Today I’m trying to capture composure in disquietude and disquietude in composure. For this morning’s shoot I colored a plastic filter in red, orange, and yellow squiggly lines to represent disquietude, and created three different cut filters with groups of shapes meant to represent composure. 2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 15 Today’s prompt isContinue reading “The Fifteenth Day of Composure and Disquietude”
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The Fourteenth Day of Purpose in Uselessness
Today I’m trying to capture purpose in uselessness and uselessness in purpose. As I made my shape cuts this morning, I was thinking of tools that are created for a specific purpose, but are useless for anything else. 2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 14 Today’s two for Tuesday prompt is: The Poetics prompt atContinue reading “The Fourteenth Day of Purpose in Uselessness”
The Thirteenth Day of Genius in Ignorance
Today I’m trying to capture ignorance in genius and genius in ignorance. For today’s images I looked at those who have been considered geniuses or who have shown genius and thus inspired tried something new, cutting shapes out of clear filters I have drawn on. Being completely ignorant of how that would work, I didContinue reading “The Thirteenth Day of Genius in Ignorance”
The Twelfth Day of Dauntlessness in Timidity
Today I’m trying to capture dauntlessness in timidity and timidity in dauntlessness. How can an image lack courage and confidence while being fearless and bold? Or how can I show fearless lack of confidence? I think I’ll continue with abstract shape combinations. I’ll create one that I think of as being bold and another asContinue reading “The Twelfth Day of Dauntlessness in Timidity”
The Eleventh Day of Surety in Confusion
For this morning’s photographic adventure, I stayed in to capture confusion in surety and surety in confusion. Confusion makes me think of spirals, and surety makes me think of straight lines and arrows. I made two new filters that I enjoyed this morning: one a pinhole spiral and the other a spiral made of straightContinue reading “The Eleventh Day of Surety in Confusion”
The Tenth Day of Hasty Restraint
For this morning’s photographic adventure, I set out to capture hastiness in restraint and restraint in hastiness. Hastiness made me think of running, and tripping, dropping things, making mistakes. Restraint made me think of rope, tied hands. For today’s images I hastily revisited a fringe curtain filter. 2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 10 Today’sContinue reading “The Tenth Day of Hasty Restraint”
The Ninth Day of Appraising Neglect
For this morning’s photographic adventure, I set out to capture appraisal in neglect and neglect in appraisal. With neglects first meaning being to pay little or no attention to, I thought it would be an interesting experiment to try to pay attention to something other than what I was taking a picture of while IContinue reading “The Ninth Day of Appraising Neglect”
The Eighth Day of Imagination in Reality
Imagination in Reality (neighbor’s security light in four directions) by Maria L. Berg 2023 For this morning’s photographic adventure, I set out to capture the reality in imagination and the imagination in reality. That reads like the definition of what I do every day, so it feels wide open in terms of shapes, line, color,Continue reading “The Eighth Day of Imagination in Reality”
The Seventh Day of Hesitation in Resolve
This morning I set out to capture the resolve in hesitation and the hesitation in resolve. Resolve is a firmness of purpose or intent, determination to follow some course of action. The first part made me think of a brick, the second part made me think of motion. Hesitation is a delay due to uncertaintyContinue reading “The Seventh Day of Hesitation in Resolve”
The Sixth Day of Conviction in Disbelief
After capturing the blue depth effect with my outside lights yesterday, I couldn’t wait to get out there and do it again in an attempt to capture conviction in disbelief and disbelief in conviction. Both conviction and disbelief have multiple meanings. Conviction being about belief but also guilt, or being found guilty, and disbelief beingContinue reading “The Sixth Day of Conviction in Disbelief”
Experience Writing 