Posted in from the dark room, from the living room, photography, tagged tokyo on November 10, 2012| 1 Comment »
I look out onto Ben Ledi every day from home….
….so when I opened the blinds in my 32nd floor hotel room in Tokyo imagine my surprise when I thought it had followed me!
Of course, once I looked more closely I could see it wasn’t Ben Ledi at all, but then again, I’ve never looked out over Tokyo and seen the hills like this before……something new every day!
Posted in from the consulting room, photography on November 3, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Look carefully….that eerie glow is the light from cities at night shining up through the clouds.
Posted in from the dark room, perception, photography on October 10, 2012| 2 Comments »
Thomas Berry describes sunrise as earthfall. He points out that it’s the Earth which is turning in relation to the Sun, not the other way round.
As dawn approaches you move towards the Sun. If you think of the Earth as a giant ball you can see that as you stand on it, and it turns towards the Sun, you are in fact falling into the day.
I wonder what the day will feel like if I think of myself diving into it every morning?
Posted in from the dark room, life, photography on October 8, 2012| 1 Comment »
Posted in from the dark room, perception, photography on September 30, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Look closely at this rock, see the ripples and waves which make it up. Honestly, it looks more like water than a rock at times.
Wonderful!
Posted in from the dark room, photography on September 21, 2012| Leave a Comment »
I mean, where you see a path like this? And where you find a “moss garden”? Because that’s what this is – a path through a moss garden in Nara.
Doesn’t it inspire you to think about the paths we make and how we all make such different ones?
Posted in from the dark room, life, perception, photography on September 16, 2012| 1 Comment »
Wow! Look at the shape of this tree!
Look how it has wound its away amongst the stone lanterns. Isn’t that amazing? Did someone train it this way? There’s no sign of that, but maybe all the training was done years ago and the ropes, ties and poles have long since gone…..but maybe it just made it’s own way amongst the lanterns.
Either way its beautiful to look at, and quite breathtaking to see just how utterly entangled it and the lanterns have become.
Verlyn Klinkenborg wrote in The International Herald and Tribune
I grew up thinking of nature as a collection of species, each one self-reliant and independent, the way a good farmer was supposed to be. It’s an illusion we cling to. But nature is nothing like that, of course. It knits and unravels and reknits. At times, it looks to me as though organisms conspire, as when a weaker vine climbs a stronger one to get to the clapboards sooner. The one thing no species can ever be is self-reliant. Because entangled is the condition of life itself.
Posted in from the dark room, photography on September 16, 2012| 1 Comment »
I love to look up and see how sunlight shines through leaves, and creates an intricate pattern of colours and shadows.
Posted in from the dark room, from the living room, life, photography on September 14, 2012| 1 Comment »
This is one of my most favourite activities – to stroll around the temples and shrines of Kyoto and Nara…..
Posted in from the dark room, photography on September 12, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Now, to me, these shadows look like some form of kanji (secret messages from the ice?)
Heroes Not Zombies 