Tag: photography
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True Refuge – a photography project
I hope everyone is enjoying the lovely fall weather we’ve been having. Last week I had a chance to spend some quality time at Zen Mountain Monastery in the Catskills, and time to spend engaged in contemplation and photography, taking in the beautiful grounds there. A collection of twelve photographs expressing the impermanence of life…
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Dark Spring: photos from the NYC lockdown, Spring 2020
Today I’m experimenting with Adobe Spark and putting together some photos previously only shared to Instagram (maybe Twitter). This photo essay narrates, loosely, the pandemic lockdown New York City suffered through from March to May, 2020. Despite the distressing circumstances, it was fun exploring nighttime street photography. And, the subway is always a favorite subject…
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Spring is here!
Spring is here, and hibernation time is definitely over! More art and ideas coming soon!
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Winter …
Winter–in the eleventh month Snow falls thick and fast. A thousand mountains, one color. Men of the world passing this way are few. Dense grass conceals the door. All night in silence, a few woodchips burn slowly As I read the poems of the ancients. –Ryokan (Japan, 1758-1831)
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Pinhole research – December chill
I’ve recently started up again with some explorations in digital pinhole photography. How this works is: you take a digital SLR, take off the lens and replace it with a modified body cap that serves as the ‘pinhole.’ (I don’t recall where I purchased the pinhole cap, but if you Google ‘digital pinhole – Nikon‘…
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Actualizing truth
So I’ve been working on refining the “motto” of sorts I wrote about last week: “Create what you would like to see in the world, and then make it public.” I’ve now whittled it down to: “Actualize the truth you want to see in the world.” The making it public part should go without saying. I’m…
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For the time-being …
Because you think your time or your being is not truth, you believe that the sixteen-foot golden body is not you. However, your attempts to escape from being the sixteen-foot golden body are nothing but bits and pieces of the time-being. — “Uji,” Eihei Dōgen (1200-1253)
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One last look back at winter …
Winter is decidedly on its way out in these parts, but I couldn’t resist giving it one last parting glance this afternoon as I reviewed some photos I shot near Ivoryton, Connecticut in late February. I’ve been a photographer from an early age, at least since my grandmother passed along to me my grandfather’s old…