British Columbia, Canada, July *1989*

Just noticed that I hadn't posted anything for today, so I slipped this in now:

Blast from the past, 21 years ago, a mountain bike trip with a good friend from Jasper to Sidney, BC. Scans from b/w negatives - not perfect, but not too bad either. 3 weeks of sunshine interrupted by only 1 stretch of rain lasting about 2 hours

nr Etseri, March 2007

Some more moody black and white images from the mountains near Etseri, the feeling aided by clouds.

Winter, nr Etseri, March 2007

From the same excursion as the haiku pictures of yesterday, but not in the haiku category, I think.

Winter in the mountains seems to call for black and white. There's so little colour anyway, why not eliminate it as a distraction?

Worth a Haiku...?

The old saying is that a picture is worth a thousand words.

Yes, but what if a thousand words are much too much?

Haiku is a Japanese form of poem which uses only three lines, in the form of 5-7-5 syllables. Very tight and restricted, but so... Japanese in its approach, so minimal and clean and to the point, like most of Japanese art. (See an article on haiku in English at www.ahapoetry.com/keirule.htm if you're seriously interested in the form.)

Here are some photographs from March 2007 in Svaneti, black and white, each of which I consider to be worth "only" a haiku. But this doesn't mean that they're worth less than thousand-word pictures! Just that I compare them to my ordinary, often dense colour photographs as a haiku to a thousand words.

Now I've said enough.