This is mostly an experiment with Flickr. The poem is one I wrote back in April and I took the picture with my iphone a few weeks ago in New York. I used Flickr’s editing tools to add the text and touch-up the image. I was able to do everything I wanted to do without Photoshop, which makes me wonder if I really need to upgrade. The more I play with Flickr, the more impressed I am with it. It’s crazy I’ve had an account for 4 years, and I’ve never used it until about a week ago.
4 Comments | Filed under: photography and poems | Tagged: poems, poetry postcards, tanka
Your Flickr experiment is quite beautiful. You’ve inspired me to play, too. I had no idea something like this could be done. I especially like that typeface (and, oh yes, did I mention the poem?)
Thanks, Elizabeth. It’s remarkably easy to use, isn’t it? The typeface is one of the few free ones, but one that seems to really lend itself to this kind of thing.
I love playing in flickr (picnik). These photo-poem things are so much fun; the only problem I have is I end up taking way too many pictures, thinking “oh, this would make a good poem!”
(it’s probably a good thing I don’t have an iphone.)
I have a stack of those ‘it would be a good poem’ shots and now that have an iphone 4 I’m starting to the same with video. Of course, finding time to sit down and finish is the tricky part