“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
Who knows why?
But cool somehow is the glow
of fireflies. ~Inawashiro Kansai*
*cited: Steven D Carter, Haiku Before Haiku
Sofia has invited photographers to explore the use of scale with images. She writes that scale is “… something that attracts our eyes more often than we think and intuitively we look for ways to convey the size of what we’re seeing.”
While the sun appears small within the wide expansion of the sky, the sun’s dawn invites an awareness of the expansive nature of the morning’s horizon.
Thank you Sofia for this invitation to explore sense of scale.
O for a friend–that we might see and listen together!
O the beautiful dawn in the mountain village!–
The repeated sound of cuckoos near and far away.~The Sarashina Diary*
*cited: Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
a meditative journey 
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