The past month dedicated Steemian @raj808 has been writing and publishing one Haiku a day on Steem. Haiku's are a form of poetry where rhyme isn't the main focus, instead you make sure the syllables of the Haiku are done in a 5 - 7- 5 manner - the sentences should still make sense when finished.
I didn't know this per say, I learned from @raj808 :-)
To celebrate and close his full month of doing Haiku's he decided to write a few for some Steemians he knows and interacts with. To my surprise I saw one was made for me - I almost missed it since notifications on Steem failed me the past few days!
in train windows - point and click.
Change with perspective.
Dedicated to @soyrosa, one of the kindest people I met at steemfest 3... and a really interesting and talented photographer... although a little obsessed with trains ;-)
Indeed we met at SteemFest3. We even spend a good part of a day together on his last day before leaving Kraków - walking around an old factory area that was not hosting all kinds of hipster art and food and coffee places.
Those are precious memories and why Steem is still so important to me personally - keeping up and supporting all those amazing souls is harder to leave behind when you've seen them face to face :-)
Anyway, this post is mostly meant to have a memory of this when I'm reading back my Steem blog in years time - a moment where a Steemian makes me smile by dedicating a Haiku to me and my work is definitely worth that. Maybe get some of my readers to check out his work in the process - sometimes that's all I can do in order to support my favourite Steemians a little bit more.
Dirty Train Window shots?
For those who don't know: I have an extensive series of Dirty Train Window Photographs on my blog. They are some of my favourite photographs from the last few years and I'm still making them when I'm traveling by train.
It's funny how this is the second time this week they got mentioned by another Steemians - as @bashadow left a comment earlier telling me about enjoying those series of me and hoping to see more of them :-)
I've even seen some Steemians like @karinxxl and @meanmommy33 mention them in posts when they were publishing their own 'Dirty Train Window' shots. All these tiny things together make me smile and feel like these series are just a tiny bit 'Steem Famous' :-) Thanks for that!
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awesome photography miss soyorosa. keep sharing such a nice things.
<3 Thank you @kgn!
Gotas en el vidrio, las veo como una pintura abstracta.
...una pintura abstracta, me gusta :-)
Raj and poetry... or rapping cryptoninja hahaha! :) crazy fella!
Always awesome to see droplets on the windows!
Hahahaha - he should definitely use rapping cryptoninja as his tagline :')
And yay for droplets and/or other art made by nature :-)
I liked the haiku raj808 did for you. haiku does summarize things rather nicely when done well. For the train images, I really like the twin set of lights one, like a couple of spooky contrails going over the Munsters Style House. (the Munsters were an old Black and White TV show in America, they had a house that kind of looked like that)
Ha! I googled The Munsters and recognized it as The Addams Family, but apparently although they were launched in the same year and run the same amount of seasons they are different :D Funny how I never heard of The Munsters but The Addams Family did reach my house instead :-)
And yes, I can imagine how that house reminds you of that/those series!
Fun - and thanks for appreciating the photography <3
I love that you've got together some of your fav Dirty Train Window Photographs. I really like them Rosa and that's partly why that Haiku came out like it did.
Of course I remember chillin in the old artists warehouse type place in Krakow. Hmnnnn, maybe it would have been more of a challenge to try and create Haiku about that memory. Haiku are kind of like trying to crystallize something complex into a simple statement that reflects the complexity. Ha ha, that sounds so pretentious... but its true. The train window photos celebrate the same ideal I think. Simple at first look, but reflecting complexity. Many layers.
Thanks for dedicating a post to me back. That's made me smile as well 😃
Pretentious Rowan! :') You can't be a poet without being at least a little bit pretentious ;-)
But yes, I can see how even photography can be a bit pretentious, I try to avoid that and always write where my very inspiration comes from without making it more difficult than it is. I've worked with the kind of photographers that use difficult words to explain a simple photograph and never got used to it :-)
Glad I made you smile - let's keep the inspiration flowing :D Cheers!
Pretentious? Moi? 🤣🤣😂
I'd say my poetry is more avant garde, with overtures of a picasso-esque cubist post modernist narrative 🙄😉
I used to go out with a lady in uni who studied fine art and we'd go to galleries together and make up the most pretentious bollocks about the art for a laugh. I made a steem post for comedyopenmic where I did a piss take art critic act. I really do like art though, just not all the pretentious rhetoric that goes along with it. She was great, super clever and knowledgeable, about art especially. She used to do the same thing at Poetry nights where I read out my work. Ruthlessly taking the piss while some of the creative writing students were taking themselves far too seriously 😂
Ha ha, I can imagine it now.
'Find an expression of effusion through the lens. don't take the picture... be the picture' 🤣
If there is such a topic, then here is my modest contribution :-))
Moscow-Petersburg train
YES! That's exactly the idea, very lovely framed shot @bambuka! :-)
This is the top of the car door :)
These photographs is very artistic.
Thanks :-)
La imagen que mas me gustó es la de la casa, donde aparecen unas luces en fila, refleja mucha noztalgia.
Muchas gracias! <3
Do you have a spray bottle to mist the windows to your liking from the inside for each shot? You know, insider tricks of the trade stuff.
:') Mostly I tell passengers they can only pee down from the roof :-/
That sounds...so... dangerous. I bet the conductors would get pretty pissed off about that.
yeah its because dirty window shots in trains RULE!!!! (as we do as well :D)