Murray Foote
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A few images from the Kenrokuen Gardens in Kanazawa:
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Jarmo Juntunen
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Hi Murray, nicely done, I really get the feel of winter in your pictures. This place must look nice in the summer, as well.
Murray Foote
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Hi, Jarmo, thanks very much. Only there for a day, of course. I felt privileged to be there at a time of unusually heavy snowfall which also meant there were few people there for several hours. Spring could be good, too, and there could be some spectacular colours in autumn.
Ben Rubinstein
pro member
Love that last one!
Tom Robbins
Active member
Wow, Murray, I'd say you made the very best of a great opportunity. The cool blues work well with the spare and generally scattered earth siennas in each photo.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Murray,
This is most unusual, certainly for me. The patterns of the trunk are strange and made more important by the snow masking the greenery of the tree. It looks as if there's a tree spirit bent forward, stuck and struggling to free himself!
Asher
Murray Foote
Member
Thanks very much Ben, Tom and Asher.
Asher, I can also see a swastika in the branches of the tree, which is curiously appropriate. While this has most unfortunate connotations in the West due to relatively recent misappropriation, it has been a sacred Buddhist symbol for thousands of years. Maps in Japan denote all Buddhist temples with swastikas. And after all, we are in a 500-year-old garden, its elegance informed by the aesthetics of Zen Buddhism, often rated as one of the top three in Japan. A good swastika, perhaps.
Asher, I can also see a swastika in the branches of the tree, which is curiously appropriate. While this has most unfortunate connotations in the West due to relatively recent misappropriation, it has been a sacred Buddhist symbol for thousands of years. Maps in Japan denote all Buddhist temples with swastikas. And after all, we are in a 500-year-old garden, its elegance informed by the aesthetics of Zen Buddhism, often rated as one of the top three in Japan. A good swastika, perhaps.
Murray Foote
Member
Here are a few more from Kanazawa:
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fahim mohammed
Well-known member
Murray, these are excellent for this particular viewer.
Well done indeed. Simple pleasure to view.
As to the Swastika, the Hindu religion, too has what might immediately appear to be one, but it is
rotated.
Best regards.
Well done indeed. Simple pleasure to view.
As to the Swastika, the Hindu religion, too has what might immediately appear to be one, but it is
rotated.
Best regards.
Murray Foote
Member
Thanks very much, Fahim.
The swastika was a sacred symbol in the Hrappa civilisation, too, which is probably where Buddhism and Hinduism got it from. The Hittites used it as well. Perhaps I should have used the term manji, which is what the Japanese word for it is.
The swastika was a sacred symbol in the Hrappa civilisation, too, which is probably where Buddhism and Hinduism got it from. The Hittites used it as well. Perhaps I should have used the term manji, which is what the Japanese word for it is.
Murray Foote
Member
Part of my reason for putting the images up was for a Projected Image Portfolio Competition at the Canberra Photographic Society, for which I was intending to enter the first five images. The comments of Ben and Asher made me think that perhaps the last image was to different and too dominant, so I also included this one in third place:
A somewhat unlikely composition but I think it works for me at least.
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And while I'm at it, here is a sight I encountered in town later that night:
A somewhat unlikely composition but I think it works for me at least.
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And while I'm at it, here is a sight I encountered in town later that night: