Texture within photography invites an awareness of how sight invites me to touch as a means to validate the visual and tactile experiences: silky, bubbly, prickly, nubby, fluffy, grainy, gritty, etc.
Hop on over to Cee’s to join the CBWC challenge: texture.
Sony RX100 … f/3.2 1/13s 25.7mm 80 ISO
Sony RX100 … f/3.5 1/125s 22.6mm 80 ISO
Hop on over to Patti’s site to join in this week’s lens-artists challenge: light and shadow
Patti (P.A. Moed) invites photographers to “show us your captures of street art in places near and far.”
Join the fun — Cee’s black and white challenge: things to ride.
the eye that is penetrating sees clearly,
the ear that is penetrating hears clearly,
the nose that is penetrating distinguishes odors,
the mouth that is penetrating distinguishes flavors,
the mind that is penetrating has understanding,
and the understanding that is penetrating has virtue. ~ CHUANG-TZU
Every life is a point of view directed upon the universe. Strictly speaking, what one life sees no other can. Every individual, . . . is an organ, for which there can be no substitute, constructed for the apprehension of truth . . . Without the development, the perpetual change and the inexhaustible series of adventures which constitute life, the universe, or absolutely valid truth, would remain unknown . . . Reality happens to be like a landscape, possessed of an infinite number of perspectives, all equally veracious and authentic. The sole false perspective is that which claims to be the only one there is. ~José Ortega y Gasset
January 2014
Still life
February 2014
“Within the mind is a storehouse of memories that entered [my] psyche through the windows of [my] senses. The treaures received through the gift of sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell…these are what I have come to cherish as yearnings for possessions fade from desire. What I yearn for now is to live a life filled with the creation of memories to visit and revisit again.”
April 2014
There was a man who was so disturbed by the sight of his own shadow and so displeased with his own footsteps that he determined to get rid of both. The method he hit upon was to run away from them.
So he got up and ran. But every time he put his foot down there was another step, while his shadow kept up with him without the slightest difficulty.
He attributed his failure to the fact that the was not running fast enough. So he ran faster and faster, without stropping, until he finally dropped dead.
He failed to realize that if he merely stepped into the shade, his shadow would vanish, and if he sat down and stayed still, there would be no more footsteps.*
*cited: The Way of Chuang Tzu Thomas Merton
May 2014
It is a bit of a puzzle as to the reason the log and rock are placed in front of the gate. I suppose the first thing to explore is, which way does the gate open?” If the gate moves outward, then what is being kept within?
That dear Watson invites another mystery to explore.
If the gate moves inward, the gate is not a barrier so does it open both in and out? If so, then I assume the log and rock are meant to keep the gate from extending outward?
Humm…
Cee’s black and white challenge: fences and gates
My entry for Cee’s black and white challenge: to share how to an ant…a single flower can be a very large subject.
A Meditative Journey with Saldage 
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