zen

I love this photography, because I feel like it actually captures Zen. Not a fancy word to be tacked onto anything remotely Japanese, and not something to be made fanciful and colorful. This photo of a lonely mountain top, emerging from the mysterious silver fog, and particularly those lonely trees near the top are what say "Zen" to me.

Something simpler, and unconfused. A state of rising above obfuscation and muddling, and reaching enlightenment. Maybe I'm confusing your intentions, but this is what I read from this photo. I think it is very striking in that it is not a unique, once-in-a-lifetime instance, inasmuch as it is a wonder that has been there for such a long time, and it only took someone's endeavors to find it. The idea that such an unmarred zenith only waits just beyond the foggy uncertainty...

...I apologize for waxing so lyrical. Something seems to have awoken my reflective side tonight.