Image Prompt: All Creatures, Great and Small...

Art: © Chad Wallace
Visit his website to see additional artwork. And, his blog HERE.
The artist lives in Westchester, New York, and specializes in
children's book illustration, animals and nature drawing/painting.

Artwork used with permission from Chad Wallace.

Photo Prompt: The Key To Paradise

Photo Title: Paradise © Lori Nix Photography
Visit her site to see additional photos.
The photographer lives in Brooklyn, New York and specializes in
dioramas and constructed photograpy.

Photo used with permission from Lori Nix.

Image Prompt: The Song

Art Title: The Wrecker © Lisa Falzon
Visit her website to see additional works.
And, her blog HERE and Etsy site HERE.
The artist was born and raised in Malta, but lives in rural Ireland and
specializes in several media-digital, oils, photography
and mixed-media.

Artwork used with permission from Lisa Falzon.

Photo Prompt: The Next Day

Photo: The Next Day © Robert Schneider Light Under a Bushel
Visit his blog to see additional photos. And, his website HERE.
The photographer lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, and specializes
in photography with toy, vintage, and Polaroid cameras.

Photo used with permission from Robert Schneider.

Image Prompt: Fireflies

Art Title: Fireflies © Kat Hannah A Kat Tale
Visit her site to see additional artwork.
And, her Etsy site HERE. And, blog HERE.

The artist lives in Pennsylvania, and specializes in oil painting/fine art

prints in the genre of figurative expressionism.

Artwork used with permission from Kat Hannah.

Photo Prompt: In the Garden

Photo © Rebecca Pendel Photography

Visit her website to see additional photos.

The photographer lives in Farrell, Pennsylvania, and specializes in

toy camera portrait photography.

Photo used with permission from Rebecca Pendel.

Image Prompt: Keep It Green

Art Title: Alfie © James Parker
Visit his website to see additional artwork.

And, his blogs: James Parker Art and Windows to the Words

And, Daily Pain Things.
The artist lives in Rio Frio, Costa Rica, and his artwork is focused
on the rainforest and everything else in the world.

Artwork used with permission from James Parker.

Photo Prompt: Atomic Picnic

Photo Title: Atomic Picnic © Daniela Edburg
Visit her website to see additional photos.
The photographer lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and
specializes in photography and video installation.

Photo used with permission from Daniela Edburg.

Image Prompt: Alone

Art © Maryam Tabatabaei - A Girl's Life

View her blog to see additional artwork.

The artist lives in the United Arab Emirates, and specializes in illustrations.

Artwork used with permission from Maryam Tabatabaei.

Photo Prompt: Every Photo Tells A Story

Photo: © Aline Smithson Photography

Visit her website to see additional photos.

And, her blog Lenscratch
The photographer lives in Los Angeles, California, and

specializes in fine art photography.
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Writing Prompt Idea

Use this image or find an old photograph

(of anyone but you)

and tell a detailed story

imagining you are that person.

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Photo used with permission from Aline Smithson.

Image Prompt: Petunya Sits

Art Title: Petunya © Mineke Reinders
Visit her blog site to see additional artwork.
The artist lives in Bloomington, Illinois, and specializes in
watercolor and gouache paintings inspired by places in Turkey.

Artwork used with permission from Mineke Reinders.

Photo Prompt: A Heart

Photo Title: I Do Have A Heart © Chiara Fersini

Himitsuhana
Visit her Flickr site to see additional photos.
The photographer lives in Lecce (South Italy), and is completely
self-taught in photography and photoshop.
And, she is studying English and Japanese at a university
in order to become an interpreter.

Photo used with permission from Chiara Fersini.

Image Prompt: Pondering in the Pond

Art Title: Pondering in the Pond © Kyra Crouzat
Visit her site to see additional artwork.
Kyra lives on her sailboat in Victoria, British Columbia, and
specializes in mixed media.

Artwork used with permission from Kyra Crouzat.

Photo Prompt: Those Long Summer Days

Photo © Rebecca Pendel Photography
Visit her website to see additional photos.
The photographer lives in Farrell, Pennsylvania, and specializes in
toy camera portrait photography.

Photo used with permission from Rebecca Pendel.

Image Prompt: Rejoice

Illustration Title: Parade © Kathryn Howard - Sniplings
Visit her blog site to see additional artwork.

The artist lives in Pennsylvania, and specializes in illustrations
and mixed media.

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Happy Independence Day
“It is easy to take liberty for granted

when you have never had it taken from you.”

~M. Grundler

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident,

that all men are created equal,

that they are endowed by their Creator

with certain unalienable Rights,

that among these are

Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

~The Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776~
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Artwork used with permission from Kathryn Howard.