Continuing the “wetscape” series reveling in Spring wet places. The sun was out and so reflections, shadows and transparency were all there to be explored. Curious as well as familiar plants were on show, while the bottom mud glowed in warm tones.
Tom’s poem takes a remote – one could say alien – observer point of view …I love it!
Report from the Away Team
This planet’s flora: great variety
is found among the forests of the north
along the margins where society
has left alone some places of great worth.
The survey team was beamed down to a spot
that isn’t quite unsullied, but has been
protected from the worst of wrack and rot
that permeates so much of what is seen
in other places. Strange bold life-forms grow
in waters rich with nutrients. They are
exotic, most unusual, we know
of nothing like this, far among the stars.
To summarize: there’s something here, unique,
full clothed in beauty, which of beauty speaks.
image (c) 2020 Hilary Farmer
poem (c) 2020 TJ Radcliffe
I love this series, it’s just so….brilliant. Also, something about what you have captured in the closeness of the images is so intimate and personal. It feels like the viewer is given permission to slow down, and see what is truly there. Again, this is a great series!
Thanks so much! I really appreciate how you’re seeing and reacting to these. 🙂