For more of my experience at the World Café Europe event in Dresden, along with two photographs by Ulrich Soeder, one of the most inspired photographic artists I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet, read these two posts on language and the ineffable, and the peace café in Dresden’s famous frauenkirch that opened the event.
Archive for photography – Page 6
My bookshelves are like the proverbial loaves and fishes, in that no matter how many times I go through them and cull out everything I don’t HAVE to own, they produce boxes and boxes that need to be sold or donated to make room for the new ones I am continually acquiring.
I sold this last batch of 8 boxes in only 3 stops (well, four, but one didn’t buy ANYTHING). And I got away with only buying 2 new (used) ones in exchange. One of these was Flower Portraits: the Life Cycle of Beauty, by the photographer Joyce Tenneson.
Tenneson had just finished a book of photographs on women in the third phase of their lives, and had become fascinated by the unexpected beauty she saw in these older women. Flowers had long been a photographic muse for her and in this, her next book, she started photographing them throughout their life cycle too. What she found amazed her; in her own words “I saw wisdom and beauty with new eyes”.
As a budding photographer (and aging woman) I love these expansive images, unfolding expressions of an innate beauty that transforms but does not fade.
I’ve started taking time each day, usually first thing in the morning, to get outside and walk for a half-hour or so with the express purpose of noticing the beauty around me.
I almost always bring my camera, which gives me such a feeling of joy because it allows the astounding beauty I see to be shared with others. Today I was really aware of spring coming…
I was shocked to find I’d almost missed the ornamental cherry blossoms – already the outer petals are starting to turn brown and curl away.
Second Night Originally uploaded by heather.
How cool! Heather Champ is posting photographs to Flickr as she lights the candle for each night of Hanukkah…
I think I’ll add them one by one to this post, ceremonially, offering that gesture as a collective lighting of each flame on our virtual menorah. In honor of life, and miracles.
Here’s the whole sequence:
First Night (12/15):
Second Night (12/16):
Third Night (12/17):
Fourth Night (12/18):
Fifth Night (12/19):
Sixth Night (12/20):
(tonight I had the blessing of sharing the prayers that accompany this night’s ritual lighting with my rebel rabbi friend Joel)
Seventh Night (12/21):
Last Night (12/22):
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