The human body speaks…very loudly through its postures and movements. More and more I’m finding that photographers who create street images from perspectives other than direct portraiture opens me to ponder individual humans stories that speak through the body’s emotional expressions which often are distracted from by a smile, an eye glimmer, a hair cut, a style of dress, etc.
images submitted in response to Erica’s photo challenge: A Face in the Crowd
their traveling hats
looking small…
mist
~Issa (www.haiku.guy)
emigrate IIII Nikon D750 f/3.3 1/1,000 40mm
Hop on over to Cee’s Photography to join this week’s black and white photo challenge.
For the month of February Lost in Translation’s challenge is to match one or more images with five words: innate, protuberant, rectangular, interspersed, and fluorescent. Four of the five words are illustrated within these goat’s beard images while two of the three are rectangular.
The wind whistles in the bamboo
and the bamboo dances.
When the wind stops,
the bamboo grows still.
A silver bird
flies over the autumn lake.
When it has passed,
the lake’s surface does not try
to hold on to the image of the bird.
~Poems by Vietnamese Dhyana Master Hai (Ocean of Fragrance)
Cited: Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of The Buddha’ Teachings
After my initial posting, I found myself motivated to revisit Spring Creek trail with more intention to pay attention to Raj’s (XDrive ) high speed lesson. He noted that this high speeds allows the photographer to freeze motion as it permits “only a fraction of a second for the sensor to ‘see’ the scene” and the sensor “is going to record things at standstill even though they are moving.”
Nikon D750 f/5.6 1/2,000 300mm ISO 800
Nikon D750 f/5.6 1/3,200 300mm ISO 800
Nikon D750 f/5.6 1/3,200 300mm ISO 800
Nikon D750 f/5.6 1/3,200 300mm ISO 800
Thank you Raj…this lesson plan opened up a whole new visual world as well as shed some light into the importance of intention and attitude within the creative process of photography.
A Collage
There is a profound moment…just a second or so before the sun’s light peeks above the horizon…when it feels as if a stilled hush has silenced all of nature. And then, a bird’s singsong welcoming a new day and the distant sound of the coffee maker, releases me once again from the imprisonment of a sleepless night.
Nikon D750 f/7.1 1/500s 122mm ISO 160
Not for stilts
but as a cane
bamboo serves me now,
I who call to mind
the games of childhood.
~Saigyo (B Watson, Poems of a Mountain Home)
Nikon D750 f/7.1 1/250 300 mm ISO 160
a meditative journey 
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