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I thought I’d do a colourful, painterly, textured work of some roses.
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Quotes from the dark # 4
‘Nature’s Canvas’
Rushing blues, glimmering gold
casting a spell on me
I’m in a living dreamscape
walking the path of angels in reality
The sky, she sings
the water painting in the shades of jewels
and I am but a witness
as Nature casts her magic with these tools
And in this moment, when color collapses my fears
I can feel the air filling my chest
with the perfume of Life melted in the air
I sit before Nature’s canvas, at her best
Image/photo – ‘Riverview’ by Leigh Kemp
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“Forever immaculate”
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A statue in a church garden.
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Quotes from the dark # 3
Hi everyone, my latest collaboration with Poet Yvonne White this time with my recent work titled “Out of the Blue“. My previous collaborations here and here.
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‘A Romance That Never Should Have Been’
She was built for starlight
all glitter, glow, and fire
She had the heart of a lion
and passion that would never tire
With a mind as sharp as any blade
and a tongue to match
She could tangle a man’s soul with a smile
their hearts, in her delicate hands, she’d catch
Always saying she’d never be tamed
always promising she’d go her own way
yet Life is a funny and fickle thing
because it listens to the things we say
It was a moment out of the blue
the thing that caged her heart
and like a tamed beast, she gave in
never thinking she could fall apart
But like any promise that’s ever made
all the things he said where just lies
and while her heart was caged within his gaze
her very soul started to die
The night he left was like any other
to the world around her, all was the same
but in her cage, her heart stopped it’s beat
and her soul’s raging fire became but a flame
She is built for shadows now
all ghost, shadow, and ghoul
there is nothing left of the queen she was
she’s no longer royalty, but the joker, the fool
Her heart is still encased, to this day
in the very cage he entrapped it in
but its still, its quiet, it never truly beats
her out of the blue romance was an end …
… that never should have been
– TerriLynn Le Blanc ©2017
Image/photo – ‘Out of the Blue’ by Leigh Kemp ©2017
New work: “Enchanted”
Hi everyone a path into the undergrowth.
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New work: “Out of the blue”
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Another of my arty flights of fancy. 🙂
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It’s a funny old game :)
Hiya,
I’ve just had my seventh work “explored” on Flickr. As many of you know I don’t very often produce absolutely “straight” photographic work which, on the whole, I think that Flickr explore seems to prefer so I’m always surprised and delighted when one of my works appear there. By way of a little celebration I thought I’d post them here in chronological order. The first work entitled “Last of the Summer Wine” is a pretty conventional work but still a surprise when it appeared in Explore.
And then came this work “Between the Ponds” which came as a real surprise as it’s an out and out, full on painterly work and generally-speaking more reflective of my style and interest.
The next two works “The colours of spring” and “Under Pressure!” again in a painterly style and, in the later case, the first of my “Klimtesque” style works to be explored.
This work, “Good Light” is a bit of both, certainly not an out and out straight work and not overtly painterly either., a sort of halfway house if you like and marks a bit of a change in my style.
My most recent explores ” Come all ye faithful” and “Dreamscape” have really pleased me as I think that they reflect the direction which my work has taken recently.
Another place that I sometimes post my work to is to the Olympus Gallery. Understandably perhaps they nearly always favour straight photography as they’re a manufacturer of photographic equipment but it would be nice if they occasionally recognised that not everyone that uses their equipment produces conventional photographic works.
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“Dreamscape”
Hi everyone, a dreamy painterly work today.
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Various ramblings of the mind.
Hi everyone,
Following my recent first collaboration with the poet Yvonne White it got me thinking about my interest in poetry. I’ve always enjoyed poetry. Unlike my work which is visual and any sentiment that I express can be obscure and open to interpretation poets very often quite literally (pun not intended) put their soul on the line which I think is a pretty brave thing to do. Without wishing to sound like a philistine I sometimes find the “great” poets like Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth etc. somewhat inaccessible, on the whole I prefer modern day poetry, something that I can identify with, as Pam Ayres put it : “Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth” 🙂 .
On another note I’ve found over time that my choice of photographic equipment has become less and less important to me. Yes, I want to start out with images that give me the greatest amount of scope when I’m processing them and I want lightweight, well built equipment but just about any camera gear that ticks those boxes will produce imagery that I can happily work with. Modern system cameras contain every function that I’m ever going to need and a great many more that I most probably will never ever use. I saw in an advert for some image editing software that used the term “Create technically perfect pictures”, as if it’s the Holy Grail, what the heck is a technically perfect picture?. If there was such a thing wouldn’t it be the very antipathy of creativity and experimentation?!
Lastly I was thinking of my love of travel photography and wishing that I had the opportunity and means to visit all those amazing places around the world that I’ll most probably never be able to see. Every time I see one of those travel programs on the TV I positively salivate and see photographic works in the making everywhere. I don’t know how to describe the feeling but it’s a very similar feeling to that which I get when I’m looking through my viewfinder at something that visually fascinates and excites me.
Well, enough of my ramblings 🙂
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Another Pretty HDR
Hi everyone,
Another HDR shot from my visit to Carshalton Ponds. I like the symmetry in this one. Now if I only had the means and opportunity to visit other beautiful locations what I could.
hope everyone is happy and well,
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