One Picture Stories Archives - Wasatch Camera Club https://wcc.adgdev.info/news-and-events/one-picture-stories/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:19:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://wasatchcameraclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/site-icon-150x150.png One Picture Stories Archives - Wasatch Camera Club https://wcc.adgdev.info/news-and-events/one-picture-stories/ 32 32 Sentinel https://wasatchcameraclub.com/sentinel/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:19:27 +0000 https://wasatchcameraclub.com/?p=3363 Under skies brightI stand uprightSparse it may rainStill I remainSun hurts me notPerched crows my lotCome back next yearI will be hereUnbendableI Sentinel Words and Image Jeff Clay

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]]> Under skies bright
I stand upright
Sparse it may rain
Still I remain
Sun hurts me not
Perched crows my lot
Come back next year
I will be here
Unbendable
I Sentinel

Words and Image Jeff Clay

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]]> Celestial Seas https://wasatchcameraclub.com/celestial-seas/ Tue, 24 Dec 2024 19:20:29 +0000 https://wasatchcameraclub.com/?p=3157 Unfettered, sail heavenwards — on wings of ionsThrough gates of gossamer glow — into wondrous realmsStarry way-posts beckoning — worlds to discoverSoar in rapture forever — just for this one night Words and image Jeff Clay

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]]> Unfettered, sail heavenwards — on wings of ions
Through gates of gossamer glow — into wondrous realms
Starry way-posts beckoning — worlds to discover
Soar in rapture forever — just for this one night

Words and image Jeff Clay

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]]> Ultima Thule https://wasatchcameraclub.com/ultima-thule/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:28:34 +0000 https://wasatchcameraclub.com/?p=2924 North, we go! Leaving soon these green and black Shores of Disko, setting forth Arktos-bound, seeking not Hyperborea nor Ultima Thule, but rather the passage that is North by Northwest. Ermine and ursine, walrus and whale, sea dogs and swimming unicorns will be our bounty. Thrice-masted and steam-engine blessed, our companion ships sailing side-by-side, named […]

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]]> North, we go! Leaving soon these green and black Shores of Disko, setting forth Arktos-bound, seeking not Hyperborea nor Ultima Thule, but rather the passage that is North by Northwest.

Ermine and ursine, walrus and whale, sea dogs and swimming unicorns will be our bounty. Thrice-masted and steam-engine blessed, our companion ships sailing side-by-side, named Terror and Erebus. With names such as these how can we not master the seas and fulfill our destiny!

Farewell to Home! I seek fame – if not fortune – my lucky star consigned to these worthy vessels, our good captain, Sir Franklin, and the 129 men who will carry this expedition forward to success. Come what may – no man can know his fate – though surely God does and just as surely, He will see our mission as both worthy and fated.

The Tide is turning; Time to set sail. God hear us and bless us all. Some may perish – may He grant me long life – but it is certain that the fortune of those that survive will be written in the stars…if not the books yet to be!

Words and image Jeff Clay

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]]> Watcher of the Skies https://wasatchcameraclub.com/watcher-of-the-skies/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:24:00 +0000 https://wccdev.adgdev.info/?p=2461 Outside, the world sighsGrumbles, laments and cries.Inside quiet he lies:The Watcher of the Skies. The night is our eyes,Sleep not through its dark guise.Awaiting starry rise:The Watcher of the Skies. Cool breeze, water driesWhose drama never dies?Silently he replies:The Watcher of the Skies. Blue heaven soon fliesStars give way, night’s demise.Time to rest, then reprise:The […]

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]]> Outside, the world sighs
Grumbles, laments and cries.
Inside quiet he lies:
The Watcher of the Skies.

The night is our eyes,
Sleep not through its dark guise.
Awaiting starry rise:
The Watcher of the Skies.

Cool breeze, water dries
Whose drama never dies?
Silently he replies:
The Watcher of the Skies.

Blue heaven soon flies
Stars give way, night’s demise.
Time to rest, then reprise:
The Watcher of the Skies.

