No need to go outside for inspiration; I have it right here at my home! This is Smokey, staring out of the window. He longs to explore the backyard. I’m sorry, my lad, but you will have to wait a couple of weeks longer before I can safely let you roam the neighborhood.
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Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Intricate
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Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.”
– Alice Childress
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Unseen eyes were watching me, I felt it in my bones. Icy talons latched onto my spine and my intuition screamed. But when I turned, nobody was looking…
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holding on with roots
that dig deep into the soil
it stands in the wild
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Where desert meets sky
Silent sentinels stand guard
Desolate and grim
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big metal birds with
tantalizing promises
swollow people whole~
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The places that we pass through day after day, or even once in a lifetime, leave in their small way, echoes and traces of themselves upon us. But so often when taking self portraits or pictures of friends, the places themselves become a soft blurred mush of indistinct semi-nothingness, the limelight stolen by our smiling faces. In today’s challenge, let’s turn the tables. Take a picture of someone as a shadow, a reflection, or a lesser part of a scene, making the background, or the foreground, the center of attention.
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In this photo I tried to capture the fascination on the guy’s face, while he watches the grim spectacle of a snake feeding on an (already dead) rat. It’s the way of nature, for to the snake this prey is as normal as a steak is to us: supper.
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