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A Year On Part Three: Life

Another brave and powerful post from my newly discovered nearly-cousin, Nina, please go over and show her some blog love for Christmas…

brightokyochica's avatarChaos in Slow Motion - Nina’s Life - More Than Meets the Eye

A brief introduction before I start this. I always write my blog posts for myself and this one probably more than any other. I dictate rather than type, so speaking it all out loud is both therapeutic and cathartic. I cry as I speak and it does me a lot of good.

However, I am aware I’m putting this in a public sphere. It’s not particularly positive or uplifting, but there is no need for concern. I have good personal and professional love, help and support and I am not looking for sympathy.

You also obviously don’t have to read this if you don’t want to! I’m just going to be honest and get it out of my system a bit. Trigger warning about mental health issues.

In a way, this is really two years on, as on December 21st 2018 I was discharged from hospital into a nursing home…

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The Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Good morning to you and welcome to a 2020 greatest hits edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, wherein y’all pick your personal favourite shots of the year for a prompt we’re calling; Cream of the crop.

I decided to go with a selection of images which sum up life here in one small corner of Devon, during this surreal and uniquely challenging year.

From the time I spent off work, sitting in the garden for weeks on end, finding new and creative ways to entertain myself; to solitary walks along woodland paths and riverbanks, capturing an unusually quiet and empty version of the world; to bizarre lockdown art projects and video experiments, 2020 was a year which will be hard to forget.

It’s been an absolute pleasure to have your collective company over the last twelve months, however difficult it may have seemed, we made it through.

Now it’s time for you to show off your proudest photographic moments, come on, don’t be shy…

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

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Cosmic Photo prompt.

Hello there, I hope your weekend is going well and, if your festive break from work began yesterday, happy holidays to you, too.

As I previously mentioned, this week’s edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge is going to be focussing on your favourite shots of the year, with a prompt I’m calling; Cream of the crop.

Anything you captured in 2020 is fair game, but apart from that you have carte blanche to do whatever you wish with your images and I look forward to seeing what you choose to showcase for us.

It doesn’t matter if you have submitted your pictures to the challenge already this year, it’s all about what you consider to be your finest photographic moments.

Enjoy your time off, I’ll see you again on Monday.

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

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One liner Wednesday: Alternative dictionary.

Every now and then an alternative definition pops into my head when I read a word, then refuses to leave, no matter how corny and terrible it is. This leaves no room for additional thoughts to percolate, until I have excised it by inflicting it on you, my long-suffering readers.

This is an example of one such mindworm, so I apologise in advance for its awfulness:

“Operating” – Jamaican term for a highbrow musical form (e.g. Aida, Don Giovanni, etc)

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The Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Hello and welcome to another Monday edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, for which I asked you to provide your own inspiration with the prompt; Snappers’ choice.

My initial plan was to see what Christmas baubles might look like with some of my recent shots in, like this…

…which is very lovely of course, but because I’m me, that idea soon morphed into this…

After which, I got rather…involved, shall we say, resulting in this surreal little animated spectacular.

What did you choose to showcase for us this week, let’s have a look, I’m intrigued…

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

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Cosmic Photo prompt.

Only three posts left for The Cosmic Photo Challenge in 2020 and for this one I’m giving you completely free rein over the theme, which I’m calling; Snappers’ choice.

Yes, it’s pick your own prompt day, so you can submit images of absolutely anything on Monday, whatever takes your photographic fancy is fair game.

Try to make your pictures new, or at least recent, as next week I’ll be asking you to pick some of your favourite shots of the truly surreal and historic year we all just lived through.

Have a great weekend, everyone, looking forward to seeing what you capture.

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

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The Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Another week nearer the end of 2020 and another edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, today brought to you by the prompt; Christmas is coming.

It just so happens that this was the weekend our tree went up and yesterday I also finally got the crisp, sunny winter morning I was hoping for a couple of weeks ago.

I only ventured out long enough to snap a shot of the heavy frost on my car, because it was very cold…

…before taking a walk in the afternoon and capturing a beautiful sunset reflected on the still waters of the river, one of which takes on a Christmas tree-like appearance, when rotated 90°.

How festively inspired was your weekend? Time for you to share your pictures and let everybody see for themselves.

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

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Cosmic Photo prompt.

Ok, it’s getting close to that time again now and I guess we’d better do something vaguely festive on The Cosmic Photo Challenge to mark the upcoming festivities.

With that half-hearted thought in mind, I’m setting today’s prompt as; Christmas is coming.

You know the drill, meet back here on Monday to compare notes and in the meantime, have a lovely weekend.

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

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