caught in my mirror
pink lady dragging her bag
the waste of others
Shona and I spent a couple of hours in nearby Ashby-de-la Zouch yesterday creating images for a Ginko photobook and preparing a future workshop.
The town has a real feeling of community about it, which was evidenced in this image which is a photograph of a member of the towns Rotary club which who were out in force doing their weekly Monday litter pick to tidy the place after the weekend. I got out to talk to her for a while.
When I take a photograph that really interests me I often write a little haiku. I write them in three lines of 5/7/5 syllables. They do not have to rhyme, they do not have to describe the photograph, they are simply what the image led me to write. I only allow myself 60 seconds to write it. It is about being in the moment of seeing the photograph, just as my photographs are made in the moment of seeing.
- Forget Everything You’ve Learned About Photography and Just Shoot
- The Snowdrop Finale
- Test post
- Abstracts of Whatton Photobook
- Ginko009: Bristol Paintworks in May
In a haiku world a ginko is a walk through nature observing
and as I ginko I make images of the things I notice
I then write a haiku in a moment as a response the images I make, that makes me stop to think
Finally I blog here about what the image and haiku make me think about
© Stewart Wall 2022
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