haiku::photo 2 voting ballot simplicity
The Haiku Foundation welcomes you to the haiku::photo voting ballot. Here are this month’s submissions. Click on any photo for which you wish to vote to discover its number, and enter that number in the appropriate space in the form below (please type in the number only!). Your choices will probably be made on the basis of how well the photographs illustrate this cycle’s focus.
Please use the haiku::photo voting form below to enter your selections, and then press Submit to cast your votes. No other votes will be recognized or honored. All votes must be signed (that is, no “anonymous” votes will be accepted, and the Submit button will not be available until both Name and Email fields are filled in). Any viewer of this ballot is eligible to vote for their favorite photographs at this time. A voter may choose up to three (3) photos per theme. A top vote will receive 3 points, a second-place vote 2 points, and a third-place vote 1 point. No one may vote for his or her own work. No commentary will be accepted or published. Votes will be accepted from the appearance of the ballot on the 3rd of the month through midnight of the 10th of the month. Readers may vote only once per ballot. Administrators of haiku::photo are ineligible to vote.
haiku::photo voting
Thank you for participating in haiku::photo. Results, commentary and the new topic will be announced on the 15th of the month. Have fun, and good luck!
Curated by internationally renowned photographer M. H. Rubin, haiku::photo is an opportunity to combine two areas of artistic knowledge. Anyone with a camera can explore the application of haiku principles to the craft of photography., first by viewing Rubin’s site, then by posting their best efforts related to our monthly theme here on the THF site. The result is a visual kukai, and results will be housed in the haiku::photo archive.
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Thank you for this wonderful contest. It offers a beautiful way of looking at the world—through simplicity—and discovering the haiku buried deep within it. I am learning to see photographic subjects simply as moments to be noticed. Looking forward to the next challenge.
Hi, would you mind letting me know when the results of the first haiku photo kukai will be announced?
Thanks.
Hi Pegah: The results of the first haiku::photo kukai were announced on December 15, at the same time as the theme for the second (current) haiku::photo kukai was announced. You can view it here: https://thehaikufoundation.org/haikuphoto-2-simplicity/.
Interesting. I thought about the voting more consistently this time and applied criteria including:
– simplicity as in no or not much redundant detail, but
– not so simple as to contain only one isolated piece of visual information.
– some juxtaposition (could be separated in space or action)
– and crucially, does the photo lend itself to writing a decent haiku (or senryu/haiku)? If not, discarded.
How do others approach this? Do haikuists take a different approach from photographers?
I followed basically the same criteria as you, but it was also crucial to me that the photo itself was composed well and dynamic.
I took very seriously the idea that simplicity in this prompt meant not a lot of noise in the image.
Keith,
I go into more appropriate detail at the haikuphoto.com site — here i’ll just say that simplicity is visual simplicity–unnecessary or unimportant visual clutter is not there, clearer feel for the force of the subject. I wouldn’t say “one isolated” piece of information–that’s a mistake–it’s a tableau, it’s a scene. A haiku is a small scene from life. So that isolation isn’t the right way to lean; juxtaposition is a better direction. Delight in the juxtaposition is good.
Good haiku::photos are usually also great photos, but they’re frequently not the most obviously beautiful.