For Real Toads: Daryl and Zagar

Daryl Edelstein photo
Mural by Isaiah Zagar

Poets Forever

  

Daryl and Zagar

together* create

art that is colorful,

art that is great.

  

She with her camera

and he with his tiles

make nothing pedestrian

but pedestrian smiles.

  

Four thousand poets,

and Zagar, make art

“in the center of

Daryl Edelstein photo
Mural by Isaiah Zagar

 the real world”

and that’s just to start.

  

On his art goes again,

up town and down

and then all around.

Daryl’s photos,

taken with care,

make me feel 

I'm really there.

*but separately and individually

Isaiah Zagar, Wiki photo

Daryl Edelstein's blog photo

The visiting artist for the Sunday challenge at Imaginary Garden with Real Toads is New York photographer Daryl Edelstein, with her photos of some of the many pieces muralist Isaiah Zagar has created in his home city of Philadelphia, especially in South Street. His work can be seen worldwide as well.

Our challenge is to write about these two very different but equally talented artists, the man who creates murals, and the woman who sees photo opportunities and shares them with us on her popular blog.

Thanks, Daryl!

For Real Toads: Daryl's photos

I have long been a fan of Daryl Edelstein's photos of New York. I think one of the things I like most is her sense of perspective. She can give any old thing a new angle: making it shine, making it jump, making it sing.
Fireblossom has offered us not one, not two or three, but fifteen of Daryl's photos and asked us to choose one as inspiration in today's Weekend Photo Challenge at the writers' group Imaginary Garden with Real Toads.
Choosing just one of Daryl's photos is the most difficult part of the challenge, so I've chosen two.
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© Daryl Edelstein photos

the heat from the sun
and the warmth
of the colors,
the charm of the shapes
and the smiles
of the people,
the traffic,
the bustle,
the city,
alive.
*
the photographer sees it
where others are blind.
from her eye
to her lens
to the
digital pixels,
recording,
rewording,
renewing
it all.
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Do check out Daryl's photos, either on her own blog or on Real Toads. Both links are here and both will give you a new appreciation for Daryl's New York City.