motion blur photography

oak street plaza

Oak Street Plaza Park is a hardscape, cobblestone area with cafe tables and chairs where people are invited to enjoy a break from shopping and chat with their friends.

In the summer, children (as well as a dog or two) are fascinated with the water as it jumps from the sculpted “rocks’ or sprits in the air from the cobblestone.

oak street plaza

oak street plaza

weekly photo challenge: on the way

On and on I travel;

Though I fall and die, let it be

In fields of clover.

                               ~Basho*

library day

library day

Within The Narrow Road to Oku, Basho shares his journey through prose as well as haiku… which seems to me to fit this week’s photo challenge:  On the Way

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The Narrow Road to Oku

Trans: D Keene

photo 101: pop & color

For this photo assignment I have included two versions of the motion blur image taken during this past weekend’s St. Patrick’s celebration in Old Town.  I generally prefer street and motion blur in black and white…yet, the color image with the green and purple does give the image a bit of pop.

St. Patrick's celebration in Old Town

St. Patrick’s celebration in Old Town

St. Patrick's in Old Town

St Patrick’s in Old Town

Karma of past lives

I was sure I would never get lost

in the tangled roads of love,

Now I have been caught

in the karma of past lives.

                                                                               ~Kenrei Mon-in Ukyo No Daibu*

transportation...feet..bike

*cited:

The Burning Heart

Trans & Ed, K Rexroth & Ikuko Atsumi

at times I hear…

One thousand peaks merge with frozen clouds;

ten thousand paths have no human trace.

Day by day just facing the wall,

at times I hear snow drift over the window.

                                                                          ~Ryokan*

kofford_b_handsacrosskeyboard 2

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Sky Above, Great Wind

Kazuaki Tanahashi

every face passes by…

cicadas at nightfall–

every face passes by

without speaking a word

                                                             ~Ishibashi Hideno*

faces passing by

faces passing by

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Far Beyond the Field

Makoto Ueda