seagull flock
in a cloudless sky
writing words
Many weeks ago Jill and I composed two versions of this haiku when we watched seagulls flying everywhere in a cloudless sky. Unfortunately neither of us carried a camera.
All this time we have waited and seen plenty of seagull flocks but not backdropped against a cloudless sky UNTIL today. I was walking around Ricketts Point with my telephoto lens and mono taking shots of young Pacific gulls messing around in the shallows.
Suddenly in the distance and very high up I could see a large flock of seagulls flying back to Mud Island in the bay from the interior waste tips. Thanks to the zoom I think I have captured the essence of the haiku. What do you think?
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Great work… I just picture them spelling out the word “NO!” 🙂
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Your photos really capture the unusual idea presented in your haiku. I enjoyed both the haiku and photos very much.
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Thanks Al, there are lots of words if you release the imagination.
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Thanks Suzanne. The haiku stimulus was my wife’s Jill, I just added into it and then finally found the photo shoot yesterday.
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Yes your haiku captures the images (or vice versa) very well :). I also see images like star constellations.
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Thanks Janice, yes they can almost be stars, they were very high up and I pulled the image in on 500mm
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It really does appear that they are sky writing! What a cool sight. Most appreciated.
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That is exactly what Jill said when the creative haiku hit, thanks for the observation Annette.
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I was walking with a musical friend once when she noticed swallows on telegraph wires getting ready to migrate, they were perched up and down on the wires and she thought what fun it would be to compose some music based on their positions – your gulls could add the lyrics!
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There are some amazing opportunities birds provide, those flocks of starlings set to Strauss Waltzes are another one
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Oh yes those murmurations – what a spectacle.
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