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The Art of Kilo⤴

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Autumn Leaves
Autumn Leaves flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says

Write Out recently a workshop by teachers who use a traditional Hawaiian observation practice called Kilo alongside their students.

What are your observation super-powers? Or which ones do you tap into most to support your writing?

Learn more about Kilo

The one I use most is sight, and my camera is my superpowe – I often use it to help me to focus on details of my surroundings. On Saturday, as we were out at a nature reserve watching a heron, I saw how the zoom was catching the colours of this beech tree, with a seed head looking like a butterfly skeleton at the bottom right hand of the image.

Nature is beautiful in every season. Today, as I have a day off, I will head outside in the crisp autumn sun and plant some bulbs. Aloha!

Rain or shine, your city/town/burg is beautiful. Show us the magic⤴

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Celebrate the season wherever you live (Autumn in the northern Hemisphere, Spring in the southern) by getting out in the streets today and photographing the beauty that is the moment.

If you’re housebound, turn your camera to the window. Compose your shot. Make it beautiful.

It’s  very changeable weather here today – one minute bule sky, the next drizzly rain. Here’s my favourite orner of our garden, with Fair Flora (needing repainting!) in front of our ‘orchard corner’. The wee apple tree still has apples on it and the cherry is a lovely colour. The huge fuchsia is called ‘Delta’s Sarah’

283/365 Fair Flora in the autumn garden
283/365 Fair Flora in the autumn garden flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

World Animal Day⤴

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4th October is World Animal Day. Make some art to celebrate your favourite animal

I decided to celebrate the puffin, so I headed over to Flickr and searched my images there. Here’s a picture I took in 2018 when we took a boat from Mull to Lunga.

Puffin
Puffin flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license

I also put an arty filter over it, but I think I prefer puffins as they are in nature.

Artified puffin
Artified puffin flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

A random word poem⤴

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Autumn Morning
Autumn Morning flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC says:

Use this random word generator and write a haiku (5, 7, 5 syllables) about the first word you generate!

The word I got was drift:

A crisp autumn day
Clouds drift across the skyline
Trees dance in the breeze

I took a photo through my study window, it’s at the top of this post

The Last Museum⤴

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The Last Museum says it is “the largest search engine for museum art. It uses semantic search, allowing you to search for artworks by theme, style, subject, vibes, or any description you can imagine”.

Visit the Last Museum and have a look around – pretty amazing, huh? Share something that you found with us, or make some art based on what you find and share that.

I spent ages looking around, first at Scottish culture and then searching for specific terms. Amusingly, a search for Findhorn (as we’re just home from holiday there) brought up this picture of Bembridge on the Isle of Wight (in copyright, so not posted here). I don’t have any photos from my time there, we left such a long time ago. But here’s a pic I took last week of Findhorn Bay, with the same sort of composition

Findhorn Bay
Findhorn Bay flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license