Rain, hail, snow, and ice;
All are different,
But when they fall
They become the same water
As the valley stream
~Ikkyu Sojun
Image and poem submitted in response to Leya’s photo challenge: magical
lens-artists photo challenge – magical
landscape
before and after challenge – september 2019
Edited by ~Meditative Journey with Saldage
Below is the initial before image offered by Bren at Ryan-Photography’s for September’s Before and After challenge.
dogwood photography’s photo challenge: frame within the frame
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.
summer
summer night
In the summer night
The evening still seems present,
But the dawn is here.
To what region of the clouds
Has the wandering moon come home?
~ Kiyohara no Fukayabu (cited: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu)
change
Walden, Colorado is a small town hidden in a basin surrounded by the peaks of the Medicine Bow, Never Summer, Rabbit Ears and Park Mountain ranges. Landscape image submitted in response to Travel With Intent’s One Word Sunday challenge: change
beyond
a lightning flash
soaked in green glaze
far beyond the field
~Kuroda Momoko (trans: M Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)
story telling: stranger
Week 22: Story Telling: Stranger (It is easy to tell the story of someone you know. So for this week’s challenge I want you to tell the story of a stranger.)
Image submitted in response to Dogwood Photography’s annual 52-week photography challenge.
lens artists challenge: elements
…the four–earth, water, fire, and wind–are without characteristic, without entity, without self, without … principle.
D S Lopez, Jr, The Heart Sutra Explained
“The fire element is heat, warmth, and also the motivation that dives us; it also is our metabolism. …
“The earth element is all things that are solid, all the things we can touch…
“The water element is all the fluids in our body…
“The air element is the space in our body, also the air that enters and leaves our body, our breath…the movement the our body makes.”
Brother Phap Hai, nothing to it ten ways to be at home with yourself
Hop on over to Amy’s to join this week’s lens-artists challenge: elements
serenity
Week 21 Inspiration: Serenity (What does Serenity mean to you?)
Image submitted in response to Dogwood Photography’s annual 52-week photography challenge.
negative space
Week 20 Composition: Negative Space (Create a powerful landscape using Negative Space.)
Images submitted in response to Dogwood Photography’s annual 52-week photography challenge.
“mother” earth
If the Earth were your body,
you would be able to feel the many areas where it is suffering.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace in Every Step
a meditative journey 
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