weekly photo challenge

weekly photo challenge: beneath your feet

the rivers have

an ancient darkness…

cuckoo           

             ~Issa*

poudrerivercanyon

Cache La Poudre River’s rocks…inspired by Cheri’s photo challenge: Beneath Your Feet

*cited:

http://www.haikuguy.com

weekly photo challenge: inspiration

just being alive

I

and the poppy

~Issa*

poppy

poppy

Christie’s photo challenge: Inspiration is an invitation to ponder, “what is it that moves me?”

Nature inspires me to contemplate the meaning and purpose of life through her

  • beauty,
  • complexity – simplicity continuum
  • consistency
  • characteristics of vulnerability intermixed with aggression (did you know poppies have thorns?)
  • transience
  • interdependency
  • natural laws
  • photogenic features
  • haiku inspiration

prints available

*cited:
http://www.haikuguy.com

 

weekly photo challenge: symbol

baseball…a slow game symbolizing long summer days is defined by journalist Roger Angell as an ageless sport in which “time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within each player moves at exactly the same pace and rhythm as their predecessors.”*

batter at the ready

batter at the ready

Inspired by Jen’s photo challenge: Symbol

*cited:

“Where have you gone William Bendix?: Baseball as a Symbol of American Values in World War II”

http://www.jstor.org/

weekly photo challenge: muse

It began last summer…an obsession with the globe-shaped plumed heads of the dandelion and salisify.  While both are rejected by landscape artists, these “wishies'” unique characteristics result in amazing macro images.

monochrome 1

Additional images submitted for this week’s challenge can be found at Muse

weekly photo challenge: on the way

On and on I travel;

Though I fall and die, let it be

In fields of clover.

                               ~Basho*

library day

library day

Within The Narrow Road to Oku, Basho shares his journey through prose as well as haiku… which seems to me to fit this week’s photo challenge:  On the Way

*cited:

The Narrow Road to Oku

Trans: D Keene

weekly photo challenge: ephemeral

Although the wind

blows terribly here,

the moonlight also leaks

between the roof planks

of this ruined house.

                               ~Izumi Shikibu*

light prints

light prints upon the floor

Krista’s photo challenge for this week is  Ephemeral

*cited:

The Ink Dark Moon

J. Hirshfield & M Aratani