if my father were here…

if my father were here–
dawn colors
over green fields ~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)

Nikon D750 f/8 1/250s 200mm 360 ISO

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lens-artist photo challenge: nature

spring breeze–
the pine on the ridge
whispers it ~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)

Horsetooth Reservoir … f/5.6 1/2000s 300mm 2200 ISO

“[Frank Meadow] Sutclifffe rarely left Whitby, where his portrait studio kept him busy, and said that we was ‘tethered for the greater part of each year by a chain, at the most only a mile or two long.’ To most modern photographers this would seem a crippling restriction, but Shutcliffe gradually realized that is was an asset to him as a photographer since it forced him to concentrate on the transitory effects that would transform familiar scenes.” (cited: Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, the Aperture History of Photography Series: Aperture 1979

While I dreamed of traveling during those long-hours filled with work and family responsibilities, I find that Frank Shutcliffe’s creative work serves to move me toward greater acceptance of being “tethered” during this retirement period with the challenge to open myself to the “transitory effects” of nature that transforms the landscape close to home.

Image, haiku, and excerpt from Aperture submitted in response to Patti’s (P. A. Moed) lens-artists photo challenge: nature.

lens-artist photo challenge: shadows

in morning shadows
he passes through the barrier gate…
with paper fan ~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)

Nikon D750 f/5.6 1/250 210mm

hop on over to Tina’s to join this week’s lens-artist’s challenge: shadows

a playground

the children
make it a playground…
burnt field ~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)

Nikon D750 f/5.6 1/250s 300mm 720 ISO

feeling a bit…crooked

drooping willow–
the gate’s crookedness
not quite hidden ~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)

Nikon D750 f/4.5 1/640s 40mm

white strands…

the servant’s hair
made white by migrating…
this year too ~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)

Nikon D750 f/7.1 1/80s 135mm 12800 ISO

pond reflections

looking at the mountain
looking at the sea…
autumn evening  

~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)

Nikon D750     f/4.5   1/400s  58mm   250 ISO

lens artists photo challenge: changing and/or changeable

in this temporal world

even the full moon must

endure its eclipse

~Issa

train trestle... f/7.1  1/400s  85mm  160 ISO

clouds

Those clouds form grandly

high in the sky, but owe it

all to passing winds ~Issa

lens artists photo challenge: fences

spring peace–

a mountain monk peeks

through a fence

~Issa (cited: http://www.haikuguy.com)

This week lens-artists invited us to share our favorite fence images.   While the images above are not my “favorite,” the sign did bring a smile.

I had to go back a number of “blog” years to find three of my favorite fences.