Shutter Sisters

The Calm Out Back

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inflatable starfish
and a palm tree made of glass
anchored in the bay
lights dim
to that familiar tune
drenched in the remains
of an evening sun
and buoyant conversations
she seeks
the calm out back

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I’ve been infatuated with words lately. The whimsy and weight of them. I captured this image at the beach last summer and found that the words followed a few days later. Do you find that images linger in your mind and take shape in new ways? Do you let the words come to you just as the images do?

Comments

  10. almost always, they go hand and hand….
    if I’m short on words, a photo will bring the right ones to the surface for me…..
    and if I love love love a photo…the words come spilling out easily that were somehow made to fit perfectly with what I see in front of me…

  11. I love words. I love photos. I started a blog several months ago matching favorite quotes with photos. One quote, one photo a day. That is it. The quotes aren’t mine (for the most part), but the photos are.

    This is a photo taken after a tornado hit our small town a year ago. It wasn’t hard to match the quote with the image this time. http://quotequill.blogspot.com/2009/06/tragedies.html

  17. Sometimes the words come first and other times I am simply forced to add the story because the picture just can’t possibly say it all. I feel like the camera is my perfect tool. I have a million words running through my head and no time to get them down. The camera helps with spurring them on into life when the time is finally there.
    or like in this case the picture allows me to recall the priceless words that went along with my daughter’s expression.
    http://sufferingsummer-ashotinthedark.blogspot.com/2009/06/36555.html