KOT# 003–2013 ~ Winter Rain with Color
Ku On This: Winter Rain with Color
Slightly Altered Photograph
- 8 x 12 Inches @ 300 ppi
- Nikon D80 Digital Camera
- Adobe Photoshop Elements 6
This is downtown Honolulu a few days ago (January 12, 2013). Yes, it was wet. Of course this photograph was taken when the rain was letting up.
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You are welcome and invited to play Ku On This.
- Post your response to the Ku On This prompt on your own blog.
- Click your post title then copy that URL.
- Add the URL of your post (not your blog URL) to the Mr Linky form below by clicking on the Mr Linky button. This will allow anyone to find your response from the Ku On This prompt post—you can find the work of others from there as well, so be sure to take a look.
- A new Mr Linky list is created for each Ku On This prompt.
- Add a comment to the Ku On This post when you add your URL to Mr Linky and I will be able to find your response too.
Ku On This prompts are intended to explore haiku and haiga and of course have fun. Aloha
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I have finally managed to write something! Not happy with it but I had to put it out there. I may change it later but inspiration was so hard to comeby on this prompt. But I don’t want to give up. Weekly prompts are so good as it gives me time to mull over it. Else, I put pressure on myself (completely my own fault) and give up so easily. Thank you for encouraging and letting me tug along with the rest of you.
aloha Knot2Share – cool on writing—any time.
i find that when i’m struggling it’s best for me to do exactly what you are doing—keep working at it and work through it. i’ve often found that on the other side of that struggle my work has shifted up a notch. now i see struggle as an indicator that i’m ready to advance—i just have to keep working and i’ll get there. i now see that kind of struggle as an exciting challenge.
cool on writing through challenge and thank you for posting and playing in Ku On This too.
as i see it, changing and tweaking can be done at any time. i often see a better way after i’ve completed something (i think that is because we are always looking). sometimes i go back and change it, sometimes i simply move forward and use what i’ve learned in the next thing i do. it’s a decision i make one at a time in each case.
another thing i do when things are challenging, is to simply go with my first thought and work from there. occasionally i scrap it when something strikes me that works better. often as not, by working that first thought through i get something unusual that marks new territory for me. i like that. so again, i now look forward to this kind of challenge and i simply plunge into it—and this has become fun.
working to a prompt often takes us out of our (comfort) patterns (i think maybe that makes for a good prompt—something that challenges us), which is one of the reasons i play with prompts. “Yikes, what am i going to do now??” and then i plunge in again.
cool on going on. and, yeah, one of the reasons i’ve opted for the weekly prompt is so that people can look and then let the image stew in their mind a bit and just see what floats to the surface in relaxed moments. i find immersing myself in the visual initially and then backing off, often leads to thoughts that simply arise later on and often work in unusual ways. or so it seems to me.
yeah, no need to place pressure on yourself. you can come back to a prompt any time. a month from now. six months from now. and you can respond as many times as you like to a prompt too. you are simply doing your own work. we have enough pressure in our world both self applied and from outside circumstances already. this does not have to be that way. i encourage you to play and have fun. i suspect if you play and have fun, you’ll want to do it again. i usually do.
you are always welcome to play. i appreciate your response—any time.
fun. that is one of the keys, imo. aloha.
Love this one – thanks! Mine is posted
aloha Amy, cool and thanks for letting me know. way fun. aloha.
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thanks, rick!
this one got my brain working… love the blur of rain, and the bit of color.
