Boy at the Mosque, Kashgar, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Peoples Republic of China

Frame ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #409

We share a gaze

He a brave stance
At the Entrance

I from the street
Eye to viewfinder

Framing the frame
Within a frame

Click

Decades pass

Scanning through the scans
Seeking inspiration
From days all but forgotten
Memories vague
Impressions with few details

But for a few frames
A moment caught as light
Falling on silver
Frames of reference
Scanned to bits
Then left unedited
Until today

Another frame
Before and after
The unremembered moments
What happened before
What happened next
The unknown frame
Of time

A frame
Within a frame
Within a frame
Within a frame

I can call up
This moment
Captured in a click
Beyond that
In time and space
Is outside the frame

Howe Sound Serenity
Sea to Sky Highway
Near Lion’s Bay
British Columbia, Canada
 
Taken during travels, 2017
 

Pic and a Word Challenge

Last week we found Serenity .

This week, let’s find the Frame within a frame. Or find something else to inspire you in this photograph of a boy standing in the entranceway of a Mosque in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China.

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: Serenity

 

The word for last week’s Pic and a Word Challenge 408 was Serenity, along with this timelapse video of the day’s last moments on Howe Sound, from the Sea to Sky Highway in British Columbia, Canada.

One very welcome response to Hardened. Thanks WoollyMuses! ❤

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

Happy Creating! ❤