Self-Portrait as a Bear
by Donald Hall
Here is a fat animal, a bear
that is partly a dodo.
Ridiculous wings hang at his shoulders
as if they were collarbones
while he plods in the bad brickyards
at the edge of the city, smiling
and eating flowers. He eats them
because he loves them
because they are beautiful
because they love him.
It is eating flowers which makes him so fat.
He carries his huge stomach
over the gutters of damp leaves
in the parking lots in October,
but inside that paunch
he knows there are fields of lupine
and meadows of mustard and poppy.
He encloses sunshine.
Winds bend the flowers
in combers across the valley,
birds hang on the stiff wind,
at night there are showers, and the sun
lifts through a haze every morning
of the summer in the stomach.
“Self-Portrait as a Bear” by Donald Hall, from White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1964-2006.
My Review is up here, please give it a read
One thing that I have I’ve learned in photography is to always carry a zoom lens. If you shoot photos for fun or you get paid for creating compelling photographs, you will find need for a zoom lens. There are spots you just can’t reach and things you cannot get close to. A zoom lens will afford you that opportunity. Though my Nikon 35mm F1.8 remains my favorite lens and is almost always on my D90, the Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 DG Macro is by my side often now.
via Field Review: Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 DG Macro Day 1 « The Phoblographer.
ok, distractions are over, Coffee Photography Meditations this weekend. Found a Coffee place in Hoboke, NJ I want to try and take shots inspired by Piper of Kohana Coffee . I have some images i want to create using some Coffee Idea’s Ive had and some new glasses i got. I have some New coffee from my Wonderful Coffee Sponsors, Kohana Coffee and BaristaOnDuy , so it shall be a Wonderful Coffee Art Weekend Stay Tuned
Foodie? Like taking Food Pic’s in Restaurants?
It is my belief that the best time to take a food photo, in a restaurant is at their slowest time.
Example, this image was taken as the place was just opening,I think i was customer number three. I had a choice of tables, My Camera annoyed no one, and the wait staff were all fresh and did not give a damn about anything.
The Food was Damn good too, nothing like Roast Duck, Pickled Cucumber and Brown rice before a photo walk
by Claire O’NeillCheers, Rick Norsigian, you are the luckiest man alive.The Associated Press and others just reported that after a six-month examination, a team of experts has authenticated a batch of found Ansel Adams negatives. The large glass negatives, purchased for $45 by Norsigian at a yard sale, are valued at $200 million; until now, they were “believed to have been destroyed in a 1937 fire at his Yosemite National Park studio,” says the AP.
Noodling Around: Nine Tasty Asian Spots / nycgo.com.
I want to shoot at a Noodle Bar, I have not had GOOD Ramen in FOREVER . Every time I watch Naruto and they Do a noodle scene , i want it more, this article clenched it. I need to get to a good noodle spot ASAP
Say the word “ramen,” and many people are instantly transported back to a college dorm, when Cup Noodles was the cheapest way to sustain students through final exams. But ramen, which originated in China, is more than “just add hot water.” The Japanese even use their noodles as an art form, with two dozen regional styles and an entire museum devoted to the dish. The painstaking recipes for authentic ramen combine fresh noodles and layered broths that cook for hours, sometimes even days. One taste of the real thing and you’ll never even consider the packaged stuff again. Here’s where you can score the most slurp-worthy bowls around the boroughs.
With the Heat still all around and The 3rd Annual Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk, over , I kept going, shooting my way the New York Penn Station, Such and Exhausting but fun weekend.
The 3rd Annual Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk that I participated in was in Washington Square Park, in New York City and the surrounding areas of Greenwich Village. This walk offered a fantastic chance to photograph eclectic New York. People, music, food, dog runs, buildings, history were all available to shoot and even more if you were creative. The 100 degree temperatures of the day made it a little difficult though.
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels…
“A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value – you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you – daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
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Thanks to Lemasney who Created this image
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John is a father, husband, designer, artist, manager, consultant, technologist, open web advocate, and open source evangelist living in NJ
My Day is going to be one HUGE PhotoMeditation, I am not just Beginning and Ending with the World Wide Photo Walk, it’s going to be a full day of Photography, working with my new Nikon 50mm 1.8 and Sigma 70-300 Macro
Enjoy your Saturday
