Even with all of the gadgets and such these days, when kids enter nature/gardens, they are absolutely entranced by snakes, frogs, fish, and the like. I suppose that goes for me as well. Trampoline jumping has never gone out of style either, although if you try it as an adult, it's much harder than you remember, ha. An interesting "quiet mode" often enters into children when they get around horses or larger animals too. They're like, "Wait a minute, better listen a little." Ha.
There is no replacement for nature.
Along with this theme, I watched Don't Look Up yesterday; I thought it was quite interesting, and I enjoyed the acting, and I loved the bursts of strange humor throughout the piece, but my thought was that there could've been more punch, particularly with sound, short nature shots worked in differently with more of a direct connection/pattern (ie, directly related to characters, or more of these, not directly related), and more close-ups. Just a thought I had, because the message was powerful, but could've been more so with a close-knit pattern, in my book. Emotion could carry more weight, with different editing. Just the writing/editing critic in me creeping out. :) In great fiction, poetry, songs, nature...there's a pattern (or in some cases, an "anti-pattern" that unfolds, and the pattern is what grabs). Not that I'm perfect at it in my work, hell no, but I'm aware and sometimes, I nail it.
Check out my books here.
Love to you,
C.A. MacConnell
There is no replacement for nature.
Along with this theme, I watched Don't Look Up yesterday; I thought it was quite interesting, and I enjoyed the acting, and I loved the bursts of strange humor throughout the piece, but my thought was that there could've been more punch, particularly with sound, short nature shots worked in differently with more of a direct connection/pattern (ie, directly related to characters, or more of these, not directly related), and more close-ups. Just a thought I had, because the message was powerful, but could've been more so with a close-knit pattern, in my book. Emotion could carry more weight, with different editing. Just the writing/editing critic in me creeping out. :) In great fiction, poetry, songs, nature...there's a pattern (or in some cases, an "anti-pattern" that unfolds, and the pattern is what grabs). Not that I'm perfect at it in my work, hell no, but I'm aware and sometimes, I nail it.
Check out my books here.
Love to you,
C.A. MacConnell
