First Snow

Spiraling through the air

A single snowflake

Dances on the wind

So graceful in its descent

Unique from all others

Its crystal beauty shimmers

Against a dark sky

It fights against gravity

Pulling it to the ground

Where its uniqueness will fade

Into a sparkling field of white.

~D.L.Mock

Words

Words come from deep within

Fighting to be let out

My hands hover over the keyboard

Afraid to let them go

Holding onto them is easier

Than risking rejection

Slowly they are released

Words of love, passion or pain

Then easily deleted

With the push of a button

Pulling them back inside

To where they are safe

Deep within my mind

Hidden and protected

By this wall of doubt I’ve erected.

~D.L. Mock

My Photo Artistic Life Challenge 2: Selective Color

The model in this is FaeStock. The background is a photo that I took.

In the Pink

This is for the Dreamer's Challenge "Pink" at Digital Whisper.  Thank you for looking!

Red

This is one of the pieces I created for Challenge 1 of the "My Photo Artistic Life" course from Sebastian Michaels.  The background photo is one that I took up in Northern Minnesota near the Split Rock Lighthouse. I desaturated the photo, layered in another photo I took of clouds, used texture from Pixel Dust, grunge photo edges from Kim Klassen and vector 3 from Vector Set 12. The red hooded figure is from my personal stock files.