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Fun for Friday: Three Wintery Photos

| February 10, 2023

This week’s images are vaguely wintery images for your inspiration! The first image depicts four individuals in silhouette walking a narrow, slightly raised path with snow across the landscape on either side of the path. The sky above is cloudy, blocking most of the sunlight, but the sun peeks out near the bottom of the […]

Fun for Friday: The Future, with Cat!

| January 13, 2023

Today’s Fun for Friday photo prompts are a couple of futuristic looking images, along with one of a cat? I like having one discordant image with two potentially connected images for the interesting ideas it might spin off. What’s this cat doing here? Is it an actually Earth housecat? Or is it something else? The […]

Fun for Friday: Three Wintery Images

| December 23, 2022

Today’s Fun for Friday has three wintery images to work with! The first image depicts an enormous sculpture that could be carved from ice or might just be iced over, against a clear medium blue sky, with a large full moon to its left. In the foreground, a procession of more than a dozen human […]

Fun for Friday: Three Colorful Images

| December 9, 2022

Today’s images are two on a very similar colorway and a third that I thought could be interest paired with the other two. The first image shows a person with long hair that is mostly pink and purple but also features other colors of the rainbow, and is a mix of different styles of braids […]

Fun for Friday: Three Interesting Images

| November 11, 2022

Perhaps these images don’t look like they go together at first, but I’ve already got a story brewing in my mind from looking at them! The first image is an illustration of a sunrise or sunset filtered through trees at the left of the image, with hazy details of a mountain in the background, and […]

Fun for Friday: Eerie Pictures

| October 14, 2022

It’s the spooky season, so today’s image writing prompts are also on the eerie side. The first image is a black and white image of leafless trees in a faint mist, with a two-track path beginning in the right hand foreground and extending into the distance. There may be a shrouded figure in the distance, […]

Fun for Friday: Abstract Images

| September 23, 2022

This week’s image prompts are some slightly abstract pieces. The first image is a series of waves in blues and purples. It could be water, paper, or flowers. The second image is a deer buck rendered in polygons. The extent of the buck’s antlers are not shown in the image, and the background is soft […]

Fun for Friday: Three Image Prompts at Random

| September 9, 2022

This week’s image prompts are somewhat random, just things I grabbed because they caught my eye. The first image shows a person in a shallow wooden boat with a motor in the back, and three white dogs near one end of the boat. The background greenery suggests a tropical setting. The second image is a […]

Fun for Friday: Tower Images

| August 12, 2022

This week’s image prompts are based on a keyword of tower and some interesting images that pulled up! The first image shows a few towers with rustic stone bases but ornate upper portions. One is in the foreground, with a couple more in the background. The sky above them is blue with a few clouds, […]

Fun for Friday: Space Images!

| July 22, 2022

Today’s image prompts are images from space, some with imagined elements. The first image shows a golden corona of light around a planet or moon, with a dark background with hints of blues and purples. The second image shows a saucer style UFO above a rugged mountain range, and the entire images is in shades […]