Thinking of Holland
I see wide rivers
slow through endless
lowlands,
rows of unimaginable
thin poplars
like tall plumes
stand on the horizon;
and in the great
space
the farms
scattered through the land,
groups of trees, villages,
truncated towers,
churches and elms
in a grand context.
the air hangs low
and the sun slowly
in grey multi-coloured
vapours,
and in all regions
the voice of water
with its eternal disasters
is feared and heard.
"It is part of the photographer's job to look more intensely than most other people. It is the attitude of a child seeing the world for the first time or of a traveller visiting a foreign land."
Bill Brandt, English photographer (1904 - 1983)..
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