Taking the camera out for a stroll with the intention to “see” curves and shadows…which created patterns. Image submitted in response to The Girl That Dreams Awake’s photo challenge.
street photography
seeing differently: 2nd of 15
“We may speak of conditions and consequences as though they were things, but if we look more closely they turn out to be processes with no independent reality. The harshness of a barbed remark that haunts us for days is no more than a brief instance isolated from a torrent of events. Yet it stands out in the mind’s eye as something intrinsically real and apart. This habit of isolating things leads us to inhabit a world in which the gaps between them come absolute.”
~ Buddhism without Beliefs, Stephen Batchelor
Seeing things a bit different during the recent “tour de corgi” by viewing events unfold with the camera at ground level…my 2nd image submitted in response to Robyn’s photo challenge.
street shadows
…in order to know we must trust our ancestors – trust them deeply. Spinoza points out the fact that our knowledge of parentage and the date of our birth is, in fact, what he calls ‘knowledge by hearsay’.*
*cited:
The Bodhisattva’s Brain
Owen Flanagan
water drops
…the clearing in the still center of becoming, the track on which the centered person moves – it whispers, “Realize me.” But no sooner is it glimpsed than it is gone.
~Stephen Bachelor
reflections
…instead of a coherent personality that stretches back in an unbroken line to a first memory and looks forward to an indefinite future, we discover a self ridden with gaps and ambiguities. Who “I am” appears coherent only because of the monologue we keep repeating, editing, censoring, and embellishing in our heads.
engaged…but with whom?
engrossed
pursued by relentless and insistent desires
mall fishing
Street Photography Assignment: Fishing…identifying an interesting background (traffic signs, billboards, leading lines) and create a juxtaposition with a subject who walks into the frame.
The image with the child running as if the mannequin is pointing in the direction he should go is my favorite of the four. What are your thoughts about “mall fishing”?
jubilant
obscure
spectators
“… the present situation [is] the fruition of former choices…engage it as the arena for what is to come. …embrace the ambiguity of a present that is simultaneously tied to an irrevocable past and free for an undetermined future.*
*cited:
Buddhism without Beliefs
Stephen Batchelor
pg. 47
the flow of life
a meditative journey 
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