Constancy In Change [Reflections on Chris Orwig's Book Visual Poetry - Chapter 5: Intro] (Col. 1:9-14; Eph. 4:11-16; Phi. 3:12-21 )
In taking people-pictures, there’s both constancy and change;
Photo maker, and the subject, and the context, rearrange
As the times and seasons shift and flow – kaleidoscopic views
Are never quite the same, which keeps this kind of photo new.That means that those just starting, and those workers wrapping up,
Both have a way of working that can make results enough
To satisfy the finest taste of viewers of such pix,
The best work from our cameras may be pictures we shoot next.You take a bunch of photographs all taken by one guy,
You’ll see a certain “sameness” – makes you ask the question “why?”
If you can hear between the lines the “voice” each worker has,
You’ll meet that worker doing life his way, through razzmatazz.This chapter read, go back and check the matrix he’s laid out –
Four chapters at the start put depth to photos here, no doubt;
“Like Poetry”; “Creativeness”, “Start Seeing”, and “Technique”,
Considered with each genre, add improvements which we seek.Thanks Lord for this.
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