…once someone had been in your life – you could keep that person there despite the agony of loss, as long as you had faith that you could bring the sum of all your hours together in one shining moment.
~Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi
This image of a bridal shop window is the 15th of 15 images submitted to Seeing Differently. Below are some of the other images posted in response to Robyn’s October challenge. Thank you Robyn for this challenging project and your supportive feedback.
To see we must first forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
~Monet
I have found that shifting focus towards a shop window invites me to See Differently.
“… Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?”
“No, sir.”
“Gods don’t think they can become men.”
~The Given Day, Dennis Lehane
This image submitted for Robyn’s Seeing Differently challenge was found during a recent photo walk through an alley.
A photographer, model, bystander…what were the various causal factors that created this moment in time? Submitted in response to Robyn’s Seeing Differently challenge for October.
I hope you enjoy this video inspired by the photography book, Tao of Photography.
It is not just a matter of opinion to which everyone has an equal entitlement to speak (and have us listen) about how things happen or are happening, when what happened or how it happened is puzzling or obscure.
~The Bodhisattva’s Brain: Buddhism Naturalized, Owen Flanagan
I find it interesting to explore how a wide open f-stop invites us to See Differently
…our ordinary vision is limited…our conventional consensus of reality is not the only version of reality…the mind…in its attempt to provide meaning (security), continually rearranges the world to fit individual needs. The failure to recognize the constructive nature of the mind can be a major obstacle to artistry and creativity.
~Tao of Photography, Gross & Shapiro
a mirrored walkway…submitted for Robyn’s Seeing Differently photo challenge for October.
…photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something in an ordinary place … it has little to do wit the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
~Tao of Photography: Seeing Beyond Seeing, Philippe L. Gross and S. I. Shapiro
windshield reflections of..submitted in response to the Seeing Differently challenge
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It is more important
To see the simplicity
To realize one’s true nature
To cast off selfishness
And temper desire.
~The Tao-te Ching By Lao-tzu
a gift from a predawn rainfall…
water drops on the top of a well-waxed automobile…
submitted in response to Robyn’s Seeing Differently challenge
Thinking back then…we were just at that age when we knew a few things about ourselves–about who we were, how we were different from…but hadn’t yet understood what any of it meant. …So you’re waiting, even if you don’t quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realize that you really are different…that there are people…who don’t hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you…and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs. The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that it’s a cold moment. It’s like walking past a mirror you’ve walked past everyday of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange.
~Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
This 7th of 15 image submitted for the Seeing Differently challenge is another of a series from the Colorado State University’s Trial Flower Garden taken with a Nikon D750 and macro 40 mm lens. It invites me to ponder, “is my knowing of self and other blurred by preconceptions?”
Please excuse two postings in one day…I’m going to be away from my computer for a bit. Till then, please take care.
…she’d recognized my name…for the first time in my life, I felt the comfort, the firmness of identity that a name might provide, how it could carry an entire history in other people’s memories… No one here…would ask how to spell my name, or mangle it with an unfamiliar tongue. My name belonged so I belonged, drawn into a web of relationships, alliances, and grudges that I did not yet understand.
~ Dreams from my Father, Barack Obama
This 6th image submitted for Robin’s challenge, Seeing Differently, is from the Colorado State University’s Flower Trial Garden. This red flower (name unknown) with a bit of a spider web, while in focus, seems to have a separate identity from the unfocused background which resembles a painting.
Image 6th submitted to Robin’s October photo challenge, Seeing Differently.
…The seemingly arbitrary cropping of figures by the picture’s edge, the unexpected shapes created by overlapping forms, the asymmetrical and centrifugal patterning, the juxtaposition of busy and empty masses–these qualities constitute a visual definition of what is meant, in large part, by the phrase ‘photographic seeing’.”
~Looking at Photographs, John Szarkowski
A Toddler’s World View…a Seeing Differently submission
Jung describes synchronicity as a meaningful coincidence of two or more events, where something other than the probability of chance is involved. …The critical factor is the meaning, the subjective experience that comes to the person: events are connected in a meaningful way, that is, events of the inner and outer world, the invisible and the tangible, the mind and the physical universe. This coming together at the right moment can happen only without the conscious intervention of the ego. …it is as though the psyche had its own secret design…
~The Essence of Jung Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism, Radmila Moacanin
I find myself drawn to photograph people who seemingly are within their own worlds as they wander, interact, mingle within the public realm. Yet, sometimes the eye is drawn towards the amazing abstract paintings light creates within the window canvas.
Seeing Differently is an October challenge proposed by Robyn.
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