The Nikon Naiad's Song:Saved from Drowning by my Camera
The Fog Also Rises
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The Nikon Naiad’s Song
When morning light throws golden nets
Across the splash of Humboldt fog
Fishing for creatures of the night,
They scatter —
Slipping into caverns of shadow
Till the sun sails off to lay its lures in other waters.
– – –
But I, like Neptune’s errant wife,
Hair still streaming from the shower,
Break head above the rolling ridges
Breathing air again– at last.
– – –
Then surfing the sunlit swells, tripod in hand,
I cast the invisible line of my lens
For a silver fraction of an hour,
Carting home a supply of soul
To sustain me till darkness flees again
Before the sun—
– – –
Which throwing out its morning lines across the sky,
Keeps me from drowning
Beneath the days.
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You are a woman of stunning talent and soul. I love getting to know you through your beautiful blog!
Kym – you have outdone yourself with this one. Looks like it could be the surface of an alien world, and you must be careful not to be swept along in the gauzy tendrils into the unknown. Beautiful!
nice shot!
Beautiful photo and beautiful poem.
I agree, beautiful image and words. Well done, Kym!!
I love the poem and it really goes with the photo.
I’m just becoming aware of what a good poet you are. It’s no surprise however, as your creativity with the camera is akin to poetry.
Gorgeous!
Is there anything you are not good at? Because that is what I will take up. Of course, I probably won’t be any good at it either. Never mind, I’ll stick to my pictures.
It’s very unusual to see tule fog on a hillside, frost, and valley fog in the same photo. I wonder how many people know that? I think that most people know that your phography is unique.
As for your poetry. “Ohhhhhh, Gawwwwwd” It’s good.
speechless
I can just picture you in this image, surfing the sunlit swells, hair streaming, with your supply of soul. It sustains us, too! Thanks, Kym (for all you find time for).
Gorgeous! Both the photo and the poem. Thanks, Kym!
Beautiful picture but that poem is gorgeous. You really captured your inner nymph!
wow! like so many of your photos
I’m a sucker for photos like this.
Kym,
You catch the moments that make living here so wonderful.
Thank you.
Classic. Very nice. Almost like (in my mind) an oriental or maybe Buddhist landscape.
One of my faves.
[…] Kym did a one photo a day project and that got her really using her camera and experimenting with it and now she is doing shots so good I think she should be putting out prints for sale [which she will not do because she is STUBBORN] but I am thinking maybe I should think about something like that. A photo a day. Or maybe — […]