Lines
in the twilight mist
where they go I cannot see…
I envy the wild geese
only their voices trailing behind
~ Rengetsu-ni
nature
One Four Challenge – week 3
Well…what did I do…should have taken notes…hum…
In response to Apple’s recent decision to retire Aperture, I have been exploring Lightroom and Photoshop as alternative application options…so this week I jumped right into Photoshop and learned rather quickly that I need a tutorial for the various tutorials and that my learning style is most likely one built upon trial and error…but after learning about layers and playing with masking I did create an image that I eventually took into Silver Effects for a final touch up.
Visit Captivate Me to join in the fun
when i look at the moon…
When I look at the moon
I am overcome by the sadness
of a thousand, thousand things —
even though it is not Fall
for me alone.
~Oe no Chisato*
along…a path
from bare brush
along a mountain path–
the sound of frost
~Shinkei*
*cited:
Haiku before Haiku
Steven Carter
…crumble in the north wind
brittle autumn leaves
that crumble in the
north wind…
~Takao*
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Yoel Hoffmann
one in four challenge – week 2
week two…for this week’s ongoing challenge I went into Perfect Effects 4 and added a layer from a preset, “whiteness”, which I created some time ago, then added a layer from Perfect Effect’s True Film category, “green velvet”, and then found that by playing around with darkening the edges (highlighting, clarity, and shadows) seemed to add more depth of field.
visit Robyn’s Captivate Me to join this week’s One in Four Challenge!
weekly photo challenge: gone, but but forgotten
over the fields of
last night’s snow–
plum fragrance.
~Okano Kin’emon Kanehide*
spring rain showers
visit the dailypost.wordpress.com to participate in Krista’s photo challenge, “show us something that is lost, but not forgotten,”
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Yoel Hoffmann
who paints the image
Who speaks the sound of an echo?
Who paints the image in a mirror?
Where are the spectacles in a dream?
Nowhere at all — that’s the nature of mind!
~Tree-Leaf Woman*
*cited:
Women in Praise of the Sacred
Ed: Jane Hirshfield
cattails at sunset
I cast the brush aside
from here on I’ll speak to the moon
face to face
~Koha*
*cited:
into my heart…
I was alone on a sunny shore
by the forest’s pale blue lake,
in the sky floated a single cloud
and on the water a single isle.
The ripe sweetness of summer dripped
in beads from every tree
and straight into my open heart
a tiny drop ran down.
~Edith Sodergran*
*cited
Women in Praise of the Sacred
Ed: Jane Hirshfield
fluttering
leaf alone, fluttering
alas, leaf alone,
fluttering…
fluttering down the wind
~Anon.
we all gaze…
many paths lead
from the foot of the mountain,
but at the peak
we all gaze at the
single bright moon
Ikkyu Sojun*
*cited:
a meditative journey 
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