Pigs have no use for pearls
by-product of an oyster's pain
consumed and excreted
not appreciated
by some fat-necked woman
who squeals at the pretty
the expensive pretty
at the library of
iridescent books
dusted and unread
bought for their bindings
bought and bound
-
If oysters ruled the world
they would have found
a cure for pearls
all around their shells
a chain of cancers
cut from a man
by-product of an oyster's pain
consumed and excreted
not appreciated
by some fat-necked woman
who squeals at the pretty
the expensive pretty
at the library of
iridescent books
dusted and unread
bought for their bindings
bought and bound
-
If oysters ruled the world
they would have found
a cure for pearls
all around their shells
a chain of cancers
cut from a man
10 comments:
I think I prefer your poetry over your photography. Maybe you missed your call?
I've was writing long before I picked up a camera - more experience. The canvas is much broader, too. And although it costs a fortune to photograph Antarctica, it costs nothing to write about it.
"The white-out takes over as I oil
my revolver
I can no longer feel my heart"
Love the image. Excellent poem.
Check my (somewhat somnolecent)similiar effort at Blogspot: An Ecological Association.
Shot on shot, and developed with coffee (Tesco Gold, no less).
Hi Ashley, a lens question for you. On full frame Canon, with £200ish to spend on a used lens, what would suggest for a zoom lens covering 28mm and wider, mainly for studio/strobe work and occasional outdoors?
I never came up with an answer for that myself. In the end I settled on a Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 - which is much more than £200 brand new, and is surprisingly good. The Tokina 20-35mm in an earlier post is also very impressive but suffered from sample variation (and it's a boring specification).
In fact, have a read of this:
http://women-and-dreams.blogspot.com/2011/08/tokina-20-35mm-circle-like-girl.html
The (discontinued) Sigma 15-30mm isn't boring, and it's quite sharp.
I recently got one to use on Nikon and Kodak SLR/n bodies and am happy with it.
Thanks chaps - I looked at the Sigma 15-30 but was worried it would not work well (flare) in a bright studio with big strobes. Tokina 20-35 3.5 is my preference but it is a rather narrow range. Maybe that and a Samyang 14?
I used to have a Sigma 15-30mm - it pops up in the articles I did about the DCS 460 and Nikon D1x. It was very large (but surprisingly light), handy as a kind of multi-format zoom, but it made everything look a bit yellowy and it wasn't great in the full-frame borders. And it was rubbish at night - street lights flared like mad. I came close to buying a 12-24mm, just for the sheer range, apparently it's a bit better.
But I do think that the 15-30mm might be good as a studio lens, since it's unlikely to be used very wide. By 24mm it's quite good, especially stopped down a bit. You would have to be careful to control light hitting it.
Ahh, the yellow Sigma color. It could be dealt with rather easily in post.
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