WDPC Print Comp "Seashore" 2017

WDPC PRINT COMPETITION 

SEASHORE

A DISTANT SHORE

18/20

A STONE'S THROW AWAY

15/20

Tracy Thorn

SEASCAPE

from the album " A DISTANT SHORE"

Shadows on the sea wall

Watching clouds turning gray

Linger on the seashore

Till the sun went away

Watching tides

Tides that take me away

To a distant shore

And I don't want to be saved

Breezes on the cliff top

Looking at the waves

You used to make me sad

But, but it's not the same today

Thought I knew the sea and all its secrets too

But it's different in November with you

The Style Council

A STONE'S THROW AWAY

For liberty there is a cost, it's broken skulls and leather cosh

From the boys in uniform, now you know whose side they're on

With backing, with blessing from earthly God's not heaven

A stone's throw away from it all

Whatever pleasures those who get from stripping skin with rhino whip

Are the kind that must be stopped before their kind take all we've got

With loving, with caring, they take great pride in working

The stone's throw away from it all, all, all

Whenever honesty persists, you'll hear the snap of broken ribs

Of anyone who'll take no more of the lying bastards' roar

In Chile, In Poland, Johannesburg, South Yorkshire

A stone's throw away, now we're there

WDPC Digital Comp - PAST ITS PRIME.

WDPC DIGITAL COMPETITION

TAPPING TIME

17/20

HOURS BY THE WINDOW

16/20

Day and night 

By the window 

Of my mind 

There you are 

In the courtyard 

One last time 

The singing of a famous song I've never heard before 

A man without a shadow slowly walking past my door 

My mind projects a face soon to be free of misery 

The chiming of some distant bell that echoes in my heart 

A dance upon the flagstones to the music of the stars 

A mother's name that lingers on a soothing summer's breeze 

All alone I said no prayers today 

I couldn't kneel to please the god that failed you 

Now you're gone I'll sit and spend each day 

Hours by the window 

Morning comes 

To my rescue 

Once again 

Whispers in the corridor and footsteps in the hall 

My only point of reference now the sunlight on the wall 

It draws me to the window where my dreams are memories 

A step beyond the line where sunken eyes avert their gaze 

An endless tract of time reveals a thousand silent ways 

All searching for an answer to life's deepest mysteries 

On the ocean of pure time I sail away 

I go and these four walls will not contain me 

Maybe there I'll see your face again 

Hours by the window 

All alone I said no prayers today 

I couldn't kneel to please the god that failed you 

What I'd give to see your face again 

Hours by the window

WDPC PRINT COMP - Botanical - 2017

WDPC PRINT COMP 2

Botanical - 2017

THE WILD ROSE

SCORE - 16/20

-------------------------------------

TEASEL THISTLE

SCORE 16/20

Where The Wild Roses Grow

Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue

They call me The Wild Rose
But my name is Elisa Day
Why they call me it I do not know
For my name is Elisa Day

From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one
As she stared in my eyes and smiled
For her lips were the colour of the roses
That grew down the river, all bloody and wild

When he knocked on my door and entered the room
My trembling subsided in his sure embrace
He would be my first man, and with a careful hand
He wiped at the tears that ran down my face

[Chorus]

On the second day I brought her a flower
She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen
I said, "Do you know where the wild roses grow
So sweet and scarlet and free?"

On the second day he came with a single red rose
He said: "Will you give me your loss and your sorrow?"
I nodded my head, as I lay on the bed
"If I show you the roses will you follow?"

[Chorus]

On the third day he took me to the river
He showed me the roses and we kissed
And the last thing I heard was a muttered word
As he knelt above me with a rock in his fist

On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow
And she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief
As I kissed her goodbye, I said, "All beauty must die"

And lent down and planted a rose between her teeth....

CRACKER

Sweet Thistle Pie

It's been a long time since I had sweet thistle pie

It's been a long time since I had sweet thistle pie

She claps her hands and snaps her fingers

Knows my name but calls me ginger

It's been a long time since I had sweet thistle pie

Hey, hey, hey, yeah

Sweet thistle pie

Sweet thistle pie

Sweet thistle pie

It's been a long time since I've been so very low

It's been a long time since I've been so very low

When I was young you were no stranger

Around the world and slip through my fingers

It's been a long time since I've been so very low

Hey, hey, hey, yeah

Sweet thistle pie

Sweet thistle pie

Sweet thistle pie

A Sporting Life Digital Comp WDPC 2017

Two entries into WDPC 
"A Sporting Life"
Competition 2017 

A SPORTING LIFE
18/20

DEFENDING A CORNER
16/20

More soccer images here

WDPC PRINT COMP OPEN 2017

Two entries into WDPC Print Competition 2016 

FIREFLOWERS

6 Image Focus Stack

plus added texture effect from topaz

(which I don't usually do!)

Score 18/20

DAISY

Taken from behind

Score 16/20

Like a Fire Flower 

Please wait 'til the day 

When we can bloom spectacularly in the night sky. 

"I'm glad I could love you from the start." 

Is what I'll sing to the sky.