First Prompt

Hey friends!

Welcome to my first prompt.

I’m lucky that I am a photographer and can pull images from my phone camera reel that can pass as something charming to accompany my little poems.

But I also know you have a camera roll full of funny, sweet, terrible photographs that bring you joy!

From little doodles, pictures of your lunch, your pet, fun places you’ve been in the past while - there’s something great there you can make a little poem about.

As an image maker from the time I could hold a pencil, it hurts just a little to see the AI images used when everyone is writing about how AI is undermining writing and general intelligence/free thought.

It’s doing the same thing to art.

Your challenge is to be inspired by something visual you create yourself, without AI’s assistance.

All artists start out as terrible. It’s the process that matters. The effort. The discovery. Trial and error. You already know how to examine the world with a deeper perception than most.

Give it your best!

Challenge will close on September 1st, 2025. 5 random winners will receive $5 each as a token of my gratitude for making something with your own eye.