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through the looking glass

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ALICE

she ate from a plate called EAT ME
and she grew up so tall.
she drank from a cup called DRINK ME
and down she shrank so small.

and so she changed
while other folk
never tried nothin' at all.

Shel Silverstein

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Got any photos that demand accompaniment--a poem, song lyrics, a quotation from some long-passed soul?

Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 by Registered CommenterKate Inglis in | Comments16 Comments | References1 Reference

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    Response: Through My Eyes
    by Debbie Schinker at Schinker's Shutterbug Site on May 19, 2008
    One of my more recent digital albums was a faithbook, my spiritual testimony in words and photos. Many of the pictures were chosen for how well they conveyed my sense of a particular bible verse or passage meaningful to me. Here is the first page.

Reader Comments (16)



Good morning Shutter Sisters

So often i take a photo and when i look at it the feeling from that day comes back to me.

This was a hot, balmy day with a really sleepy feel and the Jellyfish song 'Russian Hill' just kept playing through my head. Lyrics are underneath the photo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickythomasphotography/2492626685/

Here is a quote that just fitted the picture.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickythomasphotography/2502137669/

and one from a while ago when life was a bit hectic - i felt a bit like the photo, twisted and unstable - the lyrics are from a Blur song 'Far out'. I thought the photo looked like a planet 'hot in the milky way'.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickythomasphotography/2294702966/

i hope you like them.

Nicky x
May 19, 2008 | Unregistered Commenternicky thomas
The weather demanded this photo- what a lovely day this is going to be!

Before you met me I was a fairy princess
I caught frogs and called them prince
And made myself a queen
And before you knew me I'd traveled 'round the world
And I slept in castles
And fell in love
Because I was taught to dream

I found mayonnaise bottles and poked holes on top
To capture Tinker Bell
And they were just fireflies to the untrained eye
But I could always tell

Cause I believe in fairy tales
And dreamer's dreams
Like bedsheet sails
And I believe in Peter Pan
And miracles, anything I can to get by
And fireflies

http://flickr.com/photos/mini-mrs/2496916941/
May 19, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterConnie
Hmmm,well there is this one,

http://arlenestarr.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/just-because/
May 19, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterArlene
Lyrics with pic...one of my all time faves.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/74752856@N00/2242795377/in/set-72157605006991930/
May 19, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterUrsula
Here's one that automatically brought to mind a song from my childhood:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/westieluvr/2481245070/

May 19, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterLeslie
The photographs that I publish are dependent on the words in the blog and vice versa. I am never sure if it is the words or the photos that come first.

http://magpiefiles.blogspot.com/2008/05/white-ivory-white.html
May 19, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAlice C
I'm still trying to deconstruct this quote from Lord Byron:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dolcepics/2507256906/
May 19, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterlaura
My friend and I have a photography blog where we pair lyrics with photos. Here's a post that fit the song lyric well: http://timewaitsphotos.blogspot.com/2008/02/in-my-mind-i-was-child.html
May 20, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterTracy
Why, Kate...how did you know...
http://slurpinglife.typepad.com/slurping_life/2008/05/as-though-i-had.html

And I love Alice.
May 20, 2008 | Unregistered Commentermelody
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sierraromeo/2423540046/in/set-72157604744240241/
This is one of my favorite photos coupled w/ my current favorite quote:

Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.

It's the last stanza of The Mask of Anarchy by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

p.s. I love Shel Silverstein!
May 20, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterSarah - Ji
I posted this yesterday but it's appropriate.

http://thehipmommasjournal.squarespace.com/journal/2008/5/19/waiting.html
May 20, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterMelody A.
The perfect photo with the perfect quote:
http://flickr.com/photos/jeroldssis/2509933176/
May 20, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterChris
"You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely"
Ogden Nash

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nomesthenome/2384295343/
May 21, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterNaomi
ok...ever since I posted this picture (http://shutterbugschink.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/lovely-lady-liberty/) for a different Shutter Sisters topic, the following lyrics have been bouncing around in my head:

Lovely lady liberty
With her book of recipes.
And the finest one she's got
Is the great American melting pot,
The great American melting pot.

(Yes, it's from Schoolhouse Rock. Yes, I know most of the words. Yes, I'm proud of that!)
May 21, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterDebbie Schinker

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