lens-artists photo: it is a wonderful world

My friend is lodging high in the Eastern Range,

Dearly loving the beauty of valleys and hills.

At Green Spring he lies in the empty woods;

And is still asleep when the sun shines on high.

A pine-tree wind dusts his sleeves and coat;

A pebbly stream cleans his heart and ears.

I envy you, who far from strife and talk

Are high-propped on a pillow of blue cloud. ~ Li Po*

A summer’s sprinkle

A spring snowstorm

It is a wonderful world…Amy (The World is a Book)

*(cited: Arthur Waley, The Poet Li Pl Gutenberg Project

lens-artists challenge: shades and shadows

the man’s whiteness
walking in the house’s shadow…
summer moon ~Issa*

stilllife
isolation
isolation

sharing tree shade  
with a butterfly…
friends in a previous life ~Issa*

solitude

Isn’t the shade under a tree the tree’s shadow?

joining in Leya’s photo challenge: shades and shadows.

*cited: haikuguy.com

lens-artist photo challenge; from large to small

This week Patti’s (P.A. Moed) Lens-Artists photo challenge is to pick a color and select several photos that feature that color and then beginning with a “large” color subject go down to an image that contains a small subject color — going from large to small.

smoke rising (Cameron Peak fire)

light reflections seen through the windows of a coffee shop

rust on a section of a pedestrian over-pass

the stem and veins within a leaf