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After Sunset Fades

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Midday, Floral, Macro

The Beautiful Changes

BY RICHARD WILBUR
One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides   
The Queen Anne’s Lace lying like lilies
On water; it glides
So from the walker, it turns
Dry grass to a lake, as the slightest shade of you   
Valleys my mind in fabulous blue Lucernes.

The beautiful changes as a forest is changed   
By a chameleon’s tuning his skin to it;   
As a mantis, arranged
On a green leaf, grows
Into it, makes the leaf leafier, and proves   
Any greenness is deeper than anyone knows.

Your hands hold roses always in a way that says   
They are not only yours; the beautiful changes   
In such kind ways,   
Wishing ever to sunder
Things and things’ selves for a second finding, to lose   
For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.

After Sunset Fades
Nikon Z6 II, NIKKOR Z MC 105mm f/2.8 VR S, 1/400s, f/5.6, ISO 100

Future Yet Written

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Delta Lake State Park

I am in double trouble.

Since I have been on this journey of photography I see the world around me differently. Images appear everywhere I look. Driving the car can be interesting as I am constantly seeing new opportunities for my camera. The way the light is falling on a tree or the color of the sky as the sun rushes toward the horizon.

Now words are coming out too. I have used the titles of my images to convey a little more about each image. It might have been a thought or feeling as I took the image, or they might come after as I’m processing. Lately, more words have been coming out and yesterday I needed to stop along the way to work to record a few that kept playing in my head…

Hidden beneath the surface
Never quite awake
A thought, a feeling
Waiting to escape
Held in reserve
For fear of rejection
This part of me
So long forgotten

Your words reached within
And untied the knots
The spirit set free
To soar now unbound
What heights will be reached
The limit is endless
My story unfolds
The future yet written.
Future Yet Written
Olympus E-M1 Mark III, M. Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8, 1/125s, 40mm, f/11, ISO 200