South Downs - Bob Trubshaw Bob Trubshaw is a Charnwood based photographer, writer and historian . He specialises in pre-Roman and pre-Christian history, life, customs and practices in Britain. He is also actively involved in Charnwood Arts as an observer to the Board of Trustees. Bob's photographic work involves much experimentation and painstaking photo-manipulation. Many of his black and white images were taken over a number of years to document and celebrate places that he knows and loves -- often re-visiting them a number of times. He is currently writing a number of books on his specialist subjects. He lives in the Charnwood village of Wymeswold. Alison Williams, from the UK, judged the haiku sent in response to his images. She had a difficult job finding a 1, 2 , 3 -- and thought that all were 'winners. |
1st Place - Ron Moss over the fence This haiku shows us a landscape
through innocent eyes, it avoids all interpretation. The writer describes for
us exactly what is seen without trying to tell us a story -- with no message for
the reader other than the perfect simplicity of a view over the hills. The repetition
of the beginning of the first two lines echoes the soft overlapping curves of
the picture it is paired with. The heavier sounding word 'shadows' is strong enough
to stand alone on the third line. The wording is as simple as three short strokes
of a brush, just enough and no more. [AW] 2nd Place - Debra Woolard
Bender where one ends the next A slightly unusual rhythm
to this one with the break -- not indictated by any punctuation but clear enough
-- in the middle of the short second line. I had to read this more than once before
I realised, with a pleasant small shock of recognition, that the form echoes the
subject. What appear, in some ways, as separate hills, are really part of a natural
flow of land, just as this haiku is a natural flow of words. As smooth and elegant
as the picture itself. [AW] 3rd Place - John Bird Turner mist A reference to fine art
in the pairing of a haiku to a picture, gives an interesting twist to the way
the words and images inter-relate. It brings to mind other images, another layer
of associations. How much this adds will depend on how well the reader knows Turner's
work. The contrast of the straight line of the fence with the softness of the
background is well done, and the phrase 'summer shadows' is perfect for the picture
it is linked with. [AW] |
