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Last month I visited Portland’s Japanese Garden with a roll of black and white film in my pinhole camera and thought I’d try pinholing The Tree. Here is the result. Today I pinholed it again, but in color, with expired slide film that I will cross process. I was there with my fellow Pinhole Obscura…
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Saturday’s blog post left me with all sorts of emotions and weirdness. I need to get it off of my home screen. I am not in the mood to write lately so here is a photo for you. I took this at Portland’s Japanese Gardens a few weeks ago. I’ve been doing very well with…
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It is a tree branch of some sort. I just don’t remember what I was taking a photo of. This was from my excursion two weekends ago at the Japanese Gardens with my Holga and a roll of black and white film. The back of my camera fell off right at the beginning of the roll so…
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Discipline. I’ve been thinking about that word a lot this past week. We’ve been reading “Zen Mind Beginners Mind” at my meditation group and the first chapter was about posture, specifically the correct posture to use in zazen. This correct use of posture helps make the practice (focusing on the breath) easier. As we talked…
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My Japanese gardens are closed for the season, but I couldn’t resist a picture when I peeped through the slats of the fence. Such pretty colors!