Passings orient us

© 2016 Peter Free

18 July 2016

 

By chance

Today, I learned that photographer Michael Reichmann died in May.

He was one of the proportionally few Internet people whose opinion on photographic equipment I valued. When Michael Reichmann wrote something, I was interested because his experienced preferences usually matched mine.

 

Change “meditates” us

Whether we are alert to its influence or not.

With age, youth’s dribbled endings turn to flow. It becomes challenging to miss the point.

 

The moral? — Doing in stillness, or is it the reverse?

That’s a slyly satirical Zen joke. Paradox, if you want.

Puff-clouded sun silently lures my attention through the window — colors splayed, distant forest and small segments of translucent blue. Orange tile boasts brilliant from scattered rooftops.

And I do what Michael Reichmann would have done.