Wabi-Sabi poll - comments welcome

[Mz Pip]

Tough choice for me.



Past Perfect



Spot of Rust



Chaos in Pine



Fading Bloom in Early Morning Light



Sunken Treasures



Mz Pip

[HappyCynic]

1. Sunken Treasures

Sunken Treasures got my vote. I think Past Perfect and Fading Bloom in Early Morning Light are in many ways more striking photos. Because of that, in my mind, they are actually less wabi-sabi than the other three. As Leonard Koren put it in his book, "Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional." I guess to me, this has translated to a more deep and subtle beauty. However, since the exact meaning of wabi-sabi is so hard to pin down, what I consider wabi-sabi will be different from what others consider wabi-sabi. So, take my comments with a grain of salt.

[Celebration]

2. I agree/disagree with HappyCynic

The first red flower seems a bit too perfect for Wabi-Sabi, but the second one does not, to me. It is more easily identified as a dying flower than the first one. I really love "Fading Bloom in the Early Morning Light".......

[Mira]

3. Love Spot of Rust - but voted for Sunken Treasure

Past perfect is my favorite photograph of all of them. I had a hard time with this Mz Pip.
I voted strictly on what to me is the best interpretation of the theme.
Treasures strikes me as emotionally balanced and visually awesome.

[Mz Pip]

4. I least this has helped me narrow it

down to 3.

I like the abstractness of Past Perfect. I took about 15 shots of the dying amarylis that decided to bloom in Sept for some reason. I was looking for wabi-sabi-ish things to shoot and that seemed to fit, along with the rusting tray on my deck.

The other photos were shots I did earlier before wabi-sabi and in going over my files they kind of jumped out at me as possible entries. Turns out I have dozens of photos of the old, the imperfect, the ephemeral. Narrowing it down is always a challenge.