Week 35 Composition: Symmetry Portrait (Symmetry is a strong compositional technique most often used in landscapes and architecture. So break the mold by using Symmetry in a portrait.)
Image submitted in response to Dogwood Photography’s annual 52-week photography challenge.
“Thursday Morning, 9.30. On a summer’s day like this I lie in bed as if cradled in sweet arms. It makes one feel so indolent and languid. And when he sang, ‘The Linden Tree’ last time (I thought it so beautiful that I asked him to sing me a whole forest-full of linden trees), the lines on his face looked like old, age-old, tracks through a landscape as ancient as creation itself.”
(cited: E Hillesum, An Interrupted Life p. 115)
State Forest State Park, Colorado
Landscape photograph submitted in response to The World is a Book’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Framing the Shot
With blooms of pampas grass
for markers
I push my way along,
no trace of the trail
I vaguely remembered.
~Saigyō (cited: B Watson, Poems of a Mountain Home)
Come again,
if you don’t mind
pushing your way through
dewy eulalia blossoms
to reach this twig-bound hut.
~Ryokan (cited: K Tanahashi, Sky Above Great Wind)
“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
~A A Mille, Winnie-the Pooh
Image and quote submitted in response to Lost in Translation’s Pick a Word Challenge: Ursine
Out of the dark,
Into a dark path
I must now enter:
Shine on me from afar
Moon of the mountain fringe.
~Izumi Shikibu (cited: Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan)
separation
among butterflies too…
white gang, yellow gang
~Issa (cited: www.haikuguy.com)
Week 34 Story Telling: Color without Color (Tell a colorful story, but do it in black and white.)
Image submitted in response to Dogwood Photography’s annual 52-week photography challenge.
to a massive rock
grow quickly my pebble…
Ishitaro
~Issa (www.haikuguy.com
Simon & Garfunkel – I am a Rock”
“… What a bizarre new landscape, so full of eerie fascination, yet one we might also come to love again. We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that we can no longer adapt ourselves, only if, deep inside, we rebel against very kind of evil, will we be able to put a stop to it. Aeroplanes, streaking down in flames, still have a weird fascination for us – even aesthetically – though we know, deep down, that human beings are being burnt alive. As long as that happens, while everything within us does not yet scream out in protest, so long will we find ways of adapting ourselves, and the horrors will continue.”
cited: Trans: Arno Pomerans, An Interrupted Life The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941 – 1943, p. 81.
Image and quote submitted in response to Travel with Intent’s Six Word Saturday Challenge
becoming a walking stick
little bamboo
at the peak of youth
~Issa (www.hakiuguy.com)
a meditative journey 
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