Day 018/365- The Birds, by Great Beyond, on Flickr

For my poem, I was thinking that I could use one of these three pictures as the background of the broadside. Ideally, I would use these images alone, but I was thinking that I would combine them with layering and illustration, and possibly other images. Shen’s poem describes clouds being “pulled by the atmosphere’s fingers”, and I think it would be cool to have an illustration overlaid against the picture. For example, I could make an

Valley View Clouds, by Sonny Abesamis, on Flickr

outline of a hand pinching, and combine that with a picture of a cloud, and overlay that on the yellow image of the trees and birds. I think the juxtaposition of the illustrated outline and the photorealism of the picture would be really neat. I could also use transparency to do something similar to my other idea, but in this case, I would have a solid hand (not an outline), and use transparency to show the trees underneath. In a similar vein, I could overlay the pinching hand (either outline

Tree, By Dave Morris onFlickr

or transparency) on the image of the valley. While the picture of the gray tree (“Tree”) doesn’t lend itself to the direction I was going in the other two pictures, I think it does a good job of conveying the bleakness of Shen’s poem. After all, the title is “Seasonal Decay”, which evokes more washed out, neutral colors to me.