So far, so good. My prompts are inspiring me to hop out of bed, grab my camera and try new techniques. When I woke up, I made a quick list of things found in the wild that I forgot to put on my abandoned property description yesterday. This included: spiderwebs, spiders, huckleberries, salmon berries, ferns,Continue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 3: As Wild as a Baby Huckleberry in November”
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#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 2: Startled! I Wasn’t Ready.
This morning’s photoshoot was fun and successful. For “startle” I thought about the way the body jerks when we’re startled, and played with camera motion with some bokeh of my neighbors’ lights across the lake. I love the color palette created by the security lights in the dark November PAD Chapbook Challenge Today is twoContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 2: Startled! I Wasn’t Ready.”
#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 1: Cold Correspondence
November PAD Chapbook Challenge The first prompt for this challenge is to write a correspondence poem. Soon You Will Be Me To me in thirty-one days,I look forward to yousmelling the eucalyptussalts of success, tastingthe frozen plums of completingevery day’s test. Escapingthe heavy pile of soft blanketsto roam free in the fresh airI admire yourContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 1: Cold Correspondence”
#OctPoWriMo Day 31 & #NaNoWriMo Eve: Happy Halloween!
For Tourmaline .’s last Halloween Challenge this year, costume, I used every one of my lights and “costumed” my driveway. I really enjoyed starting each day jumping out of bed and grabbing my camera, so I made this November prompt calendar to keep myself inspired. I hope you will join me and leave links toContinue reading “#OctPoWriMo Day 31 & #NaNoWriMo Eve: Happy Halloween!”
#OctPoWriMo Day 30 & #SoCS: The Sun Came Out and the World is a Party
Here’s the November daily prompts calendar I mentioned on Thursday. These words are much more abstract than the Halloween Challenge, but I’m hoping they will challenge me to create photographs that represent and inspire the feeling of these words while I work on my novel. I hope you will join me and post your linksContinue reading “#OctPoWriMo Day 30 & #SoCS: The Sun Came Out and the World is a Party”
#OctPoWriMo Day 29: Warning! Nature’s Gory Horror Made Me Scream!
For Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge, scream, I made a new filter to visually symbolize the horrible screams my skeleton candles made all night. I’m afraid they were traumatized by yesterday’s photoshoot. But then I went out to get the mail, and nature really made me scream. This is a real warning, I will be sharingContinue reading “#OctPoWriMo Day 29: Warning! Nature’s Gory Horror Made Me Scream!”
#OctPoWriMo Day 28: Carving Into the Gooey Bits
For Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge, carve, I went to grab a carving knife from the knife block, but it was missing. Mr. Skeleton had gotten to it first and had gone on a skeleton candle murder spree. Unlike yesterday, I had a lot of fun this morning, and everything worked the way I wanted itContinue reading “#OctPoWriMo Day 28: Carving Into the Gooey Bits”
#OctPoWriMo Day 27: So Many Moon Songs
For Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge, moon, I returned to the full moon created in my hearth scene the other day and played with some color gels and bokeh creatures I didn’t get to yesterday. OctPoWriMo Today’s prompt, “Expecting,” ties in well with this morning’s efforts: nothing went as expected, reminding me that expectations lead toContinue reading “#OctPoWriMo Day 27: So Many Moon Songs”
#OctPoWriMo Day 26: Playing with the Upside-down
For Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge, creature, I experimented with an effect I noticed when I started to play with bokeh in the mirror: it’s possible to take a photo of a filter both right side up and upside down. These are my first experiments with the effect, but I got some fun results. OctPoWriMo Today’sContinue reading “#OctPoWriMo Day 26: Playing with the Upside-down”
#OctPoWriMo Day 25: Fueling the Spirits
For Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge, haunted, I took my single ghost filter to see what’s haunted in my world. OctPoWriMo Here we are starting our last week. I’ve decided to continue my daily poem practice through November by participating in Writer’s Digest’s November PAD Chapbook Challenge. After I finished my poem revision series last spring,Continue reading “#OctPoWriMo Day 25: Fueling the Spirits”
Experience Writing 