PhotoPlay Gallery: The Kelly Effect

For PhotoPlay this month, I shared how the use of contre-jour helped me through a difficult time, and then asked you to try to imitate the effect with your camera. High Calling members, Mark Ettinger and Susan Etole, respectively, took the two featured photos above.

L.L. Barkat invited us to go a step further by writing a poem about why photography and poetry matter. Cindee Snider Re offered the following beautiful response:

Why Poetry?

Poetry is breath,
Image draped bare
Over ochre emotion

Finest strands of gold
Woven word by word,
Hue and breadth into life,
A palette of diamonds
Dripping from silver filigree,
Piercing points of

Liquid luminescence
Spilling depth across the page
Oxygen into life,
Moments,
Texture-rich,
Drenched in ink,

Vision born to light
This is Holy Grail
And why I write.

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Please enjoy all of the submissions below. We hope you'll join us again next month!

All Random Acts of Poetry participants*

Cindee’s Why Poetry?
Michelle’s Why Poetry?
Monica’s Where Light Shines
Patricia’s Why…Poetry!

All PhotoPlay participants

Click on the thumbnails for a full view.

 

*We apologize if your photo did not get recognized. Only images submitted to the High Calling Focus group are eligible for inclusion in the gallery.

Landscape image by Mark Ettinger. Used with permission. Sourced via Flickr. Cattails image by Susan Etole. Used with permission. Sourced via Flickr. Post by Kelly Sauer, Assistant Photo Editor for The High Calling.

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