rain drops

Nikon D750 f/5.6 1/400 52mm

silent sunday

Nikon D750      f/4.5     1/2,000    85mm     800 ISO

everyman’s artist…consciousness

He saw that his own mind was present in every phenomenon in the universe. …Our own mind is the source of all phenomena. Form, sound, smell, taste, and tactile perception such as hot and cold, hard and soft – these are all creations of our mind. They do not exist as we usually think they do.  Our consciousness is like an artist, painting every phenomenon into being.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Old Path White Clouds

thankful tears

May that lady live one thousand years who guards the flowers!

My sleeves are wet with thankful tears

As though I had been working

In a garden of dewy chrysanthemums.

~Murasaki Shikibu (Trans: A Omori & K Doi, Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan)

after the rain

macro moments: week 12

Nikon D750    40mm       f/3.3     1/4000s      ISO 100      

This image of a collection of beard’s goats

is being submitted to a challenge posed by Musin’ With Susan.

100 days 47th day

In an old temple

deep in Mount Koya, 

Kii Province,

I listen to raindrops

falling from a cedar tree.

~Ryokan*

 

*cited:

Sky Above, Great Wind

Trans: K Tanahashi

100 days…32nd day

Morning haze

jewels of rain, falling

in a dream

100 days…32nd day

catching rain drops ll

a long hard journey

rain beating down the meadow

like a wanderer’s feet

this print and others are available through Fine Art

 

bloom and fade

This life of ours would not cause you sorrow

if you thought of it as like

the mountain cherry blossoms

which bloom and fade in a day.

                                                            ~Murasaki Shikibu*

catching rain drops l

this print and others are now available through Fine Art America

*cited:

Women Poets of Japan

K Rexroth & I Atsumi