Searching - Jennifer Percy (Sat 01 Oct 2016)

Jo and Tokyo Students - Gold Palace / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)

Jennifer Percy on Searching:

We often think of searching as a kind of movement, a forward motion through time, but maybe it can also be the opposite, a suspension of time and memory

via The Searchers by Jennifer Percy.

Temple - Kyoto (Fri 14 Sep 2012)

On Photography and the Ordinary - Adam Marelli (Wed 09 Dec 2015)

Untitled - Fushimi Inari-taisha - Kyoto (Fri 14 Sep 2012)

Adam Marelli on Photography and the Ordinary:

The more ordinary the better.

via What did Japanese art do to photography: Part 2 by Adam Marelli.

Another common term photographers use to describe the ordinary is banal, being the hallmark of my own photography. In Japan in Sep 2012 I was at my banal best.

Go .. - Kirk Tuck (Mon 28 Jul 2014)

Kyoto's Orange Temple - Fushimi Inari-taisha (*) / Kyoto (Fri 14 Sep 2012)
Kirk Tuck (*) writes:

getting ready to be ready can be forever, and that's too long.

via Starting new projects. Building on old ways of seeing. (*) by Kirk Tuck (*).

Go (*) Kirk, Go (*).

On the Destruction of Photography - Daido Moriyama - Jenny Hsu / WSJ (Mon 11 Nov 2013)

Untited - Kyoto / Japan (Sat 15 Sep 2013)
Daido Moriyama (*) tells of his experience to quit photography:

Before leaving it, I wanted to destroy it, But when I tried to destroy it, that’s when I realized I couldn’t live without it.

via Daido Moriyama Captures the ‘True Reality of Life’ With His Lens (*) by Jenny Hsu (*).

Wall - Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)

Wall - Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)

Intersection - Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)

Intersection - Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)
Will need to look at the photos from that day to work out exactly where in Kyoto I took this one.

On Change and Moving Forward - Kirk Tuck (Wed 30 Jan 2013)

Floorboard Cross Section - Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)
Kirk Tuck (*) talks On Change (*):

The thread that should run through everything though should be to honestly have fun with your work.

You don't have to love everything but you sure have to like the process.

But to fall back in love with the process you have to yield to the idea that everything changes.

It's always tough to stomach that change must include me...

via (*) by Kirk Tuck (*).

While Kirk abstracts the above from his working life as a professional photographer, it is a great way to understand the change proces, discontinuities in your life and whether you upto going with it or wallowing around in self pity for what once was (hope that makes sense).

More Faces #3 - Teramachi Street / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)

More Faces #3 - Teramachi Street / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)
A little out of focus, but I like the result.

Orange Lantern #4 - Joanne and Betty - Hanami-koji Street / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)

Orange Lantern #4 - Joanne and Betty - Hanami-koji Street / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)
As you can see, I was quite taken by the Orange Lanterns (*).

Orange Lantern #3 - Hanami-koji Street / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)

Orange Lantern #3 - Hanami-koji Street / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)

Orange Lantern #2 - Hanami-koji Street / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)

Orange Lantern #2 - Hanami-koji Street / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)

Orange Lantern #1 - Hanami-koji Street / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)

Orange Lantern #1 - Hanami-koji Street / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)
Like the placement of her feet on the circular manhole edge - did not notice this until just now. The Beauty of Photography. Sometimes you just get lucky.

More Faces #2 - Teramachi Street / Kyoto (Sat 14 Sep 2012)

More Faces #2 - Teramachi Street / Kyoto (Sat 14 Sep 2012)

More Faces #1 - Teramachi Street / Kyoto (Sat 14 Sep 2012)

More Faces #1 - Teramachi Street / Kyoto (Sat 14 Sep 2012)

Pebbles - Kyoto's Orange Temple / Fushimi Inari-taisha / Kyoto (Fri 14 Sep 2012)

Pebbles - Kyoto's Orange Temple / Fushimi Inari-taisha / Kyoto (Fri 14 Sep 2012)
After three months I now know the reason I took this photo. It has a kind of nice glow about it even though it was in a dark shaded area of the mountainside.

On Connections - Jo Rowling - Harvard Commencement Speech (Thu 05 Jun 2008)

Jo and Tokyo Students [1] - Gold Palace / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)
In her 2008 Harvard Commencement Speech (*), Jo Rowling (*) quotes an Anceint Greek Historian and Writer by the of Plutarch (*):

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

where she expands:

That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives.

It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people's lives simply by existing.

[1] The students had just finished asking Joanne a number of questions for a school assignment testing their English. They were very nice to us and put smiles on our faces.

Hands and Gestures (2 of 2) - Coffee Shop / Sanjo Dori / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)

Hands and Gestures (2 of 2) - Coffee Shop / Sanjo Dori / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)
And the tables to my right.

Hands and Gestures (1 of 2) - Coffee Shop / Sanjo Dori / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)

Hands and Gestures (1 of 2) - Coffee Shop / Sanjo Dori / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)
On the table to my left.

Smile - Teramachi Street / Kyoto (Sat 14 Sep 2012)

Smile - Teramachi Street / Kyoto (Sat 14 Sep 2012)
Love the red in his shoes.

Faces (4&5 of 5) - Teramachi Street / Kyoto (Sat 14 Sep 2012)

Faces (4 of 5) - Teramachi Street / Kyoto (Sat 14 Sep 2012)
Faces (5 of 5) - Teramachi Street / Kyoto (Sat 14 Sep 2012)