Snow in bw.

[Irma]

Last year I started a series of images taken in the snow. They are not landscapes, but motifs? things I find in my way to the lake ... Last year I got 2 pictues, this year I got 4!! I am very happy...

I hope you find them interesting.

#1



#2



#3



#4


Thanks for looking...

[Toad]

Great series - very minimal which I like. #4 is my fav although #1 is close behind...

[EnglishBob]

Great series Irma, I wish I would remember to look for the smaller images instead of the big picture when i shoot... I very rarely remember to take detail shots.

#4 is my pick too.

[Irma]

Thanks Toad, Craig for your comment...

Craig, this might be because your wide landscape is too beautiful. My landscape is boring, so I have to look for details. They change very fast, and there are many...

[nia]

Hi Dear Irma, there is a lovely Zen touches in these photographs. Especially the first two are my best. In this plainness (is it the exact word, I am not sure, but I hope you can understand what I am trying to say) it stands gorgeous like all Zen poems or Haiku poems. I loved it dear Irma, you captured so nicely,

Thank you,
with my love,
nia

[NT73]

Inspirational.

[Irma]

Thanks NT... you are very kind...


Thanks nia...

I really didn't think about working Zen photograpy here, but now that you mention it I have to say that I have been reading and watching videos of John Daido Loori Roshi ....

He was a photographer, and became Zen Master and the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in the Catskill Mountains of New York. There is a lot of material in video in internet and he wrote many books about Zen photography... As I have read The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life is one of his best books. Unfortunately what most people complain about many of his book is the poor quality of the print.