VII: The Chariot
by rooum

Comment by tanguera:
A Georgia O'Keefe apple

VII: The Chariot
by rooum

Comment by PaulFrocchi:
Love the texture

Sailing to Byzantium
by rooum

Comment by bspurgeon:
An image to sit with. Well done.

Sailing to Byzantium
by rooum

Comment by Bear_Music:
This was my third 10; 25 and 26 were the others. How about that :-) Lovely, kinda aching shot.

Sailing to Byzantium
by rooum

Comment by herfotoman:
Worlds within a picture. Fave.

Sailing to Byzantium
by rooum

Comment by posthumous:
I find a ship's wheel in the sand
And by her side a leaf points north.

This will take me here, boys. This will take me here.

Sailing to Byzantium
by rooum

Comment by tnun:
vision is everything.

Sailing to Byzantium
by rooum

Comment by Pangurban:
Un unusual interpretation of the poem. I'm drawn to the rusty colours in particular. Although the leaf provides a good contrast to the metal I think I'd have preferred it at an angle rather set so perfectly; probably represents my own sense of chaos!

Sailing to Byzantium
by rooum

Comment by ubique:
This is the most elegant photographic expression of the poem. It beautifully & effortlessly embraces Sailing to Byzantium’s themes of art-nature, mortality-immortality, and impermanence-transformation.

Yours is also the most economical and the most satisfyingly figurative of all the entries, especially as you have addressed the entire poem with your photograph rather than just an easily illustrated phrase wrenched callously out of its context.

Elegantly expressive, economical and figurative? Your photograph is itself a poem! That’s quite an achievement, but it makes you stand out a little awkwardly among so much leadenly literal stuff that appears to have been intended to demonstrate indifference to Yeats’s poem. Or to any poem.

Your beautiful photograph is my top pick. 10. And thank you.



Message edited by author 2014-09-12 06:08:06.

Sailing to Byzantium
by rooum

Comment by markwiley:
I am not sure I understand the meaning of the poem or your image, but I do like the image.