Skeletal Tree
ten thousand feet
above everything,
ideas come slowly,
oxygen so scarce!
i see tree-bones
death has visited
this chilly place
before my time.
at this altitude
trees are an
expense or
luxury, perhaps.
nothing much
lives forever.
not such trees,
so beautiful
even in death.
good things end.
time conceals
many surprises.
so many, so often.
evil too ceases.
we live for that.
as long as it lasts,
it seems so long.
and we are left,
for good, or ill,
with bare-limbed
reminders.
I make photos to make myself feel good; I share in hope of making you feel good. I do as much as I can in the camera, but it does not always end there.
Part of making an image in the 21st century is processing a captured image in the computer. This is like dodging and burning in the darkroom of yesterday. (I've done that.)
I use Photoshop cc and Lightroom cc. The result is not always what I saw, maybe what I wish I saw. Sometimes, the resulting image is a creation more than a recording. Most of the time, I keep it believable and realistic.
I have a Bachelor's degree in Creative Writing.
I have shared thousands of my poems on the internet, to a considerable audience and I'm considering making a selection of them, in a book or books.
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Gosh. Another one that moves me greatly. Again trees… Reminds me of bristlecones?
And yes, I did write a poem inspired by “banyan”, except I had got my tropical botany in a muddle of aerial roots, and realised I was writing about mangroves. …
Murray Robertson (photography & poems) 
Gosh. Another one that moves me greatly. Again trees… Reminds me of bristlecones?
And yes, I did write a poem inspired by “banyan”, except I had got my tropical botany in a muddle of aerial roots, and realised I was writing about mangroves. …
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Thank you for the kindnesses writingpresence!
When we can’t travel (like now) we can look at things through the Google window. People have published many photographs over the years.
I’m wondering if a legendary hurricane killed these trees (in Hawai’i).
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