March 22, 2020 — San Mateo County Coast, California
What a diff’rence a crop made
Ten percent’s left of pixels
And to pixels that were nixel’d —
You’ll be mourned; but this is unadorned
Though panorama has attraction
There is soul in abstraction
We see only a fraction
But the essence is clear
Oh, what a diff’rence a crop makes
Form and tone lay before me
Skies above are not stormy
Since that moment of bliss
The cropper’s kiss
It’s heaven when you
Find abstraction on your menu
What a diff’rence a crop made
And a diff’rence in hue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmBxVfQTuvI
Be well. Do good. Create.
(Nikon D850, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G VR. RAW processing in DxO PhotoLab 3.2; Editing in Adobe Photoshop.)
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LOL!!! >>> love the words, and the Minimalism of the image! 🙂
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Thank you!
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Excellent! A Washington riff we can love! 😄
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😃
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Wonderful word! Can you put that to music also? Thanks for the reminder that changing our perspective can change our narrative and the our outlook on all things.
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Thanks very much. Being the world’s worst singer, I’d better not. But the original song is in the link. You could sing along with the new lyrics.
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A beautiful image and poetry too–what a bonus. “There is soul in abstraction”–I’ll ponder that thought all day.
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Thank you. It’s a thought worth pondering.
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Oh, those lyrics, and the diff’rence is you. The second stanza stands on its own, outside of parody:
Though panorama has attraction
There is soul in abstraction
We see only a fraction
But the essence is clear
As soon as I saw your title I got the reference to the song, despite not having heard it in decades. It feels strange to think back to 1959. Were we really alive then?
I don’t believe I knew till now that the song’s original words were in Spanish: “Quando vuelva a tu lado” (“When I’m by your side again”).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_a_Diff%27rence_a_Day_Made
Nor did I recognize I recognize the name of the songwriter, María Grever, who “was the first female Mexican composer to achieve international acclaim”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Grever
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Thanks very much, Steve. It’s one of my desert island songs, but I didn’t know it’s history. Thanks very much for that, too.
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To be with the world…while cropping discrimination and easing away labels (pixels)…what relationship would one have with your ocean? Would a visitor experience more clarity within memories of multiple sounds (gentle roar of the waves, rhythms of wind on my face) and various textures of sand and moisture while eyes traveled to an imagined horizon through tones of blues and whites? Would I then find myself riding upon whiteness before my brain interrupted with, “a small white cloud above the horizon.” Thank you, Michael. I enjoyed my mental escape from today’s reality.
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Thank YOU my friend. That’s exactly the effect I was hoping to create.
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Beautiful!
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Thank you!
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It’s a pleasure!
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Enter soft peach! Indeed, “what a diff’rence a crop makes!
Beautiful words and exquisite image / painting!
…and thank you for Dinah!
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Thank you very much. That’s the difference between a photograph and a picture.
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Yeeeeeeees! 😉
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And you cropped the title. One day one image, then a day makes a difference in all those pixels lives. There is soul in this image.
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The title crop is not mine. It’s that way on the record label. But, thank you very much. I’m glad you like it.
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You must have too much time on your hands…no, seriously, it’s wonderful, image, poem, music. All good. 🙂
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Thanks very much. It just all came together. I found myself hearing my new lyrics of a favorite song while working on the picture, so I had to complete the job by paralleling the rest of the original lyrics.
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