lens-artists photo challenge – magical

Rain, hail, snow, and ice;

All are different,

But when they fall

They become the same water

As the valley stream

~Ikkyu Sojun

Horsetooth Reservoir …. Nikon D750 f/8 3 1/2 min 24mm

Image and poem submitted in response to Leya’s photo challenge: magical

I am a rock, I am a…

to a massive rock

grow quickly my pebble…

Ishitaro

~Issa (www.haikuguy.com

Nikon D750 f/7.1 1.6s 50mm

Simon & Garfunkel – I am a Rock”

cache la poudre river

the rivers have

an ancient darkness…

cuckoo

~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)

Cache la Poudre River… Nikon D750 f/7.1 1.6s 50mm 100 ISO

drops

All know that the drop merges into the ocean,

but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

~Kabir Das

Big Thompson River… Nikon D750 f/22 1/6s 90mm 100 ISO

tell me, sir, where’s the distinction?

The river and its waves are one surf: 

where is the difference between the river and its waves?

When the wave rises, it is the water; 

Nikon D750 f/22 .02s 125mm 100 ISO

and when it falls, it is the same water again.

Tell me, Sir, where is the distinction?

Because it has been named as wave, 

shall it no longer be considered as water?

~Kabir Das (One Hundred Poems by Kabir, Trans: Rabindranath Tagore)

big thompson canyon

big thompson canyon... f/22 1/4s 125mm 100 ISO

weekly photo challenge: orange

Nikon D750 f/5.6 1/125 24mm

Image submitted in response to Jenn’s (Traveling at Wits End) weekly photo challenge: orange.

wordless wednesday

wordless wednesday

Horsetooth Reservoir… f/8   127s   24m   100 ISO

my heart fades…

While watching 

the long rains falling on this world

my heart, too, fades

with the unseen color 

of the spring flowers.

~Ono no Komachi (J Hirshfield & M Aratani, The Ink Dark Moon)

Horsetooth Reservoir...    f/7.1   239s   62m   100 ISO