Nikon D750 f/5.6 1.10s 35mm 100 ISO
people watching
photography
wordless wednesday
a path
Simply with sorrow
And nothing
More in mind
Both left and right
Sleeves are soaked.
~Suma (cited:wakapoetry.net)
Nikon D750 f/5.6 1/4,000s 56mm ISO 100
ribbons & bubbles
Nikon D750 f/3.2 1/2,000s 50m 800 ISO
“Mind is a river of psychological phenomena that is always flowing. In this river, the arising, duration, and cessation of any phenomenon is always linked with the arising, duration, and cessation of all other phenomena. To know how to identify psychological phenomena as they arise and develop is an important part of meditation practice”
Excerpt From
Awakening of the Heart
Thích Nhất Hạnh
silent sunday
Water Dipping Wasp Nikon D750 f/2.5 1/4,000s 35m 100 ISO
hidden inspiration: shadow dancing
Richo GX100 f/5.1 1/320 5.1m 80 ISO[/caption]
Marcus, Streets of Nuremberg, invites those who are interested in street photography to “try to shoot people who are engulfed in their every day business, unaware of the photographer aiming the camera at them. Obviously, using a longer lens (or zoom) does help not to get too close. But even with a wide angle lens, the camera up at the eye, you can wander through shops, bars or your local market, looking for interesting scenes, people, gestures, colors, patterns – and press the shutter when something catches your eye and gets your creative juices flowing. Move naturally, shoot, and trust me you will not be noticed.”
a photo study: contemplative photography
iPad f/1.8 1/130 sec ISO 64
“The object is of secondary importance to how I see the object. …concentrated looking is the way to get past labels and our preconceived ideas of what interests us. Looking slowly and in detail, …gives way to interlocked abstract shapes, energetic textures, ranges of colors, spaces in between things, sharp edges, and soft shadows. This way of seeing objects turns any item into an interesting subject.”
~John F Simon, Jr (Drawing your own Path)
I began this week with a posting of a 20 minute photo project with an egg and then went on to a second project…20 minutes with two eggs, a white small dish, a white tea cloth, a white pitcher, a small ball. Images edited in Snapfeed.
Limited resources has the potential to awaken creativity.
iPad…f/1.8 1/30 sec ISO 20
iPad…f/1.8 1/30 sec IS) 25
The third mediative photography project…one hour photographing an egg and a small white dish…2 minutes with each image before clicking the shutter. Images edited in Snapfeed.
iPad f/1.8 1/1,050 ISO 64
iPad f/1.8 1/370 sec ISO 64
iPad f/1.8 1 sec ISO 64
iPad f/1.8 1 sec ISO 64i
Creativity begins as we begin to think differently, move out of our comfort zone, start to use our head over the camera, and go beyond all apparent possibilities.
iPad f/1.8 1/50 sec ISO 64
A closing note: My restless soul resisted the idea to photograph an egg for an hour with a point and shoot camera (I substituted the point and shoot with an iPad). As a consequence, I began with two separate 20 minute exercises and then found the inspiration to set a meditative app for an hour with bells to chime every 2 minutes. Now I’m wondering what images would have emerged if I challenged myself for 2 hours…
Are you up to this challenge…one 20 minute photo session, two 20 minute sessions, or an hour? Let’s tag with #aphotostudy.
“oh, dear…must we?”
Richo GX100 f/7.9 1/320 15.3mm ISO 80
The Moment… the importance of the “moment”, those previous seconds in which a scene’s potential as a great photograph exists
Saigyō
Replacing the rays
of late sun,
that streamed in the window,
shedding a different light
an early evening moon
~Saigyō (B Watson, Poems of a Mountain Home)
Richo GX100 f/4.1 1/200s 5.1mm ISO 80
wordless wednesday
Nikon D750 f/3.2 1/2,000 sec 50 m ISO 800
reflection & i
growing side by side
spring rain
reflection & i
as I read the news today…
As I read the news from multiple sources about children being taken away from family and placed in detention, I find myself stunned at the denial of harm, the justification of inhumanity, and the rationalization of the negation of compassion, all under the banner of Christian compliance with law. Whose law? The law of man? The law of God? The law of nature?
The laws and procedures in place today…are man made. And thus are to be questioned by all of humanity. Would you blindly comply with the laws regarding children in 18th century England?
If a child was not sold into employment he or she would inevitably end up homeless and living on the streets, in all manner of weather amongst the raw sewage, rotting animal and vegetable waste, rats, disease, and bad water. Many slum children had to endure filthy conditions as they fought a daily battle for survival.
Age 11: 14 days gaol + 5 years Reformatory for Stealing a Coat
Age 12: 14 days gaol + 5 years Reformatory for Stealing Boots
Age 11: 1 day gaol and whipped, for Stealing Pigeons
Age 9: 1 day gaol and whipped, for Stealing Pigeons [three boys]
Age 13: Trial at the Assizes, accused of Murder
Age 12: 21 days gaol + 5 years Reformatory, for Stealing Money
Age 13: 14 days gaol, for Stealing an Umbrella.
Source: Old Police Cells Museum
John Greening, age 11 charged with stealing a quarter of gooseberries (growing). Punishment: one calendar month of hard labor and five years reformatory.
John Hillesley, age 15 charged with stealing a coat. Punishment: transportation to a penal colony in a different country.
Joseph Lewis, age 11 charged with simple larceny for stealing 28 pounds of iron. Punishment: one calendar month of hard labor.
Source: The national Archives
Just for a moment image the fear that would have you leave home, family, friends and run to the unknown? And then…imagine for another moment having your child removed from your arms and not knowing where she is or if you will ever be reunited.
Why are we not guided by the laws of compassion, loving kindness, equanimity…or even empathy?
a meditative journey 
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