A Cloud Passing Casting Shadow On A Paneless Widow Zen Not Zen 4K

A Cloud Passing

Casting Shadow

On A Paneless Widow

may both Be Zen and Not Zen

At once together separate alone crowded

singular plural divided union

one whole none present and gone

unattached belonging stateless hidden contracted compressed forgotten unremembered all hollow husk no seed

Only Zen if you wish to make it Zen.

I do find that focusing on photography is a way to manage pain and open windows like these can be paneless as subjects to see and to photograph on the ways towards painless destinations.

I could ask what is a window and what is a window frame and does a pane now fit into many answers of what makes a window. Empty windows and open windows, old, missing, sparse, defunct, deteriorated, eroding, former windows and potential windows all have forms and fashion to frame their definition.

Temple Kirk just outside Edinburgh in Scotland has land ownership links to The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, also known as Templar Knights, and then later on to The Order of Knights of the Hospital.

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Don’t look Nothing to see here, just 16 edited FAILS, Memories Recorded 4K

Nothing to see here, just a few, (16 if I am counting), failed images more memories recorded than anything else. I am trying new ways to keep my memories alive. Photo storage software is superb at providing me with a pictorial diary and access through mobile phone to so many moments that can be made into memorable moments it is superb I am not. These are some of my pictures made to attach memories to. The scene is out focus lights through a window on a blustery night and it is set to give me an idea of more than the scene set out in front of me. Even more than either the room behind me, or the lights before me as I look out over the Bay of Ireland and Celestrain Sound Orkney. The out of focus lights could include the Taing of Sandside lighthouse on Graemsay Island not far from the ferry port of Stromness harbour.

Nothing failing here except for me. Memory saved here through a window with a storm obscuring some of the view and with purposeful out of focussing helping the rendition along into bright baubles. The memory being saved was in part my not being able to access the out of doors and also the geographic location too.

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Avian Circle the first film following the birds around The Earl’s Palace...

Avian Circle the first film following the birds around

The Earl’s Palace, Birsay, Orkney, Scotland

The birds chirped and swooped in fragmentary swarms and mutterings bordering upon mini murmurings. The sound and sight was amazing. In taking pictures around The Earl’s Palace at Birsay I missed a major murmuring and a jumbled muttering, but at least I did catch something of the Avian Circle following the birds around The Earl’s Palace, Birsay, Orkney, Scotland.

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Earl’s Palace, Birsay, Birsay, Orkney

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Brough of Birsay, Birsay, Orkney, KW17 2LX

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Higgledy Hedge Row Piggledy at The Earl’s Palace, Birsay, Orkney, Scotla...

There was the whole fantastic ruin of The Earl’s Palace at Birsay and as I was being asked to leave my final frames were of this plant seemingly trying to get into the scheduled monument. I was being told that we had other places to go and that it was Refreshments O'clock. The woody stems had my imagination in over drive.

This is a second film presentation with much less strong stressed images. There is a greatly reduced soundtrack. Altogether less sometimes is more, we all have our perception to please.

I nearly wrote tease, please and release, but I thought better of that, the hedgerow has more than enough of plenty within it’s burgeoning boughs.

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Earl’s Palace, Birsay, Birsay, Orkney

https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/earls-palace-birsay/

Brough of Birsay, Birsay, Orkney, KW17 2LX

https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/brough-of-birsay/

Higgledy Hedge Piggledy Row at The Earl’s Palace, Birsay, Orkney.

There was the whole fantastic ruin of The Earl’s Palace at Birsay and as I was being asked to leave my final frames were of this plant seemingly trying to get into the scheduled monument. I was being told that we had other places to go and that it was Refreshments O'clock. The woody stems had my imagination in over drive.

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Earl’s Palace, Birsay, Birsay, Orkney

https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/earls-palace-birsay/

Brough of Birsay, Birsay, Orkney, KW17 2LX

https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/brough-of-birsay/

The making of a Title Screen with virtual spiked iron 4K

 The making of a Title Screen

One figure whether dark, or light

replaced with a sky from the same day

and railed in with virtual spiked iron

These places have lived in my memory for an amazing amount of time. These places and those that have some seeming similarity and that either may, or might not be linked have lived in the minds of very many people indeed. Sometimes they lay covered and forgotten for generations and the stories of their return to light are often as amazing as the place are themselves and then there are ideas about the people that made these sites a set of stories by starlight that illuminate the inner and feature everywhere we loon upon the outer.

What are they and how are they still here? Where life has not needed their stone and structure they have been left to ruin. Sometimes story and superstition has caused these outmoded places to be destroyed and also then again the very same stories and superstitions have at other times caused them to be left well alone. The light and the dark record days and they embrace and release shadows to pattern out the seasons. From food safe to initiation sacred place and absolutely everything in between storage and ritual comes to light our imagination when illumination is sought within and to burn bright with inspiration when answers come flooding back to the surface.

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