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Category Archives: Photographic Reflections
Autumn Afternoon in Padua – September 29, 2016
a sunny day
this short parenthesis
of autumn
before we pick up
our lives
© Gsk ‘16
questa giornata
questa breve parentesi
d’autunno
prima di riprendere
le nostre vite
© Gsk ‘16
A Monday Shot – Photography – January 11, 2016
Hello … here’s it’s raining as it seems to be all over the Northern Hemisphere, or at least among those whom I’m in contact with. I went out for a walk … just near home. I’ll go farther afield tomorrow. I was hoping to find some rose-hips for an experiment suggested to me by Joanna … a very artist lady with a fantastic sense of the aesthetic who mixes her arts … visual and Japanese poetry.
rain and snow
a morning walk
the icy rain penetrates
this old knapsack
© G.s.k. ‘16
rain and snow – 2
winter is calling
even the sparrows hear it
over their chatter
© G.s.k. ‘16
And now, I’m off to make some curry flavoured dried apples … see you later. Bastet
A Tuesday Tiger … December 29, 2015
Tiger
Fairy Tales and Giant’s Alley – Innsbruck – December 14, 2015
At the Christmas Market in Innsbruck, children of course are not forgotten! All throughout the alleys of the Old Town there are 28 life-size sculptures of fairy tale and legendary heroes and 4 giants who guard the street corners and light installations light up the evening. In the evening from 4:30 until 5:30 a fairy tale Theatre Wagon stops in town with a daily performance of one of the many Brother Grimm’s tales.
Six Word Saturday – The Port – November 28, 2015
Riva del Garda (TN)
Yes … it’s time to sail away!
Sunrise is the most splendid time of the day. In Riva del Garda, that doesn’t happen until around 9:00 in the morning in the colder months of the year, the light filters over the mountains .. but not the sun. Here the sun just topped the mountain. What a glorious morning to go sailing!
Black and White Photo Challenge – November 25, 2015
A Sunday walk in mid-September …
Dark Blue Velvet Memories – Prose Poem – November 20, 2015
The dawn, yet to come – the sky is dark blue velvet and the wind whispers of the sea, these all speak to me of you. You who loved to wind-surf on the sea, you who made sculptures with me out of jetsam and then we combed the sand as though it was a young girl’s tresses, like Japanese monks.
The sea, so many long years ago, another velvety predawn.
A shepherd passed with his sheep each morning. We awoke to the sound of the bell sheep, the others bleating behind it. The shepherd always smiled at us, maybe thinking that we were a little crazy to sleep on the sand wrapped up in sleeping bags when we had a perfectly good tent set up.
“‘Giorno!” he’d say tipping his hat then he’d follow his sheep never looking back.
The days were hot and the sun intense, so we built a shelter of old straw mats, reeds and wood we’d found on the beach or just beyond the beach, in a sort of tangled grove. We bought two folding chairs and during the hottest part of the day we sheltered, until the tide rose.
And after a day of swimming and surfing, when the night came, we played our harmonicas as we waited for our dinner to cook over the open fire. We drank our wine, talked for hours and then made love under the stars to the sound of the waves on the shore.
this blue velvet sky
is turning purple now
the sea – far away
I walk along the lake – there
a lone surfer sails at dawn
© G.s.k. ‘15
Six Word Saturday – One Bun – October 24, 2015
Afternoon walk – autumn reflections in Padua …
shimmering city
inside the canal at noon
Padua blooms
walking with my family
our son’s graduation
© G.s.k. ‘15
ONE WORD PHOTO CHALLENGE: AUTUMN – October 16, 2015
I really loved many of the photographs I’ve seen this week linked to Jennifer Nichole Wells’ ONE WORD PHOTO CHALLENGE: AUTUMN so I took my camera and although it was raining, tried to immortalize a bit of autumn in Arco (TN), the town where I live in Northern Italy.
walking in the rain
each drop illuminating
autumn’s colours
© G.s.k. ‘15
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