Apparently STRONG doesn’t get many people’s creative blood boiling. Only 3 submissions this week.
Christopher D. Bennett
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Dawn Krause
We ripped the ripcord on the Random Generator and it sputtered, then it fired it up and then it spit out this week’s theme:
Hopefully this theme will get more people’s creative juices flowing!
Last week’s theme really fired the imagination of some contributors as multiple people submitted multiple images for PAINTING WITH LIGHT.
Mike Vest B
Christopher D. Bennett
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Carla Stensland A
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Carla Stensland B
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Dawn Krause A
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Dawn Krause B
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Justin Whitaker
Dawn Weekly Poem
Painting with Light
Oh the ache
and cold of the dark
A searing pain
has left it’s markGloomy days with
impending doom
Lead us toward our
eventual tombWait for the light
to paint the sky
Raise my spirits
and hopes to flyCradle my heart
in His warm hands
With promise of
happier lands
The Random Generator has been randomizing and it has spit out this week’s theme:
To answer the inevitable question- “No, you can’t take my picture for this theme.”
Housekeeping Note
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With the big holiday weekend there weren’t many submissions for last week’s theme – HARMONY. In fact, there were only two.
Christopher D. Bennett
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Mike Vest
The Random Generator has spoken. The theme for this week is:
This one is kind of tricky and involves a fair degree of effort. Basically the idea of painting with light is photographing an object in near total darkness, but illuminating that object. Like with a flashlight.
Here is one example:
But of course, no need to be too literal with the theme.
Here are the submissions for last week’s Random Weekly Photo Experiment – PANNING CAMERA BLUR:
Christopher D. Bennett
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Dawn Krause of Impassioned Versifier
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Debra Krause
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Justin Whitaker of American Buddhist Perspective
It is very exciting to have Debra as a first time contributor, even though she accused me of “cheating” on Sunday night. But she had rented Meet the Spartans, so her opinions about the world are highly suspect.
Dawn’s Poem of the Week
Holding a memory
Panning through my memories
The sharpness has lost its edge
Trying to hold those moments
Poised precariously on the ledgeThe emotions cause a turmoil
As they blur the happy past
They bring me to that moment
When I knew it wouldn’t lastA photographic picture
From the camera of my mind
Tells my past and present
And the memories that bind
Vest had automobile problems this morning, so I was worried that the Random Generator might not get to do its random generating, but he walked in just in time to click the magic button. Out spit the following subject for this week:
Not a very technical subject and it is definitely ripe with all sorts of possibilities. As always, I can’t wait to see what people do with this subject theme.
Here are the submissions for last week’s Random Weekly Photo Experiment – LEADING LINES:
Mike Vest
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Teresa Kahler
Christopher D. Bennett
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Becky Perkovich
Dawn’s Poem
Leading Line
No come-ons were needed
You peeked into my soul
We saw each other clearly
And made each other wholeNo empty promises spoken
No need to ask for more
No dangers lurking in the dark
Only what fate had in storeI need a come on now
To let me know it’s fine
A word of reassurance
Or my heart for you will pine
The Random Theme Generator has been generating and generating and it spit out a fascinating theme for this week:
I don’t think this theme needs much of a description. Basically pan the camera and take a picture. Hopefully with a long enough shutter speed to capture the blur. Honestly that is a slightly simplified definition. This technique would usually be used while following a moving object. The idea being that the subject will stay sharp(ish) and the background will be blurred. This way the motion of the object is captured in a still photo.
As always though, interpret the theme any way that you want.
Here are the submissions for last week’s theme – WILD:
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Dawn Krause B
Michael Vest of Waxen Media
Christopher D. Bennett
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Carla Stensland
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Julie Johnson of The Joy is in the Journey
There were a couple of late submissions for FEET. They can be seen on the FEET post:
The Random Theme Generator has been generating and this morning it spit out the following theme:
The best definition of LEADING LINES is a photo with very strong lines in the composition that lead the viewers eyes through the photograph. A simple example would be almost any picture of railroad tracks or of a highway. A viewer will naturally follow lines through a photography, so it is a powerful compositional tool to put your subject at the end of lines.
Below are a couple of examples of LEADING LINES:
Remember, the lines don’t have to be straight. An “S” Curve in an image is a very powerful compositional tool. Of course, as always, no reason to be too literal with the theme.
Here are the submissions for last week’s theme, feet. Included is a new first time contributor – Alexis. That is good, because there seemed to be fewer contributors this week. Perhaps the subject matter scared some people away. I know not everybody likes feet. After all, most feet are kind of gross, but some feet are funny. Hopefully most people find these feet to be to their liking. (At least the pictures of the feet.)
Michael Vest
Christopher D. Bennett
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Becky Perkovich
As always, I will be interested to see what people do with this theme.
A couple of late submissions:
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Justin Whitaker
Teresa is a first time contributor this week. The contributions for last week’s theme – Rule of Thirds:
Christopher D. Bennett
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Becky Perkovich
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Dawn Krause
Mike Vest
Rule of Thirds
Rule of Thirds
It’s just us three
Same as always
Even with fourWe talk we laugh
We cry we smile
We always shareSomeday she will
Grow up and leave
Down to two-thirdsSome time with him
And he will fly
One-third aloneTwo thirds always
Have one-third watch
Throughout their lives
This week’s theme is an easy one:
After all, almost everybody has at least one foot and everybody at least knows somebody with a foot.
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.
Michael Vest
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Scott Krause
Christopher D. Bennett (Not touched by Photoshop)
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 dreamShall 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 faceA 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 placeTime 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 hitherSearching 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 whitherNever 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 frostLest 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.
Next week’s theme is:
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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With the lines clearly drawn out…
It might have been the exact moment that I knew that Jen was a keeper.
The submissions for last week’s theme: Symmetry and Patterns.
Christopher D. Bennett
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Dawn Krause
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Julie Johnson
Symmetry and Patterns
See the parallels in our lives
Lines drawn in to the sands of time
Running forever side by side
Just like a perfect worded rhyme
From pain to sad to glad and joy
We’re all alike more than we think
Foundations in stone bind our hearts
Just open our minds to that link
The theme for this week is:
I don’t know if there is a good way to define “long exposure”. This is how I’m going to define it and while it most likely isn’t technically correct, it is good enough for me. The human hand can only remain steady for 1/15 of a second. Therefore a long exposure could be defined as a picture with a shutter speed longer than 1/15 of second.
Of course you can define “Long Exposure” however you want. Maybe you have a pasty friend with a sunburn. Maybe you have a friend that keeps chili in the fridge well past a time when it should have been thrown away.
It will be interesting to see what people decided to do with this theme.
