Time ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #395

900 Seconds on Frank Island, Chesterman Beach, Tofino, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
I often wonder

What the world might look like
If my heart beat in time
With a hummingbird’s wings

Or if one short breath
Flowed at the pace
Of a river carving a canyon

But I have only the time I’m given
An eternity to the hummingbird
An infinitesimal moment to the rock

900 Seconds at Frank Island
Chesterman Beach
Tofino
Vancouver Island
British Columbia, Canada
Taken during travels, 2024

Pic and a Word Challenge

Last week we reflected on the Shoreline.

This week, let’s bend Time to our will. Or find something else to inspire you in this very long time exposure (15 minutes!) taken from Frank Island, off Chesterman Beach in Tofino, British Columbia, Canada.

The Pic and a Word Challenge is a weekly creativity prompt typically offered Mondays.

With each challenge I provide a photograph of mine along with a single word. The challenge? Use the pic and/or word as inspiration to create something — a photograph, a painting, podcast, video, prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, longread or just a few words. You are welcome to use these two elements (photograph and word) literally, thematically or metaphorically. If you create both images and words, all the better.

To participate:

  • Use any title you like
  • Your response can be words and/or images
  • You may use my image to illustrate your post, or any images you have created
  • Mention that you are responding to the Pic and a Word Challenge
  • Add a link to this post in your response

To help us find your response — whether on WordPress, Instagram, Flicker, Tumblr, etc. — you can also:

  • Add a comment on this post to announce your response
  • Apply the tag/hashtag “Pic and a Word Challenge” or “#picandawordchallenge” to your post

Each week, I’ll list the previous week’s responses at the end of the new challenge. I may also share some on my social media: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, etc.

The previous challenge was: Shoreline

Calm Sea Meet Ragged Shore, Amphitrite Point Lighthouse, Wild Pacific Trail, Ucluelet, British Columbia, Canada
Challenge ~ Shorelines

The word for last week’s Pic and a Word Challenge #394 was Shoreline, along with sunset photograph of a lone man standing on the rocks below Amphitrite Point Lighthouse, just takin’ in the sunset. Off the Wild Pacific Trail in Vancouver Island’s lovely town of Ucluelet, British Columbia, Canada.

Four bloggers reveled on the Shoreline this week. Thanks everyone! 🙂

View all the Pic and a Word Challenges, including the current challenge, on the Pic and a Word Challenge tag page.

Happy Creating! ❤