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Fun for Friday: A Different Sort of “Spring” Prompt

| May 16, 2025

For this week’s Fun for Friday, I thought I’d do a different take on “spring” and some image prompts. The images are all sourced from Pixabay and were uploaded long enough ago that I feel pretty confident that they are not AI generated. The first image is of a glowing yellow electrical light filament, arranged […]

Fun for Friday: Return to Three Images!

| March 21, 2025

It’s been a while since I’ve done a three image writing prompt, but I’ve got some that I am fairly confident did not use AI tools, so let’s go! The first image is a black and white photo depicting a futuristic structure with a semi-transparent cone at the top of the structure, and a wider […]

Fun for Friday: Meow Wolf Images from the Ossuary

| November 17, 2023

On our recent roadtrip, we ended in Denver, where my youngest sister really wanted us all to go see Meow Wolf. She had previously been to the one in Santa Fe and enjoyed it, and I’d heard great things about it from my friends. So we went! If you’re not familiar with Meow Wolf, it’s […]

Fun for Friday: Meow Wolf Photos from Eemia

| November 3, 2023

On our recent roadtrip, we ended in Denver, where my youngest sister really wanted us all to go see Meow Wolf. She had previously been to the one in Santa Fe and enjoyed it, and I’d heard great things about it from my friends. So we went! If you’re not familiar with Meow Wolf, it’s […]

Fun for Friday: More Meow Wolf Photos!

| October 20, 2023

On our recent roadtrip, we ended in Denver, where my youngest sister really wanted us all to go see Meow Wolf. She had previously been to the one in Santa Fe and enjoyed it, and I’d heard great things about it from my friends. So we went! If you’re not familiar with Meow Wolf, it’s […]

Fun for Friday: Images from Meow Wolf

| October 6, 2023

On our recent roadtrip, we ended in Denver, where my youngest sister really wanted us all to go see Meow Wolf. She had previously been to the one in Santa Fe and enjoyed it, and I’d heard great things about it from my friends. So we went! If you’re not familiar with Meow Wolf, it’s […]

Fun for Friday: Three Interesting Images

| June 9, 2023

This week’s image prompts come from street photography of various interesting shapes and scenes! The first image is rendered in black and white and features rows of windows, each one lighted, from a lower viewpoint. The second image depicts a concrete railing that appears to be on a staircase on the side of a building. […]

Fun for Friday: Urban Images

| May 12, 2023

This week’s images all involve urban places. The first image shows two partial train or elevated rail cars, both in silhouette, with few people in either car. In the background, the cloudy sky is partially lit by the sun, as though the image was taken at sunrise or sunset. The second image is a nighttime […]

Fun for Friday: A Batch of Photo Prompts

| April 14, 2023

This week’s Fun for Friday is three somewhat random photo prompts. The first photo depicts four people wearing long pants and coats, and holding umbrellas, walking in front of a white wall painted with blue that resembles a waterfall or surf waves. The second photo depicts two elaborate microphones sitting on a flat surface in […]

Fun for Friday: Birthday Images

| March 24, 2023

My birthday is tomorrow, so I decided to celebrate with some birthday themed images for this week’s Fun for Friday! The first image depicts a round cake with rows of pink roses along the edges and three curly pink lit candles atop it. In the background is a metallic vase holding a bouquet of pink, […]