Once Upon a Sketch June challenge

Wow, it's been a busy month and this is only the first layout I have completed. I have picked up a few days work back at my old workplace so that has cut down on my time for scrapping.

Anyway, I've managed to do the June challenge at Once Upon a Sketch. Besides using the sketch the theme was "the best things in life aren't things"

I decided to do a page about dawn. It really is my favourite time of the day. This photo was taken at Lake Wendouree back in the summer when DH and I had the night to ourselves so got up early and went out to capture the dawn. I couldn't really express how I felt about it but found a poem which expressed things nicely. I also journalled about the experience on the back of my layout.

Anyway, here is my take:

And the poem I included:

Ecstatic bird songs pound 

the hollow vastness of the sky 

with metallic clinkings-- 

beating color up into it 

at a far edge,--beating it, beating it 

with rising, triumphant ardor,-- 

stirring it into warmth, 

quickening in it a spreading change,-- 

bursting wildly against it as 

dividing the horizon, a heavy sun 

lifts himself--is lifted-- 

bit by bit above the edge 

of things,--runs free at last 

out into the open--!lumbering 

glorified in full release upward-- 

songs cease. 

William Carlos Williams

And some close ups. I am quite into the metallic look at the moment and went with lots of copper to complement the photo.

And here is the sketch that my layout is based upon:

Thanks for looking

Judith xx