A Pop of Color (WP Developing Your Eye I) One

Posted on by

Posted in WordPress Course: Developing Your Eye I
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

window

Treasure (WP Developing Your Eye I)

Posted on by

Posted in WordPress Course: Developing Your Eye I
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

treasure

Snail for The Daily Post

Posted on by

Posted in the Daily Post: Details
Photography /Poetry /Humour

“Snail, snail,
Show me your horns,
Will there tomorrow,
Be a storm”
– Finnish adage

Snail for The Daily Post

Little slimey snail
Brought by a gail
Now stuck in this tale
Onto my windowsill

I though you were a hale
Of the size of a whale
But you seem quite frail
Dragging your tall tail

I tried to snap a picture
But you were way too fast
Now into this scripture
Your tall tale will last

snail

Reaching for the Sky for the Daily Post

Posted on by

Posted in the Daily Post: Look Up
Photography /Poetry

Look Up for The Daily Post

“Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work” A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Reaching for the Sky

look-up-4

Watching
The skies
Wondering,
What,
Beyond the horizon
Lies

look-up-3

Rails in the Sky for the Daily Post

Posted on by

Posted in the Daily Post: Look Up
Photography /Poetry

Look Up for The Daily Post

“Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work” A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Rails in the Sky

Take a slow ride
Up, up in the sky
You know you want to
Go as high
As high as the sky
With the ride
The ride to the sky

look-up-1

Down the Drain (WP Developing Your Eye II)

Posted on by

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!”

down-the-drain

Konebuilding (WP Developing Your Eye I)

Posted on by

Posted in WordPress Course: Developing Your Eye I
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

konebuilding

One Winter’s Day (WP Developing Your Eye I)

Posted on by

Posted in WordPress Course: Developing Your Eye I
Photography /Poetry /Humour 

Day Six: “Solitude” — The Rule of Thirds

Today, let’s capture solitude: the state of being alone, or a lonely and uninhabited place. What does this word look like to you?

“Solitude standing” Suzanne Vega

One Winter’s Day 

Break time
Nothing but time
On my hands
No other plans

Cool sea breeze
My hands freeze
Trying not to sneeze
Uttering, “please”

Let this break
Be over soon!

winters-day

Connecting (WP Developing Your Eye I) Two

Posted on by

Posted in WordPress Course: Developing Your Eye I
Photography /Poetry /Humour /Dialogue

Day Five_ “Connect”

* In this age of social media, we hear the word connect often, don’t we? Connect with us on Facebook! Connect with me on LinkedIn! Given what today’s technologies can do, it feels like the world is getting smaller, and we’re more connected than ever.

Connecting for WP Developing Your Eye II

“Call me on the line, call me any day or night” Blondie

Call Me

“Use the phone:
Just dial the numbers!

No Twitter
No Facebook
No Instagram
No damned text messages!

That’s it:
Use your fingers
Push the buttons
Numbers
One by one
Put the receiver
Against your ear
Can you hear
The ring tone?

That’s it!

Use
Your
Own
Voice

And just,
Call me!”

call-me

Connecting (WP Developing Your Eye I) One

Posted on by

Posted in WordPress Course: Developing Your Eye I
Photography /Poetry /Humour /Dialogue

Day Five_ “Connect”

* In this age of social media, we hear the word connect often, don’t we? Connect with us on Facebook! Connect with me on LinkedIn! Given what today’s technologies can do, it feels like the world is getting smaller, and we’re more connected than ever.

Connecting for WP Developing Your Eye II

“We’re on a road to nowhere” Talking Heads

On a Road to Nowhere

On the road to nowhere
In a hurry, to get there
I would rather be elsewhere
But instead
I want to go everywhere
I want to get
Connected

on-the-road-to-nowhere