I’ve been participating in a challenge at Facebook called 100
Days of Creativity. It’s been exhilarating.
My observation skills have sharpened and my right-brain has held onto the
details taken in and transformed these details into ideas. This is manna for the writer.
I’ve done photographs. If I were a poet, I might have
attempted a poem here and there, but I’m not and I love how, with a camera—especially
today’s forgiving cameras—I can capture something beautiful with so little
effort. I could incorporate this challenge into my day on my walk, while eating
a sandwich in the backyard, on vacation.
The more
difficult part has been figuring out how to post. In retrospect, I should have posted a picture
a day at my blog, but I never got it together enough. Does matter?
No. This exercise is for each of us to figure out for ourselves and
glean what we can from it. No
rules.
My favorite
photo is one of the first I took. I was
outside taking pictures of flowers. It’s
summer after all! But I wanted to find
something different, something that said more than “I am a rose.” The challenge I was working on was … Well, I
just looked and I know it was about symmetry, but not one of the
expressions. Perhaps it was a riff on
someone else’s post. Anyway this is the
picture I took. I liked the fact that it
isn’t immediately obvious what it is. It
takes me to a different place.
Here are some of my other favorites:
