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RE: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (Or a dozen at least)
Well you make poetry look easy to do, and effortless, but I happen to know that poetry is neither! Nicely done, and the scenes around the lakes there are beginning to feel very comfortable and familiar to me. You definitely have a very poetic playground there for inspiration!
I appreciate that, considering these were all beginnings to poems I never actually finished :) I thought they might actually make up a poem with some images to help them along :)
The pictures that I chose for "My thoughts start out like poetry...", I took them on a back road, the first one is me standing under a tree of an abandoned house looking out across the field, the second was a couple minutes later when a guy drove by on a lawnmower (and he was actually mumbling to himself which is what made me think of these pictures for this to begin with....though I have no room to judge since I have definitely been known to talk to myself, or rather be one of my character's talking to other characters lol :)
Oh I get it now! I actually thought I was reading one single poem here, which again shows what I know about poetry. Somehow they tried to fit together in my head! I like that last picture in the park, the picnic table looks like a toy for some reason, the whole thing is surreal.
I actually imagined you saying something about that last picture, and I also imagined my response to it haha. I took it part way down a hill, here's another:
It must be those bent shadows that make it so odd- I've seen examples of different aperture settings that can make a house look like a doll house, but I don't know how to do that myself-- I know 'shutter speed' and 'white balance', and that's it!
Actually, I didn't use anything on that picture except for sharpen, which is what made the already green grass pop even more. The bent shadows are a product of the angle I took it from.
I did notice how vivid the color was- I'm thinking the 'toy' effect is caused by the camera focusing on all points while the shadows insist that the table is not close enough to be focused as it is, so my eye gets dazzled. As I understand aperture settings, they would allow a deeper range to be focused on, making everything in the pic appear closer, and thus toy-like. I should play with that feature sometime, the camera has a setting that probably makes it simple, but there's never time...