Monday 18 April 2016

Photographic Tale of the Week - Your Just a Distant Memory

"Your Just a Distant Memory" by Keith (Kpryor23)
Considering my somewhat poor ability to remember things, every memory seems to be a distant one. Maybe that's for the best, living my life in the present moment or something like that. It's a good thing my partner can remember almost every single detail from her childhood, including the lyrics of songs that she sings to our four kids. If I were to attempt the same thing I would be sitting there with my cellphone looking up the words for songs I don't know the names of.
This feeling (of a memory recalled from a long time ago) is wonderfully captured by Keith in "Your Just a Distant Memory" - today's Photographic Tale of the Week. Perched at the edge of water, a pier and a figure - in a sea of bokeh - provide a phantom background to a wall of silhouetted oats - both porous and imposing with their slender concentration.

Here is what Keith has to say about it:

When I took this photo it reminded me of when someone try's to recall a memory from long ago. I think it makes an interesting composition with the depth field. including the pier, the person, and the oats.
Good night and Good luck

 

Keith is a self-taught photographer who enjoys learning and fine-tuning his creative approach. With a creative background and a degree in audio and video, he has developed his experience as a photographer and digital artist over the past five years. Over those years he has excelled in landscape fine art, and conceptual photography. He has developed his hand in digital arts and view the whole world as his canvas. Keith initiated a 365 photography project to explore his creative efforts and challenge his technical skills.
 You can find Keith's photography at the following sites:
Flickr Photostream
Website 
500 Px 
Facebook

As always, this is a photograph selected from my #Flickr group, "Pictures with a Story." See the 290 other contributors by checking out the group, and feel free to join.

Browse through the Essex Masque blog (you're on it!) for other Photographic Tales of the Week, as well as other randoms that I post. You can also find me on Twitter, Facebook, and my photography on Flickr

Please note that, as ever, do not use the images of the featured photographers without their express permission. I always contact them first.

Monday 11 April 2016

Photographic Tale of the Week - Alone swimming in the rain

Alone swimming in the rain by Robert Ang
In spite of the danger of a sodden towel, swimming in a downpour seems so liberating. Instead of regretting a forgotten umbrella, lamenting a recently washed car, protecting a hair style, or maintaining dry clothing, immersing yourself in the water that can be such an annoyance is a wonderful experience. Is this a metaphor for many of those things in life that cause such fear and discomfort? Yes, yes it is.
 

Robert Ang captures this feeling wonderfully in "Alone swimming in the rain" where the figure, surrounded by the blue of the pool and the blur of the falling rain, is at once small and yet so powerful - so necessary - in the composition.

It was raining heavily this evening. Instead of going out to capture another sunset, I went to the balcony of my apartment and took this picture of a man swimming in the rain. If he was also singing, I could not hear him as I was high up above the swimming pool.


View the rest of Robert's photography in his Flickr photostream.  

As always, this is a photograph selected from my #Flickr group, "Pictures with a Story." See the almost 290 other contributors by checking out the group, and feel free to join.

Browse through the Essex Masque blog (you're on it!) for other Photographic Tales of the Week, as well as other randoms that I post. You can also find me on Twitter, Facebook, and my photography on Flickr

Please note that, as ever, do not use the images of the featured photographers without their express permission. I always contact them first.

Tuesday 5 April 2016

Photographic Tale of the Week - Your fingers

"Your fingers" by Craig (Secretlyjustme)
You may not believe me when I say this, but when Craig's beautiful work "Your fingers" caught my eye (the title being the first line of an 8 line accompanying poem), I had no idea that April is #Poetrymonth. Okay, maybe I should know this considering my passion for all things literary, but I didn't. 
This serendipitous selection was beyond the convenience of conforming to a theme (image and poem). Rather, the selection of Craig's incredible photograph - of its play with perspective, contrast of motion and stasis, vibrant colour and shades of grey - was based on the merits of the beauty of the composition itself. 
Without further ado:

Your fingers
leave trails
of fireworks
on skin
and
time
told you things
you already knew

You are in luck. Craig, a self-described "thirty-something" and "drinker of whisky" (both of which I can relate to), has equally amazing images and poems in his Flickr photostream for you to enjoy. You must!

As always, this is a photograph selected from my #Flickr group, "Pictures with a Story," of which Craig is a regular contributor. See the almost 290 other contributors by checking out the group, and feel free to join.

Browse through the Essex Masque blog (you're on it!) for other Photographic Tales of the Week, as well as other randoms that I post. You can also find me on Twitter, Facebook, and my photography on Flickr

Please note that, as ever, do not use the images of the featured photographers without their express permission. I always contact them first.