Nancy Wilkinson Photography

Stunning Winter Night Lights

Living the highlife at the Crown Towers recently. Nature provided sundowner entertainment!

Thoroughly enjoyed photographing the fabulous Australia Day fireworks! ABC Perth City of Perth City of South Perth Western Australia The West Australian Perth is OK Cardile Fireworks

What to do in Lockdown? Play with light and listen to music that resonates

So I listen to the melancholic
Ancient ambient flute
And find a peace resides
In this discordant new world
Will I now sleep tonight
In restful slumber
Or continue to writhe
My dreams
Not open to interpretation
I'm a mass of cell wrought discordance
What chance the tune
In off kilter disturbance...

Meanwhile, a peace resides
Taking nature aside
Playing with light tonight

© Words and Photographs by Nancy Wilkinson

The black and white image of shadow

Cast
By angle of sun
A pattern dressing my walk
A pavement dressing
Of street tree
vainglorious
In different

Because I saw it’s poetic potential
Looking, on looking in my walking

Looking, on looking Is a walk in seeing
Looking through the patterns of a silhouette

Imagining the symmetry, the clever intricacy of a patterned blueprint
Replicated in life flows
Arteries of life blood flowing tributaries
of heart
of rivers coursing veins of landscape

Like seeing the intricacy in the hand of a leaf
Veins of life flow for the tree
Seeing red and all manner of rainbow rendition of colour spectrum
Suppressed in the black and white image of shadow in my walk

Cast
By angle of sun

A pavement pattern dressing
And Tony Hewitt sees the layered potential of life forms by air
Another looking
Wonder what an ant see?

Lest We Forget

The fragility of life
As age creeps with stealth
And mercy
The good life adrift
When downed the world
in a viral hit

Come ANZAC Day
We reflect with humble heart
The gift of life of hope
Of sacrifice
Of what is real
And really matters
With gratitude
We tune to the stories
Of previous wars
Of grit
Of hardship
And sepia toned valour
Until the bugle sounds
The last post
Lest we forget
We weep with the hugeness of emotion
For the huge debt
We remember the sacrifice paid
We of a superficial age
When the valiant of yesteryear
Buoyant in a sea of drafted mate ship
The selfless surge of frightened but brave
So very brave
On the seas
In the air
Across the land
Upon the beaches
Amid the nail of bullets
The cannon blasts
That pierced the lungs the heart the mind
And still they surged
Those frightened young but brave men and women of yesteryear

We pay each year
Our respects for the supreme
Sacrifice of life for freedom
For country for flag
for us
The supercilious ongoing generations
Knowing little of such terror

Such carnage
Such unspeakable damage
In the name of greed
Where was kindness
Amidst
Destructive fervor
For land for control
Of power
Of supreme leadership
Of all
The bigotry
Religious dogma
Ideological black and white

Fighting against corruption
Fighting for freedom
We forget the sacrifice
Paid
Until the bugle sounds
The last post
Lest we forget
Where lies kindness
We of now
In the trivial pursuit
Of fame and glamour
For self
In a world now stopped in its tracks
We must reflect
The fragility of life

That is most strong
When gratitude of being
Is acknowledged
Is selfless
Is grace led
When come each day
We reflect with humble heart
The gift of life of hope
of kindness
We must work together
For that which matters

The last post
The bugle call
Lest we forget

Nancy Wilkinson
ANZAC Day
25 April 2020

Poetry & Photography by Nancy Wilkinson

Pierce the veil of time
A mystical reflection
Arrowed

This morn adorned
In mystery
Draws
Photography & Poetry by Nancy Wilkinson photography #

Silhouetted Trees
Silhouetted trees
Cast darkness over the lake
A mirrored reflection in the fading night
Backlit by a pale orange glow
Of setting sun

The night lake becomes a bird sanctuary
as flock after flock of cormorant
swoop low, then up and around, over the lake
before adroitly landing on one of many trees
dressing the little inland island

Along the outer shore,
foraging clucking ducks, ripple the reflection
A spoonbill heron, stark white against the evening dim
Creeps, with gentle motion, the river dregs

With stealth, an egret balancing on one leg,
gracefully poised,
moves with quickness,
her prey momentarily flapping the air

While snoot and blue feathered water fowl
forage the shore,
this way, that way.
Some ducks quarrel,
increasing the velocity of ripple,
sending shivers across the lake surface

All the while, birds hither to and fro,
land on a branch here,
fly again,
choose another branch,
land,
as beaks finally seek feathers to comb and settle

The sky presents in softening hues from bright orange to a blush with rising mauve, darkening blue. It is peaceful, despite bird flight, despite bird cries. A sliver of moon and nearby Saturn, hang in a cloudlessly pure early night.
A mosquito hovers, bites; distracting my reverie. Time to leave my night-lake absorption to feathered ritual.
Despite the bite, my heart is filled.
Nancy Wilkinson
McDougall Park
26 April 2020

Three days bushwalking trails in Denmark Western Australia with a small group of Y Striders friends; 23km section of the Bibbulmun Track, a section of the Nornalup-Albany Heritage Railway Trail and the Wilderness Ocean Walk. At this time of year the trails are rather special. The wildflowers are in full bloom; so pretty, varied and prolific, covering hillsides, dressing stretches of woodlands, alongside large outcrops of rock and skirting coastal trails. An absolute treat! @ Denmark, Western Australia

Pretty little orchids
Captured in the limelight
Of night-drawing sun

A vainglorious moment,
You were a choir of angels
Swelling the firmament

Sunlit voices of renewal
In joyful celebration,
And I heard your song

And I celebrated too,
This spring fueled conceit
This most glorious occasion

I knelt down, in adoration
To record through the lens
Your vainglorious moment

Photo & poetry by Nancy Wilkinson

Spring! Kings Park in Perth is vibrant with exquisite native plants of Western Australia. Treat yourself to a meandering visit. # @ Kings Park and Botanic Garden

Capturing the beauty of Perth in the embers of winter’s twilight. Photography by Nancy Wilkinson Photography # #❤westernaustralia ❤️Perth