My cell phone takes great photos of flowers and plants and general landscapes, but sunsets? Not so much. So last night during a magnificent blaze of a sunset, I ended up with the following photo which is a zoom in of the original. It shows nothing much of anything, not the intensity of the orange sky, nor the reflected fire in the remaining tree leaves, not even the contrast of close-up unaffected leaves. But I knew I wanted my haiku today to be a reflection of the sunset so to speak and as I post on instagram, I try to have a somewhat corresponding photo to post. This was it. But as I studied it and thought about the sunset itself, there so briefly and ever-changing in its splendor, the photo reminded me of batik-dyed cloth. Hence the haiku. I don’t have batik-dyed drapes but I’d sure love some if they looked like this. And as for wanting a different camera on my phone? Maybe not after all. Day 268 Orange blaze through trees sunset ignites autumn sky batik-dyed drapes close Day 25 of Effy’s blogalong
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Angela F
9/25/2021 08:00:44 pm
Great read and what a beautiful photo. Yes my phone camera doesn't capture sunsets well at all either.
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9/25/2021 08:43:41 pm
gorgeous! i tried batik once ... it was a really interesting medium to work with. i say make those curtains! ;)
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9/25/2021 11:02:46 pm
I've been struggling with sunset pictures on my camera.
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Gina Maloney
9/26/2021 12:38:41 am
This is just beautiful... Love the photo and now I want to put batik on my to try list...
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