SeasonChallenge 3 - Monochrome Autumn and poetry
Today I was thinking monochrome...and a little bit of color splash. So, what if I will share some of my photo edits with my friends via the challenge I started with my friend @erikah? 🙂 So, for the third week of the seasonchallenge, I will share black and white photos.
Halloween is just around the corner and spooky stuff slowly overtake the house. I gave up telling my son that pumpkins are not supposed to sit at the table during lunch or have the best place on the couch. It's a lost battle. 🙂
So I got back to my flowers and photo editing.
The first edit is one of the last shots I took back in September. My beautiful red rose was ready to face Autumn with its blushed cheeks and a wonderful scent. Do you want to know something funny? With all the heat we experienced this Fall, it is still blooming. 🙂
Panasonic DMC-FZ7, f/8, 1/1600 s, 6 mm, ISO 400, Photoshop Express edited
But if roses are merely an accident during the Autumn, some berries are a certain thing. European cranberrybush is a beautiful red sparkle on every damp soil. However, its fruits are a little bit toxic. Some Autumn abundance, right? 🙂
Panasonic DMC-FZ7, f/5.6, 1/400 s, 6 mm, ISO 400, Photoshop Express edited
And finally some poisoning beauty, the European yew. I think I have more than a hundred photos of this amazing evergreen and its fruits. I am fascinated by these little red drops.
Panasonic DMC-FZ7, f/4, 1/60 s, 6 mm, ISO 400, Photoshop Express edited
In the end, I want to share with you a wonderful poem dedicated to the Fall, written by one of my favourite poets, Autumn by Charles Baudelaire:
Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows,
And all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone.
I already hear the dead thuds of logs below
Falling on the cobblestones and the lawn.
All of winter will return to me:
derision, Hate, shuddering, horror, drudgery and vice,
And exiled, like the sun, to a polar prison,
My soul will harden into a block of red ice.
I shiver as I listen to each log crash and slam:
The echoes are as dull as executioners' drums.
My mind is like a tower that slowly succumbs
To the blows of a relentless battering ram.
It seems to me, swaying to these shocks, that someone
Is nailing down a coffin in a hurry somewhere.
For whom? -- It was summer yesterday; now it's autumn.
Echoes of departure keep resounding in the air.
It is quite fit with my monochrome photos, right? 🙂
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A beautiful post inspired by autumn and a good idea to add a poem. I have the opportunity to see what a fall without the green color of the forest would look like. It fits with Haloween.
Thank you, my friend. I really like monochrome shots and I was experimenting different edits this week.
And the Romantic era of poetry is perfectly fit with this Halloween madness. 🙂
I wanted to post "Plumb" by George Bacovia but it is kind of too grim. 🙂
You made spectacular edits. I do not know how to do that.
I do not think Romanian poets can be well translated and understood. I once posted a poem by Eminescu ... there was no one impressed.
Thank you. I'm glad you like it.
It is not very hard to do these edits. If you have the right app and you do some practice, everything will go smoothly. 🙂
Perhaps the translation you found was not very good. The English version of "Plumb", the one I wanted to post today, was absolutely horror. The worse translation ever, just words thrown on a page and the only thing the translator had in mind was to match the Ro words with their translation. No intrrpretation whatsoever.
Maybe this is why that poem did not impress, you found a bad translation.
Yes, apps. These applications are miraculous and very many. You're right, you gotta have the right one.
Translations are difficult for poetry.
Awww! Momma cat will be so proud of you because the flower is red!!
Beautiful...
It turns out ... you are good at editing photos.
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Thank you. I practice a lot and I try to learn from others as much as I can. 🙂
That's great, and your poetry words are also very beautiful.
Continue your creativity, my dear brother
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I'm glad you like it. 🙂
And I'm a dear sister, not brother. Because I'm a girl. 🙂
The flower is exquisite in its edit, the light gives off a beautiful glow. I have always liked the pop of color with berries - you really have done such a great job on these!
The poetry I think is a nice touch added and so fitting for the fall. I know that you feel translations don't always do well, but, I am sure it is the same when you are translating my poetry back in Romanian. ;) It is a worldwide problem. Translations and misunderstandings.
It is a beautiful post. I truly love it.
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Thank you, my dear Denise. Much appreciated. I am very happy you like my work. 🙂
Regarding the translations, I believe Umberto Eco said something great: Translation is the art of failure. Words have so many meanings and nuances that one can easily make mistakes. In poetry case, the translators might fail capturing the feelings sent by the authors hence the difficulty of picking the right interpretation.
During the years, I succeded to "think in the language I speak at a certain moment". It might sound peculiar but I can do it. So, your lovely poems are always read and understood in your native language. 🙂 And they are so good. 👍
The Romanian poem I wanted to share is very sad but a good messenger for the Romantic genre. I did not post it for two reasons: it makes the reader veey sad and the only translation I found was too...horror. 🙂
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