In making things end and in making things start,
there is nothing more glorious than keeping still. ~unknown
black and white photography
weekly photo challenge: the world through your eyes
With one who does not speak his every thought
I spent a pleasant evening. ~ Hyakuchi*
Things wabi-sabi have a vague, blurry, or attenuated quality—as things do as they approach nothingness (or come out of it). One-hard edges take on a soft pale glow. Once-substantial materiality appears almost sponge-like. Once-bright saturated colors fade into muddy earth tones or the smoky hues of dawn and dust. Wabi-sabi comes in an infinite spectrum of grays…**
This week’s WordPress.com Weekly Photo Challenge submission: a barn in southeastern Wyoming
sources:
*The Moon in the Pines
Trans: Jonathan Clements
**Wabi-Sabi for Artist, designers, Poets, & Philosophers
Leonard Koren
weekly photo challenge: curves
Share a picture of CURVES and explain why you chose that picture!
Gramophone
Blue Bird
‘A photograph,’ it has been said, ‘shows the art of nature rather than the art of the artist.’ This is mere nonsense, as the same remark might be applied equally well to all the fine arts. Nature does not jump into the camera, focus itself, expose itself, develop itself, and print itself. On the contrary, the artist, using photography as a medium, chooses his subject, selects his details, generalizes the whole in the way we have shown, and thus gives his view of nature. This is not copying or imitating nature, but interpreting her, and this is all any artist can do. ~Henry Emerson *
cited in:
Tao of Photography Seeing beyond Seeing
Philippe L. Gross and S. I. Shapiro
after spring’s rain
I am a drop of dew
Hanging from a leaf
Yet, I am not unrestful
For on this branch I
seem to have existed
~Izumi Shikibu
weekly photo challenge: in the background
the dolls I wanted
to put behind me,
but out of the house,
peach blossoms met me ~Ensui
In a new post created for this WordPress photo challenge, share a picture that says In the Background.
wordless wednesday XI
weekly photo challenge: up
…and then I heard Mist whisper,
“Silence the chattering within your mind.
Up look up to the sky and witness the unseen and unnamed
as she urges me into one form and then another
in our journey across the morning sky.”
photo friday: pets
head pillowed on arm,
such affection for myself?
and this smoky moon
~Buson*
*cited in
The Sound of Water
Trans: Sam Hamill
macro monday II
The remarkable thing about deja vu, or other vivid experiences of recollection, is that they are vested with significance that we cannot put into words. At an earlier time, whatever happened might have seem important, or it might not. But the recollection is charged with relevance, and tears flow for no reason.
~R. Aitkens
a street in Dublin
May I find the Wisdom that silences the fortress of my mind’s discontent
so I may hear with understanding
teachings absent of greed, anger, and ignorance.
the deep desire to move on almost always robs us of our life… But quite often what is most healing in our relationships…arises out of the bedrock of being with things just as they are… When we step inside and wait, the right action…makes itself known. *
*source:
Heal Thy Self
Saki Santorelli
cees fun foto challenge: road
This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is all about Road of any type as long as the road is visible … streets of Dublin, Ireland
On, on I travel
Though I fall and die, let it be
In fields of clover ~Sora*
Along this road
going with no one
autumn evening ~Basho
Shinano road —
how many nights now
that moon on the eves? ~Issa
*cited in:
The Narrow Road to Oku
Matsuo Basho
Trans: Donald Keene
wordless wednesday IX
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