The submissions for this week include the youngest contributor to date. I’m not sure of Scott’s exact age, but I know it is south of double digits. I should really know his age, considering I helped plan the guest list for his birthday party.
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Dawn Krause
Michael Vest
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Scott Krause
Christopher D. Bennett (Not touched by Photoshop)
Dawn’s Poem of the Week
Long Exposure
The bones ache from a long cold frost
the flowers wilt and whither
a tear glistens on her frozen face
no fire to beckon hither
desolate, forsaken, out of place
the heart has lost it’s dream
Shall she awaken from this dream
to find her world blanketed in frost
rocking in this forgotten place
where beauty will fade and whither
not a sole to motion hither
would there be confusion upon her face
A close glance upon her face
reveals her captive dream
to laugh and call him hither
and melt the frost
and no longer whither
to finally escape this place
Time has no bearing on this place
It holds the demons she must face
Her choice to live, love, or whither
to lose her dream
to bitter frost
or to let the warmth come hither
Searching for hope to draw her hither
an escape to a happier place
no threat of frost
on her lovely face
her hope gives birth to every new dream
letting the old ones die and whither
Never let her spirit whither
to love she must come hither
replace a shattered dream
make her world a happy place
let joy alight her face
and warm her heart to frost
Lest we let the dream whither
Melt the frost and call her hither
Bring happiness to her place and joy upon her face
Dawn’s poem is a sestina. It is a highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet for a total of 39 lines. Don’t feel bad. I had to look that up too.
Shannon Bardole’s Artistic Appreciation Pick of the Week
Next week’s theme is considerably less complicated. A person could make an argument that almost any picture that is off center would qualify.
Next week’s theme is:
Rule of Thirds
The technical way to define The Rule of Thirds is as follows:
The rule of thids is a compositional rule of thumb in visual arts such as painting, photography and design. The rule states that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally spaced horizontal lines and two equally spaced vertical lines, and that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections.
Thanks Wikipedia!
Here is an example, albeit not a perfect example of the technique:
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On the intersections…
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With the lines clearly drawn out…
This isn’t a perfect example, but I wanted to make sure that this was a picture that included Jen because she was the first person I ever heard utter the phrase: “Good use of the rule of thirds” when looking at one of my pictures. A picture of the Gilbert water tower if my memory isn’t faulty.
It might have been the exact moment that I knew that Jen was a keeper.