“In good writing, words become one with things.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
perhaps also in good photography
the image becomes one
with the subject
as well as
the moment
for the moment I think so
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Leica R8/DMR, 350 mm Telyt
Sometimes we go out with our cameras in the hope of freezing the natural world with absolute clarity. Only to find that the light, the film or digital sensor speed, our ability to focus or hold still, produces less than the clarity we hoped for. Yet magic, if not photographic perfection, can occur. We may just find that we captured poetry rather than clarity.
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Leica R8/DMR, 350 Telyt
“Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe.” – Ruth Bernhard
within the process
changing before our eyes, see
us in this mirror
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Leica M8, Visoflex III, 135 Elmar
we fall
weather leaf or whether life
all returns
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Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
returning (always) to the study of wabi sabi
wherein
the student perceives beauty
in the
ephemeral, transient, isolated, simple, subdued tranquil, natural, intimate, eternal, melancholic, asymmetrical, earthy, organic, rough, uneven, asperities, spacious, humble, sober, intangible yearning, impermanent, passage of time…
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Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
snow will soon cover the paths
walked with Sophia
and ice the river
from which this mandala emerged
her fourth fall
my sixty third
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Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
overcast today,
gray, damp, cool, few flowers left,
leaves turning on trees
shamrock seems sad
[family Leguminosae, in particular the lesser yellow trefoil (Trifolium minus)]
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Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm apo macro elmarit
“The toad beneath the harrow knows
Exactly where each tooth-point goes;
The butterfly upon the road
Preaches contentment to that toad.”
— Rudyard Kipling
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beneath the lid
of the recycling bin for steel cans
this fellow
builds a condo project
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A couple days ago
the following poetograph arrived,
uninvited, to my mind:
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I announced its viewability on twitter and received a request for a poetic collaboration from Parasputin.
I went to his site and reviewed the last year’s work; the following poem struck my visual mind:
I must say that these twitterized collaborations truly hold promise for international, creative communications — let’s keep them alive and healthy.