i spy….easter colors

winterwalk

Sony RX1003 f/2.8 1/160s 25.7mm 80 ISO

lens-artist photo challenge: future

a gathering of stars–

children, grandchildren,

great-great-grandchildren

Issa (cited: www.haikuguy.com)

Nikon D750 f/7.1 1/1250s 36mm 800 ISO

Image and haiku submitted in response to Leya’s lens-artists photo challenge: future

six word saturday: congress we [need] negotiation not escalation

Those who justify war with lies and hidden agendas,

“Speak to the hand, cuz I not listening!”

Sony RX100-3 f/3.2 1/200s 8.8mm 80 ISO

Hop on over to Travel with Intent’s to join this week’s Six Word Saturday challenge.

the art of seeing I

Sony RX100-3 f/3.5 1/6s 10.1mm 80ISO

fading memories

everybody talking at me…

saigyō

With blooms of pampas grass

for markers

I push my way along,

Nikon D750 f/5.6 1/13s 170mm 100 ISO

no trace of the trail

I vaguely remembered.

~Saigyō (cited: B Watson, Poems of a Mountain Home)

I’m watching you.

Nikon D750 f/2.8 1/400s 35mm 800 ISO

dreaming dreams

The night opens and I cannot sleep,

Yet, I am dreaming dreams,

And, loving them, the moon I do not see.

~Izumi Shikibu, 976-1030 (Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan)

becoming…Nikon D750 f/2.5 1/1000s 35mm 800 ISO multiple exposure, 3

dogwood photography’s photo challenge: friends and family

Week 31 Story Telling: Friends and Family (Telling the story of someone you know well is sometimes the hardest story to tell.)

Nikon D750 f/4.5 1/2000s 58mm 640 ISO

Image submitted in response to Dogwood Photography’s annual 52-week photography challenge.