I am still throwing the one-leg standing bird around in my head (oh, how I love that shot!) — BUT it already says so much, I can’t find more words to put with it!! long weekend ahead for me, though, so maybe I’ll get to those words.
aloha Angie – you are way welcome of course and cool on triggering brain scrambles (in a good way).
yeah, i like this shot a lot too (thank you). i havnt worked my ku into the image yet but i have a ku that i think is going into it. i’ll see when i get the time to place it if i still feel that way. ha.
yeah, i’ve had some second thoughts on images occasionally, wondering if it was really a good prompt or not. but i think when they are challenging like that the responses often measure up and become a lot of fun. i’ve also noticed sometimes what is hard for me is great for someone else – and vice-versa. so now i’m exploring and pushing my own thoughts on images too. – and yeah, i like that.
no worries if an image doesnt work for you of course. and of course time has to work as well. i know that can be an issue for most people at some point (including me). i havnt pushed to make Ku On This really publicized. but i think more and more people are coming to look for it. so i’m okay with that. it’s fun when people play and it’s fine when they are not able to play too.
i’m responding to these prompts as well. however i’ve been posting my response just before the next prompt (so after 5-6 days go by). and then after that going to see what others have done.
fun that you like that Bird on One shot. i do too. no worries—just post on it when it comes to you. you dont have to post within the week, just let me know in the comments when you do so i can come look. . . . it would be fun if people were going back to prompts 6-8 months or even a year later. i’d like that. so no worries about when you find the right ku for a prompt.
i find if i look at a prompt (like these or like the doodle ku doodles now) and let the image sit in me for a few minutes to hours to longer, that eventually words and word groupings start tumbling into and rumbling along in my mind. sometimes among those words i find half formed ku appearing and then in a blink it all falls into place. it’s fun when that happens.
with the doodle ku sometimes i’m just plopping down almost immediate responses. in fact on some i think a little reworking might be in order. still. . . . as you say, sometimes those rough and raw ku that are not quite so perfect or ideal ARE perfect and ideal. and yeah. i like that too.
cool on a long weekend then. play on and laughter on too. it’s often the dance that brings life spiraling up (imo). fun on and aloha.
I’m inspired to ku on this so I’ve linked up mine. Thanks Rick!
By the way, I’ve shared this on facebook too and here’s the link –>> https://www.facebook.com/AsniMAmin (Take a look when you have some time.) Are you on facebook too?
aloha Asni – cool and thank you for playing. i’m responding too, but i’ll post mine just before i post the next prompt. after i post mine i’ll take a look at how others have responded too. at least that is my plan right now.
way cool and thank you for sharing this on Facebook. i’ll take a look there too. i’m not on FB (yet) but i may join up as there are things going on through FB that i’d like to take part in sometimes (others have encouraged me to join as well). fun. and fun on. aloha.
i tried the FB link and it says it’s not available right now or it may not be viewable for other reasons (maybe because i’m not a memeber??). i appreciate you posting it there tho. i know people take a look when you do that. so cool and thank you. aloha.
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Are you prompting regularly, Rick? What a wonderful idea!!
I see that you do these weekly…is it always Tuesday that you post these prompts? Linked a response… thank you, Rick!
aloha Hannah – yeah, i’m trying to do these weekly altho i havnt specified a day of the week. right now Tuesday/Wednesday seems to work because some people can play with it more on the weekend and by posting it earlier in the week they have a chance to let it seep into their subconscious a bit.
i like playing with these too however i’m posting my response just before i post the next prompt (by a day or so) – that way, the way i’m seeing it doesnt conflict with what others are doing – or influence their work. i also try not to look at what others do until after i post mine so that i’m not influenced by their work either. it’s okay of course to take a look and use that as part of the inspiration, it’s just something i like to do this way as often as not.
cool on your response and i will be around probably the beginning of the week to see how you responded. thanks for playing i’m delighted to see you here and joining in. fun on. aloha.
I didn’t Ku but I really love this photograph. Beautiful atmosphere and movement.
aloha Linda. no problem on the ku-ing. commenting counts too. thank you. yeah, this photo was after the hard rain had let up. i have two shots from when it was raining harder but the image is so abstract that it’s hard to recognize what it is. i found that interesting but decided to go wit this shot. i think it is that part abstract and part recognition that adds to the atmosphere and the rain gives movement. good eye. thank you. aloha