Notes:
This is a visual haiku, or a picture that implies something rather than revealing it explicitly. To me, this photograph makes me think about the things missing: the tree’s connection to the earth and the sky. It’s so immense even the sun is implied rather than revealed. A camera can capture only a tiny section. For scale, I left a person in the lower right corner.
For other examples of Visual Haiku, you can look at Robin’s Egg, Shadow Painting, Tenacity and Come and Gone.
Edit, this photograph also dovetails nicely with Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge, which I have been admiring. This week is Wood or Season of Spring. Thanks for all the beauty you inspire, Cee!! And for the community you build and for all the FUN!!
Copyright 2014 Brenda Davis Harsham
26 thoughts on “Visual Haiku: Grandeur Grown”
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How wonderful. Nature is incredibly beautiful and awe inspiring sometimes.
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It is mysterious and beyond our ken, as well. It’s good to remember that our lifetime is not as momentous to nature as it is to us.
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Awesome tree — poetry for sure!
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I’m so glad you agree. 🙂
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Holy Tree-ledo! LOL Wow that is one massive tree. Looks like you are in a forest or something! Fantastic photo! 😀
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You are funny! 🙂 We were in the redwood forest called Muir Woods. 🙂 And thanks!!
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
A “VISUAL HAIKU” FOR YOU. FIGURE IT OUT YET?
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Lovely! 🙂
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Thanks!!
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nice as always
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Thanks!!
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wow,i didn’t know a tree could be that much larger than a person
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The redwoods are hard to imagine, and simply amazing in person. I hope I conveyed a bit of the size.
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you did,especially with that tiny person
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Thank you!
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Such a wonderful tree for the week’s challenge. Looks like a redwood or sequoia. Thanks for playing.
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It’s a redwood, you nailed it. The tree was in Muir Woods, Marin County, California. Thanks for running such a fun challenge! 🙂
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what a wonderful art form. and this shot makes us feel so small in the incredible scheme of the massive universe.
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I was told sequoias can live to be 3200 years old. My mind boggles. The earth has so many mysteries, the universe must have even more.
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Really impressive.
I think about the non-poems and Outer Art of of Florentin Smarandache
He also proposed that even a bird flying in the air might be considered as poem.
I like your picture.
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I like the idea that a flying bird is a poem. And as inspiration, the bird can be thousands of poems. Thanks for your comment! Warmly, Brenda
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Incredible grandeur!
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Yes, it was a magical place. 🙂
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I love that tree Brenda! It is huuugee!!! 🙂 I wish I could see it in real life! 🙂 I was very inspired by these visual haikus in Singapore, I took lots of photos with that in mine, and all thanks to you!! 🙂 🙂
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I hope you post one! how fun that I have inspired you to look for visual haiku. 🙂 And yes, the tree is HUGE!! They say it takes 12 men to hug a redwood. 🙂 Blessings, Brenda
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