peterm1
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I have a theory that to be a good photographer you should really also appreciate poetry.
After all, I also think that the best photos have more than a touch of poetry to them and to make such photos one requires a poetic heart. I have recently been feeling nostalgic for the Australia in which I grew up, (I am still a country boy at heart) and one of Australia's much-loved poets of old Australia was A.B. Paterson, most often known as "Banjo" Paterson. Paterson worked as a Solicitor in central Sydney before transitioning to literature. Perhaps his most famous and enduring (and endearing) poems was "Clancy of the Overflow". Based on a true experience he had of dealing with a man named Thomas Clancy, whom Paterson obviously admired and on his growing dissatisfaction with city life and more specifically his life, stuck in a "dingy" office all day, every day. Clancy, on the other hand, worked as a "Drover" (cowboy) and as an overseer at a sheep and cattle station (ranch) known as "The Overflow" (this property being based near a large outback river which was given to flooding.)
It's a sentimental poem (a ballad really) full of nostalgia and the love of country life.
Who else here as a favourite poet and perhaps a favourite poem?
Here, actor Jack Thompson recites "Clancy of the Overflow" at a film music awards event accompanied by music from a film version of another of Paterson's literature marvels - "The Man from Snowy River". Beautifully done!
After all, I also think that the best photos have more than a touch of poetry to them and to make such photos one requires a poetic heart. I have recently been feeling nostalgic for the Australia in which I grew up, (I am still a country boy at heart) and one of Australia's much-loved poets of old Australia was A.B. Paterson, most often known as "Banjo" Paterson. Paterson worked as a Solicitor in central Sydney before transitioning to literature. Perhaps his most famous and enduring (and endearing) poems was "Clancy of the Overflow". Based on a true experience he had of dealing with a man named Thomas Clancy, whom Paterson obviously admired and on his growing dissatisfaction with city life and more specifically his life, stuck in a "dingy" office all day, every day. Clancy, on the other hand, worked as a "Drover" (cowboy) and as an overseer at a sheep and cattle station (ranch) known as "The Overflow" (this property being based near a large outback river which was given to flooding.)
It's a sentimental poem (a ballad really) full of nostalgia and the love of country life.
Who else here as a favourite poet and perhaps a favourite poem?
Here, actor Jack Thompson recites "Clancy of the Overflow" at a film music awards event accompanied by music from a film version of another of Paterson's literature marvels - "The Man from Snowy River". Beautifully done!
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