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Attracting attention

Posted in from the dark room, photography on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

This is certainly one way to catch someone’s attention! You’d be surprised to know how many plants use hooks and spikes to catch on to passers by…..or maybe you wouldn’t, if like me you walked through an area like this wearing sandals!

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What do you see?

Posted in from the dark room, photography on August 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

What do you see here? Can you explain what it is you’re seeing?

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The king of the vespas

Posted in from the dark room, photography on August 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Who’d have thought the King would prefer a pink vespa? I like it. Isn’t it great when we see a juxtaposition of contexts which makes us think of each of the elements differently?

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Man at work

Posted in from the dark room, photography on August 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

11am, Saturday, third floor, new residences, just past the Rotonde, Aix en Provence

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looking at leaves

Posted in from the dark room, from the living room, life, perception, photography on August 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I love the sight of sunlight through leaves. Look at these three photos. I think they illustrate a really important lesson for all of us. They illustrate the paradox of difference and sameness. If you’re a botanist, you might look at these three photos and seek to classify them as three different trees. What “families” [...]

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The Other

Posted in books, from the living room, from the reading room on August 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The Other, by Ryszard Kapuciski (ISBN 978-1844674169) is a beautiful, thought provoking little book. Here are a few quotes to whet your appetite. [Herodotus] understood that to know ourselves we have to know others, who act as the mirror in which we see ourselves reflected; he knew that to understand ourselves better we have to [...]

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national identity

Posted in from the dark room, from the living room, life, photography on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

What makes up our sense of a national identity? How about you? Do you have a national identity that means a lot to you? If not, what are the threads of identity which run through you? And here’s another thing, can you get in touch with the feeling that people from other nations than your [...]

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Life force

Posted in from the dark room, photography on August 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »

I love the sight of the sun shining through a plant. It not only catches my eye, but it fills me with wonder about how plants capture the energy of the sun, just by sitting there basking in it. We can’t do that! But it also makes me think metaphorically about the life force that [...]

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Butterfly meditation

Posted in from the dark room, from the living room, life, photography, tagged meditation on August 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Ah, yes, meditation might be thought of as a way of “stilling the mind”, or “calming the crazy mind”, but there’s something totally absorbing, focused and calming in the activity of photographing butterflies. You need patience. Lots of it. And you need to be able to let go of the need to control and predict. [...]

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