07-04-2023, 01:41 PM
(07-04-2023, 07:30 AM)brynmawr1 Wrote: Poking around I foundThis is nice Bryn, it captures why I usually don't like looking at old videos or pictures. My happy memories are not realistic, and I like that, I like the extra bright colours and blurry beautiful light.
a photo from Disneyland. I think you could add more to where the narrator is poking around to let the reader place themselves there - i.e poking through the drawer, poking through the crawlspace, etc, I would add some further specificity to those examples. As it is, 'poking around' could be cut without losing anything.
The background an electric rainbow blur
their hair horizontal, bodies I want to add a comma after 'blur', and change this line to 'horizontal hair, bodies'. I think there is a natural pause after blur, and if you add the comma there, it forces a change to the following line.
curved in motion. Only serendipity
of light, shutter speed and aperture
could capture with clarity the eyes I don't know if 'with clarity' is right, to the way I want to read it, the image captures more than reality (as I try to clarify below), so I personally would remove 'with clarity'.
and the smiles; the almost echo
of laughter within
the spin and twirl
of a mother and daughter.
In memory (or art), our senses can be more vivid than reality, this is the rare photograph that captures that quality that memory can posess.

