Dancing With the Light

Accidental Poet



Dancing With the Light

 

Captivated by the history

Driven in the search

Relics of photography

In me a priceless worth

 

Since the early 1800s

Imagery evolution

Perfected over time

A photographic institution

 

To record images

Portraits and landscapes

Documenting history

The story a photographer makes

 

Poetic justice

In the photograph

A scene too beautiful for words

That it made you cry or laugh

 

Tools of the trade

Cameras began so crude

The cutting edge of technology

Always advancing to improve

 

From film processing

To the digital age

You know it had to happen

Photography turns another page

 

The need for film

In a camera almost gone

Now a memory card

Records the picture on

 

See the shot right away

On LCD monitor

The evolving camera

Now develops and stores

 

Download your shots

To computer file

Print them out yourself

Bringing to your face a smile

 

Suddenly you realize

When holding the camera right

It’s more than just the shot you take

You’re dancing with the light

 

Copyright © Accidental Poet 2015

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  • Published: October 31st, 2017 03:10
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  • Louis Gibbs

    A well written tribute to photography and its evolution, AP. Great last line ... "Dancing with the light"! Kudos.

    • Accidental Poet

      Thanks Louis. I remember having cameras when I was a kid, but then they were JUST cameras. Now the antique cameras I have are prized possessions that fascinate me to no end. It just amazes me that since the start of the Industrial Age cameras were there recording it all the way up to present day. Thank you for reading Louis. If you have the time, check out the video.

    • myself and me

      Dancing with the light, recording the moments, frame the history. Well done.

      • Accidental Poet

        Thank you m&m. Appreciate your visit and reading.

      • WL Schuett

        AP your love for photography shows through here , cool poem

        • Accidental Poet

          Thanks Bill. Photography for me is like your painting is to you. And I do see the passion you put into every painting you've shown here. ALWAYS very realistic looking. Your color tones are perfect. Even your shadows are so perfect and realistic. When I was young, I always wanted to draw, but was never that good. And one day photography just hit me over the head and I was hooked for life.

        • Goldfinch60

          Good write, I used to work with a photographer in my days as an analytical chemist a very long time ago and he used to use a 5” x 4” plate camera back then. All the pictures of my first baby were in black and white and I developed and printed them all. Photography has always fascinated me.

          • Accidental Poet

            Thanks for reading Goldie. I don't have a camera like the one you mentioned, but I do have some glass plates with images on them. If you have the time, watch the video here, it is amazing.

          • orchidee

            Good write AP.

            • Accidental Poet

              Thanks orchi. You ok? I heard you passed out at your wedding or something. How's your new wife? And where's the Honeymoon taking place? Or are you still recovering from the wedding?

              • orchidee

                Thanks AP. Oh woe, I'm having a terrible time! lol.

                • Accidental Poet

                  Just take two asprin and call me in the morning.

                • Christina8

                  Great write AP about photography and it's evolution. I treasure those old black and whites of family photos. And of course the current ones but I love the line" dancing through the light"--you really did this poem poetic justice!!

                  • Accidental Poet

                    Thank you Christina. Part of taking a picture, the camera and the lens work together to control the amount of light that comes into the camera and makes the image. And the person taking the shot can manipulate the light for different exposures for different results. So in that process I realized it's sort of a dance with the light to make the exposure. Thanks for reading Christina.

                  • Fay Slimm.

                    An exciting read full of nostalgic interest on the art of photography in days gone by - - an inspired title which finishes the verse very well - "Dancing with the Light" is now about to tip-toe into my faves A.P.

                    • Accidental Poet

                      Thank you Fay, is that doing the two step or the watusi?

                    • FredPeyer

                      Be it with a camera, or be it with a pen, I think we are all 'dancing with the light'.
                      Very well written poem (we expect that from you by now), but that 'dancing with the light' line is pure genius!

                      • Accidental Poet

                        Thank you very much Fred, I'll try to live up to those expectations. And that line is just a figure of photographic speech. Controlling the light that enters the camera through the lens. Thanks again Fred.

                      • kevin browne

                        the development of capturing images has been incredible. you have written a fine piece here, AP. good work.

                        • Accidental Poet

                          Thank you Kevin. That's what amazes me so much is how long photography has been advancing, the whole industrial age. That's almost 200 years.
                          And thank you for the friendship invite. I'd thought I had requested it of you a week or two ago. No mater, long as it's done now. Glad to know you Kevin. I enjoy your writes.



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