“Was it possible that the best way to make sure of yourself was to know and understand someone else?
One whose life had been completely different and had had a completely different logic than your own? How did curiosity for another life go together with the awareness that your time was running out? …” Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon, pg 97.
Fujifilm X-T4: f/4 1/750 s 65.2 mm 400 ISO
“Is this what life is?” she questioned. “Is this the impermanence of one’s life, a shattering of beliefs, morals, guiding principles…indoctrinations of her life?”
“I anxiously waited for the dawn with uncertain hope.
The temple bell roused me from dreams
And waiting for the starlit dawn
The night, alas! was long as are
One hundred autumn nights” ~The Sarashina Diary*
*cited: Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” *
Fujifilm X-T4: f/8 1/120 s 80 mm 1250 ISO
*cited: Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
Dawns’ light
Sutcliffe rarely left Whitby [a port and resort community on the Yorkshire coast], where his portrait studio kept him busy, and said that he was ‘tethered for the greater part of each year by a chain, at most only a mile or two long.’ To most modern photographers this would seem a crippling restriction, but Sutcliffe gradually realized that it was an asset to him as a photographer since it forced him to concentrate on the transitory effects that could transform familiar scenes. …photographers should always aim for something more than ‘mere postcard records of facts.’ ‘By waiting and watching for accidental effects of fog, sunshine or cloud,’ he advised, ‘it is generally possible to get an original rendering of any place. If we only get what any one can get at any time, our labour is wasted; a mere record of facts should never satisfy us.’
cited: Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, The History of Photography Series, p 8
Horsetooth Reservoir
Journeys with John invites lens-artists to “share where you go or what you do to help lift those spirits when this old world starts getting you down”.
The month of January is named for Janus, the god of doors, gates, and transitions. Janus represented the middle ground between both concrete and abstract dualities.
It is a joy to be hidden and a disaster not to be found. ~D.W. Winnicott
Joining Paula’s (Lost in Translation) challenge: Words of Wisdom
may you find peace within gratitude.
Fujifilm X-T4: f/11 1/60 s 80 mm 3200 ISO
Fujifilm X-T4: f/4.5 1/14000 s 69.8 mm 640 ISO
a meditative journey 
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