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lens-artists photo challenge: pick a place

Poudre Canyon.

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

lens-artists photo challenge: countryside

Sony REX-5N f/9 1/160 70mm

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 – magical

Rain, hail, snow, and ice;

All are different,

But when they fall

They become the same water

As the valley stream

~Ikkyu Sojun

Horsetooth Reservoir …. Nikon D750 f/8 3 1/2 min 24mm

Image and poem submitted in response to Leya’s photo challenge: magical

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
Nikon D750 f/7.1 1/800s 70mm 125 ISO

“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

lens-artist challenge: close- up

This week Leya challenges photographers to explore the world around us by moving a bit closer to a subject. Below are a series of close-up images of a pineapple created with a Nikon AF-S DX Micro Nikkor 40mm f2/8G.

Every thing in the cosmos is the object of our perception, and, as such, it does not exist only outside of us but also within us. If we look deeply at the bud on the tree, we will see its nature. It may be very small, but it is also like the earth, because the leaf in the bud will become part of the earth. ~Thich Nhat Hanh (cited: Hul Ling Lim: Environmental Revolution in Contemporary Buddhism: The Interbeing of Individual and Collective Consciousness in Ecology, Feburuay 18, 2019)

We have been talking about the environment as something different from us, but we are the environment…we are the Earth. ~Thich Nhat Hanh (cited: Hul Ling Lim: Environmental Revolution in Contemporary Buddhism: The Interbeing of Individual and Collective Consciousness in Ecology, Feburuay 18, 2019)

Mindfulness means awareness and looking deeply…it is possible to live deeply in mindfulness that could penetrate in all aspects of one’s life.~Thich Nhat Hanh (cited: Hul Ling Lim: Environmental Revolution in Contemporary Buddhism: The Interbeing of Individual and Collective Consciousness in Ecology, Feburuay 18, 2019)

This beautiful, bounteous, life-giving planet we call Earth has given birth to each one of us, and each one of us carries the Earth within every cell of our body…~Thich Nhat Hanh (cited: Hul Ling Lim: Environmental Revolution in Contemporary Buddhism: The Interbeing of Individual and Collective Consciousness in Ecology, Feburuay 18, 2019)

lens-artist photo challenge: nature

spring breeze–
the pine on the ridge
whispers it ~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)

Horsetooth Reservoir … f/5.6 1/2000s 300mm 2200 ISO

“[Frank Meadow] Sutclifffe rarely left Whitby, where his portrait studio kept him busy, and said that we was ‘tethered for the greater part of each year by a chain, at the most only a mile or two long.’ To most modern photographers this would seem a crippling restriction, but Shutcliffe gradually realized that is was an asset to him as a photographer since it forced him to concentrate on the transitory effects that would transform familiar scenes.” (cited: Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, the Aperture History of Photography Series: Aperture 1979

While I dreamed of traveling during those long-hours filled with work and family responsibilities, I find that Frank Shutcliffe’s creative work serves to move me toward greater acceptance of being “tethered” during this retirement period with the challenge to open myself to the “transitory effects” of nature that transforms the landscape close to home.

Image, haiku, and excerpt from Aperture submitted in response to Patti’s (P. A. Moed) lens-artists photo challenge: nature.