EXPRESSING CREATIVITY: Media Arts - photography, videography, photo collage, etc.

[Jishin]

Waterfall.


Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__

[Cooperix]

Nice Jishin and Kyoshin!
Wow, Texas and Viet Nam...
I agree with Kyoshin. I love that bird image.

bows
Anne

~lahst~

[Jishin]

Sunrise West Texas this AM.



Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__

[Kyoshin]

Sunrise West Texas this AM.



Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__

Whereabouts in West Texas?

Gassho
Kyōshin
Satlah

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[Jishin]

This is the view from my back yard near Lubbock. I am not a cotton farmer but that is what they farm around here. West Texas is very flat and there is not much vegetation because of the heat (desert like) but the sunsets and sunrises are beautiful.

The picture was taken with a Samsung Ultra smart phone at 30x mag with minimal editing.

Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__

[Kyoshin]

This is the view from my back yard near Lubbock. I am not a cotton farmer but that is what they farm around here. West Texas is very flat and there is not much vegetation because of the heat (desert like) but the sunsets and sunrises are beautiful.

The picture was taken with a Samsung Ultra smart phone at 30x mag with minimal editing.

Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__

I'm very familiar with the heat and flatness of West Texas. I grew up in Midland, and have even been to Lubbock once or twice. If you add petroleum fumes to the dust in the air it makes sunsets even better. [emoji16]

Gassho
Kyōshin
Satlah

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[Jishin]

I'm very familiar with the heat and flatness of West Texas. I grew up in Midland, and have even been to Lubbock once or twice. If you add petroleum fumes to the dust in the air it makes sunsets even better. [emoji16]

Gassho
Kyōshin
Satlah

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Wow, grew up in Midland and now in Vietnam? How did that happen?

Someone told me that unemployment in Midland/Odessa is close to 50% due to the oil crash but I don't believe its that high. Had to be careful about lighting a match in Midland/Odessa due to the oil boom prior to the crash.

Gassho, Jishin, ST

[Cooperix]

HI Guys,
I grew up in Houston, but know those dusty plains of west texas well. (Almost got in a road accident in a dust storm outside Lubbock a few years ago.)
And Jishin, that sunrise image is amazing.
From Midland to Vietnam! I bet there's a good story there, Kyoshin.

bows
Anne

~lahst~

[Kyoshin]

The story is not so exciting. My wife applied for teaching jobs overseas and got hired. She was nice enough to let me come with her.

Gassho
Kyōshin
Satlah

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[Jishin]

EXPRESSING CREATIVITY: Media Arts - photography, videography, photo collage, etc.

This is a good friend of mine who was kind enough to allow me to make a portrait photo on IPhone. I did some editing in Lightroom. He is Buddhist and in his former life he was an attorney.



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[Jishin]

The story is not so exciting. My wife applied for teaching jobs overseas and got hired. She was nice enough to let me come with her.

Gassho
Kyōshin
Satlah

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Nice wife.

Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__

[Meitou]

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know. Diane Arbus

These are some snaps I made during our lockdown; unlike many countries our government put our safety first and imposed strict rules - no going out for 'exercise', only for absolute necessities, no mingling with others, masks to be worn while out, a physical distance of one metre from others at all times. Only essential shops stayed open and these rigourously adhered and enforced the rules, for all our sakes. Instead of causing division, this knowledge that we were all in the same boat united us a country in the most beautiful ways. Ingenious solutions were found for going to church, for meeting up with friends, for entertaining others.
These snapshots were taken viewing the outside from inside, but what secrets do they hold, what story do they tell? Was I feeling frightened or safe, trapped or liberated, lonely and isolated or connected to others? What do they say to me now?

sitting room lockdown best.jpg

bedroom lockdown.jpg

bathroom lockdown.jpg

studio lockdown.jpg

view lockdown.jpg

Gassho
Meitou
sattoday lah

[Jishin]

Love the images Meitou. Don't know how to put what I like about them into words.

Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__

[Cooperix]

Jishin! Your friend...no words, only this ...what a shockingly beautiful face!

Meitou, thank you for posting those remarkable covid19 lockdown images. I had seen them on instagram and hoped you'd put them up here for the sangha to enjoy.
There is a quiet ambiguity, almost a mysterious longing that they express: the melancholy of aloneness, silence even expressed in the subdued light. Really exactly reflecting Diane Arbus' quote. Wonderful images

Anyone else willing to post images from this unique time?

Gassho
Anne

~lahst~

[Meitou]

Love the images Meitou. Don't know how to put what I like about them into words.

Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__

Thank you Anne!
Jishin thank you. There's no need for words and that's a beautiful thing, the feeling of connection beyond anything that can be said. Your work is always fine, but I think with this portrait and the recent ones of your sons, you've excelled.
Thank you everyone for what you are posting, Vietnam, Texas, Sardinia, deserts, mountains and seas, quiet rooms and hidden spaces - all worlds different and the same, connected mysteriously under the same knowing sky.
Gassho
Meitou
Sattoday lah