Ceaseless tears–clouded mind:
Bright scene–moon-shadow.
~The Sarashina Diary
(cited: Trans: AS Omori & K Doi, Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan)
Image and poem submitted in response to Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: layered
Week 32 Composition: Frame within the Frame (Using only natural elements, frame your subject. No actual picture frames allowed.)
Aspens within aspens… Nikon D750 f/4.5 1/1000s 52mm 800 ISO
Photography Composition Tip: Using Frame within a Frame photography Talk
Image submitted in response to Dogwood Photography’s annual 52-week photography challenge.
All know that the drop merges into the ocean,
but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
~Kabir Das
How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also if I am to be whole.
~Carl Jung (cited: Sean Tucker, Embace your Shadows: A lesson for Light and Life)
The only time we are changing as human beings is in the shadows, the dark times.
Sean Tucker: Embrace your Shadows: A Lesson for Light and Life
Introducing Alan Schaller’s “Streets in Mind.”
I droop my head —
Thoughts over the withered moor
past and present
~Enomoto Seifu, (M. Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)
Image submitted for Dogwood Photography’s annual 52-week photography challenge 3: Inspiration: Black and White (Your inspiration this week is to simply take an amazing Black and White photograph of any subject you want.)
a meditative journey 
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