sunflower

life’s passages … 58

A sunflower taller than

your dad, uncle, and grandpa,

A sunflower reaching to touch a trees’ branches half-way up to the crown.

Though, I do imagine, an ant wandering about on the sunflower would believe it touched the blue-blue sky.

Nearby a yellow garden spider lunching on a white butterfly … sunflower yellow.

Fuji X-T4 … f/4 . 1/750 . 32.5mm . 160 ISO Edited: Capture One

blogjanuary: how are you brave

“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.” ― Donald Woods Winnicott

Blogging despite living within a continuum of a drive to communicate through art and an emotional need to be hidden behind one’s art … is an act of courage.

“It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.”
― D.W. Winnicott

monochrome madness: 2:21

Far away,

In a cleft between the crags

To be alone,

Careless of others’ eyes,

Sunk in thought-if only…

                                            ~The Monk Saigyo*

brendakofford_sunflower

Visit Leanne Coles’ Monochrome Madness gallery

*cited:

http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk

 

weekly photo challenge: near and far

This week’s photo challenge is guest hosted by Brian Cooney. Read on for more about this week’s theme and his photography tips!

Near and Far. We’re excited about this week’s photo challenge, near and far, and hope it inspires you to play with perspective, which can give sweeping images of beautiful locations more oomph and power. Perspective is what makes a flat two-dimensional image, such as a photograph, appear like it is three-dimensional. To create this effect, you can use features like diagonal lines, which converge within the frame and literally suck in the viewer.

sun flower
f 12.4, exp 1/60