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Time’s almost up for the cherry blossom

Posted in from the dark room, photography on April 25, 2011| 1 Comment »

As April, the month of transience, draws to a close this week, so the cherry blossom, such a powerful symbol of the power of transience, is falling in the temples.

temple blossom

fallen blossom

time for blossom

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Serendipity, wonder and play

Posted in from the dark room, photography, tagged on April 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday while walking to the Kyoto Museum (which turns out to be closed for refurbishment just now, by the look of things) we stumbled upon the Kaleidoscope Museum of Kyoto. Why not? Let’s pop in and have a look.
It’s a small museum, with a lot of staff, and a completely amazing range of kaleidoscopes for you to pick up and peer through. The staff don’t speak much English but when they discovered we were from Scotland we became VIPs – apparently, the kaleidoscope was invented by a Scot! There on the wall was a plaque dedicated to Sir David Brewster, the 18th century scientist who invented the kaleidoscope. And I came all the way to Kyoto to find that out?!
What a wonderful way to pass an hour or so playing with all the kaleidoscopes. Just beautiful. Before we left, we bought one, too. Here’s my attempt to take a photograph through the spy-hole of a kaleidoscope….

kaleidoscope

kaleidoscope

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Reflections in Tokyo

Posted in from the dark room, from the living room, photography, tagged on April 24, 2011| 1 Comment »

leaves on leaves

What on earth is this? Look carefully….leaves and sky reflected in leaves on stone in the rain.

trees on marble

leaves on marble

Strikingly beautiful. Leaves and trees engraved onto marble glistening in the rain.

This next one makes it look like I’ve just teleported from Scotland to Tokyo. (I didn’t teleport, by the way, just the regular AirFrance flight)

reflected me

This was a striking experience……the combination of multiply different environments, natural, artistic, built and cultural…..suddenly, here I am, in a different, floating world.

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double transience

Posted in from the dark room, photography on April 20, 2011| 3 Comments »

cherry blossom shadows

cherry blossom, and the shadows of cherry blossom

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tip toe through the tulips with me

Posted in from the dark room, photography on April 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »

I started today outside Physio in the garden of hospital where I work

physio

red tulips

then I saw this gorgeous orange tulip

close up orange

and a natural bouquet outside one of the consulting rooms

natural bouquet

Next my walk stumbled into the dark

the dark

the double dark

Have you ever seen a tulip like this?

yellow

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the moon tonight

Posted in from the dark room, photography on April 17, 2011| 2 Comments »

the moon

closer….closer…..

the moon

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Tiny little things

Posted in from the dark room, photography on April 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Sometimes it’s the smallest things which look so exquisitely perfect……

toadstool

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The art of Nature

Posted in from the dark room, photography on April 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »

fallen blossom

This is typical of what will catch my eye. It’s a single fallen cherry blossom lying on other plants. The way the different leaves, petals and colours come together just looks like a work of art to me – a spontaneous, serendipitous, natural creation….

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What do you see?

Posted in from the dark room, photography on April 3, 2011| 3 Comments »

gap in the wall

What did you notice first when you looked at this photo?
What part of the image did you find your eye drawn to initially?

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Shaped by the environment, but still unique

Posted in from the dark room, photography on March 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »

agate fungi

How often do you notice that something has strong echoes of something completely different? I’ve never seen fungus on a tree look like this. It looks like agate to me. Which got me thinking….this is a fungus looking like a stone…here’s another photo I took the same day of stone looking like water…

rocks like water

These are rocks in a waterfall, so you can imagine why they develop this particular form….but don’t they look SO like water?

Isn’t nature amazing?

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