Haiku – Page 4 – Imagist Blog

Dragons love warm granite

dragons love warm stone
as much as to fly from bloom
to bloom — we seek warmth

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R8/DMR, 100 mm apo macro elmarit, 2X apo

forms fro zen

rock, sand, here and now
covered, they continue
to express their form

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Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit

the chase

we all chase something
choosing what, when and where to chase
makes all difference

May we chase and capture that which makes a positive difference in the world in 2010.

“The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don’t know what to do with it.” — Edward Weston

“This is where the artist comes in, arranging in a frame the scattered elements into a story, anticipating and chasing the light, bringing it all together to create an evocative image capable of communicating the visual experience… . — Guy Tal

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Leica R8/DMR, 100mm Apo Macro Elmarit

Milwaukee river meditations

“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

aware, motivated, yearning, reaching

“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