Photo Shoot

My beautiful daughter took this photo this afternoon. She is so sweet!


                                          

Through the Years

Through the Years

A popular type of album at Facebook - so I composed one too. The photos are optimized for web viewing - Facebook re-sizes all images to minuscule KBs (no idea where all these photos are on my hard drive :)).

Click through to Picasa to read the inscriptions (or click on any photo, it'll take you through).

                                          

Niagara Falls

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A beautiful friend who I hadn't seen in almost 10 years treated me to a magnificent few days at Niagara Falls. These photos are stills from video I took. They are a lovely memory of the thundering waters.

Click on any photo in the slideshow to go directly to the album to see the photos in larger size, and to read the captions.

The first videopoem of the footage from Niagara Falls has been released; you can watch it at YouTube: 'Tones of Noir' (1:23min).

                                             

A Videopoem: Tones of Noir

direct link: Tones of Noir
music: Alex Bailey, 'Piano Improvisation No 7.'

Do poems wait to be born? A poem whittled out of thundering mist at Niagara Falls. The roar of the Falls, music, voice.


I wanted the voice to be as light as the mist, and as strange as a dream with noir elements. (Don't worry if you can't hear all the words -it's meant to be a bit ghostly, and you can read the words here.)

Tones of Noir

Numinosity
     washes the sky.

Poems rise
     out of thundering mist.

I think it is a crime.

She rushes by.

The water, 
     the power in falling.

Begin when it's in motion
and stop before it ends.

Mystical crystal spikes
     of sun.

He waits.

We walk quickly
covering ourselves against the watcher.

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Video I shot in Niagara Falls, Canada, a few days ago, edited in Final Cut Express, Video I shot in Niagara Falls, Canada, a few days ago, edited in Final Cut Express, and layered a few recordings of the poem I wrote for this piece.

Niagara Falls is magnificent!


Still from video:



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I'm entering this in Big Tent Poetry's prompt this week. I read the prompt Wednesday night (had only 6 hours sleep since then, video poetry does that to me, sigh) and thought, hmnnn, enough? ...maybe.

::Smiling:: Thanks!