Friday, 25 March 2016

Half-light

 

 

Light thickens; and the crow

Makes wing to the rooky wood:

Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;

While night's black agents to their preys do rouse.

Shakespeare: Macbeth.

 

Today's Wordpress photography prompt was to post a photograph inspired by a poem, song or story, associated with the theme of 'half-light'. Of course, being me, I did it the other way round - looked for a photo and thought about what it meant to me. I love photographing evening light, so I was spoiled for choice, but this one instantly brought to mind the first couple of lines, which I often say when I see rooks or their nests.

Of course, I couldn't remember where it came from, but Google was my friend, and turned up this rather dark quote from Macbeth, where he is planning dark deeds for the night. And the photo does have a threatening feel to it, I think, which matches the tone of the quote.

 

Sunday, 13 March 2016

Sunday, 28 February 2016

State of Mind

The topic for this week's Wordpress photo prompt is 'State of Mind'. I have a cold. This is my state of mind. Soft, beige and crumpled.

It is actually a photo of used tissues in my waste paper basket. You are allowed to say 'yuck'.The app was PhotoToaster.

 

Saturday, 20 February 2016

Seasons

 

The Human Seasons. John Keats

Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;

There are four seasons in the mind of man:

He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear

Takes in all beauty with an easy span:

He has his Summer, when luxuriously

Spring's honied cud of youthful thought he loves

To ruminate, and by such dreaming high

Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves

His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings

He furleth close; contented so to look

On mists in idleness—to let fair things

Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook.

He has his Winter too of pale misfeature,

Or else he would forego his mortal nature.