Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

Sunday, May 31, 2020

Tauranga under the Matapihi Railway bridge photography and poetry.


Reflections..... Tauranga under the Railway Bridge
 
 
An  exercise to try:
Pairing unrelated  poems to photographs.


The viewer is invited to make their own sense of what you are saying.

You don't have to spell everything out to your audience. 
Try juxtaposing and see what happens.

If you watch animated music videos you can often see this idea at work. 
An animation plays to a song and appears to have little to do with the words of the song even though it tells its own story.
 
Advertisers  use this device to lure watchers into making favourable associations with their products on a subconscious level. 

How many times have you watched clips on television with scenes that appear to have nothing on the surface to do with the thing that is being advertised? 
It's a great device to prolong attention as the mind mulls over possible links. 
 

Following are some tanka paired with scenes near the Tauranga  Rail Bridge .
 See what you think.
 Then go out into the field with your camera in a spot you like

Take about 60  photos and pick out your top 10. 
Write short poetry underneath that look as though on the surface they aren't connected. 


time  does not  heal all wounds
that lurk in crevices 
of  past memories 
frenemies words
no power to derail 

 




                                                                        

                                                                       autumn morning 
on the pathway
possum prints 
in orange juice
                                                                       with discarded peel   





lavender essential oils
baking soda with epsom salts 
soothing tired limbs
after a day of walking
in long shadows




the squarking chorus 
of hopeful seagulls
living for the moment
the couple stop eating
their oysters and chips


at lunchtime  
outside the closed cafe 
rows of crumbling houses 
devoured by
hungry waves




during lockdown 
I run my tongue 
over cracked molars 
yet still 
I suck on toffees





                                                       The high road or the low road.

 i am in the library

discussing writing

with my friend

when a bull dog

of a woman

 who I have avoided

for five years

 for sound  reasons

 passes by.

 

Because of lock-down

 kindness

 I make eye contact

and smile thinking-

that's the end of it-

good deed done.

goodbye

 

On her lonely way out

 she has the cheek

to stop to talk

after all the polluted water

that has passed

under

our  bridges

while showering us

(but mostly my friend)

with pleasantries.

 

 

She parts with a toxic

 judgemental  jibe

leaving me 

 with a mouth full of

indignation and 

wondering about

the wisdom of

 taking the highroad

when faced with a

  bulldog's bite. 


Beginner Photography lessons, especially for women. 
 
From snapshots to great shots in the most rapid time possible without too much technical jargon and complicated language. Plenty of opportunity for image taking and image critiquing. Bring along a pen drive of your images and I will improve them in photoshop for you with my simple to follow editing recipes.
 
 
 
Painting mosaic making, illustration  and creative poetry, short story writing lessons available Monday and Tuesday mornings in my art- filled studio. After school creative enrichment lessons Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 3.30 pm.Wednesday and Friday mornings 9am to 12noon.
Please email janet@jkeen.net  for a no obligation quote.
Phone or text  0273513887 to enquire about booking  time out for creativity in  your special place. 
 
Creative Quote of the day

Sunday, May 10, 2020

Lake Okareka photographs to view by Janet Keen Rotorua based Fine Art Photographer, Writer and Artist

Beginner Photography lessons Tuesday and Wednesday and Friday mornings 9am to 12noon.
Please email janet@jkeen.net  for details.
Phone or text  0273513887 to book your special place. 

Tanka and Haiku to Celebrate special moments in time at lake Okareka, Rotorua , New Zealand.
autumn afternoon
 lake during lockdown
still the rustle of toitoi






 

 














                                                                                     
even though
it is lockdown at the lake
fish still rise at dusk



is






















all walks
around lakes
covered in people
 



autumn afternoon
chilled  wind dropped
soon it will be dark
how unusual
no sound of  outdoor motors



slight breeze
amongst the kanuka
carries the kingfisher cry

 






















 
manuka tree repellent
sandflies still bite
truncates the bush picnic
 
 
Buy New Zealand Made
Cards
Plus
A4, A3, A2, A1 Prints.
Email janet@jkeen.net for prices.
 
Feel free to comment on the ones you like the best.
 
 
 
Creative Quote of the day
 overgrown woods
stillness of  lonely shore
company where none intrudes
soothing lap of waves
 not completely shy of others
  just loving nature far more
 
 
 
 Local photography tours, I can show you some of the best locations locally for fantastic photos. 
Priced from $300.00 per person

 

Friday, October 29, 2010

Killer headline to hook you in....Act like a kid...

 I grabbed my yellow  plastic container of bubble mix which I bought from the Two Buck Shop and spent half an hour blowing bubbles and photographing them. 

I added a  half a tsp of glycerine to the mix so when they landed on branches they stayed intact longer.

 Did you know that it is practically impossible to get a good "bubble in the air"" shot with one hand on your bubble maker and the other on your SLR?  I'll be calling on one of my  photogenic kid volunteers to help me out soon.

 Feel free to send me some of your own shots and I'll post them on this blog.

My email addess is jkeen@clear.net.nz

If you are the type of person who is really busy with work, family commitments and endless dishes you may be thinking, why doesn't she get a life?

 Hasn't she anything better to do than waste time doing kids stuff and sounding like Pollyanna on speed? 

The short answer is no...

Play is powerful.

I will be suggesting you do some pretty wierd things (right brain activities)  in the future to "evoke your muses," so be prepared.

Once  I slipped into the habit of taking my digital  camera everywhere with me, life has become just one big, fat, pavalova of a photo opportunity.

If you have an addictive personality like me, it's a way of getting a healthy hit; much better than any high you'll ever get from smoking, drinking, eating chocolate or watching episodes of Coronation Street.

 I have given up heading  this blog with what are you doing creatively today ..I'm doing blah, blah,..because it's starting to bore and iritate me.

 I am going to try to come up with some killer headlines to hook you in.

Did it work?

If you want to reply to this blog and have it published thereby technically making you a  quasi published author all you have to do is click the post button at the bottom of each post and write a comment in the white box.

Any questions about this process please email me at jkeen@clear.net.nz

Creativity Quote of the day: No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.  Minor White