MSA O/N July 2022 - Photos inspired by Literature

[macfred]

I have been thinking about the MSA July - I like it a bit more complicated ...

Each of us certainly knows a poem or another piece of literature such as a short story or a maybe a novel.
Camus, Proust, Defoe, Steinbeck, Hemmingway, Goethe, Scott-Fitzgerald, Tolkien, Salinger, Genet coming to my mind. I am thinking primarily of the classics of literature but your personal favorite literature is welcome.
Many artists through history have drawn inspiration from literature - just do the same!
Submit photos based on a poem, a story, or even a line from a story - try to capture the essence of that poem, story, or line in one photograph.

I'm not sure with the thread title - maybe Matt or another member can help with a better one ...

For the updated MSA guidelines :
https://www.photrio.com/forum/threa...5-07-2019-07-and-2021-12.126124/#post-1667700

“He doesn't need any money , all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this.”
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

Leica R3 - Ilford HP5

 

[MattKing]

Great idea macfred. I've tweaked the title slightly - as much to shorten it as anything.
I'll do my stuff with Sticky thread designations and updating the list of themes.

 

[macfred]

Great idea macfred. I've tweaked the title slightly - as much to shorten it as anything.
I'll do my stuff with Sticky thread designations and updating the list of themes.

Thank you for the help, Matt !
Advocacy in the most general sense is action that takes place "for others". In a more specific sense, it is representative action taken on behalf of or in the interests of one or more persons ...

 

[markjwyatt]

When I saw this tree, and saw the image I produced, I could only think of Tolkien's Hobbit and Lord of the Ring, and I named the image based on that (Taffy of course is the dog). OLD image.


in the land of Mordor by Mark Wyatt, on Flickr

 

[macfred]

When I saw this tree, and saw the image I produced, I could only think of Tolkien's Hobbit and Lord of the Ring, and I named the image based on that (Taffy of course is the dog). OLD image.


in the land of Mordor by Mark Wyatt, on Flickr

Great start, Mark !

 

[peter k.]

OLD Image ... Nikkormat 35mm taken on Midgely bridge trail that goes down to Oak Creek ...

“And forget not
that the earth
delights to feel
your bare feet
and the winds
long to
play with your hair.”
Kahlil Gibran

 

[macfred]

OLD Image ... Nikkormat 35mm taken on Midgely bridge trail that goes down to Oak Creek ...

“And forget not
that the earth
delights to feel
your bare feet
and the winds
long to
play with your hair.”
Kahlil Gibran

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Yes !

 

[macfred]

Photograph from June 2022 - just to keep this thread going ...

'Wuthering Heights' - Emily Jane Brontë

“Catherine's face was just like the landscape—shadows and sunshine flitting over it in rapid succession; but the shadows rested longer, and the sunshine was more transient.”​

Rolleiflex 3.5F - Planar - Neopan 400CN

 

[peter k.]

'Wuthering Heights' - Emily Jane Brontë

Ah come on, ... give us a quote out of the book.. to describe what is a Wuthering height is for the image shown.

 

[macfred]

Ah come on, ... give us a quote out of the book.. to describe what is a Wuthering height is for the image shown.

You're right, Peter - just edited my post

 

[peter k.]

“Catherine's face was just like the landscape—shadows and sunshine flitting over it in rapid succession; but the shadows rested longer, and the sunshine was more transient.”

Ah yessss.... very good, as in the image shown.

Where the short impermanent transparency of the sun, ...
merges silently, ...
within the stillness of the shadows below at both the beginning,
or,
the shorting end of the day,
on,
this crust of the earth that we know.

 

[Bertus]

John 10:11 "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep".
Feldberg, Germanie, old. Bronica SQai 50mm, Ilford neg and FB print 30x40

 

[macfred]

John 10:11 "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep".
Feldberg, Germanie, old. Bronica SQai 50mm, Ilford neg and FB print 30x40

Well done, Berts!

 

[peter k.]

Ok all, here's a challenge to give to ya, here's a quote fer ya to find or shoot a new image for this months MSA ..

“Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary.”
-Harold Feinstein

 

[macfred]

Sorry I'm late - I got problems with my old Mac ...
Winner is Bertus - Schaapherder Feldberg. Congrats Bertus !

 

[Bertus]

Thank you Macfred! I have to go to the hospital and can't start a new assignment until September 1. So please continue with the previous topic? I'm thinking about the topic "New Topographics photography", LINK1 - LINK 2 if you want you can already collect some or start with something else.

 

[macfred]

Thank you Macfred! I have to go to the hospital and can't start a new assignment until September 1. So please continue with the previous topic? I'm thinking about the topic "New Topographics photography", LINK1 - LINK 2 if you want you can already collect some or start with something else.

Bertus, ik wens je geluk en gezondheid!

Ik zal Matt om advies vragen, want ik ben zelf op reis en heb weinig gelegenheid om uw nieuwe thema te volgen.

 

[macfred]

@MattKing

Matt, we need your help with the new theme for MSA. I think ''New Topographics photography" is great one but as I am travelling myself I will have little opportunity to follow.
Will you please start the new theme for our friend Bertus?

 

[MattKing]

I'll see if I can do some fancy Moderator tricks that result in the new theme being started by Bertus in a thread initiated by him.
And Bertus - best wishes!

 

[MattKing]

The new theme and thread can be found here: https://www.photrio.com/forum/threa...ber-2022-new-topographics-photography.193631/
Through the magic of moderation, it even appears as if it was created by Bertus.
Until Bertus is back, I'll keep an eye on the thread. I'd appreciate it if others would as well.

 

[macfred]

The new theme and thread can be found here: https://www.photrio.com/forum/threa...ber-2022-new-topographics-photography.193631/
Through the magic of moderation, it even appears as if it was created by Bertus.
Until Bertus is back, I'll keep an eye on the thread. I'd appreciate it if others would as well.

• I thank you, magician Matt !!