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
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Carved limbs
Faceless portrait
Black blossoms
Blocked
Soul
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The paradox of
Delightful
Blind
Beauty
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I measure out my life with haiku. My camera films my soul. ~ Gemma Wiseman
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)
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Shadows ~ Paradoxical Beauty
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- A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
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- Autumn is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Autumn whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Love is born / With a dark and troubled face, / When hope is dead / And in the most unlikely place; / Love is born, / Love is always born. - Michael Leunig's Christmas Song Cycle "Southern Star"
- Spring paints the stars of heaven in Earth colours ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush / Broken by dreams of / Clinking ice ~ Gemma Wiseman
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- Winter is the fire, simmering lonely in the soul ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist ~ Gemma Wiseman
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14 comments:
Gorgeous picture, gorgeous words!
Shadows are nature's incursions into our views. No shadows, no sun! Shadows are wonderful interludes in our views.
Nice shadows and lovely words!!
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!
Another lovely shadow shot and poetry.
Paz
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! :)
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
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I have never thought of shadow as 'black blossoms', but how beautiful it sounds put to thought...a deep dark meaning here.
sharon
Beautiful shot..beautiful thoughts..
Just overall wonderful..
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
Very beautiful photograph and the poem really adds both mystery and depth to it.
lovely tree shadow on the wall Gemma - great pic
Cool how the different colors cut your photo into quadrants, with the shadows spanning all of them. Thanks for sharing!
Interesting lines, curves, and colors! Lovely!
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