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Autumn was my first love.October, I follow you -
from the magic lights of New York
to moonshines in Georgia,
until the colors dissolve.
The anxious poetry of autumn
made a memory of me.

Here’s to things I take for granted:
September blues,
chasing airplanes,
country road thunderstorms.
Unspoken words, unwritten ideas.

October, I follow you;
I thought I saw you on the shore
where the river runs through gold
on the last boat leaving the city of a hundred spires -
or perhaps Pittsburgh
(it was the lights I guess).

Here’s to the things we leave behind:
sunbeams in November,
letters addressed to no one,
poems, wounds, dead birds.

I’ve got that summ

New HeartLurking deep in the night,
Moon casts a shadow bright.
Shines on the owl in flight,
Radiates peace tonight.

Remains till a new day,
With love here to soon stay.
This joy not to decay,
Melody starts to play.

Pretty until the end,
All of these rules to bend.
His love to each one send,
And a hope to here lend.

Creates a work of art,
That begins from the start.
Each color does a part,
To design this new heart.

A Forgotten MemoryShe was one of many
Not the only one to be exact
She put a smile on her face
But nobody knew it was all an act
Her body was filled with bruises and scars
She couldn't tell anyone because
She knew they'd hurt her more
She'd cry herself to sleep at night
Hoping no one would ever see her sight

Until one day
A person found out
Her parents did too and
They'd scream and shout
The person who found out told her
'Hold on, stay strong'
But that just caused her
To think more negative thoughts
She hated everything about herself
Her body, her complexion, her hair
But her parents still didn't give any care

One day, she had enough
Everything was just gett

Halls of fireHere in the halls of fire,
There lived a female squire.
Whose wisdom would inspire,
With an anger most dire.

As the ice melts away,
This new warmth can here stay.
Throughout the entire day,
Fade from the shade of gray.

Deep in the dark a light,
Lighten the way tonight.
Casting out sparks so bright,
And land here to the right.

Burning the past to ash,
Begin to live your dash.

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Literature / Poetry / General Poetry / Visual & Found Poetry

Well, my girlfriend left me right as I was dealing with this eye macro. It kinda inspired me. I dunno what this is, either a photomanipulation with a poem or a poem with a photomanipulation...I never really tried to write poems, tell me if this is a hit or just shit. It can be interpreted as a poem full of anger, as well as it can be interpreted as a plead or an offer to have another try (I think

)
I hope I haven't ruined a great macro shot with my own lovestory...

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Nikon D100 @ 200 ASA
60 mm Micro Nikkor
Sigma EM-140 DG ring flash
tripod
flashed eyes (

)

Photoshop (many things like burn an dodge, curves, text and frame, ...)
Noiseware (adaptive FFT noise filter)

~mscoelho Mar 25, 2006

Wow, this is really good. I didn't realize that there is a poet lurking inside that astrophotographer. I'm sorry to hear about your girlfriend. Very cool.

~Hector42 Mar 25, 2006 Hobbyist Photographer

Thank you. I discovered at least two bad mistakes in the poem the first one is that there is no reason why I call the blood 'rotten' in the last stanza (except my anger...) and the second one is that I mixed up an expression: when there is a hopeless situation, germans sometimes say that one can grip a straw to hold on to it. Sure, a straw isn't too stable and thats the point. Somehow I thougt the straw was a spoon (and that it would make sense in german and in english too

) - a spoon would fit much better...it's hard to rip out an eye with a straw I think

About the girlfriend: maybe this 'second chance' could happen in one week but we are both very complex characters and if it doesn't work, it's nobodies fault...then we are just incomatible...although we have soooo much in common...

~quicksimon Mar 24, 2006

That is one KICK ASS macro man!! how the hell did you do that? Is that your eye? The manipulation is fantasitc, love the way the veins are now black. Cool poem also!! Great work

~Hector42 Mar 24, 2006 Hobbyist Photographer

Thank you very much! The macro isn't as good as I wanted it to be but it is very difficult to focus the eye at this magnification without looking through the cam...although the lens is stopped down to f/20! I wanted it to be as big as possible and the autofocus failed at this distance (nose meets macro flash

) or these light conditions. I asked my father to do the shot, but he didn't get the point, so I set the cam to 'autofire', sat down in front of the tripod and moved my eye towards the lens and from the lens away while pulling the trigger to get one image which is sharp. The macro flash can flash about 4 times in a row. This was the only sharp image out of about 15 really blurred ones, I think I a had a lot of luck. But I'm a bit dissapointed because I should have openend my eye a bit more. And because I should have used some lamps to make my room brighter, that would have lead to a smaller pupil and a bigger colourful iris. The ring flash isn't really a ring as you can see in it's reflection, it's rather two stripes (but it has a non flashing white ring which is reflected too).
Now the manipulation:
-mirrored a part of the eye to get rid of some unwanted eyelashes and to form this interesting vein pattern
-cropped and rotated the image
-applied the noise filter
-painted a zero saturation value at everything but the iris (and pupil) to pull the attention to it
-'auto colors' to optimize the colours of the iris
-dodged the eyelids and blurred them to pull more attention to the iris
-dodged the iris with blue, not to darken it but to enhance it's contrast and structure and to make up for the lack of a nice blue (in fact my eyes are more greenish blue)
-burned and dodged the parts of the eyeball to get these nice veins on plain white
-adjusted the curves and increased the saturation to lead the attention to the iris (one more time

)
-applied an unsharp mask
In fact it wasn't really in this order but close to it. My first deliberate poem and my first serios photomanipualtion

~quicksimon Mar 24, 2006

You're welcome!! Is this with the Nikon FE? That flash must have hurt your eye!! Thanks for all the info. I need all the info i can to learn about photomanips. Great work!

~Hector42 Mar 28, 2006 Hobbyist Photographer

I just realized that the burn and dodge tools behave different than what the normal brush does when it's set to what I would translate as 'burn' and 'dodge' too

~Hector42 Mar 25, 2006 Hobbyist Photographer

Hey, where is the commen gone I wrote here yesterday

, ok, another try

Not the FE but the D100 like I wrote in the description and like it stands there in the EXIF data from the cam itself on the right side

Ah, yes, the flash was kinda bright but it is adjustable and I used it at 1/8 of the max. power. However, the first shot was at full power and that could be the reason why my veins are so prominent

I saw similar images here on DA and there is no health warning on the flash, so I tried but I was a bit afraid anyway. And if you are so close to this flash, the flashing bulbs are quite far from the center of your fov, a simple flash 2 m away would have been much more irritating to me...
Try colouring a b/w image using burn and dodge set to a colour, that seems to be funny and you learn how these cool tools work (color, saturation and the brighness of the set colour have an effect on what theese tools do as I found out)...prepare for my next heavy manipulated photograph

~hommie08 Mar 23, 2006 Photographer

wow that's really amazing

~Hector42 Mar 23, 2006 Hobbyist Photographer

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