in the pink

I was taking photos of sweet chestnuts the other day, but having transferred the pictures to the computer, it seems I have a problem. The sky really wasn’t that colour at all, but that’s the way the camera saw it, which probably means it’s time I got a new camera.

Taking a rosy view of things
Taking a rosy view of things

I wanted a picture to post alongside this ‘ku which is buried somewhere in a comment from this time last year.

smooth new lifeform
peeps from the belly
of a chestnut hedgehog

 
The camera has paid for itself over the years, providing the material for three published foto-reportajes as well as incidental illustrations for many other articles, including most of the photos on the blog. It’d be nice to have one a bit smaller and smarter, though.

Then again, there might be an advantage to continuing to use this one: it might help me look at the world through a rose-tinted lens.

peas

caterpillar fat
and packed so tight
the pods won’t pop…

peas in a pod
bursting with summer

(There has to be a full length poem here, if I can only find it!)

juxtaposition

The Gredos foothills
The Gredos foothills

Palm fronds spike
at mountain peaks
blurred by clouds and snow.

cold snap

Featherfall
simplifies the city.
Cameras click; mobiles sing.

El Prado, Madrid
El Prado, Madrid

hai’ku

Castilla y León 17/11/2008
Castilla y León 17/11/2008

Sunward
ivy snakes
scaling trunks of pines