photo challenges

weekly photo challenge: muse

It began last summer…an obsession with the globe-shaped plumed heads of the dandelion and salisify.  While both are rejected by landscape artists, these “wishies'” unique characteristics result in amazing macro images.

monochrome 1

Additional images submitted for this week’s challenge can be found at Muse

thursday’s special: traces of the past 02

The iconic Loveland Feed & Grain, built in 1892, is a hub of artistic energy in Loveland, Colorado…well…not “is” but “was”… it is currently closed and shuttered.

Yet, recent traces of The Feed & Grain’s past can be seen at luckybrakelimited.com

tracesofthepast

Inspired by Lost in Translation’s Thursday’s Special

black & white sunday: natural

 

There are pauses between the showers of the outer world,

But there is no time when my sleeves, wet with tears, are dry.

                                                                                         ~Murasaki Shikibu*

black and white sunday natural

Lost in Translation’s theme for the Black and White Sunday is… natural

*cited:

Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

Trans: A Omori & K Doi

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/omori/court/court.html

weekly photo challenge: on the way

On and on I travel;

Though I fall and die, let it be

In fields of clover.

                               ~Basho*

library day

library day

Within The Narrow Road to Oku, Basho shares his journey through prose as well as haiku… which seems to me to fit this week’s photo challenge:  On the Way

*cited:

The Narrow Road to Oku

Trans: D Keene

weekly photo challenge: ephemeral

Although the wind

blows terribly here,

the moonlight also leaks

between the roof planks

of this ruined house.

                               ~Izumi Shikibu*

light prints

light prints upon the floor

Krista’s photo challenge for this week is  Ephemeral

*cited:

The Ink Dark Moon

J. Hirshfield & M Aratani