observing
The skill of observing involves using all of the senses, as appropriate, to find out about the characteristics, properties and attributes of objects, places and events. Observations can be made directly with the senses or indirectly through the use of instruments that extend our capacity to observe.
Paula’s Lost in Translation: Pick a Word
More precious than jewels and gold spread under the sky-- your visit at the beginning of spring. ~Ryokan (cited: Trans K Tanahashi, Sky Above Great Wind)
This month’s Thursday’s Special Pick a Word Challenge words are: aureate, canine, consecrated, deciduous, desolate.
Nikon D750 f/7.1 1/400s 68mm 1000 ISO
spurting
image submitted in response to Lost in Translation’s pick a word challenge.
Vision: Unable to see things clearly unless they are relatively close to the eyes, owing to the focusing of rays of light by the eye at a point in front of the retina; myopic
The Six Blind Men & the Elephant, a famous Hindu fable that tells the story of six blind sojourners that come across different parts of an elephant. In turn, each blind man creates his own version of reality from that limited experience and perspective. The video below is a illustrated version sharing an aged truth about our human condition and the relation between relative and absolute truth.
Jump on over to Lost in Translation to join this week’s Thursday’s Special.
A puppet dancing
confined and restricted by strings –
a puppet master
confined
image submitted in response to a challenge offered by Lost in Translation
somewhere in multiple layers of perspective is…a truth.
A multiple exposure image submitted in response to Lost in Translation’s challenge.
Image submitted in response to Paula’s Thursday’s Special.
Together with my Roget’s International Thesaurus, I selected these following images for September’s “pick a word” challenge…
can a journal be populated with words? can words inhabit a journal?
nature, by her very nature is time sensitive
words and letters are often very companionable
love these burgeoning plants that grow alongside a local trail
clandestine…walking through an alleyway wondering what is hidden behind those locked gates
Hopefully I will be forgiven for only including one color image for this Lost in Translation’s photo challenge.
When we hold a rose we see that it is composed of multiple elements, some tangible – leaves, stem, thorns, petals, stamens – and others intangible – scent, color, memories. If you were to deconstruct this flower where would you find the entity know as “rose”?
submitted in response to Lost in Translation’s challenge.
traveling geese
the city park is home
early spring
While wandering about the city park in Fort Collins, the experience of “being here; yet not here” is reflected within this multiple exposure…
while this image is a telling of park visitors…unseen
submitted in response to Paula’s Thursday Color Challenge: park
a meditative journey 
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