Photo Haiku

Tag: Photograph

  • Riverside

    Beside the river
    Walking among the shadows,
    Warmed by evening sun.

    Just in case the title didn’t make sense, the river is visible through the trees on the right of the path, Found it?
    This was taken on a walk during a recent visit to Grassington in Yorkshire. Grassington is the village where All Creatures great and Small is set.
    One of the issues I face when taking photos as part of a holiday break with my wife is that I walk more slowly than she does. Apart from the obvious issue, that if I stop to take a photo I can look up to find I am left behind, there are photos like this one. I see it, I love it, and my wife is already walking through it. Sometimes it works, but other times I have to call her back to stand behind me so I can get a clean image. I know landscapes can be enhanced with people in them, but not always. In my humble opinion, of course…

  • Swan

    Marc Bolan rode one
    In the 1970s.
    It must have been big!

    I guess you need to be a certain age to get the reference. Well I am. There is something about a swan, especially when they are set against the snow, and you can just focus on the face. Is it still called a face on a bird? And is this a high key haiku?

  • Splash

    Powering through the waves,
    Challenged by the white water.
    Trying not to drown.

    At least you can’t see the face, so no problems with model release…
    Amongst other things, Nottingham is home to the National Water Sports Centre at Holme Pierrepont. It is a great place to visit for action shots of the paddlers practicing on the white water course.

  • Pointless

    Shall we play a game?
    Please, not hide and seek again.
    You always find me.

    Hiding in the long grass presents a problem for some. This deer is part of a herd in the local Stately home grounds – Wollaton Park. The hall is known for being Wayne Manor in one of the Batman films. The walls around the park are very old and thick, and when the film crew left they managed to knock down a great big chunk of it with one of the trucks. I would like to say it was repaired symapthetically with the old bricks, but that would not be the truth. There is a now a gleaming section of new orange brickwork. Why?

  • Exploding

    A moment captured,
    A fleeting show of power
    As the wave explodes.

    If you have been following the blog, you may recall an image of a small boy standing and waiting, to be covered by a wave coming over the promenade. If not, go back and find it, you might find some other images you like…
    This was taken on the same day, as a storm hit the east coast of England. I stayed distant and dry. Luckily.

  • Inversion

    I see the future.
    A crystal ball on the pier.
    Lives turned upside down.

    The pier boardwalk is lined with small plaques remembering peole who have enjoyed the pier, or the area. In the ball you can see the names of one such couple – Irene and Frank, whose lives have literally been turned upside down in the reflection. Sometimes it is scary how well the images lend themselves to the lines.
    This is another image from my day in Swanage with Digital Camera Magazine.

  • Piglets

    Not twelve apostles,
    I counted them all myself.
    So disappointing.

    A few years ago we went on a short tour of eastern Australia and New Zealand. Whilst in Melbourne it was a must to visit the Great Ocean Road and the Twelve Apostles.
    Originally called the Sow and Piglets, the name was changed to try and attract more tourists. As there were only ever nine, and now seven, of the stacks and as Australia is a largely secular country that makes little sense to me. So I have entitled this post Piglets.

  • Canary

    The Canary Girls,
    Filling shells with TNT
    Risking life and limb.

    This street art, in Beeston Notts, commemorates the work of the so-called Canary Girls. These worked in dangerous conditions filling shells with TNT for the war effort in World War One. In 1918, an explosion of 8 tons of TNT in the Chilwell factory killed 134, of which only 32 could be positively identified.
    They were called the Canary Girls because working with the TNT caused their skin and hair to take on a yellowish orange colour.

  • Robin

    What you looking at?
    Don’t disturb me, I’m eating
    A snack in the snow.

    Apologies for the grammar, but I have a rules-based mind that will not allow me to deviate from a 5-7-5 sequence, so ‘what are you…’ was never going to fly. At least it wasn’t ‘Wat’chu looking at’. Or maybe that would be better?
    Every winter, when the snow has fallen, these robins are keen to take seed from any source. They are not so timid and will happily hop on to your hand to be fed. That is an amazing experience, to be trusted by something so fragile, and when they land they are virtually weightless.

  • Sapling

    In a darkened wood
    A stray shaft of warm sunlight
    Lights a lone sapling.

    A walk in spring looking for bluebells, turning a corner to find this young sapling sunbathing. I think this image possibly turned out better than the ones of the bluebells.