Waiting for the Future

Photograph by Neil Hulme and poem by Gary S. Rosin

Photo-poem copyrighted © 2020 by the artists. All rights reserved.

Head and shoulders 
above the horizon, 
he looks for the future. 

A watch on his wrist, 
he listens for the future, 
hoping to hear it 

tick into sight.

Note:

Image in photo-poem was taken on 18 May 2019 and was numbered (11 of 19). The artist posted the image to Facebook on 17 April 2020 with the caption Waiting for the Future.

Neil Hulme, photographer

Neil Hulme

is a self-taught, fine art photographer based in the North West of England, where he often gives talks and workshops at photography clubs. He has been a precision engineer by trade for 38 years and took up photography 10 years ago. His main focus is black-and-white minimalist long-exposure photography. Taking a simplistic approach to his images, Neil focuses on the minimal components in a composition, be it a lone tree or a jetty or a simple post in water. Through the use of various Lee filters, his long exposures flatten out the water, and can create an other-worldly scene from the everyday.

Artist’s website: https://www.neilhulmephotography.co.uk/

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡ Interview with Neil Hulme in LEMAG (Long Exposure Photography Magazine, 2018)

Gary S. Rosin’s

poetry and haiga have appeared, or are forthcoming, in various literary and poetry magazines such as Concho River Review, Harbinger Asylum, KYSO Flash, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Poetry24, The Legal Studies Forum, and Visions International; as well as in several anthologies, including Faery Footprints (Fae Corp Publishing), Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku & Haiga (Dos Gatos Press), Texas Poetry Calendar (Kallisto Gaia Press), Untameable City: Poems on the Nature of Houston (Mutabilis Press), and elsewhere.

His poem “Viewing the Dead” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Two of his poems appear in Silent Waters, photographs by George Digalakis (Athens, 2017). He is the author of two chapbooks, Standing Inside the Web (Bear House Publishing, 1990) and Fire and Shadows (Legal Studies Forum, 2008) (offprint). Selections of Gary’s poetry and photography can be found on his website, 4P Creations: http://4pcreations.com