Poetry – Page 7 – Photographic Impressionistic Illusionistic

Let’s Get Cookin’

on July 25, 2023July 25, 2023 By Mark Wade 2 Comments

It is enough
To see the flower
To be the flower

A couple of months ago, I dedicated my youtube channel for photography education.
It has been a pleasure to extol the virtues of thinking outside the box and to search out a personal “voice.”
Along the way, I had to challenge myself to get back into the arduous dreamscape impression way of making images. Challenges and prompts are creative killers for me. The process needs to happen organically based on available information.
Stationing myself at the back of our property, I forced some of what I used to do. It was clunky and uncomfortable. As time rolled, I released the challenge and my body/mind remembered it’s little used muscle memory.
Wait. I had to wait for some things.
Find color, tones, structure.
Create impressions with negative space compositions.
Now armed with these arrows in my quiver, now, I could go to work.
I say it is arduous. It is, only because one needs to release all forethought, expectation, stress and become part of all that is visible.

Here is the only product for my efforts. Double exposure. One long, one short. By nature of the process, no textures need to be added.

My YT channel now contains the basics of camera handling and how settings will affect the final output. There are two main sections “Basics” and “Basics In Depth”
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0YuAdyEdjABbVeHvK4kIzQ

Silky Slices

on June 23, 2023June 23, 2023 By Mark Wade

Flycatcher
Catch a fly
Baseball

Random, yes. (29) frame sections – The original is much too big to view on any screen.
Perhaps a print?

Another View

Hurry Up and Stop

on March 20, 2023March 20, 2023 By Mark Wade 6 Comments

Install the attic fan
Take out the garbage cans
Set up the garden beds
Adjust the doors on the garden sheds
Fix the leak
By end of week
Remake cabinet doors
Finish out kitchen floors
Paint the baseboard trim
Fix the light so dim

STOP!

How ’bout maybe just make some simple photos.
That’ll do.

Two more weeks and I’m officially “retired.”
Pretty sure I will stil have plenty to do!

A few more:

There now. Much better.

The Rest

Sometimes Real

on March 6, 2023March 6, 2023 By Mark Wade 6 Comments

She waited with nary a flinch
Though, I could read her disappointment
“I think I’m back” I said
“We’ll see” she quipped
“We’ll see”

Stealing time….doing something selfishly regenerative is sometimes an absolute.
So with camera in hand, I got back to a concerted session. Hoping the clouds busted up to reveal the moon…and who knows what can happen?!
It was nice. All that light reading put me in a state.

A spin cycle set:

Here’s the full set:

Ramona, California – Barnett Ranch Reserve

C/2022E3 Stuff

on February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 By Mark Wade 3 Comments

I have a name that is meaningless to most
I am mostly invisible and can only be seen by those who are diligently searching
Once found, I can be disappointing
In order to see me fully you must freeze and perform a tedious, deductive search
To know me fully you must look at me over and over again in the same context
Then process what you see to reveal any detail

My poor wife
I am a comet

Photography can be about self exploration sometimes. This frame was a bit of a cold night effort, +50 frames made to render this mediocre result. It was just too cold for these old bones.