Can You Hear The Photos?

In this week’s Lens Artists Challenge, Donna of Wind Kisses fame urges us to show images that make us hear the sounds issuing from them.

I immediately thought of the fields round here, when during the spring and summer, the backdrop to a walk is often the quiet susurration of crops swaying in the breeze. Or maybe this image here shows a brisker noise as the breeze becomes instead a hearty wind.

Birdsong is the backdrop to any country walk. But instead of images of birds trilling their hearts out, I’m showing you two shots from times when I was a major source of irritation. ‘Don’t you even THINK of harming my babies’, hissed the graylag goose.

‘Don’t you even THINK of harming my babies’ screamed the Arctic Tern. What do you mean, I haven’t got the wings entirely in shot? I was in fear of my life here.

Ours is a riverside landscape here, and especially now in winter, the waters chatter rhythmically over rocks and gravel.

Let’s go into town. Any town. There’s bound to be something going on. Maybe someone has dragged a piano out into the street.

Maybe there are Morris dancers out and about. And Morris dancers don’t have to be men these days …

There might be dancing in the street in Catalonia …

…. or celebrations of Chuseok in South Korea, with insistent drum beating .

But bah gum, I’m a Yorkshire lass, and I can’t close without a rousing melody from a fine brass band. You’ll find another image in the featured   photo.

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Author: margaret21

I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

48 thoughts on “Can You Hear The Photos?”

  1. That goose is the loudest for me. We’ve never been quick enough to get a photo but have been treated several times recently to a group of swans flying in sight of our kitchen window. Their wings make a tremendous noise.

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  8. I love that shot of the tern – don’t worry about the missing wing tips, the lack of them makes him seem even closer and more intimidating! And fun to spot the Four Hundred Roses 🌹

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    1. Well done for recognising them! I worry a bit about them. They’re great, but not exactly in the first flush of youth (though dancing apparently keeps them young) They seem to have no young recruits, so will they last?

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  9. oh you always bring it, Margaret. I am laughing over the goose and the tern. You don’t need the whole wing span in the shot when it is flying AT you. Too funny. I do love the dancers, and the drums and the bands, And while not sound, great capture of the cloud reflections in the feature photo. Fantastic post, interesting, funny, and engaging.

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  14. Your photos remind me of the diversity of beauty, of dance, of connections. Whenever I am involved in a mediation, my thoughts linger on looking out over a field of grain, and hearing the crickets chirp. There is so much activity around us!

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  18. A loud post! I hear them all, but the goose and the tern I have so vivid memories of myself that I almost take a step back from the computer. 😀 Loved all your sounds, and the brass band in the opener reflecting clouds and even trees – what a great photo!

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    1. Thanks Anne-Christine. Yes, being mobbed by a bird is a thoroughly unnerving experience, isn’t it? You need a rousing brass band to help you get over it!

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  19. What a fabulous take on for the sound theme, Margaret. The opening image of the cloud reflections is stunning, a brilliant shot! Such a joy to “hear” the dancers, and the drums and the bands through your photos. I love the bird captures, wonderful stories. 🙂

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