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everyday beauty

gaze

This is my favourite wabi-sabi photograph from Monday's session at the MAC.

What do you see?  A tiny person threatened by a rapaciously toothed monster?  Someone falling from the top of a very tall peak?  A gentle, straight incline? A fine-art museum-piece?

In reality it was a deliberately out of focus photograph of some minor imperfections and scuffs on the side of a waste-paper bin.

flawed

The Japanese concept of wabi-sabi is intriguing. The celebration of impermanence, imperfection, melancholy and the everyday.

This is my first attempt at wabi-sabi photography.

the beauty of the day - No. 1

Dear Sheddists,

it's been just over a year since I retired and a number of people have asked me how it's going.

My consistent reply has been that I haven't had a day when there's been nothing to do, I haven't had a day when I've been bored and I haven't had a day when I failed to see something of beauty that would otherwise have passed me by had I been working.

So this year I'm going to put this to the proof and see how many things I can capture that reflect in some small way the beauty I've seen. Today it's been the wintry afternoon sunshine streaming through the windows at home.  I love my home very much - it's been built on love, family and laughter - and to see the light shining through it was so wonderful.

Here are just a few of the things that made me smile today - hope you enjoy them too.

Yours as ever,

electrofried(mr)