Shadows

Continuing with Essence of Identity one of the suggested activites was to go for a walk and take photos of shadows.  However since we hadn't any sun here for a few days I used photos I had taken some time ago for the photography group.  I put some of them together in a montage.

The second part of the activity was to right a poem or a story about your photos. I wrote a poem.

Shadows 

What hides in the shadows?
What lurks behind the lines?

Lines drawn by the sun
through metal fencing
Charcoal grey on pale grey tarmac.

Straight lines. Diagonal lines.
Sharp point on shadows
that have no sharpness.

Straight line fencing
along straight lined paths.
Yet, in amongst the shadow lines
Shadow plants linger,
soft and curling.

What hides in the shadows
of our minds?
What lurks behind the lines
drawn on our foreheads?

The inner critic.
The voice we know that lingers,
soft and curling
And lurks behind our creativity.

Pull down the thoughts
Take captive the voice that impedes our way
Let nothing hide in the shadows
Let nothing lurk behind the lines.

I'm really enjoying writing poems at the moment.  I don't know where it will lead - if anywhere!

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

Shadow Walk

The theme for the photography group this month was shadows.  I went for a walk along a path where I had seen shadows when we walked there back in May.

Several of the images reminded me of mark making.

I wondered when I saw the photos downloaded whether I would have been better to have set my camera onto black and white.

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

It seemed a very long walk to me!

This week Roger and I went for a walk - we haven't been for a walk together for ages.  This one according to the book was 4.5 miles however it seemed a lot longer than that to me.

I decided to take photos of light and shadows as well as the usual landscape photos I take.  The walk was around Cleeve Hill in Worcestershire.

The first part of our walk was to a lovely pub for lunch.  You can see the River Avon in the background.

 The signs that Autumn is here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the end of the walk was this amazing Tithe Barn which may have been built in 1250AD.

 

Inside the cider press.

 The cider press building with the church behind the orchard.

 The Manor House

 It was a lovely walk, a great pub lunch and a fabulous day.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice