Hop on over to Travel with Intent’s to join the six word saturday challenge.
six word saturday: awakening to morning’s light and warmth
Tag: color photography
sunset
Nikon D750 f/8 1/60s 40mm 200 ISO edited: Capture One 20
green eyes peeking through green grass
Edited: Capture One 20
Hop on over to join Travel with Intent’s Saturday’s Six Word Challenge
eve of night
lens-artists photo challenge: one single flower
image submitted in response to Cee’s lens-artists’ photo challenge: one single flower
wordless wednesday
returning to silence…
quite a feat–
in utter silence
the plum tree blooms ~Issa (cited: haikuguy.com)
Returning to silence begins with an awareness of our in-breath and our out-breath. The uniting of body and mind opens a door to noble silence. We become available to life and life becomes available to us with just three seconds of mindfulness of the breath…releasing the past and the future.
Nikon D750 f/5.6 1/100s 300mm 400 ISO/neutral density filter edited: Capture One 20
Around my home are the river rock I’ve picked up during nature walks so I’ve especially enjoyed the video, “Matter and Memory” by Katayama Yoshiyuki. As an introduction to this video, she noted:
“I like so-called ordinary stones, and I often bring them home as a souvenir if there are stones that I like when I go somewhere far away.
Ordinary stones are generally worthless, but I sometimes feel that they are more valuable to me than expensive goods that are mass production.
Stones are like containers with nothing inside. That is why I feel I can pack a lot of memories or scenery of the land into the stones and bring them home.
“‘That which I could never find without going to that place’
It is probably an important factor, I think.”
scattered wishes
In the peaceful light
Of the ever-shining sun
In the days of spring,
Why do the cherry’s new-blown blooms
Scatter like restless thoughts? ~ Ki no Tomonori
Nikon D750 f/8 1/8s 300mm 400 ISO edited: Capture One 20 and Color Efex Pro 4
contemplating a sunset with… Jens Jacobsen
isolation retreat 76th day
excerpt: Jens Peter Jacobsen, Niels Lyhne. A Project Gutenberg of Australia ebook. *
“Niels Lyhne … was not in his poems; he merely put the verses together. But now a change came over him. Now that he wooed a woman and wanted her to love him–him, Niels Lyhne of Lönborggaard, who was twenty-three years old, walked with a slight stoop, had beautiful hands and small ears, and was a little timid, wanted her to love him and not the idealized Nicolaus of his dreams, who had a proud bearing and confident manners, and was a little older–now he began to take a vital interest in this Niels whom he had hitherto walked about with as a slightly unpresentable friend. He had been so busy decking himself with the qualities he lacked that he had not had time to take note of those he possessed, but now he began to piece his own self together from scattered memories and impressions of his childhood and from the most vivid moments of his life. He saw with pleased surprise how it all fitted together, bit by bit, and was welded into a much more familiar personality than the one he had chased after in his dreams. This figure was far more genuine, far stronger, and more richly endowed. It was no mere dead stump of an ideal, but a living thing, full of infinite shifting possibilities playing through it and shaping it to a thousandfold unity. Good God, he had powers that could be used just as they were! He was Aladdin, and there was not a thing he had been storming the clouds for but it had fallen right down into his turban.”
skyscape: Nikon D750 f/8 1/125s 92mm 400 ISO edited Capture One 20
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contemplating a sunset with…rilke
isolation retreat 72nd day
excerpt from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet. Trans: MD Herter Norton
“I want to talk to you again… You have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put you out of sorts. But, please, consider whether these great sadnesses have not rather gone right through the center of yourself? Whether much in you has not altered, whether you have not somewhere, at some point of your being, undergone a change while you were sad? Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out; like sicknesses that are superficially and foolishly treated they simply withdraw and after a little pause break out again the more dreadfully; and accumulate within one and are life, are unloved, spurned, lost life, of which one may die. Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divining, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidences than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent. …”
skycape photography: breaking through Nikon D750 f/8 1/80s 190mm 400 ISO edited in Capture One
