photographer's diary
images mostly from the Pacific Rim by photographer bruce behnke
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Friday, February 12, 2021
Happy Lunar New Year 新年快樂!
Happy new year!
新年快樂!
May this year of the Ox bring health, happiness and joy to all of you!
祝您身體健康,幸福快樂。
Tianmu Sanyu Temple
三玉宮
Taipei, Taiwan
台北,台灣
photo: (c) Bruce Behnke, April, 2016
Monday, January 25, 2021
something better
Sleeping in the Forest
Thursday, January 21, 2021
waiting
一棵開花的樹
如何讓你遇見我
在我最美麗的時刻 為這
我已在佛前 求了五百年
求他讓我們結一段塵緣
佛於是把我化作一棵樹
長在你必經的路旁
陽光下慎重地開滿了花
朵朵都是我前世的盼望
當你走近 請你細聽
那顫抖的葉是我等待的熱情
而當你終於無視地走過
在你身後落了一地的
朋友啊 那不是花瓣
是我凋零的心
~ 席慕蓉
A Flowering Tree
How to make you meet me
at my most beautiful moment?
I have prayed for this before the Buddha
for five hundred years--
Where I beg him to let us form a bond in earthly life.
Buddha turned me into a tree.
I grow by the road you pass by every day,
Cautiously blooming in the sun.
Each Blossom is a hope from my previous life.
When you come near, please listen carefully.
That trembling of leaves is the enthusiasm
from my waiting,
And when you finally pass by,
What has landed around you, my friend,
Are not flower petals.
It is my starving heart.
~ Xi Murong
(Translation by Bruce Behnke)
photo: Narita San 'Buddhist Temple Garden
(c) 2015 Bruce Behnke
Monday, January 18, 2021
remembering
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
photo: moonset over Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii
(c) bruce Behnke 2017
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
making the unknown known
Georgia O'Keeffe said that if something means so much to an artist that they try to capture it in an image, it is a step toward making the unknown known.
For her, painting clarified something she felt but did not clearly understand and gave her thoughts and emotions direct expression. To that end, she often painted the scenery viewed from her backyard in Abiquiu, New Mexico.
Her efforts are encouraging for all of us, travel restricted, to unlock the mysteries of our own backyards and, metaphorically, the secrets buried within our own minds.
photo: my backyard in Hawaii, U.S.A
(c) bruce Behnke 2021
Thursday, January 7, 2021
then decide
Walk around feeling like a leaf.
Know you could tumble any second.
Then decide what to do with your time.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
photos: Gyeongju,South Korea
(c) bruce behnke 2019