landscape photography

dogwood photography’s photo challenge: story telling – modern convenience

Week 40 Story Telling: Modern Convenience (What modern convenience of 2019 can you not live without? Create an image that looks like an advertisement for your favorite Modern Convenience.)

After contemplating this challenge for a number of weeks, the only convenience of 2019 that I need is one that is designed to heal the harmful actions of ignorance.

“..the future is in the present”
Sr Annabel Laity

firefly

leaving town

breathing easier…

~Issa (cited: the haiku guy)

Anthropocene … humans reshaping mother earth

Image, Issa’s poem, and videos submitted in response to Dogwood Photography’s annual 52-week photography challenge.

lens-artists photo challenge: pick a place

“...climate investing is still burdened by many preconceptions and myths.”
Six Climate Investing Myths Debunked, Morgan Stanley

Myth 1 – The climate problem is all about global warming
Myth 2 – An ESG strategy addresses climate solutions
Myth 3 – Renewable energy is the main solution
Myth 4 – Renewables need subsidies for compelling returns
Myth 5 – Early stage clean-tech investing is a wild goose chase
Myth 6 – Climate investing depends highly on political and regulatory changes

Lens-Artists photo challenge: pick a place – how about the earth?

dogwood photography’s photo challenge: Inspiration – the elements

Week 39 Inspiration: The Elements (Earth, Fire, Wind, Rain, and Spirit. Find inspiration in the elements of our world.)

Image submitted in response to Dogwood Photography’s annual 52-week photography challenge.

lens-artists photo challenge: countryside

Ten years it took

To build my little cottage.

Now the cool wind inhabits half of it

And the rest is filled with moonlight.

There is no place left for the mountain and the stream

So I guess they will have to stay outside.

~Song Sun (1493-1583) Trans: V O Baron & C S Park

Wyoming landscape and poetry submitted in response to Amy’s (The World is a Book) lens-artists photo challenge: countryside and/or small towns.

lens-artists photo challenge: framing the shot

State Forest State Park, Colorado

Landscape photograph submitted in response to The World is a Book’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Framing the Shot

we soon learn to adapt ourselves

*Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge*… Nikon D750 f/7.1 1/4000s 78mm 800 ISO

“… 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