"Back To Basics"  [Reflections on Chris Orwig's Book Visual Poetry - Matrix Of Chapters 1-4 With Chapter 6] (Matt. 19:16-30)

I learned that freshness comes again each time
I go back to original to find
The matrix items – notes on notes dilute
The crispness of his comments on a shoot.

But three or four I did this for were fine –
One layer deep, distilled and made it mine;
But when on number four the matrix-set
Went two – it mushy went – I’d soon forget.

So poetry and portraits are the same –
Suggestions get through radar, make for change;
So go with universals, make them ask
Five W’s of what was seen in past.

Discern what other workers overlook;
Shoot who you are and stretch beyond the book;
Participate, rise up to what inspires;
Shoot freebies, start the flow, and light the fires.

Step out beyond the confines (house and car);
Move-in, don’t walk away – change who you are;
What matters most to you in those you meet?
What filters out what’s there in what you seek?

Just shoot, improve as you go on in life;
Kaleidoscopic change means there’s no “right”;
The mystic process is much deeper now;
One lens, technique, but master it somehow.

There’s need for us to reach a deeper plane
In photographing people in His name;
Reach in and capture essence seen at first,
Then capture and present – create a thirst –

In subject and the viewers for the real
Within the people shown – just let them feel
There’s more, much more to people in each pix,
That’s absent – what’s beyond the frame makes rich.

Thanks Lord for this.

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