AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Sunday, August 24, 2008

Shadows ~ Paradoxical Beauty


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Shadowy walls
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Hey Harriet's Shadow Shot Sunday prompt #14
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A shadowed wall is
Brutal
Brazen
Beauty
~
Carved limbs
Faceless portrait
Black blossoms
Blocked
Soul
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The paradox of
Delightful
Blind
Beauty
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14 comments:

Maude Lynn said...

Gorgeous picture, gorgeous words!

Ralph said...

Shadows are nature's incursions into our views. No shadows, no sun! Shadows are wonderful interludes in our views.

Lisa's RetroStyle said...

Nice shadows and lovely words!!

SandraRee said...

Gemma, I love the colours I see in this shadow shot! Five colours at least, everything in this shot works! Good job, this SS is beautiful! :D And as always, your words are too!

Anonymous said...

Another lovely shadow shot and poetry.

Paz

Hey Harriet said...

LOVE this one Gemma! All the colours are lovely. It even looks like a natural collage & each quarter, if cropped, would make four beautiful individual photos! :)

Anonymous said...

Hi Gemma, a great big impressive shadow here, well done, this sounds like it has been hard to get shadows down your way of late, with 3 weeks of wet weather you write about in your above posts. As always your words to all your photos fit perfectly. Thankyou for your kind words on my SSS post, they were just lovely :0) Enjoy the rest of your weekend. Annette
:0)

A Wild Thing said...

I have never thought of shadow as 'black blossoms', but how beautiful it sounds put to thought...a deep dark meaning here.

sharon

Rosebud Collection said...

Beautiful shot..beautiful thoughts..
Just overall wonderful..

Gina said...

This is really beautiful Gemma.. the lighting and colour in your photo and of course yourwords..are a wonderful combination...love the term 'black blossoms' :D

GalleryJuana said...

Very beautiful photograph and the poem really adds both mystery and depth to it.

Ali said...

lovely tree shadow on the wall Gemma - great pic

Toni said...

Cool how the different colors cut your photo into quadrants, with the shadows spanning all of them. Thanks for sharing!

~michelle pendergrass said...

Interesting lines, curves, and colors! Lovely!

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