For today’s images I’m trying to capture the indolence in perseverance and the perseverance in indolence. To me both abstract nouns have to do with repetition, but one is active and one is inactive, one requires expending energy, and the other preserving energy. It would be fun to cut out a sloth (the animal) filter—IContinue reading “Day Two’s Perseverant Indolence”
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A New Adventure: Ambiguously Inevitable
For today’s images I’m trying to capture the inevitability in ambiguity and the ambiguity in inevitability. To me inevitability is a straight line to a conclusion. It can not be altered nor avoided. Ambiguity is blurry, unclear, indefinite. So for today’s images, I put a straight line on a clear filter and took some picturesContinue reading “A New Adventure: Ambiguously Inevitable”
👻💀Happy Halloween! 🎃🦇
If you missed this morning’s prompts post, I am responding to the prompts from Show Off Your Costumes. For today’s image prompt I thought it would be fun to have a “Costume Contest” of the photographs I took this month in response to the prompts. The photos on this page are my three favorites. OctPoWriMoContinue reading “👻💀Happy Halloween! 🎃🦇”
Oct. 31 Prompts: Show Off Your Costumes
HAPPY HaLLoWEEN!! It’s here. IT’S HERE! All our fun has built to this one last poem, one last flash, one last Halloween photo shoot and then Halloween will turn into November. OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Let’s end with the prompt I wrote as a warm up, “You Don’t Frighten Me.” If you tried it theContinue reading “Oct. 31 Prompts: Show Off Your Costumes”
Hunting Ghost Cats
If you missed this morning’s prompts post, I am responding to the prompts from Beware the Cat. For today’s images, I jumped out of bed and put on my thermals to hunt ghost cats in my Halloween lights before dawn. It was a little foggy near the street and frost sparkled on the pavement, butContinue reading “Hunting Ghost Cats”
Oct. 30 Prompts: Beware the Cat
Here we are at the penultimate prompt post. How is everyone feeling? Sad it’s ending; relieved it’s over, excited by all the creativity and wanting more? I’m feeling all of those things. I’m glad I took on hosting all three challenges. I love them all. Next year, I’ll (hopefully) be more prepared. I appreciate everyContinue reading “Oct. 30 Prompts: Beware the Cat”
Decorating for the Halloween Party
If you missed this morning’s prompts post, I am responding to the prompts from Halloween Party. For today’s Photo Challenge prompt “Party” I spent my morning setting up all my lights outside for Halloween with my light up ghosts, and skull and hands coming out of the ground. I put the scary skulls door coverContinue reading “Decorating for the Halloween Party”
Oct. 29 Prompts: Halloween Party
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Fear of the Future: Imagine you are at a Halloween party in the future. What are you afraid of before you go? Imagine it’s the best Halloween party you could ever go to and nothing goes wrong, everything is the best Halloween party fun you can imagine. Write a poem describingContinue reading “Oct. 29 Prompts: Halloween Party”
Not All Monsters Are Villains
If you missed this morning’s prompts post, I am responding to the prompts from What Makes a Villain. For today’s images I revisited the classic monster transparencies I created at the beginning of the month. Thinking about the difference between monsters and villains, I realized I would only consider some of the monsters villains—the onesContinue reading “Not All Monsters Are Villains”
Oct. 28 Prompts: What Makes a Villain
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Fear of the Bad Guys: Everyone believes they are the hero of their own story, so how do people who do such evil things still believe they are the good guys? For this poem, try to get into the heads of those you see as pure evil. How do they justifyContinue reading “Oct. 28 Prompts: What Makes a Villain”
Experience Writing 