Week #39 Photo Challenge

City Buildings

"Be a good stewart of your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books. Have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours."

Dani Shapiro

Week #38 Photo Challenge

Sunrise on Water

" I subscribe to the belief that we don't find a subject for a photograph - I believe it finds us. When I wander off with my camera, I try to keep my mind blank and instead listen for that soft "Psst! Over here!" to guide me.  The best bet is to disconnect the intellect from the process and listen to your feelings...your gut. What am I going to photograph today? "I'll know if when I see it" is a great answer.

Charles Cramer - First Light - Five Photographers Explore Yosemite's Wilderness

Week #37 Photo Challenge

Window Light

"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."

Ansel Adams

Week #36 Photo Challenge

Bark

"It is through the everydayness of such (unremarkable art) that we are blessed to experience the ordinary mind as a portal to transcendence and liberation."

Charles R. Johnson - Taming the Ox, Buddhist Stories and Reflections on Politics, Race, Culture and Spiritual Practice

Week #35 Photo Challenge

Trapped

"When we practice dharma art, there's a quality of freedom in the artistic process.  Our art becomes something we discover rather than create. When we see ourselves and the world as transitory, we begin to relax, to look at what is happening with curiosity about where it leads. We don't have to try so hard. We let go. Now the real artisan begins to come out."

Steven Saitzyk 

Week #34 Photo Challenge

Sunlight 

"Light was my first love."  Sir John Herschel

Week # 33 Photo Challenge

White Flower

"Then you might see something, which is second stage. The more you look the more inquisitive you are, the more you are bound to see.  Your looking process is not restrained because you are genuine, you are gentle, you have nothing to lose and nothing to fight against ... you can see so beautifully. In fact, you can feel the warm of red and the coolness of blue and the penetrating quality of green - all at once.  You appreciate the world around you.  It is a fantastic new discovery of the world.  You would like to explore the entire universe."

            Chogyam Trumpa Rinpoche, Shambhala Sacred Path of the Warrior