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Photography /Poetry
Day Ten: “Architecture” — Go Monochrome
From the geometry of skyscrapers to the ironwork on historical buildings, there are many opportunities to capture the beauty and complexity of architecture.
Monochromatic (WP Developing Your Eye I)
“The world is in color, you have to work at black and white.” – Andrew Maclean
Cloud Building
Is it a mirage?
A clever camouflage?
What ever the cause
You can only applause
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Photography /Poetry
Day Nine: “A Pop of Color” — Incorporate Color
The colors in our photographs are evocative and rouse emotions within us. Color can elevate a mundane image into something beautiful and intriguing, and can tell a tale within the frame.
A Pop of Colour (WP Developing Your Eye I)
“If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively” Mel Brooks
Warning Sign
The harsh winter painted in white
Some say, the nature did it out of spite
But those who dare to venture
Into the great white open nature
Heed the coloured warning
Or else, your life may be storming
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Photography /Poetry
Day Nine: “A Pop of Color” — Incorporate Color
The colors in our photographs are evocative and rouse emotions within us. Color can elevate a mundane image into something beautiful and intriguing, and can tell a tale within the frame.
A Pop of Colour (WP Developing Your Eye I)
“If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively” Mel Brooks
Green Shutters
In a distant land
A white house stands
Some say quite simple
But it has a unique dimple
One window with shutters
Painted, with the colour of green
The passersby may stutter
But I say, it’s the prettiest one I’ve seen
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Photography /Poetry
Day Eight: “Treasure” — Zoom In
Objects, places, people, moments — we all cherish something or someone. Anything deeply meaningful to you can be a treasure. A treasure can be grand, like a precious heirloom, or teeny-tiny, like the first plump blackberry of spring atop a tart.
“There Be Treasure in Them Thar Caves!”
Treasure (WP Developing Your Eye I)
I have to save it
Before it vanishes
A temporary pleasure
Drawn on the curve side
The image printed to my mind
But quickly, an apparatus need I find
To save the memory in time
Before this treasure
Will be lost, forever
Posted in WordPress Course: WP Writing: Intro to Poetry
Photography /Poetry /Humour
Poetry, Day Seven: Flavor
From the simple (butter on toast, a childhood-evoking bubblegum) to the more complex (insert your latest dinner-party triumph — or fiasco), flavor occupies a crucial place in our memories, in our stories, and in our social interactions.
Delicious and Colourful
“I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It’s very comforting” Teri Garr
Strawberries!
In summertime,
In July
Something easy,
For both tummy
And the eye
Delicious
Nutricious
Precious
Sun kissed
Wouldn’t miss
Eat them
While you can
Soon, the season is over
And it will be October
When you’ll be eating
Canned spam!
Posted in WordPress Course: Developing Your Eye II
Photography /Poetry /Humour /Dialogue /Tale
Day Seven: “Glass” — Interact with a Surface
Incorporate a form of glass — a window, a mirror, a wine glass, sunglasses, or something else — in today’s image.
” I hate to burst your bathtub bubbles, baby, but that ain’t just mud down there!”
— Jak II: Renegade
Down the Drain
“Down the hatch!”,
She said
Snatching the full glass
With one pass
As the liquid poured down
A few trickles on her gown
“What?
Do you really think
I was letting it go to waste?”
Looking at the empty vessel
The content definitely not made by Nestle
Searching for any signs of discomfort
But, on the contrary
She was seemingly triumfant
Offering the glass back to me,
“Be a sweetie:
One more for the road!”
She added with a smile
“One man’s vile
An other woman’s style”,
I thought
Looking at the bottle I had bought
Pouring the glass full again
Thinking to myself,
“Better than pouring it all
Down the drain!”
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Photography /Poetry /Humour
Day Seven: “Big” — A Point of View
Today, let’s go big. Photograph something of massive size, inside or outside. Get creative with your shot: Capture all or just part of the subject. Place it in the foreground so it takes up the entire frame. Or shoot it from afar so it appears smaller — yet still prominent.
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us” Winston Churchill
Konebuilding
A tall glass house of blue
Possibly quite see through
Hardly qualified as a skyscraper
But with many a
Windows, doors and elevators
It’s easily a wannabe simulator
Posted in WordPress Course: WP Writing: Intro to Poetry
Photography /Poetry /Humour
Poetry, Day Seven: Flavor
From the simple (butter on toast, a childhood-evoking bubblegum) to the more complex (insert your latest dinner-party triumph — or fiasco), flavor occupies a crucial place in our memories, in our stories, and in our social interactions.
Delicious and Colourful
“I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It’s very comforting” Teri Garr
Cherry on Top
The red, red cherry
Is one delicious berry
Quite the legendary
Consume it
With a glass of Sherry
And,
In to a heavenly state
You’ll soon be ferried
Posted in WordPress Course: WP Writing: Intro to Poetry
Poetry /Humour /Dialogue /Photography
Poetry, Day Two: Face
* For today’s poem, take a single face you know as your point of departure. It doesn’t even have to be a real-life, flesh-and-blood face you’re writing about. Faces are everywhere in the texture of our daily lives: from portraits in the museum to the banknotes in our wallets, and from billboards and street art to online profile pictures.
* If you’d like to push yourself a bit further today, give alliteration a try — it’s a handy poetic device that involves repeating the same consonant sound multiple times.
Faces
“That’s my face, so what?” Gun Roswell
Um, are we lost?
“Are we there yet?”
“I think we just lost the bet!”
“If it rains again,
We’ll get wet!”
“No sweat,
All we need to do
Is reset…
There done!”
And they were all gone!
Posted in WordPress Course: WP Writing: Intro to Poetry
Poetry /Humour /Dialogue /Photography
Poetry, Day Two: Face
* For today’s poem, take a single face you know as your point of departure. It doesn’t even have to be a real-life, flesh-and-blood face you’re writing about. Faces are everywhere in the texture of our daily lives: from portraits in the museum to the banknotes in our wallets, and from billboards and street art to online profile pictures.
* If you’d like to push yourself a bit further today, give alliteration a try — it’s a handy poetic device that involves repeating the same consonant sound multiple times.
Faces
“That’s my face, so what?” Gun Roswell
Yep, I am taller
“I am taller than you ha-ha!
You are shorter than me ha-ha!”
“In your face sucker!
I ate all the peanut butter!”
Rantings Of A Third Kind 