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Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Date: Mar 3, 2008
Galleries: Sky, Overlays
Date Uploaded: Mar 2, 2008
Viewed: 321
Comments: 5
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Since it's been too many years since I've thought about poetry, I'm not sure what I'm doing in this challenge. However, in grade school and junior high, we were required to memorize a poem every week. The girls usually did poems along the lines of Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", and Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott". The boys used to memorize a lot of Kipling, and we heard many recitations of "Mandalay". Revisiting that poem, I'd forgotten how much dialect Kipling threw in. I'm not that crazy about the use of dialect anymore, but when I was working on this picture, the refrain from "Mandalay" came back to me:
On the road to Mandalay,
Where the flyin'-fishes play,
An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!
If you're curious, there's an explanation of how I made the image in the notes for this one:  |
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03/08/2008 10:02:48 AM |
| Interesting matching of textures, colors, and shadow, inspired by inspired words. |
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03/05/2008 09:05:38 AM |
| cool overlay and a fitting slice of words |
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03/04/2008 07:47:26 AM |
| this is truly lovely. the colours, the roiling sky,t he dark hills, all work together so well. i know what you mean about kipling's dialect, but there's just something about his work isn't there? |
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03/03/2008 10:53:48 PM |
| That sky is wild, and the words "the dawn comes up like thunder" perfectly fitting. |
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03/03/2008 08:05:46 AM |
I immediatly thought of Munch's "The Scream" although there is no bridge or person. Something about the overall feel of it and the swirls of the sky.
The screaming sky
awoke my morning eyes
to blood red and tangerine
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