In April 2020, WordPress has reopened its Discover challenges. They are essays each day of the month to get bloggers to think about what to write. This week Krista Stevens is writing the Discover challenges.
Today’s prompt is “tempo.” One of Krista’s suggestions for tempo is a photo that shows motion. I looked at photos I took recently, and one I snapped December 11 last year represents motion well, I feel.
I have been contributing my time to a small local cemetery, and at the back of the cemetery, away from the avenue, is a hillside sloping down to where a creek runs. You can see many fallen tree leaves, blurred by chance. I think the blur is representative of the motion that the leaves made when they fell to the ground.
There is likewise brush in the photograph, with smoke spiralling endlessly high up. The smoke also indicates motion.
The water in the river, out of sight, itself is movement, as well.
These elements, the blurred leaves on the hill, the smoke from the fire, and the water in the background perhaps all contribute to the idea of “tempo” in the snapshot. There isn’t a great deal of movement occurring in the photograph. However, those visuals I’m bringing up add to a feeling of rhythm.
I wouldn’t necessarily have thought the photo would serve the purpose of showing motion or tempo, but I like how the photo turned out. It is easy for me to assign a label like motion, or tempo, to this specific snapshot.
I must have been enjoying myself, to illustrate a moment like that in a way that has some beauty to it. I am glad for the opportunity to show it off.
I am appreciative of the brief.
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