WORDS AND IMAGE JEFF CLAY

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]]> Go Climb That Mountain https://wasatchcameraclub.com/go-climb-that-mountain/ Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:57:51 +0000 https://wcc.adgdev.info/go-climb-that-mountain/ Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.                 — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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]]> Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.

                — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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]]> Tightrope https://wasatchcameraclub.com/tightrope/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:25:22 +0000 https://wcc.adgdev.info/tightrope/ Is there a gift so true as to be real,When there is much to see but not to feel?Trust, a dulled sword cutting little and lessIdols become gods while imps bow and caress. Meaning nought for now though much for the ‘morrowBoding well for none and for all sorrow.The daggers of truth all ’round but […]

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]]> Is there a gift so true as to be real,
When there is much to see but not to feel?
Trust, a dulled sword cutting little and less
Idols become gods while imps bow and caress.

Meaning nought for now though much for the ‘morrow
Boding well for none and for all sorrow.
The daggers of truth all ’round but meaningless
And wonder we must: who is deceiving us?

Who built this leaky ship with gilded gangplank?
Who cast us forth on seas murky and dank?
Who was our voice, half captain half siren?
Who but us made this sinking boat to cry in?

Though often it seems there is none to take
A choice always is there for us to make.
Dancing ever on frayed tightrope
With us the devil … and us the hope.

WORDS AND IMAGE JEFF CLAY

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]]> The Day is Not Done https://wasatchcameraclub.com/the-day-is-not-done/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 23:16:43 +0000 https://wcc.adgdev.info/the-day-is-not-done/ The day is not done until we play Run fierce, no concern or dismay   The now is ours, with chalk and blank slate Write boldly, quickly, no time to wait   The light fades until tomorrow true Then we paint our canvas yet anew   Image and words by jeff clay

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]]> The day is not done until we play
Run fierce, no concern or dismay
 
The now is ours, with chalk and blank slate
Write boldly, quickly, no time to wait
 
The light fades until tomorrow true
Then we paint our canvas yet anew
 
Image and words by jeff clay

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]]> Drifting https://wasatchcameraclub.com/drifting/ Fri, 25 Aug 2023 19:11:10 +0000 https://wcc.adgdev.info/drifting/ Tumble and drift through the languid flow Cast shadows and shade dim the sun’s glow Airy ships on a sea of light go From whither to where we want to know What phantoms you see in this tapestry A fantasy of play our dreams own show   Image and words by jeff clay

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]]> Tumble and drift through the languid flow
Cast shadows and shade dim the sun’s glow
Airy ships on a sea of light go
From whither to where we want to know
What phantoms you see in this tapestry
A fantasy of play our dreams own show
 
Image and words by jeff clay

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]]> The Scent of Remembrance https://wasatchcameraclub.com/the-scent-of-remembrance/ Thu, 08 Jun 2023 21:03:26 +0000 https://wcc.adgdev.info/the-scent-of-remembrance/ Burning a joss stick, memories flow. Was it just yesterday? I think no. Years passed and past time of youthful glow. Try and grasp life’s threads of long ago. My comfort and remembrance seeks a space. To dwell to embrace, what only I know.   Image and words by jeff clay

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]]> Burning a joss stick, memories flow.
Was it just yesterday? I think no.
Years passed and past time of youthful glow.
Try and grasp life’s threads of long ago.
My comfort and remembrance seeks a space.
To dwell to embrace, what only I know.
 
Image and words by jeff clay

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]]> Borderline https://wasatchcameraclub.com/borderline/ Thu, 09 Mar 2023 15:46:33 +0000 https://wcc.adgdev.info/borderline/ As she sat by the fire and wept,  the prairie wind pushed relentlessly  against the pane. Her treasured items lay strewn along  the arduous trail from there,  to here. And now,  she shivered,  alone, in the little sod hut  he built by hand. She might survive the winter, but who will mend the fence? Image […]

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]]> As she sat by the fire and wept, 
the prairie wind pushed relentlessly 
against the pane.
Her treasured items lay strewn along 
the arduous trail from there, 
to here.
And now, 
she shivered, 
alone,
in the little sod hut 
he built by hand.
She might survive the winter, but
who will mend the fence?
Image and words by Randy Gerdes

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