Monthly Archives: April 2010

Implements of Prayer

Pen and Ink, Osu Kannon temple, Nagoya, Japan
Implements provided to inscribe prayers on wooden medallions.

Kannon-Goddess of Mercy (Nagoya, Japan

Osu Kannon temple, Nagoya, Japan
Hundreds of statues of Kannon, Goddess of Mercy, a bodhisattva in the Buddhist tradition, surround various representations of Buddha himself in a smaller temple on the grounds of Osu Kannon.

First day in Nagoya, Japan

Buddha at the end of the cherry blossom season, Osu Kannon temple, Nagoya, Japan
I just got back from 9 full days in Japan, 6 of which I got to spend shooting as much as I wanted. Trying to beat the jetlag on the first morning, I ventured out to a Buddhist temple early in the [...]

Rocky mountain Bighorn at Glacier NP

Rocky Mountain Bighorn at Logan Pass, Glacier National Park
The historic Going-to-the-Sun Road crosses the Contintental Divide in Glacier National Park and ends in the east in a junction with Highway 89. At the top of Logan Pass, bighorn sheep and Rocky Mountain Goats are plentiful. Right now the animals are contending with a mountain of [...]

And so it begins

Scottish regalia
In a 1978 Paris Match interview, Joan Didion said [PDF], “What’s so hard about that first sentence is that you’re stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you’ve laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.”
And so it begins.

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