leaning towards the left
floral
xdrive photography learning – 20 – bokeh
Within xdrive photography’s bokeh lesson, Raj notes that the unique blur within photographs known as bokeh is a composition tool that allows a photographer to guide a viewer’s eye as well as to keep distracting elements hidden.
Over to you Raj. Thank you for this informative lesson and your amazing images.
leaving summer behind
Going deep,
I leave summer behind
on the mountain path
~Soseki (S Carter, Haiku before Haiku)
thursday’s special: vision
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.
I have found…
In this world
I have found
No perfect drop of dew-
Not even on the lotus. ~Issa (Trans: N Yuasa, The Year of My Life)
mono…macro
52 weeks photo challenge: week 6 – red
It’s a dreary grey day so I’m adding a bit of “red” by joining the
The Girl that Dreams Awake challenge
black & white sunday: after and before
100 days…94th day
unable to sleep
going out from the cottage –
the summer moon
~ Buson*
*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Y Sawa & E Shiffert
100 days…50th day
The fields in spring time
Lie trailed with mist
And somewhat sadly
In this evening gloam
A bush warbler, sings
~Otomo no Yakamochi*
*cited:
