Photographic Impressionistic Illusionistic
Photography Without Rules
if it’s just about the photography experience
If not for the reward
Then for the sake
Of the journey
We find ourselves
Broken away
Or just broken
But what is there?
There is light
There is hope
There is not the destination
It is the here and now
There, is here
in-camera multiple exposure photograph -4 frames
It was a morning of unusual happenstance
I was tempted to knock on your door anyway
Wolves had chased me out of the woods
Your present lay on the trail behind
Should I return to retrieve it
Risking being torn to pieces?
Well, if I am eaten alive
Then I am good for nothing!
Hmm, glad I settled that.
So, picking wild mustard and radish flowers
I made you a fine bouquet.
And brought it to your door.
Knocking was futile….and dust covered your windows.
Peering in, I could see steam billowing from your pot.
Alas, you were not home.
a simple photograph….lensbaby
Should I stand on the tops of mountains
It is not without the dust of the journey
That has made this arduous odyssey so sweet
Birds flock to the sun calling my name
And I run without losing my breath once more
As it was in my youth, to chase the light of day
From trail to trail, they all know me by name
And cheer me on to the top of one peak to another
Even the trees bend to cover me with welcomed shade
Nestled in their care my lungs fill with fire
Screaming with all my might I make it to another apex
Laughing with the sun for beating me yet again
multiple exposure photograph
It is said
That to gaze into the waters
For too long
Will hypnotize
The dreamer.
One may wander
Into the deep,
Too deep
Where paths vanish.
Up is down, down is up.
Consumed by memory,
Light fills the eyes
Like the blackness
Of sleep’s
Eternal suspension.
multiple exposure photograph
free verse inspired by Frodo’s descent into the swamp
Oh that sense of power
To “turn down the sun”
With a thumb
Click click click
Just like that!
We photographers love that!
Crush those shadows
Let that back-lighting POP!
It’s just too much.
Too much fun
Too much control!
And in the process
We learn to appreciate shadows
Their dark mystery
Telling secrets ignored.
That dried flower
Is not actually glowing
We all glow
We just don’t know it
a simple photograph with “the sun turned down a little”
Photographic Impressionistic Illusionistic 