Wordless Wednesday 15 May 2019

Image taken 7 January 2017 at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

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Image copyright Cara Hartley/The Real Cie

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Sunday Selections #428 + Shadow Shot Sunday: Skulls at the Museum

These are the skulls of prehistoric mammals. The images were taken 7 January 2017 at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. As well as the interesting nature of the skulls themselves, there are a variety of fascinating shadows cast due to the multidirectional lighting.

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Prompts Used:

Shadow Shot Sunday

Sunday Selections

NaHaiWriMo 2018 #5 and Shadow Shot Sunday: Toothy Skull

Notes:

Words and images copyright Cara Hartley/The Real Cie. You are welcome to use my photos, including altering them for use as backgrounds in your own creations or for story prompts, as long as proper credit is given to me.

Not forcing myself to adhere to a strict schedule with my Haigas this year has made creating them much more relaxing and enjoyable. I plan to make 30 of them, as I have done in years past. At that point, an e-book may be forthcoming. We shall see!

NaHaiWriMo 2018 #2: Creature from the Past

Images and verse copyright The Real Cie

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Feel free to use and share my images with a credit to Cara Hartley or The Real Cie. A rose by any other name and all.

Prompt used:

Hourly Writing Prompts

Notes:

The word from hourly writing prompts was Trias, which relates to the Triassic period. I had taken this photo of (I believe) a prehistoric rhinoceros at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, so I did a little wordplay, using the word Juras in the final line. The finished product isn't very scientific, but it is pretty damn silly.

I'm honestly not sure what the technical name for this poem is. Haiku uses nature as its subject, and this skeleton is part of nature even though it currently resides in a museum. However, Haiku generally implies a Kigo, which is a word or phrase symbolizing the season of the poem. My first poem in this year's NaHaiWriMo is certainly a Haiku.

Senryu is described as being satiric or ironic and generally about human nature. This ancient beast may be natural, but it is not human.

Whatever this Haiku-like poem that isn't a Haiku is, it is quite ridiculous. We'll just call it Haibun and done.

~Cie~

Fossilized Baby Dinosaur in Amber

Image copyright Cara Hartley

A fossilized baby dinosaur in amber. Image taken by me on January 7, 2017 at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

30 Days of Haiga 2014: Day 25

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Original Image:

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Verse and Photoshop Manipulation:

Cie Cheesemeister

The Cheese says:

This one's all me. When I saw the prompt, I laid my claim on it. 

When I was a kid, I had designs on being a paleontologist, because I loved dinosaurs so much. Of course the days of my youth are so long ago that the job was called "dinosaur veterinarian."