I took an evening walk to the numbered swan park again. Took a few snapshots, nothing too serious. Suddenly I heard a 'psssst'.... quickly started to walk on, was worried it was some wino fisher or something, but it was my mate Jamie... even though they're not the most special photographs... they somewhat remind me of Roger McGough's poem 'what you are', my favourite line being 'you are a derelict canal where the tincans whistle no tunes'... in fact maybe I should include the first 1/2 here:
'What you are' --- Roger McGough
you are the cat's paw
among the silence of midnight goldfish
you are the waveswhich cover my feet l
ike cold eiderdownsyou are the teddybear (as good as new)
found beside a road accident
you are the lost day
in the life of a child murderer
you are the green
whose depths I cannot fathom
you are the clean sword
that slaughtered the first innocent
you are the drop of dew on a petal
before the clouds weep blood
you are the wind caught on barbedwire
and crying out against war
you are the apple for teacher
left in a damp cloakroom
you are the litmus leaves
quivering on the suntan trees
you are the ivy
which muffles my walls
you are the first footprints in the sand
on bankholiday morning
you are the suitcase full of limbs
waiting in a leftluggage office
to be collected like an orphan
you are a derelict canal
where the tincans whistle no tunes
you are the bleakness of winter before the cuckoo
catching its feathers on a thornbush
heralding spring
you are the stillness of Van Gogh
before he painted the yellow vortex of his last sun
........................... (can't seem to edit this blank space out!!! aaargh, why am i shite at html?
2 comments:
Nice pictures ^_^
Don't worry too much about the HTML. I had the same 'huge ass blank spot' problem shortly after Blogger changed their core program layout and it took me a few edits to get rid of it. Even worse, it a post that was long enough to start with, it didn't need to be artificially lengthened.
Thankfully, I haven't had the problem since, but it didn't go over well with me.
Anyway, your pictures remind me of my Niece, who is very good with a camera as well, but refuses to put them anywhere **sigh** so keep posting, we want to see ^_^
There was a lad who was similarly shy about putting his work up on the photography degree I just finished this year. He did end up showing at the degree show. I think with him it was more an attention thing.
I hope your niece realises they're just pictures, just a way of expressing herself... I've struggled with thinking photography was vain, either that or feeling really low about being shite or an impostor, but now I just don't think about it. The world is saturated with pictures, and it doesn't need mine, but I just enjoy taking them (and I guess showing them).
A photography site that's on my 'well worth it' link section is my brother's... Now he takes good pictures! think you'll enjoy them!
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