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25th May 2023: Wabi Sabi

Wabi Sabi is an ancient Japanese concept that people often refer to, and we thought it would be interesting to have a session on it. If you look on Wikipedia, you find that wabi sabi is a group of ideas around transient beauty, imperfection, and incompleteness, and the famous example is cherry blossom, which brings happiness by its beauty, but also sadness because it passes away so quickly. We invited our members to show us photos illustrating these ideas.

Alan Cowman

Alan Cowman

Fading laurel crown on graduation day, Turin

Alan Cowman

Alan Cowman

Brocken spectre

Alan Cowman

Alan Cowman

Courtship display of great crested grebes

Mike Gillan

Mike Gillan

Cherry blossom in Ueno Park

Mike Gillan

Mike Gillan

Fading tulips

Mike Gillan

Mike Gillan

Fallen petals

Susan Mitchell

Susan Mitchell

What might have been

Susan Mitchell

Susan Mitchell

Egg

Susan Mitchell

Susan Mitchell

Too hot to handle

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