simplicity

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“The Japanese sense of beauty has long sharply differed from its Western counterpart: it has been dominated by a love of irregularity rather than symmetry, the impermanent rather than the eternal and the simple rather than the ornate. The reason owes nothing to climate or genetics, but is the result of the actions of writers, painters and theorists, who had actively shaped the sense of beauty of their nation.”
— Alain de Botton

contemplation

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I would love to have had these two photos in one, because they happened at exactly the same time. The person you see seated to the right of the little girl is the gentleman in the first picture. Separately I like the pictures but I think together they tell such an interesting story.

winter light

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One of the things I love best about the winter in Maine is the light, how gentle it makes everything that it touches. A pink glow in the morning, and this soft gold in the afternoon. 

I never paid so much attention to light before my 365 project two years ago. It's now to the point that I rarely see pictures at all anymore unless the light has a certain quality (which is, interestingly, why I think my favorite work was made in the winter).