Thursday, August 18, 2011

ferry


water knows nothing
of borders

water knows nothing
of place
or thing

looking down the side of the ferry between kingston, ontario and cape vincent, ny, usa



18 comments:

Pauline said...

I wonder - water seems so alive somehow. I like thinking it knows...

erin said...

this makes me wonder about the bear or the swan or the raven. what do they know? the cherry blossom, the raspberry, snow? and we - what do we know of place or thing? perhaps we know less than what we think but yet get caught behind belief.

wonderful shot, steven. it took me quite some time to see it as a shot and not as a painting of different fields of colour.

xo
erin

JJ Roa Rodriguez said...

water as part of nature knows a lot. this is in my own opinion. when they know they are treated nicely, they give us something good in return, fish and plant for food. but, when they are treated badly, they give us worst that what we have caused them.

i love the picture...

JJRod'z

The Weaver of Grass said...

I often think that Steven - and the same can be said of wild animals too.

aguja said...

Water just is. Love the photo!

ellen abbott said...

water goes where it will.

Linda Sue said...

Oh my sweet Jaysus this photo is astonishing! Copying it for desk top! What a fine work of art, this!
I may try to felt it in a piece if I can find the right colours- LOVE love LOVE! Enthusiastically LOVE!

steven said...

pailine my sense of water is that it knows nothing other than itself which if you think about it, is a part of almost everything - it simply is. steven

steven said...

erin - i have wondered for as long as i can remember about what knows what. and then why it knows that and not other things. steven

steven said...

jj - thanks for your wise and insightful words. steven

steven said...

weaver - it seems to be up for discussion. i wonder how much wild animals know and what they know and why. steven

steven said...

aguja - yes! thankyou. steven

steven said...

ellen - entirely. steven

steven said...

linda sue if you embiggen the image you'll see that there are coins attached to the band of grey near the top. steven

hope said...

That was a fun visual! And no, I didn't figure it out until you told us. :)

Have a good weekend!

Linda Sue said...

WOW even cooler the closer one gets! I love it far away best- it is like a layered textured wonderland scene, Japanese, of course - silvery moon - copper stars scattered about.Subtle harmonious colours. I do love this so much.

Ashley said...

Your ferry (ferry to) blog is awesome. Nice blog, and you are right, water looks like it is alive...

digitam said...

wow you shared a nice picture in this ferry blog, combining nature and water. I wondered with this image. Share me some more wonderful pictures you had. Make some more fun pictures like this.