© 2012 Loren Zemlicka Flickr | Twitter | Facebook ………………………………………………………………… [dropcap2 textColor=”#ffffff”]O[/dropcap2]ne must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long time To behold the junipers shagged with ice, The spruces rough in the distant glitter Of the […]
© 2012 Loren Zemlicka Flickr | Twitter | Facebook …………………………………………………………………. [dropcap2 textColor=”#ffffff”]A[/dropcap2]nother in a series of creative tabletop “photocooking” experimental photographs taken in my kitchen.The set up for this one was a wine glass filled with rubbing alcohol, vegetable oil and blue food coloring. For lighting, I used a couple of flashlights directed through the […]
© 2012 Loren Zemlicka Flickr | Twitter | Facebook ………………………………………………………………… [dropcap2 textColor=”#ffffff”]’T[/dropcap2]is morning; and the sun with ruddy orb Ascending, fires the horizon: while the clouds That crowd away before the driving wind, More ardent as the disk emerges more, Resemble most some city in a blaze, Seen through the leafless wood. His slanting […]
© 2012 Loren Zemlicka Flickr | Twitter | Facebook [dropcap2 textColor=”#ffffff”]”[/dropcap2]A lot of people like lollipops. I don’t like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don’t need a handle. Just give me the candy.” – Demetri Martin
© 2012 Loren Zemlicka Flickr | Twitter | Facebook …………………………………………………………………. [dropcap2 textColor=”#ffffff”]A[/dropcap2]lone I stare into the frost’s white face. It’s going nowhere, and I—from nowhere. Everything ironed flat, pleated without a wrinkle: Miraculous, the breathing plain. Meanwhile the sun squints at this starched poverty— The squint itself consoled, at ease . . . The […]
© 2012 Loren Zemlicka Flickr | Twitter | Facebook ………………………………………………………………… [dropcap2 textColor=”#ffffff”]5[/dropcap2]AM. One-quarter past. Distant chimes inform me this. A bell peal knells the mist. And sunlight’s not yet bludgeoning. But some light gets blood going. Last night it was snowing and now every path’s a pall. Though mine the only footfalls at this […]
© 2012 Loren Zemlicka Flickr | Twitter | Facebook ……………………………………………………………………………………. [dropcap2 textColor=”#ffffff”]W[/dropcap2]hen I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver’d o’er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which […]
© 2012 Loren Zemlicka Flickr | Twitter | Facebook ……………………………………………………………………………… For this challenge, I wanted to photograph nature in the style of a “modern” artist. I used Jackson Pollock’s “Gray No. 14” as inspiration. [dropcap2 textColor=”#ffffff”]”[/dropcap2]Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn’t […]
[dropcap2 textColor=”#ffffff”]T[/dropcap2]hank you to portalwisconsin.org for featuring my photo “Grieve Not” as their homepage image of the day. portalwisconsin.org is a nonprofit website created by Wisconsin’s Cultural Coalition to support the state’s culture, arts, humanities and history.
© 2012 Loren Zemlicka Flickr | Twitter | Facebook ……………………………………………………………………………… [one_half] [dropcap2 textColor=”#fff”]G[/dropcap2]rieve not that winter masks the yet quick earth, Nor still that summer walks the hills no more; That fickle spring has doffed the plaid she wore To swathe herself in napkins till rebirth. These buddings, flowerings, are nothing worth; This ermine cloud stretched firm across the […]
