Congratulations to everyone who submitted haiga for the Echidna Tracks collection. We were encouraged by the number of submissions ‒ 43 in all, from 26 entrants. There were a few collaborations, but most of the haiga were from a single artist. The most popular form was the shahai, or a haiku embedded in a photo. There were also a number of skilled traditional entries, using either hand drawn or digitally drawn images. We have picked the best entries from each of these three categories, plus one highly commended shahai.
Continue reading “Haiga selected for the Echidna Tracks Haiga Collection”first frost
the oval
diamond white
Owen Bullock
alpine grassland
sharing a shiver
with a karst pool
Nathan Sidney
mountain tops
skipping like skipping
stones skipping
Nathan Sidney
glints of silver
over the blue swell
surfers and seagulls
Simon Hanson
best friends jump together Torquay jetty
Susan Austin
Continue readingemptying night
of its darkness
full moon
Bill Wootton
lone vigil
a single candle
softens the darkness
Simon Hanson
shivering under
the southern cross
mountain moonrise
Louise Hopewell
winter evening
above the granite belt
the glow of stars
Ross Coward
flooding
the valley of stars
blue hour
Gavin Austin
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