cornflake-orange / rich pigment of leaf dust / frames old concrete
Leaf dust
Author: Graham Wright
Rain & dust
Dry cement dust, / a pale, dusty-winged moth, / pollen-dust tears. / They run from their corners / when thick summer rain falls.
A new focus for this blog
Combining photography and poetry.
Dead tree
Shining white lines / of spider thread are sketched / on perfect blue / between the lightning forks / of a dead tree’s branches.
Fern
Quivering in / the cool breeze, but also / basking in sun — / the only leaf to dare / to stretch out past the ledge.
Poems 2019: a book
Paperback available to buy via Blurb, or e-books for free download.
Iceland August 2014
A brief account and gallery of nine days in Iceland in August 2014.
Galls and Gall Wasps
I started getting interested in galls last autumn from sketching them in my nature diary. I didn't really realise they were all incubation chambers for gall wasp larvae, but of course when I read more I got fascinated. I picked the Robins Pincushion shown here and kept it over the winter, just to see if… Continue reading Galls and Gall Wasps
Crystal Palace park, frosty morning
On the way to work, taken with iPhone 4s. Bit of help from Photoshop.
Crystal Palace Park in the snow
Wandering around for a few hours trying to get to grips with my new Sony RX100. Rapidly failing light and trying a range of techniques made for hard work figuring out just what Sony were thinking with the controls and menus, but the image quality held up at ISOs I hardly use even on my… Continue reading Crystal Palace Park in the snow
More morning sun
A few more images squinting my camera into the winter sun, plus a gorgeous golden addition to the Upper Norwood Aerial series.
Froghopper
Latest visitor to the flat, getting cosy between some cushions I was about to plonk my arse on. Identification not certain, but probably a Common Froghopper (Philaenus spumarius), famous as the creator of cuckoo-spit. Judging from the slow-motion breakdancing, they don't encounter cushions much in the wild, as it gave a pretty poor demonstration of… Continue reading Froghopper
