“Photography: Forming Bonds of Karma”
Photograph by John Diamond, M.D.
[W]ith these clouds and fountains I form bonds of karma
Po Chu’i (772-846)
trans. Burton Watson
I wonder if that’s what I do
with every cloud and fountain
– and all else –
I photograph.
I speak of the process
as us
– the subject and Nikon and me –
forming a relationship,
but perhaps
“forming a bond of karma”
is more appropriate.
And with the later viewer, too.
I’d like to think so.
