I was hoping the pandemic would not be affecting the Baishatun pilgrimage this year, but I was wrong. I had anticipated being allowed into the temple behind the waiting palanquin on the night of its departure, but again the inner hall was closed to the public. The “deal” is this: the night of departure is […]
metro
idky
The Ricoh GXR system with the Leica A12 module was the first digital camera I ever bought, and I bought it reluctantly. It was not a good seller, and the company discontinued it pretty quickly. I told myself I would not enter a cycle of upgrading and buying new digital cameras, and would wait a […]
臉
Compositionally divided diagonally, stabilized with a pyramid formed of the obscured figure’s shoulders rising up through to the top of the flame. There is the contrast of the deep shadows and the blown highlights, with expanses of limited greys. The structural lines are horizontal and vertical, save for the forearm following the slant of the […]
Staying negative
Covid, what metamorphoses you bring; but you have ended this for me. When I started taking photos, I used to say I was collecting negatives; there was no plan. Now I look back through the boxes of negs, I don’t see a life measured in pictures, I see an insatiable, pointless brick of a thing. […]
2015
No posts for a while, as things have been put on hold by moving and the pandemic. I scanned some old files the other day, taken in temples in 2015. These are a selection of the more interesting ones, some of which I have considered before, some of which I just disregarded. It’s always worth […]
love & the new year
From the park at the end of the road it is possible to walk into the hills and go for miles. The entrance, essentially a rise to a river flood buffer zone, is popular with visitors and family day trippers. The local warden head has arranged for installations to be placed here, owls, bears, an […]
松山靈隱寺羅漢
Lining the stairs leading to the Songshan Ling Yin Si on Xiangshan in western Taipei are a set of idiosyncratic — and to my mind beautifully conceived — depictions of luohan/arhats 羅漢. Walking in the opposite direction to the intended approach, we reached these before we met the algal-camouflaged lion at the entrance, and I […]
松山靈隱寺綠色獅子
One of the temple lions at the entrance to Songshan Ling Yin Si Temple 松山靈隱寺 on Xiangshan 象山 in western Taipei attracted my attention because of how the green algal growth almost camouflaged it against the backdrop of the foliage, and yet at the same time gave it an ethereal glow that set it apart […]
clocking 50, and where the hell is sinfeng?
My fiftieth birthday, Year-of-Covid “road trip to Changhua” didn’t go to plan, in a year in which plans have had to be largely abandoned across the board anyway. This was no glorious return to the Bayon; it was a trip to the middle of nowhere for a business room in a second-rate love hotel. It […]
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