Wabi-Sabi through my camera's lens . . .

In a past post I brought up Wabi-Sabi . . . Wabi-sabi is a Japanese word and as wikipedia describes: "Wabi-sabi (侘寂^?) represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete".^[1] It is a concept derived from the Buddhist teaching of the three marks of existence (三法印 sanbōin^?), specifically impermanence (無常 mujō^?)

I have begun to realize that as I look through my camera's lens I am seeing wabi-sabi. It is the stopping moment, the appreciation of the everyday, the second of seeing without thinking forward. Yesterday I took picture after picture, and as always, felt immensely grateful I don't have to now develop a million photographs to catch that one picture that feels settling to my eyes. Wabi-sabi through the lens as follows . . .

 The quaintness of pinto beans and dominoes . . . 

 Small hands . . .

 Cloth mats. . . 

 Morning light . . .

 A five-year-old's toes . . . 

The awe that same five-year-old feels when a giant moth lands squarely on her arm . . .

The moth itself . . . 

 The bent sunflower filled with seeds  . . .

 The careful picking . . . 

 Seed after seed . . . 

 Together . . . 

New seeds ready to eat, something I had never done before . . .

 So perfectly packed it makes you have to wonder . . .

  Wabi-sabi 

                                                           ~ Marica