought me here to see such wonderful photos. 🙂
Congratulations. I have given you the ABC award (Awesome Blog Content) for your blog. Please go to my page here: http://workthedream.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/the-abc-award-awecome-blog-content-award/ to get the award and see what to do.
I am glad that you left a LIKE – came across yours. We share similar interests in Photography and hope you will be back. Very very nice blog. Haven’t yet gone into your main blog as yet. Will do that very soon..:)
You have some really stunning images on your blog. I browsed through some of your archives and look forward to seeing more.
Hello Fergiemoto!
I nominated you for the Sunshine Award. Here’s the link http://imexcited.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/genuine-blogger-and-sunshine-award/ Have a wonderful day!
Hello Fergiemoto!
I have nominated you for the Creative Chaos Award. For more information, go here: http://wp.me/p27uZp-7m
Cheers,
George 🙂
Recently, I was honored with 3 Awards given to me by fellow blogger Wendall A. Brown (foreverpoetic.wordpress.com). It meant so much to me. One of the criteria for accepting the award is to nominate several other bloggers. I wanted to nominate you because your blogs (each and every one of them) has been a wonderful inspiration and joy to me. If you’d like to accept, you can go over to the post at http://serendipityplus.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/beautiful-blogger-very-inspiring-blogger-sunshine-award/ and get the low down on how. Absolutely no pressure. Just know that I think your blog is awesome and worth telling everyone about. Thanks for sharing your life with us. 😀
I love your blog and the quotes. They’re all good reminders on how to be creative 🙂
Hello Fergiemoto, thanks for visiting The Naturephile and pressing the ‘Like’ button. You have some lovely nature photographs on your blogs too. I was interested to read your experiences of acupuncture, I tried it when I had golfers elbow and it was completely successful.
Hello Fergiemoto!
I have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award. For more information, go here: http://wp.me/p27uZp-9V
Cheers,
George
Good morning and greetings and many thanks for visiting and leaving a hieroglyph on the wall! I like very much the carving on the rock in UTAH – it fascinates me to see those things as they tell so many stories.
I have nominated you for some blog awards. If you are interested to do the needful things & pass the awards to another fellow blogger. Please visit to
http://clickdpic.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/blog-awards/ Congrats 🙂
Thanks for taking me to your blog. I love your pictures and creativity. It’s good to know that you were from Utah. I spent my teenage years in Utah. I’m also very fascinated with the mountains and rock formations.
Fergiemoto – I’m enjoying your visual exploration of the world through photography and the words you connect with images. I hope this doesn’t seem trite; but, I’ve nominated you for the Kreativ Blogger award.
✿♡✿Happy Father’s Day!
Thanks for liking a few of my blog posts! 😀 Came to check yours…love the concept and the pictures I’ve seen so far! Excited to follow you! All the best, Aims from http://www.aimsphotos.wordpress.com
Love the quote on this page…so deeply, multi-dimensionally true!
Thank you for visiting my blog. You take beautiful photographs. 🙂
I’ve been down this road, it’s lonely, hard, scary, but when you come out on the other end it can be beautiful. Like all the pictures of the birds.
Thanks for liking on my blog…brought me to yours and now following you! 🙂 Looks like a creative place here; I like it! ~Aims from http://www.aimsphotos.wordpress.com
Pleased to find you…. just exploring, and love your work and your approach to the creative process… Hope to visit often and sending good thoughts your way today ! ~ Robyn
Hi Fergiemoto, thanks for dropping by my blog. Much appreciated:-)
Thanks for liking my Bryozoans post!
Thanks for stopping by my blog!
Great blog, I signed up!
You have a wonderful blog, and you are so talented. I adore your work (and thanks for stopping by mine, much appreciated) best wishes 🙂
Hi! thank you for visiting my blog 🙂
thank you for visiting my blog and for your positive comments … we have shared interest 🙂
that is a great quote! so true.
Thanks so much for visiting my blog today and liking several of my posts. You have beautiful images opted here. Please stop by my blog again soon!
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Just wanted to let you know I have nominated you for the Beautiful Blogger Award. I hope this will be welcome news for you. If you prefer not to accept the award, I certainly understand, but I hope you will visit the other nominees, and they will visit you, just the same. To see more about the award and accepting this nomination, please visit my post at http://wp.me/p2ekZU-E4. All the best!
You are invited to play a game of tag. A fun game of blog tag. http://canoecommunications.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/a-game-of-tag/
Thanks for stopping by “Along the Way” and the like. I love your photos, haikus, and stories!
Hi, I have nominated you for the Sunshine Award! If you are interested, check my post: https://limacreativegarden.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/the-sunshine-award/ Congratulations, have a nice week!
Dear Fergiemoto – I wanted to check in with you, make sure you’re ok? I haven’t seen a post from you in a while and hope you’re feeling well. Let me know! Happy New Year to you. It’s always lovely to hear from you!
Thank you so much, Marina! Still have a lot of healing to do overall and will be a less active blogger for a while. I’ll be popping over to your site soon, hopefully. I have a lot of catching up to do. I really appreciate you checking in! Hope your holidays were wonderful!
We’ve nominated your blog for an award (or two, or three…), if you accept them. If not, just consider it a token of our esteem! 😉 See our post at http://windagainstcurrent.com/2013/01/13/award-appreciation-we-thank-our-readers-for/
HI there! *waving* thanks for stopping by my blog! Hope all is well in your world!
Hugs from Oz…….Paula x
Thank you for stopping by my ‘place’ – I intend to book mark yours and be inspired by your photos.
I like several types of small verse, free verse, story verse and even fiction. While I do take some photos I haven’t figure out that bit yet so nothing is posted. Someday…
Nice reading about you.
Thanks. for visiting my blog.
Thanks for the visit Fergiemoto. Awesome blog and art here.
Warmly,
Mary
Thank you so much for your visit to my blog and the’ likes’. Really appreciate it!
Hi- Thanks for stopping by my photography blog and for all the likes and nice comments. Love what you are doing here on yours.
I love both of your blogs. I’m looking forward to more. Thank you for stopping by and liking my cloud photos.
Great blog, very original! Keep up the good work!
FIND YOURSELF HERE LTD.
Thank you for stopping by our site and liking my Playtime. You sound very creative Fergiemoto, we love to see it. Pawkiss 🙂
I would love to pass the award on to you – http://wp.me/p293Pw-6gE – and it’s totally up to you what ever you want to do with it – keep it all to yourself or pass it no. No must from my part.
What wonderful photos you’ve got there 🙂 The latest one reminds me of Sedona… I wish I’d taken some pictures when I was there years ago.
Lovely blog, i’ll enjoy popping in now and again to share in your creative moments… moments when the mind is quiet and allows healing to take place…
I too like to play with my photos to see what comes up. Lose many hours doing this 🙂
Lovely blog. Completely stunnng birds…and everything…
I love that you have a quote from Julia Cameron…I love her!
Great blog you have here!