Continue reading “Photo Prompt Friday: Come Away, O’ Human Child”Come away, O human child!
The Stolen Child – W.B. Yeats
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
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Photo Prompt Friday: Both the Marble and the Sculptor
Continue reading “Photo Prompt Friday: Both the Marble and the Sculptor”Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Alexis Carrel
Photo Prompt Friday: Photographs That Look Like Paintings
I love the places where art intersects – the conversation that occurs between different art forms. How paintings can inspire photographs and photographs can inspire writing…
Continue reading “Photo Prompt Friday: Photographs That Look Like Paintings”Photo Prompt Friday: Yin & Yang
In Ancient Chinese philosophy, Yin and Yang symbolize balance between contrasting, but complementary forces. Light and dark, male and female, summer and winter, old and young, black and white. The following photos beautifully illustrate that concept.
Continue reading “Photo Prompt Friday: Yin & Yang”Photo Prompt Friday: Where Angels Fear to Tread
Angels – unknowable, powerful, beautiful – they’ve long captivated my and others’ imaginations. They have been depicted in many ways throughout time – from chubby-cheeked cherubim to ageless creatures with long flowing locks and feathered wings. Angels can be messengers or avengers, guardians or monsters. For today’s photo prompt Friday, write a story or a poem about an angel or angelic being.
Continue reading “Photo Prompt Friday: Where Angels Fear to Tread”Photo Prompt Friday: Ethereal
Photos and images can have a weight or a weightlessness, a heaviness or softness. How do you convey weight (or lack thereof) in writing?
Continue reading “Photo Prompt Friday: Ethereal”Photo Prompt Friday: From the Deep
In honor of the month of MerMay, I thought today’s photo prompts should be inspired by the Merfolk. Alternately thought to be alien, strange, beautiful, dangerous, dark, alluring and mysterious, these creatures of the deep have long inhabited the human consciousness. In fact, the earliest legend of mermaids was recorded in Syria in 1000 BC…
Continue reading “Photo Prompt Friday: From the Deep”Photo Prompt Friday: Unbelievable Natural Landscapes
There are some places in the world that seem too beautiful to be true. They’re more like locations in fantasy books than naturally occurring phenomena on our planet! What appeals to you about these photos? Is it the vibrant colors? The desolation? The natural beauty? What do you find surprising? Strange? Other-wordly or surreal? Try to incorporate some of these elements into your next story.
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Leigh Hecking 