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This is a project I did for my American Poetry class. I’m still learning how to make iMovie submit to my authority, but this is the product. It’s a media arts response to Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man.” Both poems are interspersed throughout the photos.
A photo taken one late July evening on a small lake in the northern half of the state.
As you know, first and foremost, I am a writer at heart. My mind always wants to put into words the beauty of the things I see with my eyes. But sometimes I can’t walk away from a scene like this without capturing it. I’m a hobby photographer, which means I have a semi-decent camera that could take great pictures if it had a more knowledgeable operator behind the lens. It means that I just learned what a lens hood is, how to change the shutter speed and how NOT to take someone’s wedding pictures.
Several people are claiming photography as a hobby as they snap pictures with a point-and-shoot of themselves in the mirror and their pets sleeping soundly on the couch. I’m not one of those people. I’m young and learning, but I hope someday to use this gift as a blessing to others, not necessarily as a profit for me.
