So this is probably a useless thread, but I discovered something very interesting on the poetry challenge.
It's been a crazy time around here, and I wasn't able to vote on vacation. Since getting home a week ago, I've been swamped and haven't voted as much as I should have.
So last night, last minute, I figured I'd better vote on poetry. I had grand visions earlier in the week of actually writing poems, though it's definitely not my bailiwick.
So as I voted, I tried not to vote on the photo as it was -- I tried to hear or feel a poem.
There were some absolutely wonderful photos, but they seemed to just stand by themselves. I didn't feel poetry in them. But they would have normally been my favorites in the challenge.
I wasn't going to write and poems, because I was incredibly tired. But as I voted, a few of them just needed a poem. They exuded a poem. How could I not write it?
And those photos were not my usual type of photos.
It started with this one:
and then these were added:
Bear's really deserved one, but my brain gave out before it happened.
Yet some of the best "photos" as I think of photography didn't want poems.
Is that why we have the, for lack of better terms, the artsy fartsy crowd vs the documentarians? Do you hear poetry when looking at photography? Do our photos lack verse? I always saw them as two separate identities, and never saw a need for verse. I'm thinking I've been missing a lot.
Wendy, your last sentence needs an answer from pretty much every person who uses eyes and brain. I am away now but I'll definitely get back to this.
Last but not least, thanks for your comment and appreciation of my picture.
Do you hear poetry when looking at photography? Do our photos lack verse? I always saw them as two separate identities, and never saw a need for verse. I'm thinking I've been missing a lot.
I guess sfalice hasn't gotten here yet (I think she's more familiar with this), but there is a genre called "ekphrastic" writing based on/related to a specific piece of visual/physical art.
I also felt like some photos begged for poems, while others not. But I couldn't put these into two neat categories, like "documentary" and "artsy." Sometimes a documentary shot hints at a story that is rich for poetry. Other times, an "artsy" shot is so lovely I don't want to add anything to it, including words. Honestly, I was more inspired by titles than images, at least this time around.
Perhaps it is because I am a fumbling novice at taking "technical pictures" the likes of rock-star Wendy, but I only look for poetry.
I used to only see the technicals. It's still what I see more than anything. The lighting is something that sings to me, but that's still a technical. But that's as close as I get to poetry. That's why I keep trying to "get" the lighting working.
Perhaps it is because I am a fumbling novice at taking "technical pictures" the likes of rock-star Wendy, but I only look for poetry.
I used to only see the technicals. It's still what I see more than anything. The lighting is something that sings to me, but that's still a technical. But that's as close as I get to poetry. That's why I keep trying to "get" the lighting working.
Here's some unsolicited flattery, you've got an envious amount of left and right brain photography, (except for the parts the squirrels have eaten, or that you left on the road during one of your perilous adventures.)
I also felt like some photos begged for poems, while others not. But I couldn't put these into two neat categories, like "documentary" and "artsy." Sometimes a documentary shot hints at a story that is rich for poetry. Other times, an "artsy" shot is so lovely I don't want to add anything to it, including words. Honestly, I was more inspired by titles than images, at least this time around.
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What he said....
I think it's funny that Wendy of all people put this forth....her images just tell me so many stories so often that I can literally "hear" what I view in them.
Here is a stellar example of one that just screams stories......
Who can see this one and not hear it????
But others are just like Don said......just there for reverential viewing......
And there are those ones that just make you smile, speak to you, beg for a story, yet tell one at the same time.....
I also felt like some photos begged for poems, while others not. But I couldn't put these into two neat categories, like "documentary" and "artsy." Sometimes a documentary shot hints at a story that is rich for poetry. Other times, an "artsy" shot is so lovely I don't want to add anything to it, including words. Honestly, I was more inspired by titles than images, at least this time around.
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And there are those ones that just make you smile, speak to you, beg for a story, yet tell one at the same time.....
At least for me, anyway.....YMMV
Oh my! Thanks for sharing that one -- I don't remember it! That's awesome. :)
And there are those ones that just make you smile, speak to you, beg for a story, yet tell one at the same time.....
At least for me, anyway.....YMMV
Originally posted by vawendy:
Oh my! Thanks for sharing that one -- I don't remember it! That's awesome. :)
I miss Steve [pawdrix]....a LOT!
The 2010 NYC GTG that he put together was definitely one of the best times I've *ever* had as a photog.
These two were my fave of the event......
Monte's is on canvas in my hallway, and Parks & Rec I refer to when I want to show off something a little different, yet still one of my best efforts at street.
Steve's kindness and ability to convey his vision was extraordinary......and yet to still be the quintessential smartass! LOL!!!
