denuded glory
Opening up
Full bloom from yellow to light pink
a maturing seed pod
pod of fire
welcoming arms at seaside
Nature is never shy trying its hands at embroidery, indifferent to man
a rent in the fence of protection
A Daoist temple wall, colonised by Nature, leaving unmistakable signs of its "re-territorialization"
Clouds are never afraid to roam the earth
They go where they will
but one may prefer to wait, hanging her hat (or is it her head?) on something else she thinks is stronger or more expedient
This woman prefers to be more active: she dons her hat and heads out straight into the waters, waiting for her catch
Others prefer waiting on the shore, perhaps safer that way
Some take to the sky, waiting in the air
spider in the sky
maybe signs of looking for help from the gods, idols of their own desire, for more catches or a better harvest?
Others prefer to rely on the sparkle of the beer bottle
Perhaps more direct: a straighter path towards the numbing of some over-excited dendrites?
The tides are rising now
Twisting and turning, silently seeking support
Twisting and turning in the sky too
A storm coming?
Glimmer of light in a murky stream
Some need road signs prepared for them by others
Not them: they create their own
Whenever I drop by, you never disappoint and this time is no different! How effortless you spun magic around the mundane and ordinary capturing our imagination beyond compare! I remain your captive reader!
回覆刪除[版主回覆07/08/2013 16:19:48]Come more often. You're always welcome. You seem to be having a good time wherever you go!
wow, good good good pictures, you learn from 博樂.
回覆刪除[版主回覆07/09/2013 06:11:35]Yes, we should always learn what we find good in others. Pok Lok is a much better photographer.
I like the white clouds in the blue sky....
回覆刪除[版主回覆07/09/2013 06:12:11]Glad you do. I like 'em too.
The nameless flower in second picture is the most common I saw when I was hiking.
回覆刪除[版主回覆07/09/2013 06:12:32]I believe it's called daisy.
You have done the day ample justice.
回覆刪除[版主回覆07/10/2013 08:09:29]I don't know why. Ask Yahoo. In any event, to me, "beauty" is a very "human" feeling. For plants, animals, insects etc., all they pay attention to are bright colors and certain shapes which evolution has programmed them to heed for "survival" and that is all they need. I don't think they got any "aesthetic sense" or "sense of justice" which only creatures with a huge brain like a human brain (with some 15 billion neurons each with a hundred to more than a thousand dendritic connections) will have because they got sufficient capacity for "abstract" thinking based on "generalization" from specific instances" and with capacity for creative pre-action "imaginative mental pre-play" of "absent" scenarios which it unrolls in the theatre of its mind, extracting therefrom certain abstract "principles" of balance or appropriateness between order/chaos, between unity and diversity, between repetition and difference, between identity and contrast (big & small, long and short, high and low, plurality and singularity, many and little etc). as far as "sense of beauty" is concerned, something which is really the product of man's "spare" capacity for "play" ( because a "sense" of beauty does not serve any practical purposes and is not strictly required for our daily living) and "sense of rightness" (in French "droit" means "straight" and "right" or "law") and "sense of justice" (etymological origin "jus" meaning "exact", just right etc) which according to classical philosophy are merely different manifestation of the same "idea", the idea of Order/Rightness. Nature is just nature, whether we are talking about a "day" or a "flower". They just "are" or exist, indifferent to human purposes and human values either in the form of our sense of "beauty" or our sense of "justice".
[Peter回覆07/09/2013 18:03:01]How come your last comment is shown in your blog as「垃圾評論」with a "lock" sign?
Back to your comment: No offence at all. If everyone agrees with what I say, I may as well heap praises on myself for a faster self-gratification. I welcome and value your whatever comments for that chance to think out of the box. So, no need to be apologetic.
Didn't you point your camera at the flowers to capture what you believed to be "beautiful" to do them justice at that fleeting moment? And on a more philosophical note, how do you know the flowers don't want justice done to their beauty while they proudly display their myriad colors that attract your eyeball? Bees and butterflies do justice to flowers by helping to pollinate. Birds and animals consume fruits from trees thus scattering the seeds to help propagation. Through symbiosis we do "justice" to each other. Do not hold the homo sapiens in too high a regard. They are not as noble as you think. They are just transient passers-by in the infinity of TIME. The roaches may rule one day.
[版主回覆07/09/2013 11:59:35]Perhaps. Justice? Who is the day fighting against? For what? Does it need to fight at all? Nature was there before homo sapiens first set foot on this blue planet and may be there long after we have annihilated each other with our "weapons of mass destruction". The day will just roll on, as it has done for billions of years, indifferent to man. Is it because of man's inhumanity to man that we need "justice"? Is ChuangTzu right when he says that our saints destroyed the Tao and its terrestrial manifestation for benevolence and justice (毀道德以為仁義，聖人之過也 《馬蹄篇 》)? No offence, just some random thoughts triggered by your words.
very nice sky and pretty photos
回覆刪除[版主回覆07/09/2013 12:49:43]Thank you. Yours are much better. I'm still learning.
啲花同雲影得好靚，
回覆刪除最喜歡第一張。
[版主回覆07/10/2013 07:14:50]Thank you. But yours are far more beautiful than mine.
di 花你影架 Elzorro ? 好靚
回覆刪除[版主回覆07/10/2013 07:12:23]Yes. They attracted my attention on my way to where I wanted to go.
Nice pic~~~ like the caption!
回覆刪除[版主回覆07/10/2013 22:12:27]Thanks. The caption is a bit dramatic!
nice blog!
回覆刪除[版主回覆07/10/2013 22:13:00]Very kind of you.
Spider is my pick! They are all very well captured!
回覆刪除[版主回覆07/10/2013 22:13:56]Colorful killer awaiting its prey.
廢寺的牆那像很有現代畫的味道。
回覆刪除[版主回覆07/12/2013 04:17:01]That's what struck me when I passed it by.
Seized your fate against uncertainty, you put together a thoughtful collection of pictures.
回覆刪除[版主回覆07/14/2013 09:22:33]We have little choice if we don't wish to be a slave to the whims of birth and circumstance or to others' desires and their manipulation.