Slippers on The Stair
The time for another transition nears. Light falls on the temple stairs. Reflections in the windows. Places and people I will remember and treasure forever. This place is but steps from where I first landed in Japan decades and decades ago.
When obliged to photograph yourself, what would you do? Particularly if you were not in the habit of taking pictures of people in the first place?
waiting to be saved
The image below was taken in the forbidden city, Beijing China in 2012. It is of a bridge, or part of one; what is reflected in the dark water beneath the span; and the prayer entrusted cash at the bottom. To my eye, the image can be construed also as an eye, perhaps the eye of a bird or a mardi gras mask.
In the eye of the beholder
